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“The super PAC backing President Obama unveiled a brutal new ad against Mitt Romney on Tuesday that blames the Republican candidate for indirectly causing a woman's death from cancer,” the New York Daily News writes, adding, “Ads run by super PACs are typically harsher than the candidates' own campaign ads, although the Priorities USA ad called ‘Understands’ is turning heads even by those standards.”
And: “[A]ccording to a Politico report, the woman didn’t die until 2006 – years after the plant shut down and near the end of Romney’s tenure as governor of Massachusetts. Priorities USA strategist Bill Burton told Politico that her death was still related to Romney’s oversight of Bain.”
“In 1990, basketball superstar Michael Jordan famously refused to endorse Democrat Harvey Gantt in a North Carolina Senate race, saying ‘Republicans buy shoes, too,’” the Boston Globe notes. “Twenty-two years later, Jordan is apparently no longer worried about sneaker sales. The Hall of Famer will headline a celebrity basketball game that will double as a fund-raiser for President Obama, the Obama campaign announced Tuesday. Other high-profile participants in the Obama Classic will include Patrick Ewing, Carmelo Anthony, Sheryl Swoopes, Kyrie Irving and Alonzo Mourning.”
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And my father died in 1978 while vacationing in Hawaii when young Barack Obama sold him a joint laced with paraquat.
Sheesh Obama PAC. Stretch much?
While the story told by the gentleman leaves out details such as how his wife died 6 years latter and was not without insurance that entire time, the bottom line is he lost his 40k+ job to take a 15k job as a janitor, and as a result of losing health benefits from the company raided by Bain, they never recovered financially so his wife did not have preventative care during the time before her death.
Now compare that to Romney's LYING ad about the president wanting to gut work for welfare--NOT. The president approves something that Republican governors like Romney have wanted -- states rights for a waiver IF they present plans to increase jobs by 20% thus improving work for welfare -- And these douchebags for Team Romney LIE outright about it.
I'm sure the president would be willing to pull this one ad if Romney and Rove would pull their great big steaming piles off the air too -- it would be 5 to 1. Every time rightwingers get their panties in a twist over something it's always BS, and always nothing compared to the crap they make up.
Come to find out that Bain offered this nutjob a buyout before closing the mill and he said no... hmmm!!
BTW his wife had a healthcare policy for another two years... hmm!!
The President sure is desperate if this is the kind of campaign he's running!!
It's truly sad to think the president would stoop so low...
but I guess not totally unexpected...
pathetic just pathetic!!
This article fails to mention that CNN reports the wife still had health insurance through her own employer for a full year after Soptic lost his job. How misleading can you get?
Obama should apologize for the add and publicly rebuke the Super PAC for running it. The DNC should not be in engaged in a biggest lier contest with the RNC.
Team Romney provides plenty of legitimate material.
If you lose your job, you lose your health insurance, unless you have the means to pay for private insurance. This is a life or death issue for most people, especially if you are over 50.
THe Democrats are the party that has addressed this reality, and tried to figure out how to get more people covered.
The Republican attitude is "tough luck." Romney's company, to make matters worse, did lay off people and shut down some companies, so the issue is absolutely relevant to the election.
How is it Romney's company, if he wasn't even at Bain at the time?
Yes, Bain laid people at some companies off, but people like you seem to forget that they built companies like Staples.
Correcting misinformed Amy from Maine...
"That was Easy".
LOL - One success story vs how many failures?
perhaps the lady who died (so sorry for her familie's loss) had romney care to pick up where the plant insurance left off? could that be why she lived until 2006? You bet ya, wink, wink.
We talked with a lot of working/middle class people when vacationing in New England and more specifically Philly & Boston a couple of weeks ago - they all seem to have a big hate on for Mitt, he is not going to carry his supposedly home state of Mass, and even with repubs holding governorships in NJ and Penn - he is not going to carry those either, he is just not well liked or trusted in New England.
Get a clue Tennessee, New England is in general Democrat territory.
Why is it that the party that wallows in deceit and lies is the one that protests the more and cries fowl when paid in its own coin? Is the Potus an American? is he a Christan? is he a communist? is he a socialist? Does he understand America? Even when he shows evidence and factual paper work, the Goppers still keeps telling lies about him. What lie is greater than saying that a man born in this country is an exchange student from Kenya without any proof? The Goppers have denigrated discuss to this level and he who sows the wind should be ready to harvest an hurricane. The democrats have taken it on the chin for so long and are not ready to continue.
You're a fool if you don't think that both Parties LIE equally.
