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BOSTON—A senior adviser to Mitt Romney lashed out at President Barack Obama's re-election campaign Friday, accusing the president of waging a campaign based on "ugly distortions and lies." "They have gone from what started out as petty distortions and untruths to unbelievable exaggerations that diminish the office of the president and insult the American people," Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told reporters at a media briefing at the campaign's headquarters. "I don't think a world champion limbo dancer could get any lower than the Obama campaign right now." Fehrnstrom's comments came after an Obama campaign spokeswoman dialed back the campaign's initial denial that it had no knowledge of Joe Soptic, a man who was featured in a pro-Obama super PAC ad that effectively accused Romney of being responsible for his wife's death from cancer because he lost his health insurance when he was laid off from a steel company owned by Bain Capital. The Obama campaign initially...