CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? As the Democratic National Convention opens today, some of President Barack Obama's surrogates fumbled when asked if the country is better off than it was four years ago. To get out in front, Obama campaign aides took the question head-on Tuesday morning.
"The country is better off," the president's deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter declared.
Joined by fellow Obama campaign architects Ben LaBolt and Jim Messina, Cutter sat down with Yahoo News' Olivier Knox as well as ABC News' Diane Sawyer and Jake Tapper for a live "Newsmakers" broadcast.
Summing up their point, Obama's aides reinforced the "bumper sticker" line credited to Vice President Joe Biden: "Osama bin Laden is dead, GM is alive."
"We broke the back of al Qaida," Cutter said. "The auto industry was on the verge of bankruptcy?and now they're creating hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Cutter also hit back at a Romney campaign aide's contention during last week's "Newsmakers" at the Republican National Convention that "we're not going let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."
"We do care about fact checks. We do care about the honesty of our ads," she said.
But the Obama aides agree with the Romney campaign on at least one thing: It's going to be a tight race, one that Team Obama is careful to characterize as a "choice" for voters.
"We're confident in the choice, and we're confident when people understand that choice that we're going to win this election," Messina said.
"Confident," Cutter said.
"Ditto," LaBolt agreed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-camp-country-better-off-171839285--election.html
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