Friday, September 21, 2012

Paul Ryan kicks off 2-day tour of Virginia with usual public swipes at President Obama


The vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party, Paul Ryan, started his two-day tour of Virginia on Tuesday in an effort to remind Virginia’s voters why President Obama should be a one-term president.

Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke before a crowd of nearly 1,700 enthusiastic conservatives at Christopher Newport University.[1]

Ryan took the usual public swipes at President Obama, pointing to the “stagnant” U.S. economy and the president’s supposedly weak response to the violence directed at the U.S. in the Middle East.

With regards to the economy, however, President Obama inherited a hemorrhaging economic crisis from the previous president, the worst since the Great Depression. Job losses were at 800,000 a month when President Obama stepped into the White House and the Dow Industrial Average was below 7,000.[2]

Unless Ryan chooses to tell another lie and pin these figures on President Obama, the latter has actually helped  CREATE 4.5 million private-sector jobs in the past 29 months.[3] In other words, President Obama has done a great job playing the horrible hand he was dealt by George W. Bush.

On foreign policy, the Romney ticket has attempted to paint President Obama as weak and “leading from behind.” This is a bold strategy for Team Romney considering President Obama’s many foreign policy successes: the killing of Osama bin Laden and senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki, the mobilization of an international coalition to safeguard pro-democracy Libyan demonstrators, reduced the number of Russian and U.S. nuclear missile launchers by half, and the list could go on.[4]

And Mitt Romney’s foreign policy credentials? A number of blunders ill-suited for the leader of the free world.[5]

Most strikingly, Ryan was, as usual, unspecific about Team Romney’s own policy solutions. Romney and Ryan have been largely content with attacking President Obama on every policy front while offering very little 
in the way of real solutions that Americans can compare.

Why would anyone elect a ticket that has few answers to our country’s most pressing problems?

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