Recall the VAMPIRE accusation of Romney

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and the company that they "vampired" ??

". Never mind the emotional manipulation; the ad is factually wayward. In 1993, when Bain bought the steel plant in the commercial, it was a saviour: in the absence of a buyer, the plant would have closed. Bain provided a transfusion of $100m to update the plant’s machinery - it was a blood bank, not a vampire - and its investment succeeded for a time. Only in 2001, two years after Mr Romney had left Bain Capital, did the plant succumb to foreign competition and go bust.”

http://on.ft.com/MLX8BR"

What a President we have !!

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Oh.....and how about the $35,800 per plate Obama fundraiser with the head of the nation's largest private equity firm (Blackstone)........

CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewing Obama Campaign Spokesman:

ANDERSON COOPER: President Obama essentially double downed on the Bain attacks today, saying this is not a distraction from the campaign, this is going to be a centerpiece of the campaign. At the same time, critics say the attacks on Bain are hypocritical. As we pointed out a couple of nights ago, the same day last week that the previous Bain ad came out, President Obama was fund-raising at the home of this guy, Tony James. Mr. President is president of Blackstone. Blackstone is a private equity firm that is actually a lot bigger than Bain and like Bain has bought companies and cut payrolls.

Now, in that ad, a laid-off worker likens the head of Bain to a vampire, the same night Mr. Obama sits down for dinner with the head of Blackstone. There's the contradiction. This weekend's events with Mayor Booker show why many within the president's own party think the Obama campaign's Bain strategy is very much a double-edged sword. Joining me tonight, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt."


At this point one can speculate that LaBolt's thoughts went something like, "Oops! What have I walked into?" And now Cooper asks his first question followed by LaBolt's first non-answer:


Anderson Cooper Goes Cory Booker on Obama Campaign Spokesman | NewsBusters.org (http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2012/05/22/anderson-cooper-goes-cory-booker-obama-campaign-spokesman)

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Obama Spokesperson is Private Equity Manager

"One of President Barack Obama’s top campaign spokesmen is a private equity manager whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy.

Federico Pena’s role at Vestar Capital Partners has emerged as Obama’s aides and deputies continue their effort to portray former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney‘s investment career as ruthless, job-destroying, profit-maximizing “vulture capitalism.” Pena has been a partner at Vestar since 2000.

Pena is a former mayor of Denver in swing-state Colorado, a former cabinet member for President Bill Clinton and one of 35 “national co-chairs “ of the president’s 2012 campaign.

The news will likely further undermine the Obama campaign’s effort to focus on Romney’s business practices, rather than Obama’s White House policies, and the resulting debt, deficits and unemployment.

The effort has been stymied by a series of business-friendly Democratic politicians — such as Newark Mayor Cory Booker — who have stepped forward to defend or praise the investment sector.

Pena’s private-equity role was highlighted by CompleteColorado.com, a Drudge-mimicking news aggregator.

Pena has already contributed $5,000 to Obama’s campaign, even though Vestar laid off 1,000 workers from Del Monte this month, closed three factories and laid off 540 people at Solo Cup Co., and fired another 500 workers at BirdsEye food-processor in 2006, according to the report."

Read more: Obama national co-chair works in private equity, like Romney | The Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/24/obama-national-co-chair-works-in-private-equity-like-romney/#ixzz1vw2FWtzP)

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None of the campaign advisors thinks the public listens to anything but the sound bites, or has taken the time to understand what the private equity business is all about. So if the public attention span is measured in seconds, they can say whatever the like to get an emotional knee-jerk reaction. Then go on and come up with more "messages" to feed the public tomorrow, and the next day.

Remember what they continue to say, don't get all bogged down on the real issues, just stay on message (you know, the message that they'll feed the candidates every morning).