Fairfax, Virginia:
President Barack Obama came up with a biting new term on Friday for what he called rival Mitt Romney's flip-flopping on policy positions, calling it "Romnesia."
"Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year," the president said at a rally attended by some 9,000 people at a university campus outside Washington.
It marked a clear escalation of the tone Obama is employing to attack his rival in the tight race for the White House, with the election just 18 days away.
The two men face off on Monday in Florida for the last of three debates, this time focusing on foreign policy.
The president said the former Massachusetts governor used to claim, for instance, he was the ideal candidate for the conservative movement known as the Tea Party.
"Now, suddenly, he's saying, 'what, who, me?'" the president said, drawing laughs from the crowd.
"I mean, he's changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping, we've got to name this condition that he's going through. I think it's called 'Romnesia.' That's what it's called. I think that's what he's going through," Obama said.
The president then rattled off what he said were a series of Romney policy reversals on issues such as women's rights, tax cuts for the wealthy and the future of the coal industry.
Shortly after Obama's speech, the hashtag #Romnesia began trending on Twitter.
"Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year," the president said at a rally attended by some 9,000 people at a university campus outside Washington.
It marked a clear escalation of the tone Obama is employing to attack his rival in the tight race for the White House, with the election just 18 days away.
The two men face off on Monday in Florida for the last of three debates, this time focusing on foreign policy.
The president said the former Massachusetts governor used to claim, for instance, he was the ideal candidate for the conservative movement known as the Tea Party.
"Now, suddenly, he's saying, 'what, who, me?'" the president said, drawing laughs from the crowd.
"I mean, he's changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping, we've got to name this condition that he's going through. I think it's called 'Romnesia.' That's what it's called. I think that's what he's going through," Obama said.
The president then rattled off what he said were a series of Romney policy reversals on issues such as women's rights, tax cuts for the wealthy and the future of the coal industry.
Shortly after Obama's speech, the hashtag #Romnesia began trending on Twitter.
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