President Obama seeks to undercut Mitt Romney's record on jobs

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President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.

At the center of the push — the president's most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election — is a biting new TV ad airing Monday that recounts through interviews with former workers the restructuring, and ultimate demise, of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill under the Republican's private equity firm.

"They made as much money off of it as they could. And they closed it down," says Joe Soptic, a steelworker for 30 years. Jack Cobb, who also worked in the industry for three decades, adds: "It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us."

The ad, at the unusual length of 2 minutes, will run in five battleground states: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado. The campaign declined to describe the size of the ad buy though it's in the middle of running a $25 million, month-long ad campaign in nine states. A longer version of the ad was being posted online Monday.


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[monmouth]

1. That ad threw Joey Scar into a large wad in his drawers. Very powerful..n/t

[kentuck]

2. It must have been very effective ?

They always squeal real loud when it hits close...

[BlueMTexpat]

3. I love how telling the truth about Rmoney's

record is cast as undercutting Rmoney's record.

[liberal N proud]

4. I like the way things are being done this campaign - hitting them

Instead of sitting back and hoping the people know the truth, they are bringing the truth to the people.

[kentuck]

5. With this Republican Party...

...this is the only way to fight back. Now we can watch them scream about "negative" campaigning...

[XanaDUer]

24. And it's about time

ALL Dems/Libs/Progressives have to do to beat this scum is to tell the truth about them, but we never seem to.

FUCK Republicans and Mittens Romney.

[NinetySix]

6. If the people respond to this ad the way they did to the Swiftboat ads,

then this will be a devastating blow to the Romney campaign. Democrats and independents will of course find plenty of cause for revulsion in the truth of this message, but if you recall, even Republicans were hitting Romney with this information during the early part of the primary season, to some substantial effect.

The Republican establishment sees just the kind of fellow to play ball in their annointed candidate, and his superficial appearance seems to lend an air of electability. But every small story about Romney (e.g., dogs and involuntary haircuts) seems to indicate his innate callousness toward his fellow citizens and human beings, and this verifiable portrait of Bain Capital and its founder and CEO will drive that image home in spades.

Everyone will know which side Romney's bread is buttered on.

[Botany]

8. But the difference between these ads and the swiftboat stuff is that the stories about ....

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.... Romney and Bain Capital are true. The lies about Kerry still piss me off.
He had a bronze star, a sliver star, three purple hearts, and he did not lose
one man under his command in some of the most dangerous duty in Vietnam.

Romney will have to run away from the truth that he made millions screwing
the American worker.

[Hawaii Hiker]

12. Exactly

The Swift Boat Drunks lied about Kerry, the anti-Romney ad is 100% true..People lost their jobs and benefits because of etch-a-sketch

[Botany]

14. In 2004 I met the man who John Kerry saved from dying by pulling him out of a river ...

..... as his swift boat was under fire and Kerry was hit in the shoulder by shrapnel as he
crawled out on the bow of the boat to rescue the man. The local media in Columbus Ohio
would not put him on the air. What happened to Kerry was awful and the Obama campaign
will not let it happen again because they know that Rove will be working to help Romney this
year.

Hit Mitt w/ what he fears the most and that is the truth about both his business practices and
his personal behavior being a bully.

[Hawaii Hiker]

16. I agree, the Obama campaign will respond very fast to any bull-shit the

etch-a-sketch campaign tries...Plus, the Obama campaign will have far more resources than Kerry did in 2004...

I will always hate those Swift Boat Drunks for what they did to Kerry...

[Botany]

20. The truth of what Romney did to make his money is one of the reasons Mitt avoids answering

questions from just about everybody except Fox. BTW "the Swiftboats for truth"
was green lighted by Karl Rove and was run by something call Creative Response
Concpets who specialized in planting stories into the media. Although Obama should
win in a landslide you can be sure thanx to the "Citizens United" ruling billions of
dollars will be spent in order to find something with which to smear President Obama
w/ this year.

sorry to babble

[politicasista]

29. And also, Obama had/has some of those Kerry people

that has learned the lessons from 04.

Plus, Obama has surrogates, something that Kerry did not have. Gore for that matter too.

Good point.

[zbdent]

7. Should keep up the clip of Rmoney saying "I like to fire people!"

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Romney: A Corporate Raider, Not A Job Creator

should be a good sound bite or a bumpersticker, methinks.

[uponit7771]

18. +1

[zeemike]

10. K&R....no need for text...

[uponit7771]

11. This is hard hitting, I almost wish rMoney would reply to this...this hit em in the gut

[heyhoheyho]

13. now the OMB is gonna go to shit like these companies because there is a Bain alum working there now.

[bupkus]

15. This really hits home with me

I went through the same scenario in the early '90s. Lost everything: A good paying job, a good life for may family, pension, health benefits, self-respect.

A very profitable company that had its bones picked clean by greedy bastards who destroyed the lives of thousands of people to line their already overflowing pockets.

We tried to warn others back then but it fell on deaf ears. No one cared because they didn't believe it could happen to them. Now, less than two decades later, it has happened or is happening to everyone else and with the money people in full control I firmly believe it's too late to do anything about it.

It's like global warming. We're past the tipping point.

Welcome to the new world order.

[groundloop]

21. I too work for a company which went through the same shit

A corporate raider from New York bought the company, ripped it apart, and walked away with $millions. Many good people lost their jobs, I was one of the fortunate ones that didn't. Many of our suppliers were screwed over because of the bankruptcy (which in this case was simply legalized theft), many of them still won't deal with us because of that.

What's really ironic is that now we're owned by a foreign corporation which bases decisions on long term goals and not next month's bottom line.

Having seen firsthand how corporate raider whores operate, rMoney scares the shit out of me.

[sufrommich]

17. That should be easy work. nt

[Madmiddle]

19. Bain Capital

did this to every company they got their dirty rotten hands on. Romney's job creation was in the triple digit negative numbers.

[Seedersandleechers]

22. And the flip side to this ad that

was featured in Kansas City is that thanks to Obama and the auto bailout a car manufacturing factory just opened up here. And it has a union - the UAW!

http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2011/Jun/0613_fairfax

[groundloop]

23. NOW is absolutely perfect timing for this ad.

Right after the fact comes out that rMoney was a bully in high school these ads come out showing that, essentially, he made $millions being a bully on a much larger scale.

[josephslaton]

25. mittens undercuts himself

Obama can sit back and watch this guy implore, it IS going to happen, likely in the debated IMO

[JHB]

26. It ain't "undercutting", it's _highlighting_ Rmoney's BAD record on jobs

Bain wrecked thousands of jobs in order to redistribute wealth upward, and many of the jobs "created" by companies it owned cannibalized from existing businesses. Staples may have added jobs, but it's not as if office supply was a new and expanding field. Jobs at Staples came from squeezing other office supply companies out of the market.

[Icicle]

27. And don't forget

... that Massachusetts was ranked #47 in job creation during his tenure as Governor.
Job creator, he ain't.

[emulatorloo]

28. Thanks for posting these. Kick and Rec