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President Obama gave a speech in Cleveland on
Thursday
 laying out the clear choice in this election -- between moving forward
and creating an economy built to last, or going backward to the policies of
the past decade.
Those are the policies that Mitt Romney supports. He believes that if you
take away protections for consumers and workers and cut taxes even more for
the wealthiest Americans, the market will solve all our problems on its
but it also crashed our economy and hurt the rest of us. It didn't create
good jobs or pay down our debt -- it caused the worst economic crisis since
the Great Depression.
We don't want to go back to that.
We have to talk with our friends, families, and neighbors about the choice
we have in this election, and I think there's a lot of good stuff in this
week's tipsheet that will help you do just that.
 #1 Setting the record straight on spending 
Time and again, the Romney campaign has shown its willingness to make false
claims about President Obama, regardless of how often they're debunked by
independent fact-checkers. That's why the Truth Team is so important to
this campaign, and it's why I recorded a video responding to Romney's
distortions and outright inventions about the level of government spending
under President Obama. Take a
look
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 #2 Mitt Romney: Out of touch 
Romney recently said that President Obama is "defining what it means to be
detached and out of touch with the American people." I can't even begin to
tell you how eager I am to have a debate with Mitt Romney about what it
means to be "out of touch." Let's start by taking a look at this video of
his greatest out-of-touch
hits
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 #3 Video: It didn't work then, it won't work now 
President Obama's jobs plan would put teachers back in classrooms and first
responders back on our streets -- it's part of his plan to create up to a
million new jobs that Congress left on the table last year. But under
Romney Economics, the priorities are clear: When it comes to firefighters,
cops, and teachers, Romney says "it's time for us to cut back." It's the
same plan he enforced in Massachusetts as governor. Massachusetts officials
who served during Romney's tenure explain how Romney's cutbacks didn't work
for communities then, and how they won't work now -- take a
look
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 #4 What Romney Economics meant for Massachusetts firefighters, cops, and
teachers 
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney didn't just cut jobs for teachers and
first responders. He vetoed funding for student fire safety education,
increased fees for police training, and redirected grant money meant for
first responder equipment. Take a look at this blog post about Romney's
record
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 #5 Why Romney's "repeal and replace" plan for Obamacare would fail
millions of Americans 
Romney has been very clear that he would repeal Obamacare -- including its
requirement that insurers cover those with preexisting conditions -- but
he's never given a good answer about what he would replace it with. In
fact, as policy director James Kvaal explains in this blog post, the
centerpiece of Romney's plan for health reform has actually been the law
since 1996. Check it
out
 , and make sure others know about Romney's empty promises to fix our
nation's health care system:
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Thanks,
Stephanie
P.S. -- The First Lady is putting together a Father's Day card for
President Obama and she'd like you to sign
it
 . Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.
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