Texas governor Rick Perry, another phony Christian waging war against workers

"We see discord at home. We see fear in the marketplace. We see anger in the halls of government and, as a nation, we have forgotten who made us, who protects us, who blesses us."

This is politics in the US.  This character, Rick Perry of Texas runs a state larger than most countries and the state that executes more people than any other, not bankers, not billionaires and friends of the governor who have their noses deep in the public trough, but workers, sick people, human beings driven insane and dehumanized by their precious market. His milieu is the crowd that Jesus reportedly threw from the temple: "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves" according to Mathew in the New Testament. Of course this was written long after Jesus is alleged to have lived so who knows but all indications are that Jesus would not have been the fan of Wall Street and the crooks in the marketplace that Perry is.

And what sort of Christian is Perry that he can ask his god to bless America and Americans killed in the occupation of Afghanistan but not the millions who have died or are suffering due to US capitalism's violent offensive against the people's of the Middle east and other parts of the world?  Where does it say in any bible that those closest to god are within the borders of a nation state called America that is less than 250 years old; that they are special people.  People like Perry are a stone's throw away from their arch enemy bin Laden; they are cut from the same cloth.

Perry asked his followers to "turn to god for answers".  And whose interests does such advice serve?  That's right, the bankers, speculators and crooks that are waging a domestic war against the US workers and middle class and a war internationally against the people of the former colonial world in order to plunder the natural resources and wealth of those societies.

You can be almost be anything in this country and run for office except an atheist.  Being one of the guys Jesus is reported to have thrown from the temple area is an asset.  I am loathe to use a bible quote in a way as they find quotes in there for every murderous thing they do. But you have to wonder; what difference is their between the Mullahs that run Iran and this nut than runs Texas?