Here in Texas we get RV-loads of Canadian visitors every winter. They turn up around Halloween (no disrespect intended) and take off as the red-buds hereabouts (cercis canadensis) start to bloom. Admittedly, Canadians are kind of like Americans in appearance and accent only, for the most part, polite and rational. But they aren't Americans, counter to the belief of our governor who is not exactly a very smart, tuned-in kind of guy.
Think Progress passes along a Rick Perry boo-boo.
The New York Times today has a quick run down of the biggest applause lines Rick Perry receives out on the campaign trail in Iowa. The Times reports that the crowd at one of Perry’s speeches “perked up” when the Texas governor talked energy and oil. “Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Perry said, adding that buying so much energy from foreign countries is “not good policy, it’s not good politics and frankly it‘s un-American.” ...Think Progress