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[h1]Obama campaign stoops to new low, blames Romney for cancer[/h1][h1] [/h1][h1]death of plant worker’s wife[/h1]
You want hope and change? You won’t find either in the latest ad on behalf of Barack Obama, which is an obscenity even by his own low standards. The ad, which is here, is the second to focus on GST Steel, a Kansas City company acquired by Bain Capital in 1993 and later liquidated in 2001, two years after Romney stepped down as functioning CEO of Bain.
The story of how “Romney and his partners loaded [the company] with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy”—which is how Team Obama told it—was debunked in May, shortly after the first ad ran.
But the latest chapter in the GST saga doesn’t stop at just that false accusation. This time, Priorities USA Action, the super PAC responsible for the new spot, brings back former steelworker Joe Soptic, who reveals that he not only lost his job thanks to Mitt Romney but his wife. Soptic looks into the camera, the lines in his face etched by pain, and reports that when the Kansas City plant was shut down, he lost hishealth care. Then his wife was diagnosed with stage-four cancer, which ultimately took her life. “I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone,” Soptic bitterly concludes, “and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.”
The question for Priorities USA and the Obama campaign, which by its silence condones the ad, is “What isn’t Mitt Romney responsible for?” Remember that fender bender you got into last month? It was Romney’s fault. Ditto for the time you broke your leg skiing or lost a $20 bill while in line waiting to pay for groceries. No man is an island, Obama recently informed us in so many words. We are all interconnected to each other—and somehow to Mitt Romney, at least in a negative sense.
But not to Barack Obama. If you were among the 47,841,724 Americans who were unemployed in May of 2010, a full 15 months after Obama promised his stimulus would ease unemployment, blame Romney. Obama had nothing to do with it. He couldn’t have. He was busy popping the cork over the passage of his health care law, which has become so great an albatross that he never mentions it.
Daniel Doherty, writing at Townhall.com in June, after the release of the initial GST ad, wondered aloud about the “depths to which Team Obama will go to sully his opponent’s reputation.” I hope for their sake they have just answered that question.
You want hope and change? You won’t find either in the latest ad on behalf of Barack Obama, which is an obscenity even by his own low standards. The ad, which is here, is the second to focus on GST Steel, a Kansas City company acquired by Bain Capital in 1993 and later liquidated in 2001, two years after Romney stepped down as functioning CEO of Bain.
The story of how “Romney and his partners loaded [the company] with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy”—which is how Team Obama told it—was debunked in May, shortly after the first ad ran.
But the latest chapter in the GST saga doesn’t stop at just that false accusation. This time, Priorities USA Action, the super PAC responsible for the new spot, brings back former steelworker Joe Soptic, who reveals that he not only lost his job thanks to Mitt Romney but his wife. Soptic looks into the camera, the lines in his face etched by pain, and reports that when the Kansas City plant was shut down, he lost hishealth care. Then his wife was diagnosed with stage-four cancer, which ultimately took her life. “I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone,” Soptic bitterly concludes, “and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.”
The question for Priorities USA and the Obama campaign, which by its silence condones the ad, is “What isn’t Mitt Romney responsible for?” Remember that fender bender you got into last month? It was Romney’s fault. Ditto for the time you broke your leg skiing or lost a $20 bill while in line waiting to pay for groceries. No man is an island, Obama recently informed us in so many words. We are all interconnected to each other—and somehow to Mitt Romney, at least in a negative sense.
But not to Barack Obama. If you were among the 47,841,724 Americans who were unemployed in May of 2010, a full 15 months after Obama promised his stimulus would ease unemployment, blame Romney. Obama had nothing to do with it. He couldn’t have. He was busy popping the cork over the passage of his health care law, which has become so great an albatross that he never mentions it.
Daniel Doherty, writing at Townhall.com in June, after the release of the initial GST ad, wondered aloud about the “depths to which Team Obama will go to sully his opponent’s reputation.” I hope for their sake they have just answered that question.
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