This story is about one of the many lies put forth by the Left, just like lies put forth by the Right.
The woman not being able to go to the doctor for years because of no insurance is a big reason she got cancer and died. If she would have had health care she would have going to the doctor before the cancer became malignant. Sometimes you can have cancer for years and then just die one day and not even realize you had it. My father-in-law put off going to the doctor for years until it was too late. The ad is not deceptive at all. All the media are on about this ad when the real deception is Romney's ad on Obama's policy on welfare.
Rilli, you poor stupid fool. The woman had health insurance thru her work, she died 5 years after her husband lost his job. I wonder why her husband did see to it that she went to the doctor for regular check-ups (was he too cheap to pay the co-payments?). Why did he not mention that Bain Capital, in 2001 (2 years after Gov. Romney left Bain Capital to organize the Olympics) was offered and refused a job/pension buyout, Joe Soptic took another job but declined to purchase their insurance plan (did he not care about his families health?). With his pension and school district salary, he makes about $46,000, but was too cheap to take care of his family.
At the time of the plant closing the Managing Director at Bain Capital was Jonathan Lavine, an Obama supporter and top fund raising bundler, raising over $100,000 in campaign contributions.
In my opinion, Joe Soptic is standing on the body of his dead wife in order to help Obama get re-elected. I don't know who I am more disgusted with, Joe Soptic or Obama.
She did not have health insurance for the last years of her life. She would have if her husband had not been kicked to the curb by Bain.
WoW! Another really stupid remark from the "Don't bother telling me the facts, because I don't want to know the truth" society.
Her husband was offered health insurance thru his employer but he decided not to purchase it, A decision he 5 years after the plant was closed, it was a decision made by him and was not made by anyone at Baine Capital.
The questions you shold be asking are:
What did he love more his wife or his money?
Why did he not allow his wife to visit the Doctor for reqular check-ups?
Who was responsible for his wife's death, the husband who saw her every day and refused to purchase health insurance for his family or the Managing Director of Baine Capital when he was fired?
Spoiler Alert - The Managing Director at Bain Capital was Jonathan Lavine, an Obama supporter and top fundraiser, not Mitt Romney.
Another small truth, this company knew it was in trouble finacially and asked Baine Capitel to try and turn it around, which they did for 8 years but the steel industry keep loosing ground to imports and finally they could no longer keep the doors open. I don't know if you understand how business but
Facts are a funny thing, they always get in the way of a good lie.
Hitler On The Big Lie: It is easier to make the weak minded believe in a big lie then small lies
Why would he take insurance if his wife already had it through her job? If it were not for his lay off, he would have had insurance the whole time. And you can stop with the personal attacks anytime.
You can call it Romney deception all you want. It's out right Romney lies, quit sugar coating it.
The only one lying here is you. Or maybe you're just ignorant.
Apparently, you have no clue about the facts of the story.
mo -- will you take the same position on the Obama out right lies? will you sugar coat?
Amazing how the media is so quick to single out an Obama SuperPAC ad as being not factual, implying something, exaggerating or exploiting when so many of the Romney SuperPAC ads go unchallenged and unreported or are simply dismissed as negative ads by groups other than Romney. Having seen dozens of Romney's SuperPAC ads in the lead up to the Iowa caucus, this ad is small potatoes in comparison to the Romney SuperPAC vicious attacks on his fellow republican candidates.
Not having seen the ad, I cannot really judge it. That said, the article indicates that the ad does not say Romney directly caused the women's death but that it implies his actions indirectly did. Is that a stretch? Maybe and maybe not since we don't know all the details of the women's illness or the circumstances that possibly delayed diagnosis of her illness, etc.
Everything romney done is a lie, straight lie. Bain Capital lie! Do support Obama Care Lie! I didN't know or aware what bain was doing. Lie! My wife Horse help with therapy but is the same horse the olympic. Part lie! I will help the middle class. Lie! I alway tell the truth. LIe! I paid taxes every year. Lie! POTUS is try to stop military from early voting. Lie! POTUS is trying to hand out welfare without working. Lie! etc etc.
...and what 'truths' has Prez-0 expressed in his 3.5 years in office? Not much.
Who is the only Presidential candidate who has NOT released their college transcripts? Only one - OBAMA.
...so what does he have to hide? Using Harry Reid's logic, Obama must have never gone to college.
Comrade - you are a friggin idiot
Now you want to see the college transcripts???
you are ridiculous...
Advise for you. Educate, further your education for your self, and educate your self on what your saying.
Comrade: He is doing pretty good for a high school graduate from Kenya with no birth certificate right?
