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Mitt Romney is once again using Bill Clinton to pummel President Obama.
In his speech on the debt today in Iowa, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee invoked Clinton and the famous line from his 1996 State of the Union address: "The era of big government is over."
STORY: Romney talks debt in Iowa"Even a former McGovern campaign worker like President Clinton was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem," Romney said today in Des Moines.
"President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship," he said. "It's enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons ... but really it runs much deeper."
In a speech earlier this month, Romney invoked Clinton and conservative icon Ronald Reagan to make contrasts with Obama. The current president, Romney argued, has brought the era of big government back "with a vengeance."
Iowa is one of about a dozen battleground states in the 2012 election. Obama defeated John McCain in the Hawkeye State by 10 percentage points in 2008.