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Mitt Romney holds a rally at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, on Thursday.
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Under the bright lights of a high school football field here in Northwest Ohio, Mitt Romney's opposition to the 2009 auto bailout reared its head again as a campaign issue that could help decide the result of this critical swing state.
Sen. Rob Portman, introducing Romney, brought up the bailout, telling a crowd of more than 10,000 supporters that "we need to talk about this tonight" in an effort to clear up what he said were dishonest attacks by the president at the last debate.
"First, it was President Obama who actually took GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy. That’s a fact," Portman said. "Second, Mitt Romney did propose government help. He proposed government guarantees for loans. He proposed the government backing up the warranties, and folks, all the independent fact checkers who have looked at this agree: President Obama was wrong."
While on the trail today, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused President Obama's campaign of not having a plan, and ignored questions about Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's controversial remarks on rape. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
Romney did not mention the bailout explicitly, but did voice his support for the U.S. auto industry, saying he would stand up to China on trade issues that affect auto companies and mentioning reports today that automaker Jeep was considering moving its operations entirely overseas.
"I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers of this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China. I will fight for every good job in America. I'm going to fight to make sure trade is fair, and if it’s fair, America will win," Romney said.
Democrats quickly seized on any mention of the auto industry to reinforce Obama's bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, looking to capitalize on an issue they believe is particularly resonant among voters in this corner of Ohio.
"While Barack Obama bet on the American worker and saved the American auto industry and more than one million jobs, Mitt Romney would have just ‘let Detroit go bankrupt.’ Voters in Ohio won’t forget how—at a make or break moment for one of America’s key industries—Mitt Romney would have turned his back and watched GM and Chrysler go under," Obama campaign spokesperson Lis Smith said in a statement.
The Obama campaign also forwarded reporters a statement from a Chrysler spokesperson claiming there were never plans to move assembly lines to China.
“Let’s set the record straight: Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China. It’s simply reviewing the opportunities to return Jeep output to China for the world’s largest auto market. U.S. Jeep assembly lines will continue to stay in operation,” Gualberto Ranieri, a spokesman for Chrysler said in the statement posted on the automakers' blog.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
Coincidentally, after the Thursday night rally, a group of Detroit newspapers announced they would be endorsing President Obama, shredding Romney for his position in opposition to the bailout.
"It is an unforgivable and unconscionable [sic] position by a man with the audacity to claim himself a son of Detroit. Romney may have grown up here, but he left long ago," the editorial on MLive.com read in part.
All this serves to highlight how the auto bailout legacy continues to be a political minefield for Romney here in the industrial Midwest.
On Friday, Romney will return to safer ground in Iowa where he is scheduled to deliver a speech on the economy, debt and deficits, which could serve as a summation of his views on the election's most important issue as the campaign moves into its final full week.
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The Democrats were lied to by you republicons. 935 documented times! When the truth came out they changed their position. Do you remember the 2003 SOTU speech? Bush gave numbers and types of WMD that did not exist!
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Gotta save that link for all the libs on here. Thanks Pissed!!!!
No problem the libs are ok with this. That is why they want No voting IDs and Early voting. The Dems moto is, "vote early and vote often".
Despite the efforts of the federal government, the auto industry did collapse and companies went bankrupt, Rather than a normal bankruptcy reorganisation it was an Obama administration managed bankruptcy for which the federal government had to borrow a lot of money that the tax payers are on the hook for. I estimate that the money that the federal government has borrowed to bale out the car companies will end up costing the tax payers 6 times the amount borrowed to pay it all back over the next 150 years. Apparently the federal government has a lot still invested in these companies. Does anyone know how our investment is currently doing? Actually I do not fault the government for making an effort to save real jobs. It is far better that people are working providing goods and or services that other people are willing to pay for rather than doing nothing and collecting relief.
Yes I do know how the investment is working. GM trading for around $24 a share. To recover our "investment" we would have to sell at $57 a share. We will wait with bated breath but, I don't think we will see it.
