Romney Launch Speech: Obama 'Has Failed America'

The Hill reports:

President Obama "has failed America," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will say in a Thursday speech in New Hampshire launching his presidential campaign.

Romney's speech to formally declare that he'll again seek the presidency will be heavy on economic themes, and make the case that a Romney presidency would mean an intent focus on job creation.

While voters in 2008 might have seen Obama as a new, fresh face who deserved a chance to lead, Romney will argue, it's time for another change.

"Now, in the third year of his four-year term, we have more than promises and slogans to go by," Romney will say at a speech in New Hampshire. "Barack Obama has failed America."

The economy and job creation will be focal points of Romney's speech, and topics the former governor intends to stress in his campaign. A senior campaign adviser called the economy "the number one issue facing the nation, and the reason he is compelled to get into this race."

This is Romney's second attempt for the Republican presidential nomination, and his campaign has sought to wage a leaner, more focused effort this time around. Whereas Romney launched his 2008 campaign in his native Michigan and was ever-present in the media and on the campaign trail, he's been more measured in approaching his campaign this time around. He's launching his campaign Thursday in the Granite State, signaling his importance of the first-in-the-nation primary state for his campaign.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) welcomed Romney into the race with a web video with a page taken out of the 2008 playbook against Romney, casting him as the "most notorious flip-flopper in modern political history."