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As Ohio has become almost a must-win state for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, he has sought to blur distinctions between himself and President Barack Obama on the issue of the 2009 auto bailouts.
A new TV ad playing to erroneous fears that Jeep might move its manufacturing from Ohio to China caps a prolonged effort by Romney to recast his opposition to Obama's actions to prop up an industry that employs one in eight of Ohio's voters.
Romney has sought to reframe his criticism of Obama's handling of the 2009 rescue of General Motors and Chrysler in an effort to combat the president's usage of the bailout to court swing voters in the Buckeye State. The GOP nominee has argued it was Obama who took the companies bankrupt, and has argued that he would be a better president for beleaguered autoworkers.
Mitt Romney campaigns in the critical battleground state of Ohio as a poll shows a dead heat between the governor and President Obama. Watch the entire speech.
And a new television ad airing in Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio, the Romney campaign raises the specter of production of Jeeps moving from the U.S. to China, an assertion which Jeep's Italian parent company has said is blatantly false.
Related: Ohio governor says Romney will carry Buckeye State
The GOP candidate's new tack represents an effort to play offense on the issue of auto bailouts in the final eight days of the campaign. Obama has used Romney's opposition to the 2008-09 rescue to great effect in Ohio and other Midwestern states, where the former Massachusetts governor must perform well if he's to have any hope of being elected president.
"You saw in the debates that Barack Obama said a few things that were, as he said, whoppers," Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said at a Romney rally on Monday in Cleveland. "He turned to Mitt Romney and said, 'You wanted to take those companies through bankruptcy and not provide them any federal aid.' Let me tell you, I supported a rescue package for the autos, but what Barack Obama said was simply not true. And by the way, it was Barack Obama who took GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich tells David Gregory that the job creators deserve the credit for helping raise Ohio's economic growth.
Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich, also suggested Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the bailout hadn't been as great as Obama might suggest.
"We are thrilled that we have a strong auto industry," he argued, "but it doesn't account for the growth of 112,000 jobs in our state."
But it was the Jeep ad in particular that marked the culmination of an effort by Romney over the past 18 months to reframe the auto debate on friendlier terms.
"Obama took GM and Chrylser into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians, who are going to build Jeeps in China," the narrator of the ad says as a clip of a disputed Bloomberg News report appears onscreen, saying Chrysler "plans to return Jeep output to China."
The original Bloomberg report became fodder for conservatives, including Romney, who said last week in Ohio that Jeep "is thinking of moving all production to China." But Jeep's ownership has said it isn't planning to move any U.S. production to China; rather, the automaker is establishing new capacity in China to build vehicles that will be sold in China.
But the ad plays to those ill-founded fears. A fair viewing of the ad might leave that impression with a voter, though the language in the ad is so narrowly tailored that it can't be directly disputed.
That could make a difference in a battleground territory like northwest Ohio, the home to a major Jeep plant that employs thousands of Toledoans and almost left the area in the late 1990s until the city stepped forward to offer hundreds of millions in tax credits.
The Obama campaign responded with a TV ad of its own, accusing the GOP nominee of being "wrong then" and "dishonest now."
"It reeks of desperation, because that's what it is," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said Monday on a conference call.
But the Jeep ad is just one component of Romney's months-long effort to better couch his opposition to the bailout.
FIRST READ: Romney's chances in Ohio tied to softening bailout stance
Romney, whose father was an auto executive before becoming governor of Michigan, penned an op-ed shortly after the 2008 election, infamously titled, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The piece for the New York Times opposed the loans for the companies that then-outgoing President George W. Bush and some Republicans (including Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who would become Romney's vice presidential nominee) had favored, calling instead for a managed bankruptcy for GM and Chrysler with government support for the companies' warranties and for post-bankruptcy financing offered by private lenders.
Obama eventually embarked upon a different course. His administration negotiated a managed bankruptcy with bondholders, autoworkers' unions and the companies' leadership, while occasionally injecting the companies with capital drawn from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in order to stave off a more drastic bankruptcy, and possible liquidation.
Democrats contend that no private financing was available to the auto companies during the bailout, and the government was the only actor equipped to provide the companies with a lifeline while simultaneously negotiating their bankruptcy, from which GM and Chrysler immediately emerged.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports with the latest.
