Obama Re-Election Campaign Accuses Romney of Being a ‘Corporate Raider’ and Exploiting the Middle Class
- Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:31am by
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The Obama re-election campaign is adding to the growing chorus of seemingly anti-capitalist rhetoric aimed at former governor Mitt Romney by attacking his oft-touted business record.
President Obama’s re-election campaign sent out a memo on Friday accusing Mitt Romney of “destroying companies and good-paying jobs in order to reap huge profits,” according to Jamie Dupree of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
These are some excerpts from the memo:
… Romney’s objective in business was never job creation.
…Romney closed over a thousand plants, stores and offices, and cut employee wages, benefits and pensions. He laid off American workers and outsourced their jobs to other countries. And he and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy.
Although some of the businesses in which he took a stake undoubtedly added jobs, neither Romney’s campaign nor any independent fact checker has supported his claim of producing a net increase of 100,000 American jobs – or even anything close to it.
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Armed with the facts, the American people will determine whether Mitt Romney’s track record shows he believes our prosperity will come from an economy where the wealthy and powerful can rig the game at the expense of working Americans, or every American who works hard and acts responsibly will have a fair shot at success. Voters can judge for themselves whether his vision for the future is based on outsourcing and bubble economies that enrich speculators and corporate raiders, or an economy built to last in which the productivity of our workers is rewarded.
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Our economic crisis and endemic income inequality were caused in large part by a few who put profits over people. Taking advantage of an uneven playing field, where there was one rulebook for those at the top and another for everyone else, Mitt Romney and his friends made money hand over fist while working families lost their grip on the middle-class lifestyle they earned.
The memo’s authors quickly switch from condemning Romney to praising President Barack Obama for creating jobs and growing the economy:
“…[he] has taken formidable, decisive steps to protect free enterprise, investors and consumers – and why he’s fighting for an economy that’s built to last…”
“…the President championed Wall Street reform that requires more rigorous disclosure and tightens oversight of the kind of speculation that caused the market meltdown…”
The memo also claims the president rescued the U.S. auto industry, revived manufacturing, and freed businesses from “burdensome regulations.”
However, it’s not the boasts about President Obama’s economic “successes” that have some critics scratching their heads. It’s the decision to attack Mitt Romney via private equity.
Considering the fact that President Obama has “both taken donations from the industry and appointed a number of private equity veterans to his administration,” as Alexander Burns of Politico writes, this line of attack seems very odd.
Here is a sampling of some of the “private equity veterans” President Obama has surrounded himself with (via Politico):
- Jack Lew: The new White House chief of staff was previously a managing director at Citi Alternative Investments
- Nancy-Ann DeParle: A deputy chief of staff who helped lead the president’s health care reform effort was also a managing director at CCMP Capital
- Jeffrey Goldstein: The recently-departed undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance was also a managing director at Hellman & Friedman before he joined the administration. He’s returning to the private equity firm now that he has resigned
- Steve Rattner: A former auto czar who came out of the world of private equity before briefly working with the administration
- Mark Gallogly: Works for Centerbridge Partners, and is formerly of the Blackstone Group. He was on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
- Richard Parsons: Former Time Warner executive on the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is also linked to Providence Equity Partners Inc
- Walter Jones: Currently the U.S. executive director of the African Development Bank, he was also a senior private equity executive with Gravitas Capital Advisors
And these are just a few examples.
The list doesn’t even mention the other “private equity veterans” currently employed by the President’s Management Advisory Board, the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council and the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“If President Obama plans to campaign against Mitt Romney and the alleged evils of private equity, then he will need to start by purging the ranks of his own administration,” a private equity insider told Politico.
Final Thought: Seeing as how they’ve decided to target him specifically, as opposed to any of the other GOP candidates, it seems the Obama re-election campaign is confident Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination.




















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bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:51amHey Obama how about all of the jobs Mitt “saved”? You are not the only one that can create job stats out of thin air. :)
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:56amIt doesn’t matter what Obama says about Romney. Obama has sent this country on a path to ruin. Only communists, socialists, and morons undeserving of their remaining freedoms will vote for Obama; it will have nothing to do with his opponent.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:13amActually, BCBuster, Obama hasn’t created any jobs but, rather, has caused more job losses.
Can we be surprised, really, that Obama and the socialist/democratic party will use the tried-and-true method of deamonizing ANY candidate who runs against him?
The left-leaning media is ready to go, as are the zealots like Wasserman-Shultz, the CBC, Sharpton, Pelosi, Wright, V Jones…..all of them.
