OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says President

Barack Obama and his policies are getting in the way of

entrepreneurship and used an oilman’s business success story as an

example of pursuing the American dream.

During her speech Tuesday night at the Republican National

Convention in Tampa, Fla., Fallin praised the nomination of Mitt

Romney and running mate Paul Ryan.

Fallin cited the important role Oklahoma plays in the nation’s

energy production and its low unemployment rate of 4.9 percent.

She used Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm as a success story, noting

his rise as the son of a Lexington sharecropper to the chairman and

CEO of Oklahoma-based Continental Resources. It is one of the

nation’s top 10 domestic producers of petroleum liquids.