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Related: About this forumMUST SEE: Romney Undercuts His Own Critique of Obama in 2006 Video!!!
by Daniel Stone Jul 6, 2012 12:09 PM EDT
Mitt Romney says Obama shouldnt blame his predecessor for the poor economy. But a newly uncovered video shows Romney tried the same thing in 2006.
If Mitt Romney had to boil down his chief critique of President Obamas first term in office, it would be something like this: Obama has had three years to turn the economy around, and he hasnt done it. He used nearly those exact words in New Hampshire on Friday morning, when he responded to new uninspiring jobs data from June, when private sector job growth lagged and the unemployment rate stayed stubbornly at 8.2 percent. The presidents policies have clearly not been successful, Romney said.
He also hasnt bought Obamas usual retort, that the economy had lost as many as 775,000 jobs each month when he took office, and that he shouldnt be blamed for that period. Maybe hell say, Oh, its the Republicans, Romney said at a campaign stop in Wisconsin last month, but you know he gets full credit or blame for whats happened in this economy.
However, Romney appears to have undercut his own critique. Not now, but back in 2006, when Romney was defending his own economic record as governor of Massachusetts. The statements were released on Thursday night in a video by American Bridge, a liberal political action committee that does opposition research. At a press conference in the statehouse in Boston, heres what Romney said:
I came in and the jobs had been just falling, like off a cliff. I came in and they kept falling for 11 months and then we turned around and were coming back, Romney said. And thats progress. And if youre going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should immediately turn around. Why, that would be silly. It takes a while to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month, weve turned around.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/06/romney-undercuts-his-own-critique-of-obama-in-2006-video.html
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MUST SEE: Romney Undercuts His Own Critique of Obama in 2006 Video!!! (Original Post)
napkinz
Jul 2012
OP
lumpy
(13,704 posts)1. 'Bee bee Eyes' expresses in this video what every thinking voter knows.
It takes time (and cooperation) to bring things around to normalcy.
jjewell
(618 posts)2. God bless video recording!
Mitt Romney is kicking Mitt Romney's ass... lol
TexasLeftist
(7 posts)3. Right on cue
So glad American Bridge coordinated this one with the jobs report. But where is the Obama campaign. The RNC wastes no time taking footage like this and making it into an ad. Time to fight DIRTY!!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. Romney undercuts his message re healthcare mandate ...
BSUbluNorange
(78 posts)5. PRICELESS!!!!
I think Obama should do a voice over on this video for a web ad
Vanje
(9,766 posts)10. Hi BSUbluNorange!
Are you an Idahoan?
We potato-staters are quite rare at DU .
welcome!
BSUbluNorange
(78 posts)15. I am a Gem...stater :)
Thanks for the shoutout!
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)12. Yo!
Welcome from another BSU fan!
MADem
(135,425 posts)6. RMoney is like a blueberry patch during pickin' season!
There is so MUCH material out there...enough to make pie for everyone!
recognize the logo?
MADem
(135,425 posts)8. Now that there is some good eatin! nt
MADem
(135,425 posts)11. They look like they are eyeing the same slice! nt
nt
Proles
(466 posts)14. It's amazing. Basically every argument he has used against Obama
can be turned against him by looking at what he said or done as Governor.
The thing is, he obviously knows it too.