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The Obama campaign's assault on Mitt Romney's private sector career is meant to accomplish two goals: tarnish the cornerstone of the presumptive GOP nominee’s political biography, and play into middle class voters' economic anxieties over the actions of large financial institutions.
The president's re-election team sent notice Monday morning that its new ad, which took aim at Bain Capital's involvement at a Kansas City steel plant, was only the first in a sustained wave of attacks on the company Romney co-founded.
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President Barack Obama arrives at JFK International Airport May 14 in New York on his way to deliver the commencement address at Barnard College in New York City.
"Most Americans know that, even in the real world, when you bankrupt a company, you don't walk away with millions of dollars for yourself and others while workers are left holding the bag," said Stephanie Cutter, the deputy campaign manager for the Obama team, in a conference call Monday morning.
"That's simply wrong, especially if you're using those lessons and values learned from that experience as the central premise of your campaign for president. Romney didn't care about rewarding hard work and responsibility, he didn't care about everyone playing by the same set of rules; he cared about making money for him and his partners at all costs," she said.
RELATED: Obama campaign criticizes Romney's 'economic values'
The Romney team cried foul in response, accusing the president of diverting attention from the anemic performance of the economy. “We welcome the Obama campaign’s attempt to pivot back to jobs and a discussion of their failed record. Mitt Romney helped create more jobs in his private sector experience and more jobs as Governor of Massachusetts than President Obama has for the entire nation,” said Andrea Saul, Romney’s press secretary.
Later in the day, the Romney campaign released its own web video touting Steel Dynamics, one of the success stories during Romney's time at Bain, as a countervailing example.
(Bain, in its own statement this afternoon, emphasized its neutrality in the election and decried how its "exemplary 28-year record will be distorted and complex business situations will be portrayed in a simplistic way.")
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd talks about the new ad which is trying to make Mitt Romney's strength in this economic election a weakness.
Nonetheless, the Obama campaign’s new plan to conduct a sustained assault on Romney’s record represents an effort to turn what’s regarded as one of the Republican’s greatest strengths – his economic expertise – into a liability.
As NBC Politics previously explored, Romney has an advantage versus Obama on the economy, though not by as wide of a margin as his campaign might hope. Moreover, the data in last month’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll suggested that voters didn’t expect the economy to perform much better in a Romney administration vs. a second term from Obama. In short, neutralizing Romney’s advantage on the economy would throw the election to other factors, and Obama holds the advantage on many of those.
Romney sells economic acumen - are voters buying?
But the Obama campaign’s attack also plays into broader themes of fairness and equality on which the president has staked his re-election effort.
"We have to move forward, to the future we imagined in 2008, where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules," he said earlier this month at his campaign launch in Columbus. "That’s the choice in this election, and that’s why I’m running for a second term as president of the United States."
An early April Washington Post/ABC News poll suggested that this message, versus a more generic Republican argument about overregulation, might have more political traction. Fifty-two percent of Americans in that poll said they viewed unfairness in the economy that favors the wealthy as a bigger problem than overregulation, named by 37 percent of Americans as a bigger problem.
That message is necessitated partly by the sluggish growth in employment in recent months; while the economy is improving, the rate at which hiring has improved makes it more difficult for Obama and Democrats downballot to run on the economy.
But the Obama campaign is betting that diminished faith in major institutions – and outright skepticism toward Wall Street and the rest of the financial sector – might be enough to stave off Romney’s attacks, especially if they can link the former buyout guru to the excesses of corporate titans.
Obama himself noted that banks and other financial behemoths hadn’t been “model corporate citizens” in his commencement address Monday at Barnard.
There are plenty of examples toward which Obama and his party can point, and already, some of the party’s candidates have gotten the memo.
Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts who had earned plaudits from liberals for her efforts to rein in Wall Street, seized on news that J.P. Morgan had lost $2 billion in a hedging scheme to call on CEO Jamie Dimon to resign his position as director of the New York Federal Reserve Board.
“There’s been a guerilla war out there in which the largest financial institutions have been doing everything they can to make sure that financial regulations don’t get put in place, and if they do get put in place, that they’re loaded with loopholes, and not very effective,” she said Monday on CNN.
