Obama campaign has been caught in lie of the minute: backing away from the dishonest and ridiculous Joe Soptic ad, and denying knowledge of the story. A slide show at the Obama campaign site shows this GSH steel story, blaming Romney for the death of Soptic’s wife. This show was put up in May, at the same time the video was created.
Soptic spoke at an Obama campaign conference call, and it’s all at Breitbart. The Obama campaign was doing the same thing with the Soptic story that its PAC, Priorities USA did.
Joe Soptic is an O-Bot. This is why he’s blaming Mitt Romney, (whose employer kept his GST, Kansas City, steel factory alive a few years longer), for killing his wife Ranae. What Joe won’t realize is that the person he supports for president has a death panel waiting for him. That will be his final reward for trusting in the lies of leftists.
It would appear that Soptic’s actually fell victim to those liberal lies, that 20 of the population has no access to health care. She might have suspended medical treatment for herself due to a false belief that she couldn’t get medical care. She waited until her last days to find out that it actually was available.
Unmentioned in the ad below is that Joe’s wife Ranae actually had her own insurance at Saver’s Thrift store and carried it for possibly 1 to 2 years after her husband’s employer went bankrupt, until she was laid off. She actually died in 2006, years after Joe was laid off. He held a part time job as a custodian.
At the time of her death, there were 30,000 in hospital bills. Joe contributed 12,000 from a savings account and the hospital wrote the remainder off. The Conservative Review provides a timeline:
1993- Bain Capital acquires GST Steel Plant
1999- Romney gets paid leave of absence from Bain to run the Olympics of 2002
2001- GST’s Bankruptcy
2002- Joe Soptic is laid off from GST and takes a custodial job with much lower salary
2006- Ranae Soptic goes to the hospital ostensibly for pneumonia, and lung cancer is discovered. She dies a short time later.
Who was running Bain when GST went under? Obama fund bundler Jonathan Lavine!! He’s still the managing director and Chief Investments Officer. Obama is accepting political contributions from Bain capital employees.
-Given the actual timeline, Joe Soptic should perhaps acknowledge his own possible negligence as contributory to his wife’s untimely death.
-What would Obama have for the uninsured people in the Soptic’s situation? Apparently a FINE, if they couldn’t afford health insurance, but certainly not better care then they COULD have accessed prior to 2006, had they not swallowed the liberal lies about access to health care.