“[Obama]’s giving a speech in a couple of days,” Romney said. “I haven’t read it, but I know what’s coming – I’ve seen version one, two, three, four and five. They’re not working.”
Brandishing his smartphone, Romney conjured a technological metaphor for the president’s proposals.
“President Obama’s strategy is a payphone strategy, and we’re in a smartphone world,” he said. “What he’s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into a payphone, and he can’t figure out why it’s not working. It’s not connected anymore, Mr. President.”
Romney also took a swipe at Obama that could apply to some of his competitors who have spent most of their careers in government – chiefly Texas Gov. Rick Perry. “I think to create jobs, it helps to have had a job, and I have,” he said.
Though Romney repeatedly emphasized he wanted to aim his
Mitt Romney unveils 59-point jobs plan
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