"President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it."

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Source: Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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Paul Ryan is a former U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House, known for his focus on fiscal responsibility and conservative governance.

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