Obama knocks Romney 'social agenda from the 1950s'

In a fundraising message, President Barack Obama paints a grim picture of what he says Mitt Romney has "pledged to do" as president, and picks up his advisers' description of Romney as a blast from the past:

He would shower billionaires with more huge tax breaks, oppose setting a timeline to bring our troops home from Afghanistan, starve investments in clean energy research, and make it harder for students to afford to go to college. He'd outlaw a woman's right to choose and completely cut funding for Planned Parenthood. We can't afford an endless war in Afghanistan, a return to policies that hurt the middle class, and a social agenda from the 1950s.

In addition to the "1950s" jab — which is an undercurrent in the whole Hilary Rosen contretemps — it's notable that a president who escalated the war in Afghanistan is now so openly preparing to campaign on ending that conflict.