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Woman in anti-Romney SuperPAC Death Ad actually had insurance
The lying liars and the lies they tell.
A SuperPAC run by former Obama spokesman Bill Burton accused Mitt Romney of killing a woman because she lost insurance when her husband’s job was terminated.
CNN has blown this ad apart, finding that the woman continued to have health insurance through her own employer after her husband was terminated.
Let’s recap:
Bain Capital acquires a struggling steel mill in Missouri. Mitt Romney leaves active management of Bain in 1999. In 2001 the Obama bundler that was running Bain closes the steel mill, laying off Joe Soptic. His wife still has insurance through her own employment. In 2002 Mitt Romney formally leaves Bain management. In 2003 Mrs. Soptic leaves her job due to an injury. In 2006 Mrs. Soptic is diagnosed with cancer and dies three weeks later.
In August 2012 the Obama campaign creates an ad blaming Mitt Romney for Mrs. Soptic’s death.
This may go down in history as the sleaziest political ad ever.
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Just when you think Obama couldn’t possibly sink any lower he goes and proves you wrong.
Not to mention exploiting this man’s grief over the loss of his wife.
He’s an Obama supporter – the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
True- remember the story about the woman without health insurance and how she supposedly wanted to be buried in her Obama t shirt or some such nonsense?
There are so many bs stories I can’t keep track anymore.
I saw this in real time when Blitzer aired it. What they cut from the vid was the man’s last statement, when he said “That’s how I feel about it”. Nothing more. If you play the vid, you can hear him say “That’s” right before it ends.
Now I ask you – what kind of shit-bag exploits his wife’s death for a political campaign?
What kind of man exploits his mother’s death for political purposes…..an Obamaman can! Remember when Obama said his mother had to drain her resources and fight insurance companies when she was ill with cancer?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-road-weve-traveled-a-misleading-account-of-obamas-mother-and-h
Bad link, see if this works:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-road-weve-traveled-a-misleading-account-of-obamas-mother-and-he
Oh for goodness sakes! I can’t copy the link right. I’ll just quote it:
imusthavepie, YES! He exploited his own mother. Thanks for the reminder!
Well, you know. They’re just women. That’s Obamaworld in a nutshell.
That would be a soulless Obama supporter. Is that a redundancy?
Let’s not forget that Obama was his mother’s lawyer. He knew he was lying to the American public about what his mother was suing for.
The final sleezy step will be for Obama to throw this ad and his own superpac to the wolves. Then he’ll give a speech about the importance of running a clean campaign and how “some people,” meaning Mitt Romney, go down in the gutter during elections but he’s not like that.
And even the NYT calls it a lie!
http://womenstate.blogspot.com/2012/08/nyt-on-pro-obama-ad-ad-fails-to-mention.html
Missouri Senate primary results:
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/Senate/2012/Primary/MO
Wolf Blitzer? CNN? Fact checking?
The desperation at the WH just exploded into all-out panic.
I’m pretty sure that CNN was just so excited to find something sleezier than them, that they had to report it.
lol !
Heck, Obama is the sleaziest president ever!
He’s historic!
Ugh… Now what am I gonna write about tonight? This clip was posted in comments at my site and it set my head off. Other than the slime ball using his dead wife to prop up the chume gang president – the most remarkable thing here is that CNN did the story. I wonder: Is CNN finally going to wake up and do some reporting?
The media angle. I’d love to hear your take on that.
Yep, CNN reported it and that’s the story !
And the NYT. But make no mistake. This was Priorities USA, not the Obama campaign, and that’s the sole reason they felt they could report it. If it had been an Obama campaign ad, they wouldn’t have touched it.
….and we have the rest of the story
Think it had anything to do with Jim Walton resigning from CNN?
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/cnns-jim-walton-resigns_b79823
Romney, the RNC and supporting PACs will have more money for TV ads than Obama, the DNC and Democratic PACs. Follow the money. CNN wants a piece of the money pie.
They also have to be careful they don’t back a loser. If Romney wins they don’t want to get the cold shoulder for the next 4-8 years.
Here’s the antidote for the sleazy ad, Bro’s Gotta Go !
Steelman lost to Todd Akin who will face McCaskill in Missouri
I suspect Palin jumped into that race a bit too late to help.
An 80% success rate is still damn good.
Maybe she decided the TX was more important than MO. I think she spent more time in TX.
I didn’t care who won as long as they can defeat McCaskill. She needs to spend more time with her children. They obviously need more guidance since it was they who urged their mom to endorse Oblahblah.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/07/romney-holds-biggest-fund-raiser-in-iowa-history/
The clip cuts off but at the end Soptic basically defends blaming Romney for his wife’s death — not her smoking or whatever caused her lung cancer and despite the fact that she had insurance through her own job after he lost his — because “That’s the way I feel.” <<< That right there is what is wrong with this country — everyone thinking that they way they "feel" about something makes it true. It doesn't — your "feelings" don't trump facts. In fact, they're basically irrelevant. I don't care how much of a special little snowflake your mommy told you that you are, how you "feel" about something and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at the Four Seasons.
I've noticed the pundits are being very careful to put the blame on the Pac for "exploiting this poor man's grief" but that's bullshit — this man is just as guilty of using his wife's death to gain a political advantage against Romney, to lie about him & hide the true story and timeline about how things went down. He's obviously bitter because he lost his job, to which he obviously felt entitled to for life, never mind that the US steel industry fell apart because of the cheap steel from China that was flooding the market at the time. Oh, no, this guy personally blames Romney for the loss of his job, just like he personally blames him for the death of his wife. This is a personal obsessive fixation for Soptic & I question his mental stability.
This is an important observation as it is applicable to a lot of non-objective thinking that is being done in this country. I see it a lot in many peoples attitudes about all kinds of things and the body politic and media have been giving it a pass. The story about Obama “enjoying” disliking Romney, this man’s personalization of his victimhood (I am sorry about his personal loss and I have had it too), and the strange targeting by Harry Reid show the transfer of personal failure or disappointment to others who have tangential association with their circumstances. That the media have finally said something about this shows that they are recognizing that there is a formal thought disorder going on here. It is literally crazy. All is is going to do is make Romney look reasonable and sane.
That is a good point. I’ve noticed how everything is now about “I feel” and “I believe,” as if either of those things have anything to do with reality.
People said they “believed” in President Obama and they could “feel” him. That right there is all bass akwards, because a candidate’s qualifications should be self evident, not something that requires you to rely on faith and belief and your imagination. It’s no surprise that the Obama who people “believed” in doesn’t really exist.
That ad and the recent Obama efforts is making me want to spend real money and put in real effort to get Romney elected. And I’m fucking liberal. I didn’t think Obama could suck any more either. He surprises me every day.
The nastier he gets, the more I want to see him defeated.
You don’t have to donate to Romney. You can help us out at Romney Democrats! I’ll do the work for you.
http://peacocksandlilies.com/2012/08/07/romney-democrats-progress-update/
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/08/08/why-team-obama-ran-with-the-dishonest-mitt-killed-my-wife-ad/
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Even my mother, the lifelong, Obama-voting Democrat, was complaining about this ad.
What did she say?