Team Obama covers up smear heard 'round the world
Surely by now you've seen the Obama Super Pac ad where the guy links Romney to his wife's death from stage IV cancer because Romney once headed Bain, which bought his employer and it eventually shut down and he lost his insurance.
It matters not that she actually did have her primary insurance from her job and she got sick and died something like 6 years after the guy lost his job after turning down their offer of a buyout.
The Obama campaign denies any knowledge of the man. Obama Campaign Spokesperson Jen Psaki claimed, “we don’t have any knowledge of the story of the family” even though they featured him in their own ads - twice - and hosted a conference call with him.
Bill Burton of the Pac that ran the ad was on the new shows today amazingly enough denying they're trying to connect Romney to the steelworker's wife.
Even the usually Obama-compliant media isn't buying it.
Quote:
COOPER: You claim — you really claim — you really want people to believe you’re not trying to link in any way even just subtly or not subtly that there’s some linkage between Mitt Romney, Bain campaign, business decisions he made and her death.
BURTON: It would defy logic to do so. Today that community is completely worn down. The whole area, the factory is abandoned. People still don’t have jobs in some cases. Many folks still don’t have health insurance. People who do have jobs are being paid much less. And the point is that Mitt Romney’s business experience had a profound effect on the lives of thousands of people. That effect is still being felt, and that’s what this ad tells the story of. That’s what all our ads tell the story of.
COOPER: I don’t want to go back and forth on this, but this ad tells a specific story. More than half the ad is him talking very detailed about his wife.
BURTON: It’s a sad story.
COOPER: It is a sad story. but it truncates time in a way that makes it seem like he got fired, she didn’t have health insurance, which she did from her other job, her primary insurance, in fact –
BURTON: Not at the time when she died, though. She had health insurance for a short time.
COOPER: Because she lost her other job.
BURTON: But ultimately when Joe Soptic needed health insurance for his family, health insurance that had been promised to him by a contract that Mitt Romney helped to negotiate, he didn’t have that health insurance.
COOPER: Right. Because under bankruptcy protection, they were able to do away with the prom—
BURTON: Contract they made with workers. But they made plenty of money. All those workers got screwed.
COOPER: You can make an ad all about that. You’re implying — I think any rational or certainly nonpartisan observer looks at this and says you are linking this. otherwise we would not put this in an ad.
BURTON: I think just the opposite. I think the rational thing to take away here is that — how on earth could you possibly imply that? What we’re saying that at a moment of true anxiety.
COOPER: How can you say how can you imply that? It’s totally disingenuous, Bill.
I think disingenuous is putting it mildly. The ad itself crossed the line, the cover up is just plain pathetic in my opinion. And yours?
