Obama will call Romney’s career ‘profit at any cost’

Over at Politico, they got a hold of a “blistering” four-page memo written by President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, that attacks Mitt Romney’s response to recent criticisms of his career as a venture capitalist for Bain Capital. The memo lays out what will be the centerpiece of the re-election effort’s push to define the former Massachusetts governor as more concerned for his own wealth than the country’s economic health, according to Politico.

“His overwrought response to questions about it has been to insist that any criticism of his business record is an assault on ‘free enterprise’ itself. But this is just an attempt to evade legitimate scrutiny of the record on which he says he’s running. ‘Free enterprise’ isn’t running for president, Mitt Romney is.”

“President Obama – who, like Mitt Romney, earned a degree from Harvard and all the opportunities that affords – began his career helping jobless workers in the shadow of a closed-down steel mill. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, made millions closing down steel mills.”

“Taking advantage of an uneven playing field, where there was one rulebook for those at the top and another for everyone else, Mitt Romney and his friends made money hand over fist while working families lost their grip on the middle-class lifestyle they earned.”