Looks like the Obama camp is trying to de-ass responsibility for this ad as fast as they can. Only problem? It looks like the stink and stench leads right back to them.
Oops? Ain't working Barry.
Oops? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign washed its hands Wednesday of an independent group's vicious (and misleading) ad effectively blaming Mitt Romney for the death of a laid-off steelworker's wife from cancer. Campaign officials flatly denied any knowledge of the facts in the case—but it turns out the widower told the same story on an Obama campaign conference call in mid-May. (The Obama campaign responded late in the day: See update below).
"We have nothing, no involvement, with any ads that are done by Priorities USA. We don't have any knowledge of the story of the family," Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. The ad features Joe Soptic, who lost his job and his health benefits after Romney's Bain Capital closed the GST Steel plant in Kansas City, Mo., in 2001.
Soptic later told CNN that his wife had health insurance through her own employer from that point to 2002 or 2003, when she left that job because of an injury—a detail that undermines the ad's heartbreaking narrative. "I don't know the facts about when Mr. Soptic's wife got sick, or the facts about his health insurance," deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told CNN on Wednesday.
There is obvious no low or pale that these people won't stoop to to promote this man. I wonder, if anyone has looked into how many of the 20,000 Delphi non union members who had their pensions destroyed by Obama, ended up losing their insurance. I don't care to know of the suffering, just a number of those who lost their insurance as a direct result of what 'this president' and his union cronies did once he was in office.
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They really don't care, they are after the initial knee jerk reaction. Even when refuted, those emotions stay with the large majority of folks.
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