Mitt Romney: the Candidate of Diminishing Expectations
President Obama said the country would be “setting our sights low” and “settling for something less” if voters choose his opponent Mitt Romney— and Romney’s proposed economic plan— in November.
Speaking before a crowd of 3,000 in this Washington suburb, Obama decried Romney’s plan which he said would cut education spending, slash investment in science, voucherize Medicare—adding to the deficit—- and ask the middle class to pay an extra $2,000 so “folks at the top can get another big tax break.”
“They will do exactly what they promised,” Obama said of Republicans. “But you know what it means is that, that vision to me means we’re setting our sights low. It means we’re settling for something else. It means that we’re no longer embracing the basic tenant that helped make this country great and that is that everybody can make it and everyone does their fair share, everybody gets a fair shot. Everybody is playing by the same set of rules.”