From the HUFFINGTON POST Column:
…Ryan then noted that Obama, while campaigning for president, promised that a GM plant in Wisconsin would not shut down. “That plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight,” Ryan said.
Except Obama didn’t promise that. And the plant closed in December 2008 — while George W. Bush was president.
It was just one of several striking and demonstrably misleading elements of Ryan’s much-anticipated acceptance speech. And it comes just days after Romney pollster Neil Newhouse warned, defending the campaign’s demonstrably false ads claiming Obama removed work requirements from welfare, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”
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EDITOR: There is nothing new here. If you tell the same lies loud enough and long enough, people believe them. That is the strategy.
Seems to me the ‘other side’ has had it’s fair share of misrepresentations also. Nothing new or news-worthy about either campaigns strategy. However, the media will paint a vastly different picture during the Obama convention. I didn’t watch much of the Republican convention, and I don’t plan on watching much of the Democratic one either…..neither one will provide any specifics about the future.
Maybe the debates will…….I’m sure that Obama is looking forward to the softball questions that Candy Crowley has for him.
On February 13, 2008, Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama stated, “This can be America’s future. I know that General Motors received some bad news yesterday, and I know how hard your Governor has fought to keep jobs in this plant. But I also know how much progress you’ve made – how many hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles you’re churning out. And I believe that if our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years. The question is not whether a clean energy economy is in our future, it’s where it will thrive. I want it to thrive right here in the United States of America; right here in Wisconsin; and that’s the future I’ll fight for as your President.” (Source: Wikipedia)
If that plant will be around for another hundred years as Barack said it would he better get started. Even if it closed about 3 weeks before Barack took office he owed it to Janesville Assembly to reopen the plant. Surprise, surprise , politicians lie, news commentators get thrills up their legs when they see Barack, and we stay unemployed, on food stamps, and losing hope.