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Obama campaign siezes on Romney harvest video
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/259015-obama-campaign-seizes-on-romney-harvest-video“Today’s video confirms what I and other workers fired by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital already know: that Romney’s business experience was never about creating jobs," said former Ampad worker Randy Johnson. "Romney’s own words prove that his focus was putting profits before people from the very beginning, ‘harvesting’ companies to make a ‘significant profit’ for himself and his investors — even if it meant investing in companies that shipped American jobs to China. Any other explanation Romney puts forth about this ‘private-sector’ experience or understanding of the ‘real economy’ are just empty words from a man desperately trying to rewrite the past in order to win an election.”
Democrats hope that Romney's "harvest" language can provide another opportunity to depict the Republican nominee as out of touch.
But the Romney campaign has aggressively defended the former governor's business record, saying the Republican nominee had "success in building, fixing and growing businesses."
"President Obama's ongoing attacks on business over the past four years are part of the reason that our economy is failing to recover and that 23 million Americans are still unemployed or underemployed," Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a statement last month.