You need to steel yourself to vote for whoever that candidate is. Obama must be defeated.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:22amWell you got Mitt the Corp Raider or Obama the Corp Destoryer.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:52amOur Chump-in-Chief will exploit his party’s greatest strength – Ignorant Voters. I would like to suggest that those here making immature, uneducated comments about Bain Capital get themselves educated quickly and resist the Neanderthal urge to parrot Obama’s Army. Some of you sound just like his giggling class-warfare monkeys.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:04amNewt may be inadvertently doing Mitt a huge favor by getting all of this out of the way now. I’m sure Obama wanted to save this one for October, where there wouldn’t be time for a proper response.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:07amFroma Harrop: The missing ‘humanity clause’ at Bain
Report Post »During the Great Depression, my father toiled in a box factory. The workers were all flat broke, he recalled, and desperate for every nickel. But when overtime hours appeared, the men made sure they went to a guy with kids. The laborers were obeying the unwritten and unenforceable “humanity clause,” whereby one gives up some personal gain in deference to another’s screaming need.
My father later built a prosperous small business and became a reliable Republican (until the Bill Clinton impeachment). But he never saw working people as nobodies. Profits, while important, were not all….
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/columns-analysis/2012/01/14/froma-harrop-missing-humanity-clause-bain/1140206
Bill Rowland
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:13amWhat about the Solydra technology and the rumors of the Volt being built in China because it has been a complete flop in the US.
How about bailing out GM and Chysler and then telling them they had to fire a whole bunch of people. How about Obumbler and his Czar selling Chrisler to Fiat and making the Fiat 500 Chyrslers featured car.
What about the closure of drilling and pipelines is the US and the Gulf of Mexico and the loans to Brazil. Now it‘s the Ethenol that does’nt exist and fines for not using it, the cost will show up at the pump and in the cost of all consumer goods including food.
What about the increase in the debt ceiling where if he didn’t get his was, Social Security, Medicare, Military (active and retired ) pay abs federal employee pay would be stopped, but not food stamps and welfare where his voting base comes from.
I could go on until I run out of room and fill up a couple of more pages on Obumblers fumbles and his lies.
OMG
Report Post »HKS
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:16amI doubt that O has ever made a dime at anything that didn’t involve the public trough. What a badge to sear, a public whore.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:21am@ STUCK_IN_CALIFORNIA
Report Post »We all love cute, personal anecdotes, but why don’t you try making the tens of thousands of employees feel guilty who still have jobs at Staples, Sports Authority, AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino’s Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin’ Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys “R” Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel, thanks at least in part to Bain Capital.
IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:25amAnyone that would vote again, for this now known dictator bent on destroying our country, would be a traitor to this country.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:27amObama says Mitt sent jobs out of the USA. I guess he recently sent solar panels to China. Now Chevy is sending the Volt to China. The only people I know that have lost their jobs was in 2009 and 2010. Hmmm.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:42amThe Bamster is at it again, except, it’s kind of like the pot calling the kettle black – no pun intended.Time to vet all the crew that the Imposter-in-Chief that has surrounded himself with, the companies they were connected with, their function with the company and how many corporations were raided with specificity and what kind of money was withdrawn in relation to the size of the investment. While the vetting is being done, also look at the contributions that The One had received from Wall Street and corporate America both in 2008 versus McCain and presently. The data for 2008 is available on line and Obama’s treasuries have been filled with many, many millions from big business that McCain, and the litany is being continued and ramped up in 2012, and in some cases even greater. For good measure see display the multiplied millions contribute by Hollywood, entertainment and sports magnates with the brain dead that play in the games, like the NBA and the NFL.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:43amRomney is going to have difficulty running in the general election. He’s not too far apart from Obama in domestic policies and he will be depicted as a corporate raider, tied to the cause of economic demise.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:56amThis week, Sen. Jim DeMint offered some advice to the Republican Party: “The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. … There’s no longer room for moderates and liberals because we don’t have any money to spend, so I don’t want to be debating with anyone who wants to grow government.”
Rick Santorum has said: “I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.” Sen. DeMint says: “I’d like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.” Not surprisingly, Santorum has spent most of his political career promoting big government. Not surprisingly, DeMint has spent most of his political career fighting it.
continued http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/13/jim-demints-libertarian-lesson/
Report Post »Unix
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:09am…and Obama is a Marxist exploiting America – kick this ringpiece out of the WH come November people, this idiot has to go!
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:22amI have not personally confirmed these stats but a freind of mine brought this to my attention:
The percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.
Report Post »You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job.
Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt……………….. 38%
Taft……………………………. 40%
Wilson ……………………… 52%
Harding……………………… 49%
Coolidge……………………. 48%
Hoover………………………. 42%
F. Roosevelt………………. 50%
Truman……………………… 50%
Eisenhower……………. …. 57%
Kennedy……………………. 30%
Johnson…………………….. 47%
Nixon………………………… 53%
Ford………………………….. 42%
Carter……………………….. 32%
Reagan……………………… 56%
GH Bush……………………. 51%
Clinton …………………….. 39%
GW Bush…………………… 55%
Obama…………………8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration:
only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!
