Romney calls on Obama to apologize for Bain attacks
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[QUOTE]Mitt Romney disputed reports that he worked for Bain Capital longer than he had publicly suggested, insisting Friday he had no role "whatsoever" in managing the company after February 1999 when he left to run the Winter Olympics. Public filings from the company suggest otherwise.
In consecutive interviews with all five television news networks, Romney accused President Barack Obama and his campaign of attacking him on his record at Bain Capital in order to "deflect attention" from Obama's "failed" economic record. And he called on Obama to apologize for the false attacks.
"There is absolutely no evidence that I had any role whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after February 1999," Romney told ABC News' Jon Karl. "Why the president continues and his people continue to make these kinds of charges and try to turn this into something big is clear, I think, to the American people because the president's failed to do the job he was elected to do which was to get this economy turned around."
Asked by Karl about an Obama campaign aide's assertion that he may have committed a "felony" by leaving his name on Securities and Exchange Commission documents if he didn't work at Bain, Romney called the charge "ridiculous and disturbing" and "beneath the dignity of the president and his campaign."
"The president needs to take control of his people," Romney said, calling the attacks "false and misleading."
On Thursday, the Boston Globe reported that Romney's name remained on several documents Bain had filed with the SEC, including a 2002 filing that described him as the firm's "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president."
Asked why his name remained on documents if he wasn't involved in the company, Romney told ABC that he had "retained ownership" until he and Bain officials could negotiate a departure and retirement package with the company. He told CBS News' Jan Crawford he had the "capacity" to return to Bain if he wanted after the Olympics but chose not to. He told Crawford he didn't "recall even coming back once" for Bain management meetings because he was running the Olympics "full time."
Asked by CNN's Jim Acosta about Democratic pressure for him to release additional tax returns and financial information about his investments overseas, Romney insisted he had "complied with the law" by filing federal financial disclosures and by releasing his 2010 tax returns. He said he would release his full 2011 returns when they are complete and suggested he wouldn't release more.
"That's all that's necessary for people to understand something about my finances," Romney told CNN.
Romney's round of interviews came after days of withering attacks from the Obama campaign on the presumptive Republican nominee's business record and personal finances. For days, the Romney campaign declined to engage the offensive, instead keeping its focus on Obama's handling of jobs and the economy.
But amid criticism from Republicans that Romney was endangering his campaign by ignoring the Obama attacks, the GOP seemed to shift course, releasing a series of TV ads trashing Obama for lying about Romney's record.
On Friday, the campaign scheduled a last-minute round of interviews with Romney in New Hampshire, where the candidate is set to spend this weekend off the campaign trail. In the interviews, Romney tried to shift the attention back to Obama's negative campaigning.
Asked if he believes he's being "swift-boated" by Democrats—a reference to independent attacks on John Kerry during the 2004 campaign—Romney told CNN he "hadn't heard that term." He told Acosta that Obama appears to be employing the "Kill Romney" strategy "they promised," referring to a phrase first floated by Democratic strategists in a Politico story last year.
In nearly all of the interviews, Romney mentioned the phone call he received in May from Obama once he clinched the nomination, telling reporters that Obama had told him he wanted to engage in an "important debate" about the state of the country and said he had "agreed" with the president. He told Fox News' Carl Cameron he found Obama's attacks "very disappointing" and "politics a lot worse than usual."
"(Americans) expected more from this president. He was the one that talked about a post-partisan presidency, changing the way politics works, changing the way Washington works. And I think people assumed he would make it better," Romney said. "But instead, with the kinds of attacks that he's been launching over the last several weeks, he's been making it worse and people recognize that."[/quote]
Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-calls-obama-apologize-bain-attacks-221652801.html[/url]
Let's not and say we didn't
Romney is full of shit.
"I want Obama to apologize for these completely true statements."
Romney seems to speak entirely in ambiguity. I understand it's election season, but show some goddamn backbone for once.
"Stop pointing out that im part of a terrible company, its mean :c"
Not badass comback, or zing worthy retort?
That's not how American's run for office.
coming from a dude who spent years questioning obama's citizenship, never once even admitting he was wrong (let alone apologizing for it.)
Why exactly is running a successful business considered "bad" to liberals now days?
[QUOTE=Lankist;36760696]coming from a dude who spent years questioning obama's citizenship, never once even admitting he was wrong (let alone apologizing for it.)[/QUOTE]
And when did Romney ever question obama's citizenship?
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;36761033]Why exactly is running a successful business considered "bad" to liberals now days?
And when did Romney ever question obama's citizenship?[/QUOTE]
Probably because he says he knows how to create jobs and how they are outsourced and all that crap when his own company destroys peoples jobs and outsources them.
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;36761033]Why exactly is running a successful business considered "bad" to liberals now days?[/QUOTE]
lol "successful."
bain's only success is that it buys companies for the express purpose of running them into the ground for profit.
if companies were people bain would be jack the ripper
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;36761033]Why exactly is running a successful business considered "bad" to liberals now days?[/QUOTE]The fuck did you get that from?
The issue is that he supposedly left, and therefore wouldn't be making an income from it. But if he never really left, then he collected income without paying the necessary taxes on it.
