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It's an election, and you are calling out a lie in a campaign ad? Where have you been? This shit goes on every election from both sides. Remember Bush vs. Kerry? Can you even come close to counting all the lies that took place in ads for and against both candidates? I'm sure you will now tell me that Romney's people would never lie in an ad about Obama, right?
A couple of things....
Most importantly, Romney is not running on his record as govenor of Mass. He is running on his business credentials. So this hits at the heart of that tact. And while, it has not been shown how he was connected (after all, does he need to have been there....he could have done the damage earlier), it does seem rather silly on Obama's part not to make that connection because it does come across as a lie.
Secondly, it is interesting that you admit both sides do it. Our resident jackass, Franco seems bent on sainting Obama and his campaign. His posts are a complete projection of his own unwillingness to even consider that Obama might not be the man he'd hoped he would be.
I think you and Franco need to get a room.
More to the point, why isn't Romney running on his record as governor? That's probably a lot more relevent to the job he's currently running for than his business record.
Besides the fact that 22% of the businesses Bain invested in went bankrupt (including AmPad and GST) running a business is just not like running a government. Business runs on concesus. If someone is always being a stick in the mud, you fire his ass.
Government doesn't run that way. YOu can't fire Congressman blowhard because you disagree with him or he isn't getting with the program.
I am not sure of you main point, but one thing you bring up is something I'd like to learn more about. A couple of people were haveing this discussion the other day and one of them intonated that Bain did not just buy companies, but purchased companies that were in tough circumstances. I don't know if that is true or not.
If it is, then a 22% failure rate translates to a 78% turnaround rate, which in the corporate world is pretty good.
I honestly don't know if that is the case or not in total.
I do know that the word in Kansas City was that GTS was headed to the dumpster unless someone tried something.