That’s right! Only eight percent—the least, by far, of the
last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell
corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one
with the most successful economic system in world history, stan
Polwatcher
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:27amHey, we need vulchures. They clean up roadkill. What I don’t like is having one as President.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:10pmFreedompurveyor gets it. Inoculation.
Report Post »audiemurphy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:15pmThis is the most Hypocritical line of BS which is also typical of Obama! Attack the evil rich is essentially what they are saying that the wealthy rig the system to profit at the expense of the worker! Well hey Obama give up your millions and fix the laws so members of the senate and congress can’t continue to inside trade on the stock Market knowing what they know about passing laws which will affect the outcome of stock prices. Right now it’s legal and many members on both side of the isle are
Report Post »insider traders who profit at the expense of shareholders and 401k holders!
Obama you are a phoney 1 term president and in the words of Donald trump : Your Fired!
Mitt Romney will enjoy reminding you of that while you and your America Hating wife hopefully get deported to Indonesia or rot in jail after all the hearings that will hopefully condemn you as the treasonist bastard you are!
slr4528
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:00pmVechorik
I completely agree with you,Santorum turned me off when he said that. I am pushing for Romney or Paul because they understand and believe in the Free Market Business Model.
I truly believe a Romney/Rand Paul ticket is a ticket that would rock the political system because these two had a life and were successful outside of Washington. This ticket would attract both Independents and conservatives and alot of young people. I would love to see Michele Bachman as Secretary of Health and Human Services. She would obliterate Obamacare.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:12pmHey don’t forget to call him a racist too . Oops now your out of ammo . I hope the Republicans aren’t stupid enough to play by the democrats (media) rules . This election is about the most pathetic President in modern times, maybe ever (probably), this is a referendum on obama’s Presidency .Period.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:15pm@quicker
Why do you think the media and establishment Republicans are pushing Romney? He’s no different from Obama, thus why vote for anyone but Obama? People will either consider the lesser of two evils (Romney because he will get us to the same place slower, thus no one will notice as much) or what we already know (thinking Romney is too much of an unknown). Once again, can you say Guided Democracy?
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:42pmLike those Solyndra jobs in a bankrupt company that Obama just gave bonuses to the executives reponsible for bankrupting the company! Great move, Obama, or is that just more lies since have such a difficult time with the truth! How many more of these companies are going to pop up that you gave billions of dollars to only to have them in bankruptsy! Guess that makes you, Mr. Prez, as corrupt as the executives who told you they were in financial trouble before you gave them tons of our taxpayer money! Guess that makes you, Mr. Prez, as corrupt as the executives!
Report Post »sane_man
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:23pm@DISENLIGHTENED It is YOU who is deluded and ignorant. I have many friends -and I’m not exaggerating – who work for companies owned by Bain. The points both Obama and Newt are making are sound and factual. If you want this country treated like a Bain holding then go right ahead. Get out of your safe little “information” bubble and you might learn something about the real world.
Not to mention, Romney‘s healthcare plan was the model for Obama’s. So good luck with that.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:31am“I have many friends -and I’m not exaggerating – who work for companies owned by Bain.”
Work for? I thought Bain just fires everybody.
Bain is not in business to make sure everyone in the company keeps their job. The idea is to fix the company’s finances so that it can actually be profitable and grow.
Is Bain driven by the good feeling they get from creating jobs? No, they are driven by profit, and the jobs are a side effect. That is the essence of free enterprise.
“Not to mention, Romney‘s healthcare plan was the model for Obama’s. So good luck with that.”
That line comes straight from the Obama camp, and is clearly disingenuous. Romney’s plan was 70 pages long, Obama’s was over 2,000, and they really have little in common. You might as well say that the story of Jonah was the model for Moby Dick because they’re both about a big fish.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:50amEmployees > 90,000 (2009) staples emloyed United States. Not to hard for me to find the jobs he created Oshama and company. Wikipedia which is somewhat biased even shows the numbers.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:18amthe choice of word is telling.“the obama campaign etc” not obama himself. evvn criticism of opponents has to be defered to someone or some thing else.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:48pmRomney is a crony capitalist like Obama, They both supported TARP
The only person who opposed TARP and offered an CONSERVATIVE alternative was Newt Gingrich
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:59pmObama and his ilk have no room to criticize anyone.
Report Post »dmar003
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:13amI think the speach writers for obama ran out of material for his speech. All they did is put Romneys name instead of obamas. HE MUST BE A ONE TERM PRESIDENT.
