WASHINGTON -- The Barack Obama campaign will deliver a counterpunch to Mitt Romney’s misleading auto ads with spots of its own in Michigan and Ohio that attempt to set the record straight and raise questions about Romney’s character.

Obama’s campaign called Romney’s ads -- which imply that American auto jobs have been outsourced to China as a result of the president’s 2009 auto bailout -- “one of the most misleading, hypocritical and indefensible ads we’ve ever seen in a presidential race.”