The bailout was unpopular at the time, derided by Republicans as a favor for unions, since autoworkers' pensions — in conservatives' view — were favored over dealers and other secured bondholders. Indeed, the Indiana State Police Pension Fund sued to prevent the deal from going forward, but it was rejected by the Supreme Court.
RELATED: Auto politics haunt Romney in NW Ohio
GM and Chrysler both rebounded in the months following the bailout to improve sales and profits, allowing the companies to pay off their loans from the government more quickly than expected. Their success has been heralded ever since by Democrats as a gutsy and successful example of Obama's leadership at the height of the Great Recession.
And since that time, Romney has — at alternating moments — both embraced and rejected central elements of Obama's decision making.
The Republican nominee has argued that it was his original idea, rather than Obama's, to put the auto companies through bankruptcy, though Romney's proposed process would have differed immensely. (Romney's plan wouldn't have necessarily forced GM and Chrysler into liquidation, nor was that what the governor had advocated — contrary to the president's suggestion during this month's debate.)
Romney was most pointedly forced to confront his opposition to the bailout during the Michigan and Ohio primaries in late February and early March. The Michigan native repeatedly called himself a "car guy" while campaigning near the Motor City, and appeared driving a Chrysler in a TV ad.
And Romney took to the editorial page of the Detroit News, where he accused Obama of "crony capitalism" in the bailout and said the companies would have been better off without Obama's intervention.
"Instead of doing the right thing and standing up to union bosses, Obama rewarded them," Romney wrote.
FLASHBACK: How much support would Romney have given to automakers?
As with a number of other issues since the primary, Romney, the Republican standard-bearer, has tried to soften the edges of some of his harder-charging rhetoric during the primaries.
"I’m a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry. My plan to get the industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks," Romney said at the third and final debate a week ago against Obama.
The GOP nominee's claim prompted the president to accuse Romney of trying to "airbrush history."
Speaking Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, former President Bill Clinton got in on the action. He said Chrysler "put out a statement sayin' it was the biggest load of bull in the world" in reference of the Jeep-to-China rumors.
"He ties himself in more knots than a Boy Scout does in a knot-tying contest," Clinton said of Romney.
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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.
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Need A Job -- Want A Job -- Boy O Boy Have I Got A Deal For You!
Price Of Admission: Your Vote -- Cheap -- Right!
Romney --- Claim --- The Great Job Creator --- True Or False (Lie)!
Romney Has Been Promising And Pushing Jobs -- Jobs & More Jobs -- 12,000,000 Jobs -- To Get Your "Votes".
The Romney Plan -- Is A "Get Your Votes" Plan -- Not A Jobs Plan!
The Plan:
1) Mitt Romney in his own words -- and he says:
"Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs!
( Well How??? -- A Secret Plan??? -- Maybe It's Magic???)
2) Romney -- You Give Me Your Vote "Now" And He Promises You Jobs Later! Not A Bad Deal Here For Romney -- He Gets The Cash / Votes Up Front For His "Promise" For Sometime Later Down The Road --
( Later? --1 Year? -- 2 Years? -- ??)!
3) Note What He Said: "He Will Create" 12,000.000 Jobs!
This Is An "Out Right Lie" By Romney! Here's Why!:
1) Now Ask Yourself This - Where Did His Amount Number -- Of 12,000,000 Romney Jobs -- Come From? A Vision Maybe?
2) Yes -- It Was A Vision But Not From Heaven Above!
3) The Vision Came From Here:
******"Several independent economists, including Moody's Analytics, also have projected that the economy will gain 12 million new jobs by 2016 - Regardless Of Who Is Elected On Nov. 6."******
Now Repeat -- After Me:
******Economists And Moody's Projected The Economy Will Gain 12 million New Jobs - Regardless Of Who Is Elected On Nov. 6."******
4) Did You See The Name "Romney" In There Anywheres? -- No --Nope -- Nada -- Negative! But You Did See The Number 12.000.000 Jobs There -- Right!
5) These Jobs Will Be Generated / Created By The US Economy -- Not Romney!
