The definition of “foreign”
by David Atkins
“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Mr. Perry said in Clarinda, earning a loud round of enthusiastic applause.
Later, the audience reacted again to Mr. Perry’s assertion that buying so much energy from foreign countries is “not good policy, it’s not good politics and frankly it’s un-American.”
In Republican land, “foreign” doesn’t mean what it does to you and me. It means “vaguely brown, Mooslim countries with names likes Ooz-beki-beki-beki-stan.”
By Republican definitions, Canada isn’t a foreign country. That’s white Christian American oil right there.
Unless the subject is healthcare. Then Canada’s as foreign as can be.
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