Tim Pawlenty Will Rip Into Obama in 2012 Announcement Speech

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota will announce on Monday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination -- and take aim at President Barack Obama.

We live in the greatest country the world has ever known, Pawlenty will say in his announcement scheduled for later on Monday. But, as we all know, America is in big trouble, and it won't get fixed if we keep going down the same path.If we want a new and better direction, we need a new and better president.

"President Obama's policies have failed.But more than that, he won't even tell us the truth about what it's really going to take to get out of the mess we're in. I'm going to take a different approach. I am going to tell you the truth, Pawlenty will add. "We've tried Barack Obama's way -- and his way has failed.Three years into his term, we're no longer just running out of money, we're running out of time. It's time for new leadership. It's time for a new approach.And, it's time for America's president -- and anyone who wants to be president -- to look you in the eye and tell you the truth."

Pawlenty will hint that Obama was going to run a divisive campaign to round up votes in these troubled times.

"No president deserves to win an election by dividing the American people -- picking winners and losers, protecting his own party's spending and cutting only the other guys'; pitting classes, and ethnicities, and generations against each other. The truth is, we're all in this together. So we need to work to get out of this mess together. I'll unite our party and unite our nation, because to solve a $14 trillion problem, we're going to need 300 million people, Pawlenty will say. "In Minnesota and in Washington, the issues were the same: taxes, spending, health care, unions, and the courts.But in Washington, Barack Obama has consistently stood forhigher taxes, more spending, more government, more powerful special interests, and less individual freedom. In Minnesota, I cut taxes, cut spending, instituted health care choice and performance pay for teachers, reformed our union benefits, and appointed constitutional conservatives to the Supreme Court.That is how you lead a liberal state in a conservative direction."