Obama attacks GOP field on bus tour - Yahoo! News: "DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — Hitting back against an emboldened GOP, President Barack Obama launched a rare direct attack Monday on the Republican presidential field, criticizing his potential 2012 rivals for their blanket opposition to any deficit-cutting compromise involving new taxes.
'That's just not common sense,' Obama told the crowd at a town hall-style meeting in Cannon Falls, Minn., as he kicked off a three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
'You've got to be willing to compromise to move the country forward,' the president said later in the day as he delivered the same message at a town hall in Decorah, Iowa.
At the same time Obama was forced to defend his own record as Iowa voters asked him about all the compromises he's made with the GOP.
'I make no apologies for being reasonable,' Obama declared as he stood in front of a cheery red barn, surrounded by bales of hay."
Monday, August 15, 2011
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