Mitt Romney Demands President Obama's Apology, Says He's Not Responsible for Post-1999 Bain Activity

[maddezmom]

Source: ABC

Mitt Romney wants President Obama to apologize for his campaign's suggestion that the Republican candidate could have broken the law by making inaccurate statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Romney told ABC News' Jonathan Karl late this afternoon that Obama should clean up his campaign staff after officials coordinated an effort to imply that Romney committed a felony by saying he left Bain Capital in 1999, though The Boston Globe reported this week that Romney was listed as the company's CEO until 2002 on official files.

"The president needs to take control of these people," Romney said. "He ought to disavow it and reign in these people who are running out of control."

Romney added, "He sure as heck ought to say that he's sorry for the kinds of attacks that are coming from his team."


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romney-demands-president-obamas-apology-responsible-post/story?id=16775137

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what a crybaby.

Romney Campaign Hits Panic Button Following Bain Attacks
The GOP presidential campaign has been reeling following increased scrutiny


By Rebekah Metzler
July 13, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Someone pushed the panic button in Boston, judging from the way Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has acted over the last 24 hours.

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"The Obama campaign appears to be stuck in their own 'groundhog day,' repeating the same, debunked charges they've waged for weeks," said Ryan Williams, a Romney spokesman, via E-mail.

The day even culminated with an assist from The Drudge Report, pushing a shiny object before election observers – that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had become a surprise vice presidential front-runner, in an attempt to change the burgeoning narrative.

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The Romney campaign then spent Friday going after the Obama campaign for essentially being mean when they said they wouldn't be.

much more:http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/13/romney-campaign-hits-panic-button-following-bain-attacks

a great run down of the past 2 days.

[liberal N proud]

1. That's bold

[msanthrope]

2. So you want Obama to be sorry that you are a liar, and not a felon, Mitt? nt

[robinlynne]

24. do we know he's not a felon?

[msanthrope]

29. Nope. But he wanted an apology for something.....nt

[freshwest]

30. Hell, I want one too. But from Rob-me, not Obama. For being a useless, heartless dickweed.

[gmcheeseman]

3. Romney the tax evading candidate

What a way to take responsibility for your past actions, Romney. Not!

[katsy]

4. sure as "heck" not!

lolol

whhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


That's my President on the attack and I'm proud of him!

[The Magistrate]

5. Here Is An Apology, Ma'am: 'I'm Sorry Mr. Romney Is A Lying Felon; I Regret that Very Much'

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

[Hassin Bin Sober]

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

Is going to be my new sig line!!!!

[Overseas]

48. K&R. Well said.

[patrice]

6. Not responsible for Bain, Mitt? So, WHAT is it that CEOs make the big bucks for?

[markpkessinger]

7. He demanded an apology and retraction from the Boston Globe as well ...

How did that work out for you, Willard?

[DallasNE]

21. Romney Is Looking More And More Like Richard M. Nixon

With each passing day. This ploy is straight out of the Nixon playbook. Nice job Mittens.

[chelsea0011]

45. He said the Boston Globe article in it's entirety made it appear that

he had done something wrong. The Globe issued a statement that they found no errors in the article. But this is how it works with Mitt. The Globe made no accusations either way about how to view it's reporting. They just laid out the facts as they found them and allowed the readers to decide for themselves how to view the article. It was, and still is as they update daily, a very well reported story. Mitt has of yet to comment on why his name is on the SEC documents and why he is or wasn't or maybe was the CEO still in charge after 1999. Every interview he has turned back to Obama and every reporter has allowed him to do this.

[blaze]

50. This is exactly it!!

That every single "reporter" lets him evade/avoid the real issue is beyond pitiful.

[bluesbassman]

8. Yeah Mitt, just like you reigned in Trump and the rest of the birthers?

The difference though, is that these accusations are probably true!

[maddezmom]

9. +1000

[xtraxritical]

12. Yeah Romney, like you disavowed Ted Nugent, fuck you.

[noel711]

10. Hmmmm, the republican candidate wants an apology...

an apology for someone daring to breach the truth...\

this from a man who represents allllll the losers who
flung insults and lies at the president,
and no one, RMoney included, told them to knock it off.

All those who love the lies,
those who called Obama a socialist Kenyan,
those who dared to deny his citizenship,
those who called him an ape,
those who denigrate his family,
those who slight the president,
those who say: "YOu LIe!" in congress,
those who continue to show their ignorance and prejudice..

And their fearless leader demands an apology.

