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I have stayed out of politics for the duration of Obama's presidency.

More or less.

But I miss the clamor and roar of it. And, as it turns out, we are at the exact half way point of Obama's last term and will get to pick a new President in 2016 with inauguration the following January.

Two years to go.

So it is time to start the countdown and none other than Gail Collins is here to tell us all about it. Looking ahead.

Texas is Sending You a Present

Meaning that we are getting Rick Perry to carry on about.

For example:

Almost everybody has a Rick Perry favorite moment. For 99 percent, it’s probably the dreaded “oops” debate when he announced that as president he was going to shutter three federal agencies — and then could only think of two.

And, yeah, that one was pretty good. However, I still cherish a television interview Perry did a few years earlier with Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune in which he defended abstinence-only sex education despite the state’s astronomical rates of teenage pregnancy. “It works,” Perry said defiantly and totally erroneously. “Can you give me a statistic suggesting it works?” asked Smith. “I’m going to tell you from my own personal life. Abstinence works,” Perry replied. Smith was too discreet to press for details, but let’s hope it comes up during the campaign.

Labels: Perry, republican whack jobs