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President Obama started his first post-debate campaign rally with a big pushback on Romney, saying his opponent at last night's debate was not the "real Mitt Romney" given his more moderate positions.Event ongoing.

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12:31:46 the reason I'm in Denver is to see all of you and i'ts pretty...
12:31:52 but we also had our first debate last night.
12:31:55 when I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney. (hge laughs)
12:32:23 but it couldn't have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around for the last year talking about a fivbe trillion dollar tax cut for hte wealthy and this Mitt Romney said he didn' tknow anything about that. said we don't need any more teachers in the classroom.
12:32:43 don't boo vote
12:32:54 but the fellow last night, he loves teachers. said he can't get enough of 'em.
12:33:01 the mitt romney we now is a pioneer of outsourcing. but the mitt romney onstage last night said he didn't even know there were such laws that encouraged outsourcing. never heard of 'em. never heard of 'em.
12:33:25 he said that if it's true, he must need a new accountant. now, we know for sure it was not hte real mitt romney because he seems to be doing just fine with his CURRENT accountant.
12:33:45 so you see, the man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he's been saying for the last year.
12:33:56 and tha'ts because he knows full well that we don't want what he's been selling for the last year.
12:34:07 so governor romney may dance around his positions but if you want to be president you owe the american people the truth.
12:34:23 so here's the truth. gov. romney cannot pay for his five trillion dollar tax plan iwthout blowing up the deficit or sticking it to the middle class.

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12:41:47 When he was asked what he'd actually do to cut the deficit and reduce spending, he said he'd eliminate funding for public television.
12:41:58 I mean, thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird.
12:42:07 It's about time. We didn't know that Big Bird was driving the federal deficit, but that's what we heard last night. How about that? Elmo too?
12:42:26 Look, the fact is, Governor Romney's math just doesn't add up.
12:42:32 And I had to spend a lot of time last night trying to hit it down. The only way to pay for $5 trillion in new tax cuts and $2 trillion in new defense spending that the military says it doesn't need is by asking the middle class to pay more.

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12:45:26 It'll be interesting to see what the guy who was playing Mitt Romney yesterday will say about foreign policy when we meet next. Because he said it was tragic to end the war in Iraq.

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we don't need any more teachers in the classroom

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2000 additional teachers

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I recall him telling Obama that 90 billion Solynrda loan to his camapign pals could have went to 2000 additional teachers though.

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12:32:23 but it couldn't have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around for the last year talking about a fivbe trillion dollar tax cut for hte wealthy and this Mitt Romney said he didn' tknow anything about that

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more like 2,000,000

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This is very true.

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12:33:45 so you see, the man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he's been saying for the last year.
12:33:56 and tha'ts because he knows full well that we don't want what he's been selling for the last year.
12:34:07 so governor romney may dance around his positions but if you want to be president you owe the american people the truth.
12:34:23 so here's the truth. gov. romney cannot pay for his five trillion dollar tax plan iwthout blowing up the deficit or sticking it to the middle class.

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This is very true.

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so here's the truth. gov. romney cannot pay for his five trillion dollar tax plan

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12:33:45 so you see, the man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he's been saying for the last year.
12:33:56 and tha'ts because he knows full well that we don't want what he's been selling for the last year.
12:34:07 so governor romney may dance around his positions but if you want to be president you owe the american people the truth.
12:34:23 so here's the truth. gov. romney cannot pay for his five trillion dollar tax plan iwthout blowing up the deficit or sticking it to the middle class.




This is all spot on as well. I said last night, less than 10 minutes into the debate, Romney has scrapped his plan because it was so bad and was losing him the election, and is going to try to go in another direction. Pretty interesting strategy and a good one IMO. People do not seem to care from what I can tell.

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