Look. There's no question Rick Perry has the brains of a goddamn halibut. And the fact that they teach creationism in Texas schools should be something to be ashamed of, not proud of. It's right about on par with teaching that Kim Jong Il is a living god, or that line Ahmadinejad delivered last year at the United Nations, when he said there's "no gays in Iran" and the whole General Assembly started laughing. He's probably right, because when guys like him get in control they pretty much kill whoever they want to, and silence the rest. At least they have what you'd call an ethos. Rick Perry doesn't even have that. The guy doesn't believe in anything; he just puts out a constant stream of bullshit where every ten seconds there's a "media friendly" quote that sounds kinda-like what real conservatives or real religious people think. Whatever, buddy. One more reason to home school your kids and throw Texas off the federal tit, hell maybe give the whole state back to Mexico. Jesse Ventura's doing it, I heard. At least if they were Mexican they'd be learning some basic math skills like how to convert metric kilos of dope into ounces, and they'd allowed to gamble online
But for all that, I think it's wrong and disgusting for a mother to stand there and tell her kid "ask him about evolution" over and over, in something that's an obviously staged event where she's just using her kid. If I were that kid, I'd feel pretty rotten about my mom if I saw that video ten years later. The mom might be right, but she's a bitch. She should've either taught her son well enough to speak up for himself, or she shoulda got out from behind the boy and asked Perry what she wanted to ask him. It was a cowardly way to go. I don't like it, because when they banned outdoor smoking in my town in California, and we all came out and tried to fight it in the city council, of course there were these people that brought their kids and prompted them to talk about how grampa died of lung cancer and so we had no right to have a smoke on the sidewalk. But the parents were just a bunch of nosy busybodies who were too cowardly to talk for themselves. And I see all that as a symptom of the present American disease of blaming everybody but yourself for your problems. What the hell's the point of free speech if you have to abuse your kid to get a point across to a stupid politician who already knows you're right, but can't admit it because his even-dumber constituency needs to hear something idiotic, while the news media looks on and broadcasts his point of view instead of telling people the goddamn truth?
I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up going to prison for smoking cigarettes or going ballistic on those 'busybodies' you speak of. :machinegu 