Addressing the Barnard College graduating class, President Obama gave the grads examples of how women helped shape who he is, and gave advice to get involved, lead by example and to persevere.
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I have been through the kind of job improvement process that Mitt has led and ended up unemployed along with almost all my former employees. The wheeler and dealers made all kinds of money by selling off the company bit by bit while the employees were lucky to get severance pay.
Mitt did his job within the rules of the Free Market, but a Free Market without rules or ethics is a mean thing that eats its young. Anything thing that Mitt did in the past does not show what he could do for the country tomorrow. Saying that Mitt actually ran a company that produced goods and created jobs is a far stretch from running a company where real economic decisions were needed.
I'm not for Romney, but, at least, he has major, corporate business experience. Obama, on the other hand? He's had major problems with leadership, even when his own party controlled Congress.
Billy, when you give you money to an investment banker, you entrust him to make proper investment decisions to maximize your profits. You yourself may not have the type investment knowledge to put together and manage a money making portfolio. You should have the courage and good sense to delegate that responsibility to the professionals.
Well, that is what Obama does as the President. He doesn't have to personally do the footwork or critical thinking to handle our Economy. He has finacial experts to do that for him. And as far as I am concerned, the Business minds working for Obama are way more knowledgeable than Romney.
It wasn't Romney's job to create jobs. His job was to make money for the investors. Investors were pension funds, endowments and foundations.
On the other hand it was Obama's job to create jobs. He even added 800 billion dollars on the countries debt on that shovel ready stimulus. You know the one he was laughing about there being no shovel ready jobs...
Here's a link to one of Obamas czars.... www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/14/former_obama_car_czar_calls_romney_attack_ad_unfair.html
Aunt Anna, his press secretary is touting that he has created more jobs than Obama did for the American people. Wow! what a bold false statement to throw out there. So, he has thrown out the gauntlet at Obama. I now think that it is fair play for him to be challenged on those assertions. Maybe next time he will stop claiming to be more than he is actually is and keep his mouth shut.
PETE
Is that why so many of Obama's 'financial advisors' have bailed out? ...because the economy is buzzing?
Billy, if you were sitting in front of your tv set eating popcorn and waiting for everything to come up roses with our Economy in the next episode of reality TV, you are deluding yourself. Our Economy runs in cycles. It takes years to right itself when we hit bottom like that. It took Bush eight years to muck it up. It's not gonna change in a brief number of years.
So get off the couch. Put down the bag of popcorn. This is real life. Things don't change that fast. I think in spite of everything that was thrown in Obama's lap at his inception, he doing a fabulous job. DON'T BE AN INGRATE. HOW ABOUT THAT?
If Obama asked America if they were better of today then before how would you answer?
One other little detail the Democrats forgot to mention in the attack ad.
"Oh, and it should be pointed out that the layoffs at GS Technologies occurred a full two years after Romney quit the day-to-day operations of Bain Capital to head the Salt Lake City Olympics, the Daily Caller reports."
I guess when one has nothing to run one the lies need to keep on coming....
Democrats are funny.... But very dangerous.
Many Americans view Romney as this big ol hot air ballon filled with partisan goobledy gook just waiting to be popped under the heat of closer scrutiny. All those lies can take you but so far. If not for the color issue that many conservatives harbor (in self denial though), Romney wouldn't even be a blip on the radar.
The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know that the private business sector is
a real-life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages:
T. Roosevelt........38% R
Taft.................... 40% R
Wilson .................52% D
Harding................49% R
Coolidge.............. 48% R
Hoover ................42% R
F. Roosevelt.........50% D
Truman................50% D
Eisenhower......... 57% R
Kennedy..............30% D
Johnson................47% D
Nixon...................53% R
Ford......................42% R
Carter...................32% D
Reagan.................56% R
GH Bush.............. 51% R
Clinton ............... 39% D
GW Bush..............55% R
And the winner is:
Obama.... 8% D
This helps to explain the "competence" of this administration: only 8% of
them have ever had a "real job" in a private business!
