Romney says Obama lying about his business career
Republican Mitt Romney launched a TV ad Thursday that says President Obama is not telling the truth when he accuses Romney of shipping American jobs abroad during his business career.
Romney says Obama lying about his business career
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Republican Mitt Romney responded Thursday with a new television ad that brands President Obama a liar for ads that charge the Republican outsourced American jobs during his time with the private-equity firm Bain Capital.
“When a president doesn’t tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead?” the narrator asks in the 30-second spot. “The Obama outsourcing attacks: ‘misleading, unfair and untrue,’” the narrator continues, citing a June 21 report by the Washington Post’s fact-checking columnist.
It was interesting that the ad (below) also features a cameo by Hillary Clinton from the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, in which she says, "Shame on you, Sen. Obama" for distorting her record. (There are a lot of disaffected Hillary Democrats out there.)
The response ad comes a little over a week after the Obama camp went up with its ad tying Bain to outsourcing, and as many conservatives fret that Romney has not countered persistent efforts to muddy up his business record and former overseas personal bank accounts, per the New York Times.
One of Romney’s key defenses to outsourcing charges in the past has been that he left day-to-day control of Bain Capital in 1999 to work on the Salt Lake City Olympics, before some of the deals in question – but The Boston Globe reported Thursday that Romney stayed active three years beyond that, citing government documents.
FactCheck.org determined that the Obama campaign had not proved its assertions that Romney was running the company after 1999, and the nonpartisan watchdog group reaffirmed that opinion Thursday in a Politico interview.
“The article is not accurate,” said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign. “As Bain Capital has said, as Governor Romney has said, and as has been confirmed by independent fact checkers multiple times, Governor Romney left Bain Capital in February of 1999 to run the Olympics and had no input on investments or management of companies after that point.”
NBC News, meanwhile, has identified 24 battleground-state television markets in which the Obama campaign is airing ads uncontested by Romney forces. Five of them are in Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (which also catches eastern Ohio voters); Wilkes-Barre Scranton; Erie; Johnstown-Altoona; and Harrisburg.
According to the network’s political team, the others are Charlottesville, VA; Burlington, VT (for the NH market); Portland, ME (NH); Gainesville, FL; Mason City, IA; Greenville-Spartanburg (for NC); Harrisonburg, VA; Wilmington, NC; Miami, FL; Zanesville, OH; Lima, OH; Tri-Cities (VA); Quincy-Hannibal, MO (for IA); Parkersburg, WV (for OH); Tallahassee, FL; Panama City, FL; Wheeling, WV (for OH); Ottumwa, IA; and Charleston, WV (for OH).
Like two little pip squeeks yelling abck and forth in the school yard. Are there any MEN interested in getting this Country back on track?— Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Fact: in 1998 when Romney was in complete charge of Bain, he poured million in Chinese outsourcing company that was targeting to take all manufacturing jobs of 'sunbeam' from US to China.
There is no doubt Romney was a pioneer of outsourcing US jobs.
That's why he wanted GM to go bankrupt, so he could make money in China— Seed - who cares? more importantly, how many american jobs has obama lost in 3+ yrs? unemployment is up 14% since he took office
— barry m goldwater - January 2009- 800,000 job lost
Jan 2012- 200,000 jobs added
Jan 2009- Dow jones 6,500
Jan 2012- Dow Jones almost 13,000
Jan 2009- Bank and corporate cash in hand 700 billion.
Jan 2012- b & c cash in hand over 3 trillion dollar
If GOP state level austerities did not shred million of teacher and firemen jobs, our unemployment would be 5.4%.— Seed - obama has been great for Wall Street; it's the little guy on Main Street suffering from his imbicilic economic policies — barry m goldwater
- Obama has added more jobs in 3 years after his stimus policy took effect after June 2009 than Bush added in 7 years. After the seven years Bush started loosing over 500,000 jobs each month.
You can't come out of depression in 3 years— Seed - Why is it that those opposed to President Obama never use facts to support their arguments? The unemployment rate has been hovering at 8.2% for quite some time. Spend a little time with fact and not Anti-Obama emails and you might change your tune. — PhillyPatriot
- Truth be told, barry (but that's hard for repubs), Obama has had more jobs created in his 3+ years than Bush did in 8. And bush's unemployment was already gaining speed when Obama took office, so Obama is not responsible for the vast majority of jobs lost thanks to the Bush recession. But, come back and try again. — mike l
- And just to clarify your habitual dishonest stat-mongering, you're talking about 14% of 8.2%, right? Because - and I know this will come as a shock to you - it sorta kinda looks like you're just flat-out telling a lie about the unemployment rate. Not that you're a well-known liar or anything.
Actually, yes, you are.— 1980 - Fact: in SEC filing Romney chained to be CEO, Chairman. And Board member of Bain through end of 2002. He even mentioned those roles in his disclosure forms.. Romney collected salary from Bain for his services.
..... But somehow he was not making the decision to ship the jobs during that period.
What should we believe, legal documents, checks that were cashed or something Romney said.
Ask Newt what he things about Romney's instinct of lying.— Seed - Barack Obama lies about EVERYTHING. It is engrained in his DNA. He is a "historic" caliber fraud, phony, fake & liar. He is incapable of telling the truth about any subject- ever. And if he is talking about ANY financial or economic numbers you can bet they are total politically self serving fairy tales and BS. He is a lying filthy politician to the core.
Hope & change, hope & change...forward. Fail. The Failure in Chief strikes again!!!!— kelprod2 - '..... In his DNA'. I know what you mean KKK
Only problem, half of Obama's DNA come from a white woman in Kansas— Seed - ..... But that's not good enough DNA for you :-( — Seed
Comment removed.- Lying like a dog. The Chicago way.— Steve-Oh
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