Report Post »sane_man
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:16amFREEDOMPURVEYOR Even though it was juts a snarky comment, I‘ll comment Of course they don’t’ fire EVERYBODY, but I’ve seen their practice first hand. And some of those friends in fact WERE fired. And are you seriulsly with a straight face telling me the number of pages is proof that it wasn’t a model? Maybe “inspiration” or “test case” would be more suitable. But really, do you deny the similarities? Surely you don’t. And OF COURSE a national plan has more details and required information, and yes…pages…than a plan for a single state. It’s pretty straight-forward.
I’ll agree iwth you on one point. You are absolutely right that Bain is in the business of profit…not creating jobs. And yes jobs are in fact a byproduct. It’ just that the byproduct is lack of jobs. They make profits by cutting jobs. Job creation my azz. It‘s going to be hard to convince me otherwise of something I’ve seen with my own eyes.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:24amIs it true that Obama plans to dump Biden and run with Newt?
Report Post »legendarytwo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:04amI don’t know, but if Obama tries to run against mormonism it will open himself up for getting attacked for black liberation theology and all the associations McCain would never attack!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:54amAnd at the time Romney was in bussiness, Obama was a crack smokin, closet homosexual community organizer, who got everything for free thru affirmative action, and could’nt even run a Donut shop successfully…… And the latest news:::: he misses his body man, Reggie Love…….. Awww
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:57amThat whole Reggie Love thing is totaly gay, isn’t it?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:04amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTbLeSuee4&feature=autoplay&list=PL48AFA9A2FD0B59AB&lf=results_main&playnext=2
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:10amThe loss about to be handed to the Democrats is gonna go from President to Dog catcher…. And they know it, and it scares the living crap out of them… Dont think the 2010 midterm beating is’nt fresh in there minds….It is..
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:20amObama created lots of jobs in the printing business…. Food stamps and Dollars…..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:27amI think it’s great if the Obama campaign wants to make this about destroying jobs .. I have never seen anyone so good at it as OBAMA!
OMG 2012 .. .. Obama MUST Go!
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:51amBiden makes Obama look SMART. Obama knew that when he made him VP. Obama does not like any competition. Obama is a very insecure man….but an observant,opportunist predator. I do admire Obama, by his appearance with his daughters,that he is a GREAT DAD!!!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:21amHey Barry…let’s take a really close look at Government Motors..in my area all the conservates lost their dealerships and the union got control while other inverstors lost most of their investment.
So when you say you saved Government Motors…lets peel the onion back as see what you really did. Bain Captial saved more companies and jobs than the companies that they actually closed.
Like Government Motors, you “saved jobs” by eliminatig waste…seems like you used Bain Captial’s business model..however on you lined the pockets of unions and campaign contributors instead of investors who risked their own money..you only risked the taxpayer’s monery!
However, Bain Capital shared profits with those who risked their own money…Barry you only risk our money (the taxpayers) not your money or the money of your union thugs buddies, socialist friends, campaign contributors and most importantly your angry wife (she puts it that way)!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:18amValiant effort. This was debunked years ago by foxnews.com and others who studied the specific dealerships. Many were chosen by GM in 2008. They were not selected by “Obama.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:52amValiant effort Tifosa, we all know who the real “corprate raider” is. I’m sure his name is on the bumper of your Prius.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:05am@living in NY
Report Post »Not only did they use Bain Capital’s bussiness model when they illegally took over the auto companies…. They actually used Bain Capital as a paid consultant… That just came out a few days ago… Obama is a Marxist who has no idea how wealth is created, if you took all the rich peoples money, and all the middle class peoples money , and gave it to the poor, the rich people would have all the money back in six months, cuz people are poor for a reason…. Its called ignorance, drug abuse, and bad choices……
Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:16amIf i walked into that voting booth next November and the was Obama or a steaming pile of Dog Turds…. I would proudly choose the steaming pile of Dog Turds…. PROUDLY !!!
Report Post »quicker
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:19am@Tiffy Obama has the name of Corperate destoryer.Just as Unions are the same.Come on child grow up start useing your brain for something other than to hold your ears apart.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:32am@TIFOSA
Report Post »BHO is a dictator bent on destroying this country. He fooled a lot of people in 2008, but not again. We don’t want a power hungry dictator, one that ignores our laws, our constitution, our freedom. He thinks this country was built on togetherness (his Marxist training coming out) when in fact, it was rugged INDIVIDUALISM AND FREEDOM that made this country great. So little fairy, piss off and blow away.
audiemurphy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:23pmBHO wants to villainize the rich . bwwwwwhahahahahaha
Report Post »I guess pelosi himself and all the insider traders in the senate and Congress can prepare for their day in court they all profit at the expense of the worker!
