Mitt Romney Tries To Regain Offense, Offers Few Details On Bain

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Mitt Romney Tries To Regain Offense, Offers Few Details On Bain

Benjy Sarlin

Mitt Romney offered up few new details on his role at Bain Capital and said that voters should not expect more information on his finances during a slate of primetime TV interviews.

Romney again insisted that he bore no responsibility for any investments or actions taken by Bain from 1999-2002 while he was running the Olympics, despite being listed as the company’s sole stockholder, president, CEO and chairman of the board in numerous SEC filings.

“I had no association with the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999,” Romney told ABC News. “That is when I left the firm. I am very pleased with the experience I had with the firm but as everyone knows I went on to run the Olympics for three years. I was there full time. After that I came back and ran in Massachusetts for governor.”

CBS News’s Jan Crawford asked Romney that even if he wasn’t involved in day-to-day operations at Bain, as the listed owner of the company, “Doesn’t the buck stop with you?” Romney insisted he should not be politically liable for anything that happened after 1999.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mitt-romney-bain-media-tv-interviews.php

Romney Interview Directly Contradicts His Previous Statements About Bain Tenure
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945280

Obama Camp ‘Not Satisfied’ With Romney’s Answer On Bain
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945292

[MADem]

1. He's not shy on offense--he's been offending me and my family for eons, now!

But if he thinks he's going to drag himself back to the high ground, he's got another think comin'! Haley Barbour and Michael Steele have crawled up his ass and told him to come clean....when he can't even get the GOP to circle the wagons on his behalf, he's not "leading."


It's really delightful to watch that little shit squirm!

[treestar]

2. Do a CEO's actions

really stop affecting the company the instant he leaves?

And as we see, he did not leave, either.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Delightful To See Him Parse Parse Parse...

Kudos to the Obama team for sticking with this line of attack...forcing Willard to renounce who he is to be what he thinks he is. It's framing him as Richie Rich and he's complying by trying to define what "is is".

[KurtMcC]

4. Not Responsible

If Mitt Romney wants to claim that he is not responsible for any actions of Bain Capital after 1999, then he should give away every dollar he earned from its activities since that point. I don't expect he'd agree to that.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

5. Good point and welcome to DU!

[The Magistrate]

6. Says R-Money, Ma'am: The Buck Stops Here, But Not Any Responsibility For How It Got Here

Even on the off-chance he did not make the decisions, he profited from them, and they were made to put money in his pockets, money taken from working people and local governments, in order that R-Money could become even richer, pile the cash up even higher in tax havens abroad.

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."