OBAMA JOKES ABOUT 'ROMNESIA' IN CAR COUNTRY
DAYTON, Ohio – Taking his campaign into car
country, President Barack Obama touted his from-the-start support of the
auto industry bailout, contrasting it with what he said was Mitt
Romney’s shifting position on the issue.
Highlighting
what is a popular topic in this swing state, where one in eight jobs is
tied to the auto industry, Obama joked that his Republican opponent had
“Romnesia” in Monday night’s debate when he said he would have helped
car companies avoid bankruptcy during the 2009 auto crisis.
“If
you said that you love American cars during a debate, you’re a car guy –
but you wrote an op-ed titled, ‘Let Detroit Go Bankrupt’ – you
definitely have a case of Romnesia,” Obama said as he spoke to a crowd
of 9,500 at a public park here.
Seeking to characterize his opponent as
untrustworthy, Obama said, “Last night Gov. Romney looked you right in
the eye, looked me in the eye, tried to pretend that he’d never said,
‘Let Detroit go bankrupt.’ Tried to pretend he meant the same thing I
did when we intervened and worked to make sure management and workers
got together to save the U.S. auto industry.”
“Pretended like somehow I had taken his advice,” Obama said.
But, he continued, “People don’t forget. The people of Dayton don’t forget. The people of Ohio don’t forget,” he said.
The
president returned to the White House after his Dayton event; he heads
Wednesday to Davenport, Iowa where he kicks off another two days full of
campaign events.
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