So hypocritical !!!!! Impeach the dumb community organiser!
tifosa
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:07pmBest comment: paperboy calling the Republican candidate (Mitt?) “a steaming pile of Dog Turds.” (((((chuckle))))))
Report Post »sane_man
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:38pm@DETROIT PAPERBOY So Obama admin used Bain as a consultant and used same approach…and yet Obama is a Marxist. You can’t have it both ways. People say Obama is a Marxist are just foolish and not worthy of debate of discussion. People who actually ARE Marxist and socialist don‘t’ think he is.It’s such a stupid and indefensible point of view blathered all over this place. It makes you people look crazy, ill informed, or just plain stupid and ignorant of actual political viewpoints. Or racist. I don’t know what…but as much as I disagreed with Bush I never thought he was a Nazi, OR a communist, or a traitor, etc….and I praised his good deeds (which were few in my opinion and heavily outwieghed by bad decisions and gross mismanagement). Bush was no conservative that’s for sure, but he was still the President and I treated him as such in conversation. You sound bitter. When will you people learn some respect. Your flag wrapping and constitution yapping is so fake and lacks real ideology.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:19amNo one has exploited the Middle class more than the Democratic Party. When the ‘Great Society” was proclaimed in 1968—who do you think had their paychecks rifled to suport the government designated professional whiners and victims–the middle class. It’s no acident that women were forced out of the home in droves to supplement dwindling paychecks from which significanrt dollars were stolen by the increasingly Communist government to support the “ chosen people” and deny opportunities to the working class based on race or income. I still don’t see any racially directed programs aimed at poor white kids stuck in the cities–they are largely invisible What’s happening in this country is the direct result of the Democratic party and its pandering amd catering to minorities to buy votes. Democrats know nothing and spout insanity to justify their perverted programs which destroy this country, not build it up.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:55amHere here. Keep giving them hell, Momsense.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:31am@momsense
Report Post »RIGHT ON GIRL !!!!!!!
MEANS2RESIST
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:52amExcellent post MOM….IMO, business is business, Romney did nothing ou out of the ordinary…
Report Post »mccracken
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:12pmIt’s “Hear Hear” you idiot.
GLENNONALL
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:14amHis administration closed down hundreds of G.M. dealerships some being in business for 3 generations.,of course the ones closed down made no contributions to the DNC.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:36amGlennonall…you speak the truth..a conserative friend of mine had GM, Ford and Chrysler dealerships and he lost his GM and Chrysler dealerships in the restructure! Another conserative friend had a family Chevy dealership from the early 1920 and Barry and his union thugs shut him down too!
Both guys felt they were targets since they supported republicans!
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:10pmOur local car dealer who was in business since the 1920′s was a very vocal Republican and he lost his dealership as well. He is attempting to sell services and used cars….it is really sad. He was shut down after he had placed a lot of money in refurbishing his building. I am now buying used cars.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:14amnote in photo: Zero is indicating approximate size of his actress wife’s backside.
iCarly,…… really?
What about Zero’s USA-raiding? That seem OK to all? Ignore this twerp and the actress he rode in on.
Report Post »GO-FOR-LIBERTY
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:43amAnd what is with all the gray hair that wasn’t there yesterday–or an hour ago? Must they lie about everything?
Report Post »raderby
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:11amand I accuse Zero of being a treasonous, lying, impeachable twerp.
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:10amIt is a strange old world we live in. The same big banks that fund Obama are the same people that are funding Romney, and that money is being used to attack each other. Strange. Romney will be no different than Obama, I think most people realise that. There’s only one candidate that offers real change and we all know who that is.
Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:48amC’mon you paulbots. you ain’t going to win us over with foolish comparisons. None of the GOP candidates are anything like Obama.
Report Post »Paul might be ok but you guys that support him are a bunch of juveniles. How about this comparison….Paul supporters…….OWS crowd.
RepubliCorp
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:04amFunny how Paul attracts the neo-Nazi vote. Using your logic there would be no different between Paul and Hitler
Report Post »amdoktor
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:04amI’m a registered Republican. We need to vote Obama out of office, Romney is chosen one by the media for reasons that may be of interest to you. (see links) Briefly, Bain Capital purchased ClearChannel Communications in 2006. ClearChannel syndicates Premier and Iheart Radio. These stations are the nationwide conservative talk shows of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck. Bain/Romney purchased conservative talk radio, and our so called conservative talk show heroes are towing Clearchannel’s political agenda. The second webpage lists all the Campaign contributions by Bain since 2006. Romney and Obama top the list with the rest (mostly) Democrat and Progressives.
This information needs to be brought up and we are heading to the same situation as 2008, were
the Progressive/socialist can not lose.
Check these links. God bless
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/bain-capital-owns-clear-channel-rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-glenn-beck-michael-savage-etc
http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/bain-capital/b4c7ee21345c459d9a2b14dec2f52122?cycle=-1
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:50am@CHURCHILL Spot on.,,,,.Obama or Romney we all loose….Its tough for Ron Paul when both sides are against him
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:13amRon Paul has more in common with Obama than Romney does. I can list 10 quotes that if you didn‘t attached Ron Paul’s name to it… you would think it was the ‘other’ messiah himself… Obama.
