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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