If "privileged" means:

-being abandoned by your father
-losing your mother to cancer
-being sent to your relatives while your mother works halfway around the world
-living on food stamps for a time

then I can totally see Perry's point. If only we all could have it so well.

And he spent his summers at his family's hunting ranch, HonkyLips.

Of all the things to go after Obama about, trying to say he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth is just not going to work. Later in life he was quite successful and well to do but as a kid he had it pretty rough.

I'm really proud that I was a part of electing America's first privileged president.

I love the quotes in this article, but this is the best one:

...the president's "mentality that he's the smartest guy in the room."

Something Perry never has to worry about.

I grew up in the rough and tumble suburbs of New Jersey. I wish I could have lived the easy life in Jakarta, too.

I'll be sure to remember how growing up in a privileged way should be held against someone if Perry's privileged kids ever decide they'd like to follow in their idiot daddy's footsteps.

This statement, in no way, could ever come back and bite Perry in the touchis. I think he should press this point, over and over again. It will be win win for the American people...

Rustico: I love the quotes in this article, but this is the best one:

...the president's "mentality that he's the smartest guy in the room."

Something Perry never has to worry about.

America deserves a poor and stupid president. PERRY 2012!

He got where he was via affirmative action or he led a privileged life. Make up your minds, wingnuts.

Nnnyyesss - Fartbongo never had to agonize over the seating arrangement for a dinner party nor have to chastise a chamber maid for an improperly-made bed.
The luxury of an impoverished upbringing spared him such burdens.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: hubiestubert: touchis

Show me on the doll where the touchis is.

/"Tuckus"?

Tochis. I did misspell my Yiddish. Stoopid fingers.

Perry is one of the few guests on Hannity's show that when the guest walks in the room, the collective IQ goes down.

He means privileged for his kind..

I thought he grew up in Crackahead Ranch?

Hell, I'd love to have grown up in Hawaii. That'd be awesome.

BroVinny: make me some tea: Hell, I'd love to have grown up in Hawaii. That'd be awesome.

I thought he grew up in Indonesia?

For a few years I think, but he went to high school back in Hawaii.

I want a guy who is the smartest guy in the room not someone that probably forgets his pin number all the time.

GWLush: I want a guy who is the smartest guy in the room not someone that probably forgets his pin number all the time.

Even worse: You could get Cain, who thinks being the smart guy in the room is both wrong and unnecessary. He'd rather just hire experts to tell him what to do.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: If "privileged" means:

-being abandoned by your father
-losing your mother to cancer
-being sent to your relatives while your mother works halfway around the world
-living on food stamps for a time

then I can totally see Perry's point. If only we all could have it so well.

attended the best private academy his grand parents could buy doesn't factor into a life of privilege? Having enough disposable income to blow it on pot and cocaine? Traveling abroad in Pakistan?

Hey everybody! Only rich people smoke pot!

Bagelox-99: Well, I want somebody who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, but isn't. America was made great by penii, not genii.

Historically, having a President who thought he was smarter than everyone else hasn't turned out that well. The best Presidents are really smart, but not at the absolute top, and surrounded by brilliant people.

BroVinny: James!: Hey everybody! Only rich people smoke pot!

That's it--evade EnviroDude's entire point by nitpicking. No one will be the wiser.

What point?

BunkyBrewman: And he spent his summers at his family's hunting ranch, HonkyLips.

lol...honkylips. i'm stealing that one.

EnviroDude: Grand_Moff_Joseph: If "privileged" means:

-being abandoned by your father
-losing your mother to cancer
-being sent to your relatives while your mother works halfway around the world
-living on food stamps for a time

then I can totally see Perry's point. If only we all could have it so well.

attended the best private academy his grand parents could buy doesn't factor into a life of privilege? Having enough disposable income to blow it on pot and cocaine? Traveling abroad in Pakistan?

1. Sure, his grandparents sent him to a great school, but at immense financial sacrifice. They gave up a lot to pay that school bill.

2. There are people who don't have enough income to feed themselves that still go buy pot, so "disposable income" is a moot point.

3. That was pretty easy to do when passports cost less, airlines were subsidized and there were no baggage fees.

BroVinny: James!: BroVinny: James!: Hey everybody! Only rich people smoke pot!

That's it--evade EnviroDude's entire point by nitpicking. No one will be the wiser.

What point?

That Barry did have something of a privileged life. No silver spoon, mind you, but definitely some opportunities the truly underprivileged can only dream of.

You'll forgive me if I don't give a fark that the president of the United States wasn't underprivileged as a child and prefer to make light of the dude who thinks access to weed makes someone privileged.

Little known fact: Obama was the inspiration for "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".

BroVinny: That's it

Hahahaha holy farkin shiat look who you are defending

djkutch: Little known fact: Obama was the inspiration for "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".

No no no, it was "Silver Spoons"



Obama played the black kid.

Seriously, who gives a shiat if a President grew up priviledged or not? He is President not a rapper looking for street cred.

Ahhhh, the stupid things Rick Perry says. Someone should start a list. Well someone more industrious and not lazy, like me

He must of been privileged, he lived in Hawaii. I can't afford to take a vacation in Hawaii.

Going the old "liberal elite" route now?

At least Romney hasn't tried that (or has he?).