Statement from OFA Campaign Manager Jim Messina on Tonight’s Debate

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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 3, 2012  

Contact: Obama for America Press (312) 985-1198

Statement from OFA Campaign Manager Jim Messina on Tonight's Debate

CHICAGO – Obama for America released the following statement from Campaign Manager Jim Messina in reaction to tonight's debate:

"The President spoke directly to voters tonight about his vision for an economy that grows from the middle out, while Mitt Romney spent the night on the defensive, doubled down on the same bad ideas that crashed the economy, and got testy when he was pushed on specifics. Romney confirmed that he opposes a single dollar in new revenue from the wealthiest to reduce the deficit and continued to hide the details about how he'd accomplish his plans because he knows they don't add up and are bad for the middle-class. He was unable and unwilling to explain the math behind his $5 trillion tax cut favoring the wealthy, refused to say what rules he'd put in place to protect consumers after repealing Wall Street reform, and didn't offer a single idea to protect families from insurance company abuses after repealing Obamacare. Tonight the American people saw the clear contrast between where the two candidates will take the country in the next four years."

Post script:

When thinking about the debate, we must understand how past democrats have allowed republicans to push them around and intimidated them from speaking on topics of concern to democratic constituents. Our newspapers capture the attention of their readers mostly due to how they structure language. The language used in our newspapers is designed for a 3rd grader to read it. With this said, President Obama needs to start talking to his constituents so they can identify with his message. Obama is talking to the wrong people. He is not talking to the poor. Now, Romney talked to the poor in their language last night and Obama had no response. As Romney and Obama were talking about health care, Romney made this comment as he was talking..."and you can take care of your poor people...." Obama better get up off of his rusty #$% and start taking the game to Romney, face-to-face....