Watch Live: Second House Hearing on IRS Scandal

See what happened when this attacker brought a knife to a gun fight

Business

White House Now Says Romney Was ‘Obviously a Successful Businessman’

Nov. 28, 2012 5:15pm Becket Adams

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday praised former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s “successful” business record.

“He was obviously a successful businessman, and I’m sure has some ideas that I’m sure the president will find helpful,” said Carney.

Carney’s remarks came after he was asked during Wednesday’s press briefing about a private lunch between President Obama and Romney scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The White House spokesman explained that the president “expressed interest” in having Romney at the White House, presumably to hear some of his business/economic ideas:

“It will be a substantial lunch, if not on the plate, then in discussion,” he joked.

Carney continued, noting the president’s interest in a “variety of issues including … making the federal government more efficient.”

Final Thought: While we don’t disagree with Carney’s characterization of Romney as a successful businessman, we can’t help but feel a little confused.

Didn’t the Obama campaign spend all year accusing the former governor of engaging in vulture capitalism, of massive outsourcing, of not understanding “economic reality,” of bankrupting middle-class families and communities, and of killing a guy’s wife with cancer?

Now Romney’s a “successful” businessman whose ideas are worth hearing?

Follow Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) on Twitter

(H/T: Washington Examiner). Featured image courtesy Getty Images.

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

Back to The Blaze »

Comments (91)

BHOHG2G
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:02pm
To the Trolls….. please tell me why you think O is so great? I’m being serious. All I hear is how bad Romney is , how bad the GOP is and how evil conservatives are . Please give me your best argument how O is helping our country. And if you’re a Socialist or Communist, please admit it. Don’t be ashamed. I really want to know where your coming from.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Stelex
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:08pm
  Won’t happen friend……its blind ideology that drives the trolls and supporters. You will feel a whole lot better if you go downstairs in the basement and repeatedly slam your head against the wall.
  
  Report this comment
- UNALIEN
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:45pm
  It is a great question, of course you won’t get a real answer, the question is rhetorical.
  
  The fact that they can’t or won’t answer legitimately is the answer…
  
  Collectivism and its variant labels is economic, physical and psychological slavery and exploitation of all but the privileged elites and it always fails. History proves this, reason and logic shows this… you need to be irrational and ignorant to believe in collectivism.. an ideologue
  
  Report this comment
- The-Monk
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:02pm
  The progressives KNOW that they can’t fix the problems in the USA.
  
  So what to do?
  
  Get the Repub’s #1 man to come in and give advice.
  
  Ignore it and 3 years later blame him and his ignored advice.
  
  Report this comment
- undrprsr
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:08pm
  When ‘Pravada’ calls Odumbo a Communist,you know that we have reached the bottom!
  
  Report this comment
- dirtypolitics
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:41am
  I am waiting for their response….this is going to be interesting.
  
  Report this comment
- November29
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 5:34am
  If I were Romney I wouldn’t have anything to do with these creeps. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
  Report this comment
- Individualism
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:22am
  Romney was not a real businessman he was vulture capitalist that destroyed business and shut them down and fired employees and sent jobs to china.
  
  Report this comment
- Kregneva
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:04am
  It is very interesting that we cannot get anyone to reply to this (honest) (but taunting) information request. Maybe not everyone has seen this yet, or maybe the Progs are cynical that anyone here will give them a fair and balanced consideration. It will be interesting to see how many UK foreigners post here, they always seem ready to blather on. But BHO-hg-2-g at least invites honest debate. That’s unusual here.
  
  Report this comment
- PK_SEA
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:48pm
  I think people voted for Obama because he is cool. He plays golf and hoops and is knows a lot about sports and pop culture. He is also a closet smoker. In other words, he is an ‘everyday man’ that appeals to the masses. I don’t think anybody voted for him for his stance on the issues, as he has no stance and had no platform to run on. The country voted for the ‘prom king’ jock instead of the clean cut nerd. This is the direction society is going. We put value in flashy, shiny things we don’t need, to put a temporary bandage on our own vanity.
  
  Report this comment
Diane TX
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:40pm
Here’s a story from The Daily Caller about how the millionaires actually payed LESS taxes after their income tax was raised to 50%. Prime Minister Gordon Brown pushed the tax increase through Parliament before the 2010 elections swept his liberal Labour Party from power.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/28/as-uk-millionaires-flee-country-over-tax-hikes-british-treasury-loses-billions/

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- undrprsr
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:13pm
  Why don’t you focus on the “welfare moms” that know that the more they breed the more they get from GOV’MENT never mind the fathers,they just breeding partners! 16 and pregnant,never worked,MORE I BREED THE MORE GOV’MENT FEEDS!
  
