Obama plows through 48-hour campaign swing
President Obama waves to supporters while speaking at a campaign event at Ybor Centennial Park in Tampa, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. / AP Photo/Chris O'Meara
TAMPA, Fla. At his first rally of the day, but his fourth rally of his 48-hour "day," President Obama referenced Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's rape comments, saying men in Washington should not be making women's health care decisions.
Obama: Mostly male D.C. politicians shouldn't decide women's health care
"And by the way, while we're at it, as we saw again this week, I don't think any politician in Washington, most of whom are male, should be making health care decisions for women," he said, "Women can make those decisions themselves. I don't think your boss or your insurance company should be making those decisions."
Last night on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", he commented more extensively.
"I don't know how these guys come up with these ideas," he said, "Let me make a very simple proposition, rape is rape. It is a crime. And so these various distinctions about rape don't make too much sense to me."
The president, losing his voice from his three events yesterday, thanked the Tampa, Fla., crowd for waking up early with him but told them, "You notice, my voice is getting a little hoarse, but...I'm just going to keep on keeping on."
In a humorous moment, the president couldn't find his newly printed 20-page plan when he started to ask the crowd to compare his plan to Romney's. "Where's my plan?" he asked, "Oh it dropped it, I couldn't find my plan, here it is."
Obama delivers "Michelle-approved" donuts to firefighters
The president flew through the night on Air Force One from Las Vegas to Tampa. He ended the night in Vegas by visiting with cafeteria workers at the Bellagio hotel and began his morning in Tampa by delivering three dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to a local firehouse.
On the second day of his "campaign extravaganza," he will visit Richmond, Va., stop through Chicago to vote early in person, and end with a rally in Cleveland before heading back to the White House.
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He knows Obama is a 'centrist' and not some 'commie/socialist' as the growing number of extremists in the GOP continue to espouse. He also has the calm, sharp intellect of a warrior-scholar and knows Obama's economic policies will work and are what's best for the country in the near and long term---if only the Republican House will quit blocking Obama's legislation as they have done throughout the Presidents entire term; wanting him to fail!
Governor Romney....."for the middle class that has suffered under the Obama economic policies for the last four years."
YEAH, THIS HAS BECOME ROMNEY AND THE GOP'S NEW MANTRA AND IT'S CLEARLY A LOAD OF CRAP!!!
The TRUTH:
'The middle class has really suffered under Romney's GOP House Republican obstruction / blockage of Obama's economic policy legislation for the last four years!
Not a single piece of significant economic legislation put forth by the President has even been allowed to come to the House floor for a vote due to Republican filibusters----numbering in the 70's during the course of the Presidents term in office, thus far!
To the extent that Obama started to take his own 'Administrative Measures', not requiring Congressional consent, in order to bring some relief to the middle-class and trying to keep the economy moving in the right direction. DOES ANYONE PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS ANY MORE?
Now Romney and the GOP have the 'balls' to say it's the Presidents economic policies that are responsible for the suffering middle-class and slow recovery. What a Crock of Lies!!!