MANCHESTER, N.H., in the first City Hall of his newly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney this morning continued to offer a sharp criticism of President Obama's handling of the economy.
Look he's a nice guy, he's well spoken--he could talk a dog of a trolley that meat--and he hasn t delivered, in the Massachusetts Governor said in a conference room at the University of New Hampshire's campus here. We've had three years now in the beginning was all George Bush "we're not hearing much about George Bush now, by the way, that we re seeing unemployment at nine percent plus. It went up again today.
He can t keep blaming Bush, "he added. This is now his economy.
It was the first time this year that Romney has been faced with a group of voters in the oregisserade forums New Hampshire boasts approximately 100 people showed to the event, to bring written questions to ask candidates about issues that he has not been brought up himself: education, climate change and abortion.
In one of his most brilliant comments, Romney said he thought global warming was real, and people contribute to it a statement that his other Republican rivals have generally avoided.
I don t speak for the scientific community, of course, Romney said, in reply to the first question tomorrow. But I think the world's getting warmer. I can t prove that, but based on what I have read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I think that people contribute to that.
He also said he wanted to wean the country off its dependence on foreign oil by seeking alternative energy sources, saying that Americans should do more to preserve.
I m told me that we spend nearly twice as much energy per person makes a European, and more that three times as much energy as a Japanese citizen, Romney said. We can do a lot better.
He also called for working with other countries. We don t call it America warming. We call it global warming potential, he said. And if there's going to be an effort in this, there must be a global scope.
Romney, dressed in black denim and an open-collared shirt, appears to attempt to reconnect with voters in an informal manner. He introduced Ann Romney, who referred to her husband several times to Oroblanco.
Romney began his speech by repeating personal stories about his wife and his father (and mentioned that he still has a 1962 Rambler parked in his garage). He also retells the story of a time when, as Governor of Massachusetts, he went to Logan International Airport to receive the body of a soldier killed on a family. A crowd formed at the Terminal to watch the casket from the belly of a US Airways flight.
I looked up and every single person that I saw had their hands on their hearts, "he said. And I couldn't see the tears but I could see the tears of grief and respect and appreciation of their faces. We are a patriotic people. And we face extraordinary contenders right now, but we will overcome these challenges.
Matt Visa can be reached in maviser@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @ mviser.
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