A few hours after the release of Mitt Romney’s latest commerical this morning, Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith fired back with a “fact check” of the ad. In her statement, Ms. Smith describes Mr. Romney’s commercial as full of “empty promises.”

“Contrary the claims made in his latest ad, on Day One, Mitt Romney would blow a hole in the deficit with $5 trillion worth of budget-busting tax cuts weighted towards millionaires and billionaires. And we know Mitt Romney can’t be trusted to stand up to China because in 2010 he criticized President Obama for acting to protect the American tire industry, calling it ‘decidedly bad for the nation and our workers.’ If Mitt Romney had had his way, more than one thousand American workers’ jobs would have been on the chopping block,” Ms. Smith said. Read More