Obama: Romney delivers a "cow pie of distortion"
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UPDATED May 25 10:38 a.m. ET
(CBS News) At a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday evening, President Obama attacked Republican challenger Mitt Romney's Bain Capital experience, but sought to make clear that his criticisms are not an attack on the private equity industry.
"There may be value for that kind of experience, but it's not in the White House," the president said to campaign volunteers and supporters at the Iowa Fair Grounds, adding that "corporate buyouts" are "not the president's job."
The president continued to challenge the experience of Romney -- a co-founder and partner at Bain Capital for more than a decade -- saying that his "world view" was skewed toward corporate interests.
"The last time he visited these fair grounds, he famously declared corporations are people," Mr. Obama said, referring to a statement Romney made in August.
"The job of the president is... to look out for the investor and the worker, the small companies and the big companies," the president said. "You're supposed to be thinking about everybody."
The president also took issue with a statement Romney made last week in Iowa, where he said the president has has created a "prairie fire of debt" by adding $5 trillion of debt. The president called Romney's statement a "cow pie of distortion," and had a $5 trillion figure of his own. He said Romney proposes $5 trillion in tax cuts without offering ways to pay for it. "It's like trying to put out a prairie fire with some gasoline," the president said.
This is the president's second campaign event in Iowa on Thursday. Earlier in the day he spoke at TPI Composites, a wind turbine parts manufacturing plant in Newton, where he pressed Congress to extend the renewable energy tax credits.
Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams pointed out the the president has been in power for nearly four years.
"President Obama has proven beyond all doubt that he is not serious about fixing our country's spending problem," Williams said.
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Why does it sound like something a Hobbit might use?? "Look out! The bad guys are coming! Throw a cowpie of distortion!"
Yes, Obama continued Bush tax cuts. He's compromised on other issues as well. He's used Romney's ideas for reform (which even FORBES magazine pointed out). So, *what if* his goal was to use his opponents ideology as means to point out it doesn't work? And I've posted links to these issues plenty of times in the past, so if you're planning on saying "cite sources", I'll preemptively say "Go find my previous responses to you or others" as I've posted them too many times to care for.
I could probably nitpick that article as well, but the bulk of it rings true. The few areas I might nitpick could just as easily be addressed down the road.
Either way, this will be an interesting upcoming 5 months, indeed...
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Then that would fit Einstein's definition of the word "insanity".
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That wasn't my point - at all.
I'll take my English language definitions from Webster, thank you.
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Well, that certainly explains your ignorance.
Webster's does not replace scholarly texts on politics, obwan. Try getting your POLITICAL definitions from a better source than Websters.
I have no idea with sevenlucky7 could have said to get booted - he was behaving himself just fine... maybe he was going nuts on some other article.
"ROMNEY - When Obama Just Isn't Liberal Enough for You"
Forward is much better then backward, of course you on the right don't think so.