Barack Obama failed America: Romney

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has blasted US President Barack Obama over his failure to fulfill the pledges of change in the United States.

Romney, who eyes the Republican candidacy for US president in 2012, said in a speech in New Hampshire on Thursday that Obama has disappointed American people as he was not able to deliver on his promises of change and modification of federal spending and unemployment, AFP reported.

The multi-millionaire Republican businessman claimed that if he is elected president, he will turn the country into the biggest job creator ever.

Romney made the comments upon beginning the presidential campaign in the state of New Hampshire, an important early-voting state which is expected to hold its primary election to pick a candidate in February 2012.

During his speech, Romney said that, by electing Obama, Americans gave a chance to a newcomer nobody knew anything about before, but the president could not live up to his vows.

“Barack Obama has failed America,” Romney said to the audience.

Romney’s Thursday announcement marks the second time he will be running for the Republican nomination.

He lost the party’s 2008 nomination race to Arizona Senator John McCain and has spent the four intervening years building support within the party and preparing for the 2012 presidential election.

According to political analysts, Romney’s biggest problem is that as governor of Massachusetts, he introduced a type of compulsory health insurance which looks very similar to Obama’s health insurance policies, also loathed by most Republicans.