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nolabear

(41,963 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:44 PM Oct 2014

Maybe a dumb question, but shouldn't Pres. Obama and Gov. Perry be working together?

You know...Ebola. Panic. Responsibility. All that stuff. Is the government really so utterly dysfunctional that they can't have a conversation and make it clear to the public that they're working together to ensure that we're taken care of? If so my tendency would be to think of it as Perry's issue, but if so and if I was the President I'd throw one FIERCE fit.

Am I an idiot?

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Maybe a dumb question, but shouldn't Pres. Obama and Gov. Perry be working together? (Original Post) nolabear Oct 2014 OP
Also, why did Perry stay out of Texas for so long, coming back only this afternoon... Mass Oct 2014 #1
... Lochloosa Oct 2014 #2
Yeah I don't blame you. But, seriously... nolabear Oct 2014 #3
Are the feds and states actually working together? ManiacJoe Oct 2014 #4
isn't Perry considering another PResidential run ? JI7 Oct 2014 #5
B-b-but... nolabear Oct 2014 #6
Somebody would have to drag Perry's a$$ home from Europe first.. Cha Oct 2014 #7
OY. nolabear Oct 2014 #8

Mass

(27,315 posts)
1. Also, why did Perry stay out of Texas for so long, coming back only this afternoon...
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:47 PM
Oct 2014
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ebola-crisis-intensifies-texas-gov-rick-perry-cuts-eurotrip-short

Hours after officials confirmed that a second health care worker had tested positive for Ebola in Texas, Republican Gov. Rick Perry said that he would cut his pre-scheduled European trip short and return to his home state tomorrow, his office confirmed to NBC News Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Perry’s spokesman said the governor had no plans to return early “at this point.”

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
4. Are the feds and states actually working together?
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 08:34 PM
Oct 2014

Serious question as I have not been paying that much attention beyond the headlines.

JI7

(89,249 posts)
5. isn't Perry considering another PResidential run ?
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 08:38 PM
Oct 2014

in which case being seen as working with Obama could hurt him .

Cha

(297,237 posts)
7. Somebody would have to drag Perry's a$$ home from Europe first..
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 10:54 PM
Oct 2014
FlowerInFaith @FlowerInFaith
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BO cancels trip.
Rick Perry goes to UK to give a speech on US foreign policy


7:22 AM - 15 Oct 2014

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/15/the-first-lady-campaigns-for-tom-wolf/

Update..

"Hours after officials confirmed that a second health care worker had tested positive for Ebola in Texas, Republican Gov. Rick Perry said that he would cut his pre-scheduled European trip short and return to his home state tomorrow, his office confirmed to NBC News Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Perry’s spokesman said the governor had no plans to return early “at this point.”

RELATED: Obama cancels trip in order to hold meeting on Ebola

Perry, who is openly considering another presidential run in 2016, is currently in Poland visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. He was scheduled to then head to Kiev as part of what’s been billed as an “economic development trip” to England, Germany, Poland and Ukraine."

More..
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ebola-crisis-intensifies-texas-gov-rick-perry-cuts-eurotrip-short


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