Obama misquotes Harry Truman in false attack on Mitt Romney!

LOL you're 0 for 2 on this one. About par for the course, sad to say, but not at all unexpected.

1. The President didn't misquote Harry Truman (quotations have quotation marks) but rather he accurately summed up Truman's message - that when you are faced with a problem the thing to do is to deal with it and not simply look for someone else to do the job so you don't have to.

2. The questions being raised by President Obama, the entire American media other than Fox, and even high level Republicans are NOT "false attacks". We already know FOR A FACT that Romney has either lied about when he left Bain capital or committed a felony by submitting false documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission. We also know that unlike President Obama, John McCain, and even his own father, Mitt Romney refuses to make his tax returns public, undoubtedly knowing that exposure of just how much he actually did make at Bain from destroying American businesses and shipping thousands of American jobs across the border will be the final nail in the coffin of his campaign.

Oh, and by the way:

"Only a man with no experience in the private sector and little experience as an administrator of any kind, i.e. Mitt Romney's defenders, would believe that someone who claimed to be the President, CEO, Managing Director and 100% owner of a corporation (as Romney did repeatedly in his SEC filings) had no input whatsoever into what that corporation did and no voice at all into how that corporation chose its next victims."

President Obama gets it. The American people, by and large, get it. It's only the ones who Dartmouth University has confirmed have a severe disconnect with reality - the Right Wing - who don't.

Sorry pal, but I'm batting 1,000, 2 for 2.
"New reporting cites strong evidence that Mitt Romney wasn’t actively managing Bain Capital while he was running the Olympics, despite what the Obama campaign (and some news reports) would have voters believe. Dan Primack, a senior editor at Fortune Magazine, reports on previously confidential “offering documents” that Bain circulated to potential investors in June 2000, September 2000 and again in January 2001. And he says that in each of those three documents Romney’s name is conspicuously absent from lists of senior investment managers at Bain." http://factcheck.org/2012/07/...

So, no, Romney didn't "lie" when his name was on the SEC forms, he was nominally the CEO and no one has claimed otherwise. He was in fact on a leave of absence so he could re-organize the faltering 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and had nothing to do during that period, 1999-2002, with the day-to-day operations of Bain Capital. Those are the unassailable facts.

You just keep on believing the unbelievable lies coming out of the White House and remain woefully ignorant and misinformed - you're the exact type of minion that Obama needs, stupid and worshipful.

As far as making his tax returns public, Romney has fully complied with the disclosure laws, his 2010 return has been made public and for 2011 a summary has been disclosed, with the final return to be disclosed when it is filed. (His accountants obtained an extension, legal for anyone in the nation!)

You have one hell of a lot of nerve to be complaining about any failure to disclose when you support a president who is the most secretive in history about his background and experiences, a man who has all of his college records sealed, a man who wouldn't even release his birth certificate until three years into his presidency, a man about whom there is still a cloud over trips to Pakistan and Indonesia as a youth, regarding the financing of said trips and the passport he traveled on as well.

President Obama "gets it?" Hardly!!! Obama is a man with scant experience in the free market economy, describing the brief period he spent actually working at a productive job as making him feel like "being behind enemy lines." That sums up how our president feels about our free-market economy -- it's the enemy!

Fine. If he wasn't actively managing Bain Capital then his representation to the SEC that he was the "Managing Director" is perjury and he's guilty of a felony. And if you honestly believe that someone who is the President, CEO, Managing Director and 100% shareholder didn't have an active involvement with that company each and every day then you're more naive than Sarah Palin.

Want to bet that those tax returns for 2000 and 2001 that Romney is hiding show a ton of business deductions for Bain work? We already know that he received a six figure salary for those two years - you're telling me that a company is going to pay someone a quarter of a million dollars for doing absolutely nothing? Is it possible for you to be even MORE naive?

And as for President Obama, the most transparent President we've ever had, he release his birth certificate in June, 2008, five months BEFORE election day, the first time anyone ever asked for it. He has no control over the release of college records; those are based on school policy. (And by the way, where are Mitt's college records? We know that President Obama graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude and was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. All we know about Mitt's school days is that he liked to bully gay students and cut their hair off.) There is no "cloud" over the President's travels. He went to Indonesia on his mother's passport, and he went to Pakistan on his own. None of this is secret. The President has released eleven years of tax returns. What is Romney afraid of?

Our free market economy is not the enemy, and the President doesn't think it is nor has he ever suggested so. What IS our enemy is rapacious greed in the form of a company like Bain, that drives businesses into bankruptcy, throws thousands of Americans out of work, ships more thousands of jobs offshore, ransacks pension plans that people spent 20 years relying on all for personal profit. That's not a free market economy. That's armed robbery.

You are still full of crap! He held those positions in name only at the time because he was on a leave of absence. The SEC doesn't prosecute CEOs for taking a leave of absence. Certainly he still received income from Bain throughout that period, he was still a huge investor in the company.

