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Obama Avoids Referring To Romney By Name

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President Obama delivered an address on immigration and the economy at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Orlando, Florida today, but notably made no reference to his opponent Mitt Romney. Instead, he referred to Romney, who also spoke at the conference yesterday, as “your speaker” (emphasis added):

In all, yesterday, your featured speaker came here and said the election in November is not about to people, or about being a Republican, Democrat or independent. It is about the future of America. While we have a lot of differences, he and I, on this point I could not agree more. This is about America’s future.

And once more:

 I’m still waiting to work with anyone from either party who is committed to real reform. In the meantime, the question we should consider is this, was providing these people an opportunity for a temporary measure of relief the right thing to do? I think it was. It’s long past time that we gave them a sense of hope. Your speaker from yesterday has a different view. In a speech he said when he makes a promise to you he’ll keep it. He’s promised to veto the DREAM Act.

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