Obama ad pushes back on Romney jobs claim in Ohio

October 29, 2012 @ 4:11 pm

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - TITLE: "Collapse."

LENGTH: 30 Seconds

AIRING: Ohio

KEY IMAGES: The ad opens with a still photo of a shuttered factory and pans to a headline from a New York Times column Mitt Romney wrote in 2008, headlined, "Let Detroit go Bankrupt."

A male narrator says, "when the auto industry faced collapse, Mitt Romney turned his back." The narrator notes that The Detroit News (which has endorsed Romney's presidential bid) criticized the Republican hopeful's "wrongheadedness" on the federal auto bailout.

"And now, after Romney's false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China, Chrysler itself has refuted Romney's lie," the narrator says, over a headline from the Detroit Free Press saying Romney had incorrectly stated Jeep was moving production to China.

"The truth? Jeep is adding jobs in Ohio," the narrator says, over a headline from the Toledo Blade newspaper in Ohio saying "Jeep expansion to add 1,100 jobs." The ad concludes, "Mitt Romney on Ohio jobs: Wrong then. Dishonest now."

ANALYSIS: The Obama campaign released this ad in response to a Romney campaign spot airing in Ohio that suggests Romney would do more for the auto industry than Obama has. Polls show Obama with a narrow but steady edge in Ohio, a state Romney badly needs if he is to put together the 270 electoral votes necessary for victory on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Obama's lead in Ohio is due in large measure to the success of the federal bailout of GM and Chrysler, which helped preserve thousands of auto industry jobs there and elsewhere. That's why his campaign is acutely sensitive to efforts by the Romney campaign to undermine the positive effects of the bailout, which Romney opposed.

It's true that Romney wrote an opinion column in The New York Times opposing the auto rescue. He has said he didn't choose the headline, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," but has never veered from his assertion that providing failing auto companies with billions in federal aid would prevent them from taking the steps necessary to rein in costs and be more competitive.

In Ohio last week, Romney told a campaign audience that Chrysler planned to ship its U.S.-based Jeep manufacturing division to China. A Chrysler spokesman denied that claim, saying Jeep had no plans to move jobs from the U.S. to China even though the company is looking to build additional plants there to meet demand.

The new Romney ad is more carefully worded, saying only that the company planned to "build jeeps in China," which is true. But the Obama ad tries to put to rest any suggestion in the latest Romney ad that Ohio jobs at Jeep are threatened, posting the headline of a local newspaper story saying Jeep planned to build a new plant and add jobs in Ohio next year.


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  • CldWtrSrf wrote...
    Yeah,
    April 3, 2012 1:40 pm
    And Obama backs Big Coal...aka G.E. His buddy Jeffrey Imult who is his Business Czar from G.E. cut some SWEET deals with Obama. G.E. makes BILLIONS in Profit and pays ZERO in taxes!! When are Americans going to figure out that we have a broken system. Republicans and Democrats are both just as guilty in this FASCIST system that we have. Mussolini would be proud. And look up the definition of Fascism, cause it doesn't mean what most of you think it means. America is a PRIME example of Fascism at it's best.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    "Recovery"?
    May 7, 2012 5:34 pm
    Where? Oh, it's there...Owebama said so...
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  • hnuh wrote...
    05-08-2012 AdWatch: 0bama pushes...
    May 8, 2012 2:14 pm
    It must be wonderful to have no morality. All meanings relative, truth and lies interchangable and meaningless except what works to my advantage. To care not a bit what happens to any other person or, really, being on earth. Nyaah... leave that to the left, they've got a monopoly going on it.
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  • CldWtrSrf wrote...
    Hahaha Bain Capital
    May 15, 2012 12:16 pm
    Has donated more to the Fascist Emperor Obama's Campaign (BRIBERY) than they have to Fascist and Emperor in Training Mittens, and Mittens OWNED that company!! What a joke! But the moron Left will eat it up. Mittens and Obama are both OWNED by the same FASCIST corporations and BANKSTERS, Check out their top 5 bribers. JP MORGAN is at the top of both those lists. "Not our Messiah" "Say it aint so!!"
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Great, a new example for Wikipedia
    June 4, 2012 4:14 pm
    term: "The pot calling the kettle black." (see above article) also see term: "People in glass houses should not throw stones."
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  • CH wrote...
    0-0 you don't have to worry about "Recovery" . . . .
    June 4, 2012 8:12 pm
    your on the government payroll?
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    Fascist Emperor?
    July 3, 2012 7:19 pm
    Are you in need of some counseling? You sound like someone that lives in Northern Idaho.
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  • CldWtrSrf wrote...
    There you go longway
    July 5, 2012 1:06 pm
    With the standard left "Racist" if you say anything dissenting about Dear Obama. You obviously don't know the meaning of Fascism. Oh and also notice that I said Mittens is just as much of a Fascist, just like Bush is a Fascist. Face the facts, "Liberals" are the winners when it comes to racism. Oh, and another point for you so called geniuses, those people that you HATE, the Founders of this country, they were Liberals. Classical Liberals, not Marxist/Fascist Whor3s.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    "President Obama's plan: Ask the wealthy to pay a little more so the middle class pays less, eliminate oil subsidies and tax breaks for companies that outsource," the narrator says. "Two plans. Your choice."
    July 12, 2012 10:33 am
    "Ask the wealthy to pay a little more". That is all that they will have to pay now that Obama has gotten his middle class tax increase on us Americans.

    pays less, eliminate oil subsidies

    I may not agree with this but we will be paying higher prices with or without the subsidies thank to this regime forcing price at the pump to "Necessarily Skyrocket."

    and tax breaks for companies that outsource.

    Why does one suppose they choose to outsource in the first place? ObamaTaxing rates! And Obama threatening them with government actions if they did?

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    The Summer of Obama recovery
    July 12, 2012 10:34 am
    X 4!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Oh, and another point for you so called geniuses, those people that you HATE, the Founders of this country, they were Liberals. Classical Liberals, not Marxist/Fascist Whor3s.
    July 12, 2012 10:42 am
    Not too certain what part of your paragraph is, CWS, but our early settlers were Socialist minded. They brought some of those ideas from the old world with them. Until such time as they realized that this type of mentality did not work and they no longer needed it. Thus the idea of people being responsible for themselves, working hard and asking others, not looking to the government for help, was born.
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  • CldWtrSrf wrote...
    Correct It's me
    July 12, 2012 1:23 pm
    The early colonial settlers surely had a Socialist leaning, still being comfortably under the yoke of Monarchy. I was referring to the Founders of this Country though, the men/women that threw off that yoke of tyranny and wrote our Constitution. Thomas Jefferson was a "Classical Liberal". "Liberal" has been twisted and destroyed much as "Republican" has these days. The "Liberals" of today HATE those that wrote our Constitution, because it does stand for taking care of yourself and keeping what you earn with your own sweat and blood and mind. It is in direct opposition to their Tyrannical Fascist views of what the government's role in our lives should be. To be fair though, most Republicans talk a good talk, but when the chips are down on the table, they are just as much lovers of Fascism as the Democrats. The talking points are just different.
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