Obama Campaign Video Touts Success, Unveils New 2012 Campaign Slogan "Forward"
The Obama campaign released anew seven-minute long web video on Monday highlighting the president’s first term accomplishments and contrasting them with the prior administration. You know, the mess he inherited from former president George W. Bush. The new campaign slogan is “Forward.” The video doesn’t specifically name Mitt Romney as the Republican opponent, but blames its policies for the still sluggish economy.
The ad starts off by focusing on events from January 2008 onward, highlighting a downward trending timeline detailing mounting job losses, the foreclosure crisis, the stock market plunge, and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, with pictures of former President George W. Bush transposed beneath.
Well, lots happened under Obama’s first term in office and I will give him much deserved credit for nabbing Osama bin Laden, ending the war in Iraq (kinda) and overthrowing Moammar Ghadhafi, but we are still trying to figure out what the heck Obamacare really means for working class Americans and dealing with a skyrocketing deficit. That doesn’t even include fixing the illegal immigration situation, though more illegals have been deported under Obama’s watch than his predecessor, but what about the DREAM Act? What’s equally worrisome is that Mitt Romney’s policies won’t be a whole lot different, since I consider him a RINO, Republican in Name Only.
Obama Campaign Responds to Mitt Romney Request for An Apology for “Felony” Comment
Obama Campaign Responds to Mitt Romney Request for An Apology for “Felony” Comment (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mitt Romney demanded an apology from President Obama for his deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, dropping the “felony” comment over his name appearing on SEC documents for Bain Capital though he claimed he left in 1999. In other words, no apology forthcoming. Mitt Romney’s media blitz accomplished one thing, it showed us that he is weak and got to this place because there were no stellar Republicans seeking the presidency in this election cycle. Mitt Romney has also shown us that he isn’t up to the task of unseating the incumbent president. He literally begged his opponent to stop attacking him yesterday. Um, has he forgotten the negative campaigning he unleashed on Newt Gingrich during the primary season? As they say, karma is a bitch. Here is the response from the Obama campaign:
It should be noted that even Republicans are questioning why Mitt Romney refuses to open up his financial affairs to the American people. At the National Governors Association meeting in Williamsburg, Alabama’s Republican governor, Robert Bentley, called on Romney to release all the documents requested of him, saying, ”If you have things to hide, then maybe you’re doing things wrong,” Bentley said. “I think you ought to be willing to release everything to the American people.” Veteran Republican strategist John Weaver also weighed in saying, “There is no whining in politics. Stop demanding an apology, release your tax returns.” Obama campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said Mitt Romney “spends a lot of time asking for apologies, but spends a lot of time attacking.”
The Obama campaign also released another ad, “Firms,” slamming Mitt Romney for his offshore accounts and outsourcing, while Romney can be heard in the background singing “America the Beautiful.” The ad is running in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The ad says,”In business, Mitt Romney’s firm shipped jobs to Mexico. And China,” the text of the ad says, showing footage of foreign countries as Romney sings. “As governor, Romney outsourced jobs to India:”