Romney condemns Obama’s ‘assault on our economic freedom’

Washington (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a conservative audience what it wanted to hear Friday, accusing President Barack Obama of leading the country away from the founding fathers’ vision and “toward limited freedom and limited opportunity.”

In an address to the National Rifle Association’s convention billed by Romney’s advisers as a launch of his general election campaign, Romney said Obama’s attack on freedom is to blame for the country’s slow economic recovery from recession.

“The Obama administration’s assault