Obama’s campaign is now focusing on Romney’s wealth so as to portray him as a candidate who is completely out of touch with the average American. Recently, the Democrats have seized the opportunity to pound the Republican nominee for not being upfront about his offshore bank accounts.
Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser of Obama’s campaign, accused Romney of not disclosing this information to voters, in saying, “Release the tax returns. Put all this to rest. If Mitt Romney is not hiding something in Bermuda and Switzerland and the Caymans, it will be in the tax returns.”
If that isn’t enough, the Democratic National Committee created a video titled ‘Sunday Blood Sunday’ of Romney’s bank accounts offshore while Gibbs went on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program and accused Romney of withholding this information from voters in order to prevent them from a making a decision based about his wealth.
In retaliation, Dan Senor, an advisor of Romney’s stated that Gibbs was being ‘stunningly dishonest’ because they are aware of these offshore accounts being in the tax returns as they were submitted by Romney himself.
What Obama’s campaign is clearly trying to indicate is that Romney’s career has only benefited the wealthy and does not necessarily have the best interests of the working middle class at heart.
In addition to making allegations about his wealth, they have also attacked Bain Capital, Romney’s former company, where jobs were sent overseas while people in the United States were laid off.
Yet regardless of this approach to discredit Romney’s claim to the Presidency, Obama campaign is also very clear that they are not trying to demonize wealth at all.