Thread: Rick Perry loses his mind during national debate, can't name third federal agency

Go GOP!!!!

Did you see the thing with Cain and Gingrich the other night where the moderator asked a simple government procedural question to Cain and he said, "I'll let Newt go first.'"? Everyone knew he had no idea what the answer was and laughed but that doesn't stop those idiots (I.e., Tea Party folk) from voting for him in polls. Stupid is the new thing.

it's debatable whether Perry had a mind to lose in the first place..

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Did you see the thing with Cain and Gingrich the other night where the moderator asked a simple government procedural question to Cain and he said, "I'll let Newt go first.'"? Everyone knew he had no idea what the answer was and laughed but that doesn't stop those idiots (I.e., Tea Party folk) from voting for him in polls. Stupid is the new thing.

Yeah I saw that, Cain is so retarded I cannot put it into words; Perry is on the same level. Forrest Gump would do better as President than either of those two.

That's ok because Perry is only a governor, our dumb fucking president thinks there's 57 states.

I watched this live...

What a dope...

I hope Newt catches fire after this debate...

He is always the smartest and best debater on the stage...

Newt would destroy Obama in a legit debate, though Newt is as polarizing as Obama is.

Originally Posted by Big Pimpin

Newt would destroy Obama in a legit debate, though Newt is as polarizing as Obama is.

This I agree with completely. I like him though he is very set in his ways about a few things that reems of data do not support. Yes he would destroy O'Bama but so could any learned person that can speak in complete sentences. I have never been impressed by his ability to speak off the hip or respond to impromptu questions.

Originally Posted by Big Pimpin

Newt would destroy Obama in a legit debate, though Newt is as polarizing as Obama is.

what does that matter, Newt will never see the inside if 1600 PA Ave. he is the most venomous spewing politician (and complete sociopath) in US history...he would never get any votes from independent electorates

I could send every GOP candidate crying home to mommy in debate not a single one of them has any clue about economics in the OECD, all of them living in their small narrow minds still living in the past.

Where I work, we have two Large tv monitors out in our foyer area.
I was walking by and caught this, and a guy (ex-military) started talking about it to me.

"Doesn't it just make you want to jump through the TV and help him out??"

No sir. It did not.

Originally Posted by Thee_One

Where I work, we have two Large tv monitors out in our foyer area.
I was walking by and caught this, and a guy (ex-military) started talking about it to me.

"Doesn't it just make you want to jump through the TV and help him out??"

No sir. It did not.

hahaha

Rick Perry’s Brain Freeze
By TARA PARKER-POPE




Sometimes even a healthy brain doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to.

Nobody may know that better than Rick Perry, the Texas governor, who suffered an embarrassing memory lapse during the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday. Mr. Perry stops midsentence as he struggles to remember the name of the Department of Energy, one of three federal agencies he has often said should be eliminated. A pained look crosses his face. He stammers. He starts over. He changes the subject. But the words don’t come.
How the gaffe will affect Mr. Perry’s political aspirations isn’t known. But among brain researchers, the moment is a fascinating display of a common human experience: the brain freeze.

“There are a lot of potential explanations for why it happened,” said Daniel Weissman, a University of Michigan neuroscientist who studies attention. “A lot of things are going on when we try to recall memories, and problems at any stage could lead to failure.’’

Mr. Perry is not the first public figure to suffer an embarrassing memory lapse. Earlier this year, the singer Christina Aguilera forgot the words to the national anthem as she performed at the Super Bowl. And Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. misplaced a word in the oath at the swearing-in ceremony for President Obama, prompting him to readminister the oath the next day.

Brain researchers note that countless memory lapses like these happen to the rest of us every day, whether it’s walking into a room and forgetting why you are there or being unable to recall a name that’s on the tip of your tongue.

Some memories, like the name of the first president or a child’s birthday, are so strong that recalling them is effortless. But when the information is relatively new or used less often, we must rely on the brain’s ability to strategically search our memory for the hard-to-retrieve information. During this process, we engage the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which interacts with the medial temporal lobe, the part of the brain that forms and retrieves memories of facts and events.

When all goes well, the medial temporal lobe acts like a library’s card catalog system, pointing to the locations in the brain where different parts of the memory are stored and allowing the memory to be recalled. But in Mr. Perry’s case, it appears that something went wrong, and the search turned up the wrong card or looked in the wrong place or was interrupted.

The culprit could have been distraction, experts say. Just before the gaffe, Mr. Perry looked directly at his opponent Ron Paul, which suggests the glance may have disrupted his train of thought. Or it’s possible that Mr. Perry’s mind may have started moving ahead to his next point too quickly, leaving him muddled in the moment. Stress also can impair the function of the hippocampus, which is also involved in memory retrieval.

“Trying desperately to fulfill the promise you made at the beginning of your utterance, then, under the bright lights, with the stakes still very high and getting higher, stress bad and only getting worse, the time late and getting ever later, grasping for straws offered to you by your competitors in a debate — the problem is only compounded,’’ Neal J. Cohen, a University of Illinois professor of psychology who studies human learning and memory, said in an e-mail exchange.

