Obama camp: We’re being ‘highbrow’ with Bain attacks

Published July 14, 2012 4:00am ET



President Obama’s campaign spokeswoman on Air Force One declared that the attacks on Mitt Romney over Bain Capitol were part of a “highbrow debate” that the president is waging with his rival, who declared them “disgusting” on Friday.

“Of course the President wants to have a highbrow debate about these policy issues and what the American people actually care about,” Jen Psaki told reporters on Saturday.  “And we think that it’s completely justified to raise questions — we have, many outside groups have, many media outlets have — about why [Romney] had an account in Switzerland, why he had investments in the Cayman Islands, what exactly this corporation was in Bermuda.”

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