Romney on Obama’s economic speech: ‘Talk is cheap’

Yahoo ^ | June 14, 2012 | Holly Bailey

[BradtotheBone]

As President Barack Obama prepared to deliver a major economic speech in Cleveland, Ohio, Mitt Romney was on the opposite side of the state, trashing Obama's talk on the economy as "cheap" and urging Americans to judge the president by his "actions" not his words.

"If you think things are going swimmingly … then he's the guy to vote for," Romney told supporters at an aluminum factory in Cincinnati.

But the Republican nominee argued that Obama hasn't delivered on his 2008 promise to turn the economy around and insisted that "almost everything" his administration has done has instead made it harder for businesses to create jobs.

"Talk is cheap," Romney said. "But actions speak very loud. If you want to see the results of his economic policies, look at Ohio and look around the country. … What he says and what he's done are not always the same exact thing."

Romney's remarks weren't dramatically new. With a few minor exceptions, the GOP candidate stuck largely to his regular stump speech. But the optics around his Ohio event were clearly aimed at stealing some of Obama's thunder, as the president prepared to deliver what the White House described as a major economic address.

While Romney's speech was originally set to begin five minutes after Obama took the stage in Cleveland, his campaign moved up the start time by 15 minutes, in hopes of getting more television coverage.

Romney, who spoke without a teleprompter, argued that when judging the impact of Obama's policies, all Americans have to do is ask businesses around the country if they are better off than they were when the president took office.

"Go check on that," Romney instructed. "Go talk to small employers and big employers in your community. … Talk to the people you know."

[Kharis13]

I said on an earlier thread that everything McCain did wrong in his run for the Presidency, Team Romney is doing right. They’re staying on message, pounding Obama on a daily basis. And they’re smart enough to get out of the way while Obama is imploding.

Romney has my vote and my support.

[ExCTCitizen]

Romney, who spoke without a teleprompter,

I guess Romney will layoff Teleprompter OPERATORS and Bush will be BLAMED for that by OBLAME-O.