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For months the Obama 2012 campaign has been leveling attacks on Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney based on false reports about his time at Bain Capital.
Neutral fact-checkers from a variety of major news organizations have repeatedly debunked these claims, so the question becomes why exactly does the Obama campaign continue making these accusations?
Today we received the answer to that question.
Libyans went to the polls on Saturday to vote in their first post-civil war election. Though turnout was high, which is good for democracy, the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Libyan election results could spell problems for the Obama Administration.
As many as 60 percent of Libya’s 2.8 million registered voters participating in this election. The people voted to select the members of a 200 seat National General Congress, which shall consist of 120 individual candidates and 80 party seats. A secular coalition, led by Mahmoud Jibril, is claiming a strong showing in the election, even though official results aren’t expected for days.
The election proceeded smoothly, except for a few attacks on polling stations in the eastern region, resulting from concerns that the region was under-represented in the new parliament.
The Obama campaign released a new ad Sunday portraying Romney as an “outsourcing pioneer” because of the jobs that were supposedly outsourced during his time at Bain Capital.
It relies on a Jan. 21, 2012 Washington Post story that made similar claims that were debunked by the newspaper itself.
The same day the story appeared, the Washington Post’s own fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, noted that many of the outsourcing claims were false or misleading. It reworded a previous Obama ad on the same topic called the “4 Pinocchios.”
As Kessler notes, much of the outsourcing occurred when Romney was no longer actively engaged at Bain. Other examples, such as Modus Media, simply had the company moving jobs from one state to another.
A popular Democratic talking point since 2008 was that President George W. Bush’s economic policies were to blame for the 2008 recession. The latest version of that point, which has been adopted by the Obama campaign, is that Mitt Romney wants to return us to the same policies that caused that downturn.
The problem with this talking point is that the individuals who use it, never seem to expand on which particular policies to which it applies. This is particularly unfair because most of Romney’s proposed economic policies are radically different than those pursued by Bush.
Governor Scott Walker won a huge recall election on Tuesday that was clearly a huge blow to organized labor and Democrats in Wisconsin. Almost as soon as the results were in, those groups started spreading excuses to explain their loss and continued their effort to undermine a Governor with whom they disagree. Those excuses attempt… Read Article ›
As Red Alert Politics has been reporting, the Obama campaign has spent the last several weeks attacking presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. President Obama has even said that this will be a “central” issue in this election.
It is worth noting that the Obama campaign is not making the president’s record the focus of their campaign, as that strategy is usually reserved for incumbents with successful records.
While there is an argument to be made that Romney’s experience at Bain should be an issue, the Obama campaign’s attacks on this subject have been defined by absurdity, hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Former Democratic Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm published an op-ed in Politico this week under the title “Facts show Democrats are job creators.” The op-ed’s spin is that all objective evidence points to the “fact” that Democrats are better job creators than Republicans, and therefore we should continue implementing liberal economic policies. Not only are the statistics that this theory is based on stunningly deceptive, but Jennifer Granholm is possibly the worst person in the country to deliver this message.
One of the determining factors in deciding the upcoming election is likely to be jobs and the perception of how President Barack Obama has done on that issue. It is that very reality which makes vitally important how each jobs report is perceived discussed. The April jobs report was awful by most reasonable economic standards, but it was not portrayed that way by the president and many of his allies.
President Obama has been using the downtick in unemployment from 8.2% to 8.1% and the addition of 115,000 jobs in April as evidence of a continuing recovery. This has frustrated conservatives because, even though the unemployment rate has technically been going down, the jobs situation is actually getting much worse.