  Report this comment
Chrison
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:32pm
For the life of me I can’t understand why Romney would accept an invitation from Obama to discuss economic ideas. If I were Romney, I’d tell Obama, “You won, sir, so YOU deal with it!”

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Countrygirl1362
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:35pm
  Communist that work together stay together.
  
  Report this comment
- Shaqfuey
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:41pm
  Romney is a decent man that cares about the country more than he cares about his ego.
  
  Report this comment
- BHOHG2G
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:50pm
  To Gov Romney. Don’t help the low life at all. 0 will take credit if something succeeds and blame you for something that doesn’t. That’s his MO.
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:50pm
  GIRL: Romney is no Communist. Obama is the Redistribution Man.
  
  Report this comment
- undrprsr
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:17pm
  This was just “News” for Odumbo,nothing more! I’m sure he reminded Mitt that “HE” through fraud and to “suck it up”!
  
  Report this comment
- NothingisFree
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:55pm
  So the new slogan will become:
  UBL is dead
  GM is alive
  Thanks to Romney, the economy might survive!
  
  Report this comment
- idarusskie
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:40am
  I do not believe Obama would understand any advice that Romney could give. Most likely it is only to show people he is reaching out with one hand while he is twisting the knife in your back with his other hand.
  
  Report this comment
- Annuit Coeptis
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:39am
  I know what you mean: “Please, proceed, Mr. President.”
  
  Honestly, though, I think Gov. Romney is too good a man to let his personal judgement get in the way of the betterment of this country. If it were me, I would definitely want to tell Obama to figure things out on his own rather than taking credit for my ideas.
  
  The truth is that this is one of their tactics. Slam your opponent’s ideas only to claim credit for them later on. Who signed the Civil Rights Act? Lyndon B. Johnson. Who presented the act in the first place? Dwight D. Eisenhower. Who shot Eisenhower’s plan down? Speaker of the House Lyndon B. Johnson.
  
  Report this comment
garbagecanlogic
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:32pm
That ole jay carney he is one savyy dude – yesirree. I doubt they come any sharper.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Lloyd Drako
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:29pm
Waste of time for Romney to offer his ideas to Obama. We already know what Romney’s ideas are, since he had 5 years to peddle them to the American people, who rejected them.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Stelex
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:10pm
  Droyd LLacking any insight at all. Sad little Droyd.
  
  Report this comment
peteto1
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:15pm
Socialism works great until you run out of OTHER people’s money!! Obama’s policies are quickly strangling the national economy. As the decent-paying ($15./hr +) jobs continue to evaporate, buying will slow (e.g.- electronics, cars, homes, etc.) and the GDP will continue to fall. People will max out their “credit” while credit companies simultaneously tighten their lending requirements. By the end of Obama’s 2nd term, America will wish it were Greece……..

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
RightUnite
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:12pm
Romney needs to tell Obama to blow it out his azz.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- NOTMOHAMMED
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:25am
  0bama’s a successful marxist. Carney’s a successful liar. …yawn…
  
  Report this comment
UNALIEN
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:06pm
sounds like a Marxist set up..

Obama will make Romney the token “Capitalist Czar” so that Romney and Capitalism will be blamed when the US dollar and the economy implodes from the Obamas Socialist policies..

That is how Marxists think,, give themselves a fall guy…

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- AvengerK
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:14pm
  Two things are taking place.
  
  Obama is lost for ideas and so are is his farcical administration.
  
  And in typical Obama fashion, he will take credit for someone else’s work if he implements Romney’s ideas and they happen to work.
  
  I’m hoping Romney lets Obama twist in the wind…go ask Paul Krugman for economic advice, he’s asking for more “stimulus”…..he’s got a Nobel Prize don’t you know? LOL.
  
  Report this comment
- Kregneva
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:12am
  Ronald Reagan said, “There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
  Mitt Romney understands this – his wonderful father proved over and over showed we can get even the unimaginable done if we don’t mind who takes credit. So if he gives the President the secrets to success, he is still helping save the greatest country on earth that he wanted to preside over so much.
  
