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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama to use state of the union address to divide America, claims Romney [View all]
Mitt Romney said: 'Tonight we're going to be treated to more divisive rhetoric from a desperate campaigner-in-chief'. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
Mitt Romney homed in on Barack Obama's most vulnerable political spot the continued struggle for economic revival in accusing him of creating "shameful" divisions and overseeing three years of decline in a prebuttal of the president's state of the union address on Tuesday night.
Obama is expected to focus on his call for a new economic stimulus package aimed at creating millions of new jobs. But speaking in cavernous Tampa warehouse belonging to a company that was closed by the recession in 2008, Romney said that will only make things worse.
"Three years ago, we measured candidate Obama by his hopeful promises and his slogans. Today, President Obama has amassed an actual record of debt, decline and disappointment," he said. "This president's agenda made these troubled times last longer. Instead of solving the housing crisis and getting Americans back to work, President Obama has been building a European-style welfare state."
Standing under an 'Obama Isn't Working' banner - adapted from Margaret Thatcher's successful 1979 election campaign in the UK Romney went on to accuse Obama of class warfare.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/obama-state-of-the-union-romney
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Obama to use state of the union address to divide America, claims Romney [View all]
alp227
Jan 2012
OP
The main problem with the whole 99% aspect is atleast 40% of them if not more are idiots
cstanleytech
Jan 2012
#34
Heard a little of his speech. Basically a bunch of outright lies strung together.
emulatorloo
Jan 2012
#22
Ironic, Romney is such a damnably desperate candidate he has the gall to call Obama desperate.
lumpy
Jan 2012
#3
You'll never build a European-style welfare state with semi-billionaires paying 15% tax
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2012
#11
Projection definitly!Everyone can see through this. Republicans are laughable.
The Wielding Truth
Jan 2012
#28
AND Obama addressed this forcefully. I look forward to him taking this on the road.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2012
#41
Its even more impressive to watch him double down on it in the debates
Ruby the Liberal
Jan 2012
#18