Ron Paul…. the other Democrat for office.
Report Post »amdoktor
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:35amPaulbots, Paulards, Loonies, Crazies. Freedom of speech is great ! The fact of the matter is, the Teaparty, Ows, and other Americans that have awakened realize that the most important
Report Post »issue this election is the loss of freedoms. The Government is systematically eroding these Freedoms and removing “ Granted by our creator” to Granted by Government. Without our freedoms we have nothing. When they are all gone, will you say, ” Gee what happened ? ”
God bless us all
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Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:26amWhat is it that liberals find so attractive about Ron Paul? Some liberals are so enamored with Paul’s foreign policy, namely, his opposition to practically any form of overseas military engagement that they are willing to overlook all of Paul’s other lunacies. In certain parts of the left-wing imagination, America’s aggressive imperial overreach is so acute that it must be stopped at all costs. Left-wing blogger Philip Weiss has even suggested that liberals think of supporting Paul as an ugly, but necessary, progressive compromise, likening it to nothing less than “seculars joining with the Muslim Brothers to get rid of Mubarak. You needed a broad coalition to push Hosni out.”
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:29amBULLCRAPBUSTER, how am I being juvenile? I don’t go by what people say, I go by their records. It’s a fact that Mitt is a flip flopper, is it not? Ron Paul has got the most consistent record out of all the candidates. He’s NEVER voted to raise taxes, he’s NEVER voted for an unbalanced budget. He’s also the only candidate with a credible plan to cut government down to size. I could go on and on. I honestly don‘t see how that’s being juvenile.
Who do you support and why? I‘ll put Dr Paul’s record up against anyone else. Do you honestly believe Romney will bring change?
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:58am@bullcrapbuster
Hhhhhmmmm.
Gee, that looks like Obama’s donor list…eh?
Romney=Obama.
Goldman Sachs $235,275
Report Post »Citigroup Inc $178,450
Merrill Lynch $176,125
Morgan Stanley $170,350
Lehman Brothers $154,800
UBS AG $125,150
JPMorgan Chase & Co $123,800
Bain & Co $121,475
Marriott International $121,150
Bain Capital $118,550
Kirkland & Ellis $111,700
The Villages $110,900
Credit Suisse Group $104,900
Compuware Corp $103,550
Huron Consulting $102,050
PricewaterhouseCoopers $92,250
American Financial Group $87,550
Affiliated Managers Group $82,112
Cerberus Capital Management $79,450
Sun Capital Partners $77,850
Freedomluver
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:38pm@TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
What kind of nut would believe this kind of nonsense?
http://www.fff.org/comment/AdamsPolicy.asp
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force….
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit….
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace.
John Quincy Adams
Tell us..Do you agree with Obama on this issue?
Hhhhmmmm.
Think about it.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:08amThis was predictible. Perry and Newt have given Obama even more ammo with their recent behaviour. Obama will easily manage to paint Mitt as some sort of evil vulture praying on the poor. I can’t see Romney beating Obama.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:08am`
Obama did not, nor does he now have a clue on what the presidency entails. The American people have spent 3 years and trillions of dollars trying to (white)-house train the man and the best this mutt can do is lead from behind and leave in his wake a battered and bruised country.
He is the classic Greek Tragedy; a narcissistic megalomaniac with a character flaw (pride) that destroys not only him, but those around him as well. A second term will destroy him and us.
The hypocrite Obama does not have the moral authority to lead this nation.
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:04amThe primaries are over already? I must have missed that.
Report Post »ARMED AND READY
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:43amHow many titles can we pin on obama…liar ,thief ,socalist…
Report Post »FLDeb
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:38amThis president has been proven to be the most deceitful person I have ever seen. It makes me angry that he has been able to look people right in the eye and lie……. What has been said about the most despicable people in our history? They were so charming, personable, likable….. Well maybe it is time we start looking for people with a few morals instead of who might win american idol. At least we would not have to worry about them attempting to kill us in our sleep.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:31amWell, Obama seems to know who he’d like to run against. OR… does he just want us to THINK that so we’ll choose someone else….hmmnn….
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:18amDooms Day USA 02/29/2012
Report Post »Add the day, the month and the year and you get 18=1+8=9 than add the day 29 together and you get 11. Put them together and you get 9/11 on leap day of leap year 2012.
ORKIN_MAN
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:57amReally! And if I put 6+4+10 together I get 20! Ooooh Scary!
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:09amThe Blaze is perhaps being deceptively diverse in the names of Barack’s investment banker staff. Let’s add some of our own…
- A former Goldman Sachs’ lobbyist is Tim Geithner’s Chief of Staff at Treasury. Tim is very smart and surely rules that place with an iron fist.