  Report this comment
jungle J
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:53pm
shi. stains are non remorseful for being frauds, hustlers and pimps…our society is at least half this type person…look at older people …they are the most selfish in the society yet complain about how they being cheated.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- kalli
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:08pm
  Your comment about older people tells me that you are a snot-nosed high school dropout that never listened to your parents or grandparents because you know it all, and they know nothing. Fact is you’re the biggest loser.
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:08pm
  HUH? Say what ?
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:26pm
  KALLI: I could tell it was a snot-nosed whatever, but be dipped if I could translate the actual message ! No wonder the kid is so angry and frustrated . The kid can’t communicate !
  
  Report this comment
- kalli
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:33pm
  BARBER, I couldn’t understand the post either except that it appeared to have nothing to do with this article. Could be high on something, but more likely, just full of gas. LOL!
  
  Report this comment
- BHOHG2G
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:54pm
  He’s just repeating what his masters told him to say.
  
  Report this comment
kalli
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:42pm
Really now? The results of this meeting will probably be dissed as when Simpson and Bowles came together and told the thug-in-chief what was necessary to get this nation’s direction changed. This is all a big photo-op…nothing else. And, watch your back, Romney.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Cabo King
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:40pm
Obama isn’t going to listen to Mitt. people actually working for a living, bu hahha…buck ofama

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Gee, remember the good old days….
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klzq3zpayeY
  
  Report this comment
asybot12
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:39pm
I just hope some one has a way to know if the Romney going in is the same Romney coming out! I cannot believe he accepted this invite! If I was him I would describe exactly what he would to with Obama if he was an employee of Romney!!

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:23pm
  Agree. Romney continues to be Mr. Nice Guy while Obama continues to be….well…Barry/ Barack Soetoro / Obama … fulfilling those Dreams of His Father….
  
  Report this comment
- USA5
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:34pm
  Romney loves USA may see this as an opportunity.
  But hussein O more likely to make offer to buy Romney’s soul.
  The Devil asked Jesus for meeting too, to tempt Jesus.
  Anti Christ vs Christ
  I Am not sure Romney knows who/what he is meeting up with?
  Archangel Michael & Faith protect and guide Mitt Romney.
  
  Report this comment
AvengerK
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:38pm
So SIMPLETON…when Herr Axelrod says Romney is a liar and cannot be trusted and that he’s a corporate raider with no regard for the families he ruins but then after the election Obama calls him to the white house for economic advice..what do you make of it? Idiot.
The other side of the coin of course is that no one in their right mind would ask Obama his advice on economics.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Trail_Jumper
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:37pm
Don’t worry Mister Romney, if anything goes wrong with the economy I’m sure that you won’t be used as a scapegoat by the administration after they half heartedly toss in a couple of your ideas (after they have been tweaked a little of course).
You should have stayed home……

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- egclark
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:49pm
  That’s right! Run Romney run, or else you’ll be the next in the Blame Game.
  
  Report this comment
Tigress1
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:36pm
Obama wants to steal Romney’s ideas and take the credit for the success. I wouldn’t blame Romney if he told Obama to buzz off, but Romney is too good of a man.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- CatB
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:12pm
  Yes … I would love to be a fly on the wall, however. And if Romney wants someone to tell Obama to ____ off … I AM AVAILABLE!
  
  Remember Benghazi
  
  Report this comment
- kevinbogard
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:12am
  Idiots will say, “See The great Obama is reaching out to the other side.”
  
  baahahahaaaa
  
  Report this comment
Diane TX
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:33pm
I figure he just wants to say to Romney, “The election’s over, Mitt and I won”.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:40pm
  I wonder if they’ll I.D. Mitt before letting him in.
  
  Report this comment
The-Monk
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:30pm
Sounds like a Saul Alinsky lpoy to divide Republicans.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:19pm
  They are working on that over the tax increase. While Obama follows Saul’s ” cultivate the middle class ” advice.
  
  Report this comment
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:30pm
Romney did it.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
SimpleTruths
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:28pm
It’s amazing how gullible and dumb Glenn’s audience really is.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- AvengerK
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:10pm
  says the Obama fan who is seeing the man Axelrod called a liar and untrustworthy being summoned to the white house for his economic ideas.
  What’s it like SIMPLETON..knowing that Obama is devoid of ideas to fix his own mess that he inherited that he has to beg his rival for his ideas? It doesn’t make you feel like you’ve been had? It should.
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:15pm
  AVEN: Don’t feed the troll. This one is “simply needy .”
  
