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Subscribe to RSSCONCORD, N.H. -- Count GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney among those not planning to tune in for President Obama's nomination acceptance speech tonight.
Romney told reporters today he has not been watching the Democratic convention, and didn't plan to start tonight -- unless the president planned to report on promises made in 2008, rather than conduct what Romney referred to as a "promises reset."
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"I think this is a time not for him to start restating new promises, but to report on the promises he made. I think he wants a promises reset. We want a report on the promises he made," Romney said after ticking off a list of what he considered to be Obama's broken promises, including tackling the national debt and boosting job creation.
"The president needs to report tonight on his promises, rather than try and reset a whole series of new promises that he also won't be able to keep," he continued.
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The unannounced appearance today by Romney at a veteran's event staged by his campaign -- his second semi-public "drop by" in the battleground Granite State -- included Romney briefly addressing vets gathered to phone bank on his campaign bus. He later talked to a pooled group of reporters and took a handful of questions.
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Among the questions Romney faced: Why did he choose not to mention the war in Afghanistan during his own acceptance speech last week? Romney parried, saying he addressed the issue the day before, to an albeit much smaller audience, at the American Legion national convention in Indianapolis.
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And he said the word "Afghanistan" just once in that speech.
Then Romney took a swipe at Obama for not also addressing the group. "The president was also invited to the American legion, and uh, he was too busy to go," Romney said. "It was during my convention. I went to the American Legion, described my views with regards to our military, our commitment to the military -- my commitment to our men and women in uniform."
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Unless Romney is lying about his Career he has not ran anything but campaigns since 1994. That would make it 18 years since he created a job. If he ran our country the way his campaigns have been ran I would be very scared. Please do not try to tell me about his Olympics, He was a clean cut guy brought in for image reasons only, Because of the scandal.
This is not a referendum on Romney. I do not need Obama and company telling me lies about what Romney will do. If I want to know what Romney plans, I will listen to him, not some radical liberal that has an agenda.
Obama needs to come clean with the American people. He needs to be honest about the condition of the economy, jobs, energy, and healthcare. Will he do it? Not a chance in hell. He knows these issues will get him fired.
If Bush was in charge now, with everything the way it is, and he acted exactly like Obama, his approval rating would be 2%. But since this economy is Obamas, the democrat gets a pass. Hillary would have been a much better president, at least she knows how to work with republicans.
I believe Romney when he says he didn't listen to the President's speech and it reminded me of John McCain not bothering to watch his former handlers version of the way his campaign was run. They don't want to hear anyone's opinion or see anything that may make them feel a little less secure. You would hope someone running for the nation's highest office would have a little more intellectual curiosity but maybe he is just so cock sure of himself that he doesn't think he can learn anything sort of like trying to tell George W. that Iraq wasn't behind 9/11.
Romney doesn't have to watch Obama's speech. He has about a dozen or so advisors who will watch it for him. Mr. Rich man. I hope all you Republicans have fun trying to get as rich as Romney whose family came here from Mexico.