Obama Campaign Ad: The Story of Bain Capital and Ampad
The new advertisement from the Obama campaign continues their devastating criticism of Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalism techniques, with the story of the plundering of SCM Office Supplies.
Youtube VideoMeanwhile, Newark mayor Cory Booker is walking back his criticism of the Obama campaign’s ads today — but not entirely.
The Obama team saw Booker equating attacks on Bain Capital with attacks on Rev. Jeremiah Wright — he said almost exactly those words — and knew they had a political mess to clean up.
“This election, like all other elections, is going to be a choice between two candidates, two records and two visions for the country,” said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt on a conference call Monday morning. “We’ve not heard an affirmative vision from [Romney].”
Trur [sic] enough. But, it’s also clear from watching the entirety of Booker’s video that he isn’t really walking back his comments as much as he is trying to provide more context than is typically available on a Sunday show roundtable appearance.
Watch Booker’s video; it’s obvious he doesn’t like the negativity of the campaign — on both sides — and despite what we can only assume was heavy pressure by the Obama team to fix the glitch, he isn’t willing to entirely walk back his comments.