July 7th, 2011 | 
Author: Does Obama fear Romney more than he fears Perry? – The Week
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has Republicans excited, but some strategists say former frontrunner Mitt Romney is the GOPer who Obama is really worried about.
RealClearPolitics – The Brutal Campaign Ahead
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President Obama's re-election campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean, and loathing of whomever the Republican nominee turns out to be. Of course the Obama …
Who Did Obama Fear The Most?
He feared that Rick Perry would declare himself a presidential candidate.
Why Did He Fear Him?
Because Obama had no defense against him!
Take for example the constant White House rant that President George W. Bush handed him a catastrophic economic situation.
Well Rick Perry inherited the governorship of Texas from Bush, but we’ve never heard Perry complain that the state would be doing so much better if it hadn’t been for the policies of his predecessor.
Rick Perry took the ball from Bush and scored an economic touchdown for Texas whilst Obama took the ball from Bush and fumbled it, repeatedly, giving the other team a chance to score a touchdown.
How The Economy Changed Under Obama’s Leadership
Energy: Gasoline was $1.67 a gallon and now it’s around $3.79.
Food: Average cost of a gallon of milk was about $2.65 and now it’s about $3.50 today.
Housing: The median cost of a home was $229,600 and today it’s around $217,900.
Budget deficit: The US was $438 billion short of balancing the federal budget in 2008 and now it’s closer to $1.4 trillion this year which is nearly four times higher.
U.S. debt: The total federal debt was $10.7 trillion then and now it’s $14.5 trillion, which is nearly 50% higher.
Unemployment: 7.3% of Americans were unemployed, and 9.1% are unemployed today.
Not Everyone Has Become Worse Off Though!
Federal employment has grown by 98,000 employees since the start of the recession and according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis:
"Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation".
How Has Texas Fared Under Rick Perry?
A recent state-by-state comparison study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation found that Texas had a state tax burden of 8.4%, compared to a U.S. average of 9.7%.
The Texas gross state product grew 94.5% over 10 years, vs. 66.3% for the rest of the country.
From January 2000 to June 2010, Texas had a net increase of nearly 1.1 million jobs—more than any other state by far.
In fact, Texas’ out-sized gains eclipsed the total of the next five job-creating states put together; Florida, Arizona, Virginia, Utah and Washington.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Texas created 129,000 new jobs in a 2009 Obama a recession year and that was more than half of all the jobs created in the country.
The Brookings Institution published a study earlier this year looking at job growth in major cities and Texas had five of the top 10 cities, with Austin leading the country in job growth.
So What’s A Guy (Obama) To Do?
Not being able to defend his own economic record, or attack Perry’s, Obama would attempt to paint Perry in a negative light but that would be far from easy.
Perry served three terms in the Texas House as a Democrat, and supported Al Gore’s 1988 presidential bid.
Because Perry is from Texas, Obama would accuse him of being in bed with the oil and gas industry, but Perry just signed a law requiring gas drillers to publicize the chemicals they use in "fracking" to extract the gas.
Obama would also accuse Perry of being out of touch with most Americans, but Texas led all other states with a net in-migration of 500,000 people from 2004 to 2008.
People are voting with their feet and moving to Texas!
Obama would certainly try to accuse Perry of being a swaggering George Bush clone, but Perry and Bush have always be adversarial, and Perry’s conservative record in Texas, especially on holding the line on spending, would demonstrate clear distinctions.
Another Obama Problem – Federalism
Obama has tried as much as possible to transform our federalist system of government, by transferring power and decisions from states to Washington and giving thousands of unelected bureaucrats the power to make decisions for us, controlling some of the most important, not to mention personal, aspects of our lives.
Perry, by contrast, has been a vocal leader for restoring the role of the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which asserts that those powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
Obama’s Terrible Record
President Obama has a worse than terrible economic record and the White House and Democrats know it and will be hard to defend against any GOP candidate.
But against Perry, it would be a duck shoot, with Obama being the duck.
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White House Seeks Delay of Mexican Man’s Execution as Supreme Court Mulls Case.
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to block a Mexican man’s execution in Texas, the White House is pleading for a stay in the case that has pitted Texas justice against international treaty rights.
