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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:48 PM Nov 2012

White House: Romney's view of the American people and election, "at odds with the truth."

Nov 15, 2012 12:22pm EST

WASHINGTON, DC — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney rejected Mitt Romney's comments on a conference call with donors that President Barack Obama only won the election because of "gifts" to minority groups.

"That view of the American people of the electorate and of the election is at odds with the truth of what happened last week," Carney told reporters on Air Force One, according to the pool report, joining the bipartisan chorus repudiating the remark.

More from Carney:

As we talked about a lot and the president talked about a lot, making it easier for Americans to go to college – that’s good for America. It’s good for all Americans. It’s good for the economy. Making health care available to young people who can stay on their parents’ plans. That’s good for those families it’s good for those young people so they aren’t bankrupted in their 20s by an illness. And it’s good for the economy and it’s good for all of us.

The president pursues policies that have at their core a desire to build the middle class, strengthen the middle class, make the middle class more secure, because that’s what makes America more secure. So it’s just not the view we take about the decision the American people made last week."



read: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/white-house-rubs-it-in-over-romneys-gifts-remar


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White House: Romney's view of the American people and election, "at odds with the truth." (Original Post) bigtree Nov 2012 OP
Romney was using Repuke spin to try to make the Pres look bad. socialindependocrat Nov 2012 #1

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1. Romney was using Repuke spin to try to make the Pres look bad.
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 02:11 PM
Nov 2012

The Dem view would be that Pres. Obama protected the lifenet benefits for the poor.

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