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Mitt Romney used his first face-off with President Obama on Wednesday night to try to chip away at the caricature that Democrats have been drawing of him the past two years, arguing that contrary to the president’s claims he does not want a $5 trillion tax cut skewed to the wealthy.
At the same time, the Republican nominee pressed the case that the president’s policies have become a barrier to job growth and that his plans for a second term would “kill jobs.” Echoing the words of Vice President Biden earlier in the week, Romney said: “Under the president’s policies, middle-income Americans have been buried.”
Romney tried to align himself with middle-class Americans throughout the 90-minute debate in Denver, claiming his primary goal is jobs.
Obama, though, appealed to the same swath of voters – he continued to argue that his opponent is promising a return to failed policies that would boost the privileged and burden the middle class. He slammed Romney for wanting to turn Medicare in to a “voucher” system, repeal the federal health care overhaul and allegedly push a tax cut for top earners.
While Romney accused Obama of pushing “trickle-down government,” Obama accused Romney of wanting to “double down on the top-down policies” that preceded the financial crisis.
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patti’s notes: thought debate was good. romney was ,right there ,every monment,looked obama in the eyes,whole time,obama kept looking down.romney kept his cool,.romney did not let obama let him back down. thought lears was good with questions.obama,not used to having to answer to someone other than media. pl,orl,fla
I think Romney was awesome tonight. It was a very good debate. Obama has never had to stand and take what Romney had to say. OB was looking down because he knew Romney knew what he was talking about.
OB can’t look Romney in the eyes because he knows he has lied from the start. Romney was AWESOME!!!!!
@Flacrackergirl… I couldnt have said it better myself… you are right.. obama couldnt look at romney in the eyes because he knew that he had been flat out lying to the american people and he knows that the people know this about him… there was nothing he could say about it… he was put in his place finally… he knows we are all on to him.. he cant look romney in the eyes or the american people.. i can see him looking down alot in the future until he is out of the white house and moves on to his next scandal but, hopefully it will be in someone elses country. maybe his home country africa.. he did say that kenya was his home after all..