A new two-minute Obama commercial stars steelworkers somberly dismantling Mitt Romney's record as a job creator at Bain Capital. "I know how business works. I know why jobs come and why they go," says Romney in the clip. But the veterans of Kansas City's GST Steel tell a different story of the Bain takeover, which occurred in 1993 and resulted in about 750 people out of work: "They made as much money off of it as they could. And they closed it down," laments Joe Soptic, a steelworker for three decades. "It was like a vampire," says another. "They came in and sucked the life out of us."
The extra-long spot has an extended version online at RomneyEconomics.com, and both are packed with soundbites. "It was like watching an old friend bleed to death," adds one worker. "Bain Capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off this plant. We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer."
The ad is set to run in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia beginning Monday, coinciding with Obama appearances in Florida, Missouri, Iowa, Nevada, and North Carolina, and Joe Biden campaign stops in Ohio this week.
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