ST PETE BEACH - Texas governor Rick Perry clarified Wednesday that he has no doubt that Barack Obama was born in the U.S., saying that he was only kidding around when he voiced doubts in a TV interview earlier this week. Perry made the comments in an exclusive Political Connections interview to air Sunday on Bay News 9. He was at the Tradewinds Island Grand resort in St. Pete Beach for a $1,000-per person breakfast fundraiser that drew about 50 people.
In the interview he touted his new tax proposal for an optional 20 percent tax plan, saying it was superior to businessman Herman Cain's flat tax proposal because it does not include a national sales tax.
Perry, 61, is trying to revive a campaign that has plummeted in the polls after shaky debate performances and attacks on his anti-illegal immigration record in Texas. In the interview, he acknowledged his weak debate performances saying America already has a great debater in Barack Obama and that what's more important is his Texas record leading the nation in job creation.
He described Romney as a serial flip-flopper whose positions on basic questions from gun control to abortion to gay rights shift depending on the office he's seeking.
In a CNBC interview earlier this week, he managed to distract from his new tax proposal by saying, ""I don't have any idea," when asked if he believes the Hawaiian birth certificate released by the president is authentic. "It's a good issue to keep alive," he said then.
He declined to address that issue Tuesday, but in today's interview with Al Ruechel and me he made clear that he no longer thinks it's a good issue to keep alive. He declared that he has no doubt Obama is an American citizen.
Poster Comment:
The Trumpster isn't going to like this. Any day now Trump is going to release the "shocking" findings of his investigators in Hawaii. Any day now. Real soon. It's just around the corner.
