The leading GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry gave a unique reason why he was running for president in 2012.
Speaking to an audience in Waterloo, Iowa last night, Perry said he answered God’s call to run for the nation’s highest office because our military flat out doesn’t respect President Obama.
“One of the reasons that I’m running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States,” he said.
Presidential candidates usually come out of the gate swinging for the fences. But what Perry said was a particularly low blow even for a narcissist with a God complex.
Salon.com points out that Ben Smith, who reported the quote from Iowa, wrote that the military is pretty much required to respect the president, “so in some sense Perry’s line is insulting to soldiers.”
Meanwhile, despite his dreadful approval rating (below 40%), all is not lost for President Obama in the 2012 elections. He might be able to overcome insurmountable odds in 2012 IF he can whip the economy back into shape, says the Washington Post.
The Post’s Adam Serwer compares Obama’s dismal approval rating with that of former President Reagan who won reelection by a landslide despite starting the 3rd year of his presidency with a 35% approval rate.
Strong economic growth in the later stages of the first Reagan administration resulted in his winning reelection by a landslide—while a faltering economy ensured the elder Bush would lose reelection to Bill Clinton.
…what will likely determine the outcome in 2012 is not how the president’s approval ratings look today but what the economy looks like over the course of the next year or so. Source
