Obama ad accuses Romney of outsourcing US jobs
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May 2, 2012, Wednesday
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US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican challenger, are trading attacks in television ads, with Obama accusing Romney of sending US jobs overseas and keeping his money in Swiss accounts.
The Obama ad is partly in response to one released last week by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity, which suggests money from Obama's US$814 billion economic stimulus package went to overseas green energy companies.
The economy is by far the biggest issue in the election, and Romney, who has seemingly locked up the nomination to challenge Obama in November, continues to attack the president on the issue.
The new Obama message - which will be broadcast in battleground states Virginia, Ohio and Iowa - accuses Romney of having "shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China" when he led investment firm Bain Capital. It also says Romney "outsourced state jobs to a call center in India" when governor of Massachusetts.
"It's just what you'd expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account," the Obama ad says, referring to Romney's 2010 income tax filing that showed family money is kept in accounts abroad. Romney's fortune is estimated to be as much as US$250 million.
The new Obama ad was released after an exchange in which one of the president's campaign officials said it was unclear whether Romney would have ordered the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. The issue came up on the anniversary of Obama sending a Navy Seals team into Pakistan to assassinate bin Laden.
But Romney on Monday said, "of course," when asked if he would have ordered operation.
Romney scheduled an appearance yesterday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to mark the first anniversary of the killing of bin Laden.
The Obama ad is partly in response to one released last week by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity, which suggests money from Obama's US$814 billion economic stimulus package went to overseas green energy companies.
The economy is by far the biggest issue in the election, and Romney, who has seemingly locked up the nomination to challenge Obama in November, continues to attack the president on the issue.
The new Obama message - which will be broadcast in battleground states Virginia, Ohio and Iowa - accuses Romney of having "shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China" when he led investment firm Bain Capital. It also says Romney "outsourced state jobs to a call center in India" when governor of Massachusetts.
"It's just what you'd expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account," the Obama ad says, referring to Romney's 2010 income tax filing that showed family money is kept in accounts abroad. Romney's fortune is estimated to be as much as US$250 million.
The new Obama ad was released after an exchange in which one of the president's campaign officials said it was unclear whether Romney would have ordered the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. The issue came up on the anniversary of Obama sending a Navy Seals team into Pakistan to assassinate bin Laden.
But Romney on Monday said, "of course," when asked if he would have ordered operation.
Romney scheduled an appearance yesterday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to mark the first anniversary of the killing of bin Laden.
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