Mitt "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" Romney takes credit for the auto industry's rebound. While on record opposing the massive government bailout, today the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told a local TV station, "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
Modest guy, that Willard.
Romney argued he pushed for “managed bankruptcy" at the time and, therefore, according to him, he should get props for it. "My own view by the way is that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that's finally what the president did," said Romney while on the campaign trail in Euclid, Ohio. "He finally took them through bankruptcy. That was the right course I argued for from the very beginning."
What you see here on display is a new tactic of leeching on to the president's successes and trying to run with it. If you are dumbfounded by this strategy, you're not alone; Republican politicians also seem confused by his grandiose declarations.
Team Obama quickly released a new ad, "Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Auto Recovery Edition." It shows clips of Romney slamming the bailout. The video really should have been labeled, "Not So Fast Buddy, We Did All The Work."
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Romney is beginning to sound a lot like Al Gore who said that he invented the internet.
Al Gore never said that. "
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill"[5]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[6] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[7]
Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and the Gore Bill as a critical moment in Internet history:"
Romney will pretty soon take credit for inventing the internet like Al Gore.
flip flopping Romney or Mr flipper Romney the man who wants your vote .sir will you vote for me Mr flipper said ? the man goes do you believe dogs are people to sure my friend long as i get your vote
what ever that man is smoking i want some must be some good stuff lol
What a snake! What a lizard this guy is. If people are dumb enough and gullible enough to elect this troll president they will take all of us down the toilet with them. I'm not particularly optimistic, with all the hate talkers and propaganda being thrown at all the sheep. Let's just hope enough people with good sense make it out to vote (unlike 2010 when they sat on their hands and blew the election). We must remember - elections have consequences, and this election promises to be for the survival of this once-great country.
My dad told me about "Clearance Auto" or something which helped him to find a lower priced Auto insurance (with ALMOST similar coverage) he is recommending this to me. What do you think of them? BTW you can find more about them online.
Apparently, the process of creative destruction also applies to truth.
Is saying you did something when you actually did the opposite a lie. I think if a child said he ate his vegatbles when he fed them to the dog his mother would tell him to stop lying. Hey Flip Rob-me...stop lying. Tell the truth. You are on both side of every issue. Some would say that is lying. But not Republicants.
In CASE you DON'T KNOW...
Mormons EQUIVOCATE...
it''s a cornerstone of their "religion".... it is OK to lie to ANYONE not a MORMON
because everyone NOT a MORMON is a tool of SATAN... & they aren't allowed to speak the truth to the Devil .
THUS, if Willard (the lucky sperm in the magic panties) is elected...
he can LIE all day to us & never feel an ounce of shame or guilt...
just like he has done since the day he entered politics .
Is that so hard to comprehend ?
Another bigoted arsehole heard from!
Comander in chief of all the lies that ever been told. This was more blantant that what Clinton said about not having sex with Monica. If you want to start off your run for president by lying. You need to stop and take a look at how you sound to other people. He just lost his bid for the office. I say give up now so you wont look too bad when Obama beats you.
Maybe Romney just "evolved" in his position on the auto industry structured bankruptcy process ( which is what he called for originally by the way, but done in a court of law that had protections for all stakes holders, like the stock and bond holders besides the unions and upper management?) Of course, we got the same under the Obama Administration by fiat from a federal CZAR instead of a court, and the Unions won in the deal, and the Bond Holders and Share Holders took a bath. And because no private money was coming forth under those conditions, the tax payer and the government flush with borrowed money for TARP went on the hook for billions, more than half of which is still owed to us by General Motors.
Meanwhile, Fort Motor Company who wanted no part of that process toughed it out and went their own way, and remains the most successful of the auto makers in the US today for that folks!