Omaha, NE (AHN) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) reacted to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's statement that he was ending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to avoid a Democratic "surrender to terror," by saying that the Republican hopeful was "an ineffective candidate."
Initially refusing to comment on Romney's exit from the presidential race, Obama then said to a follow-up question while talking to reporters on a flight to Nebraska on Thursday that Romney's statement was "the kind of poorly thought out comment that led him to drop out."
"It's a classic attempt to appeal to people's fears that will not work in this campaign. I think that's part of the reason he was such an ineffective candidate," Obama said. "No Democrat has suggested that we surrender to terrorism. Democrats have suggested that we start withdrawing out of Iraq so we can focus our attention on terrorism."
"It's a classic example of trying to conflate the war against real enemies with the failed strategy of the Bush Administration in Iraq. It's those sort of glib statements that I think got Romney consistently in trouble in this race," he added.
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