Michele Bachmann was the only candidate to respond to President Obama’s speech with a speech of her own, but some of the other campaigns have also sent out responses to the president’s speech. Mitt Romney launched a website (ObamaIsntWorking.com) and released this web video, “960 Days”:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJihe-3BUrQ
Rick Perry attacked the plan for offering “little hope” to unemployed Americans and those anxious about the national debt.
“President Obama’s call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity,” Perry said in a statement. “Like the president’s earlier $800 billion stimulus program, this proposal offers little hope for millions of Americans who have lost jobs on his watch, and taxpayers who are rightly concerned that their children will inherit a mountain of debt.”
“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech,” Perry added.
Rick Santorum derided the announcement of the plan as “political theater,” saying in a statement that “President Obama kicked off his campaign for reelection in the most disingenuous way possible — by using the Congress as a his political toy.”
Herman Cain took a similar tack to Romney’s, issuing this six-word statement: “We waited 30 months for this?”
Jon Huntsman said in a statement that “tonight’s list of regurgitated half-measures demonstrates that President Obama fundamentally doesn’t understand how to turn our economy around.”