The Hill News

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is keeping his eye on the competition in the general election less than a week ahead of the first primary vote of 2012, comparing President Obama to a famously out-of-touch French queen at a campaign stop in Iowa this week.

"When the president's characterization of our economy was, 'It could be worse,' it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: 'Let them eat cake,' " Romney said Thursday evening, as reported by The Huffington Post.

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