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Obama for America

"Mitt Romney: Out of Touch" +
  1:03 web video from June 13, 2012.

Romney (clip): Is he really that out of touch?  I think he's defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the American people.

[Music]

    TEXT: Mitt Romney's Jobs Plan

Romney (clip): I like being able to fire people who provide services to me...

    TEXT: Mitt Romney's Auto Plan

Romney (clip): Let Detroit go bankrupt...

    TEXT: Mitt Romney's Housing Plan

Romney (clip): Don't try and stop the foreclosure process, let it run its course and hit the bottom...

    TEXT: Mitt Romney's Education Plan

Romney (clip): The best thing I can do for you is to tell you to shop around...

Romney (clip): Is he really that out of touch?

Romney (clip): ...I have some great friends that are NASCAR team owners...

Romney (clip): I should also tell my story.  I'm also unemployed...

Romney (clip): I know what it's like to worry whether you're going to get fired.  There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip...

Romney (clip): He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers—did he not get the message of Wisconsin? 

Romney (clip): Corporations are people my friend...

Romney (clip): Is he really that out of touch?


Notes: In this video, the campaign recycles Romney's "greatest hits."  According to the press release...

Mitt Romney is trying to call the President out of touch – but the reality is Romney can’t hide his out-of-touch policies behind hypocritical rhetoric. Obama for America has released a new web video which highlights Mitt Romney’s out-of-touch statements on the campaign trail: Romney likes “being able to fire people,” he is “not concerned about the very poor,” and he believes that we should have “let Detroit go bankrupt.”

And it’s not just his comments that are out of touch. His policies would hurt the middle class by bringing back the same failed proposals that created the economic crisis in the first place. He would give millionaires and billionaires a 25 percent tax cut while raising taxes on 18 million hardworking families. And he’d implement a budget that would end Medicare as we know it and gut middle-class investments to help pay for tax cuts to the wealthiest and corporations.