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You Don’t Know Mitt: 99 Facts about Mitt Romney
ThinkProgress / News Analysis
Published: Monday 7 November 2011
99 things you may not have known about Mitt Romney.
In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the media has focused on a succession of colorful Republican contenders and pretenders: Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, and Herman Cain.
Meanwhile Mitt Romney, still the odds-on favorite to capture the GOP nomination, has entered the “Mittness Protection Program,” avoiding scrutiny whenever possible. As a result, his actual views and record are still largely unknown. Here are 99 facts about Romney you may not have known.
1. As head of the investment company Bain Capital, Mitt Romney laid off thousands of workers.
[CBS News, 01/28/2008]
2. Mitt Romney's advice on the foreclosure crisis: "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process."
[Mother Jones, 10/18/2011]
3. The former Bain Capital managing director said of Mitt Romney's tenure: "We had a scheme where the rich got richer."
[Los Angeles Times, 12/16/2007]
4. Mitt Romney set up shell companies in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda to avoid U.S. taxes.
[Los Angeles Times, 12/19/2007]
5. Mitt Romney calls Obama's payroll tax cut that would save middle class/lower income families $1,500 a year "temporary little band aids."
[Yahoo! News, 10/18/2011]
6. Mitt Romney's first budget as governor included $240 million in fee increases.
[Meet the Press, 12/16/2007]
7. As governor, Mitt Romney made it more expensive to use an ice skating rink, register a boat, take the bar exam, and transport hazardous waste.
[Associated Press, The Boston Globe, 08/28/2007]
8. Mitt Romney's plan for a "middle class tax cut" would provide zero benefits to 73.9 percent of the middle class.
[ThinkProgress, 10/14/2011]
9. In 2008, Mitt Romney proposed a $233 billion "stimulus package" to boost the economy.
[USA Today, 01/20/2008]
10. Under Mitt Romney's leadership, Massachusetts ranked 47th among the 50 states in job creation.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
11. During Mitt Romney's tenure, Massachusetts' job growth was at 0.9 percent, far behind the national average of over 5 percent.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
12. A Northeastern University economist found that Massachusetts lagged on virtually every economic indicator while Mitt Romney was in office.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
13. Mitt Romney has proposed tax cuts for the rich and corporations that would cost $7.8 trillion over 10 years.
[ThinkProgress, 09/7/2011]
14. Mitt Romney boasts a record for creating private-sector jobs, but as governor, state employment grew twice as fast as the private sector.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
15. Mitt Romney called the Occupy Wall Street movement "dangerous."
[ThinkProgress, 10/4/2011]
16. Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Greg Mankiw said the "offshoring" of American jobs was a good thing.
[Washington Post, 02/11/2004]
17. Mitt Romney called for taxes on the poor, saying low-income Americans having no income tax liability is "a problem" that will "kill the country."
[ThinkProgress, 09/21/2011]
18. Mitt Romney called the auto bailout "tragic." After it succeeded his campaign claimed he "had the idea first."
[ThinkProgress, 05/25/2011]
19. Back in 2002, a spokesman for Mitt Romney derided an anti-tax pledge as "government by gimmickry." He signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge in 2012.
[ThinkProgress, 06/29/2011]
20. Mitt Romney admits he couldn't reduce Massachusetts' multi-billion dollar budget deficit without new revenue.
[The Boston Globe, 04/6/2003]
21. Mitt Romney would repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, which regulates the risky practices that led to the 2008 crisis.
[ThinkProgress, 08/25/2011]
22. Mitt Romney, who lambasts the "failures" of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, profits from investments in the firms.
[ThinkProgress, 09/20/2011]
23. Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people, my friend."
[ThinkProgress, 08/11/2011]
24. In 1996, Mitt Romney called the flat tax a "tax cut for fat cats." In 2011, Romney said "I love a flat tax."
[New York Times, 10/24/2011]
25. Mitt Romney supports privatizing Social Security.
[ThinkProgress, 09/8/2011]
26. Mitt Romney defended his belief that we "should consider a higher retirement age" for Social Security and Medicare to preserve tax breaks for corporations.
