[americanophile]

It's certainly better than all the soundbite alternatives. I can understand him not being too specific and making his plan, rather than Obama’s record, this battleground. The kind of real reform we'll need won't be popular, so from that perspective he's smart to keep a lid on it, but to have the economically conservative WSJ poo poo your strong suit is not good.

[avital2]

as a daily reader of the Wsj, they can be off the mark. i’ll keep an open mind and wait for Romney to roll it out bit by bit. i am in finance - and think the 5% will be plenty controversial