Obama: college debt 'not something I read about in a briefing book'

[Enrique]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-college-debt-not-something-i-read-about-in-briefing-book/

BOULDER, Colo. — President Obama tonight cast himself as a champion of an affordable college education and drew a veiled contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney in a speech before an electrified crowd at the University of Colorado.

Calling a college education the “best tool you have to achieve the American promise,” Obama made the case to the crowd of 10,800 students that he best understands the challenges of earning a degree.

We “didn’t come from well-to-do backgrounds. We didn’t have famous families,” the president said of his upbringing and that of his wife, Michelle Obama.

“But it wasn’t just that we worked hard, it was that somebody made an investment in us. That’s what America did for us,” he said.

Though he never mentioned presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney by name, Obama was keen to underscore that he did not come from a prominent family with a significant wealth.

“Michelle and I — we know about this first-hand,” Obama said of the struggle to manage student debt. “This is not something I read about in a briefing book. This is not something abstract to us. We’ve been in your shoes.”

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. He's right. It's real and crippling graduates.