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In reply to the discussion: Mitt is running a perfect campaign [View all]librechik
(30,957 posts)"...And it is there that Mr. Obama still has not made his case. Mr. Romneys entire campaign rests on a foundation of short, utterly false sound bites. The stimulus failed. (Three million employed people beg to differ.) The auto bailout was a mistake. (Another million jobs.) Spending is out of control. (Spending growth is actually lower than under all modern Republican presidents.) He says these kinds of things so often that millions of Americans believe them to be the truth.
It is hard to challenge these lies with a well-reasoned-but-overlong speech just as, in an odd juxtaposition, Mr. Obama failed to make his case for his Afghanistan policy in a speech in May that was both too short and too shallow. The president has less than five months to find a way to make a vital message sink in. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/opinion/the-political-contrast.html?hp