Romney Attacks Obama for Not Cutting Debt Amassed by Bush

Mitt Romney, attacking President Barack Obama for the second consecutive day for swelling U.S. deficits, said the president has done “almost nothing to fix” the debt amassed over eight years by former President George W. Bush.

Obama as a candidate “was very critical of his predecessor, because the predecessor put together $4 trillion of debt over eight years,” Romney said yesterday in a speech in St. Petersburg, where he began a two-day campaign and fundraising swing through Florida, a hotly contested state. “He said that doing that was unpatriotic -- irresponsible and unpatriotic --and he said he would cut the debt in half if he became president. Instead he doubled it.”