Presidential Debates Over, Obama-Biden Paint Romney As Flip-Flopper
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Obama and Romney on screen during a debate watching party Monday night in Arcadia, California.(Rosa Trieu/Neon Tommy)
“We had a severe outbreak last night,” Obama said Tuesday morning in Delray, Florida. “It was at least stage 3 Romnesia. And I just want to go over with you some of the symptoms, Delray, because I want to make sure no one in the surrounding area catches it.”
Vice President Joe Biden said Romney's foreign policy agenda had switched during the debate from "saber-rattling" to one characterized by a peaceful dove.
"Some days they go out there and rattle the sabers, some days they are doves carrying olive branches," Biden said. "The only thing consistent ... about the way they talk about policy is that they are inconsistent."
Romney and running mate Paul Ryan were expected to campaign in Nevada and Colorado later Tuesday. Appearing in a television interview early Tuesday, Ryan criticized Obama for calling Romney's foreign policy backwards. Despite fact-checks after the debate that said the Navy doesn't need as many ships as Romney said it should have, Ryan went on to say that the "ocean hasn't shrunk."
On the ground, Obama will have campaign staff and volunteers distribute 3.5 million copies of his plan for the future in the final two weeks. The big book doesn't have any new ideas, and Obama has refused to get specific about second-term goals during the campaign.
Romney's campaign said a fancy booklet is no substitute for a real plan to create jobs.
Obama planned to speak again in Ohio later Tuesday. Besides Ohio and Florida, Obama has his eyes on Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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President Obama's debate win was truly impressive and now makes three out of four debate wins for Obama/Biden. People also seem to finally be realizing that Mitt Romney and the GOP have based an enormous amount of their election strategy on lies, hate and deceit. From the 72 million Americans that will be left without any health insurance, whatsoever, by year 2020, under Romney's plan (determined by two independent, non-partisan research studies available to the public), to women and minorities being drastically stripped of their equal rights because of his refusal to support initiatives like the Lily Ledbetter Act which enables women to be paid the same as men provided they do the same work (the first act passed by President Obama) or Hospital Visitation Rights which allows gay people the same visitation rights as straight people when a loved one is in hospital, Americans are seeing Mitt Romney for who he really is. From the West Coast to the East Coast and all of our our great country in between, we Americans are seeing from these debates that a Romney/Ryan plan will leave the middle class being burdened with much higher taxes while the wealthiest Americans pay less in tax because "it will help inspire job hiring" which evidence showed us in the Bush years, does not happen. Out of four debates neither Romney or Ryan could specify their "tax plan" despite being given numerous opportunities. That is not honest. That is not American. That is not integrity and that is certainly not Christian. Mitt Romney also has the highest disapproval rating, of all time, of any Presidential candidate, ever. Higher than Bush. We must understand this. The entire world hates the guy. We must be proud to be Americans. We must have a President who represents all of America and that we can be proud of. We are coming out of one of the most difficult economic times in our history in large part because of two wars we are finally ending. We are bringing our brothers and sisters home. But we cannot go backward. We must go forward. We are Americans. And we will prevail.