Rick Perry Criticizes Obama for Lack of Strategy, Calls ISIS ‘Danger to the Free World’
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ABC/Matthew Putney(DALLAS) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized President Obama on Friday at the annual Americans for Prosperity summit in Dallas.
Calling out the commander in chief for his admission that the administration does not yet have a strategy on how to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Thursday, Perry called the militant group a “clear and present danger to the free world.” Obama, he said, needs to understand that “the peace of the free world requires presidential decisiveness, not dithering and debating.”
Addressing the conservative crowd, Perry called for action, declaring that “presidential leadership is needed now, more than ever.”
Changing topics, Perry also criticized Obama’s overreach on immigration. “On the one hand we’re seeing a willful neglect of clear presidential responsibility,” Perry said, “and on the other, we’re seeing an aggressive overreach into powers that don’t even belong to a president.”
Perry was indicted earlier this month on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public official for his threat to veto funding for the Texas state public integrity unit when District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg refused to resign following a DUI.
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