Bain (and other companies with similar strategy) buy undervalued businesses (read- underperforming/close to bankruptcy) with the intent on improving them and making the company viable again. Every once in a while business conditions make it necessary to close the business, and sell off the assets. Without Bains assistance, this would happen anyway (and in most cases much, much sooner)
Government (over)regulation and (over) taxation is what sent jobs overseas. Democrats have been in the majority several times over the past decade and i dont see them doing anything to address the issue.
As for where did i get this-"Why exactly is running a successful business considered "bad" to liberals now days?"
You cant tell me that the majority of posts in FP, or the obama ads critizing bain- paint Bain as anything other then a "monster".
edit to say, i have not seen a single article claiming romney failed to pay taxes on income- the issue as i understand it is "this is the kind of business romney supports" while pointing at the worst case scenerios of Bains investment companies end results
are you reading off of a script right now?
[QUOTE=Lankist;36761266]are you reading off of a script right now?[/QUOTE]
Dont have to, simple business is simple. Its pretty obvious most ppl are confused about Bain- thought id give a bit of background into how they actually operate
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You cant tell me that the majority of posts in FP, or the obama ads critizing bain- paint Bain as anything other then a "monster".[/QUOTE]
A monster? Seriously? Where the hell did you see that? Unless you see somebody using that word to talk about a violent murderer, then they obviously aren't right in the head
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;36761291]Dont have to, simple business is simple. Its pretty obvious most ppl are confused about Bain- thought id give a bit of background into how they actually operate[/QUOTE]
how can you call them successful, then, when almost all the companies they "improve" go under shortly thereafter.
Only after the Republicans apologize to Obama about the bullshit they brought up about his Birth Certificate.
[QUOTE=Lankist;36760696]coming from a dude who spent years questioning obama's citizenship, never once even admitting he was wrong (let alone apologizing for it.)[/QUOTE]
Dammit Lankist.
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Can we get a Romney birth certificate? I know his grandfather was a Mexican Immigrant.
suck it, mod
fuck the police
[QUOTE=Lankist;36761308]how can you call them successful, then, when almost all the companies they "improve" go under shortly thereafter.[/QUOTE]
Not sure where your getting the "almost all" measurement from. I admit i dont have the numbers myself but ive only heard of a few companies going bankrupt under bain.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;36761328]Only after the Republicans apologize to Obama about the bullshit they brought up about his Birth Certificate.
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Some ppl questioned his birth certificate (a few nuttier ones still do). That hardly means EVERY republican should apologize for them. I dont feel the need to apologize for the words of some random person. And i certainly cant attribute said random persons words to romney, as if he said and supported such words himself...
[QUOTE=Lankist;36761344]suck it, mod
fuck the police[/QUOTE]
Give Mr White one of your glasses and we're even.
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Some ppl questioned his birth certificate (a few nuttier ones still do). That hardly means EVERY republican should apologize for them. I dont feel the need to apologize for the words of some random person. And i certainly cant attribute said random persons words to romney, as if he said and supported such words himself...[/QUOTE]
Fine then, how about Trump and Romney at least.
trump is trump. He is hardly the public relation manager of republicans. He will say anything for publicity.
As for romney, other then something along the lines of "if theres a question about the certificate, it should be investigated and the questions answered". I know of nothing he has said since the certificate was validated
Romney's campaign is a hilarious train wreck. They were obviously completely unprepared for this line of attack and Romney just keeps digging his hole deeper by doubling down on lies in those interviews tonight.
Obama's basically defining Romney before he can define himself, and the campaign apparently has more Bain stuff waiting to be released, so this isn't going away.
I like how Romneys main strategy is saying, "FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES". Because Detroit and many other places are totally run in the ground right now because of those failed economic policies.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;36761328]Only after the Republicans apologize to Obama about the bullshit they brought up about his Birth Certificate.[/QUOTE]
If they can't do that please stop calling him a socialist
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[QUOTE=BANNED USER;36761389]Give Mr White one of your glasses and we're even.[/QUOTE]
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i didn't even know what "give him one of your glasses" meant
i wasnt going to say anything because i didnt want to look stupid
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Thought you were a shark
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sharks can help too, racist.
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;36761250]Government (over)regulation and (over) taxation is what sent jobs overseas.[/QUOTE]
This is factually wrong, which is odd, because to make this fuckup you need to not understand very basic economics and be incapable of observation.
There is a global labor surplus. Transportation and communication costs are at all time lows, and materials markets are extremely efficient, removing all barriers to using foreign labor. All other things being equal, people seek the lowest cost option. Poof.
We can all agree other countries have unacceptably low standards of living and wages. These nations have more surplus labor than exists a need for labor in the entirety of the U.S. Indeed, [URL="http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/Policybrief30.pdf"]if [B]all[/B] U.S. jobs were moved to China [I]alone[/I], there would still be surplus labor in China.[/URL] There is [I]no[/I] way to beat foreign labor on cost at present, no matter what the government does or does not do. No one is addressing this topic because it is unaddressable within a free market with uncooperative nations.
There is also, at present, no way for you to substantiate a claim that government action is directly related to the outsourcing of jobs. If there were, there would exist hard statistics on the enactment of specific regulations and changes in tax rates alongside observed outsourcing, citing multiple nations of varying tax rates and regulatory states. This data does not exist. Feel free to provide it, though it is to the economist community what evidence of divine creation is to biologists, so I'm not holding my breath.
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