*** Ron Bloom, former Lazard & Feres investment banker along side Rattner, Auto Czar, this is the ‘all politics comes from the barrel of gun’ guy
*** Paul Volker, former J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn & Co investment banker, Economics Czar
*** Richard Holbrook (now deceased); AIG Board Member, Credit First Suisse Bank
*** Kenneth Feinberg; not an investment banker but instead a lawyer who makes rules for investment bankers
And honorable mentions Science Czar *** John Holdren and Information Czar *** Cass Sunstein. We could call these guys perhaps ‘indirect labor’.
Then there is that ****** guy George Soros.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:22amRomney: Who funds him? 10 percent from small individual contributions, the rest from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase. More in common with Oblameo.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Love those Brits, want to be a puppet of those guys.
Who funds Paul? 48 percent from small individual contributions
Ron Paul for Congress Cmte, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheep, IBM
Gun Owners of America rates Paul A+ rates Romney D-
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:14amWEST COAST PATRIOT who found Paul?
Report Post »http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/the_ron_paul_campaign_and_its.html
RepubliCorp
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:15amOops (funds)
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Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:30amPutting aside for a moment Mr. Paul’s leftist policies on a variety of social issues ranging from his unwavering support for newfangled “gay rights”, to include open homosexuality in the military, to advocacy for across-the-board legalization of illicit drugs, Mr. Paul demonstrated that he has a dangerous, fundamental misunderstanding of the threat posed to every American citizen by radical Islam. This alone disqualifies him for serious consideration as our future Commander in Chief.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:47amWho is Newt: Newt is a draft dodger
Report Post »10/22/1991 – Voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/-/1993 – Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 – Voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 – Supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 – Suggested that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 – Supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
06/01/1996 – Helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in 1996 election.
09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – Stated that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
02/15/2007 – Supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
09/28/2008 – Stated if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
10/01/2008 – Stated in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.”
12/08/2008 – Paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 – States we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
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Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:57amGary Bauer: We Can Do Better Than Ron Paul. It is time to put Ron Paul, his distortions, and his unprincipled isolationism out to pasture. The GOP should have had better sense than to even allow him to run in its primaries, and deceptively try to pass himself off as either a conservative or a Republican.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:22pmJudge Napolitano on Ron Paul- Are they LYING To You?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YPRj3yhuVs
West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:11pmWhat is funny about all you Neocons is all you can do is bring up the race card and the media lies. Ha, you guys aare really pathetic.
On the race card lies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4&feature=g-all-u&context=G2305ec2FAAAAAAAABAA
Yeah, a racist would be like that.
As for foreign policy: http://americanvisionnews.com/1052/ron-paul-knows-nothing-about-foreign-policy-video
Isreal or the U.S. could annihilate Iran in 40 minutes. Wow, what a threat they are to us. Geat real you warmongers. You talk about racism, you guys sound racist to me.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:16pmRepub, This is who really funds Paul: 48 percent from small individual contributions
Ron Paul for Congress Cmte, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheep, IBM.
Little bettter company if you ask me. Paul cannot be bought. He will not have any elite establishment pukes telling him what to do.
It is a two man race now with the others having a problem getting on the ballots. Ron Paul will win the nomination barring voter fraud.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:01amOkay……………now lets list what Obama has done with his end of things………….the middle class..the working folks who pay all the federal taxes..and support all the programs and 46% who pay no taxes…we we do hate Obama……….so I’d not go there Obama.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:56amAnd it begins.
Mitt Romney is the Republican Nominee because Obama says so!
Anyone see a problem with this?
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:24amIt is a problem. Obama gets his policies from the Romney camp. They are on different sides of the same Totem Pole. The same as most of the Republicans and Democrats are.
Report Post »In public they appear to be against each other but in private they are working together to destroy America.
ADNIL
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:40amI just watched the MSM news this morning talking about how Romney’s nomination is being affected by Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, and “others”, not even mentioning Paul. WTF???????? I say the fix is in.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:39amBHO and his minions are setting up all the props for the BILLION DOLLAR BLITZ. Everything he has been doing is a setup for the sting (watch the movie The Sting). He has the State media helping him. He has fools that follow him, not having a clue as to the damage he is doing to our country, or to the games he is playing with them – using them – to help him destroy this country – this GD America as his pastor puts it.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:46amRomney is Obama, at least they are backed by the same elites, both bought and paid for: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Swiss_banks_back_Romney_and_Obama.html?cid=31916968
Let’s look at Credit Suiise Group. “In 2009, Credit Suisse settled on charges that it violated sanctions regulating financial transactions with IRAN!! The charges included “stripping”, the practice of removing the identity and origin of funds used in transactions. Credit Suisse employees stripped the identities of Iranian banks enabling funds to be transferred to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the Aerospace Industries Organization, entities respectively involved in the production of nuclear weapons and long range missiles!! More of the same old crap. Politicians who are puppets of the super rich elite establishment.
