In his first negative TV ad of his presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is using the "s" word against President Obama-socialism.

"Obama's socialist policies are bankrupting America. We must stop him now," says Perry in his fourth ad of his presidential campaign. The spot, airing in Iowa and on FOX News, is the first Perry commercial to do more that introduce Perry, or his flat tax economic plan.

Perry also goes after Obama for the president's remarks suggesting Americans have become "lazy" asking, "Can you believe that? That's what our president thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy? That's pathetic. It's time to clean house in Washington."

Perry is referring to a comment Obama made at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii this weekend when talking about America's slipping status in global economic competition. "We've been a bit lazy over the last couple of decades.

Democrats are trying to impose a "secular-socialist machine" rejected by most Americans, an unapologetic Newt Gingrich said Sunday.

The former House speaker described Democrats as "secular" because those in power in government are beset by a "relentless anti-religious bias"; "socialist" because the Obama administration wants to determine salaries, own corporations and provide health care; and a "machine" because the agenda is being pushed robotically without concern for people standing in the way...

A 7-year-old radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the failure of
the Supreme Court to rule on redistributing wealth in its civil rights rulings
has given fresh ammunition to critics who say the Democratic presidential
candidate has a socialist agenda.

The interview -- conducted by Chicago Public Radio in 2001, while Obama was
an Illinois state senator and a law professor at the University of Chicago --
delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further than it
did, so that when "dispossessed peoples" appealed to the high court on the right
to sit at the lunch counter, they should have also appealed for the right to
have someone else pay for the meal...