Obama knocks Romney's CEO past in first 2012 campaign rally
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
(398 posts)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
(25,111 posts)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
(37,305 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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
(37,305 posts)He used to have the kids too.
patrice
(47,992 posts)or domestic.
Nostradammit
(2,921 posts)always true to form.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)so if the Repubs say such an idiotic thing this time, we'll just point and laugh at their stupidity.
Botany
(70,581 posts)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
(34,658 posts)Wrong kind of person to have in high office.
Brooklyn Dame
(169 posts)...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
(39,154 posts)Romney hasn't worked a day in his life.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)For instance, as MA governor, he worked hard at making the state 47th out of 50 states in job creation!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)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
(51,122 posts)We will be the United States of Suckers if we fall for that again.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)It's also interesting that the writer had to mention the campaign headquarters in Chicago, but didn't mention Romney's.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Another gem from the Orlando Sentinel. How completely unshocking.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)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
(12,821 posts)The skillset -- and especially the mindset -- are different.
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