Mitt Romney Blasts Obama: 'One Of The Most Ineffective Presidents,' He's 'Failed' (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is calling Barack Obama "one of the most ineffective presidents" he's ever seen, and says he can beat him next year.

Romney tells NBC in an interview that while Obama wasn't responsible for the recession he inherited, "he made things worse. He's failed."

Romney also says he thinks Obama lacks "a cogent assessment" of world affairs. The Republican charges, in his words, "The Arab spring came, one of the greatest opportunities we've seen in decades, and we've been flatfooted."

Romney, who plans to formally get into the GOP race later this week, says he doesn't think his Mormon faith will be an obstacle to winning the GOP presidential nod, saying "we're not electing a pastor in chief, we're electing a commander in chief."

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[chep]

10:56 PM on 06/06/2011

Well the headline is right. Obama is ineffective and has been a failure. How is Romney going to fix it? What's his plan? I want to see something tangible.

Obamabots who drank the Kool Aid will always refuse to admit he is a total failure on the economy and foreign policy. The guy's a complete amateur. Funny thing is, the GOP has some very poor candidates too. All they would have to do is focus like a laser beam on the economy and I bet they could find one guy to beat Obama.

People are tired of the snake oil salesman Obama who delivered a bunch of hot air as opposed to substance.

[Oonagh]

01:34 PM on 06/05/2011

Mitt ...Get your facts right..not Right.. we all know who the title goes to........... ."....................................George Bush..

[richardgordon]

11:25 AM on 06/03/2011

Funny, that's not my impression. Obama inherited a catastrophic crisis created by inept and totally irresponsible Republican administration. I would venture to suggest that had the American people been foolish enough to elect McCain/Palin the Republicans would have finished the job by destroying the American economy totally and permanently.

[Demgirls]

10:27 PM on 06/02/2011

Obama 2012

[CL38]

09:59 PM on 06/02/2011

Really? Obama's one of the most ineffective Presidents ever??

And here 307,000,000 Americans have been thinking that that title goes to the ever corrupt George W. Bush.

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

01:13 PM on 06/02/2011

Romney appeals to voters who are NEITHER Pro- CHOICE or anti-CHOICE.....both of them.

[Sylvia Hubbard]

12:39 PM on 06/02/2011

Mitt Romney you could never do the job that Obama is doing.

[builderman55]

10:42 AM on 06/02/2011

Recent poll of 2nd graders: What breakfast food best represents Romney? Yup, the pancake..

[noteaforme]

10:25 AM on 06/02/2011

I think Mitt sounds deeply disrespectful of the President and it's extremely unattractive.

[JDWPS]

08:56 PM on 06/01/2011

How pathetic.
A load of bunk.
The President's opponents are so inept they really don't understand that saying something does not make it a reality.
President Obama has a list of accomplishments too long to remember without having it all written down.

[decyle]

08:40 PM on 06/01/2011

I guess Barack isn't "Cool Enough" to go without a tie. What's with the fake casual look. He really looks like a dork.

[Jowanda E Kenerly]

04:15 PM on 06/01/2011

So its not quite enough - the capture of Osama Bin Laden after 10 years of hym hawing around with the Pakistanis? Or is it that the entire country DIDN'T collapse into a worst-than-Hell economy ( yes - it could be / could have been A LOT worse ), or that he - by himself - manage to break a 235 year COLOR LINE as the First Black President of the United States. FRANKLY - HE COULD HAVE SAT ON HIS ASS, DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, AND STILL HAVE GONE DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS THAT EVER LIVED... just for that alone! WHAT DA'?

[Annette Lizzul]

04:07 PM on 06/01/2011

Well, of course he would say that. Because, if you repeat a lie long enough, there will be more of a chance for weak minded people to believe it. He's playing to his base. And, of course, his "base" doesn't like black people, especially if one of "them" is our President. I'm going through this with some of my "racist" friends. They don't even "think" they're "racist", which is part of the problem. Can't stand a black man in charge. It's freaking people out. And I'm disgusted with what I see and hear.

[realpolitic]

02:50 PM on 06/01/2011

We gained 250,000 jobs last month in the private sector and Romney says that performance if worse than he last month of the Bush presidency when we lost 800,000 jobs. In fact, the Obama record of employment gains almost exactly mirrors the Bush record of job losses. Besides Republicans and Bush set us up for the economic implosion by passing so much de-regulation. Banks were leveraging money 40 to 1 to bet on markets and credit default swaps were completely unregulated thanks to Republicans. Romney will say what he must to get elected, but his facility to say anything is why he will lose.

[Gerald Triggs]

02:08 PM on 06/01/2011

Well from living in Massachusetts for going on 61 years, I can vouch for you that you were even more ineffective than any politician in the history of the state !!!!! And can beat him at it any day of the week !!!!!