Comments on: Servicemembers United’s Alex Nicholson responds to Gov. Perry

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:06:32 +0000

Thanks Twirly Girl: to Rick Perry I’d say, he wasn’t fit to wear the uniform. For there were and are, gay members in uniform who served honorably and bravely alongside him, whose moral core is better than his.
The reason: it takes a special kind of virtue and strength of character to fight FOR an ungrateful nation who would deny you the very rights you are serving to protect.

What Perry would prefer for gay soldiers, is a similar outrage to racially segregated soldiers, returning home to Jim Crow.
But a white, Christian hetero male, who grew up while Jim Crow was still in effect in TX wouldn’t appreciate THAT.

Trust me when I say he DISGRACED the uniform the second he refused to defend such gay soldiers.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:24:47 +0000

“We’ve seen it many times before. Someone in a cocktail party will assume that due to your skin tones that you’ll find her racist humor funny.”.

Years ago I was talking to my cousin on the phone and he started telling me racist jokes. I told him I didn’t appreciate his bigotry and he got all quiet and then ended the call. A couple of weeks later he called again and gave me a blast about how I was a b*tch because I should have told him I didn’t like racist jokes before he told them to me.

By: TwirlyGirly

TwirlyGirly — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:56:28 +0000

Regan:

According to Wikipedia, “Upon graduation [from Texas A & M, with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science] in 1972, Perry was commissioned in the Air Force, completed pilot training, and flew C-130 tactical airlift in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe until 1977. He left the Air Force with the rank of captain, returned to Texas, and went into business farming cotton with his father.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:14:18 +0000

I want to know when Rick Perry strapped up in uniform in the military service of this country.
Does anyone know if he ever has?

I really don’t want to hear it from someone who didn’t even bother to volunteer to wear the uniform for this country.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:35:09 +0000

Dammit! Yeah I did.

By: jpeckjr

jpeckjr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:34:22 +0000

Timothy, Rick Perry is a presidential candidate, not gubernatorial as you say in the first paragraph.

That’s your second mistake today. I’m beginning to lose confidence in you!

Not really. I enjoy BTB immensely.