Rick Perry Goes Negative on Obama in TV Ad
EmailRick Perry released his first negative television ad of the campaign cycle today with a TV spot that criticized President Obama, likening his policies to socialism.
Titled “Lazy,” the television ad, which is airing in Iowa and New Hampshire, takes off from Obama’s statement that “We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.”
“Can you believe that? That’s what our president thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy?” Perry says in the ad. “That’s pathetic. It’s time to clean house in Washington.”
“Obama’s socialist policies are bankrupting America. We must stop him now,” Perry says later on in the ad.
Perry has incorporated a reprimand to Obama’s statement in his stump speeches this week as lays out his government reform plan to “uproot and overhaul” the three branches of government, which would include a part-time citizen Congress that would suffer a pay cut until a balanced budget amendment is passed.
“It’s time for a Balanced Budget Amendment that forces Washington to stop overspending,” Perry says in the ad. “If Congress balks, cut their pay and send them home.”
This is the fourth television ad the Perry campaign has released in this election cycle.
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So a Republican puts out a negative ad against Obama. Wow, what a shock!!!
Posted by: demNme5 | November 16, 2011, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
I find this hard to believe, can Perry even remember any of the last three presidents? He’s got such great ideas; let Congress only work a half a year. Hell, they don’t work that much now. Did he ever think about limiting them to 30 days vacation a year, like the military? He thinks this is Texas where the legislature only meets every other year.
Posted by: tmferretti | November 16, 2011, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
People who want to believe the ad will, those who don’t won’t. I’m sick of the mudslinging and scare tactics. All I see from the GOP are ads and attacks on how bad this president is but NONE of them place an ad saying EXACTLY what they would do instead! They might say they will cut spending, fix all the mess, but none say exactly what they will cut. Oh yes Perry said he will cut out three depts. Why? If he cuts out the Dept. of Ed, who will oversee all the schools? What exactly is he cutting? I have a much better idea. How about cutting out pensions and perks and big salaries with Congress and also install term limits? How about cutting out lobbyists? And how about stop giving money to countries who hate us? Oh yes that will happen, when PIGS fly!
Posted by: Barb | November 16, 2011, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Also got rid of Osama after all these years and Gadaffy. And the troops are pulling out of Iraq. Now if a Republican were in all we would hear would be praise.
Posted by: Barb | November 16, 2011, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
I saw something pretty humorous on Letterman the other night. It started by showing President Obama when he was running in 08 and after he won and all the happy folks smiling and then it shows little snipets from all these Republican debates showing one clown at a time saying something utterly STUPID and just being – well you know themselves. Perry, Cain, Bachmann and in earlier times, Palin, and Trump. So our President doesn’t need to go negative, all he has to do is show the TRUTH and what we’ll end up with from the ‘other’ side.
Posted by: demNme5 | November 16, 2011, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
Oh, it is way too early for this nonsense. I’m just glad that rhetoric is not being shown in the state I live in, otherwise I’d pitch my TV out the window!
Posted by: mijoje1 | November 16, 2011, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
I find this hard to believe, can Perry even remember any of the last three presidents? He’s got such
great ideas; let Congress only work a half a year. POSTED BY: TMFERRETTI **********************
Is this clown dating himself ?? This use to be old political jargon, that would get the followers
with IQ’s lower than their shoe size, all hyped up.
Nobody ever told Perry that these idiotic cliches were only used by losing presidential
candidates. Hmmmmmm…..lets not tell him. we wouldn’t want to break his rhythm LOL!!!!
Posted by: michael | November 16, 2011, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
I’m still looking for the misleading part of his ad.
Posted by: s | November 16, 2011, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm
I think when he said “Lazy”, he was talking about the Whitehouse and members of Congress – not the “people”. Rick Perry has difficulty understanding the nuances of the English language. We need to clean house alright, in the “House of Representatives”.
Posted by: Taintedbylies | November 17, 2011, 11:21 am 11:21 am
“Titled “Lazy,” the television ad, which is airing in Iowa and New Hampshire, takes off from Obama’s statement that “We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.” “Can you believe that? That’s what our president thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy?” Perry says in the ad. “That’s pathetic. It’s time to clean house in Washington.”
LOL! Wow, Perry is so desperate that he resorts to a really big LIE in this ad that ”he approved’. Obama did NOT call the American people lazy. He called foreign investment business people “a little bit lazy” for not trying harder to get foreign investors to invest in America over the last 20 years. Perry took a 14-word sound byte from the MIDDLE of Obama’s statement completely out of context, then LIED about its meaning. And he approved of the LIE. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised Perry would LIE about something like this. After all, the sound-byte bumper-sticker 140 character crowd he is pandering to eats up LIES like that all day long. Because THEY are too damn lazy to go and find the source, and see the entire statement from Obama for themselves. And Perry is counting on that. Fortunately for America, Rick Perry will NEVER be our president………………
Posted by: Searambler | November 18, 2011, 9:13 am 9:13 am
I’m still looking for the misleading part of his ad.
Posted by: s | November 16, 2011, 7:02 pm.
I KNOW you understand the meaning of the word “context”. Here is Obama’s actual statement, IN CONTEXT: It came during a CEO business summit Q & A hosted by APEC (Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in Hawaii on Nov. 12. Obama was asked about impediments to Chinese investments in the United States. “Well, this is an issue, generally. I think it’s important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity — our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture. But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America. And so one of the things that my administration has done is set up something called SelectUSA that organizes all the government agencies to work with state and local governments where they’re seeking assistance from us, to go out there and make it easier for foreign investors to build a plant in the United States and put outstanding U.S. workers back to work in the United States of America.”
See, Obama didn’t call the American people lazy. That’s what Perry lied about. Perry presented it as the president slamming you and me and everyone else as being generically “lazy” over the last 20 years. Intelligent people can read his actual statement and comprehend it’s meaning and intent. Perry twisted that all to hell for his ad. Pathetically desperate ploy by a fading flavor-of-the-month……………..
Posted by: Searambler | November 18, 2011, 9:22 am 9:22 am
attention American educated voters :
must I say much about what we see from the GOP they’re shown to be the most irresponsible psychotic paranoid group of politicians I’ve seen in my fifteen years. No wonder how America is in this state we’re in a two day for the last 35 years or even 40 the politicians have allowed the American economy to go way it has never been in the history of America. If these candidates are the best we can do to go up against ,where the greatest most educated politician in office today ,the president Can sit back and do the great things he is continually doing and let the brainless neurotic psychotic paranoid candidates on the GOP continue to self destruct.
Posted by: Marvelous Marvin | November 19, 2011, 11:32 am 11:32 am
It isn’t difficult to find negative things about the current President. The hard thing is to try to find something positive. He will not run on his record. all he can do is bash the congress for the problems that he caused and “inherited”.
Posted by: sickofitinca | November 21, 2011, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm