The Obama campaign has spent much of this week mounting an entirely dishonest attack on Mitt Romney’s time at the helm of Bain Capital, centered on when Romney left the company to take over the Salt Lake City Olympics. They’re trying to turn the Pat Boone-esque former Mormon missionary and church elder into this:
President Obama wants Americans to think not of Bain Capital, but of Bane Capital, the evil clandestine operation of a financial super villain. The question is, why? Why do Bain and 1999 matter so much?
CNN answers the question partway, in its debunking of the Big Bain Lie. It’s worth noting that most of CNN’s sources in this piece are Democrats from Bain. They’re very familiar with the timeline, and they all say that the Obama campaign is full of bovine waste.
Bain’s involvement in a company that disposed of aborted fetuses could make a powerful final week direct mail piece or attack ad on Christian radio. And in a close election, turnout of the religious right is one of the keys to a Romney victory in November.
Bain negotiated the Stericyle investment deal in November 1999, nine months after Romney said he left.
Bain’s investors pour money into numbered investment pools. Several sources said that Fund VII was the main investment vehicle at that time.
“You don’t see his name anywhere — in the meetings list, the investor documents, the manager paperwork — it would have to be there if he was involved in any way,” one current Bain officer said of Romney and Fund VII. “He was long gone then.”
If the Democrats can manage to get Romney to turn his back on the truth and say that he remained at Bain past February 1999, then Obama’s super PACs can hit him with Stericycle close to the election and chip away at his GOP base on the right. Even CNN has laid out the marker, though, that that particular line of attack is not true.
Yes Willard did get the 2002 Olympics to be successful with a $1.3 billion dollar bailout but then he’s used to the government bailing out some of his endeavors.
What we really want is his tax returns but we know he can’t no matter what release them as he’d then get less votes than Sarah Palin. We also want those foreign accounts in which I’m pretty sure he evaded taxes (no matter what his accountants have said) and that’s why he will be pounded and pounded on this like some wack-a-mole
Coward.
Forget him, Bryan. This Boston Lib is an obvious liar and deceitful schmuck like his master, Obama. Anything and everything to deflect the disgrace, abject failure and gross incompetence of the leftist party and Barack Obama in particular.
But the buffoon and liar is right on one aspect. It is time to go on the offensive and stop with the defensive act.
Obama is the easiest of targets. It’s time to drop the bombs.
Bryan, Bostonlib bringing up Sarah Palin (aka Quittypants) does come with a bit of irony whether you know it or not. Romney was actually being considered by McCain for veep. Romney DID show McCain his tax returns. After McCain saw them he choose Palin. That’s says it all. Wikileaks coming soon. You Betcha!
And why do you throw out the charge of “coward” for a reasonable request such as Romney showing us his tax returns? Every Presidential candidate in recent memory has done so, including Romney’s own father who released 12 years of returns I believe. If anything it is cowardly of Romney to not at the very least follow his own fathers example, and especially cowardly of you to defend him. What is Mittens hiding?
And why do you throw out the charge of “criminal” for a reasonable request such as Obama showing us his school records? Every Presidential candidate in recent memory has done so. If anything it is criminal of Obama to not at the very least follow other President’s examples, and especially cowardly of you to defend him. What is Obama hiding?
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And why do you throw out the charge of “criminal” for a reasonable request such as Obama lifting the Executive Privilege over Fast and Furious? Every Presidente in recent memory who has exerted it had to explain themselves. He either was involved in Fast and Furious and can’t claim privilege or he was and is covering it up and that is in fact a CRIME. If anything it is cowardly of Obama to not at the very least explain his reasons, and especially cowardly of you to defend him. What is Obama hiding?
Very nice! You go girl.
Stop deflecting. Besides even if anything you mentioned was relevant it isn’t criminal. Submitting false information to the SEC is a felony. But I suppose Romney possibly lying on SEC documents is OK if it’s for the lord, huh? I would google “milk before meat” if I were you.
Again, Romney can clear this up by releasing his tax returns, just like his father did. What’s Mitt hiding from us?
@CW – On no you don’t! YOU stop deflecting. Obama is a criminal and probably a war criminal who should be handed over to the Mexican authorities for the thousands of deaths he caused. He and Holder both!
I’m sure that in your alternate universe the Teleprompter-in-Chief will skate to re-election.
What I’m not sure about is what mechanism enables you to read and comment on blogs in this universe.
