Undeterred by independent fact-checkers that have debunked the thrust of their claims, the Obama campaign is redoubling attacks on Mitt Romney as an “outsourcer” in a new TV ad airing in eight battleground states.
The 30-second spot — titled “The Problem” — claims Romney condoned the Chinese “taking our jobs and taking a lot of our future.”
“He made a fortune letting it happen,” the narrator says, focusing on Bain Capital outsourcing to China, a country Romney has vowed to challenge as president.
It’s the latest in a steady drumbeat of negative attacks on Romney’s record as a corporate buyout specialist, alleging he profited off of deliberately bankrupting companies and sending jobs overseas.
What ever happened to hope and change?
Do hope the Romney campaign — or the presumptive Republican nominee’s SuperPAC defenders — fire back with ads wondering why the incumbent is running a relentlessly negative campaign, actively misrepresenting the Republican’s record.
Seems the only way Obama can win is by repeating repudiated attacks on his Republican rival.
Wasn’t there something about the ObaMarx campaign outsourcing their call center to India?
He should quit while he’s behind.
There was a ABC segment about his giving several road / bridge rebuild contracts, to the tune of millions of our dollars, to contractors owned by the Chinese government.
Hypocrisy isn’t a strong enough word, that should be shown every time he says he’s rebuilding ‘our intrastructure!’
It would be refreshing if Gov. Romney simply called-out Pres. Obama publicly as a “…lying bag-of-sh*t”, and simply refuse to appear jointly with him, nor debate him.
If “Elections have Consequences”….so-too should campaigns.
Just an off comment on these commercial. I live in the SF Bay area, the bluest part of the bluest state in the Union. This state is supposed to be virtually assured to vote overwhelmingly for Obama.
So, why did I see the above mentioned commercial not less than SEVEN time Saturday night on both network and cable TV? Is his campaign so screwed up that they are spending enormous amounts of money to advertise in a “safe state”? Or do they have some sort of internals that actually might be putting California into play? It makes no sense to me that they would spend all this money advertising where they shouldn’t have a need to advertise.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) has requested that the Supreme Court overturn a ruling that allows state employees to keep their same-sex partners on their benefits, including health insurance.
Brewer filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on July 2, requesting that the high court overturn the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s September 2011 ruling in Diaz vs. Brewer. The pushback comes three months after the Ninth Circuit denied a request by Arizona state lawyers to re-hear the case with an 11-judge panel.
AFTER READING THIS CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN WHY AS GAYMAN SHOULD I VOTE REPUBLICAN?
George, Governor Brewer is not running for president. And you attach this to a post where we provide evidence that Mr. Obama is dishonestly smearing his Republican opponent.
Are you telling us that we should vote for a liar for President? And why, pray tell, do you refuse to address the point in the post to which you attach your comment.
In attaching an unrelated comment to this post — and ignoring the substance of this post, are you saying you countenance the Obama campaign’s dishonesty?
George, don’t live in Arizona. Problem solved.
George, you are clearly a one issue voter. I wouldn’t expect any voters who vote based on gay issues alone to vote for a Republican or conservative. But most gay people (gay conservatives, at least) consider other issues to be more important.
Oh yeah, I am gay, and I also do not support gay rights. I refuse to support anything that needlessly divides people into groups. I only support individual rights that benefit all people. I suppose you consider me “self-loathing” for daring to think differently than you do, but that is just an example of how gay people are capable of diverse viewpoints. And conservatives are much better on the issue of individual rights than leftists. And, for the record, I don’t agree with Brewer on this issue. However, that is still less important than other issues (even if the idea of individual rights is relevant to issues other than social ones).
Because, George, believe it or not EVERYTHING ISN’T ABOUT YOU and the alleged “rights” you claim are being denied you.
You been answered. Now can you share with the class why the hell a gay man should vote for the SCOAMF?
Wonder why George has yet to address my challenge.
I’m not Gay. I’m a retired Army Officer, Ranger and Paratrooper. People’s Rights are what matter.
Best comment here is about individual rights.
We The People are the last bastion of individual rights in the world. Canada, Europe and other democracies place the rights of Society above Individual Rights. Our founders were smart and keen people, realizing a Bill of Rights and a Constitution that designed to protect inalienable rights had the greatest chance of success. These are not straight or gay rights, black or white rights. The reason things are the way they are is Culture, the foundation of which are underlying assumptions about the way things are. Cultures impose their will upon the individual through Norms, Rules, Laws and Sanctions to effect certain Behaviors preferable to the Culture being created and not the Individual’s Rights.
Cultures fail or are destroyed all the time and in those failures, from those ashes emerge new cultures with new assumptions that correct the assumptions that caused the failures of the last. American culture has gone through this numerous times and consistently emerges stronger. Our financial culture is failing. Had they allowed companies to fail on their own merit in 2007, we would be at a better starting point, verses just more bandaides and “created money” which is our undoing. Finacially the world is hosed and until the failures of the culture are allowed to occur so we can reset our selves, we’ll remain on this death spiral, looping roller coaster. That’s Culture. Individual Rights are far more powerful than culture, and our founders new this, even in the context of their culture which looking back was as screwed up as our “failing culture”. If for just a moment, everyone, and I mean everyone, would set aside “Looking Good and Avoiding Looking Bad” & “Being Right and Avoiding Being Wrong” …there is a space that exists that allows for all things to achieve a resolution, free of these opinions based on what we think we know, which is based on what we think we learned, which makes us think we are right about something.
I’m not Gay. I don’t know what Gay rights are.
Individual Rights are what matter, and any infringement upon these rights, is simply a Cultural Attack to Keep Individuals in their Place.
The most highly educated people in the world typically have this one keen insight about knowledge: it is limited and limitless. The more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know.
Public Policy that infringes on individual and inalienable rights is culture infringing on us to produce certain preferred behaviours.
Peace and Honor, Out
John