Obama launches new tax offensive against Romney

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JULIE PACE

CHICAGO (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign is launching a new offensive Monday against Republican Mitt Romney, blasting the GOP nominee for criticizing Americans who don't pay income taxes without having "come clean" about his own.

The campaign started the new push with a television advertisement, its first spot using Romney's comments that 47 percent of voters pay no income tax, and believe they are victims and entitled to government assistance. The ad was to begin airing in Ohio - a crucial swing state where Romney was campaigning this week - but was also expected to be part of the campaign's final push elsewhere between now and Election Day.

"Maybe instead of attacking others on taxes, he should come clean on his," the ad's narrator says of Romney.

The 30-second spot signaled that Obama would keep making Romney's taxes a campaign issue. The Republican hopeful has released only two years of tax information about his personal fortune and finances.

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at D’Evelyn High School in Denver, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[judesedit]

1. Look how un-enthused the all white crowd looks. One sign? Scary.

[obxhead]

2. I'm tired of this blatant misreporting of the facts.

Romney has not released a single complete year of tax returns.

[NBachers]

6. Yes, I heard Cokie Roberts on NPR this morning: "Now that he's released his 2011 taxes,

Democrats have shifted to 'what's he going to do to your taxes" because they can't complain about his taxes any more."

I had to shut the radio off. There's just something so snide and contaminated about Cokie Roberts that it makes my skin crawl to hear her. She knows damn well he didn't release the full tax return, but she's lying that he did.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. This is what the Obama Campaign does best

Obama Campaign is a marvel to watch. Destroyed Hillary Clinton
and John McCain 2008. Now the same tactics turned on Mitt Romney.

The GOP at this point hasn't a clue. They think this is about ideology
and taxes, or property rights or entitlements.

But it's not. It's about the give and take, the flow, the combative energy
that embodies political campaign rivalries.

The Obama Campaign (are they "you people"?) is now on offense.
It's like a barrage of cannon fire in a naval battle. This is a broadside,
and it will continue from now until election day.

They will keep the Romney Campaign on their heels, never giving them room
to maneuver, always answering charges, having their own initiatives' energy
scattered by the Obama cascade, and seeding the discourse with topics that
benefit them and make Romney appear inappropriate and indecisive.

I still believe the Obama Campaign will step on the gas by October 23 and
carry the day November 2nd with a results that remind of the Watershed
election of 1980. It won't be a landslide, if only because of the red states,
but it will shift the balance a bit.

Hold on to your hats! It's going to be a beautiful storm.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Romney has been smoked out

To add to my previous post, and quite to the point.

By putting such intense pressure on Romney as early as June,
the Obama Campaign learned what it needed to know: that
Romney would not release any substantial tax returns, and
because of what's in them. They knew he'd release 2011, but
also knew one year is not enough.

So Romney has been eviscerated on that one issue, and cannot
defend himself, other than to try to attack Obama on jobs. And
that is becoming a moot point as employment improves.

Romney has waived the White Flag on the tax issue. He will be
pummeled over it, a virtual political punching bag. His response
is to cater to the extreme right, and he thinks he's doing fine on
that because that's the way he sees the world, doesn't even
realize there are other points of view.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. I am so happy that the president and the Democrats are refusing to cede this issue! Way to go!!

[JohnColston]

7. Sweet Taxes

More and more ... we all love Taxes