WASHINGTON, Aug 29: Identifying herself as the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley today took a dig at US President Barack Obama for suggesting that business owners can’t claim credit for their success.
Delivering a prime time speech during the ongoing Republican national convention in Tampa, Florida, Haley recollected the success story of the business of her parents.
“I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single day how blessed we were to live in this country. They loved the fact that only in America, we could be as successful as we wanted to be and nothing would stand in our way,” Haley said.
Obama in a campaign-trail comment recently had said, “If you have got a business, you did not built that”, suggesting they can’t claim credit for their businesses.
“My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multi-million dollar company. But there wasn’t a single day that was easy and there wasn’t a single day my Mom and Dad didn’t put everything they had into making that business a success,” she said.
“So, President Obama, with all due respect, don’t tell me that my parents didn’t build their business,” Haley said in her speech in the presence of thousands of party men in Tampa, and being watched nationwide live over nationwide.
“Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina,” she said.
Haley in January 2011 created history by becoming only the second Indian American Governor of a US State and the first woman governor of South Carolina.
“And, sadly, the hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government, this administration, this President,” she said. (PTI)
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