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Outsourcing jobs: Obama ad flays Romney
The slugfest is truly on. A new ad released by the Obama re-election campaign accuses his likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney of outsourcing American jobs to India when he was the Governor of Massachusetts for four years, beginning January 2003.
And as a corporate CEO earlier on, Romney shipped jobs to places like Mexico and China, the ad says and goes on to attack him as “a guy who had a Swiss bank account”.
The Obama campaign is spending as much as $780,000 to place the negative ad in key States like Ohio, Virginia and Iowa, according to reports quoting a Republican strategist who keeps a tab on purchasing advertising time on television networks.
Coming just ahead of President Barack Obama’s formal launch of his campaign on Saturday with rallies in Ohio and Virginia, the 30-second attack ad is an apparent response to a spot released last week by a conservative group, suggesting that money from Obama’s $814 billion economic stimulus package went to overseas green-energy companies.
Terming the accusation “over the top”, “erroneous” and “out of context”, the Obama ad claimed that the president’s clean energy initiatives have helped create jobs within the US.
It then goes on to quiz: “What about Romney? As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China. As Governor, he outsourced State jobs to a call centre in India.”
“He’s still pushing tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas,” the ad says, adding: “It’s just what you’d expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account.”
Supporters have been directed to a webpage on Obama’s campaign website that shows a map displaying foreign nations and offshore tax havens (including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland) where Romney and his wife reportedly held money.
According to the Obama campaign, the graphic is based on information gleaned from Romney’s own tax returns for 2010. Romney himself, appearing at a fundraiser in Virginia on Wednesday evening, poked fun at Obama’s new campaign slogan, “Forward,” remarking: “Forward, what, over the cliff?”
He then compared Obama to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who ended up as a one-term president. With a slow growing economy and double-digit inflation, fuelled by rising gasoline prices, Carter had lost his re-election bid to Ronald Reagan back in 1980.Romney suggested that Obama was caught up in a similar bind, with a slow-growth economy, high unemployment, massive annual Budget deficit and spiralling gasoline prices.
The slugfest is truly on. A new ad released by the Obama re-election campaign accuses his likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney of outsourcing American jobs to India when he was the Governor of Massachusetts for four years, beginning January 2003.
And as a corporate CEO earlier on, Romney shipped jobs to places like Mexico and China, the ad says and goes on to attack him as “a guy who had a Swiss bank account”.
The Obama campaign is spending as much as $780,000 to place the negative ad in key States like Ohio, Virginia and Iowa, according to reports quoting a Republican strategist who keeps a tab on purchasing advertising time on television networks.
Coming just ahead of President Barack Obama’s formal launch of his campaign on Saturday with rallies in Ohio and Virginia, the 30-second attack ad is an apparent response to a spot released last week by a conservative group, suggesting that money from Obama’s $814 billion economic stimulus package went to overseas green-energy companies.
Terming the accusation “over the top”, “erroneous” and “out of context”, the Obama ad claimed that the president’s clean energy initiatives have helped create jobs within the US.
It then goes on to quiz: “What about Romney? As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China. As Governor, he outsourced State jobs to a call centre in India.”
“He’s still pushing tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas,” the ad says, adding: “It’s just what you’d expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account.”
Supporters have been directed to a webpage on Obama’s campaign website that shows a map displaying foreign nations and offshore tax havens (including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland) where Romney and his wife reportedly held money.
According to the Obama campaign, the graphic is based on information gleaned from Romney’s own tax returns for 2010. Romney himself, appearing at a fundraiser in Virginia on Wednesday evening, poked fun at Obama’s new campaign slogan, “Forward,” remarking: “Forward, what, over the cliff?”
He then compared Obama to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who ended up as a one-term president. With a slow growing economy and double-digit inflation, fuelled by rising gasoline prices, Carter had lost his re-election bid to Ronald Reagan back in 1980.Romney suggested that Obama was caught up in a similar bind, with a slow-growth economy, high unemployment, massive annual Budget deficit and spiralling gasoline prices.
