Yesterday President Barack Obama officially launched his reelection campaign by posting a YouTube on his campaign website titled “It Begins With Us.” The “us” in the video may have been referring to the noticeably representative five Obama for America volunteers talking about why they wanted to reelect Obama, but the most visible response the video began was reaction from potential GOP candidates.

Just hours later, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty was first to answer the president with a highly stylized YouTube of his own titled “A New Direction” in which Pawlenty pointedly asks: “How can America win the future when we are losing the present?” Coming in second Mitt Romney tweeted: “@BarackObama I look forward to hearing details on your jobs plan, as do 14m unemployed Americans.” Not to be left out, former Speaker Newt Gingrich told press covering his tax plan in New Hampshire that Obama was “a one-term president” who is “trying to create a Chicago style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars.”