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Obama says Romney hasn't "gotten around a lot"
President Barack Obama takes part in a town hall hosted by Univision at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida September 20, 2012. The sign above Obama reads ''The Latino Vote.''
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CORAL GABLES, Florida |
CORAL GABLES, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Mitt Romney's comment disparaging 47 percent of Americans as victims meant the Republican candidate had not "gotten around a lot."
Obama chided Romney for remarks, secretly videotaped at a Florida fundraiser, in which he said nearly half of the U.S. population was dependent on the government, did not pay federal income taxes and would not vote for him.
During an interview with Spanish-language network Univision, Democrat Obama said his rival's words suggested he did not know America well.
"When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven't gotten around a lot," Obama told the show, which was aimed at politically important Hispanics.
"We've gone through a challenging time. People want a hand up, not a handout," Obama said.
Romney has stuck by his comments, while calling them inelegantly phrased. Obama on Tuesday slammed Romney for "writing off a big chunk of the country" with the remarks.
(Reporting by Margaret Chadbourn; Editing by Alistair Bell and Jackie Frank)
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Wow. I guess Romney doesn’t like Americans very much, at least not most of us. Romney’s more interest in this crowd: Richest Americans’ net worth jumps to $1.7 trillion: Forbes
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-usa-billionaires-forbes-idUSBRE88I0WA20120919
“But the 13 percent growth in the wealth of the richest Americans far outpaced that of the economy overall, helping widen the chasm between rich and poor.”
So what is Romney’s solution to the widening gulf between the rich and everyone else? Cut taxes for the rich even more while cutting programs that help everyone else, we, the moochers.
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Obama us steering the USA toward default and depending on people to be stupid. Obama has gotten arond by getting us into 16 trillion in debt and 1.3 trillion this year alone. And he wants to spend more.
Obama has been around – at making people look the other way while he burns their house down.
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