Romney accuses Obama of using attacking tactics

Says President avoided presenting his agenda for next 4 yrs, instead indulged in word games of various kinds

Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who suffered a setback in the Florida presidential debate, has accused rival Barack Obama of resorting to attacking tactics without presenting his agenda for the next four years.

"I had to look at the President's campaign as well through the eyes of those debates. And well, you know, he (Obama) has been reduced to trying to defend the characters on Sesame Street and word games of various kinds and then misfired attacks after one and another," Romney said in an apparent reference to Obama's attack against him during the third and final presidential debate in Florida on Monday.

Romney claimed that his campaign was "full speed ahead", as a result of which incumbent Obama was using such tactics.

"These debates have supercharged our campaign. There's no question about it," Romney said yesterday at a rally in Nevada.

"We're seeing more and more enthusiasm, more and more support. We're going to make sure that these campaigns and the message of debates, rather these messages keep going across the country," he said.

Stating that attacks were "not in his agenda", Romney said during all the debates, including the vice presidential debate, he "did not hear" an agenda from President Obama.

"And that's why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead. I want you to know that we can handle two more weeks of attacks coming from Obama, but we cannot handle four more years of what he's given us," he said.

Taking a dig at Obama's campaign slogan 'Forward', Romney claimed the President represents the status quo.

"His campaign slogan is 'Forward'. That doesn't suggest changing. Well, I think a better campaign slogan for him might be 'forewarned' because we've seen what's happened over the last four years," he said.

"If we go forward with the same direction of last four years, he's going to keep on amassing a trillion-dollar deficit or so every year. We'll end up with $20 trillion in debt. America's future will look a lot like those troubled nations in Europe," Romney argued.

Romney said he and his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan are going to work nonstop, crisscrossing the country to get people to get energised and to get out and vote.

He also asked supporters to remind those people who voted for Obama last time of the promises made to them by the Democrat, so that they can "realise" it's time to vote for "real change" that will "get this economy going".

"We're going to get America back. We're going to take this country, get good jobs, rising take-home pay, keep us strong overseas, support our military," Romney claimed.