6) Romney Is Trying To Take Credit And Ownership For These Same 12,000.000 Jobs And Then Turnaround And Sell Them To You -- Something "That He Doesn't Own" -- For Your Vote!
Now Ask Yourselves -- Why Is The US Economy Broken? -- Why The Massive Job Loses? -- Why Is The Deficit So Larger?
Was It A Voodoo Curse? -- Maybe Biblical Plagues?
******Try This: Two Republican Wars, Republican (Bush) Tax Cuts,A Major Republican Driven Financial Crash (US & World Wide) -- Major Stone Walling By Republican On Debit Ceiling & Other Progams -- And Bingo -- We Have The Second Worst US Economic Collapse In Our History -- A Massive Recession / Depression. A Massive Failure Of Republican Policies -- Huge American Job Loses -- Huge American Savings & Investment Loses -- Huge American Homes Loses -- Broken American Families -- Broken & Lost American Lives, Plus + + + +
Thank You Republican Party For Your Massive Destruction To Our Country!
The Republicans Failed Policies Took Away Our Jobs In The First Place -- Then Sell Them Back To Us For Our Votes -- Sorry Romney -- Their Not Your Jobs -- They Are Our Jobs -- American Jobs!
There Are No Instant Fixes Here -- It Will Take Years -- Maybe Decades To Fix This Kind Of Damage! Republican Damage!
*****If Anything These Projected 12,000,000 Jobs That Will Be Added To The Us Economy Can Be Attributed To Obama's Efforts At Turning Around The US Economy!
With Jobs Numbers On The Rise, The Housing Markets Coming Back, And Wall Street Pushing Your Investments & 401Ks Up With Huge Gains!
Simple Logic My Friends!
USN VET
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CMCPO: THe destruction of our country is DIRECTLY TRACEABLE to the Obama Administration,IT's FLAWED Incompetent POLICIES Obama's directives to IGNORE and NOT ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS, i.e. immigration, his ability to make the idiots,like you, believe that government should hand you everything and that you should sit on your DEAD ASS and do nothing but perpetuate the lies and illusions!!!!! YOU are the DESTROYERS of this great country...... never BEFORE have DUMB people affected a country's destiny!
This is amusing. I was reading a recent issue of a auto magazine at a Firestone dealer. In that issue, Jeep was laying out its vision for future. They are moving jobs to China. Most of all their new "light" Jeep's will manufactured in China and Italy. 80-90% of all US vehicles are not made here. PERIOD !!! Jeep's are the worse. The new Jeep Wagoner is German. I don't understand all this US manufacturing B.S. anyway. The auto bailout was a violation of federal bankruptcy law under chapter 11. The big two would have came out lighter and stronger with their dept restructured for a more sustainable growth under a PROPERLY ran bankruptcy. The bailout was all about the UNIONS and not auto's. Call it for what it is. Clearly this was a federal ran tax payer ponzi scheme.
"Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html
"What isn't said in Romney's ad is that Chrysler is retaining and expanding its North America Jeep operations, including in Toledo, as it separately weighs breaking into China, the world's largest auto market. Chrysler emphasized in a blog post that it has "no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/obama-campaign-to-respond-to-romney-s-ohio-jeep-ad.html
At some point you just have to say... Wow... Just WOW.....
Chrysler says it is a lie, and Mr. Romney still "stands behind" the ad...
Here it is direct from Chrysler:
"A Chrysler spokesman scorned the misinterpretation as "a leap that would be difficult even for professional circus acrobats," explaining, "Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China."
Mr. Romney has now shown a repeated habit of lying, and not on small issue, but real WHOPPERS.... So much so that he is setting records for the number of lies of a candidate.....
I mean seriously folks... Who can know this, then look in the mirror and vote for him in good conscience?
Are people really that loyal to party that they don't even pay attention to what the candidates say? I mean this is a flat out lie..... and roughly half the people don't seem to care. What does that say about us?
Party loyalty should never outweigh honesty.... Ever...
DOES A BLACK MAN STILL HAVE TO WORK 150% MORE THAN A WHITE MAN?
First, the middle class has been stagnant if not deteriorating for the past four presidencies in great part because of our exploitative healthcare problem. If jobs were fixed before something was done about healthcare we would just be back in the same old boat, rowing in circles to make ends meet. Obamacare is not perfect (neither was the Constitution), but one has to start somewhere and along with the the Lilly Ledbedder Act, and other bills passed it lays the foundation to make a stronger middle class.
