Politics
Election 2012: Obama heads to Ohio to tout auto bailout, tax policies
But at least three times since then, Bain listed Romney as the company’s “controlling person,” as well as its “sole shareholder, sole director, chief executive officer and president.” One of those documents, as late as February 2001, lists Romney’s “principal occupation” as Bain’s managing director.
Romney’s campaign released a new television ad on Sunday asking why the president had stopped talking about hope and change, his signature message during the 2008 campaign, and criticizing him for a barrage of negative ads against Romney.
The Romney release came a day after Obama began running an ad mocking Romney singing “America the Beautiful” as image after image ties Romney to Bain and U.S. jobs lost overseas and to his personal foreign investments.
Romney contends Obama is focused on untruths about his involvement with Bain to distract voters from his failure to guide the U.S. economy to a robust recovery from the 2007-2009 Great Recession.
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