Got an email this morning responding to someone's posting of Perry's college transcript, noting that the President had not released his, and wondering why.
My answer is below the clumsy attempt at Challah.
The President has not released his records.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was President of the Harvard Law Review, so it probably isn't his grades that he doesn't want released.
My guess is that he took some course or wrote some paper that could be used by Republicans to their political advantage, painting him as some kind of subversive. He reportedly wrote a thesis on "Soviet disarmament," which raises the possibility that he may have said something positive about the Soviets, and that would have been enough for Republicans to accuse him of being a communist sympathizer, if not a communist per se.
With that kind of lead-in, Fox News would probably bring Pat Buchanan or Rush Limbaugh on to claim Obama is actually the literal reincarnation of Vladimir Lenin, and more than half their audience would believe it.
Not only would they believe it, they would insist that Lenin was actually born in Kenya and merely looked Russian, having been bleached repeatedly aboard a UFO up to which he had been beamed by little green men for the purpose of medical experiments.
Fox would corroborate this by bringing on several witnesses who would swear they were present at the bleaching experiment, having been beamed up themselves from their Lazy Boys while watching - what else? Fox News. Yes, you would think it impossible for someone watching Fox News to be transported back to the time of Vladimir Lenin, except that this is Fox News, where the impossible is just a video splice away from the irrefutably true.
Perry allegedly made poor grades, but that does not necessarily translate to being a poor leader.
For example, George Custer graduated last in his West Point class, but with the outbreak of the Civil War he was promoted to Brevet (temporary) Major General. At the end of the war he was reduced to his permanent rank of Captain, but that didn't discourage him.
He went out west to fight, and proved to be a brilliant tactician, smart enough in fact to sneak his 211-man contingent of the 7th cavalry right into the middle of 2500 rabidly angry Cheyenne, Miniconjoux Sioux, Sans Arcs, Oglala Sioux, Blackfeet and Hunkpapa Sioux warriors at a place called Little Big Horn, even gaining the high ground during the battle. Now, how ingenious was that?
I see no reason we couldn't expect something at least as brilliant from Perry - assuming of course, he is not beamed up again, this time for keeps.