To the point! With everything this President has done for the American auto manufacturing companies and the average American worker, if Ohio does not re-elect this man because they CHOOSE to be confused, or simply because they CHOOSE to believe he's not moving fast enough, make no mistake it would cause the greatest division this country has ever seen.
It is so funny to see Republicans on here acting like they work for Jeep and know exactly what Jeep means when they say something..
They said they are hiring more workers HERE, not moving the plant to China...JEEP people said that folks !!......Mittens does not own THAT company and if he did that plant WOULD be moving to China because that is how Mittens has made his money...and he has a LOT of money...Do You...????
I am begining to think all of the GOP have hearing problems...They do not hear Mittens lies even when the rest of the country does.....
You have been safe for 4 years, the economy is getting better, the stock market is up, way up. Mittens will put us in ANOTHER war, in fact if you listen to him, he cannot wait.
We do not need to pay for another war, or have any more of our young men die...maybe he will send his 5 sons to fight next time.....Gee, I don't think so but he will have no problem sending YOUR SONS and DAUGHTERS...
It's now 7:06pm on the East Coast.
Only 173 hours left in the 2012 presidential campaign and the daylong averaged polling numbers essentially have been frozen in place, which is to say they continue to favor an Electoral College victory for Obama.
Romney simply cannot win without quickly and consistently diminishing Obama's leads in toss-up states....and his campaign has wasted yet another day failing to do so.
Axelrod has put the final squeeze on Fehrnstrom...and Fehrnstrom appears to have been found wanting.
1+1= 2 Right? -- Simple Math -- Right? -- Simple Logic -- Right?
Something We All Learned In Our Early Years -- Right?
Sorry But -- YOUR WRONG -- According A Newly Invented Math!
Called Election Math! -- WOW -- Neat Name! --
Using Election Math -- The Correct Answer Is Really: 1 + 1 = 3 --
Romney Promises You This New Election Math Will Give You His Correct Answers -- So Trust Him!
Boy Oh Boy This Can Be Very Confusing For A Lot Of Kids Out There!
But -- I Do Know How Your New Romney Election Math Works --- Romney!
And The Answer Is: Tell 1 Lie + Tell 1 More Lie = 2 Lies -- Right -- But Then You Need To Tell 1 More Lie
To Cover Up For The First Two Lies -- See 1 + 1 Does Equal = +1 More For Total Of 3 - Yes 3 Lies!
1 - Trust Me + 1 - I Promise You = + 1 - I Care About 100% Of Americans! -- SEE THREE LIES!
And Some Of You Still Believe This Guys! --
I'll Stick With Obama -- It's Real Math 1 + 1 = The Truth!
I think what the Mitster is trying to say is; That if HE owned Jeep instead of FIAT HE would move it to CHINA. He is so misunderstood.
Funny how Romney has put himself on damage control, trying to reverse his stance on the bailout. The people of Ohio already know his opposition to the bail out. Romney, you said what you said, end of story, or let me guess, the media and the video camera taping what you said, again, took your comments out of context. Romney, you can only use that excuse so many times, before you run it into the ground, and people see you for the liar that you are.
Romney, you'll just have to explain to Queen Ann that no, it isn't "your turn".
I may have been born at night but it wasnt last night. Where does Romney get away with the bulls**it he is trying to peddle. Jeep stated that they were not moving to China so why dosnt mittens take down his incorrect add ? I think he is truly desperate . What a douchbag.
Because if he takes it down he can't steal votes. Simple!
The last thing he wants with only a week left before people vote is to be issuing apologies and backtracking. He's supposed to be projecting the confidence of a sure-fire winner right now - that's the Republican script. If he issues apologies and backtracks, he looks weak, and that's the last thing he wants right now.
The ad will stand, the lie will stand, and if he wins elections on a lie, so what? He'll still be the winner.
Romney takes flip-flopping to an insane new level. He will tell anyone anything, just on the off chance they might vote for him. The YouTube videos showing all his flip-flopping are insanely hilarious. Really, conservatives, I'm sure that at least a few of you are smart enough not to be taken in by this cult member.