Romney do you really think people in the United States are not dumb? Romney you did say Let Detroit Go Bankrupt! People who are you going to believe? Romney or you going to believe in the TEAMSTERS workers who make the cars! This is not about Obama, this is about you! Go on You Tube, Look for Us: Teamsters Romney Let Detroit Go Bankrupt, Bailout Saves U.S. Manufacturing, No On Prop 32, CBS Cleveland - Teamsters Jim Hoffa Rallies Cleveland Members, Teamster James Hoffa- from the frontline-war on labor International Brotherhood of Teamsters
OMG you must have just gotten home from a "couple of beers with the guys" on second shift. Do you really think before you post? Or.........are you a short timer hoping to hold on to the dream you were promised when Hoffa was "Da Boss"?
Old David Corn nailed Romney on O'Donnel's show tonight saying he was quoted in the '94 MA senate election race against Kennedy as saying "you have to remember the audience I was speaking to" when asked by a reporter why he had just changed his position on an issue so obviously when communicating with a different group than the one just before so he has admitted he is an instant policy flip flopper just to please his audience. Along with Etchasketch we can label him soft and moldable as Playdough, as serious as Silly Putty, as likely to take any path of least resistance like a Slinky moves by gravity automatically, and a person that must look like the Gumby you twisted into a pretzel to contort to all his audiences he has to pose for, when you were playing with these back 50 years ago as a kid.
I do agree with the pundit who said he believes Romney will make far right Tea Party policy decisions if elected because he will bend to them even if it is against his own beliefs if he feels that will win him a second term.... and I say make him richer (he wants to be a multi-billionaire for sure).
Unless Romney has received word from Adelson or the Koch Brothers that DieBold and the other corporate vote tabulators have perfected a methodology by which the election can be thrown without any chance of detection, the only possible explanation for his campaign forfeiting the third presidential debate and essentially sending Ryan off to Invisible-land at this critical stage would have to be ....well, there simply ISN'T a rational explanation.
Uh oh...
If corporations are people, then Mitt Romney would be a mass murderer.
This just determined per review of all the powerful old cons comments I have heard which are from relatives and old associates from past jobs - the top three reasons they cannot stand Obama as president are: 1) they hate all dems because they think they want all poor to be allowed to be as lazy as they want to be and get taken care of - they are just like Romny saying the 47% statement he does not care about which as we know are mainly working Americans and retirees that worked all their lives but just not hateful enoug to be a conservative, 2) racism and 3)their belief that Obama is a foreign born muslim....even though they see him drink beer/booze which is against their religion and they know it, so I think it really goes back to 2. Sad sad sad, we fought all those wars for freedom for all Americans but those far right cons believe NOT for the 47%.
You hit the nail on the head.
I'm not advocating either candidate for the presidency here. However, in my opinion whether it was right, wrong, or indifferent it was President Bush that initiated the bailout (loans) offers for GM, Chrysler, and Ford.
I find it sad and humorous the the supporters of President Obama claim he saved the auto industry. Any reasonable and objective analysis of what transpired reveals that is not so. What President Obama did was tinker with the bail out process to skirt around the traditional bankruptcy courts and processes so that he could protect a significant part of his constituencies, Union workers, pay and benefits to a greater degree than what likely would have resulted via the normal bankruptcy courts.
This likely simply delayed GM's eventual bankruptcy since their costs remain to high to compete in the market place over the long haul. Ford is part of the auto industry and did not take the bail out (loans) though they were initially interested until they assessed the government's terms.
This wasn't about the President saving the industry. It was about President Obama protecting his Union voting constituency at GM and Chrysler. Again, it was President Bush that initiated the loans. Then President Obama who tinkered with it to benefit his constituency and politically himself.
On the other hand former Governor Romney is a business man. That is probably why he was not supportive of the bail out as enacted by the Obama administration. Romney likely looks at the fundamentals of the business and realizes this only delays the steps needed to return GM to being a competitive company.
What can be said about Chrysler (now owned by Fiat). They've done this a couple of times. Maybe Fiat will help them be more successful. In the end it seems like a large portion of the parts and system are manufactured out of country with assembly here in the USA.
This is the real face of Mitt Romney! "I understand business needs to make a profit. But this product has always made a ton of money. It's just that they think it is not enough money. They are greedy," said Tom Gaulraupp, who has put in 33 years at the plant and is facing the prospect of becoming jobless at the age of 54.
