Romney Economics: Job Loss and Bankruptcy at Ampad

Published on May 21, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http://www.romneyeconomics.com With American Pad & Paper (Ampad), Mitt Romney and his partners took a small but successful paper products business and merged it with other companies in the industry, piling up debt as they went. Ultimately, the company was unable to keep up with the interest [...]

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CNBC Analyst: Bain Capital ‘Fired A Lot Of People’ To Get ‘Prosperity For The Rich’ (VIDEO)

Think Progress By Travis Waldron on May 20, 2012 at 12:36 The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press this morning. During a panel discussion on the effectiveness [...]

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Obama’s Campaign Vows To Be On Arizona Ballot Despite Threats

TPM LIVEWIRE 8:40 PM EDT, Friday May 18, 2012 Barack Obama’s campaign vowed late Friday that he would be on Arizona’s ballot in November despite threats from the state’s top election official that the president might be blocked over a conspiracy theory about where he was born. The campaign was responding to comments made by [...]

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WATCH: Strategist Behind Proposed Reverend Wright Attack Ad Has Long History Of Race-Baiting

Think Progress By Annie-Rose Strasser  on May 17, 2012 at 11:35 am A group of GOP strategists is planning to pull out all the stops — including racism — in its campaign strategy to defeat President Obama, the New York Times reported today. The Times obtained a proposal, crafted by race-baiting GOP media consultant Fred [...]

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G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama

The New York Times By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG Published: May 17, 2012 WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far [...]

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A Baseless Bain Comparison

The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen – Tue May 15, 2012 8:00 AM EDT Mitt Romney’s background at Bain Capital, the only experience the Republican presidential hopeful considers relevant to his campaign, can be pretty ugly. Romney orchestrated leveraged buyouts, flipping companies quickly for large profits, at the expense of thousands of workers who were [...]

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Obama’s Bain Ad: ‘Like Watching An Old Friend Bleed To Death’ (Updated) – VIDEO

Politico By ALEXANDER BURNS| 5/14/12 6:18 AM EDT The Obama campaign’s 2-minute ad on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital is record is out, and it is brutal. Targeting Romney’s involvement in the acquistion of GST Steel, the commercial shows workers at a shuttered plant pinning Romney and Bain with the blame. “They made as much money [...]

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Obama’s Evolution, Romney’s Devolution

The Boston Globe May 11, 2012|Joshua Green Opinion | Joshua Green On Wednesday, after years of claiming that his view was “evolving,” President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. Oddly, the catalyst for that decision was probably his opponent for the presidency, Mitt Romney. Social issues weren’t expected to intrude on a campaign supposed [...]

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Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

The Daily Beast Andrew Sullivan 12 May 2012 01:03 PM [Re-posted from last night.] Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It’s on the fast-shifting poll data on [...]

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Romney’s Adversarial View of Russia Stirs Debate

The New York Times By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Published: May 11, 2012 WASHINGTON —Mitt Romney’s recent declaration that Russia is America’s top geopolitical adversary drew raised eyebrows and worse from many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves, all of whom suggested that Mr. Romney was misguidedly stuck in a cold war mind-set. But [...]

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