Time Magazine : "Obama campaign says Romney is either a crook or a liar" by Michael Scherer

[Douglas Carpenter]

Mitt Romney wants you to know that both of these things are true: 1) He remained the “controlling person” in a number of Bain Capital investments between 1999 and 2002, when he left to work on the Salt Lake City Olympics. 2) He had no actual personal control over those investments during that time.

This is not a particularly comfortable position for a presidential candidate to be in, though it is also not exactly an unusual one for Romney, who has, among other things, both taken credit for President Obama’s bailout of Detroit and opposed Obama’s bailout of Detroit.

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On top of this complex argument, which even a Romney campaign aide admits does not “square with common sense,”

UPDATE: More came quickly. The Huffington Post acquired testimony Romney gave in 2002 to the Ballot Law Commission in Massachusetts, in which Romney said he had “remained on the board of the Staples Corporation and Marriott International, the LifeLike Corporation” and returned to the state for “board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth” from 1999 to 2002. The Romney campaign says this does not contradict his claim that he had no control over Bain Capital during that time, since there is a difference between Bain Capital and the companies in which Bain had significant ownership stakes

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/07/13/obama-campaign-says-mitt-romney-is-either-a-crook-or-a-liar/?iid=tsmodule#ixzz20XSRAyMH

[flamingdem]

1. Please quote exactly where Obama says that Romney is a liar

Otherwise why the headline of your OP?

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. I'm using Time magazine's title - I didn't choose it - Time magazine did

I do think Time Magazine got it right - It's a bit disingenuous though to deny that is the obviously implication of what is being said.

[flamingdem]

7. It's clearly not the impression Obama wants to make about himself

I just saw an interview where he said that it's not all that if Romney doesn't release the tax returns.

I think Time is working on making sales rather than reporting properly. Scandalous accusations are
the term we'll hear from the other side. Unnecessary when he has surrogates

[Journeyman]

4. That's the headline from the Time Magazine "Swampland blog" article (clearly labeled as such). . .

and nowhere does it say Obama claims Romney is a liar, only that the "campaign" has made this statement, and a quote from "senior advisor" Stephanie Cutter is provided in the article to justify the headline.

[flamingdem]

8. Poor reporting to make a buck nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Thats the title of the Time article.

[Spazito]

10. To be fair, it says the Obama campaign said it and not Obama...

and Stephanie Cutter did say, in essence, exactly that and good for her, she nailed it, imo.

Here's Stephanie's comments:

"Cutter said that there were two ways to interpret the story. The first: Mitt Romney was "misrepresenting his position" at Bain to the Securities and Exchange Commission, "which is a felony."
Or, he was "misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people. If that’s the case, if he was lying to the American people, that’s a real character and trust issue," Cutter said."

The only way Romney can prove them wrong is via his tax returns and I see no indication that he is about to do that.

[ananda]

2. A liar OR a crook?

How 'bout both???

[DCBob]

6. +1

beat me to it!

[malaise]

11. Ding ding

we have a winner

[hifiguy]

9. Well, those ARE the available options.

It's either one or the other. Pick your poison, Mittwit.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. Robocorp is decitful and shady...

and deliberately misleads people about his character and does everything he can to get around it. If Robocorp can not remember what the hell is on his resume, he sure as hell as no business running for president.

A job killing money machine should be a forest fire to everyone and not even given consideration for the job he is now applying for.