Rand Paul: Obama’s empty talk coming back to haunt him

Remember the sequester that was supposed to destroy the American economy?

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky does.

And in a speech Friday night in South Carolina, he said the American public’s memory of the overheated rhetoric President Obama and his fellow Democrats used to describe the sequester’s impact is just another reason they’re losing support.

randpaul“I think people saw through it and saw it frankly as a charade. They saw that he was playing games,” Paul said. “And I think he’s losing respect from the public for this.”

At a GOP event in the Palmetto State, Paul said the Democratic doomday hyperbole about the sequester budget cuts – and their virtually nonexistent repercussions so far – means Republicans could be “actually winning the battle on this, the public relations battle.”

Paul, a potential contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, but the South Carolina trip had a campaign feel to it, The Hill reported. In a state whose early primary has made it a lightning-rod for attention from GOP contenders, Paul visited local tea party groups, Republican activists and big-money Palmetto State donors.

He also used the opportunity to attack Hillary Clinton, the biggest name on the Democrats’ list of possible post-Obama candidates. Paul revived questions about Clinton’s handling of the attack on the U.S. Consulate that killed an American ambassador and three others in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

“I’ve had a few questions for Hillary Clinton,” he said, according to The Hill. “She hasn’t really answered them to my satisfaction. I frankly think she isn’t telling the truth.”

He didn’t get any argument from the crowd.

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