[ThinkProgress, 08/11/2011]
27. Mitt Romney signed a budget that cut K-12 spending by $181.6 million (4 percent) and higher education spending by $100 million (10 percent).
[The Boston Globe, 10/24/2005]
28. Mitt Romney said he wants to "get the federal government out of education."
[ThinkProgress, 09/23/2011]
29. As governor, Mitt Romney vetoed a minimum wage increase to $8 an hour.
[The Boston Globe, 08/1/2006]
Foreign Policy
30. Mitt Romney said he "cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified" for an American Muslim.
[Politico, 11/27/2007]
31. Mitt Romney opposes troop withdrawal from Iraq.
[ThinkProgress, 10/21/2011]
32. Mitt Romney says the U.S. should cede humanitarian aid and global leadership to China: "We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people."
[ThinkProgress, 10/19/2011]
33. Mitt Romney vowed to increase the size of the military by 100,000 troops.
[Associated Press, 10/8/2011]
34. Mitt Romney said that catching bin Laden would be "insignificant" and it's "not worth moving heaven and earth."
[New York Times, 05/3/2007]
35. Mitt Romney wanted "bombardment" of Iran.
[New York Times, 10/26/2007]
36. Mitt Romney advocated doubling the size of Guantanamo.
[ThinkProgress, 08/22/2011]
37. Mitt Romney says Obama's worst foreign policy mistake is the START treaty, a modest treaty originally negotiated by Reagan to ensure nuclear stability between the U.S. and Russia.
[ThinkProgress, 07/6/2010]
38. Many of Mitt Romney's foreign policy advisers helped push the U.S. into war with Iraq.
[ThinkProgress, 10/6/2011]
39. In 2008, Mitt Romney said if a Democrat won the White House it would mean "attacks on America."
[ThinkProgress, 02/7/2008]
40. Mitt Romney says it was "entirely possible" that Saddam did have WMDs.
[ThinkProgress, 05/8/2007]
41. Asked if Iraq was a mistake, Mitt Romney said "Well, the question is kind of a nonsequitur."
[Media Matters, 06/6/2007]
42. Mitt Romney named Walid Phares, a radical Islamophobe tied to a militia that committed atrocities, to his foreign policy team.
[The New Republic, 10/24/2011]
43. Mitt Romney won't say whether he thinks waterboarding is torture.
[Democracy Now, 11/29/2007]
Environment
44. Mitt Romney criticized President Obama for a nearly identical green energy program Romney set up in his state. Three of the six companies the Massachusetts fund invested in are now defunct or struggling.
[Politico, 10/26/2011]
45. Mitt Romney opposes regulating carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change.
[ThinkProgress, 08/26/2011]
46. Mitt Romney supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
[The Boston Globe, 12/13/2005]
47. Mitt Romney considers liquid coal a "clean" technology, though it emits more greenhouse gasses than oil.
[USA Today, 09/27/2007]
48. Mitt Romney stalled and eventually withdrew from a multi-state "pollution pact" that would cap plants' carbon emissions.
[The Boston Globe, 12/10/2005]
49. Mitt Romney said the Clean Air Act doesn't apply to carbon emissions.
[ThinkProgress, 07/18/2011]
50. Today, Mitt Romney says a cap and trade program would have "devastating results for people across the planet." In 2005, Romney said he was "convinced" that cap and trade was "good business."
[ThinkProgress, 05/20/2011]
51. Mitt Romney's energy policy adviser works for a lobbying firm for a major coal company.
[ThinkProgress, 09/12/2011]
52. Mitt Romney supports unlimited coal and oil production.
[ThinkProgress, 05/20/2011]
Social Issues
53. Mitt Romney supports penalties for doctors who perform an abortion.
[ThinkProgress, 10/3/2011]
54. Mitt Romney wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned.
[Meet The Press, 12/16/2007]
55. Mitt Romney used to say he was pro-choice, and now he's "avidly pro-life."
[Sioux City Journal, 12/27/2007]
56. Mitt Romney would "absolutely" support a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, which would restrict women's right to an abortion.