I know exactly what his stance was. It was the same as every died in the wool capitalist and it was the same as mine.
It was that you HAVE to let them go bankrupt and the chips fall where they may. That if you bailed them out then every vehicle they sold after that would be a vehicle the other manufacturers SHOULD have sold. That it was the rules of capitalism sink or swim those remaining eat their own. It is very logical and 90% of the time very true.
In this case I WAS WRONG and MITT WAS WRONG and CAPITALISM WAS WRONG. But in fairness we did not have the whole truth which in part included how entwined independent parts suppliers are with ALL manufacturers. To the point if parts suppliers fail (and they certainly were going to) none of the manufacturers could produce product.
The bail out had to happen and quickly!
Does Romney really believe that people are that stupid?
least Obama is trustworthy and cares about people!
Salt Lake city Tribune endorsement: Too Many Mitts
Obama has earned another term
Published: October 20, 2012 09:33AM
Updated: October 20, 2012 09:58AM
President Barack Obama speaks about the choice facing women in the
upcoming election, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at a campaign event at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly
welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican
nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan
governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the
bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon,
Republican, business-friendly state.
But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of
the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the
most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive
State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the
state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the
matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world
what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.
In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one
of us.
Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House
has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea
party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s
shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right
wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the
middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of
the campaign: “Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he
truly believe?”
The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would
survive Romney’s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely
tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless,
lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would
trade their votes to hear.
More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his
radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare
(or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of
Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new
jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and
spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away
with tax deductions and exemptions is utterly meaningless without
identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those
specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.
If this portrait of a Romney willing to say anything to get elected
seems harsh, we need only revisit his branding of 47 percent of
Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, yet feel victimized and
entitled to government assistance. His job, he told a group of wealthy
donors, “is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them
they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts
governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the
Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? That Romney skedaddled and is
nowhere to be found.
And what of the president Romney would replace? For four years,
President Barack Obama has attempted, with varying degrees of success,
to pull the nation out of its worst financial meltdown since the Great
Depression, a deepening crisis he inherited the day he took office.
In the first months of his presidency, Obama acted decisively to
stimulate the economy. His leadership was essential to passage of the
badly needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though Republicans
criticize the stimulus for failing to create jobs, it clearly helped
stop the hemorrhaging of public sector jobs. The Utah Legislature used
hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to plug holes in the state’s
budget.
The president also acted wisely to bail out the auto industry, which
has since come roaring back. Romney, in so many words, said the
carmakers should sink if they can’t swim.
Obama’s most noteworthy achievement, passage of his signature
Affordable Care Act, also proved, in its timing, his greatest blunder.
The set of comprehensive health insurance reforms aimed at extending
health care coverage to all Americans was signed 14 months into his
term after a ferocious fight in Congress that sapped the new
president’s political capital and destroyed any chance for bipartisan
cooperation on the shredded economy.
Obama’s foreign policy record is perhaps his strongest suit, especially
compared to Romney’s bellicose posture toward Russia and China and his
inflammatory rhetoric regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Obama’s
measured reliance on tough economic embargoes to bring Iran to heel,
and his equally measured disengagement from the war in Afghanistan, are
examples of a nuanced approach to international affairs. The glaring
exception, still unfolding, was the administration’s failure to
protect the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other
Americans, and to quickly come clean about it.
In considering which candidate to endorse, The Salt Lake Tribune
editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents
for organization, pragmatic problem solving and inspired leadership
that he displayed here more than a decade ago. Instead, we have
watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the
center with breathtaking aplomb. Through a pair of presidential
debates, Romney’s domestic agenda remains bereft of detail and worthy
of mistrust.
Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader
who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and
set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The
president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does
not deserve a first.
© 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune
Romney Says To Ryan!
Gee --- Ryan I Dialed 911 FEMA And There Was No Answer!
Ryan -- You Must Have Forgotten You Chopped FEMA & Planned Parenthood & Obama Care On Your First Day In
Office! Oh! You Said We Didn't Need Them -- Only Poor People Needed THem!
Gee -- Ryan Who Do We Call!
