Rick Perry serves up red meat at Koch-backed summit [View all]
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Source: Politico
DALLAS Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in a Friday afternoon speech that sounded a lot like presidential red meat, accused President Barack Obama of overstepping his constitutional authority and abdicating national defense at home and abroad.
American leadership is needed now more than ever. Presidential leadership is needed now more than ever, Perry told nearly 3,000 activists gathered in a hotel ballroom here for a summit organized by the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity.
Perry scolded Obama for dropping the ball on ISIS, and on border security.
ISIS is not the junior varsity. It is a clear and present danger to the free world, he said. And Mr. President, the peace of the free world requires presidential decisiveness, not dithering and debating.
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