I mean, really, I do not recall Obama handing out taxpayer money to any particular individual on his staff (or in his family,) or any business represented by one, but assuming, for the sake of argument, that he did, do all the no bid contracts Bush gave Halliburton (largely owned by the VP) make that legitimate? That we can play the "your side broke the law so ours can, too" game all day is much of what is wrong with our current "standard" of government. Put another way, if Perry is no better than Obama (and having lived under both mens government I can tell you that is simply not so,) why should anyone vote for him?