[ThinkProgress, 10/3/2011]
57. In 2005, Mitt Romney vetoed a measure that would have increased access to emergency contraception by allowing pharmacists to provide the pill without a prescription.
[ThinkProgress, 07/29/2011]
58. Mitt Romney pledged to expand a Bush-Era policy of permitting doctors to deny women access to contraceptives.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
59. Top Mitt Romney legal adviser Robert Bork said women "aren't discriminated against anymore."
[ThinkProgress, 10/17/2011]
60. Mitt Romney drafted a bill to exempt a religious group from nondiscrimination rules, allowing it to ban gay couples from adopting children.
[Associated Press, 03/14/2006]
61. In the 1990s, Mitt Romney told the Log Cabin Republicans that he'd be better than Ted Kennedy on gay rights.
[ThinkProgress, 06/8/2011]
62. Mitt Romney has signed the National Organization for Marriage anti-gay campaign pledge, calling for a federal amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.
[ThinkProgress, 08/4/2011]
63. Mitt Romney on Don't Ask, Don't Tell's end: "I believe it should have been kept in place until conflict was over."
[ThinkProgress, 06/13/2011]
64. Mitt Romney refused to condemn the booing of a gay soldier at a GOP debate.
[ThinkProgress, 10/4/2011]
65. Mitt Romney suggested the government should continue to subsidize religious organizations that discriminate against gay couples in the adoption process.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
66. Campaigning in 1994, Mitt Romney said "I don't line up with the NRA." Today, Mitt Romney is a lifetime member of the NRA.
[Time, 05/10/2007]
67. Mitt Romney criticized Ted Kennedy for not being tough enough on guns.
[The Boston Globe, 08/27/1994]
68. Mitt Romney falsely claimed he was endorsed by the NRA in 2002.
[Washington Post, 12/16/2007]
69. Mitt Romney blamed pornography for the Virginia Tech shooting.
[Fox News, 07/5/2007]
Health Care
70. Mitt Romney's former health care consultant, an MIT economist, claimed the former governor is being "dishonest" when he says he didn't have to raise taxes in order to pay for Romneycare.
[ThinkProgress, 10/14/2011]
71. Mitt Romney said he supported the Ryan Republican budget plan that would effectively end Medicare.
[ThinkProgress, 04/25/2011]
72. Mitt Romney's first act as president would be to allow all states to opt out of health reform through executive action, which would be illegal.
[ThinkProgress, 03/23/2011]
73. Mitt Romney would repeal the broad prohibition against denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions.
[ThinkProgress, 05/13/2011]
74. Mitt Romney claims Massachusetts is not a model for health reform, after saying in 2009 his state "is a model for getting everyone insured."
[ThinkProgress, 04/8/2010]
75. Mitt Romney criticizes "Obamacare" but it is functionally identical to Romneycare.
[ThinkProgress, 01/19/2010]
76. Mitt Romney reversed his campaign position, enacting abstinence-only sex education in schools.
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
77. Mitt Romney's health care advisers played a key role in drafting the Affordable Care Act.
[ThinkProgress, 03/5/2010]
Immigration
78. Mitt Romney: "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals."
[Politico, 10/19/2007]
79. Mitt Romney initially supported the Bush plan for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. He later denounced it.
[Washington Post, 02/4/2008]
80. Mitt Romney was endorsed in 2008 by radical anti-immigrant activists like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
[ThinkProgress, 03/5/2010]
81. The landscaping company Mitt Romney used to tend his mansion for 10 years employed illegal immigrants.
[ThinkProgress, 04/26/2011]
82. Mitt Romney criticized Rick Perry for providing government benefits to undocumented immigrants, but Romneycare provided free health care to undocumented immigrants.