That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our private sector how to run their businesses?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had (nor created) one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."
They should have been in an employment line.
Pass this on...we'll NEVER see these facts in
the main stream media.
"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." Plato
Political prodigies are special people who quickly learn on the job. That's who Obama is. They perform feats and amazing things on the fly. If you don't know, you better ask somebody. Heehee!
Eventhough Bush had 55%, he still "ran this Economy into the ditch." Plus, he sqandered billions in surplus taxpayers' monies. A lot of good his business experience did him. What a moron. And now I hear he is asking for over a million dollars in support funds. Still sucking off the tit of the taxpayers.
What amazing feats has Obama performed? Oh, yes, he has many convinced that he's done something.
That (the 8% with business experience) and his choices of people who failed in past. Tim Geithner was chair of the New York Branch of the Fed when Obama chose him as Treasury Secretary. Why choose someone who presided over the headquarters' of the banks who did the sub-prime lending and the investment banks who bought these loans and bundled them as the CDO's that almost brought down the US economy. That says a lot for Obama's decision making abilities.
Obama cannot run on his record, so he needs to resort to making up stuff about his competition. Is is simply the way he works and has worked all his life. His ad about Romney closing down a steel co while at bain capital is primary evidence of his deceit. Romney left Bain 2 years before the steel mill closure. Ironically, Obama directly caused thousands of layoffs with his seisure of the auto industry. Facts are pesty little things aren't they?
Those
“Evil, Rich People” – are Democrats http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-841520.htm
From the, “you never hear about that from the media” file – Those “Evil, Rich
People” that Democrats are always wailing about are actually – Democrats.
In fact, the Top 4 on the list: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison,
Christy Walton are all Democrats. Together, they are worth $150 Billion
Dollars.
An analysis of the Top 20 Richest People in America (from Forbes Top 100)
reveals that a full 60% are actually Democrats. Furthermore, if you eliminate
the duplication caused by people from the same family being included in that
Top 20 list (Wal-Mart & Koch) that ratio widens even further to:
25% Republican / 75% Democrat.
(The purpose of this analysis is not who makes the most money, but where they
contribute / by party affiliation. Obviously, people from the same family would
tend to contribute to the same party.)
Analyzing the data takes us even further. Not only are there more Democrats in
the Top 20 list, but those Democrats are a lot more stingy with their money.
Republicans coughed up $5.2 million while Democrats squirted out only $2.1
Million.
Of course, there is no reason not to assume that the money they contribute to
Special Interest groups wouldn’t match (or closely match) those of their chosen
candidates. So when you add in the money from these groups you end up with
Republican Contributions at $10 million while Democrats contributed only $6
million.
Lest we not forget, Democrats outweigh Republicans. Not only in terms of the
number of uber-millionaires, but also with their net worth. In this Top 20
group, Democrats have a combined net worth of $263.1 billion dollars while the
Republicans have a combined net worth of only $143.9 billion dollars – almost
half that of Democrats.
So the next time you hear some Liberal Freak try the “Evil Rich People”
rhetoric, remind them and everyone around you that it is the Democrats who are
those “Evil Rich People”, not the Republicans. Then stand back and watch their
head spin.
People also forget that the Hollywood liberals who are not in this group are still mostly well within the 1%.
Communist Party
USA Endorses Barack Obama and Democrats For 2012 Election
http://azpundit.com/congrats-communist-party-usa-endorses-barack-obama-and-democrats-for-2012-election/
source:
COMMUNIST PARTY USA
Posted: June 30th, 2011 5:12 PM | Author: Henry D'Andrea
Didn't take long for Barry never created anything worthwhile in his life, Community agitator to go negative did it?
Maybe we should make Obama's self confessed drug dealing and use a topic of discussion, and then how about unsealing all those academic records?
Then we can progress through the rest of the failures of his administration one by one.
