Obama seeks to undercut Romney's record on jobs

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By KEN THOMAS

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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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President Barack Obama visits with the crowd during his visit to the home of Val and Paul Keller, in Reno, Nev., Friday, May 11, 2012. Obama met with the Kellers who recently refinanced their home loan under a federally backed program that the President wants to expand to all homeowners who are paying their mortgages on time.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

[monmouth]

1. This ad has everything that we have all discussed since Romney became the presumptive

nominee. It hits very hard and Scarborough was outraged. You know it's a good one. I mean, it is merciless, the interviews with employees who were fired/let go. They were genuine and sincere..

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Exactly! The more Joe Scar squeals the more

you know you've hit pay dirt. Excellent ad--sincere, high human-interest.

Bringing Willard's "job creation policies" up-close and personal. This has to go viral!

[Thrill]

3. I thought Newt would have done

This in the primary. But every time he tried to go after Bain. The Republican big wigs and Faux would tell him shut up

[LiberalFighter]

4. Ken Thomas is on my hit list.

The writer makes it look like Obama is the bad guy.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. knr - great video