Newsmax - Sununu: Obama Camp 'Caught With Pants Down' on Cancer Ad

Thursday, 09 Aug 2012 09:17 PM

By Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

The Obama campaign “got caught lying” and “with their pants down” in linking Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney to a television ad about a woman's death from cancer, leading Romney surrogate John Sununu told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

“This is a perfect sign of how desperate the president is to avoid talking about issues,” the former GOP New Hampshire governor and White House Chief of Staff said. “Actually, the new low was reached in denying that they knew anything about this ad — and then getting caught having had a discussion of exactly the same topic, with exactly the same individual that’s in the ad, in a telephone news conference with the press last May.”

The advertisement, sponsored by the pro-Obama group Priorities USA Action, suggests that Romney’s business dealings contributed to former steelworker Joe Soptic's wife's death from cancer by depriving her of health insurance.

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The spot has drawn widespread criticism for its negativism — particularly since it was learned that Soptic got another job with health insurance, but decided not to put his wife on his policy to save money.

There are also unanswered questions as to how much the White House knew about the Soptic case as he had been used in a campaign conference call in May.[...]

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Women for Mitt Romney Host Welfare Reform Event with Jennifer Horn

Nashua, NH – Today, Women for Mitt Romney will be hosting a press conference on welfare reform with grassroots activist Jennifer Horn to discuss how President Obama’s recent executive action will gut the bipartisan welfare reform of 1996 and lead New Hampshire down the wrong track. The group will be joined by former New Hampshire Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen. The event will be held at the Nashua GOP Victory office.

Business Insider - Romney Campaign says Obama's Campaign Manager 'Appears' To Be A Crook

By Brett LoGiurato     

Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, told reporters on a conference call this morning that Obama campaign manager Jim Messina "appears" to have broken the law, based off a series of emails Messina sent from his personal account as White House deputy chief of staff. 

The emails were detailed in a House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee report on Tuesday. The most explosive include several exchanges between a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist and Messina, who was then President Barack Obama's deputy White House chief of staff.

Messina and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) lobbyist Jeffrey Forbes exchange emails relating to a deal between PhRMA and the Senate Finance Committee on Obama's Affordable Care Act legislation.

The emails pertain to the funding for the deal that helped PhRMA support the Affordable Care Act. In the email, Messina says he will "roll" then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to secure funding. 

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Romney Responds to President Obama's Denigration of Small Business Owners!

Campaign Video of a Hudson NH company responding to President Obama's "You Didn't Build It!" Big Government is best statement!

Political Quote of this Election Cycle! (So Far)

by Mary Thompson:

Apparently, I’m supposed to be more outraged by what Mitt Romney does with his money than by what Barack Obama does with mine.