Obama knocks Romney's CEO past in first 2012 campaign rally [View all]
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.
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