Mark Shreck, a 36-year-old father-of-three, confessed he was one of the few workers not surprised by the layoffs, as this is the second time his job has moved to China. "I feel this is what companies do nowadays," he said. Freeport mayor George Gaulrapp
The Freeport workers have appealed to Bain and Romney to save their plant. The local town council, several Illinois politicians and the state's Democratic governor have all rallied to their cause. "This company is competitive globally. They make a profit here. But Bain Capital decided to squeeze it a little further. That is not what capitalism is meant to be about," said Freeport mayor George Gaulrapp, 52, pictured.
The anger towards Bain and Romney is palpable. Romney has become the target for the emotions of a community who built lives based on the idea of a steady manufacturing job: a concept out of place in the sort of fluid buy-and-sell world from which Bain prospers. "I didn't have a clue what Bain was before this happened," said Cheryl Randecker, 52. "Now when I hear Romney speak it makes me sick to my stomach." The real face of Mitt Romney. Romney CEO of Bain Capital buys profitable American plants and ships it overseas. Mostly to China. 50,000 American Plants in total were sold. Romney will not be a President of Freedom, But one of dictatorship as he did as governor of Massachusetts. Romney holds the most veto of all times. Romney never worked with the Democratic Party. From All the people of Massachusetts, say that Romney is a two face liar. All the people of Illinois say that Romney is Un-American. We the People, for the People, Please do not vote for the un-American in office. Romney will so to all Americans as he did to us. God Please helps America in her and her People in this time of need. Thank you and God bless you all.
A Romney Presidency will be a Bane to America!!!
The Reality: As the nation's economy grew and the median income rose, under Romney, Massachusetts plummeted from 36th to 47th out of 50 states in job creation, and the median income declined. Romney as
Mitt Romney refuses to release his tax returns from the years prior to 2010. WHY?
Why is mitt romney getting away with Illegal Campaign Donations from China?
Mitt Romney said-There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." -Mitt Romney, in leaked comments from a fundraiser in May 2012
What do you think he will do for us if he gets in office?
THE REPUBLICAN TERRORISTS PARTY!
Mitt Romney's campaign got into a dustup with the Washington Post after the newspaper reported that Bain Capital, the private equity firm the GOP presidential candidate founded, invested in several US companies that outsourced jobs to China and India. The campaign indignantly demanded a retraction, claiming that these businesses did not send jobs overseas while Romney was running Bain, and the Post stood by its investigation. Yet there is another aspect to the Romney-as-outsourcer controversy. According to government documents reviewed by Mother Jones, Romney, when he was in charge of Bain, invested heavily in a Chinese manufacturing company that depended on US outsourcing for its profits—and that explicitly stated that such outsourcing was crucial to its success.
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This previously unreported deal runs counter to Romney's tough talk on the campaign trail regarding China. "We will not let China continue to steal jobs from the United States of America," Romney declared in February. But with this investment, Romney sought to make money off a foreign company that banked on American firms outsourcing manufacturing overseas.
Give Obama 4 more years
I believe that the American way of life is at a turning point in our society, between true freedom and false freedom. When your employer (boss) suggests in any way who you should vote for or you will lose your job, that employer is taking away one's freedom of The First amendment, which addresses the rights of; freedom of religion (prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion and protecting the right to free exercise of religion), freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition. When each American votes, that is the freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of petition. There has always been talk of an American female's right to freedom of choice, voting, abortion, birth control, sex education, healthy pregnancies, equal pay and a lot more. So it comes down to this. Are we as a society of Freedom or not? Do Americans believe in the Constitution for the United States of America, The Preamble sets out the origin, scope and purpose of the Constitution. Its origin and authority is in "We, the people of the United States". This echoes the Declaration of Independence. "One people" dissolved their connection with another, and assumed among the powers of the earth, a sovereign nation-state. The scope of the Constitution is twofold. First, "to form a more perfect Union" than had previously existed in the "perpetual Union" of the Articles of Confederation. Second, to "secure the blessings of liberty", which were to be enjoyed by not only the first generation, but for all who came after, "our posterity".