Ah yes, the old “Teleprompter-in-Chief” joke. Did you see Mitt Romney saying the words “end of quote” as he was reading the teleprompter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ubsRRAADTg&feature=player_embedded
What a loser exclamation point
The only thing that will be skating in November are your tears to a wet kleenex. The S.S. Mittens is taking on water and sinking fast. I’ll give him credit for at least going down with the ship though.
I want Obamas college transcripts. I want to know why Obama and his wife said he was born in Kenya. Why did he lie in his books? Why did he lie about his health care plan? Why did he lie when he ssid he wouldn’t raise taxes yet he did raise taxes. Actually, he lies all the time. Why do you support a liar?
Stop deflecting. Moreover, you aren’t even good at it. Mitt Romney can clear all this up by simply releasing his tax returns just like every other presidential candidate has, and even his own father. Romney, and his fluff girls (that would be you,) need to answer the question as to why Mitt Romney should be treated any different than any other candidate that has run for the presidency in terms of releasing their tax returns?
Even republicans are starting to grumble for him to release them.
CW, What should Mitt’s tax returns tell us about him? Please tell.
That’s an easy one. Either he told the unvarnished truth in his book or he took the road less traveled.
What is Obama. He is a very liberal democrat coming out of a corrupt liberal city. The Chicago Machine. When given two choices he has always taken the one with the highest political gains. You can either be an African-American, i.e. black american or you really can be an African American from Kenya. In college from what I can tell he really sold the African part because it was more adventitious. You can get better scholarships if your a transfer student then native born.
I choose to believe his first book was written by a person who never believed that he would be president and told the absolute truth. Its currently inconvenient, but he cant change what he said then. He doesnt have complete Orwellian power yet.
So that job you have a troll for Obama’s Office of the Director of Progressive Media and Online Response. Does it pay well?
Tell you what, BostonLib [my guess is that your office is within 100 yards of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.], you get us ALL of Obama’s grades from Punahoa through Harvard, and a list of the people who paid for his education, and we will see if we can dig up some more tax records. We’d also like to know who nominated him to the Harvard Law Review. Oh, my, my, I forgot, Obama issued an Executive Order on January 21, 2009, which made those records top secret. Something like the Executive Order he issued yesterday ordering the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ignore the law and grant welfare benefits to anyone who applied whether they were looking for work or not.
Actually sweet cheeks I’m less than a 5 minute walk to Romney’s headquarters in Boston.
Wait – I thought it was BLAME capital?
So, we have a new troll: BostonLib. Good. It has been awhile. They come here, get beat over the head for a few months, then give up and go home. The last one went home a couple months ago. I guess the ObamaCare decision has given them new heart.
Let the beatings commence, because my morale needs improving. ;P
I think you are giving the Obama campaign far too much credit. Don’t forget, this is the group that started “Ann Romney never worked a day in her life” and ended up with “Ann for First Lady”. This is the group that started with the Dog-On-The-Roof story and ended up with #ObamaEatsDog. This is the group we nicknamed ‘the gang that couldn’t shoot straight’ no long ago. The strategy you’ve outlined takes far more brains than they’ve shown so far.
Obama was and always be nothing but a community organizer. With Andy Griffith now gone, I will step into a Sheriff Taylor state of mind and tell Opie that “A community organizer. My, oh my. That sure is fancy talk for somebody that just likes to upset the ole apple cart until people finally just figure they would rather eat peaches. Yeppp. That’s a feller that’s up to no good just to get his way. That just ain’t right”.
This is no different. Obfuscate, distract, hide, deceive, and do whatever it takes to make people forget the real issues. Rather than encourage the poor in the community to get an education and strive to be a loyal worker, just get a whole mess of them to go sit in the lobby of the local bank until the bank starts to lend money to the worthless and shiftless who just want their way regardless of the merits of their argument.
Not this time, Barry. Too many of us are flat on to your game and you cannot round up enough fools to offset the informed this go-around.
Barney Fife: “But Andy, take a look at that suit he’s wearing! It’s all kinda glowy. And he speaks real good.”
Andy: ” Take a real good look at that suit, Barney. It’s empty. And that man standing behind that suit rack is doing all of the talkin. Kinda like them ventriloquists fellers.”
Barney Fife: “Well, I’ll be. Andy, you’re right, doggoneit! Why he ain’t no more than one of those flim-flam guys, you know.”
– still, better that the trolls have their digits on keyboards and “leave them kids alone”.