The first punch of the week came from Obama's comment that Mitt has a tendency to "shoot first, aim later". Here's the second.
In a brand new ad hot off the press, the Obama campaign is swinging straight for Mitt Romney's fabled tax returns. Romney has famously declined to give more than a single year's worth of tax returns to the American people, even though, as several lead news outlets reported yesterday and today, he asked his VP candidates for a decade's worth of returns.
The new Obama ad, "Why Won't Mitt Romney Release More Tax Returns? What is He Hiding?" sports a clever score, several of Romney's creepy grins and self-satisfied "looking like the guy who's bagging your wife while firing you on the phone" smirks, and a variety of commentators all converging on the same theme: Romney's intractable refusal to release more of his returns raises more questions than answers—and is a problem.
On a day when even Eric Cantor admitted that government spending cuts hurt jobs for Americans, and a day after a ruinously botched attempt to radicalize President Obama's response to the tragedies at American embassies abroad backfired spectacularly as Romney's "Lehman Moment"Failed 3 AM Test, the Obama campaign is seeking to rekindle electorally pertinent questions about Romney's elusive, possibly mendacious withholding of tax return information. He is, after all, running as the Business-in-Chief, the "turnaround specialist" who seems to require more in others than he requires in himself—certainly not the sign of a great leader.
What is he hiding?