August 10, 2012
Obama/Romney negative ads going to new extremes
(CBS News) WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign ad season is already in high-gear.
The campaigns and political "super PACS" are flooding the airwaves, and critics on both sides say facts don't back up the charges made in the ads.
The claims in some of the ads have been so dubious, they're making some people in both parties uncomfortable.
Even President Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, have condemned some of the ads -- but only the ones from the other side.
One such ad, from Priorities USA Action, a top outside group supporting Mr. Obama, features former Missouri steelworker Joe Soptic saying, "When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care."
Republicans and even some Democrats call the ad a new low.
It suggests Soptic's wife died of cancer because he lost his insurance after Romney's company, Bain Capital, shuttered his plant.
"There was nothing they could do for her, and she passed away in 22 days," the man continues in the ad. "I do not think that Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone."
What it failed to mention was that Soptic's wife died five years after he lost his job, and she had her own insurance for part of that time.
More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162-57490682/obama-romney-negative-ads-going-to-new-extremes/
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