Romney Re-Emerges, Dings Obama for ‘Incomplete’ Grade
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Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(WOODSTOCK, Vt.) — Mitt Romney sounded off for the first time this afternoon on President Obama’s recent comment that he’d give himself an “incomplete” grade on his ability to fix the economy, the Republican nominee saying in an interview that typically an incomplete “usually means you’ve gotta go back and take the course again.”
“I don’t think the American people want to see this president get another four years,” Romney said in an interview with Fox News in New Hampshire today, where the candidate emerged briefly amid days of debate prep and days off that have mostly kept him out of the view of cameras.
Romney was asked by Fox News’ Carl Cameron about Obama’s recent comment during an interview with a Boulder, Colo., television station, in which the president repeated a claim he’s made before: That he still deserves an “incomplete” rather than a letter grade when it comes to his performance in fixing the economy.
“Anyone who wants to let him try it again I think would be making a big mistake,” said Romney of Obama’s reelection. “Those who think they are better off than they were four years ago, they may decide to vote for him but the great majority of Americans who recognize we’re not better off than we were four years ago recognize that his policies are not what is needed.”
Romney told Cameron he did not watch the DNC last night, but referred to it as a “celebration of failure.”
Romney also discussed the removal of “God” from the platform, saying it “suggests a party that is increasingly out of touch with the mainstream of American people. I think this party is veering further and further away into an extreme wing that Americans don’t recognize.”
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