The Examiner ^ | 5/25/2012 | Jeffrey Klein
President Barack Obama made his second pilgrimage to Iowa in a month and has already spent $2.6 million airing anti-Romney and evil-Bain Capital TV ads there, as aggressively as in any other battleground state, "seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008," according to Ken Thomas in his Associated Press article yesterday.
President Obama has been stepping up his attacks on Gov. Mitt Romney, lately labeling him as a "vampire" venture capitalist, which he claims isn't adequate preparation for the presidency.
In his first sentence, Obama confessed that private equity firms 'can sometimes create jobs.'
This solo positive and true statement must have been in an apparent nod to his large, private-equity firm "bundlers," like Jonathan Lavine, a current managing director at Bain Capital, who has raised between $100,000 and $200,000 for Obama's re-election effort, according to the Center for Responsive Politics; and Blackstone Group president Tony James, who held a fund raiser for Obama at his New York apartment just the week before, as reported in Hans Nichols' May 16, 2012 Bloomberg article.
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