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Romney for President, Inc.

"20,000,000 Bumps in the Road" +
1:03 web video from June 16, 2011.

Obama audio clip: "There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery."

Text Screen: "Bump In The Road Is Exactly What The President Said..."  White House Press Secretary  June 13, 2011

Text Screen: "We Are Headed In the Right Direction..."  White House Press Secretary  June 13, 2011

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Text Screen: Right direction?

Man: I'm an American.

Woman: I'm an American.

Woman: I'm an American.

Man: I'm an American.

Man: I'm an American.

Man: I'm an American

Woman: Not a bump in the road.

Text Screen: President Obama's 20 Million Bumps In The Road Would Stretch From The White House To Los Angeles
Text Screen
: And Back...
Text Screen: "We Are Headed In the Right Direction..."  White House Press Secretary  June 13, 2011
Text Screen: What Do You Think?

Text Screen: Believe in America November 6, 2012


Notes: This video builds on the "Bump in the Road" video from a few days ago.  According to a campaign press release:

The video highlights President Obama’s failure to create jobs for millions of unemployed Americans and pull the country out of this economic downturn.

Romney for President Press Secretary Andrea Saul issued the following statement along with the video release: “In 2008, candidate Barack Obama talked a lot about how the other side ‘just didn’t get it.’ Now that millions of Americans have lost their jobs under his economic leadership, President Obama is proving ‘he just doesn’t get it.’ His White House continues to defend failure and is unwilling to admit the devastation caused by the President’s mistakes and failed leadership.”

While Romney is trying to portray Obama as out of touch, he inadvertently provided Democrats with grounds for making the same argument with a joke he told at a Florida campaign event.  Here's the press release (June 16) from the DNC:

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on Mitt Romney’s Out of Touch Comments Today in Florida that He’s “Unemployed”

Washington, DC— DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement after Mitt Romney today told a group of unemployed Floridians that he’s “also unemployed” and equated his run for president with the search for a job:

“Mitt Romney’s comments today at an event with unemployed Floridians that he’s ‘also unemployed’ is inappropriate and insensitive to the millions of Americans looking for work.  This comment shows that Mitt Romney – a man who wants for nothing and whose only occupation for more than four years has been to run for President - is incredibly out of touch with what’s going on in our country and around the dinner tables of those who are out of work.