US President Barack Obama took his campaign to the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado Sunday as he and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fight for votes in key battleground states.
US President Barack Obama took his campaign to the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado Sunday as he and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fight for votes in key battleground states that will determine the outcome of the November election.
AFP reported that the US president was on a four-day trip through swing states in the lead-up to his re-nomination at the Democrats' meeting in North Carolina.
On Monday, he will reportedly travel to Louisiana to tour damage in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, which forced the Republican convention to start a day late.
He is scedualed to visit Virginia on Tuesday.
Obama initiated his speech by mocking Florida’s Republican gathering, and said that it promoted an outdated policy agenda from the last century”.
“It was a rerun. We've seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV,” Obama joked to supporters in Urbandale.
“Let me recap it for you: Everything's bad, it's Obama's fault and governor Romney is the only one who knows the secret to creating jobs and (making) the economy grow,” he added.
He lambasted Romney for “failing to offer any new ideas in his address to Republican activists,” considering that “Romney reiterated the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years.”
In another speech the US president also criticized Romney for having "nothing to say" about Afghanistan.
On the other hand, AFP quoted Romney as saying during his campaign in Ohio that “Obama had failed to fulfill his promise to revamp the sagging US economy,” comparing his record to that of a failing sports coach.
He noted that 23 million people are now out of work or have stopped looking for work or are underemployed in the United States.
“Let me tell you, if you have a coach that's 0 to 23 million, you say it's time to get a new coach," Romney said in Cincinnati, adding: “It's time for America to see a winning season again, and we're going to bring it to them."
