To divert attention away from his superPAC’s suggestion that Mitt Romney indirectly caused a woman to die of cancer, President Obama’s campaign tied Mitt Romney to an obscure organization that ran a conspiratorial ad about Obama’s birth certificate.
“I saw an ad yesterday that is being run by the Republican outside group that questions whether the President was born in the United States and shows a picture of his birth certificate with a question mark on it,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Air Force One today. “No one is asking the Romney campaign about that ad and what they think about that ad. So as we talk about apples and oranges, that’s the apples-to-apples comparison I’ll leave you with.”
“The Republican outside group” to which Psaki alluded is not Romney’s official campaign super PAC, but an obscure organization called the Conservative Majority Fund, a group that believes Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery. The ad says that “no one has seen Obama’s birth certificate” and advocates disqualifying Obama as a candidate for president.
Psaki is trying to pass that off as an “apples-to-apples comparison” with Priorities USA Action, the designated Obama campaign super PAC that raises money by hosting fundraisers with Obama administration officials. Priorities USA recently produced an ad suggesting that a woman died of cancer because Bain Capital laid off her husband, who thus lost insurance.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer called the ad “repulsive” after a fact check found that it was “full of falsehoods” because the woman had insurance through her own work for years after Romney left Bain (which happened years before her husband was laid off). She was not diagnosed with cancer for seven years after Romney left his company.