[Los Angelus Times, 10/23/2011]
Politics
83. As of October 2011, Mitt Romney has raised more than five times as much money from Wall St. employees as Obama, raising $1.5 million.
[ThinkProgress, 10/16/2011]
84. A leaked strategic document from Mitt Romney's 2007 campaign lists "perfect hair" among the candidate's flaws.
[The Boston Globe, 02/27/2007]
85. Mitt Romney said he finds "it hard to disagree with Rush Limbaugh on topics."
[ThinkProgress, 03/9/2010]
86. Mitt Romney in 2004: "From now on, it's me me me."
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
87. Whenever the Massachussets House challenged Mitt Romney, they overrode his vetoes 99.6 percent of the time.
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
88. Mitt Romney in 2008: I "love" George W. Bush.
[ThinkProgress, 01/3/2008]
89. Mitt Romney refused to pardon an Iraq war veteran's BB-gun conviction but called Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence "reasonable."
[ThinkProgress, 07/4/2007]
90. Tea Party billionaire David Koch hosted one of Mitt Romney's first fundraisers for his 2012 campaign.
[ThinkProgress, 03/15/2011]
91. Mitt Romney considers himself "in sync" with the Tea Party.
[Reuters, 08/18/2011]
Other
92. Mitt Romney's beach house has a "nonliving area" that is twice the size of the average American home.
[ThinkProgress, 08/29/2011]
93. Mitt Romney plans to bulldoze his 3,000-square-foot $12 million home in California to replace it with one four times its size. Romney also owns a $10 million estate in New Hampshire.
[ThinkProgress, 08/21/2011]
94. Mitt Romney feels Americans' pain because he's "also unemployed." Romney was worth $250 million in 2008.
[ThinkProgress, 06/16/2011]
95. Mitt Romney's Olympics office refused to give free or discounted tickets to family of firefighters who died in 9/11, though it provided tickets to Utah legislators.
[The Boston Globe, 06/28/2007]
96. Mitt Romney made millions investing in companies that did business in Iran.
[CNN Money, 07/12/2007]
97. Mitt Romney falsely claimed he saw his father march with MLK Jr.
[The Boston Phoenix, 12/21/2007]
98. In 2007, Mitt Romney briefly declared his favorite book was Scientology classic Battlefield Earth, though he quickly changed it to Mark Twain's Hucklebery Finn.
[ThinkProgress, 07/5/2011]
99. Mitt Romney won't release his tax returns.
[ThinkProgress, 10/11/2011]
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32 comments on "You Don’t Know Mitt: 99 Facts about Mitt Romney"
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There are two sides to every mitten; hence the constant flip flopping!Classic!
November 08, 2011 5:38am
Nothing is meaner or uglier then a monied politician. Stripe notwithstanding.
People complain about Obama because the man is hogtied by a pissy tea party mentality, obstructionism and such. My biggest regret is that Obama refused to investigate the previous pricks infesting the White House.
How do we vote in 2012? Well, lady justice is also blindfolded.
I notice the war on drugs has not been mentioned. Hot potato, anyone?
To ask financial recovery from a politico is like asking Satan to hold you're hand on the way to heaven, good luck sucker!
The recovery will be postponed until the damn holding the 1%ers porkbellies breaks open and refloods the people with they're long lost monies.
I will vote for Obama again because any other choice is seriously immoral and irresponsible. Once again we have the choice between the devil and the big blue sea.
I would love to see the continuing corrupt saga of lobbyism up for a vote.
I would love to see Obama as a point of pride for the black nation.
I would love to see the people laugh these pretenders off of the stage.
I would love to see congress tell corporations to go to hell.
I would love to see this new 'human corp' behind bars like real people who disregard our laws, both public and moral.
In fact, I'd love just to see plainly through the fogs and illusions.
