Even though Obama has run up the national debt and expanded government significantly, he is wrapping himself in distinctly American — not European — trappings, echoing Truman and Teddy Roosevelt.
And he’s got the money and the podium to paint Romney as a practitioner of the Wall Street practices that he says led to the Great Recession.
It’s going to be a brawl. I wouldn’t predict an outcome, but Obama has gotten off the mat.
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