Right after she decries other repubs for picking on Perrry. I guess if Perry wins, we get 4 years of first wife playing the victim, huh?
It is being reported by the CNN Political Ticker that Anita Perry, the wife of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry, said it was President Obama's fault that her son, Griffin, "resigned" from his job. This was Mrs. Perry's attempt to show that she understood the plight of the unemployed. Mrs. Perry said she understood what the unemployed of America were going through in that her son was forced to resign his post in order to help with is dad's campaign.
According to the story, Mrs. Perry was responding to a person who had previously held a job that paid them more than $100,000 per year, but was now working a job that paid $12 per hour. In response to the person's story Mrs. Perry stated, "My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us". Later, Mrs. Perry said,"He resigned his job two weeks ago because he can't go out and campaign with his father because of SEC regulations" and "He has a wife... he's trying to start a business. So I can empathize." Finally, Mrs. Perry said, "My son lost his job because of this administration".
My first responses to this story was "are you kidding me" and "these people are crazy". Mrs. Perry's son did not lose his job because of this administration. Unlike many of America's unemployed her son was not fired or laid-off. Her son willingly chose to quit his job in order to work with his dad's campaign. Many people do that during every election cycle. Before or after the election cycle they will take a particular job, but when the election cycle comes back around they will quit that job in order to work on a campaign. That is not the same as working a job you plan to keep and then losing that job.
