My first story is a great new TV ad in Ohio that calls Romney's Chrysler-to-China ad
a "LIE"!!!!
"Romney's lie." "Wrong then, Dishonest Now!"
Voiceover:
"When the auto industry faced collapse, Mitt Romney turned his back. Even the conservative Detroit News criticized Romney for his 'wrong-headedness' on the bailout. And now, after Romney's false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China, Chrysler ITSELF has refuted Romney's lie. The truth? Jeep is ADDING jobs in Ohio."
Voiceover:
"Mitt Romney on Ohio jobs? Wrong Then. "
Mitt Romney:
"Let Detroit go bankrupt."
Voiceover:
"Dishonest Now."
With the President supervising the relief effort for Hurricane Sandy, former President Bill Clinton and VP Joe Biden took up the slack on the campaign trail. And they kicked ass!
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep brand autos from Ohio to China.
Jeep, a major employer in Ohio, has said it is adding jobs in China to meet growing demand there but is not halting production in North America.
Campaigning together in the crucial swing state, Clinton said that Jeep has called Romney’s claim “the biggest load of bull in the world.”
Biden said it was “bizarre.”
WaPo
This morning Bill Clinton handled the rally in Orlando when the President had to return to Washington:
TPM has a report on the speech today in Orlando Florida.
According to Clinton, America is looking at 4 percent GDP growth soon, double the current rate, as long as “we don’t mess it up.” The danger then is that Romney will win the election then “cut taxes for wealthy people,” “gut the Medicaid program,” slash aid to education and scientific research, then claim these policies as the reason an already inevitable short term bump occurred in his first term.
Despite the brief gains, Romney will “take the future out” of the budget, Clinton said, undoing Obama’s hard-fought efforts to put the country on a path to more solid gains. That means the president’s work navigating the country through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression will be forgotten: “[Obama] won’t even get the credit, because [Romney] want[s] to get credit for the 12 million jobs that Obama laid the foundation for.”
“Let’s give the job to the man who’s done the job so he can finish the job,” Clinton concluded. “Four more years!”
Bill Clinton: Romney Would Mess Up Obama’s Recovery; Update: The Big Dog Off to Colorado Tomorrow
With the President working in Washington, the Big Dog will be out there campaigning for Brack Obama:
Former President Bill Clinton is headed for the Midwest this week to campaign for Democratic President Barack Obama in a swing that will take him to Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.
The Clinton campaign events will partially fill a void for Obama, who has taken himself off the road temporarily to deal with Hurricane Sandy.
Clinton's travel itinerary will also take him to Colorado, Ohio, Virginia and New Hampshire.
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Let's see here. President Obama has former President Clinton and VP Joe Biden to be surrogates on the campaign trail. Romney has dipshits like Ryan, Sanunu, and Gingrich.
It ain't even a contest. :-)
The President is in Washington being the hands-on commander of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy.
Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy as the sprawling storm roared menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to “do your very best” in donating to relief efforts.
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The president changed roles quickly during the day, highlighting the advantages of the incumbency — as long as events go smoothly. He scrapped a morning campaign appearance in Florida, boarded Air Force One for a bumpy flight to the nation’s capital and appeared before reporters in the White House not long afterward.
“We’re making sure that food and water and emergency generation is available for those communities that are going to be hardest hit,” he said. At the same time, he soberly warned that heeding evacuation orders from local authorities was paramount for those in the storm’s path.
“Do not delay. Don’t pause. Don’t question the instructions that are being given, because this is a serious storm and it could potentially have fatal consequence if people haven’t acted quickly,” he said.
WaPo: Obama swaps campaign role for hurricane-response commander
Update I: Bonus coverage of Joe Biden from Susan from 29
see also Diary on Biden's remarks today
From Susan from 29's Diary.
Woah. Woah. As we say in my faith, bless me Father for I have sinned.
I mean, what are you talking about?
I have never seen anything like that.
It’s an absolutely patently false assertion.
It’s such an outrageous assertion that one of the few times in my memory a major American Corporation, Chrysler has felt obliged to go public and say, there is no truth, that Jeep has no intention of shipping production of Jeep models out of North America to China. Chrysler Corporation, which is highly unusual, said a careful and unbiased reading would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments
Ladies and Gentlemen, Have they no shame?
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Transcripts and Documents.