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babylonsister

(171,056 posts)
Mon May 21, 2012, 11:58 AM May 2012

"...just the opposite of Robin Hood.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-obama-ad-challenges-mitt-romneys-economics/

New Obama Ad Challenges Mitt Romney’s Economics
May 21st, 2012 11:15 am Associated Press


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney as a job-destroying corporate raider at Bain Capital.

In a video being released Monday, Obama’s campaign zeroes in on a Marion, Ind., company, American Pad & Paper, also known as Ampad. The ad charges that Ampad bought and closed the SCM office products plant, immediately costing 250 workers their jobs.

The aim is to challenge Romney’s arguments that he’s more qualified than Obama to handle the country’s shaky economy.

The ad says Romney and his partners multiplied their investment in the office products plant by 20 times while the company went on to lose some 1,500 jobs and went bankrupt by 2000.

Former Ampad worker Randy Johnson calls Romney’s performance “just the opposite of Robin Hood.”
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"...just the opposite of Robin Hood.” (Original Post) babylonsister May 2012 OP
Anecdotes are powerful, but Obama also needs a positive message. longship May 2012 #1
He has a lot of positive ads out there... Drunken Irishman May 2012 #2

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Anecdotes are powerful, but Obama also needs a positive message.
Mon May 21, 2012, 02:10 PM
May 2012

Which I believe he will do.

Meanwhile, Rmoney has nothing positive to talk about. So I think that this Obama strategy may help. However, it's gotta be a somewhat intricate dance. I have no choice but to believe that the Obama campaign realizes this.

Work hard, everybody. Our President needs our help. The alternative is too horrible to consider.

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