President Obama hit Mitt Romney hard today on his campaign's response to the Washington Post report that at Bain, Romney was a pioneer in outsourcing. The campaign offered a distinction between outsourcing and offshoring, arguing the post ghot it wrong because Bain destroyed American jobs by offshoring, not outsourcing.
Either way, your job is gone, said the President:
The president, speaking in a swing state where Romney owns a home, mocked the former Massachusetts governor's campaign for attempting to distinguish between "offshoring" and "outsourcing" in its explanation.
"Yesterday his advisers were asked about this, and they tried to clear this up by telling us there's actually a difference between outsourcing and offshoring. That's what they said. You cannot make this stuff up,” the president joked to a booing crowd. He continued, “What Governor Romney and his advisers don't seem to understand is this, if you're a worker whose job went overseas, you don't need somebody trying to explain to you the difference between outsourcing and offshoring.”
msnbc.com
There's video at TPM.
Keep hitting Romney hard on Bain. A Pioneer in Offshoring Jobs.
Update I: Bonus video.
With Romney's Bain Capital background back in the news, Priorities USA Action released a new ad over the weekend on the issue. It's part of a $10 million ad buy airing in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Maddow Blog
Obama allies keep hitting Romney over Bain years: The Obama-allied Priorities USA Action is up with a very tough new ad featuring a worker who was laid off from an Indiana paper plant. Closing line: “When Romney wins, the middle class loses.”
In the wake of new Post revelations about Bain’s offshoring role — and a big New York Times piece on Bain-acquired companies that were driven into bankruptcy — the Obama campaign and its allies will continue using Bain to define Romney in the crucial summer months leading into the final stretch.
WaPo, Greg Sargent, The Plum Line