John Kerry on playing Romney in debate prep: ‘I was chosen from binders of senators’

BOCA RATON, Fla -- Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who played the role of Republican nominee Mitt Romney in debate practice with President Barack Obama, hinted that he may have changed his strategy after the first debate, but he declined to elaborate on the details.

"I was chosen from binders of senators and I learned my job well enough that when I went home my dog was growling at me so obviously I changed something," Kerry told reporters in the "spin room" before the Monday's presidential debate here. "We'll see how it works tonight. We'll see how it happens, but I'm not going to go into the whole process."

Kerry's "binders" comment was a shot at Romney, who in the last debate said he was brought "whole binders full of women" while he was seeking to hire women on his staff during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts.

Kerry added that Obama "could not be more anxious to defend the decisions that he has made and lay out his vision to where the country needs to go."