mitt romney says president obama wants to gut welfare reform. the president s people say they want to make things easier for administrators and caseworkers. who is right? jim angle with a fact check. whothose who worked on the welfare reformula say it was to prevent any work law. it cannot issue any waivers about this section of the law. basically that would have defeated pretty much the entire purpose of the law. if the administration argues it will not weaken that provision it claims the authority to wave it. the lawyers at hhs figured out what i would call a loophole that allows them to actually make this waiver. many may be surprise to do learn the welfare work
isn t there a distaste if you have just this backlash about this ad and what the obama campaign said about it? i hope there is a tremendous distaste and backlash. this is profoundly accurate. he left bain in 199710 years before this woman died. he had no connection whatsoever to her death. they have problems with romney s ad on welfare reform. let s look at the fox news polls and it s not good news for mitt romney. it is different from july 159 49-40. if you look at independents also slipping it there from july to now. approving oot economy he leads the president 46-43 percent. you see the categories there that he leads president obama.
is responsible for her death. it is extremely offensive. whether they coordinate it or not it is incorrect and outrageous. there are people in the campaign not only being frustrated with the ad but it stepped on mitt romney s own ad. welfare reform is something they hope would dominate the news instead of being over taken by this. oo it causes people like us and colleagues on other networks and cable channels to talk about the ad rather than talk about the real issue in the campaign. i would argue failed presidency of obama and the horrific economy. his promise he couldn t turn the economy around in four years.
in 1996 president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare. but on july 12th president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. they just send you your check. that was the infamous mitt romney ad making headlines for its misleading portrayal of the obama administration s welfare policy. it caught the attention of one very important viewer. none other than bill clinton himself. the former president released a statement last night knocking down the ad s accusations as not true. he said in part, the administration has taken important steps to ensure that the work requirement is retained. the welfare time limits, another important feature of the 1996 act, will not be waived. the romney ad is especially disappointing because as governor of massachusetts he requested changes in the welfare reform laws that could have eliminated
and have they re say barack obama is running an ad saying my husband is not sensitive to people with cancer and, in fact, accusing him of helping to kill aid in the death of a woman who died from cancer. well, as you may know, i battled breast cancer, and i had no more supportive person than mitt romney. bill: that would be pretty powerful. that would be a pretty powerful ad it if they did that. mr. obama, my husband is very sensitive to people with cancer. bill: okay. now, on the other side, the romney people put out a misleading ad, according to a lot of the people who analyze his stuff. here it. in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it, by requiring work for welfare. but on july 12th. president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements under obama s plan, you wouldn t have to work and wouldn t have to train for a job. bill: so the the washington post gave that ad four pinocchios which m