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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jul 15, 2012

The reason is, in the cycle like this 2012, the voters are so focused on who can fix the economy, who can create jobs, who can reduce the deficit and the debt, they know the president can't.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jul 15, 2012

The president not only has an economic record he can't defend. He's not really running a very good campaign.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jul 12, 2012

This is what the Obama campaign needs to do is invent a new excuse every day for voters not to focus on how high unemployment is.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jul 12, 2012

The Obama campaign needs to do is invent a new excuse every day for voters not to focus on how high unemployment is.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 27, 2012

The president who said he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody who made below $250 thou, now he's threatening to raise taxes on tens of millions who make far, far less than that.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 27, 2012

Mitt Romney is an imperfect carrier of this message. But given the fact that he's running against President Obama and given the fact he has promised to repeal Obamacare on the first day, he's plenty good enough.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 18, 2012

The reason the president has re-election difficulties is because the American economy is doing so poorly and the president made tremendous promises to the American people that he would reduce unemployment.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 17, 2012

Their view is what the president did blew up any chance of getting any type of thing, any type of bipartisan action together on Capitol Hill, that the president in taking executive action and just doing such a narrow slice of has poisoned…

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 17, 2012

This just says he's going to stop the administration from deporting children. That's all he really is doing in this change that he's making.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 2012

The only way it goes away is if job creation in this country gets strong, and I don't know an economist who believes that will be the case.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 2012

I think frankly the October surprise of this election will be the bottom falls out on President Obama's numbers and Mitt Romney will probably win a comfortable election.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 2012

Governor Romney wants to create jobs through the private sector. The president wants to create jobs through the public sector, through the government.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 7, 2012

The issue here as Jessica pointed out, philosophical. President Obama believes the way you grow the economy is having the government find reasons to hire more people.

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