This is a prime example why right wingers are right now and always have been full of shit

[MrScorpio]

First off: That is not Obama at 22. That's Obama when he was 18 and enrolled in Occidental College.

Image Google "Obama" and "Occidental College" and you'll get, right up front, a picture of the future President of these United States showing us all that he's the coolest motherfucker to sport a brim:



By the time Obama was 22 he had graduated from Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Perry, who was born to a rancher/politician daddy a good 11 years prior to Obama, to his credit, was enrolled in Texas A&M Univ, majoring in Animal Sciences during his college years. Perry: "'I was probably a bit of a free spirit, not particularly structured real well for life outside of a military regime, I would have not lasted at Texas Tech or the University of Texas. I would have hit the fraternity scene and lasted about one semester.'] Perry was a prankster in college: he once placed live chickens in the closet of an upperclassman during Christmas break and used M-80 firecrackers to prank students using the toilet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry

Perry graduated with a GPA of 2.22: http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10496-news-rick-perry-college-gpa-222-says-human-caused-global-warming-is-unproven.html

Now Perry entered his first political office in 1984, this is important to remember, he was 33 at the time. Before that, he had left the Air Force with the rank of captain (captain is an automatic promotion in the Air Force, all you have to do is come to duty and breathe… More than likely, he was passed over for major. When that happens, your career is over), returned to Texas, and went into business farming cotton with his father (Which is the ONLY job that he's ever held where he didn't draw a gubmint check).

By the time Obama was 33, he hadn't even started his political career yet. Because he was busy doing other stuff:

Two years after graduating, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen. He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute. In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time in Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time. He returned in August 2006 for a visit to his father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.

In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, and president of the journal in his second year. During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.] After graduating with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.] Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations, which evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.

By January 19, 1999, Perry was elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor of Podunkistan, where he remained until the following year when he assumed the governorship when Junior stole the White House. With his utter lack of upward mobility, he's been in the same place for THE LAST ELEVEN YEARS.

Obama by the year 1997, was elected to the Illinois State Senate, in 2004 he was elected to the US Senate and by 2008 elected as President of the United States.

When I last checked, Perry was still Governor of Podunkistan…. Even with an eleven year head start.

So sure, Perry started with all the benefits of family clout, coasted through life, took the military route and stood still like the kind of rocks that fill his magnificently coiffed head, while Obama came from a very meager background, worked his brains HARD and aimed for the stars, where he's at the top of the food chain today.

So, it just goes to show you: it's not where you're from, it's where you're at.