This is an itemized social contract of democratic philosophy. It details how the more perfect union was to be carried out between the national government and the people. The people are to be provided (a) justice, (b) civil peace, (c) common defense, (d) those things of a general welfare that they could not provide themselves, and (e) freedom. A government of "liberty and union, now and forever" unfolds when "We" begin and establish this Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If you still believe that this is what America is all about, then we the people are at that point in time of what is the right thing to do. Our government is open to us to see for ourselves who within the government is doing what is the right thing for the people, or one of Political Power and Corporate Control over the God given rights of true American Freedom. Before you vote take a real good look and you will see what I have seen. There are 32 Bills to put Americans back into the work place. Every republican Representative and the Senate as voted No every time! Only the Democratic Party has voted YES every time. If all the Bills were passed unemployment would be at 4.3% right now and if all American corporations were taxes and fined for moving overseas and/or paid taxes were would Americans lives be right now. All Americans need to keep an open Government so we the people can keep an eye on what they are doing. Who is voting for us and who is not? We must vote all the time and vote out who is not for us. Please vote Democrat all the way down the line for the next four years or just do not vote for Romney. Please don't take my word. Take the time and look for yourself. Don't vote because of religious belief, political party or for what Race of human you are. We are all Americans! Vote because you believe in what America stands for. Freedom! To help people that cannot help them self.
Thank you and God bless the United States of American and the Freedom of her People
Thanks to Mitt Romney CEO of Bain Capital sold 50,000 American Business overseas and to China in the last 28 years. Take a real good look at the town of Freeport that is going on right now in America. Go on you tube and see the American face of Romney's victims! This is whom you would vote into office?
Obama 4 more years
A Romney Presidency will be a Bane to America!!!
The Republican Party has voted no to the Rebuild America bills! Why? Because of Political Power and Corporate Control over the God given rights of true American Freedom. President Obama give this bill to Congress two years ago. this one bill will make up to 60 million good paying Americans jobs here at home for the next 20 years! Unemployment would be at 4.3% right now! Call your Share it, use it or loss your Freedom to the American dream. Please do not take my word! Look yourself before you vote!
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Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] Nay
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH] Aye
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Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI] Aye
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Sen. Ron Johnson [R, WI] Nay
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Sen. Mark Kirk [R, IL] Nay
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ] Aye
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] Aye
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Sen. Joe Manchin [D, WV] Aye
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Nay
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO] Aye
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ] Aye
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D, OR] Aye
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD] Aye
Sen. Jerry Moran [R, KS] Nay
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] Nay
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA] Aye
Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] Nay
Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL] Aye
Sen. Rand Paul [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH] Nay
Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR] Aye
Sen. John Reed [D, RI] Aye
Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] Aye
Sen. James Risch [R, ID] Nay
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Nay
Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV] Aye
Sen. Marco Rubio [R, FL] Nay
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT] Aye
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] Aye
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Nay
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D, NH] Aye
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Nay
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] Nay
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI] Aye
Sen. Jon Tester [D, MT] Aye
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Nay
Sen. Patrick Toomey [R, PA] Nay
Sen. Mark Udall [D, CO] Aye
Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM] Aye
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Nay
Sen. Mark Warner [D, VA] Aye
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] Aye
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] Aye
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS] Nay
Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR] Aye
Mitt Romney Cofounder and CEO of Bain Capital and CEO of Bain & Company Profession Management consultant, Venture capitalist, Private equity has sold 50,000 American Business overseas and to China in the last 28 years. He does not care about the poor, Because Romney is the one makes Americans poor. Take a real good look at the town of Freeport. Go on you tube and see the American face of Romney's victims! This is whom you would vote into office? Take a real good look!
So before you talk about thing get the facts! I worked my butt off 5 to 6 days a week 8 to 12-hour workday for 40 years and I have been out of work for over a year now! I am now 56 years old and my wife is 53. We have been together for 39 years. We were born in the same hospital. We went to all the same schools and we started dating, she we 14 years old. I am sick over this, my wife is sick over this.
Do you think it is a joke for us? Do you think we are having fun? Who did this to my family and me? The two face low life liar,
Mitt Romney Cofounder and CEO of Bain Capital! That's who!
FREEPORT, Ill. - The 170 remaining workers at the Sensata plant in Freeport, Ill., who will lose their jobs to China thanks to Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, will star in a new film about their struggle, to be released Oct. 26.
