The heat button has been punched on in the race for the next US president as Republican Party nominee Mitt Romney officially attacks President Barack Obama accusing him of ‘false promises and weak leadership’ and mishandling of the economy.
“The last few years have been the best Barack Obama can do, but it’s not the best America can do,” Romney told cheering supporters.
Romney former Massachusetts governor scored victories in five primaries on Tuesday to cement his position as the Republican candidate in November’s presidential election.
Obama won the presidency in 2008 in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and since then economic growth has rebounded slowly and joblessness has receded gradually while housing prices have continued to drop in many areas of the country.
“Our businesses have added more than 4 million jobs over the past two years, but we all know there are still many Americans out there looking for work or trying to find a job that pays enough to cover the bills and make the mortgage,” the president Obama said.
Obama told voters in North Carolina and Colorado – making the case that, however slowly, the economy is growing stronger.
Romney interjects saying, “As I look around at the millions of Americans without work, the graduates who can’t get a job, the soldiers who return home to an unemployment line, it breaks my heart,” he said.
“This does not have to be. It is the result of failed leadership and of a faulty vision.”
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