  Report this comment
- UNALIEN
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Ever notice that the Trolls use Marxist critical theory…
  
  They are Marxist Trolls, they all have one play, the same play repeated
  
  Criticize, Smear and Ridicule…
  
  I can only imagine what a miserable hateful existence that must be, completely void of reason, rationality, logic, context and critical thinking.. completely unable to support themselves or tie shoes, wandering around in a zombie like trance, fearful of manual labor unable to discern reality,,,
  
  these Marxist Trolls are really sociopaths…
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:54pm
  UN: They are all filled with hate, anger and resentment which is why they respond to Obama’s divisive ” hate the rich”/ hate older / traditional Americans rhetoric ( classic Marxist lingo) . And that is precisely why Obama uses hateful , divisive rhetoric. Stir up the masses ! Fire up the Proletariats ! These poor, dumb kids. Lemmings.
  
  Report this comment
- UNALIEN
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:17pm
  @BARBER2
  
  They must be Sociopaths, nobody could willfully choose or pretend to be a troll.. reasoned and rational people can disagree but to use Marxist sociopathic tricks in a repeatedly failed attempt to influence people is a serious mental disorder.They are so miserable inside that they juts need to make everyone miserable…
  
  Perhaps they are so trapped in their doom that they are jealous and envious of others happiness, liberty and freedom. If they could only realize that true Conservatism fights for freedoms and liberty for all including miserable Marxist Trolls… like a drowning dog that tries to bite its rescuer
  
  As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
  There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
  That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
  And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
  
  And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
  When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
  As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
  The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
  
  Report this comment
AvengerK
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:28pm
Let me get this straight..the man who David Axelrod called a liar and cannot be trusted is now “a successful businessman” that Obama wishes to discuss economic ideas with?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Kregneva
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:19am
  There is a theory that one phase of politics ends and another begins when the hard-fought election is over; so it is rather normal to expect that grown adults can bury the hatchet and govern together. In fact, Delaware politicians started the literal hatchet burial ritual hundreds of years ago.
  http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/127967
  
  Report this comment
The-Monk
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:28pm
This is really going to upset Dora-Chucky and all the trolls. LOL

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:46pm
  Hi MONK, Yeah, its almost as if they are admitting their entire focus on the campaign was a lie. Well, we know it was, but the libs will have the usual conniption fits before they admit it. I can just see Martin Bashir’s head exploding on TV.
  
  Report this comment
- The-Monk
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:55pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  Now “that” would be worth watching! LOL
  
  Report this comment
AvengerK
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:27pm
As other Blazers have noted…Obama’s out of ideas and not surprisingly..the man’s a dullard and completely a fabrication of the left and his handlers. He has no grasp of even the most basic of economic principles and neither do his Keystone Kops advisors…I mean…when has anyone taken Tim Geithner seriously?
And so Obama’s going to attempt to do what he always does..take credit for someone else’s efforts and intellect.
I truly wish Romney denied Obama an audience but being an MA Republican, Romney is used to playing nice with the far left. Obama would never do the same if a republican president called him to the white house..but then again..who’d be stupid enough to ask Obama’s economic advice?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Kregneva
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 9:42am
  Then again, Mr. Geithner is leaving his current post to return to Wall Street in 2013 – here he made millions for himself and his clients – who apparently did take him seriously. Maybe our facts are blurred by the strong disappointment we feel after failing to sufficiently gain the country’s trust and respect.
  
  Report this comment
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:23pm
Here we go with revisionist history on the part of Obama-admin. What is their game now?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- eyestoseeearstohear
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:32pm
  @ SNOW
  
  You can BET it’s some kind of a “set-up”.
  If nothing else…it’s like bowling…setting him up just to knock him down again!
  
  Romney ought to steer clear of this…it’s NOT going to be good, either way.
  
  Report this comment
- bava
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:36pm
  It was Newt Gingrich who used the term vulture capitalist in regards to Romney. It hadn’t during the GOP debates. Who’s revising history now?
  
  Report this comment
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:13pm
  EYES: Agree. Romney will be their next Trial By Media star. Their next General Petraeus . Set him up, just to take him down. Avoid this administration. Toxic.
  
  Report this comment
IndyGuy
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:21pm
Obama: “Oh…So that’s how you did it, I’m sure we can regulate that out of existence”………….

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
UNALIEN
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 5:18pm
and Pravda, Putins mouthpiece admits Obama is a successful Communist

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- barber2
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 6:10pm
  Putin has Pravda. Obama has the MSM.
  
  Report this comment

It appears that you have Javascript Disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences for a better user experience on TheBlaze. You can not comment without Javascript enabled.