Let me begin by saying that Mitt Romney is no George Washington. Young George Washington received a new hatchet and used it to chop down his father's prized cherry tree. His father demanded to know how the tree had fallen. George was tempted to deny his misdeed, but then, looking at his father with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, "I cannot tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." This is why the Republican Presidential wannabee is more like Pinocchio than Washington.
Campaigning today, Mitt Romney suggested he deserves "a lot of credit" for the recent successes of the nation's largest car companies in spite of his stance that Detroit should have been allowed to go bankrupt. Romney opposed taxpayer President Obama's bailout of the auto industry.
"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye," Romney wrote in a November 2008 opinion article in the New York Times. "It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed."
Today Romney said, "I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet," Romney said in an interview inside a Cleveland-area auto parts maker. "So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back."
Romney must really believe the American people are stupid and have short memories. Democrats know better, but Republicans will still support him despite his Pinocchio like status. I now agree with Mitt's wife Ann Romney. Mitt is definitely a 'wild and crazy guy'.
The Obama campaign responded to Romney's statement Monday night, calling it "a new low in dishonesty" and calling on him to have "the courage and integrity" to admit he was wrong. I agree. Romney cannot be trusted. He has no real convictions. He is willing to do and say anything to weasel himself into the White House.
All this comes after a recent flip-flop in a 2007 interview, regarding Osama Bin Laden, with The Associated Press in which Romney said: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
Fast forward to April 30, 2012. "Of course," said Romney, when asked by a reporter if he would have led the charge to find bin Laden, who was killed last year tomorrow under the authority of President Obama. "Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," said Romney, evoking the name of former President Jimmy Carter.
In conclusion, this is the tale of a Republican Presidential wannabee who cannot tell the truth. This is the tale of a modern day Pinocchio named Mitt Romney.
If Mitt Romney agrees with, or would have done, everything that President Obama has done, then why is there a need for a change in Presidential leadership?
P.S. Mr. Romney's Massachusetts health reform law served as the prototype for the federal law known as Obamacare. The core of the Affordable Care Act, an individual mandate, guaranteed issuance of insurance, and public health insurance expansion, was derived from Governor Romney's Romneycare.
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The comparison of the various statements by the same politician is quite entertaining, though.
As Larry said, "That's politics for you." His problem is that he is not skillful enough at double speak to disguise his dishonesty like the successful candidates (yep, including Obama :-D)
Mitt Romney needs to hire somebody like Tony Blair so he can learn from an expert. If Blair isn't available, we have a local expert here in Jamaica. His name is Percival J. Patterson. Patterson learned from his mentor Michael Manley so well that he became our longest serving Prime Minister. He was so good at deception, double talk and pulling the wool over peoples' eyes that he won the election in spite of having been involved in an international scandal. When he resigned after the embarrassment of that scandal, his parting words were, "I shall return." (yes he really said that :-D)
His other famous sayings as Prime Minister is, "I'm not shackled by the law." (well, we knew that already)
Mitt Romney needs to hire one of these men if he badly wants that office.
Can you imagine some of the ads that will be run against Mitt Romney once the race heats up? Each and everyone will be something that came out of his flip-flopping mouth.
2. Did Barack Obama move ""heaven and earth spending billions of dollars" to get bin Ladin? I just can't believe that people think Romney would not have acted the same as Obama if he was in the same situation... this seems more like silly partisan spin...
3. If Mitt Romney agrees with, or would have done, everything that President Obama has done, then why is there a need for a change in Presidential leadership?
Hmm, then conversely, why would anyone oppose swapping out one for the other? If they are the same, as you imply, it doesn't matter.
4. None of the above implies that I support for Romney in the general election.
Matthew, it does matter. Besides being unable to tell the truth, Romney brings additional negative baggage to the table such as his war mongering posture. Here we have a Republican Presidential nominee wanting to go to war with Iran without truly thinking it out.
Maybe if he or one of his 5 chicken-hawk sons would have signed up to serve our nation in a military capacity, he wouldn't be so callous about sending other people's children to war.
