Dueling speeches, big day: Obama, Romney in Ohio
Source: Associated Press
Dueling from down the road, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney on Thursday will offer deeply contrasting visions for how to fix the sluggish economy, framing in their most direct terms the fierce, fundamental choice that will decide the November election.
The setting alone is a competition: Obama and Romney will give their economic speeches at about the same time from the same state, battleground Ohio.
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For Obama, the speech will aim to get above the daily ups and downs more downs of late and pull the American people into the discussion Obama wants: a choice between his economic ideas and Romney's. As he has done before at pivotal moments in his presidency, Obama will use a big speech to try to reframe the debate.
For Romney, the occasion is about defining how he would lead the economy, including the priorities for his first 100 days in office. The former Massachusetts governor who made a fortune in business is sensing momentum on his side, particularly as the weak pace of job growth undermines Obama's stick-with-me message.
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monmouth
(21,078 posts)flamingdem
(39,314 posts)nt
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)the size of the crowd.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)the president's speech will be well attended. Isn't Ohio another
battlegound state?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)State in no uncertain terms that They destroyed the economy and are Purposely stopping recovery.
President Onehandle would call a joint session of Congress, lock the doors, and call out individual guilty parties one by one and tell America exactly what they did to prevent recovery.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)while giving R-Money ample time to spew his lies and rhetoric!!
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I can't believe that the media allows Romney to tell this lie over and over with no response.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Example:
"This president has lost more jobs than any in the past 50 years".
FALSE. The first six months of President Obama's term, where most of the job losses occurred, do not count in this stat since not a DAMNED ONE of his economic policies went into effect until after that fact. All of those job losses during the first year are completely on the shoulders of the craptastic Bewsh Administration's economic policies. This is a dishonest false trail that a five year old could cut through and the media continually allows RMoney to get away with this lie over and over again.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Tax cuts--been there, done that. He's already proposed 2 trillion in tax cuts for the mega-wealthy. Cut regulations? Obama really needs to hammer that it was relaxing regulations that led to the collapse of Wall St. The pipeline? There's been more domestic oil drilling under Obama than any other president. What real good has it done the economy? Plus, Romney keeps criticizing the President without saying how he'd do things differently. He criticizes Obama on his handling of Syria. But, when asked what he do, he says, "Well, we don't have to talk about that right now." Same thing with fixing the healthcare crisis if the ACA if overturned. What kind of cold-heartd non-answer is he giving about pre-existing conditions? When pressed for details, he says, "When I get a cabinet together, we'll research our options." He has no clue what he's doing.
Oh, gawd, I just noticed. Romney said that Obama will speak with "great rhetoric and eloquence." Wish conservatives would make up their minds. Either he's a great speaker, or he's the Telepromter President.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)And, no doubt, with this disrespectful move, to curry favor with his Obama-hating base.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Which means that they are nothing more than talking points. And many of those talking points are in conflict with one another. Right now Romney is just saying trust me as he does his pig in a poke spiel. Listening to Romney is like listening to George W. Bush as he assured the American people that his tax cuts would pay for themself because they would create a surge in growth. Well, there was no change in growth and we were left with a $250 billion surplus that turned into a $1.3 trillion deficit. Romney, too, will explode the deficit while getting negative growth and job losses -- just like Bush did. And this time it will be worse than the Great Recession.