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Obama for America

"Come And Go" +

:30 ad from June 12, 2012 run in CO, FL, IA, NV, NH, NC, OH, PA and VA. 

Obama (voiceover): I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.

[Music] Male Announcer: Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator.

Romney (2002): I know how jobs are created...

Male Announcer: But as a corporate raider he shipped jobs to China and Mexico.  As governor he did the same thing, outsourcing state jobs to India.  Now he's making the exact same pitch.

Romney: I know why jobs come and why they go.

Male Announcer: Outsourcing jobs.  Romney economics.  It didn't work then, and it won't work now.

Notes: This ad and "Mosaic" launched on the same day.  The Washington Post's The Fact Checker gave this ad 4 Pinnochios, concluding that, "On just about every level, this ad is misleading, unfair and untrue, from the use of “corporate raider” to its examples of alleged outsourcing."

From the press release...

As Mitt Romney continues to evade his record as governor of Massachusetts, Obama for America today released two new television advertisements – “Mosaic” and “Come and Go” – as part of its continuing effort to highlight the reality of his failed economic policies.

When Romney ran for governor, he promised that he wouldn’t raise taxes and that he would use the values he learned in business to create jobs. But today’s ads make clear that he broke those promises and left Massachusetts worse off.

As highlighted in “Mosaic,” Romney raised more than 1,000 taxes and fees totaling more than $1.5 billion.  He raised each resident’s tax burden by $1,200 per person, an increase of 30 percent. Romney increased fees for everything from milk to nursing homes, from school bus rides to poultry inspections. Fees also increased for gun owners and electricians.

And as highlighted in “Come and Go,” Mitt Romney brought the same values he learned in the private sector to the state house, outsourcing call center jobs to India instead of hiring workers from his own state. 

Even today, as he runs for president, Mitt Romney still doesn’t have a jobs plan -- instead relying on the same failed ideas that he implemented in Massachusetts. They didn’t work then, and they won’t work now.