November 07, 2011 10:25pm
Let’s go back to 1995 when the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee where bribing every IOC member they could to get the 2002 Winter Olympics by giving them any gift the IOC demanded. School tuition, violins, you name it. Next consider the fact that when the word of the brides started getting published, Welch and Johnson who were leaders of the Organizing Committee basically said, what’s the big deal, every city does this, everyone knows about it, and even Leavitt, the governor of Utah knows about it.
So next, everyone including Leavitt starts denying any knowledge of the bribes, all the while watching Welch and Johnson sweat bullets. Utah now realizes that the Salt Lake Olympics has a major image problem and sponsors start withholding promised monies until the scandal is investigated.
So the decision is made to bring in Mitt Romney, a Mormon familiar with Utah ways to do the clean-up work. Mitt asked Welch and Johnson to take a plea deal for the good of the Olympics. As it turned out, a District Judge threw out all 15 felony charges against the two and even praised what they had done. Yet Romney barred their names from appearing on a wall of honor.
All the above information can be read on the boston.com web site URL: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part5_...
So, everyone is doing dirty deeds, they all get caught, the dirty deed people all get together and throw Welch and Johnson under the bus. Not only do they not stick up for them, they tell them to plead guilty. So the two guys that were really responsible for getting the Salt Lake City Olympics get thrown under the bus and get no credit for the awarding of the games to Salt Lake City, and the clean-up guy Mitt Romney passes out Olympic Pins with pictures of him on them.
November 07, 2011 8:55pm
Mitt is just another boring as hell political pragmatist, more from the 1% than most. He is recycled plastic. I haven't heard a thing from him that would help the 99%.But I'd also like to see the 99 Facts on Obama...antiprogressive positions and positions that contradict his primary election positions. Even if you know a progressive position will not pass congress, you still should fight for it. First, you don't want to show your hand. And then you can draw attention during the next election to the fact that the other party would not support that position. He's just not a wise or strong leader and these are challenging times. I guess if OWS does not gain major concessions from Obama, which I feel certain it will not (you'll hear plenty of lip service), I will write in somebody I like for president, or maybe vote for the socialist party. It's class warfare for sure, and maybe we need to experience one of these crazyass Republican challengers to more fully wake up the electorate. Jeez, I know it's nuts, but I feel a certain nostalgia for Nixon! Hey, he gave us the EPA.
November 07, 2011 5:35pm
Below is the comment I just sent to Obama's re-election campaign website. Since I refer to Romney, I'm posting it here. I have no illusions about Romney, and--by now--most of my illusions about Obama have been burst. My question is how much longer can Obama govern as a Republican-Lite president and expect progressives to remain a captive voting group? Here's what I wrote to him: My bottom line: If the Administration approves the Keystone XL pipeline, I vow to absolutely not give any financial support for his re-election effort, nor volunteer this time around; further, I will help organize efforts to convince millions of others to do the same. I would rather see Mitt Romney get elected, if only so future Democratic candidates come to understand they can't take liberals and environmentalists totally for granted in cynical election strategizing. The President has been extremely disappointing so many times, on so many issues; the pipeline is my own "line in the sand".
November 07, 2011 5:05pm
...you mean he WAS a good man and an excellent leader - until he changed into whatever he is now to please the Tea Party. At least some of his original positions made sense and showed integrity, now he is the Tea Party's puppet. He has no spine and will not stand up for his convictions-the worst possible traits for a candidate for president. If he went back to his original positions, he would easily beat the other radical candidates (but he would lose the 24% Tea Party vote, which he doesn't even have now, since most prefer idiots like Herman Cain). The biggest problem is that he is bought and paid for by the likes of the Kochs, big pharmacy, big oil, and mega-huge wall street. He would definitely be a great president ---for the 1% at the top!!!
November 08, 2011 4:13am
He's no different than most of the rest of the contenders. There's only one person running for presidency that I would vote for....Ron Paul. The rest of them do nothing but spout rhetorical crap. They should use toilet paper instead of napkins to wipe their mouths. And they are all bought and paid for by the 1%. We are NEVER going to fix our government until we get Big Business and its lobbyists out of the picture. To think otherwise is naive.