You must have choked as you typed that Obama is "the most transparent President we've ever had." No, he didn't release his birth certificate in June, 2008. That form was different from the long form Certificate of Live Birth that he ultimately released, and was a form that anyone could obtain by simply reporting a birth, even if it occurred outside the State of Hawaii.

What we know from Obama's college days is that he chose the most radical friends and left-wing professors he could find, that he smoked pot a lot and did a little heroin too. In fact he went through his last two years in high school in a drug and beer induced haze, according to his own book.

The "gay bullying" incident goes back to Romney's high school days, and there is no indication that the "victim's" sexual preferences were even an issue. Gay kids didn't "come out" while in high school back in those days. There is also reason to doubt the accuracy of the Washington Post's report: "The family of Mitt Romney’s much-talked-about alleged prank is speaking out against accusations claiming a group of guys held down a boy in his dorm room while Romney cut his long, bleach-blonde hair nearly 50 years ago. The family is now having some problems with the accuracy of that story reported by the Washington Post, saying, 'The portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are grieved that he could be used to further a political agenda.'”

Romney holds degrees from both Harvard Law and Harvard Business school and has put the business school education to use, unlike Barack Obama, who considers working in the private sector "like being behind enemy lines." In other words, Barack Obama considers free enterprise to be the enemy!

You are repeating the lies of the Obama campaign about Bain Capital. While under Romney's leadership Bain had a 78% success rate in turning around the businesses it invested in. Those companies include Staples, Sports Authority, and Domino Pizza, plus others that add up to hundreds of thousands of jobs that exist today because of Bain investments.

Back to the claim that the most Opaque presidency is the most Transparent. Why, oh why, hasn't the Obama/Holder Department of Injustice provided congress with the documents concerning Fast & Furious - why did Obama invoke executive privilege long after congress first sought the documents instead of at the outset as is the normal practice? Why did the AG lie to congress and provide false documents to congress only to have to later "withdraw" them when other documents revealed his testimony to have been false, something for which Martha Stewart served prison time? Why, after promising to have health care negotiations on CSPAN, promised several times during his campaign, were CSPAN "negotiations", such as they were, held behind closed doors with even some of his own party excluded? Why, instead of giving the public ten days to read the proposed bill as promised (that goes for the "stimulus bill" as well) was it forced through congress with even those who voted for it not having time to read it? Remember Princess Pelosi, "We have to pass the bill so you can see what's in it"?

The question isn't about the first time he went to Indonesia, it's about the second time in 1981 when he went to visit his mother, as well as to Pakistan. We know he went on his own passport -- the question is, what country was it issued by?

As usual you are full of crap and have no facts to back up your claim. The fact is that Fannie Mae, headed by Democratic "mover and shaker" James Johnson, started making "subprime" loans in the early 90s. Johnson did it in order to improve his own bottome line, inasmuch as his pay and bonuses were based upon volume. The fact is that the Clinton administration saw what FM was doing and decided it would be a good idea to force all federally insured lenders to do the same, so the regulations under the CRA were rewritten to require quotas of loans to low and middle income borrowers. Thus was born the NINJA loan - No Income, No Job, No Assets. With easy lending rules and low or no down payment loans available, the housing market grew and created a real estate bubble. Along came George Bush and warned about the problem beginning in his very first year in office, saying that failure of the two GSEs could create "systemic problems" with the U.S. financial system. His proposed regulations were vehemently opposed by Dims, who had nearly a 50/50 split in the Senate, enough to filibuster any bill. Here's a sample of what was said during House hearings, and by whom:

House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 10, 2003:

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.): I worry, frankly, that there's a tension here. The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disaster scenarios. . . .

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), speaking to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez: Secretary Martinez, if it ain't broke, why do you want to fix it? Have the GSEs [government-sponsored enterprises] ever missed their housing goals?
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House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 25, 2003:

Rep. Frank: I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and OTS [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing. . . .
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House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 25, 2003:

Rep. Gregory Meeks, (D., N.Y.): . . . I am just pissed off at Ofheo [Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight] because if it wasn't for you I don't think that we would be here in the first place. And Freddie Mac, who on its own, you know, came out front and indicated it is wrong, and now the problem that we have and that we are faced with is maybe some individuals who wanted to do away with GSEs in the first place, you have given them an excuse to try to have this forum so that we can talk about it and maybe change the direction and the mission of what the GSEs had, which they have done a tremendous job. . . http://online.wsj.com/article...

I suggest you read "Reckless Engangerment" by Gretchen Morgenson, a financial editor/writer for the N.Y. Times (certainly not a right wing outlet!) for the truth of the matter. Ms. Morgenson places the blame where it lies, and for the most part it lies with the Clinton administration and Democratic members of congress who fattened their campaign wallets with donations from the two GSEs.

Your analogy doesn't work - Obama is pouring gasoline on a fire that he helped started as a member of congress, along with the other Dims in congress.