Well Our Communist-Liar -in-Chief continues his propaganda campaign of lies and deception unabated,and unquestioned, with the willing assistance of a weak, compliant, lap dog, media,While our collapsing economy continues to worsen, our debt that has doubled under Obama,(more than all previous Presidents combined),continues to grow, and the numbers of un or under employed rises to over twenty five million, and not enough jobs are even being created each month to keep up with the new workers trying to enter the work force, but incredibly not a word of this in the news, and the media wonders why readership is falling and they are in danger of going out of business!, but, not to worry, the government says they will step in and subsidize them, just like Pravda!, well, at least then, all pretense of actual news can be dropped,and the lapdog minions of the left can concentrate on putting out their propaganda without the need of farcical "press" conferences to slow down its' distribution.
oh eye cee...when a democrat group does it, it's just ever-so-horrible...despicable...deplorable...sniffle,sniffle,cry,cry,cry. but when a republican group does it, it's...what?
if memory serves, was not another presidential candidate once accused of "murder?" why don't i remember a lot of boo-hooing in THAT case?
William R.
"Willie" Horton
(born August 12, 1951) is an American convicted felon who,
while serving a life sentence for murder, without
the possibility of parole,
was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program. He did
not return from his furlough, and ultimately he committed assault, armed robbery
and rape.
Republicans picked up the Horton issue after Dukakis clinched the nomination.
In June 1988, Republican candidate George H.W.
Bush seized on the Horton case, bringing it up repeatedly in
campaign speeches.[7]
Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time
this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name." Beginning
on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee (NSPAC), under
the auspices of Floyd Brown, began running a campaign ad entitled "Weekend
Passes", using the Horton case to attack Dukakis. The ad was produced by
media consultant Larry McCarthy, who had previously worked for Roger Ailes.
After clearing the ad with television stations, McCarthy added a menacing
mug shot of Horton, who is African
American. The ad was run as an independent expenditure, separate from the
Bush campaign, which claimed not to have had any role in its production.[
Democratic Presidential
candidate Michael Dukakis was the governor of Massachusetts
at the time of Horton's release, and while he did not start the furlough
program, he had supported it as a method of criminal rehabilitation. The State inmate furlough
program was actually signed into law by Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent in 1972.
It's despicable whenever anyone does this type of campaigning. Stop kissing the Liar in Chief's ass just because someone way back when did it. Wrong is wrong. As President he should be held to a higher standard. He and his administration and campaign staff are low-lifes when they do it, just as much as whoever did it before them. Just because someone else did it doesn't give him the right to do it.
LOLOL!!!!!
Why does nobody ever mention the unfair "Grilock" effect of the so-called "Norquist Pledge"?? If these signers want "True Tax Reform"; just "AX THE TAX CODE". With its $1.1Trillion in "breaks", plus allowing 45% to pay NOTHING; there is your "DEFICIT". Voters, just sign the "Anti-Norquist Pledge" instead and don't vote for a "signer". (it's on change.org & FB)
You are all a bunch of idiots. When are we going to learn that career politicians have only one goal - get elected and stay in office. What ever happened to issues versus party, where did we lose the goal of "of the people,by the people, for the people"? Where are the jobs Americans so need, where is any truth any more?
Has anyone actually ever done an extensive reasearch of Hitler's rise in Germany?? I will wager that you would find it very similiar to how a president has managed to over-ride our congress with "executive privilege", begin to reduce our military,condemn religions, remove our second amendment rights, and convince our younger people to blindly follow and become his unquestioning military & "boot-stomping executioners"!! American citizens will think that it will blow over, just like the jewish and other "unexceptable" races that were persecuted, separated from their families, and possessions taken away. These people didn't believe it could happen either, but it most certainly did happen & can again! Hitler is like a bad fantasy to most younger generations, unreal to them unless they have family/ancestors that experienced the effects of his cruelty! Those who think it can't happen in this country, stop and see what is happening right now! This is my own personal thoughts and opinions through many years of research and watching this country's citizens become more and more dependent upon the politics of the country!
Your bickering and accusations are childish and ridiciulous; adding fuel to the fire to weaken the country as a whole!!! The candidates are sounding like spoiled children trying to hurt each other rather than stating their cases and it's about time that voters start thinking for themselves instead of like another "Big Business" which is exactly what the parties themselves have become as far as I'm concerned!
Rant, party of one. Rant, party of one.
Too funny, and as my Mother would say,You have to fight fire with fire, and Nice guys do finish last. Republicans are shocked,incredulous and darn near in tears...they can't believe they are being outswiftboated!