Behind Your Back, to be available from Stone Soup Studios on DVD, and especially to unionists and their allies, portrays "the heroic struggle of the Bain/Sensata workers to preserve their honor and dignity amid this sad assault on their wellbeing and livelihood," producer/director Alder Lakish told the United Auto Workers.
Lakish's film is the second pictorial revelation of the closure of Sensata at Bain's orders. On Oct. 10, the Steelworkers posted a video on YouTube highlighting not just the closure of the Freeport plant and shipment of its machinery and jobs to China, but low pay - 99 cents-$1.35 an hour - and terrible conditions that Chinese workers at Sensata suffer. Bain is closing Freeport on Nov. 4, two days before the election.
Lakish and his crew were filming during protests in front of the Sensata plant loading dock earlier in October, when three people were arrested for blocking trucks that carried Sensata's machinery away for shipment to China.
Bain, owned by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, owns Sensata. Romney denies knowledge of the closure, but documents disclosed in the prior sale show Romney-owned funds invested heavily in Sensata - and that Bain's purchase of the firm depended on closure of the Freeport plant and shipment of its machines and jobs to China. The protesting Freeport workers set up a tent city, called "Bainport."
In preparation for the closure, Bain sent Chinese engineers to Freeport to be trained by the remaining U.S. Sensata engineers. The Chinese told one Freeport engineer that when the machines arrive in China, the first move there would be to remove worker safety devices, to allow speedier production.
"In political and economic journalism, a story like the struggle of Sensata workers to keep their jobs from being outsourced to China often is communicated as numbers-in this case the 170 workers who are losing their jobs," Lakish told UAW. "But as a narrative filmmaker I am interested in the human side of this story. Who are these people? Especially, who are these brave few who are willing to risk the repercussions of standing up and confronting this huge corporation called Bain Capital who owns Sensata?"
He also is using the film to document the impact of outsourcing on the personal lives of the Sensata workers and their families. Closure of Freeport is "great political treachery and betrayal of these long held American values that seems to be engrained into the very DNA of a corporate raiding and asset stripping structure like that of Bain Capital," Lakish said.
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Oct 11, 2012 – In just over a month - Sensata Technologies in Freeport, Illinois will shut its doors - thanks to Mitt Romney CEO of Bain Capital
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Willard is a hypocrite and the people of Ohio know it. He favored straight Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 with no government guarantees until the companies were liquidated. That would have been devastating. There was no private sector credit available.
"It is not wrong to ask for government help, but the automakers should come up with a win-win proposition. I believe the federal government should invest substantially more in basic research — on new energy sources, fuel-economy technology, materials science and the like — that will ultimately benefit the automotive industry, along with many others. I believe Washington should raise energy research spending to $20 billion a year, from the $4 billion that is spent today. The research could be done at universities, at research labs and even through public-private collaboration.
The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk."
-Mitt Romney
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=0
Just out of curiosity, what are the polls suggesting in Ohio? Greetings from Australia guys. This election is tense to watch from here, must be crazy over there!!
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Average of all Ohio polls
Obama +2.1%
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WAPO/ABC POLL: INDEPENDENT VOTERS MOVING TO ROMNEY
The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll shows voters moving toward Romney since the third debate:
As Romney hits 50, the president stands at 47 percent, his lowest tally in Post-ABC polling since before the national party conventions. A three-point edge gives Romney his first apparent advantage in the national popular vote, but it is not one that is statistically significant with a conventional level of 95 percent confidence.
Results from the tracking poll were first released Monday evening, and had Obama at 49 percent, and Romney at 48. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the results were flipped, with Romney at 49 and the president at 48. All of the results are among likely voters.
Two of the four nights reported here include interviews conducted entirely after Monday's debate in Boca Raton
THE POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WINNING INDEPENDENTS BY 19 PERCENTAGE POINTS!!!
Should that advantage stick, it would be the sharpest tilt among independents in a presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide win. (Reagan won independent and other unaffiliated voters 63 to 36 percent, according to the exit poll). Obama won them by eight in 2008.
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NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE BY MITT ROMNEY ON AUTO BAILOUT 11/19/2008 (LINK BELOW)
READ IT AND REALIZE OBAMA IS LYING TO YOU!!!! ABOUT EVERYTHING!
