Rick Perry's New Ad: 'Obama's Socialist Policies Are Bankrupting America' (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is running a new 30-second ad that advocates voting President Obama out of office in 2012 because his "socialist policies are bankrupting America."

The ad, titled "Lazy," is running heavily on Fox News. It features a clip of the president saying, "We've been a little bit lazy I think over the last couple of decades." Perry calls that statement "pathetic," adding, "Obama's socialist policies are bankrupting America. We must stop him now."

"As President Obama continues to make excuses for our nation's economic struggles, apologizing for America and disparaging Americans by calling us lazy, soft and un-ambitious, Gov. Perry is offering solutions to reverse the damage inflicted by this out-of-touch administration," Ray Sullivan, communications director for the Perry campaign, said in a statement. "This ad underscores Gov. Perry's priority to overhaul Washington through common-sense measures including a balanced budget amendment and reducing Congressional salaries."

Conservatives have been hitting Obama for his comment in recent days, but he was actually referring to policymakers -- not the American public -- for not attracting enough businesses.

"We've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades," said Obama during a recent speech at a business forum in Hawaii. 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 businesses into America."

This isn't the first time that Perry has leveled the "socialist" charge at Obama. In 2009, he said that "this is an administration hell-bent toward taking American towards a socialist country."

In a September interview with Time, Perry stood by that remark, saying, "I still believe they are socialist. Their policies prove that almost daily. Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington D.C., one size fits all, whether it's education policy or whether it's healthcare policy, that is, on its face, socialism."

The New York Times recently reported that the Perry campaign had bought $1 million worth of ad time on Fox News.

Ad script:

Video of President Obama: "We've been a little bit lazy I think over the last couple of decades."

Rick Perry: "Can you believe that? That's what our President thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy?"

"That's pathetic. It's time to clean house in Washington."

"It's time for a Balanced Budget Amendment that forces Washington to stop overspending."

"If Congress balks, cut their pay and send them home."

"Obama's socialist policies are bankrupting America. We must stop him now."

"I'm Rick Perry. I approve this message."

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Comments

[AKARON]

06:59 PM on 01/17/2012

I think the math is what decides it all. Just do the math and its that simple and use money. Heres the math...Socialism=splits money to 100% of the people 100% ot the time. Democracy= splits the money to 67%(2/3 majority) of the people 67%(2/3) of the time. Oligarchy splits 99% of the money to the 1% about 99% of the time. The Tea Party needs to learn that the math is not saying Socialism it is clearly telling us that we are living in an oligarchy. I don't get them screaming socialism because the math doesn't show it to be socialism to me. Do the math!!!

[apersonanongrata]

05:40 PM on 01/17/2012

Don't worry so much about Ricky P. He will never become president. Hell-- they don't even like him in Texas!!!

[Kritikos]

09:48 AM on 11/20/2011

Perry is Scary.....

[v16g]

05:43 PM on 01/17/2012

He's more than scary!!

[kapalabhati]

12:33 PM on 11/19/2011

Taibbi's profile of Perry in this week's RS is a classic. "Best Little Wh 0re in Texas."

[Judi Jeska]

08:27 AM on 11/19/2011

A Republicans can't tell the truth.. If they did other Republicans would think their lying.

[tweed7t]

01:26 AM on 11/19/2011

anytime anybody, even here, throws around the word "socialist" you know they are not serious thinkers and not worth the time reading or confronting.

[martha high]

12:41 AM on 11/19/2011

He heard that on Fox

[kapalabhati]

12:33 PM on 11/19/2011

Oops! Sorry.

[dahpunkster]

10:51 PM on 11/18/2011

until perry comes up with some half decent ideas, he should shut his trap.

[madmonq]

01:28 PM on 11/18/2011

Who says Christians don't lie? Obama's policies are no more socialistic than Perry's children-of-illegal-immigrants-college tax money giveaway.

At least he admits Obama is an American. Also a no-no amongst the know nothings.

[buddhistMonkey]

07:15 AM on 11/18/2011

I'll take Rick Perry seriously when he demonstrates that he is able to count to three without pausing for 45 seconds after he reaches the number two.

[wetcoastm]

12:02 AM on 11/18/2011

Obama would do better if he stopped trying to reach the middle ground and looked at what the polls are saying - and it sounds like the population would like a pinch of socialism in the form of financial, environmental and health care regulation.

[woombie]

11:01 PM on 11/17/2011

What is perry putting into his coffee? His rating is low. So he wants attention.

[PatrickforO]

07:08 PM on 11/17/2011

I like Obama. I really do. But to say he is a socialist is utter stupidity, because he is on the corporate string every bit as much as the most right of the right. Consider the military budget. When Bush took office in 2001, it was $304 billion. In 2008, it stood at $616 billion, a 103% increase, or 13% per year. Obama began in 2009 with a $661 billion defense budget and this year, it has increased 16% to $768 billion; an 8% increase each year he's been in office. This is the thing - our tax dollars flow directly to corporate profits through the Defense and other departments. Now, we're going to have to suck it up and watch the social programs that help make life worth living for most Americans slowly crumble while we keep those profits coming! Obama's not a socialist at all - unless you concede he and others in DC are supporting corporate socialism. Then I would say yes.

[HaroldHeckubah]

06:31 PM on 01/17/2012

You numbers are off. Defense budgets are signed a year in advance. Bush signed his last budget in late 2008 that covered all of 2009. The bill spent an estimated $515B. The defense spending bill that Obama just signed that covers 2012 was for $662B. Unlike the Bush budgets the Obama budgets included the war costs. 2012 will be Obama's 3rd year of defense budget responsibility so while the increase is about 9% per year, it includes the war costs. Given that the FY2011 budget for the wars was about $160B, overall defense spending apart from the wars has decreased.

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48860
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-12/obama-signs-defense-spending-law-with-interpretations.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

[jojofrance]

06:45 PM on 11/17/2011

It's such a laugh, especially coming from the party that claims that all people who are not rich are lazy, that anyone who doesn't have a job is lazy, that all of our school children and teachers are lazy, that the workers who want a living wage are lazy.

[LynnW49]

07:34 PM on 11/17/2011

Second that!

[GaryNMaine]

07:58 PM on 11/17/2011

Great post!

[patg00]

06:33 PM on 11/17/2011

anyone who wants to see what the US would be with perry as president should spend a week in west texas.