Mitt Romney and his campaign have demanded that deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter apologize for campaigning for the re-election of President Barack Obama and telling the truth about Mitt Romney:
“When Mitt Romney ran for governor and now as he’s running for president, he consistently claimed he could not be blamed for bankruptcies and layoffs from Bain investments after February 1999 because he departed for the Olympics,” Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said in a statement. “Now, we know that he wasn’t telling the truth.”
On a conference call with reporters, Cutter alleged Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, was either “misrepresenting his own position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.”
Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, demanded an apology for Cutter’s remarks
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The President of the United States has confirmed in an interview taped Saturday with WAVY-TV in Portsmouth that the campaign will not be apologizing:
Q. Your campaign has been criticizing Mr. Romney and his company Bain Capital for outsorcing jobs while Romney was in charge. He said that is not true and he want you to apologize. First of all will you apologize?
President: "No. We will not apologize. Mr Romney claims he's Mr. fix-it for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience."
"And as the head of a private equity firm his job was to maximize profits and help investors. There is nothing wrong with that. On the other hand that company also was investing in companies that were called by the "Washington Post" 'the pioneers of out sourcing.' Mr. Romney is now claiming he wasn't there at the time except his filings with the SCC listing says he was the CEO, Chairman, and President of the company. As President of the United States, I've learned and we just talked about it, anything that happens on my watch is my responsibility. Harry Truman said 'the buck stops with me' and I think understandably people are going to be interested in are you in fact responsible for this company you say is one of your primary calling cards for your wanting to be President."
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It's clear the campaign won't be apologizing now or even retroactively.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel admonishes Romney to quit asking for apologies or as he put it, "stop whining."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this morning on "This Week" that presumptive GOP nominee for president Mitt Romney should "stop whining" about attacks on his Bain record and just defend himself.
"What are you going to do when the Chinese leader says something to you or Putin says something to you?" said Emanuel. "I give him his own advice. 'Stop whining.' Defend - if you want to claim Bain Capital as your calling card to the White House, then defend what happened to Bain Capital."[...]
"He said 'CEO, sole shareholder, president.' You can't - as president of the United States you can't have a sign on your desk that says, gone fishing.' You can't put that on that desk. It's basically the buck stops there," said Emanuel. "You can't say to the SEC, 'I was the CEO, chairman and president, but I'm not responsible. I'm not accountable.'"
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So no Mitt, Team Obama will not be apologizing to you for raising legitimate questions about your role in Bain Capital, particularly since you keep citing your tenure there as the main reason that you should be President of the United States.