Obama Campaign Feigns Ignorance, But Worked with Steelworker Back In May

Posted by Brian

To steal a line: Stephanie Cutter, You LIE!  As with nearly everything else associated with the Obama campaign, her entire interview is based on lies.  To her credit, she was prepared for the question from CNN, as given away by her knowing smirk before the question was even out of the interviewers mouth.
However, even CNN isn't buying the lies in this Super PAC ad, or that the Obama campaign denies knowing anything about them.

How convenient that the Obama people, including Cutter, were in contact with this Democrat hack, Joe Soptic, and a couple of months later - SHAZAM! - he shows up in this Obama Super PAC hit piece.  And we are supposed to believe there is absolutely NO collusion between the campaign and the Super PAC (which is illegal)?  Even the lib mainstream media isn't buying this pig.

Video: Obama campaign now pretending it didn’t know details of steelworker’s story — after featuring him in two ads
POSTED AT 4:12 PM ON AUGUST 8, 2012 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

Via Politico. Remember, thanks to the lame legal fictions of campaign finance law, the Obama campaign is forced to pretend that the Obama Super PAC responsible for yesterday’s smear heard ’round the world is entirely independent of it rather than a wholly owned subsidiary. What you’re about to see is the absurdity of that fiction taken to its logical conclusion. So eager is lifelike talking-points robot Stephanie Cutter to keep the campaign’s fingerprints off the cheap lies in the PAC ad that she claims at 4:00 below not to know the facts about when Soptic’s wife got sick or when she died. Minor problem: The campaign itself featured Soptic in not one but two ads several months ago and had him tell the story of his wife’s death after he lost his insurance during a conference call with — ta da — Stephanie Cutter.
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New Ad: Romney, Bain Capital Now Responsible For Deaths

Posted by Brian

If the Obama campaign and his Super PAC surrogates are having a race to see who can get to the bottom of the political cesspool first, there is a new leader. Priorities USA, an Obama Super PAC, has released an ad which essentially blames Mitt Romney for being the cause of death for a woman who passed away from cancer.

Priorities USA Hit Piece Ad

According to the Washington Post, the man in the ad is one Joe Soptic, who was laid off from his job from his job at GST Steel in 2001, when the company filed for bankruptcy.  This was a full year after Romney had left Bain Capital.  Mr Soptic's wife passed away from the illness in 2006.  Mr. Soptic claims that he lost his insurance when the plant closed, and was unable to get insurance.  She, however, had insurance through her employer up until 2003.  Mr Soptic also says that he thinks his wife knew she had cancer before she got sick, but was afraid to say anything because of the lack of insurance.  I feel sorry for this man's loss, but this guy is not just your average Joe six-pack that this PAC happened to stumble across.  If he looks familiar, he should.

Joe Soptic on DemocracyNOW with Amy Goodman

According to the Washington Examiner, he showed up back in May in an Obama ad blasting Bain for losing his job, and was unable to put his daughter through college.  He also complained to the leftist show DemocracyNOW that his pension was cut by $400/mo., which contradicted an earlier claim that the amount was $283/mo.  Whatever the amount, this guy is an Obama hack, and he is being trotted out to show how mean and cruel Mitt Romney is. Oh, did I mention that he said Bain was really mean to the union?  Did it occur to this guy that maybe he, and his union, might have some responsibility for the company going bankrupt?  That maybe the wages were over-inflated? Or maybe the benefits packages were too generous?  And that maybe because of some of these things, along with the price of steel plummeting during that time, the company couldn't produce a product which could be competitively priced on the global market, and still make a profit?  Just a thought.

One of two things is going on with this guy.  One, he is just a grieving widower, who is looking for someone, anyone, to blame for a series of unfortunate circumstances that have affected his whole life, and has decided to blame Mitt Romney for the situation he now finds himself in, and is being used by the Obama people.

OR, as I tend to think, Mr. Soptic is a partisan union hack getting his fifteen minutes of fame.

Regardless, this new Obama ad sets a new low for the 2012 campaign season, and one which will be difficult to sink lower than.  Not that Obama and his surrogates aren't entirely capable of getting even deeper into the muck.

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