THE LIAR AND CHEIF
http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies
THIS IS OBAMA'S ECONOMY
The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/01/12/the-worst-economic-recovery-since-the-great-depression/
THE REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 36%
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-764592
Libertarian National Chairman, Mark Hinkle,
points out the Obama administration is crowing about a drop in the unemployment
rate to 8.3% in February 2012. Unfortunately, a large part of the decline since
the 10.0% peak reached earlier in his term is the result of people who have
given up looking for work. In fact, the percentage of working-age Americans
currently unemployed stands at 36.3%, the highest rate of his administration
and the worst since the 1980s. Two major parties in every Western country try to
commoditize all voters, transforming them to vegetables in the center field!
Rabblerousers gravitate to two dominant parties running for the center, trying
to offend as few people as possible. This produces a groupthink where everybody
avoids the issues when they're running for office. Most Westerners are
disappointed in both major parties. They're hungry for a new approach, a new
party, truly committed to substantive ideas, and not just to getting elected
and focusing on their particular election cycles. http://venitism.blogspot.com Hinkle notes
Libertarians running for local, state and federal offices offer several
proposals that can help end what is becoming a permanent disaster for the
economy. At the state and local levels occupational licensing laws, zoning and
building codes block tens of millions from entering or changing professions and
from starting their own small businesses. Regulation, in general, is a job
killer: the states with the heaviest regulatory burdens are usually the ones
with the highest unemployment rates. Lemmings are Arctic rodents of poor
eyesight, which can drown en masse. American lemmings vote for Republicans or
Decocrats. Europeans behave like lemmings when they masochistically vote for
kleptocrats. British lemmings vote for Whigs or Tories. Greek lemmings vote for
Pasok or Nea Democratia. Eurolemmings rely on the spinmill of Brussels
bromides. Are you a lemming? Are you a victim of taxation and kleptocracy? It's
time for soulsearching and vision examination. Hinkle laments Washington, DC is
the job-killing champion. The current collapse in employment, especially among
minorities and younger potential workers, coincided with the ratcheting up of
the federal minimum wage by more than 40% in 3 steps in the summers of 2007,
2008, and 2009. It's hardly surprising that the unemployment rate, after
steadily dropping for 4 years, bottomed at 4.4% in the spring of 2007, just
before the first increase, and peaked at 10.0% in the fall of 2009, shortly
after the final one. Citizens who want the government out of their wallets,
their bedrooms, their businesses, and their lives must vote for libertarians.
Only libertarians try to minimize government and maximize individual liberty.
It's not a shame to lose an election, but it's a shame to compromise your
values in order to win an election. Obsession with polls is a sign of weak
soul. The two major parties are willing to say anything and promise everything
in order to win an election. Of course, after the election most promises are
conveniently forgotten. The two major parties need an awakening call. Smart
words are more effective than smart bombs! Mighty words of a charismatic
keynote speaker can transform your people to a new dimension of organizational
climate, efficiency, self-actualization, enthusiasm, belonging, and motivation.
I would like very much to speak at your conference in order to explain critical
points much further. Basil Venit
Obama's Approval Plunges Below Worst-Ever President Carter
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Carter-Gallup-approval/2011/11/29/id/419436?s=al&promo_code=D9C0-1
Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011 04:20 PM
By John Bachman
President Barack Obama has
one of the worst approval ratings of any president in modern political history,
Paul
Bedard notes in his Washington Whispers blog in US News.
Obama’s 43 percent rating in Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index
today is far below Democrat Jimmy Carter’s 51 percent at the same point in his
presidency. Carter has been considered one of the 20th century’s worst
presidents, according to the index.
Political experts consider the ratings a crystal ball with the potential for
predicting a president’s chances for re-election.
Historically, it has been difficult for incumbents to remain in office if their
approval ratings are below 47 percent. At this same stage of Dwight
Eisenhower’s term, the popular Republican president had an approval rating of
78 percent.
Bedard chronicles the approval ratings of other presidents at this point in
their presidencies:
“What's more,” Bedard
writes, “Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has
averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average
rating at this stage: Carter, [Gerald] Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman
won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a
model.”