I hope the Obama WAr Room is having a good laugh.

[Super Iridium]

11. Apologize, and don't call me stupid!!

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[1StrongBlackMan]

13. I just saw President Obama's apology ...

"Mitt, my man. I'm sorry that you feel that my people talking about what you have promoted as your claim to fame ... your time at Bain ... is an out of bounds subject. I'm also sorry that them doing so has placed you in the rather uncomfortable position of having to chose between having people see you as a felonious liar or a lying felon ... It must suck to be you. I'm also sorry for what's coming next ... I can't tell you about it right now; but you'll know it when it hits.

But, dude, you're right; I should reign in my folks ... why should they be having ALL the fun. Talk to ya next week. Holla!"

[bluesbassman]

19. LOL. I'd pay cash money to hear that conversation.

[monmouth]

32. This is a Friday the 13th Mitt won't forget for a while...LOL.../t

[DallasNE]

14. Romney Actually Said That?

After his attack ad calling Obama a "liar". Prove your charge Romney. Release your tax returns for 2000 and 2001 to prove your point. If your tax returns back up your claim then Obama owes an apology but it they don't you need to step down. The only way Romney can become the winner is for him to be completely transparent, otherwise people can assume he is hiding something highly damaging.

[magic59]

15. Poor Mitt

I wonder who the repubs are going to run while Mitt is in jail.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Then who was? And once you have that answer, you have some explaining to the SEC to do. n/t

[arbusto_baboso]

17. Obama SHOULD apologize, and in this style....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. +1000 Cool Points!!!

Love that moment from that show!!!!

[wordpix]

54. that's good. Start with, "I'm sorry you set up offshore accounts because it looks like

you're evading taxes, and we need the revenue to keep our country safe, provide good schools and protect our air, food and water."

[secondvariety]

18. Hey Mitt-

I got your apology right here. Heyooo!

[Faygo Kid]

20. CBS Evening News just led off. Softball, anyone?

He danced, and not well. Then she asked him about Olympics uniforms made in China. Another hard-hitting question.

He wouldn't even take a stand on that. Are there no journalists left?

[progressivebydesign]

23. So he came out swinging on the accusation.. but NOT THE TRUTH. Big diff Mitt!!

Helloooo "journalists" they are NOT answering the fucking question! They are blaming the askers.. they are just SO insulted that someone would ask the question, but they are not offering proof. What they hell good is a news "journalist" that acts like a jr. high school reporter?

Do your work.. ask for the truth. Until Romney produces PROOF that he was not working for Bain (even though his SEC filings say otherwise,) then it's fair game.

Try as you might Romney, Obama is not apologizing to you anymore than you are apologizing for the crap you and your billion dollar henchman have said about Obama. This is not a polo match, asshole.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. I know ...

Man comes home at 5:00 a.m., smelling of sex, with a pair of panties in his pocket and when his wife asks where he's been, he responds, "What are you trying to imply? How dare you ask me ... accuse me ... of stepping out on you?"

Is that about right?

[nxylas]

25. "Romney demands apology" seems to be the headline across the M$M

Way to divert the public's attention from Rmoney's wrongdoings to Obama's "incivility" in pointing them out.

[appleannie1]

26. How about "I'm sorry for telling the world you are a lying, tax dodging scam artist even though you

are."

[freshwest]

28. Romney DEMANDS an apology for his own post-1999 brain activity. Sorry, TALK to a specialist.

Perhaps Obama can refer him to someone who will cover his malady under the ACA.

[Scuba]

31. LEAVE MITTNEY ALONE (sob)

[Amonester]

33. In exchange for releasing ALL your tax returns way back to 2000-2001, Willard...

Absent that, just eat it!

[Trillo]

34. Now we may understand another aspect of what Rmoney may have meant by "Corporations

are people too, my friend."

He must have meant something along the lines that the corporation does one thing while its founder(s) do another, and that the executive human(s) signing government documents, and the corporation representing and executing those decisions, are at least two different "people", completely unrelated. The human has no to little influence over what the paper entity or corporation does.

It's quite difficult to understand these kinds of nuances.

[tanyev]

35. Here ya go, Mitt.

[bayareaboy]

36. So Mitt, if the President calls you Fredo ...

and wants to go fishing, you might want to tell him you have other things happening.

So when does Mitt tell the truth, when he is asleep, of course, unless he talks in his sleep. Rimshot!