Did you know Obama's campaign has a Truth Team that is focused on debunking the lies?
Employees who lost jobs at Bain-controlled companies more than a decade ago say they still hold Romney responsible.
“I would not vote for him for anything,” said Phyllis Detro, 68, who lost her job at a Bain-owned office paper products factory in Marion, Indiana, closed in 1995. “I’d like to see the jobs that he’s created. He has taken away jobs.”
Romney’s private sector credentials are coming under scrutiny.
Mitt Romney has said several times that he saw his father George Romney march with the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. But the Romney campaign was forced to admit recently that Romney meant "saw" in the figurative sense after the Boston Phoenix , a weekly newspaper, looked into the claim.
Romney said it was a figure of speech and that he meant he was aware of his father marching with King. (For the curious, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary also defines "see" as "to form a mental picture of," "to perceive the meaning or importance of," and "to be aware of.")
Three newspapers have tried and failed to find evidence of the two men marching together. The Boston Phoenix first checked Romney's statement and concluded it was false. Subsequent examinations by the Detroit Free Press and the Boston Globe found no news stories linking the two men to the same event.
Newt Gingrich accused Mitt Romney of saying “things that weren’t true,”but fell short of reasserting his claim that Romney was a liar.
“I still believe that the Romney campaign said things that weren’t true,” said Gingrich on CNN’s “Situation Room.”
“Forget about the Mitt Romney campaign. Is Mitt Romney a liar?” pressed host Wolf Blitzer.
“The governor said things at times that weren’t true,” Gingrich elaborated.
This describes Romney to the 'T'.
Go figure!
It is my understanding that Ron Paul now has a majority of the actual live persons who will go to the Republican convention in a number of states.
In addition, there is video of some of the voting issues in some of the states.
I do not believe Romney will have a smooth cruise to the nomination that the sycophantic press has been advertising that he will have.
If he wins the nomination anyway, those who want the troops home to defend the actual homeland can vote for Gary Johnson, who will be on the ballot in all 50 states.
I doubt this is going to be the same kind of election as previous ones.
I cannot bring myself to listen to one word Romney says. It's just sickening. As for Obama: NDAA? Monsanto in charge of food safety, locking people up for sharing good food? (see Rawsome Foods James Stewart, who was "lost" in the system for ten days).
Now we also have an incident where the DEA locked up an engineering student at UCSD for five days without food or water. He was in kidney failure before they noticed and had to spend time in intensive care.
The situation is grave. Ron Paul and Gary Johnson are talking about the seriousness of this, and I know they will cooperate well if one or the other wins the executive branch.
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/quail-hollow-farm-raided-without-a-warrant/
Ron Paul and Gary Johnson speak out tirelessly about threats to the rights we are supposed to have under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and about the uneven enforcement of often conflicting laws on the books and the fine print that allows the capriciousness of "he who has the gold, rules."
Both of them oppose the drug wars in addition to the picked off-shore wars.
That set the tone for all the obstructionism. That led to Republicans undermining, demeaning and discrediting President Obama.
Gerry, Republicans are silly and immature.
One thing I do know is that he created thousands of jobs in China as he shut down American plants and factories then sent the jobs overseas.
It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown, South Carolina, Sanderson and his co-workers were blue-collar aristocracy.
"We were doing very good," says Sanderson, president of Steelworkers Local 7898.
What he didn't know was that it was about to end. Hundreds of miles to the north in Boston, a future presidential candidate was sizing up Georgetown's books.
Just a few months Romney set fire to another company.
The move was classic Bain. Before buying Georgetown, Romney had purchased the Armco steel mill in Kansas City, which had been in business more than 100 years.
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!
Within a year, he'd already made four times his initial investment while barely lifting a finger. But he'd also run up a staggering $378 million in debt on GSI's tab.
Once again, Romney couldn't help raiding the vault, peeling away $100 million for himself and investors at the same time Dade was laying off 1,700 American workers.
I'm still looking for the 100,000 jobs he created. Someone has to know about them. I just can't find any of them.