Bo Blows Barry
Poor sad President Obama. If this is what his platform is being run on, he surely is a very desperate and disillusioned man. The closing of one company's whose debt were totally unsustainable and who's management had lost control of operations and a solid business model is what made the company eventually have to close. And just like Sears, who lost their own operational ability to generate a profitable business in some areas, and whose business model and customer service model was deplorable, they too, had to shut their doors.
If Obama thinks this ad and all the millions he is spending on it somehow makes him look the the business man of the year, boy is he delusional. Bain is still one of the best venture capitalist companies out there, with the desire to put money into solid businesses that are up and coming. I know that for a fact because they are on the VC/Angel Investor list at some of the Nation's most pro-active VC/Angel Investing sponsored events out there.
If we keep letting Obama's idea of business growth and public/private ideals rule, we are pretty much going into the darker realm of stagnation.
So Romney is good at going into a mess, making decisions that were too hard for the former executives--even if it means paring down the workforce, etc.? He sounds perfect for the job of President!
I am an Independent who voted for Obama in 2008. I still like the guy but these past years have shown me he is not a good president. His latest moves of trying to make the social issues more important than the economic issues just reinforces that Obama is no longer the man to lead this country.
Romney plans to fill 1.25 million highly skilled jobs that he states are currently available by raising the visa cap for "highly-educated immigrants."
Because Mitt Romney Believes in America, he just doesn't believe in Americans.
JS....just how is closing plants, companies and industries....putting thousands of workers out of work.....giving away physical property....make someone the 'perfect for the job of president'? Our economy is sluggish because people either don't have money to spend, or are spending less. So that means less products and services. Why in the world would laying off millions more, help?
After Romney comes up with a real economic plan....then perhaps more repub's will warm up to him. But if what he's said so far is all he has....not even the repub's will help him.
Yeah, I saw this ad, I would say it's on que. rumney claim he created jobs, well, as it turns out rumney sucked the life and saving out everybody and the companies bain capitol purchased, bain and rumney took away their dignity. He hope that everybody has forgot about that....he's wrong again. You don't forget the man that took your job, he even took away jobs in B'ham and all over the south, no rumney, we will never forget that.
It
is absolutely amazing to see the ignorance of so many people when it comes to
facts. Fact is, when Bush/Cheney took over this country, we had no budget
deficit, the national debt was at $5 Trillion and we had the most people
working in decades. Bush/Cheney gave tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires,
tax cuts to corporations, loopholes to oil companies and subsidies to their
corporate friends. For good measure, and to pacify their military industrial
patrons, started a couple of wars. In less than 8 years, the budget deficit
stands closer to $1.5 Trillion and the national debt more than tripled. More
than 15 million people lost their jobs as a result of the Bush/Cheney disastrous
policies, millions of people have lost their homes and millions more are
homeless. What Romney wants to do is to return the country to those policies
responsible for the mess we are in today.
Are those who support Romney completely oblivious to all these facts or
do they have their heads so far down in the sand they have no clue as to what
has been happening to this country for the last 12 years?
wow...Obama fans are still blaming Bush to try to get Obama re-elected.
What is even more amazing is how Bushies continue to underestimate the harm he did to this country from an economic and foreign policy perspective and how quickly they expect his successor to cure the biggest economic collapse in our lifetime while in the midst of two wars.
All of this on top of a political opposition that was co-ordinated and determined to not let him succeed.
Do you forget how in Jan 2009 Demint tweets we will break him or Joe Wilson yelling you lie.Yet when the Teapugs come into office congressional approval drops to the lowest in recorded history and yet on this site they act as if they have the answer.
I guess Stupid is a permanent condition
But when you look at the years of mr grover & the bushman, between 2001 & 2008, the rich got richer, the poor poorer. Mr grover & romney intend to do the same to you. More tax cuts for the upper 1%. Less spending for the poor & infirm. Large wars against women, hispanics, science, & the facts.
Cnn said it in their own way. 'Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party. The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. It makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges.'
And what are the challenges today. The poor getting poorer. The weak, weaker. While lining the pockets of the wealthy, upper 1%.
Mitt Romney sucks!!!!
And to make things worse....it's the best the repubs can come up with. He'll eventually win the nomination, not because gop primary voters want him, but because he has the most money to stay in the longest.
