Video: Obama, Romney trade jabs on economy

On the campaign trail, President Obama took aim at presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, criticizing him for his tax policies. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.

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what a surprise- no liberals commenting

The economy is in shambles- thank you president obama!

$6,000,000,000,000.00 of recklass spending and there is NO improvment in America's economy. What a waste of hard earned taxpayer money.

Romney / Whoever 2012

The Kids of America will thank us!

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Reply#1 - Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:03 AM EDT

Keep repeating the lies Mr. Obama. They have been debunked over and over and over... You are quickly becoming a caricature of the slick talking community agitator with no plan to right the economy, the Chicago thug politician who relies on a compliant press to deflect from your utter failure as a leader and obfuscate your baseless charges. Many of us saw through your “hope and change” and “yes we can” platitudes four years ago. It must be dismaying to realize that each day more Americans realize the emptiness of your rhetoric. You are a divider. Your promise of uniting the country to create a greater good has proven hollow. You denigrate the achievers who make this country the beacon of hope for a world that desperately needs it. You patronize those who desperately want to participate in he American dream with promises you have no intention of keeping.

You and your ilk are like the locusts depicted in “A Bugs Life”, only much more sinister. You rely on a naive and vulnerable population, one that you can convince actually needs you. You disparage and slander the industrious, hard working Americans that make this country great and try to convince those with less that the bounty they have acquired was somehow ill gotten and undeserved. You promise to take that bounty from those who played by the rules and worked incredibly hard to acquire it and “spread the wealth” to those who follow you. You justify that taking by proclaiming that “If you have a business, you didn’t build it, someone else (government) made it happen”. It has occurred to me that your study of American history has suffered from your focus on the teachings of Marx and Lenin. It may be instructive for you to know that several hundred years ago an empire tried the same argument to convince colonialists who were braving an untamed wilderness, building roads and manufacturing goods (without the “benefit” of a central government) for sale to the general population as well as the rest of the world that their existence was dependent on the good graces of pompous aristocrats sipping sherry in overstuffed chairs safely located several thousand miles away. Those same colonialists rejected those assertions. Without a central government they formed militias and defeated the British Empire and established a country that despite your apologies to the contrary, is the greatest country in history.

I am not an ant Mr. Obama. No one in this country needs to be an ant. This country was founded on the premise of providing opportunity to all. We do not need you. You need us - to pay for the plane you and your family flies to Hawaii, Martha's vineyard, golf outings, Hollywood fund raisers etc., but more importantly to pay off the slime that promoted your rise in politics. The truth is YOU need government Mr. Obama. When you are defeated in November that will be made clear to all.

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Reply#2 - Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:49 PM EDT

I don't know what rock the square, tea sipping, zombies with blinders on crawled out from under, but they either ignore or reject both history and reality. GOP and trickle down policies just a few short years ago had the USA sliding into a second Great Depression. Short of Jesus, noone could have brought the Country back in just 1-term. A few of us saw this was going to happen as a dry-drunk son of privilege was handed the presidency by the supreme court in 2000. Were then horrified as another election was stolen in Ohio in 2008. Then after the people woke up and acutually put someone in office, here came the supreme court again opening up the money coffers of every rich old fart in the country. Funny that they can't pay more taxes, but can pour 10's of millions into the gop coffers knowing that romney will pay them back with average joes tax money. Looks like the gop is the root of all evil!

    Reply#3 - Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:18 PM EDT
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