By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 08:16 EST, 14 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:07 EST, 14 May 2012 Barack Obama's latest campaign gambit follows a familiar line of attack as it uses Mitt Romney's private equity past to cast the Republican candidate as  greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class. The President is not the first of Mr Romney's opponents to try and paint the former governor of Massachusetts as a heartless uber-capitalist - even his Republican rivals used the same tactic during the heated primary battle. But Mr Obama's campaign seems to have been particularly unoriginal - as his attack ad is almost identical to one produced by Ted Kennedy for his Senate campaign against Mr Romney in 1994, featuring unemployed workers complaining about Bain Capital, the firm founded by Mr Romney.
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President follows familiar line of attack as he highlights private equity past
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Ad released on the same day Obama attended fundraiser hosted by top private equity boss in New York
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