I have heard for a while that Mittens is fronted by the Democratic party, I have had the feeling myself when he sings the God Bless America or put down's good bakery cookies, or talks about the good organ music just before he does the deliver's the Obama-care line.

The man goes on and on. Kind of like Herman the pizza man did.

If the Democratic Party has done this, or if this is sort of theater piece, well that is OK too.

From the RePUG Debates on, I haven't had many laughs, but things are looking up.

[Festivito]

37. Not responsible for his own signature.

Hopefully, he won't have to sign anything as president... oh, crap.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

39. Mitt = felon

[Homer Wells]

40. BFH Mittens

The paper trail shows differently.

Are we supposed ot believe you or our lyin' eyes

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. "a part-timer...providing input on investment and key personnel decisions"

"power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages" (said originally by British PM Stanley Baldwin about press barons, and probably coined by Rudyard Kipling)

There we have it - Romney's position at Bain after 1999 was 'prostitute'.

[rocktivity]

42. You made money off it -- that makes you responsible

especially since you were also the sole shareholder.


rocktivity

[alp227]

43. I can't wait for Bain to come up during the presidential debates.

That'll make for some classic TV.

[rks306]

44. Mit

Poor Mit his feelings have been hurt. He has no hidden agenda. His tax policy says something different.

[Volaris]

46. He demands it. He DEMANDS IT. (like the spoiled little fuck that he is)

The only thing on God's Green Earth that gets to demand ANYTHING from a sitting President (and get it, and then ONLY if they have a damn good PROVABLE reason) is Congress. Mittens thinks he is expecting better room service from the colored help, or something.
Fuck him. If I were Obama, I would find a television camera and laugh in his face.

(and as far as Condi being the VP nom., bring that shit ON. All Biden will have to do is ask her during the first debate "WHAT weapons?" "WHAT mushroom cloud?"

AND they still have to get through Tampa. And we were all sad and the like 'cause we thought the Clown Car was empty (and it is), but the main act with the Starving Lions is just getting started, and the guy with the whip just so happens to be the last one out of the car.

[Marrah_G]

47. The President needs to tell him to go pound sand

[Overseas]

49. So when is Willard going to apologize for robo-signing Bain documents?

"After you, Willard." After you apologize for either lying on your election disclosure forms or robo-signing SEC filings or lying about President Obama's record day after day, then perhaps maybe we'll think about apologizing for telling the truth about you, Willard Mitt.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

51. Your Choice, Mittens....

If you fraudulently signed papers submitted to the SEC back in 2002, then the Obama Team is correct in stating that you committed a crime. That is pretty much cut-and-dried. If you said you were in charge of the company and you were not, then I've got a pair of handcuffs for you.

So....

The only way the Obama Team could be wrong, and the only reason for which they might need to apologize, is if the signatures you placed on those documents were correct, and you were in control of Bain Capital during the period between 1999 and 2002.

Is that what you're saying? That you really and truly were the CEO, President and Sole Shareholder of Bain Capital? That the signatures on the SEC filings were, every last one of them, accurate and appropriate? Fine.

Then let's talk about those financial disclosure statements you submitted to the Federal Elections Commissions in 2011. Come on, Mittens, a smart guy like you must remember those. You know, the ones where you stated that you relinquished your interest in Bain Capital back in 1999. And if that isn't enough, we have several miles of videotape of you during the last 24 months where you SWEAR you had nothing to do with all that nasty out-sourcing because you were no longer affiliated with the company.

Which is it going to be, sucker.

Your choice...

[progressivebydesign]

52. Then why is he on the SEC filings? Why is there documentation that he was on a p/t leave?

"p/t leave" means not "gone for a short time" it means working PART TIME!

Right now the shredders in working overtime at Bain.

If any journalist worth their salt would actually investigate, they could find out about the board meetings that Romney attended during that period. But considering Bain owns Clear Channel, and god knows what else, I can't imagine many of them will even try.

Gotta push the corporate line...

Right now a one million dollar reward from Larry Flynt to a former or current Bain staffer with the goods, would be quite welcome. lol

[wordpix]

53. Don't Back Down. Rmoney still hasn't explained the discrepancy & his karma's a bitch

You want to hide money and avoid taxes by "operating" offshore via a mailbox, take over companies and lay people off, invest other people's money offshore to help them avoid taxes, and lie about when you left PAIN, Inc, then stop complaining when people call you on it.

[siligut]

55. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

What? Somebody had to say it.

[and-justice-for-all]

56. Just trying to keep the lie alive...

this is going to destroy the GOP shitbags.