There are some very smart people working on the UP with Chris Hayes show on MSNBC. One of them took President Obama’s actual jobs numbers and superimposed the graphic over a video of Mitt Flip Romney. Romney on the video was talking about his time as Governor of Massachusetts. He was demonstrating the jobs curve he claimed he brought to the state.
Watch the genius work of the graphic department on the Chris Hayes show.
Apparently, there is a good reason why Mitt Romney isn’t talking about his time as Governor of Massachusetts. And the reason, as far as I can see, is because his record stunk!
Another video released by the Obama reelection team highlights some of the low points of Romney’s tenure, a tenure that was called one of the worst in the nation by a Massachusetts paper.
President Obama offered an earthy rural metaphor to blast Mitt Romney last night in Iowa, saying the Republican candidate offered voters “a cowpie of distortion” in a recent speech.
“I don’t know whose record he twisted the most,” Obama said. “Mine or his.”
Speaking to supporters at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Obama said that during Romney’s last visit to Iowa he exaggerated the administration’s spending and failed to give it credit for budget cuts.
The president also said Romney’s background as a millionaire private equity manager doesn’t prepare him for the presidency.
“The challenge we’ve faced for over a decade is that harder work hasn’t led to higher incomes,” Obama said. “Bigger profits haven’t led to better jobs. And you can’t solve that problem if you can’t even see that it’s a problem.”
