Romney killed my wife.

The latest dirty campaign ad from the Obama camp claims that Romney laid off a fellow and left him without insurance. His wife came down with stage 4 cancer and died 22 days later because he had no insurance.

The truth is that this fellow was laid off 6 years after Romney left Blain Capital and this wife worked for another year after he was laid off.

Imagine that! Obama want more civil discourse? Why does he not put a stop to these ads or deny them?

Obama is a liberal, so he lies.

[sarcasm]Go team Chicago! The truth doesn't matter, it's all about positive results at the polls.[/sarcasm]

In the immediate aftermath of the ad's deployment, the Romney camp issued a relatively standard response, referring to the ad as dishonest and accusing the president and his allies of using such attacks to distract from economic issues. And nothing more might have come of this had Romney's team stuck to that story.

But on Fox News this morning, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul went "off-script," and amid a larger declaration about the ad being despicable and some pushback on the facts of the ad, she offered this statement in Romney's defense: "To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care."

After that came the deluge of conservatives savaging Saul for getting lost on the road to Damascus, essentially accusing her of giving away the election.

The thing is, though, Saul's logic in citing Romney's creation and implementation of CommonwealthCare in Massachusetts is impeccable. Her baseline argument: If you are going to hit Romney with the Bain practices that allegedly led to this woman losing her health insurance, you surely must credit him for his legislative accomplishments, which enabled thousands of uninsured people to obtain life-saving care. That is, for the most part, pristine reasoning.

The only problem, of course, is that this wasn't offered in 2008, when it would have been hailed as a brilliant defense. We've once again come face to face with the perplexing weirdness at the center of Romney's entire presidential effort: in 2012, Romney is not allowed to run on the singular achievement of his career -- Massachusetts health care -- that earned him a spot in the world of GOP presidential contenders in the first place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... _ref=false

It's an ad by a Super PAC that supports President Obama. He cannot coordinate with them or tell them what to do.

So it is YOU that is lying.

Soulshiner wrote: It's an ad by a Super PAC that supports President Obama. He cannot coordinate with them or tell them what to do.

So it is YOU that is lying.

I was hoping that you would mention the super pac. This same fellow was in an ad 2 years ago that was definitely from the Obama organization and HE WAS WEARING THE EXACT SAME SHIRT that he is wearing in the recent ad. Did Obama's campaign with the Super PAC? That is against the federal law but they will have an extremely hard time denying the connection to the Super PAC.

Now, why did you call me a liar? I did not call you a name.

Fox went nuts over that ad. I have to agree with them to a point. What a stupid ad and they didn't do their homework.

Where were you all when Kerry was the target of the Swiftboat PAC?

Its ad was so vile it made "swiftboating" a verb in politics.

The word swiftboating is an American neologism used pejoratively to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (formerly "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," or SBVT) widely publicized, then discredited, campaign against 2004 US Presidential candidate John Kerry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating

I find it interesting that both Romney and Obama said they would stop attacking ads in Colorado after the shooting. WTH? We get a break just because there was a shooting? Gee, thanks for not being a dick in just Colorado. And how long is that going to last. LOL

Arlen wrote:

Soulshiner wrote: It's an ad by a Super PAC that supports President Obama. He cannot coordinate with them or tell them what to do.

So it is YOU that is lying.

I was hoping that you would mention the super pac. This same fellow was in an ad 2 years ago that was definitely from the Obama organization and HE WAS WEARING THE EXACT SAME SHIRT that he is wearing in the recent ad. Did Obama's campaign with the Super PAC? That is against the federal law but they will have an extremely hard time denying the connection to the Super PAC.

Now, why did you call me a liar? I did not call you a name.

This guy was also on a conference call with Stephanie Cutter (Obama's deputy campaign manager) then she said she didn't know who he was. lying biaach.