He's known best for his flip-flopping. So does that means he sucks at both ends?
What Bains accused of they also did at KB toys the ad wont mention that because technically Romney wasn't an active partner though he got an equal share. Bain aquired KB with 18 million of their money the rest from investors. They then borrowed 65 million on KB's assets dividing it equally between the Bain partners. In less than 2 years KB saddled with this additional debt went bankrupt costing 3500 jobs. Romney did ok though getting his share of 45 million they looted before bankrupting leaving the other investors out of their money.
Larry- Romney did nothing wrong. He acted within the rules of the game.Capitalism is not a political system. It is based on the profit motive- no black and white,. no good or bad- just does it make money.
Running a country is much different and the past Presidents who have come from a business background- Carter and GW Bush- neither did well.
As a businessman myself I have chosen to not do all the things that can make money. In the end I have to look myself in the mirror. We all have differences- not casting accusations. But I for one am not impressed just because Romney is a multi millionaire. I have met very few rich people that I want to associate with- primarily because most seem to inflate business sucess with personal success and to me they are much much different.
Give me an individual that has the capability of leaving school and making big money and the individual that chooses to do something with their life by paying back society. Romney took the money approach, Obama community service work.
Romney realizes that in spite of the labor surplus (8-10% unemployment), Americans are simply not equipped to fill the "1.25 million high skilled jobs" currently available even in this economic downturn.
But Romney has a solution. Increase the visa cap for immigrants and fill the 1.25 million jobs with highly educated immigrants. And, for immigrants graduating, attach a green card to every diploma for graduates that have job offers- for diplomas in math, science, and engineering.
Romney realizes that the currently unemployed Americans are not fit workers and we need to use immigration to bring in workers that have a work ethic that support the economy.
Its all here on Mitt's website in his plan "Believe in America"
Because Mitt Romney Believes in America, he just doesn't believe in you.
The department of education has done a good job of preparing American's for these jobs. Let us allow the DOE die a natural death.
All these people are attacking Romney because he is black. And they don't want to see a black man become president.
Romney is not black- he's Mexican. Did you not listen to his speech?
Romney realizes that in spite of the labor surplus (8-10% unemployment), Americans are simply not equipped to fill the "1.25 million high skilled jobs" currently available even in this economic downturn.
But Romney has a solution. Increase the visa cap for immigrants and fill the 1.25 million jobs with highly educated immigrants. And, for immigrants graduating, attach a green card to every diploma for graduates that have job offers- for diplomas in math, science, and engineering.
Romney realizes that the currently unemployed Americans are not fit workers and we need to use immigration to bring in workers that have a work ethic that support the economy.
Its all here on Mitt's website in his plan "Believe in America"
Because Mitt Romney Believes in America, he just doesn't believe in you.
Obama believes in America? He and the Reverend Wright, right?
to turn what's regarded as one of the Republican's greatest strengths – his economic expertise – into a liability.// I would say that Obama is giving Romney a true conservative compliment pointing out his economic skills. True it is not right what Romney did but then isn't this what we need in an economic war someone with no conscious. I mean we need to get our jobs back what does Obama plan to do pay for them himself. How else do you gain ground if you do not fight for them. Is Obama weak because he can't create jobs the way they all do.
The hard truth about what Bane Capital has done isn't pleasant. Mutt's only advantage is that most people don't even bother to learn exactly what that was; those who do a little research tend to walk away shocked and dismayed. No wonder Mutt isn't addressing this directly, instead attempting to redirect attention elsewhere.
Mitt.. He is not avoiding discussion of the economy, he is explaining why it happened. Robber-barrons like you would sell a company in peices and send the jobs overseas. OF COURSE, you don't want him to talk about this. The economy is on the mend no thanks to you.
Go President Obama, we love your efforts and the results to right a 'listing' ship.
Just because he's never had a real job doesn't mean Obama has to hate on people who work in the private sector. I know getting paid to be a "community organizer" and being a politician may seem like a practical job for everyone, but some people actually have to be a part of the economy and not just the part taking tax money for a pay check.