Humberto Leal, 38, is set to die in Huntsville for the 1994 brutal rape and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, of San Antonio. President Obama, the State Department and Mexican authorities have all asked Texas for a last-minute reprieve of Leal, citing the U.N.-enforced 1963 Vienna Treaty, which requires foreign nationals who are arrested in foreign countries the right to access their consulates.
Just hours before the 6 p.m. scheduled execution, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he has yet to make a decision regarding whether to stay the execution, a spokeswoman said.
Leal, who moved with his family from Mexico to the U.S. as a toddler, contends police never told him he could seek legal assistance from the Mexican government under the treaty — and that such assistance would have helped his defense.
Sauceda, according to court documents, was found naked when authorities discovered her body in May 1994.
“There was a 30 to 40 pound asphalt rock roughly twice the size of the victim’s skull lying partially on the victim’s left arm”, court documents read. “Blood was underneath this rock.
A smaller rock with blood on it was located near the victim’s right thigh. There was a gaping hole from the corner of the victim’s right eye extending to the center of her head from which blood was oozing. The victim’s head was splattered with blood”.
A “bloody and broken” stick roughly 15 inches long with a screw at the end of it was also protruding from the girl’s v*****, according to the documents.
Leal’s supporters, however, claim he was never given the option to seek legal assistance from the Mexican government. Although evidence against Leal was strong, supporters say he incriminated himself and had other legal difficulties.
“If Texas were to proceed with the scheduled execution of Mr. Leal there could be no dispute that that execution would be unlawful, specifically, in violation of treaty commitments validly made by the United States through constitutionally prescribed processes”, Sandra Babcock, a Northwestern University law professor who is one of Leal’s attorneys, said last week in her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last Friday, the Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas from executing Leal, asking the court to delay the execution for up to six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would enforce the U.N. treaty.
Congress reportedly had three years to pass the bill but did not. Hence, it is impossible to pass a bill that would spare Leal unless a stay is ordered.
A 30-day stay granted by Perry is another potential way for Leal to avoid execution on Thursday.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have said if Texas disregards the treaty, it may have consequences for American citizens arrested abroad.
But the state of Texas appears to bristle at the idea of a foreign body affecting judgments in the state, even though President George W. Bush endorsed the U.N. ruling.
“Texas is not bound by a foreign court’s ruling”, Katherine Cesinger, press secretary for Gov. Perry’s office, said in a statement. “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the treaty was not binding on the states and that the president does not have the authority to order states to review cases of the then 51 foreign nationals on death row in the U.S.”.
For 16 years, Leal has exercised his right to file appeals and motions so extensively, one judge in federal district court called his case “one of the most procedurally convoluted and complex habeas corpus proceedings”, he ever reviewed.
As it stands, the death warrant could be served any time after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Leal will be allowed to address the media, meet family and friends and eat his last meal: fried chicken, pico de Gallo and guisada tacos.
Meanwhile, in San Antonio, Adria’s father, Rene Sauceda, reportedly begins each morning by reading a South San Antonio High School newspaper clipping from May 25, 1995 published just after the first anniversary of his daughter’s death.
“I look at that every day”, Sauceda, 64, told the San Antonio Express-News. “Her friends paid to have that put in the newspaper. She had so many friends”.
Sauceda’s mother, Rachel Terry, told San Antonio television station KSAT her family already had suffered too long.
“A technicality doesn’t give anyone a right to come to this country and rape, torture and murder anyone”, she said.
Perry must now, or have been thinking about how to stay or not to stay the execution will affect his expected run for President.
About 70% of Americans support the death penalty so it should be a no brainer.
Perry has money so you can’t count him out!
Iowa
The roughly $5 million Perry has spent on advertising since late October, combined with heavy spending from a super PAC that supports his candidacy may be paying dividends.
He seems to be running slightly stronger in public and private polls than he has in months.
Perry’s final push got the help of an additional $865,000 in television advertising from Make Us Great Again, a pro-Perry political action committee that has spent more than $1 million in Iowa.
And he’s drawing large, enthusiastic crowds on a bus tour with his retooled campaign message.
To wrap up Thursday, he packed every seat in a community center in Marshalltown and curious caucus-goers lined the walls and stood in the back of the room.
After he jogged in, he immediately dived into the crowd, reaching out with both arms to shake hands and squeeze shoulders.