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(61,033 posts)This is true Chicago-style politics, bitch slaps included. The Obama campaign had no intention of backing off the Bain angle when kiss asses Cory Booker, Harold Ford and even Bill Clinton criticized them for going after Rmoney and Bain a few weeks back. They knew what they were doing and they kept at it with devastating ads in the red states against Bain, disclosing how American companies were gutted by loading them with millions of dollars worth of debt which was then pocketed by Bain even as the companys' assets were sold and pension funds raided before shutting the then bankrupted companies down, jobs of American workers be damned. If we step back a little and just observe, there is genius unfolding before us with how this campaign is being run. The President has played brilliant card after brilliant card with first his campaign's framing the repugs as waging a war on women; then his new, publicly stated position on Gay marriage; then his "dream act proclamation that energized the Latino community; then the SCOTUS even came thru with upholding the Affordable Care Act (remember months ago the President himself basically dared them to overthrow overthrow a legitimate piece of legislation passed by a Congressional majority); then the leaks on Rmoney's Swiss and Cayman Island, tax avoidance bank accounts began appearing; then finally the topper, that Rmoney was still Chairman, CEO and President of Bain when it controlled companies that help American firms do JOB OUTSOURCING, with the subsequent uproar that flared today and is just beginning (Rmoney's signature is on Bain documents as late as 2002). And if you think that all the Obama campaign's opposition research "dirt" has been spent, you don't know Chicago. Just wait until after the repug convention for additional haymakers sure to come upside Mitt's no-hair-out-of-place, carefully coiffured head.