Despite Risks, Romney Presses Grim Picture of Obama

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/politics/31romney.html

Mitt Romney warned on Tuesday that America was on the brink of “profound economic misery,” the latest effort by the Republican presidential candidate to paint an unrelentingly grim picture of the country under President Obama’s leadership

In a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in San Antonio, Mr. Romney offered a hint of optimism by declaring that “we have deep and abiding faith in the goodness and the greatness of America.”

But Mr. Romney, like many of his Republican rivals for the presidency, has more often relied on a strategy in which he regularly describes a country that is mired in poor economic conditions, adrift in foreign policy and broken when it comes to policy making in Washington.

“We stand near the threshold of profound economic misery,” Mr. Romney told the veterans. “Four more years on the same political path could prove disastrous.”

[TwilightGardener]

1. He's right--four more years of Republican opposition and obstruction to any sort of

economic progress WOULD be disastrous. It's funny how they refuse to help an ailing economy, even CAUSE it, and then blame Obama.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Right

They're not going to help fix anything while Obama is POTUS so that they can promise to......ummmm.......fix things once they get the WH back. Utterly despicable IMHO :puke: It must be great to be able to talk about how bad things are without assuming responsibility for trying to help fix anything. It's fine for them to say that they disagree with what Obama is doing and that they would do things differently if and when elected but I don't understand how they can sit there and say that Obama is a failure when they're pretty much keeping him from actually doing anything to try to make things better. He's even been trying to include them in the process and all they've been doing is obstructing and/or trying to repeal his initiatives!! :banghead:

[gateley]

2. Like he gives a shit. nt

[LetTimmySmoke]

3. He's being the good Mormon while Perry is being the bad Texan.

Romney's new job is to soften up Obama for Perry in the general.