Rick Perry hasn't even officially declared his presidential campaign, and he's already been meeting with foreign leaders and trash-talking our current President who actually is supposed to be in charge of foreign policy, not some two-bit grifter like Perry. First, it was the exiled foreign Pakistani dictator Musharraf that Perry met with, and
now it's the prime minister of Latvia.
In his interview with Mark Halperin, Rick Perry recounts a conversation with the prime minister of Latvia that was presumably meant to be confidential, and the disclosure of which is a huge diplomatic headache for a small country and longtime ally:
The Latvian prime minister was in my office three weeks ago and we were having this conversation about the current administration and the almost aimless or wavering position that he takes from a foreign policy standpoint relative to eastern Europe and those counties who are abutted by folks who might not be their friends. Might have thoughts of impacting their country.
With friends like Perry, who needs the Russians?
It's almost what one would call treasonous to be meeting with foreign leaders behind the President's back to trash talk the President. That's meddling in foreign affairs, in which a presidential candidate like Rick Perry has no standing authority to do so. Rick Perry's been meeting with former Bush foreign policy aides like the atrocious Douglas Feith, and it shows.
Rick Perry needs to do what's best for our country and stay out of foreign policy affairs as he is not the President.
Previous diaries on Rick Perry
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