Obama jabs at Romney over his '47 percent' remarks
Source: Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night the occupant of the Oval Office must "work for everyone, not just for some," jabbing back at Mitt Romney's jarring statement that as a candidate, he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of the country that pays no income taxes. ...
Obama responded during an appearance on the David Letterman show.
"One thing I've learned as president is that you represent the entire country," he said. As for Romney's statement about the 47 percent, he said, "There are not a lot of people out there who think they are victims" or simply entitled.
At the same time, his campaign released a new ad saying that if Romney wins the White House, he might seek the elimination of a series of tax breaks used by millions of middle class Americans. "Mitt Romney, he's so focused on big business and tax cuts for the wealthy, it seems like his answers to middle class America are just tough luck," says a woman in the commercial. ...
Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-09-18/romney-looks-to-steady-shaky-campaign
FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)their technical people are going to be up all night re-programming their candidate.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)to save him as his campaign sinks.
RoccoRyg
(260 posts)The Democratic convention could have campaigned on unity and Biden or Clinton could have mocked the 53% line.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)It's only now that the general public found out what he said in May. If the Obama campaign had known about it earlier, they probably couldn't have resisted using it at the convention.
I remember seeing one of the clips from this same videotape earlier. It was about Romney reminiscing about his Bain Capital days and touring an industrial complex in China, and how they had barbed wire surrounding it to keep people out since it was perceived as such a great place to work.