Get Ready for More Obama Romney Dueling Speeches
Get ready to see a lot of this: dueling Presidential candidate speeches. Because if one candidate noses his way into the news cycle it means he gets to counter the other. And yesterday seemed a good prototype:
In dueling speeches that sought to frame the economic debate for their election showdown in November, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Thursday offered differing visions for how to restore strong growth while telling separate Ohio crowds that the other’s policies have failed.
The president and the former Massachusetts governor both emphasized particular themes of community in their campaign speeches in a battleground state hit hard by the 2008 recession and its aftermath.
Romney, speaking at a factory in the Cincinnati area minutes before Obama’s speech in Cleveland, focused on what he called the president’s failure to deliver promised economic growth so far in his first term.
“Talk is cheap,” Romney, the certain Republican nominee, said of the incumbent Democratic president. “Action speaks very loud, and if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look around Ohio and the country.”
He encouraged voters to ask their friends and neighbors if they are better off since Obama became president, predicting that small business owners, bankers, unemployed college graduates and others will answer no.
Obama, meanwhile, emphasized the election is about a choice for the direction of the country, saying Romney “and his allies in Congress” advocate the same economic policies of tax cuts and deregulation that brought the recent recession.
He cited in particular the refusal by congressional Republicans to accept any kind of tax increase on the wealthy, saying that stance prevented a comprehensive deficit reduction agreement last year.
“The only thing that can break the stalemate is you,” Obama said to cheers. “This November is your chance to render a verdict on the debate over how to grow the economy, how to create good jobs, how to pay down our deficit.”
Here’s CNN’s report:
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