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President Obama, Mitt Romney debate nature of campaign in private equity exchange

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 22, 2012

All day Monday Republicans played offense and Democrats were on defense after Newark Mayor Cory Booker committed a faux pas over the weekend by saying that the Obama campaign’s attack on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital record was as “nauseating” as reports of planned Republican attacks on Obama’s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Against that context, Obama was not only ready by eager to answer when asked about Booker’s comment during a news conference to discuss this weekend’s NATO summit.

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