"The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=0
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@Ticked
Isn't it amazing how the Obama supporters follow this lie?
Even MSNBC came forward after the debate and said OBAMA WAS WRONG on this.
Government Motors is begging to shed themselves of the Government control because they are running them into the ground.
GM is in serious trouble again.
After reading all of the above comments, the one by Mark Allan strikes home. We seem to be talking past each other rather than with each other. It's as if we are using our political frameworks to filter out anything which doesn't agree with our pre-determined concepts. I try to listen to all points of view, I really do. But when I turn on Fox News (Hannity, etc.), it's like they are in an alternate universe. And I'm sure that when a Tea Party type turns on MSNBC they get the same feeling. I'm beginning to feel that if we can't speak to each others values then our great country is doomed.
With that in mind, I'd like to commend two truly good comments above by: Louie Bee and Geowil. Go back and re-read them. All of you, please.
Robert,
I hope you make it back to read this today.
I read Louie, and I believe he is yet another confused about what the Tea Party and Conservatives are all about.
It's very simple: Less Government = More Rights
The progressives believe that "rights" are created by the government and that the government should CONTROL the people with those "rights"
Many do not have a clue what the founding fathers had created for us. If you believe in freedom and rights, read the Constitution, read the Federalist Papers.
They knew we would face the issues we face today.
...and in addition...
Because of the idiotic laws the state gov enacted, or more specifically, the opposition infrastructure that resulted from those laws (which were defeated), Obama has a very active ground game going on there.
ask mitt about Delphi, a company in which he and his wife Anne invested in, and how at the end of it all, after taking plenty of bailout money, stiffed the pensioners, kept the dough and shipped 25 of the 29 auto parts plants to China. ask mitt about that maneuver you christian shouting tea baggers. how is it that Tagg is currently being investigated for an elaborate ponzi scheme in Florida? How is that Mitt invested in a company that gets rids of the remains of fetuses? how is that for pro life, when money is involved Mitt is right there and to hell with morals and ethics. how about mitt stating his residence in Mass. so he could vote for a republican candidate after ted Kennedy's death, stating that ht lived in the unfurnished basement of his son Tagg? believe that one anybody. that is outright voter fraud and he should be punished for it, but thats how the creepy styled GOP works, no voter fraud until they turned up.
save this country from this mendacious personality, a non-intellect and certainly not an avid historical fan.
more wars, less entitlements, less in medicare, gut social security, on and on and on.
obama/biden 2012
What we know so far:
Obama refused to believe that terrorists might attack again on 9/11.
Ambassador Stevens believed strongly that such an attack was likely, and made multiple unambiguous requests for additional security.
In June 2012, the Consulate in Benghazi was damaged by an improvised explosive device. Stevens had reported to his superiors that an Islamist group (Ansar al-Shariah?) had claimed credit for the attack, and in so doing, had "described the attack as targeting the Christians supervising the management of the consulate." And again, he requested more security forces.
Eric Nordstrom the State Department's Regional Security Officer, Karen Keshap, a State Department manager, and a colleague of Keshap's, Shawn P. Crowley, had all made multiple complaints about the inadequate security in Benghazi. Crowley, had even apologized in an email for "being a broken record" on the subject of inadequate security in Benghazi.
Faced with all this, Obama, or his Administration, still refused to increase security at the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
On September 11 the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled "sensitive," in which he noted "growing problems with security" in Benghazi.
On the night of September 11 2012, the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked by 20 – 100 heavily armed terrorists with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. Ambassador Stevens, and four of his personnel moved to the compound "safe haven". The terrorists torched the compound with incendiary devices, driving them out. The Ambassador and three others were then murdered. A news report made by the Libyan Free Press reported that Ambassador Stevens was sodomized before he was killed. His body was not recovered for another 12 hours.
Ahmed Abu Khattala, a leader of the Benghazi-based Islamist group Ansar al-Shariah, or "Partisans of Islamic Law," was observed commanding the attack that night.
Drones in the area? Not sure yet.
Two hours after the attack started, Obama was informed through unclassified channels that "the diplomatic mission is under attack. Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well." The SBU (Sensitive But Unclassified) email did not report any crowds, demonstrators or protestors. It is safe to assume that urgent classified communications came to Obama and Clinton sooner, and with far more detail. Other SBU emails, obtained by Reuters, specifically mention that Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks. Again there was never any mention of crowds, demonstrators or protestors.