Another possibility is that Mr. Perry has had other cost-cutting conversations with his campaign strategists, and those memories were interfering with his ability to recall the details of his current plan. Such interference from past memories occurs, for example, when we leave a grocery store and stare at a sea of cars in the parking lot, realizing we have forgotten where we parked.

“As you search in your memory, there are all these very similar memories of parking at the grocery store that are interfering with each other,’’ said Dr. Weissman. “If there had been discussions of cutting other departments, it’s possible that there was somehow interference from those memories, and that’s why he couldn’t recall it.’’

Recent brain research has used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans to watch brain activity during lapses of attention during a monotonous task. The real-world equivalent would be driving along the highway, only to discover you have driven well past your exit. The research suggests that during familiar tasks, a brain region called the default mode network kicks in and the brain gets lazy.

“We think that it gets lazier — or less diligent — with respect to the external task because it thinks it knows what is going happen next,” said Tom Eichele, a neurophysiologist and adjunct professor of biological and medical psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Whether it was stress, competing memories or distraction that caused Mr. Perry’s brain freeze, it’s clear that he’s not alone.
“I thought it was a pretty everyday experience,’’ Dr. Weissman said. “We’ve all had this happen.’’

it happens to me when i'm talking on coast and my mind is two steps ahead of the current topic.

Last week, he was rollin on E. Now, he's obviously smoking pot.

Originally Posted by Prince

Perry: "The third agency of government I would do away with the education, uh, the uh... commerce, uh... let's see, the... I can't, the third one. The third one I can't, sorry."

At the very end of the clip he says, "Oops." lol

Man.

Embarassing, too, to see him look at his crib sheet.

hooray for failure!! Maybe now he'll kill himself

Perry is a buffoon, and he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Anyone from Texas on the board?

First GWB as governor, and now Perry.

He was down by double-digits before his last re-election bid, and he started the "Texas Secede" slogan.

It worked.

What is with Texas?

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

Perry is a buffoon, and he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Anyone from Texas on the board?

First GWB as governor, and now Perry.

He was down by double-digits before his last re-election bid, and he started the "Texas Secede" slogan.

It worked.

What is with Texas?

I don't know. IN houston they just elected a gay mayor for her second term. Not only is she a lesbo she is fucking retarded.

Rick Perry did too much coke and stripper's. haha.

Bro Ron Paul is in Texas. He know's his shit been saying the same god damn thing for 30 year's. Get rid of the FED stop spending, cut down on government, etc. All the right shit we need to do.

Originally Posted by BP2000

Rick Perry did too much coke and stripper's. haha.

Bro Ron Paul is in Texas. He know's his shit been saying the same god damn thing for 30 year's. Get rid of the FED stop spending, cut down on government, etc.

how exactly does Ron Paul know more than what the empirical data shows? it's not the 1700's anymore it's 2011...

"Using the between-sector variation in income as a new measure of economic uncertainty, this paper proposes simple models and supportive empirical evidence for the causal relations between economic uncertainty and government size in the open economy setting. Key empirical findings include: (1) a larger government reduces economic uncertainty, and, at the same time, (2) an economy facing higher uncertainty has a larger government. However, (3) the government tends to resort to redistributive policies to reduce the uncertainty, while (4) government direct spending is also an effective option for the purpose. The study also finds that (5) cross-sectional measure of economic uncertainty tends to rise when a country becomes more open to international trade."

IMF Working Paper 07-93
Government Size and Intersectoral Income
Fluctuation: An International Panel Analysis

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2007/wp0793.pdf

I saw the video and I was laughing my ass off at first. But then I realized how sad it was that these people are our presidential candidates.

^ Is that about Perry?

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

Perry is a buffoon, and he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Anyone from Texas on the board?

First GWB as governor, and now Perry.

He was down by double-digits before his last re-election bid, and he started the "Texas Secede" slogan.

It worked.

What is with Texas?

Yep, this fucker is a complete joke! I live in Austin, which is kind of like living in an awesome place that happens to be surrounded by Texas. And these tea-baggers can get a little preachy, really annoying.

But yeah, my blue vote is like trying to push the ocean back with a broom. Sad situation down here.

Originally Posted by oufinny

Yeah I saw that, Cain is so retarded I cannot put it into words; Perry is on the same level. Forrest Gump would do better as President than either of those two.

I think his campaign slogan should be "Run Forest, Run!"

yep, he made serious mistake (those 3 agency clippings are kind of a big public policy deal...and forgetting one is a heavy gaffe)...but, debating isn't the end all be all of leading.

Newt kicks butt up there and I don't think he would make the best leader either...public speaking is only one measure of leadership, albeit an important one.

Originally Posted by lnvanry

yep, he made serious mistake (those 3 agency clippings are kind of a big public policy deal...and forgetting one is a heavy gaffe)...but, debating isn't the end all be all of leading.

Perry is mediocre at best in the polls and slipping.

He dim star (pun intended) is fading.

Newt kicks butt up there and I don't think he would make the best leader either...public speaking is only one measure of leadership, albeit an important one.

Newt is intelligent, well-read, and knowledgeable. He solid but not extreme. The question: is he electable to the Center and Independents?