Obama Says Republicans Are Stuck In Past

By JACKIE CALMES, NY Times: Politics
Sun, 09/02/2012 - 6:52pm

Following the Republican National Convention, President Obama added a new element to his usual stump speech, describing Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans as backward-looking.

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