This swiftboating of Mitt Romney disgraces Barack Obama

Yeah, what’s astonishing is that this is from “The Guardian” (left-wing British paper)after all! Maybe there are some people in there who are beginning to see another side of Obama that they’d never seen.

Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital, the GST Steel acquisition was made during his tenure, and Bain's subsequent actions in GST reflect rather than depart from the modus operandi set under Romney's leadership.

Bain is somewhat a white knight and somewhat a scavenger. It goes into a transaction with the expectation of a quick cash out. People get hurt. More people would have gotten hurt if Bain hadn't invested.

This is something censurable and defensible. This worker was telling the truth: he did lose his corporate-type health insurance as well as his job, and his loss of income and security loomed over his family's range of choices as to medical insurance and medical care.

Obama's adherents say that somehow, an employer is responsible in perpetuity for anyone it hires. If that were the case, who would want to start a business and hire anyone? What gov't needs to do is to defend a free environment that encourages people to start and build businesses. Then when someone gets laid off, there is a good chance he can get hired by someone else, or even find his own business.

Your point is really not clearly made. You at once seem to understand the benefit of a venture/vulture capitalist and at the same time seem to support Soptic’s baseless accusations.

Romney and/or Bain didn’t fire him. His job was already essentially killed by the market.

To extend the metaphor, Soptic is blaming the vultures for the Armadillo’s death! Being hit by a car killed the Armadillo...the vultures are just cleaning up the mess.

Yes, your analogy is a good one.

The Dems' argument is that they care about "people" more than we do. Yet they give less to charity than we do. They create fewer businesses than we do.

They're more inclined than we are to tax some people to provide for other people at the public expense. That is what they call "caring". And they especially love imposing obligations on private parties towards other parties, i.e. "mandates".

Yet in every sector dominated by government funding- higher education, health care, things have gotten worse, not better. And the more government regulates a sector, such as banking, the more such an environment favors the big getting bigger, too big to fail.

As someone investing other people's money, Romney and Bain had no obligation to go beyond their legal requirements, unless they judged it in the interest of their investors. Similarly, even a President can't employ the State and its taxing and legislative power to help certain individuals, beyond the Constitutional authority. It has nothing to do with "caring".

That is the essence of the debate between the Left and the Right.

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