CHICAGO, May 20 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's senior campaign strategist David Axelrod said Sunday Mitt Romney's business record doesn't show he's a good leader for the country.
Axelrod said the point of recent campaign ads slamming Romney's business experience is to tell voters the former Republican Massachusetts governor's campaign should not rest on his business acumen.
"The only credential that Governor Romney has offered the people of this country for running for the presidency is that he was a businessman. He never talks about the fact that he was governor of Massachusetts," Axelrod said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
"He talks about being a businessman and hints that somehow the things that he did there prepared him to lead the country and its economy. And so it behooves us to look at what exactly he did."
Axelrod pointed out that Romney's record shows he had failures as well as successes, but said the Republican "wasn't about job creation."
"And he and his partners have acknowledged in candid moments, 'Our job wasn't to create jobs … it was to create wealth for ourselves and our partners,'" Axelrod said.
