Rick Perry's Wife Joins the GOP Blame Game by Accusing Obama for Son's Job Loss

We already know the GOP likes to play the blame game, blaming the Obama administration for any and every problem, no matter how far-fetched that might be. The latest accusation comes from the wife GOP presidential candidate, Rick Perry.

Mrs. Perry was speaking at a meet-and-greet in Pendleton, South Carolina, when she feigned sympathy for the hardships of the unemployed by her response to one of the voters in the room, a 45-year-old man who said he's gone from making $100,000 a year to a job as a handyman that pays $12 an hour.

Mrs. Perry then responded that she can sympathize because "her own son lost his job because of the current administration."

While you might think that Rick and Anita Perry's son Griffin was a victim of the current poor economy (much of which can not be blamed on Obama either), that is not the case. The reason their son no longer has his investment banking job at Deutsche Bank, is because he resigned to open his own consulting firm. At least that is what Griffin Perry told ABC News last week.

He never mentioned the Obama administration, or any federal regulations being factors in his resignation, as his mother tried to infer. Griffin Perry did say that the opportunity to start his consulting firm would allow more time to help his father in his campaign efforts.

No matter how far the imagination can stretch, blaming President Obama or the White House for the loss of Griffin's job is just another ineffective tool in his father's campaign to make our president look bad. To compare it with the loss of a man's job, by no fault of his own, is, frankly, disgusting.

At the same time, Mrs. Perry takes issue with her fellow Republicans, who she says has been bashing her husband's strong conservative stance and staunch Christian values. Isn't part of being a Christian telling the truth? Oh, I forgot, politicians aren't expected to tell the truth, even if they are running on the basis of their "strong religious ideals."

Lest you think we shouldn't blame Rick Perry for the actions of his spouse, don't forget, Governor Perry, said the he issued his executive order requiring girls to receive the HPV vaccine because of a woman he befriended that was dying of cervical cancer. Yet, the truth was, Perry did not meet her until after he issued the order.

Hypocrisy? I don't recall any version of the bible that has an addendum to it stating politicians are exempt from telling the truth. Maybe the Perry's version has something the rest of us aren't aware of.