Gov. Rick Perry Campaigns in New Hampshire; Suggests President Obama Announce Repeal of “ObamaCare” in His Upcoming “Jobs Speech” – 9/3/11

Texas Gov. Rick Perry campaigned in New Hampshire today, and CNN reports he had a suggestion for President Obama and his big “Jobs Speech” this coming Thursday Night:

CNN POLITICAL TICKER: Texas Gov. Rick Perry focused blame for the economic slump squarely on President Barack Obama in a pair of speeches Saturday, as his stump speech continues to take shape.

Reading from notes, the folksy leader launched a blistering assault on the president for failing to turn around the country’s fiscal struggles, and offered his record in Texas as his recipe for success.

“It’s time for a change,” he told a group of largely undecided Republican voters in Manchester, New Hampshire. “And I’m not talking about the rhetoric of change, I’m talking about a record of change.”

Perry said he had created jobs in Texas, while the president had expanded the role of the federal government without creating long-term jobs, and had taken the country in the wrong direction, he said.

He also had some advice for the president as he prepares to announce a jobs plan next week.

“If the president wants to make a good jobs speech, he needs to stand up in front of the American people and say we’re going to repeal ‘Obamacare,’ ” Perry told an audience in Chichester, to thunderous applause. . . . Read More