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Mitt Romney repeatedly condemned a Super PACs preliminary plan to use Jeremiah Wright in ads against President Obama, but complained to reporters in Florida on Thursday that Obamas campaign was engaged in character assassination of their own by running ads highlighting layoffs at companies bought by Bain Capital.
My work at Bain was to try to make the enterprises more successful, to grow them, he said. There is this fiction that some have that somehow you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with a lot of money there may be some people that know how to do that. I sure dont.
He continued: The purpose of the presidents ads are not to describe success and failure but to somehow suggest that Im not a good person or not a good guy. And I think the American people will know better than that if they dont already. This really should be a campaign about the future, about who can get America on track again to create good jobs, who can do a better job for our kids. It is about jobs and kids. And having a campaign focused on character assassination is one of the things I find offensive among many others in the PAC description that came in the New York Times. If thats accurate, why, obviously thats something I repudiate.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-obama-bain-attacks-are-character-assassination
CMAFR!
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)malaise
(269,259 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Character assassination?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)"Suicider" All self inflicted.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The Obama campaign is rightly pointing out that he was a jobs destroyer. Mitt's whole candidacy is pretty much based on his time at Bain and he thinks that qualifies him to be President because he was CEO.
Criticizing his job destroying tendencies is definitely fair game. His entire record should be scrutinized. Mittens just can't handle it.
Pathwalker
(6,600 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Republicans always accuse others of doing the very thing they do.
wandy
(3,539 posts)you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with a lot of money there may be some people that know how to do that. I sure dont.
If that is not why Bain exists, then what the hell are you good for.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)No, not even with dumbass republicans.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/newt-gingrich-any-ad-that-uses-words-i-actually-said-is-a-falsehood/
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)I'm sure Romney would like to debate the facts.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Bain Capital created and destroyed (or economized out of existence).
Put the two numbers next to each other and let the TRUTH be known
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Really, your character was like that when you got here. Don't go blaming others for your life's work of rendering yourself a soulless, remorseless narcissist, interested only in when the next big pot of money is going to be dumped into your pocket.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Eff off, RomBot...
Turbineguy
(37,395 posts)converted assets and people into money.
lob1
(3,820 posts)louis-t
(23,309 posts)librechik
(30,678 posts)TBF
(32,121 posts)called a Muslim, accused of not being born in this country, etc and so on ... Shoe's on the other foot now huh.
Fuck the repug dirtbags. They can sure dish it out but they can't take it. You better believe Romney's character is at issue.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and his ethics, because he has nothing he wasn't programmed with. That's why he wavers like a flag in the breeze.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Romney is a POS. He's just mad that people are discussing that truthful fact.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)If Obama says that Romney lost jobs and bankrupted companies while at Bain, then that is character assassination?
But if Romney says that Obama lost millions of jobs and is bankrupting our country, then that is not character assassination??