ok so perry flubbed one of his main positions. i can muster some sympathy. i remember when brian lamb asked me on c-span where the word 'anarchism' came from, and i just, like, froze and didn't say anything worthwhile and looked like a chump. but i say that virtually every sentence out of his mouth is a mess. so he got into it like this: 'And I will tell you. It's three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education and the, um...I would do away with the education, the...[someone supplies 'commerce'], the commerce, um and let's see. I can't." anyway, even aside from the gaffe, this is perry's syntax; it just consistently doesn't make any sense. he's going to do away with the commerce and the education? (before he masters any matter of policy, he's going to have to master the definite article.) he can't? take any slice, more or less, and it sounds like it's been incompetently translated from swahili. he looks handsome in a suit though.