If Obama keeps serving up these softballs this is going to be a long campaign for Team Hopey Changey.

Via The Hill:

Mitt Romney’s campaign is capitalizing on May’s dismal jobs report by portraying President Obama as out of touch on the economy and focused more on his own job than finding work for America’s unemployed.

Romney and Republicans underlined their message on Monday by seizing on an Obama campaign video featuring Anna Wintour, the well-heeled editor of Vogue and inspiration for “The Devil Wears Prada.”

The video of Wintour sporting a silken Obama 2012 scarf and urging supporters to attend a New York fundraiser next week — released the same day as the meager jobs numbers — is at odds with the “economic exasperation” many voters are feeling, said one top Republican advising Romney’s campaign.

“The biggest challenge that the president has is trying to talk in very glowing terms about an economy that many people feel is going in the wrong direction already,” the Republican said.

Romney’s message, which his campaign has doubled down upon since Friday, is that Obama took his eyes off the economy to move to healthcare for much of his term instead of focusing on job creation and the economy. That argument could emerge again later this month if the Supreme Court rules the healthcare law unconstitutional.

The Romney campaign sees the Wintour video as a donor wears Prada corollary — Obama is more concerned with fundraising while hobnobbing with celebrities to win reelection than he is about growing the economy.

Even ABC News is questioning the wisdom of Obama using elitists like Wintour to campaign on his behalf:

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