Oddly, their description of Romney fits Obama to the T.

(The Hill) — President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, called Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump a “charlatan” and said Romney “lacks the backbone” and “moral leadership” to stand up against the extreme voices within the Republican Party that question the president’s place of birth.

“If Mitt Romney lacks the backbone to stand up to a charlatan like Donald Trump because he’s so concerned about lining his campaign’s pockets, what does that say about the kind of president he would be?” Cutter said in a statement on Tuesday. […]

An Obama campaign Web ad released Tuesday, titled “Two Republican nominees,” shows presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) rebuffing statements from those who questioned then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s citizenship while on the campaign trail in 2008.

“As the Republican nominee, John McCain stood up to the voices of extremism in his own party,” text from the ad reads.

“Why won’t Mitt Romney do the same?” the ad says, before launching into a montage of Trump questioning the president’s birthplace and citizenship.