From the Washington Examiner: The single biggest theme of President Obama’s reelection campaign has
been a misleading attack-and-brag regarding the auto bailouts.
Obama and his partymates have attacked Romney a hundred times on the grounds that Romney wrote an op-ed with the headline “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” The implication of this attack is very clear:
(1) Obama didn’t let Detroit go bankrupt. and (2) Romney wanted to liquidate the failed automakers.
Both claims are false. And I’m not inferring too much here — Obama
has made both of these false claims explicitly. “We didn’t let Detroit
go bankrupt,” Obama said in a June fundraiser in Baltimore. “We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt,” Obama said in his radio address two weeks ago....
These days, it’s Romney who’s playing fast and loose on the auto
industry. You see, after Obama gave Chrysler to an Italian company,
Fiat, corporate management said they would start building some Jeeps in
China. They never said they would move any jobs out of the Jeep plant in
Toledo, but that seems like the implication Romney is trying to give
off in the ad — and he has asserted as much explicitly as least once.
So now the Obama campaign, which has been blatantly and constantly misleading on auto industry stuff, has taken to full-time condemnation of this “outrageous lie.”
The liberal media has joined in the chorus of righteous condemnation,
and the mainstream has picked up the Obama campaign’s gripes.
Give Obama this — he’s good at working the refs. http://washingtonexaminer.com/romney-employs-obama-tactics-on-autos.-obama-cries-foul./article/2512048#.UI9HKmc8VXs
And Obama is soooo hurt by the accusations: From the Weekly Standard: "I saw the reports of Governor Romney's latest ad saying that the
president had allowed Jeep to move to China," said Clinton. "And so this
morning, before he left Florida and went back to Washington, he said,
'You know, of all the things Governor Romney has said that probably
hurts my feelings the most.' http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-obamas-feeling-hurt-over-jeep-ad_658105.html
And then Obama, the classy person he is, lies about it: He said, 'You know, I never had any money when I was a kid. and the
first new car I ever owned I was 30 years old it was a Jeep.'"
As an aside, it's Interesting that, according an old USA Today report, Obama's first (used) car was a Ford Granada.
Like many men, President Obama has fond memories of his first car -- even if it was a Ford Granada."I have to confess; my first car was my grandfather's car," Obama told AAA in an interview. "Which was a Ford Granada."Then, it appears, Obama owned a red Fiat. “Before
returning to Hawaii, Stan bought his grandson a present: a beat-up old
red Fiat that they found at a Los Angeles used car lot,” writes David
Maraniss in Barack Obama: The Story.
Then, Maraniss details Obama had a Honda Civic. “Before
leaving New York, Obama spent two thousand dollars on a blue Honda
Civic that he would drive into the heartland to start his new life.”
Do we have a president in office now or a girly man?
Tammytalk, But NO Questions Taken
40 minutes ago
You lost me somewhere. Where did the Prez lie about his car? And how does a Civic make him a girly man?
ReplyDeleteThe President didn't lie about the car. He said the first NEW car he had was a jeep.
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