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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (51037)	4/27/2012 12:36:23 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71588

Romney Team Says Obama Campaign ‘Flailing’ By Patrick O'Connor Agence France-Presse/Getty Images President Barack Obama and comedian Jimmy Fallon talk during a commercial break during a taping of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” at the University of North Carolina earlier this week. Mitt Romney’s campaign manager Matt Rhoades unloaded on President Barack Obama’s re-election effort Friday, calling it “a remarkably flailing campaign with no discernible rationale” for his candidacy. The elusive Mr. Rhoades ripped the president and his advisers in a lengthy memo for running a petty campaign that ignores the challenges facing the country, from persistently high unemployment to the rising federal debt, to instead focus on distractions, such as Mr. Romney’s failure to release more than two years of tax returns or the story about how he once strapped the family dog to the roof of their car. “Gov. Romney and his campaign seek to make this election about big choices affecting our future, while President Obama and his team want to make it a very small election about dogs, tax returns and his winning TV persona,” Mr. Rhoades wrote in the memo. The two camps have been trading volleys for more than a year, but Friday’s missive marks Mr. Rhoades’s first lengthy on-the-record takedown of the Obama re-election effort since Mr. Romney declared himself the winner of the Republican nominating fight. Mr. Romney and his campaign are working hard to make the election all about the president’s policies and less about Mr. Obama himself, who many independent swing voters views as likeable. But the attacks are quickly becoming more personal, as the president gears up for his first official campaign stops next weeks in Ohio and suburban Virginia. This week, Republicans seized on Mr. Obama’s appearance on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to paint him as a president who enjoys the trappings of office but hasn’t done enough to rescue average Americans from joblessness or rising gasoline prices. American Crossroads, the well-funded super-PAC that backing Republican candidates, won headlines this week for an online commercial mocking the “celebrity president.” In the Friday memo, Mr. Romney’s campaign manager – following in the footsteps of the candidate himself – criticized the president and his advisers for their failure to outline a clear second-term agenda that will give voters a preview of what another four years with Mr. Obama in the White House would look like. “There should be a reward for anyone who can find an agenda for Obama’s second term,” Mr. Rhoades wrote. The Romney campaign manager also criticized the campaign for failing even to settle on a consistent line of attack about the likely Republican nominee – the Obama campaign has pegged Mr. Romney as both a right-wing zealot and an insincere conservative. “The Obama campaign is like one of those gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers, spewing out attacks in seemingly random directions, hoping to get somebody wet somewhere but hoping even more to talk about anything but the unemployment rate, federal debt, gas prices or rising health-insurance premiums,” Mr. Rhoades wrote.” Update: Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in response to the memo that the “only unifying theme of Mitt Romney’s campaign to date has been its relentless dishonesty about President Obama’s record and Mitt Romney’s own time in both the private sector and Massachusetts.” In drawing his own contrast with the Romney campaign, Mr. LaBolt said the president has rescued the economy from the brink of collapse, “bet on American workers to spur the comeback of the American auto industry and manufacturing” and “kept his promise to end the war in Iraq and refocus on al Qaeda.” “Mitt Romney and his campaign, on the other hand, will use any language to declare his record off-limits,” the Obama spokesman said. “It’s no surprise why: as a corporate buyout specialist, he profited by laying off workers and outsourcing jobs and as the governor of Massachusetts, his record was one of few jobs, higher taxes, more debt, and bigger government.”

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (51037)	4/27/2012 8:46:29 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

Republicans amp up attacks on Obama for campaigning on Bin Laden's slaying. “Shamelessly turning the one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self-congratulation,” says McCain. Apr 27, 2012 http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/mccain-goes-nuclear-shame-on-barack-obama Here's the Arizona Senator's full statement: "Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin Laden 'to score political points.' "This is the same President who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn't 'spike the ball' after the touchdown. And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected. "No one disputes that the President deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy. "The Obama campaign asks whether Mitt Romney would have made that decision. Of course they want to focus on this one tactical decision because the other decisions this President has made have harmed our national security. "He turned his back on the people of Iran when they rose up to end their tyrannical, terrorist-supporting, Holocaust-denying government, giving them no assistance as they were crushed in the streets. "He has repeatedly thrown our ally Israel under the bus and jeopardized our shared security interests. "He tried to bring Khaled Sheikh Muhammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and other Al-Qaeda terrorists into the middle of New York City to stand trial in a civilian court. "He disregarded the advice of his military commanders and pulled all of our troops out of Iraq, and Al-Qaeda is making a comeback there as a result. "He disregarded the advice of his military commanders again by telling our enemies that we are leaving Afghanistan and then putting our mission and our troops at risk by short-changing our commanders on the ground. "He watches passively while the Assad regime in Syria, Iran's closest ally, kills thousands of its own people in an unfair fight, and his response to this mass atrocity is to create an 'Atrocities Prevention Board.' "With a record like that on national security, it is no wonder why President Obama is shamelessly turning the one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self-congratulation."