Obama knocks Romney's CEO past in first 2012 campaign rally

[shawn703]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his first political rally of the 2012 campaign on Saturday to attack Republican Mitt Romney for learning the "wrong lessons" as a CEO and promised to move the U.S. economy forward if he wins a second term.

Obama, a Democrat, formally launched his Chicago-based re-election effort last year, but his official political events have been confined to fundraisers since then.

That changed this weekend, and the president - who has criticized the former Massachusetts governor since he became the Republican party's presumptive nominee - showed at the first stop in Ohio he was ready for a fight.

With his wife at his side and Air Force One as a campaign plane, Obama said Romney was a patriotic American who had a lot to be proud of, but knocked the former governor for an economic plan that would favor the wealthy.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-obamabre84403j-20120504,0,5898001.story

[usrname]

1. Rmoney most certainly learned the wrong lessons

as CEO: he learned how to make money and show quarterly improvements on the balance sheet. But that's not what a government does, nor should it.

[Iliyah]

2. And the Dems

are paying back the government/tax payers for the use of said plane. Shit, they have reimbursed more moneyto date than the gopper Bush and crew ever did.

I am getting effing tired of this one-sided negative print out and corporate media bullshit. Shit all this covering up for Mittens effed up campaign is crapola.

He and his wife did fill up that stadium huh, the crowd loves them, and his speech was spot on.

[dkf]

3. Sigh. Too bad people with money vote.

[jberryhill]

5. Care to answer a simple question?

In the 2008 presidential contest, which candidate got more votes from people with incomes over $200,000, Obama or McCain?

Go ahead. Look it up.

[dkf]

14. Good point...it used to be Obama.

He used to have the kids too.

[patrice]

8. No. That's a good thing, because THOSE people are going to care whether their masters are FOREIGN

or domestic.

[Nostradammit]

12. LOL! True to form, dkf -

always true to form.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Don't worry, it didn't work for the Repubs when Joe The Plumber said that last time

so if the Repubs say such an idiotic thing this time, we'll just point and laugh at their stupidity.

[Botany]

4. Obama "rocked the casbah"

Right now I am wearing my "Obama State State 2012" t-shirt my 17 year old
son who is not thrilled w/ politics liked Obama so much he got one too.

Vote for Obama in 2012 because he is not Mitt.

[undeterred]

6. Good. I don't want a CEO or flunkee MBA running the country.

Wrong kind of person to have in high office.

[Brooklyn Dame]

7. Romney learned the corporate game...

...there, it's all about "eat what you kill" -- and if the kill means putting people out on the street to support the bottom line for the only people who matter (wealthy shareholders) then so be it. Not the way a government of the people should be run.

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/04/stealing-from-the-hungry/

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/05/may-day-remembering-the-working-class/

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/04/ann-romney-mother-of-the-century/

[Deep13]

9. This was always a hobby for him anyway.

Romney hasn't worked a day in his life.

[Jamaal510]

11. Romney has worked hard in his life.

For instance, as MA governor, he worked hard at making the state 47th out of 50 states in job creation!

[Tx4obama]

10. Links for the FULL rally video of the Obama Ohio rally, below

C-Span video of Ohio Obama rally including intro by Michelle Obama : http://www.democraticunderground.com/101726445

AND

Rally VIDEOS (full) and photos:
http://www.barackobama.com/live?source=ReadyToGoWeAreMovingForward-01-20120505-misc-HQB&icn=20120505-ReadyToGoWeAreMovingForward-01-misc-HQB
and more here: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/414975/events/486211/videos/686745

p.s. It says 'live stream' in the URL in the above link but it isn't - it's the page with the videos and photos etc.

[onehandle]

13. A 'businessman' President totally destroyed the economy over eight years.

We will be the United States of Suckers if we fall for that again.

[Incitatus]

16. Which incumbent President hasn't used Air Force One for transportation while campaining?

It's also interesting that the writer had to mention the campaign headquarters in Chicago, but didn't mention Romney's.

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. "Air Force One as a campaign plane"

Another gem from the Orlando Sentinel. How completely unshocking.

[Dawson Leery]

18. Romney has nothing to be proud of.

He is a fraud, a thief, a hustler, a liar, etc....
90% of Private Equity firms are in the business of extracting cash (then loading with debt) from companies which employ people.

[Beartracks]

19. Running a business is NOT the same as running an economy or government.

The skillset -- and especially the mindset -- are different.

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