Obama
Campaign and Democratic
Reactions to the Vice
Presidential Debate
Obama for America
Statement from Campaign Manager Jim Messina on
Tonight’s Debate
CHICAGO
--
Obama for America released the following statement from Campaign
Manager
Jim Messina in reaction to tonight’s debate:
“Vice
President
Biden won tonight’s debate. In a clash between facts and
conviction on one side and glib lines and empty promises on the other,
tonight’s debate exposed
the extreme risk that Romney-Ryan economics pose for the American
middle-class and to our leadership in the world. This debate
showed
that facts and details matter – and it’s clear tonight that with their
total disregard for both, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
know they can’t defend their indefensible plans.
“Ryan
couldn’t
explain how the Romney-Ryan tax plan wouldn’t hurt the
middle-class, how their double-down on trickle-down would create a
single job now, how their Iran
policy would differ from the President’s, or what their plan is for our
troops in Afghanistan – and when he was asked to ensure women that
their right to choose would be protected, he refused to answer because
they won’t protect it. With facts, convictions
and straightforward answers, Vice President Biden illustrated how he’s
spent a lifetime fighting for the middle-class and how he and President
Obama will continue doing so in a second term.”
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Democratic
National Committee
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on
Tonight’s Debate: Vice President Biden Clearly and Decisively Won
Tonight by Showing that Facts, Details and Convictions Matter
Washington, D.C. – DNC Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on tonight’s
vice presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky:
“Tonight’s debate – which Vice President Biden clearly and decisively
won – showcased two very different approaches to facts, details and
core convictions: Vice President Biden understands they matter, and
Congressman Paul Ryan obviously does not.
“At no point tonight was Ryan able to offer a straightforward answer or
specific explanation as to how he and Mitt Romney’s tax plan would be
anything but devastating to the middle class, how doubling down on
trickle-down will result in the creation of one single job now, how the
Romney-Ryan ticket’s policy on Iran would be different from President
Obama’s, or exactly what their plan is for our troops serving in
Afghanistan. And women across the country watching tonight’s
debate were not given any guarantee by Paul Ryan that they would
continue to have control over decisions affecting their own health,
their own lives, and their own bodies.
“Meanwhile, Vice President Biden demonstrated that honest answers and
concrete details do make a difference – and he consistently used them
tonight to underscore the fact that he’s spent his entire life fighting
for America’s middle-class families. He and President Obama will
proudly continue to do so in a second term, as they keep moving our
country forward with an economy built from the middle out.”
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Obama
Campaign
and Democrats Leading up to the Vice Presidential Debate
Obama
for America
For
Immediate Release:
Thursday, October
11, 2012
Contact:
Obama
for America Press
What to Expect from Tonight’s Debate
Leading
up
to
tonight’s Vice Presidential debate, Mitt Romney has made it very
clear that he will say anything to win, even if it’s not true – just
like he did in Massachusetts and in the boardroom. The question now: will Congressman Ryan adopt the same
dishonest strategy, or will he stand by the very extreme positions he’s
taken as the “intellectual leader” of the Republican Party? As Deputy
Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter outlines in a
memo released today, we’ve already seen that
Ryan isn’t afraid to skirt the truth – twisting everything from the
facts in his convention speech to the time it takes him to run a
marathon.
To
accompany
the
video, OFA is out with a
new
web
video that sharply details some of Congressman Ryan’s most
egregious previous deceits – a case study in “The 7 Habits of Highly
Misleading People.”
OFA
is
also
announcing a special Twitter handle – @OFAdebates – that will
be used to fact check and respond to Congressman Ryan’s statements in
real time, as well as Mitt Romney’s in the last two presidential
debates. Followers of the campaign’s existing @TruthTeam2012 account
will automatically receive tweets from @OFAdebates. Go to
www.barackobama.com/OFAdebates
to follow.
And
whether
Ryan
stands by the extreme positions he and Mitt Romney share
or he mimics Romney’s performance at last week’s debate and hides his
real positions, the following campaign officials and surrogates will be
in Danville to respond to his performance immediately after the debate
ends:
·
Jim
Messina, Obama for America Campaign Manager
·
David
Axelrod, Obama for America Senior Strategist
·
Stephanie
Cutter,
Obama
for America Deputy Campaign Manager
·
Governor
Martin
O’Malley
·
Governor
Ted
Strickland
·
Senator
Dick
Durbin
(D-IL)
·
Senator
Jack
Reed
(D-RI)
·
Rep.
Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
·
Rep.
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
·
Beau
Biden, Attorney General of Delaware
·
Cecile
Richards,
President,
Planned Parenthood Action Fund*
*
For
identification
purposes
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