Obama Campaign Tries to Have It Both Ways in Death of Steelworker’s Wife
By: But the Obama campaign slideshow appears to do just that.
It displays a purported quote by “Joe Soptic, employee for 28 years, whose wife died of lung cancer after he lost his GST health plan.”
“I worked hard all my life and played by the rules, and they allowed this to happen,” Soptic is quoted as saying.
—By CNBC's Scott Cohn
@ScottCohnCNBC
The president distanced himself from an ad that appears to link Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, with the cancer death of a steelworker’s wife. However, the same steelworker — and the same dubious connection — are featured on the Obama campaign’s official web site.