The attack lasted approximately six hours. During that time Obama did … absolutely nothing!
The following day Obama made an ambiguous statement that may or may not have acknowledged that this was a terrorist attack.
Immediately after Obama's statement though. administration spokespersons, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, maintained for two weeks that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. They offered no evidence to support that contention.
After two weeks, faced with all the mounting and incontrovertible evidence, Obama finally admitted that it was a pre-planned terrorist attack.
On October 17 The New York Times reported that "Libyan authorities have singled out Ahmed Abu Khattala, a leader of the Benghazi-based Islamist group Ansar al-Shariah, or "Partisans of Islamic Law," as a commander in the attack that killed the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, last month." This confirmed the SBU report that Obama had received on September 11.
Had Obama told the truth at the time, he would have been admitting that he had committed a huge error in judgment not to grant the consulate's security requests on the anniversary of 9/11. He clearly had a great deal of motivation to call it a "spontaneous demonstration," and that is exactly what he did!
On October 25, leading congressional lawmakers applied new pressure to the Obama administration for information on the attack: "The American public is increasingly reading information contradicting early accounts by your administration of the causes of the events of the day. "In the absence of your direct engagement to clarify these concerns, the public's frustration and confusion is likely to discredit efforts to achieve our shared goals of justice and accountability for the direct assault on American interests and the deaths of four public servants."
Sorry for the long post, but I'm afraid it will get longer as more and more evidence surfaces.
Thia is a non-issue H. Clinton is Sec. of State and Obama's orders did not get anyone killed unlike George W. whose direct orders were responsible for the death of over 100,000 innocent people that is over 100,000 innocent people. This is something for you republicans to run your mouth about but other than that it is over.
prog.1,I guess we know who you were cheering for on 9/11!!!!
It actually astounds me that anyone would trust Mitt Romney with the economy after his history with Bain, refusal to release tax returns, refusal to elaborate on his tax plan, refusal to elaborate on HOW his 'five point plan' actually creates jobs, and with his being flat out wrong on the auto industry (and now back-tracking on it).
The man is only for more give tax breaks to the top and cross your fingers they create jobs...and if they actually do, you hope they are in this country somewhere. He wants to deregulate Wall Street and the banks so we can have another disaster as we had in 2008.
Obama has a record of 31 straight months of private sector job growth.....he had three jobs bills killed by the GOP in congress that would've lowered the unemployment rate by 1.5% (according to the CBO).
This is a no-brainer...Romney is assuming we'll forget what led up to the disaster in 2008. Perhaps it is another case of 'Romnesia'?
Romney has released all of his tax returns … to the most critical, ruthless, greedy bureaucracy ever devised … the IRS! If they can't find anything wrong with his returns, I seriously doubt that you could.
Everything else you posted is equally spurious.
What type of person, (voter), believes what Mitt says? I have asked myself this question over a million times and am yet to come up with a feasible answer, except for racism. Mitt is delusional so anyone who believes his carp must likewise be, delusional! Everyone is aware of the op-ed he himself penned about the auto bailout yet he tries to wriggle and twist his own words to make them fit the way he feels a second ago.
Pres Obama doesn't need to keep tripping over his own words because he means what he says and Mitt just says sh!t that he doesn't mean. When Republicans and their surrogates keep fu.cking up, all that Karl Rove and the GOP faithful can say is; its all the media's fault for misunderstanding what they meant when they said what they said; while quoting the words from their own stupid mouths. Yikes, it bites! ROFL...
Right on...
The party of Grover Norquist and Mitt Romney will destroy this country if the electorate allow them into office.Romney & Ryan have taken a pledge to this man and not to the citizens of this country.This in it self is reason not to elect this puppet. He will tell us anything to be elected but in the end he will do exactly as he has said in the primaries and will try to overturn Roe vs wade,health ,care,women's rights to control their own bodies.Make the wealthy richer and do away completely with the middle class.The jobs he will make will be lower paying jobs with no controls by the unions or the working people.
WAKE UP AMERICA. A VOTE FOR THESE FOLKS WILL SET US BACK 100YRS.