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Fluke said that when she was "verbally attacked" Obama "was one of us." "He defended my right to speak without being attacked, and he condemned those hateful words," Fluke said. Recalling the incident, she mocked Romney for saying at the time that Limbaugh's words "aren't the words I would have chosen." "If Mr. Romney can't stand up to extreme voices in his own party, then he will never stand up for us," she said. From Denver, Obama headed to Grand Junction, Colo., an area that leans Republican. In front of a raucous crowd in a high school gymnasium, Obama pressed forward with his effort to paint Romney as protector of the rich because of his support for extending Bush-era tax cuts for all income earners. Obama said Romney is struggling to explain to voters how the tax cuts could continue without adding to the deficit and having middle-class Americans pay more. "There's a whole different type of gymnastics being performed by Mr. Romney than what is happening at the Olympics," he said. Obama wants to extend the tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year. Under his plan, families who make more would still be taxed on a lower rate for their first $250,000 in income and at a higher rate for any additional income.
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