Given how reluctant Mitt Romney has been to divulge any details about his governing agenda, it came as something of a surprise that the Republican has been aggressively pushing the line that President Obama lacks a platform for a second term.
Indeed, despite the ambiguities of the Romney/Ryan plan, the Romney/Ryan campaign, just over the last couple of weeks, has incorporated the "Obama has no agenda" attack into practically every speech and press release lately.
The offensive just got trickier.
After weeks of being challenged by Democrats and Republicans to lay out his second-term agenda, President Obama's campaign is releasing a 20-page booklet called "Blueprint for America's Future" on Tuesday and airing a new television ad to support it. [...]
The Obama campaign plans on printing 3.5 million copies of the plan and it will be distributed to campaign field offices, Politico reports. The 20-page "Blueprint for America's Future" booklet will be released at a campaign event in Florida on Tuesday morning.
Like the ad, the booklet highlights American energy production, improving education and private sector growth; continuing to strengthen the health care system and tax code; and protecting safety nets like Social Security.
The entirety of the "blueprint" is already online. It's accompanied by a new website that contrasts the candidates' plans in a variety of areas.
I suspect the Obama campaign has been reluctant to push this line too much in recent months because it leads to an inevitable question: if these ideas are worthwhile, why weren't they enacted in the first term?
But looking over the materials, it seems the response is that Obama just isn't done -- he's accomplished a lot and with another term, he has a to-do list in mind.
Whether the "Obama has no plan" attacks continue remains to be seen, but it would appear the president's team at least has a coherent response to the criticism.
