[TheRealThing]

The bounce Obama got out of the Bain Capital thing will go away. (Even though I tend to put more stock in Scott Rasmussen's poll.) Several things came out of that which make Romney look much better than the dirt mill staffers for Obama had planned on. It seems the unfortunate cancer victim's husband, Joe Soptic, left out a few vital details.

First, Romney had left Bain to run the summer Olympics two years before Joe Soptic lost his job in 2001. And his wife had her own job and insurance at that time. She later took a disability leave and lost her coverage, and her cancer was apparently symptom-free until she checked into a hospital for pneumonia in 2006.

Second, Bain managers offered Mr. Soptic a buy out option, which he declined years before the actual closing of the plant in question. It's pretty hard to get upset with a company that offers to give phased out employee's a buy out option. Though no longer associated with Bain at the time, Romney is not quite the cold hearted company devouring despot, the Obama campaign is painting him to be.

Third, the Obama campaign feigns any prior knowledge of Mr Soptic “I don’t know the facts about when Mr. Soptic’s wife got sick, or the facts about his health insurance,” said deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on CNN last Wednesday. But there’s a problem. Soptic told essentially the same story in a May 14, 2012, during a conference call hosted by the Obama campaign. So eager was lifelike talking-points robot Stephanie Cutter to keep the campaign’s fingerprints off the cheap lies in the PAC ad, she vehemently claims not to know the facts about when Soptic’s wife got sick, or when she died. Minor problem: The campaign itself featured Soptic in not one but two ads several months ago and had him tell the story of his wife’s death after he lost his insurance during a conference call with — ta da — Stephanie Cutter. (Shades of Eric Holder)

To the surprise of no one, Bill Burton – the former deputy White House Press Secretary – who runs the PAC, said they found the footage of Soptic “at a union hall” but “we didn’t know that he was doing an Obama campaign ad.”

In another Washington Post piece, reporter Nia-Malika Henderson writes: “Joe Soptic, 62, has become a go-to figure for supporters of President Obama, appearing this week in his second campaign ad talking about being laid off from a Kansas City, Mo., steel plant that was taken over by Bain Capital in 1993.”

So, a Washington Post reporter knew that Joe Soptic had been used in an Obama campaign ad, Joe Soptic knew he had been used in an Obama campaign ad, the only people who don’t know Joe Soptic has been used in an Obama campaign ad is the Obama campaign.
[portions of the preceeding text taken from the Frugal Cafe]