Paul is one that cannot be bought.
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:06am@wcp
Report Post »paul is in bed with soros. And he cant be bought?………moron….
recoveringneocon
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:41amdrago
Report Post »is that one of “s’nnelG” spooky man conspiracy theories ? and he calls us nuts.
IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:42amI don’t like Romney. But he is not BHO. None of the candidates are Marxists bent on destroying our country – that title belongs to BHO and BHO alone. Putin would do less damage to this country if he were elected than BHO will if he is allowed to stay.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:26pmImpeach, a progressive on the left is only a hair different than a progressive on the right. Look at who funds him, the same that funds Obama. You guys are just getting suckered again like you always have in the past. With all that you should have learned over the last three years, you have not learned anything.
We have lost part of our 4th and th amendment rights with The Patriot Act and NDAA, if we lose our 2nd amendment we are toast. Gun Owners of America’s report card on 2nd amendment:
2012 Presidential Candidates
Friday, 11 November 2011 14:30 Ron Paul A+
Rick Perry A
Rick Santorum B-
Newt Gingrich C
Mitt Romney D-
Jon Huntsman Not Rated
http://gunowners.org/2012presidential.htm
Report Post »TemayElbor
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:32amDue to his failure to lead, it is Obama who has created an economic atmosphere that led to the exploitation of the middle class. One cannot continue “passing the buck.”
He blames President Bush….now he blames Romney….I wonder who is next.
To Pres. Obama ….You knew what you were getting into, all the economic problems you inherited from the previous administration, yet you assured the American people that you can fix things….hope….fundamental change…a timetable for such things to accomplish.
We The People were assured that we finally had our SUPERMAN. Then, we got disappointed.
The national debt is out of control on Obama’s watch.
The next president… will inherit a worst nightmare than Obama. We need to rally in UNITY behind ROMNEY, the next president of the United States.
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:26amRomney is the same book as Obama with a different cover.
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:31amRomney is the same book as Obama with a different cover,
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:29amNewt gives the talking points and Obama follows. What a great leader you would be Newt. You would do a great job rounding up judges, making business fire only the people the Government gives permission to fire and the Whit\e House could have iy‘s first Tiffany’s account too! No thanks!
Report Post »wntsmallgov
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:25amThat is rich, he is talking about Mitt when he has done more harm to the middle class than FDR.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:09amHold up. He did get the Nobel Peace Prize for something, didn’t he? All that brilliance that began in Germany and ended in a fake Greece surely must have told us how awesome he was and still is.
Report Post »Truth is anyone we choose and take our chances with comes up roses next to what we know.
SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:07amBO, your 15 minutes are up. Not going to work this time around. But not to worry, you and MO have enough money now that you don’t have to worry about the rest of us. Live your one percent life style and let the rest of us recover what we have lost.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:59amObama is a dunce, but Chris Christie didn’t do Romney any favors with his Oprah interview either. Romney needs to learn to fight for himself. It appears the media is trying to hold him up like they did for Obama but it will never work. Romney’s shoulders may not be as broad as he thinks. I beleive Perry, Santorum, and Gingrich can stand up to the left better than Romney. Though they may be a little harsh they do come out swinging. Romney’s last ad about them being an embarrassment is ridiculous. I am not crazy about having another president that is embarrassed bc Americans speak their minds. He sure had no problem stretching the truth about Gingrich. I also like Bachmann but she sometimes got a little out of hand trying to explain her differences between other candidates. I do think she explained what she stood for better than Romney though. I am not sure what Romney is for, but I do know who is for him..most all of the media and Washington. I wish they would like us choose who we want for president.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:28am@ P, It is going to be a two way between Romney and Paul. The others are not getting on the ballot in states and districts. Hard to get the delegates needed if you’re not on the ballots. Everyone is going to have to face the fact that we either get on board with a Constitutionalist, or go with moneybags Romney with his support from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
. Credit Suisse employees stripped the identities of Iranian banks enabling funds to be transferred to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the Aerospace Industries Organization, entities respectively involved in the production of nuclear weapons and long range missiles!!
A vote for Romney is a vote for the NWO.
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:13amWEST COAST PATRIOT, this is getting really interesting. It’s between Romney and Paul, as you say and that’ll become clearer in the coming weeks. It’ll be interesting to see what happens then. I reckon the tea partiers, conservatives and libertarians will get behind Paul and the neo-cons and country clubbers will back Romney. Who will come out on top?
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:43amThanks Newt
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:07amYeah no kidding – him and sadly perry for helping the sorry sob out.
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