Obama: We Are Not Removing Work Requirements For Welfare Recipients (VIDEO)
President Barack Obama's campaign fired back against GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's welfare attack against the Obama administration in a new television ad released on Friday.
The ad, titled "Blatant," takes aim at the Romney campaign for falsely accusing the president of "gutting" welfare reform. Earlier this week, the Romney campaign issued an ad stating that the Obama administration was implementing a welfare policy that would drop work requirements.
Immediately after its release, the Romney campaign ad's accuracy was disputed by numerous media outlets, which the Obama campaign is now highlighting in its new spot.
"The New York Times calls it 'blatantly false,' says the narrator, referring to Romney's ad. "The Washington Post says 'the Obama administration is not removing the bill’s work requirements at all.'"
But despite the backlash, Romney continued to assail Obama over welfare during numerous campaign events, while his surrogates, such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, joined conference calls to support the charge. But Gingrich, who oversaw welfare reform when he was house speaker, admitted Wednesday that there was "no proof" that the Obama administration dropped work requirements from the nation's welfare law.t was difficult for Romney's harsh words to resonate in the midst of his own campaign refusing to back down from its welfare attack, debunked by the very same fact-checkers he mentioned.
