In a hint of what to expect in today's debate, the Obama campaign nailed Romney on his skills as a salesman, acknowledging that his sales pitch sounded really good at the previous debate, but wasn't supported with reality.
"Gov. Romney has been making pitches all of his life and he knows how to say what people want to hear whether that was during his time at Bain or during the dozens of town halls he did during the primary," Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Saturday.
Romney knows how to tell people what they want to hear. Ain't that the truth (a concept unfamiliar to Romney BTW).
Today, the Obama campaign is hinting, we can expect a more aggressive President Obama to push back on Romney's fantasy plans of a revenue neutral 5 Trillion Dollar Tax Cut, and a 12 Million Jobs Plan.
This is Bush on Steroids Revisited but at this point it seems everyone but liberals has forgotten this, says Michael Tomasky:
We are now at a point where the only people who even remember this and are making the connection between Bush policies and Romney proposals are liberal political junkies, which isn’t much of the population. Obama needs to remind swing voters of what happened.
So it is welcome news to hear of Obama's revised
strategy for today.
There is also a new plan. Two weeks ago, Obama tried to stay above the fray, backing down from nearly every attack he and his campaign have been firing at Romney by proxy — both on television and in solo rallies across the country. Tuesday at Hofstra, will throw all the punches he pulled two weeks ago, his aides promise. Romney’s tax rate? Check. The 47% video? He’ll work it in there. Osama bin Laden? You can bet on it.
Obama is “prepared to make sure every voter out there understands the truth about Romney’s policies if he tries to obscure them,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told BuzzFeed.
“[It] won't be a clean opportunity for Romney to claim he doesn't know anything about a $5 trillion tax cut weighted towards the wealthiest,” he added, as an example.
And issues - such as women's health - that received short shrift at the previous debate will get
attention today. We can expect President Obama to hit Romney on his years at Bain, and maybe even the 47% comments.
The Obama campaign made clear this weekend that President Obama will be more aggressive in his second debate with Mitt Romney, hinting that he will go after the Republican presidential nominee at several angles -- from women’s issues to Romney’s tax plan and his tenure at Bain Capital.
“I think he's going to be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country,” senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He also said Obama plans to be more aggressive and is making “adjustments” before the debate, then seemed to refer to Romney's investment capital career before entering politics.
"He is a great salesman,” Axelrod said. “That is what he did as a professional, he is very good at it.”
People clearly heard Romney's 'five point plan' even if it was based on fairy dust and hexes. Today we can expect President Obama to push back hard and insert some reality, as well as providing insights into his own plans for America's future. As Great Leap Forward
said 'Mitt Romeny knows, but he's not going to tell you until after the election'.