Mitt Romney continues to face questions over the timing of his exit from Bain Capital. The Republican candidate did interviews with five different news organizations Friday to address allegations that he still had a managerial role three years after he said he left that company.
We've strung those interviews together for you above. Check it out, and join us tonight on the Last Word for a deeper discussion about what exactly it means to "retroactively" retire.
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Does anyone else hear echoes of Richard Nixon in Romney's evasive answers and condescending attitude, especially relative to (but NOT limited to) the Bain controversy?
Lawrence looks really pitiful and jealous. Why is Limbaugh news? how pitiful he has become.
Tonight I am trying to find news. I find O'Donnell looks pitiful and jealous. This looks more like a gossiping fool. What does Limbaugh do for us. Report news or is that lost art gone? Both sides look comical. I dont want to laugh cause some people might find this reporting. It is only a National Enquire of television. Dirty little secrets and lies.
Is there any news going to be reported? This guy is trying to talk down and seems to try and educate his viewers. Hope there is not anyone ignorant enough to believe this chatter?
Retail sales figures for June released today, and it was a dismal report of losses in every catagory, even the previously vaunted auto and truck sector. That's the 3rd month of slumping sales as dispirited consumers and cautious buisnessmen and women put the breaks on, and sit on what few discretionary dollars they have what with the terrible flagging growth rate in our economy and continued high unemployment levels and declining family income levels. The news in 2012 is bad...so Obama wants to try a head fake and draw the gullible media's attention to 1999-2002 when Mr. Romney was on leave of absence from Bain Capital saving the Winter Olympics. Like that matters to the American voters!
An important angle is being missed in Romney's Bain history. Romney is taped with this comment "If you’re looking for free stuff you don’t have to pay for, vote for the other guy". Taking Romney at his own words, if he had no role in Bain for all those years he still drew a salary, shouldn't he be "voting for the other guy"? That is, of course, an excellent business model: get paid for no work done. Isn't that the Republican definition of welfare?
The token salary of up to $100,000 a year (Obama's speech writers get paid more by the tax payer, and that is $100,000 less than the $200,000 that Obama considers to be the top level of middle class wage and salary earners under his taxation plans) was paid to Romney while he was on Leave of Absence from 1999 to 2002 while he worked in Salt Lake City to save the Winter Olympics in a turnaround operation from the state of being plagues with waste, graft, and corruption. The period that amount was paid was while the remaining managing partners of Bain Capital tried to iron out internally the position they wished to take to negoitiate with Mitt Romney, the founding parner and CEO of the private equity firm what ultimate compensation he would be paid for the franchise value that he had built in the firm upon his retirement, Leonard...if you watched Chris Hayes weekend show on MSNBC Sat or Sun you would know that as it was explained by Ed Conrad, one of the managing partners of Bain Capital.
Romney is a Great White Shark. He's a predator, with an aw shucks manner. He hunted cash and took advantage of average folks for his glorious appetite for power and money. He's a predator. Now he doesn't want to be decloaked. he likes his Mormon robes. He doesn't want the world to see that the shark has no robes. Sharks aren't holy, they're primitive and primordial. They just feed. Republicans think the world needs to let the sharks be free to be sharks. The GOP thinks you shouldn't even try to tame a shark. The GOP thinks you should just let sharks feed, even as they're feeding on their fellow Americans. The GOP loves the feeding frenzy. On the other hand, we chum are not happy. For the chum I say ... Gobama! Obama is a "Chumbuddy." [For pundits; Pundits who snatch original blog comments and present them as their own creative material are unethical, imo. But then again .... unethical folks don't care. Do you care?]
Well then, just read the new terms of service for NBCU. In short, apparently if a person contributes original material on these blogs, NBCU apparently guarantees it's own right to completely exploit any submitted material, in any way it wants, anywhere, anytime, under any circumstance, for profit or not. The submittor has no rights to expect anything in return including even any recognition of their original submission by NBCU. This is corporate America. In this case it apparently guarantees it will completely exploit any submittor in any way possible, under all and any circumstances. We are apparently considered to be an exploitable product with no rights whatsoever in any way. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. .
These attacks on Romney are rediculous...
Obama is blaming Romney of outsourcing jobs when not actually at Bain? Obama has outsource NASA to the Russians!
Obama is calling Romney a felon? With no proof? Obama admits to using Cocaine, that IS a felony! Obama is a self admitted felon calling someone else a felon?
How stupid are you people?
Pretty stupid, I would say, Stege.
Obama's has blamed everything and everybody for the piss poor economy that left his supporters (especially women and the young and the black and hispanic communities that "HOPED" for "CHANGE" in 2008 and are left "HOPELESS" and "SHORTCHANGED". From George Bush and Wall Street and the Business Community, to Earthquakes off of Japan, to the Tea Party and Republican's in control of the House of Representatives after 2011 and Bain Capital in 1999-2002, there were pleanty of culprits to shift the blame to. The one I like now is his crying about the economic headwinds coming from Europe (due to the faltering socialist economies in the Obama style of government reckless spending with borrowed dollars that no one wants the bonds of anymore): what he isn't seeing is those same fiscally unsound policies he promulgated and his meddling with business (including our fossil fuel businesses) through excessive regulations and calls for more taxes are the "chickens come home to roost" flying on those headwinds now.
The candidate of Hope and Change became 4 years later the candidate of Distract and Blame. How stupid is it that some of his old supporters will try to make him to be their champion still.
Arguments about Bain Capital are missing an important point. Contrast Romney's business model with Sam Walton's model. Walton's model was "buy American", and take good care of the employees. In this way, he built a profitable retail empire with loyal employees. When Walmart came to town, everyone was excited! Contrast that with when Bain comes to town. Which is the better American business model? One where most people in a community benefit, or one where communities suffer job losses and venture capitalist usurp their livelihoods for huge profits?