November 07, 2011 4:51pm
Donna: Sorry I didn't catch the typo in your name.
November 07, 2011 4:35pm
Here's the only reason anyone needs: He's an asshole who cares about as much for you or me as he did about that dog he tied to the roof of his vehicle. Mittens is perhaps the phoniest "person" I've ever seen. He looks like a sleazy white business jerk which - surprise! - is exactly what he is.
November 07, 2011 3:52pm
Perhaps the scariest thing is that this multi-faced reactionary ("What's my position today?") could actually get the nomination, never mind hijack the White House with his misinformed absolutism. The God of my understanding would break my hand if I ever marked a ballot for Romney or any of other other bought-and-paid-for misguided clowns in the Republican primaries. How can such willful ignorance and insensitivity be taken seriously? But it is. I no longer recognize my country.
November 08, 2011 4:27am
Touche! "Willful ignorance and insensitivity" is taken seriously in this country because most Americans are "sheep." They are too lazy to think for themselves, and sleazy, self-serving politicians figured this out long ago. So, Presidental contenders shout their nonsensical rhetoric across the airwaves (superbly coiffed hair and Armani suits included), and people raise their "pom poms" in glee and shout "Yay....he'll save us." It makes me shake my head in disgust. WAKE UP, AMERICA.....before it's too late.
November 07, 2011 3:50pm
Let's see what we got here. A businessman who claims he is a master at creating jobs. He is, but the problem is he doesn't create them here. He made corporations highly profitable by creating them in countries like India, Pakistan, Mexico, Vietnam, Indonesia and China. He is a classic flip flopper who hardly hasn't had an issue he wasn't on both sides on. As governor of Massachusetts the state ranked 47th out of 50 in job creation. He is the ultimate Wall Street insider who helped corporations hide their money in the Grand Cayman and Bermuda. And his solutions for the present economic mess is to implement the policies George W. the Schlemiel Bush used to get us into this mess. Is this what you want as president? I don't think so. Neither do most of the American people. Please e-mail to as many people as possible and post on your social media site, We can't count on the corporate media reporting this information. Ray A. Cohn
November 08, 2011 4:41am
I agree with you. But one thing that never ceases to amaze me in this country is that, at the polling booths on election day, they apparently DO want this kind of person as President. I don't think I have ever been as dumbfounded as I was the day that "W" was re-elected. He had spent 4 years showing us how incompetent he was, yet people voted for him....AGAIN. Of course we all know that the vote counting scam in Florida had something to do with it (Thank you very much, Jeb Bush), but still, he had enough votes for re-election. I only hope that people are finally waking up and starting to realize they are being lied to and that most politicians in Washington are self-serving sleaze balls working for the 1%. We shall see in 2012 (if we don't implode before then.)
November 07, 2011 2:59pm
The way Mitt flips and lies it is no wonder the Repubs think that he is not a Christian. The Mormons should recall him and send him on a missionary trip where he has to see how the poor live. He is in the witless protection plan. He was here in Ohio where our governor is trying hard to kill collective bargaining. When Witless was in Cincinnati and was asked about Issue 2 he stated it was an Ohio issue and he had not opinion on it. The next day he wanted to "clarify" his position. He was backing the Governor 100% and was against the same state issue. What a moron. I also remembering him tying his terrified dog to the top of his car for a vacation. I repeat myself "what a moron"
November 07, 2011 4:56pm
Linda: The dog incident is legitimate. I can't ever imagine doing that to our Jack Russell, Gilley. However, I implore you and others to leave his religion out of it. A person's religion should not be an issue. I still can remember how in 1960 when I lived in Florida Red Necks in Central and North Florida, kept saying if John F. Kennedy won the Pope would take over the US.
November 07, 2011 2:29pm
More spin as usual, - anyone who actually knows Mitt Romney knows him as a good man and an excellent leader. He would make a far better president than the one we have, but then so would any of the other candidates.
