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| Barack Obama says Romney writing off half the country
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-September-2012
8:27:11 AM |
| Turning up the heat on Republican Mitt Romney's campaign stumble, President Barack Obama on Friday accused his rival of writing off half the country while defending his own remark that "you can't change Washington from the inside."
"We don't want an inside job in Washington, we want change in Washington," Obama told a rally in Virginia, one of a handful of tightly contested states where the election is being fought heading into its final six weeks. "It can't happen if you write off half the nation before you even took office."
Obama was referring to a secretly recorded video that emerged this week in which Romney told donors that 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes and are dependent on government and "my job is not to worry about those people." But the video has become so ubiquitous in the campaign that he didn't even have to explain the reference to draws cheers from his supporters
Meanwhile, Romney's campaign disclosed that he paid nearly $2 million on more than $13 million in income last year, mostly from investments, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent. The Republican's low tax rate was bound to be an issue in the campaign with issues of wealth and income taxes becoming more prominent with the revelation of the video this week.
Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan attacked one another over their plans for Medicare, the popular federal entitlement program for seniors, as both campaigns tried to woo older voters at an AARP convention in New Orleans.
Ryan was booed when he said he and Romney would repeal Obama's health care program. But he argued that Obama's health care law has weakened Medicare and said the Republican ticket would give seniors more choice in their health care coverage if elected.
"Mitt Romney and I share your concerns, and we respect you enough to level with you," Ryan said.
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