Romney -- Maybe Call All Our 1%er Friends -- They Can Come Down In Their Limos With Their Shoves?
What A Plan Dad!
what won't Willard lie about.He is the one moving jobs to China with Bane .You won't like where you are going in the after life.
Hey all----Spin this one. Fiat, says it intends to move their Jeep production to Italy. Then Fiat will export the Jeep back to the US. (Businessweek.com. DrudgeReport.com,NLPC.Org.) Take your pick!
Wheres the Benghazi video, leftwings?
It's 8:00pm EST.
172 hours left.
No late-day changes in any of Real Clear Politics' averaged polling numbers.
Another hour, hence another full day, lost by the Romney team, with only 7 full days to go.
Tick, tick, tick...
Obama/Biden in 2012; Hillary in 2016 and 2020.
I guess Trump is getting Obama's answer.
typical MS-LSD lies or cluelessness. Obama GAVE Chrysler to FIAT, so what Chrysler denies or affirms is meaningless. They have no say. Moreover, Chrsyler and GM repaid the fed govt with TARP funds. So US taxpayer paid twice for companies they should not have been involved in. Mitt had it right the first time or the car companies would not have continuous problems.
Mitt Romney had a far superior idea to allowing the companies to go thru managed bankruptcies which would NOT involve borrowing monies from China to screw the bondholders & creditors. obama just cared about paying back his union cronies. AND NOT even the rank & file union members.
The press has acknowledged that Romney has committed the ultimate lie about Chrysler. Even the Chrysler company sent out a statement retracting the speech Romney made on their jeeps. Why has Romney been allowed to keep advertising the lie ???
Romney should be made accountable for the lies he has spoken since day one of the campaign. But, this one on Chrysler really is disgraceful ! There are many, many journalists and many newspapers who could make sure that the American citizen knows what a liar Romney is. The man is a pathalogical liar - he does not know the truth from a lie.
To be a good journalist it is your job to get to the truth and it seems to me that there are very few journalists who are willing to go the extra mile in order to achieve this. Romney time and time again gets away from being questioned. If the media had done its job from the beginning of the campaign Romney would not be gaining the votes he has accumulated. Many more people would have found out what a really coniving, lying person he really is
I can only hope that Romney will never, never be President - he is not worthy of that position.
Chrysler has no say. obama GAVE the company to FIAT. I'm afraid you are terribly confused on your characters. obama is the LIAR. EVERY time he opens his mouth he lies.
Just look at the Libya debacle. He murdered 4 Americans be denying them help in a TERRORIST attack. The fool thinks (well I guess people like u would believe) some stupid utube video no one ever saw caused spontaneous demonstrations on 9/11. This DESPITE Bengazai being attacked in June and August. obama KNEW in realtime what was happening and he is a coward and a liar. Totally unfit to be CIC.
frinton......"The press has acknowleged" Are you kidding? At first it was China, now Chrysler says its moving its Jeep production to Italy. Chrysler says so. Romney was right!
I finally have it figured out, Willard and his Repub buddies want to shrink the size of government until it is small enough that it just fits inside a woman's vagina.
@powerfulp. You r a pig regardless of the fact u are a dumbass lefty.
Ignorance is the reason Romney has even one vote!
Myth Robme and Lyin Ryan .... not a whit's regard for the truth, unfit to serve!
Any middle class citizen, voting for this arithmetic free ticket, is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders!
Remember Sensata!
reterry----Wheres the Benghazi video? Whats Obama covering up
Willard is a CEO and incapable of telling the truth. His delusional statements, ads and comments constantly change in an attempt to fit the crowd. I cannot stand for a liar and Willard is a liar, period! There are no ethical bones in the man's body. Crash and burn Willard!
Obama'12
No Money at the time to bail out the Auto!
How Soon We Forget -- The Financial Business Was Being Bailed Out -- Private Capital Available Was 00000!
Remember That Was Called The Bush Recession -- A Republican Recession --- Right!
The Bottom Line Here Is That Jobs Were Saved 1,000,000 Of Jobs! Manufacturing, Dealers, Services, Parts, --
Jobs All Over The Country!
The Means Justified THe Ends -- Period!
Obama Was The Means And 1,000,000 Of Jobs Was The Ends!