November 08, 2011 4:43am
BULLS**T!!
November 07, 2011 4:49pm
Donn you have a nerve to talk about spin. This man has been on both sides of about every issue. As to being an excellent businessman and leader, he did it all at the expense of American workers. He created jobs OK. The trouble is they were in India, China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt and other Third World countries. He got corporations to avoid American taxes by keeping their money in the Grand Cayman and Bermuda. That is not spin; that is fact. When he was governor Massachusetts ranked 47tth out of 50 in job creation. This you call an excellent leader? As to any of the candidates making a better president than Barack Obama, really? All of them want to go back to the precise policies of George W. the Schlemiel Bush, who mismanaged us into the worst recession since the Great Depression. And don't tell us the Schlemiel was an excellent businessman. He had four oil companies, ran each into the ground and was repeatedly bailed out by the Saudis as his dad rose up the political ladder. Is it any wonder he got us into a recession that cost eight million jobs, collapsing banks, the Enron and Bernard Madoff scandals and the near collapse of General Motors and Chrysler. And now Romney, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich want to go back to those failed policies. Please spare us this Republican BS. Ray A. Cohn
November 07, 2011 4:30pm
Sometime ago a group of psychologists performed an experiment on perception: they showed a picture of the letter "W" to a group of people with liberal leanings and a group with conservative. Each individual was shown the letter separately. The conservatives CONSISTENTLY saw a "M" where the "W" was pictured. You are proof-positive of this experiment. You refuse to recognize the facts even when they are in front of your nose. Someday I hope all people will be cured of this malady. When that day comes it will usher in a new age of enlightenment, true thinking and a real compassion for other human beings.
November 07, 2011 1:48pm
We do know 99 things about Obama. Too bad someone wasted a ton of time distracting us with made-up facts. We never did get to the real ones. I hope we don't make the same mistake now. See 8: The Mormon Proposition. It's on Netflix now. If you want the Mormon Church influencing the U.S. government, you've chosen the correct candidate.
November 07, 2011 1:43pm
tell us what you want to know about Obama? Please.
November 07, 2011 1:30pm
Boy, I sure wish the media would've done a 99 facts about Obama four years ago and we still don't know 99 things about him.
November 08, 2011 4:49am
They could probably do 99 facts about most of the politicians running for President, and it would all read the same. The majority of them are self-serving liars.
November 08, 2011 2:38am
Keith
Google "Here is a list of Obama's accomplishments as of August 2009." Your wish is granted. My wish is that you'd go away.
November 07, 2011 5:01pm
How about 99 things about George W. Bush in 2000? A drunk half of his life. Illegally smoked cocaine. Had four oil companies and ran four into the ground. Repeatedly was bailed out by the Saudis as his father rose up the political ladder. Went AWOL in the National Guard for over a year. Knocked up a woman and paid for her abortion...Ray A. Cohn
November 07, 2011 1:20pm
He feels our pain because he too is unemployed? And like Mitt, I spend my days agonizing about the finish on the bathroom fixtures in my 20,000 sq. ft home in California, especially now that the one in New Hampshire is finished. I feel your pain Mitt. Life is so hard.
November 07, 2011 1:15pm
I appreciate this story, I will copy it and keep it handy just in case he gets the nomination.
November 07, 2011 12:56pm
OF ALL OF THEM ---I can't get passed the fact that Romney tied his dog to the roof of his car. But that's second to the fact that Romney rushed to a Boston hospital and tried to use his position as a lay Mormon leader to intimidate a pregnant woman experiencing complications into rejecting abortion. She chose pro-life for herself ---that is she chose not to die....she chose the procedure anyway. "He was blind to me as a human being," she says now.
November 08, 2011 4:53am
And this is exactly the same way he wold run the country. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? I can't seem to get much of an answer on that question these days.
November 07, 2011 4:35pm
Mitt Romney was pro choice when he ran for the US Senate against Teddy Kennedy. So how sincere is he?