Rick Perry Releases New Campaign Video, Calls Obama ‘President Zero’
EmailTexas Gov. and GOP presidential contender Rick Perry released a new campaign video Wednesday, blasting President Obama for a lack of leadership in creating jobs and pointing to Perry as the leader who could turn the economy around.
The video, called “Rick Perry – Proven Leadership,” dramatically juxtaposes Obama’s speeches on the economy against statistics and soundbites from news clips, and at one point even calls Obama “President Zero.”
The campaign video then turns to Perry, touting his ability to “get America working again,” and uses a speech in which he says, “We don’t need a president who apologizes for America. I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been led. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come, and with the help and the courage of the American people, we will get our country working again.”
Text appears on the screen that reads “In 2012 … America will discover … a new name for leadership … an American … who served for freedom … a president … who will lead a nation.”
This is the second video — which was made by former governor and Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty’s filmmaker Luca Baniano, according to Politico – from the Perry campaign. The first video was a biographical sketch that introduced Perry to the American people, released on the day he announced his run.
Perry is set to make a swing through Florida, holding fundraisers in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach Wednesday. He’ll also take part in a series of events organized by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Conservative Political Action Conference and Presidency 5.
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The video made me cry….. Very powerful!!!
Posted by: hope | September 21, 2011, 9:15 am 9:15 am
I see Perry campaigning office….I see Obama campaigning for office. I see Perry in office….I see Jimmy Carter in office. What do you see?
Posted by: Kay | September 21, 2011, 9:18 am 9:18 am
Don’t Mess With TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Benjamin | September 21, 2011, 9:58 am 9:58 am
@Kay I don’t see Obama in Office.HAHA
Posted by: Benjamin | September 21, 2011, 10:00 am 10:00 am
Zero will go down as the worst President in our nations history……thankfully Rick Perry will be sending him back to Chicago for his return to community organizing. There may even be a dog catcher job open……..oh wait…..he destroyed all the jobs!
Posted by: Ben Dover | September 21, 2011, 10:52 am 10:52 am
Every cookie cutter Republican primary runner is just like the other. Perry, Romney, Bachmann and Gingrich are out to shut down the progress made by president Obama. With no real experience and knowledge or schooling, he continues to flounder as gullible people say he’s the best qualified to be president. Perry graduated with a 2.22 GPA in Animal Science and was a cheer leader, while President Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, was president of the The Harvard Law Review, graduated with honors, with specialization in international relations! I agree the government should get out of our lives. Government should not mandate Sonograms for women! Government should not mandate HPV vaccines! This current crop wants to shut down our Social programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and FEMA! The president has shown he is a leader and is not scared to execute an order. Example: killing of Osama Bin Ladin, moving out Moammar Khaddafy, and Atiyah abd al-Rahman is dead! There are at least four or five more top leaders dead at the insistence of our president! President Obama has been cutting off the head of the snake!
Posted by: Rudy Gonzales | September 21, 2011, 11:28 am 11:28 am
Mr. Gonzales,
What was Barack Obama’s GPA at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard? Don’t know? Try looking under Barry Dunham, Barry Soetoro, Barack Soetoro or some other combination thereof.
Also there is a HUGE difference between being the President of the Harvard Law Review and the EDITOR. The later is the talent, the former is the empty suit.
Thanks for trying!
Posted by: mkboyce | September 21, 2011, 11:34 am 11:34 am
Additionally, for however repugnant the snakes of Egypt, Libya and Syria were/are. They 1) pale in comparison to the ultimate snakes of the region, one of whom is dead, Saddam Hussein, (thanks President Bush!) and the other Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…and 2) they effectively kept the lid on the DEMONS within their countries. Now that the rubber stoppers have been yanked, with no plan for the peace, the DEMONS (read: muslim brotherhood, former Nazi affliates) have been released! Thanks a lot Obama! Heck of an job!
Posted by: mkboyce | September 21, 2011, 11:42 am 11:42 am
Rudy Gonzales – We know NOTHING about Obama’s GPA at Occidental College, where he himself admitted he spent most of his time stoned on pot and cocaine. Then he somehow got into Columbia with no scholarship, and someone else paid for his tuition – but again, this cannot be revealed to us. He was President – NOT Editor – of the Harvard Law Review, and did not write a single piece for it. He was NOT a “Constitutional Professor”, but a part-time “Lecturer” who gave presentations on redistribution of wealth and community organizing. He sued on behalf of ACORN to force Bank of America to give subprime loans to minorities in Chicago and Los Angeles – the very genesis of the crisis we still suffer from.I will take a poor tenant farmer from Texas over a bitter, drug-addled revolutionary groomed for power any day.
Posted by: John Hill | September 21, 2011, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
John Hill – BRAVO!!
Posted by: hope | September 21, 2011, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm
I just donated $100.00 to Rick Perry. This guy looks like he can attract the right kind of people to Washington. All you Zero fans are scared to death of the rising sentiment in this country against a busybody government that only knows how to milk the taxpayers for liberal pet projects. I’ve seen how they count votes in Chicago, so I think it will be 2016 before we see a Republican in the White House.
Posted by: Alexander K Chung | September 21, 2011, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
There’s no doubt about our American citizens becoming dumber. First it was Rush Limbaugh with his bitter ramblings about Clinton. But at least he sounded educated. Since then, complete morons such as Michele Bachman, Rick Perry and Sarah Palin have spewed out total nonsense with no basis in fact and tainted by 1700s religious superstitions and beliefs. The problem is that there are apparently millions of simpletons out there with little education, yet have the voting rights to elect representatives as dumb as themselves. As the U.S. sinks lower in every measure of intelligence and productivity, these GOP/Teabaggers use their pea-brained rhetoric in ways that are treasonous enough to warrant imprisonment.
Posted by: Richard Seaberg | September 22, 2011, 12:11 am 12:11 am
Rick Perry’s ad made me cry too…cry for the country that this bimbo commands media attention while he denigrates the office of the President of the United States, calls the present office holder vile and disgusting names and downgrades our political process to the status of a circus.
Th mn is a total idiot!
Posted by: Richard P. Higer | September 22, 2011, 6:22 am 6:22 am
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the video resembles a summer blockbuster movie trailer? Please don’t decide how to vote based on this (or any other, no matter which party/candidate it comes from) campaign video or advertisement. Politics should be a place for logic and reason, not emotion.
Posted by: Zach | September 22, 2011, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm
This man tears others down and has done nothing just like all of our government representatives. Rick Perry doesn’t care about anyone but Rick Perry and his super over inflated ego. Go ahead put him in office, watch him spend 4 years remodeling the white house with your hard paid tax money. Do you really think he gives a damn about anybody but himself? Get your head out of the sand cause he is just a very bad uncurable virus.
Posted by: Lynn | September 22, 2011, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm