Republican strategists to use Obama's words against him

Top national Republican strategists said Tuesday they plan to use Democrat Barack Obama's own words -- in promising economic improvements, less government debt and lower deficits -- against him in “ground zero” battleground states like Iowa to make sure he's a one-term president.

“The president himself said three years ago that if people aren't better off three or four years from now, then I should be a one-term president. Well, guess what, we're not better off than we were three or four years ago and, for the most part, it's because this president is not capable or not willing to lead this country,” Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman said during a conference call with Midwest reporters.

Priebus made the comments on a day when RNC officials launched a Web-only video denoting that one year remains before voters will go to the polls in November 2012 to deliver a presidential-election verdict on Obama's leadership since he took the oath of office in January 2009.

“One year from now the American people will hold President Obama accountable for his abysmal record in the White House,” Priebus said. “We have suffered through three long years of this president's failed policies and are ready to change direction. Promise after promise has been broken -- from turning the economy around to getting our spending under control."

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