Jeep: We’re staying in U.S., and Romney is wrong
From the Royal Oak (Mich.) Daily Tribune:
Chrysler Group LLC’s top executive said any statements by presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggesting the company was moving Jeep production from its assembly complex in Toledo, Ohio was simply not true.
“Chrysler Group’s production plans for the Jeep brand have become the focus of public debate,” Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China,” he continued. “Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. … It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.”
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has begun running ads in Ohio, stating Chrysler planned to move Jeep production to China. Analysts described the ads as part of Romney’s efforts to pry the state’s pivotal 18 electoral votes from President Barack Obama.
The letter from Marchionne, published first in the Detroit News, went on to explain:
“North American production is critical to achieving our goal of selling 800,000 Jeep vehicles by 2014. In fact, U.S. production of our Jeep models has nearly tripled (it is expected to be up 185%) since 2009 in order to keep up with global demand.
We also are investing to improve and expand our entire U.S. operations, including our Jeep facilities. The numbers tell the story:
– We will invest more than $1.7 billion to develop and produce the next generation Jeep SUV, the successor of the Jeep Liberty — including $500 million directly to tool and expand our Toledo Assembly Complex and will be adding about 1,100 jobs on a second shift by 2013.
– At our Jefferson North Assembly Plant, where we build the Jeep Grand Cherokee, we have created 2,000 jobs since June 2009 and have invested more than $1.8 billion.
– In Belvidere, where we build two Jeep models, we have added two shifts since 2009 resulting in an additional 2,600 jobs.
With the increase in demand for our vehicles, especially Jeep branded vehicles, we have added more than 11,200 U.S. jobs since 2009. Plants producing Jeep branded vehicles alone have seen the number of people invested in the success of the Jeep brand grow to more than 9,300 hourly jobs from 4,700. This will increase by an additional 1,100 as the Liberty successor, which will be produced in Toledo, is introduced for global distribution in the second quarter of 2013.”
It’s hard to predict the impact of such events, especially in the media shadow of Hurricane Sandy coverage. But you would think that the Romney campaign’s blatant willingness to mislead and to frighten thousands of Americans unnecessarily about their job security at Jeep would have a serious effect on public opinion and would lead at least some voters to question his credibility on a range of other issues as well. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for those to whom the truth about such matters is critically important.
– Jay Bookman
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Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
Keep
Now, you’re stepping ever so closely to going TOO far.
Joseph
October 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
I’m just glad Obama could participate in the hurricane response unlike the he handled 4 Americans losing their lives… I’m thinking the reason he was a little more engaged is because its raining and he couldn’t play golf or campaign outside….
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
Mary Elizabeth, Jeep currently sells 33K vehicles in Asia they export from the US. When they have production up and running in China, they’ll start making those 33K vehicles with cheap Chinese labor instead of US labor.
What exactly do you call that if in fact Jeep isn’t moving that production to China?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
“Forward’: Obama gets a little electioneering in during FEMA briefing:”
As low as it gets.
And maybe illegal if on government property on government time.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
Lic my dirty A- Hole:
Come here often do you?
Please go away.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
More bull, Senior Digits…. but hey, Mitt ran his convention video and had everyone wait for a photo opportunity. Intentionally. The Wash Times indicates that the use of the word Forward may not have been an intentional reference.
Ain’t nothin’ low enough for you, right?
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
9:10 pm
Fred:
How many MORE people would be on public assistance if not for the few policies that Obama was able to pass before the party of no came back into power in the Congress? Your “argument” makes no sense.
I didn’t make an argument. I just stated a fact. Do facts not make sense to you?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:11 pm
HAPPY DEMOCRATIC HALLOWEEN:
“Parents: Any child dressed as Barack Obama will be asked to relinquish
all collected candy so they may be redistributed to other deserving children.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
“Ain’t nothin’ low enough for you, right?”
You are.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:16 pm
Now now Senior Digits, play nice. No personal attacks. It just demonstrates your weakness in having your posts criticized as being lowlife and scummy in their false claims. Do try to play nice.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:17 pm
I will if you will ……………..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:18 pm
Always better to just debate.
Everyone’s opinion should be respected.
ODD OWL
October 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
Chrysler managerment clearly stated that the company is expanding the SALE of chrysler vehicles to china, not moving factory production to China… Question; When Japanese auto makers begin building vehicles in America, did they close down factories in Japan and move them to the USA or did they expand production to include USA ???
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
What exactly do you call that if in fact Jeep isn’t moving that production to China?
Not that the question was posed to me, but I’d call that a business move to increase profitability. As it stands now, those 33k vehicle sales come with major tariffs because of China’s trade laws. Manufacturing the vehicles there helps Chrysler/Jeep avoid cutting into their profitability to tap into that market. As other major manufacturers already have facilities in China, C/J is playing catch up to try to get back on equal footing with everyone else.
The downside is, of course, the jobs created there are not jobs created in America. It could be viewed as C/J giving the finger to American workers. It could also be viewed as a shrewd business move to continue to increase profitability and stay in business, saving the current and expanding American jobs. It just depends on how you choose to look at it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:25 pm
Senior digits, you have not posted opinion. You have posted lies and false claims as if they were the truth. You can have your opinion but to lie about the facts and to intentionally distort is low. If you want to make claims about Obama, at least, be honest and take the high road. If Obama is as bad as you claim, you should not need lies and false claims. Maybe the real weakness is in your analysis.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:32 pm
Good Fight:
Then we will continue to disagree.
Your posting that another poster is “lying” does not make it so.
You’re liberal and I am conservative. I will debate your opinions if you will debate mine and leave the personal attacks out. If you don’t want to exchange that way then we are done.
Simple as that.
Ronald Reagan Parkway
October 30th, 2012
9:35 pm
Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney’s Closing Con Game
Mitt Romney’s latest political ad makes it clear that he’s trying to portray himself as a uniter who will heal the divisions of the Obama years. Don’t believe it for a second.
So one of Mitt Romney’s closing plays is that he’s the great conciliator. He released an ad several days ago and has been hitting the theme ever since, arguing that we need (as Romney said in the first debate, quoted in the ad) “leadership that … could not care less if it’s a Republican or a Democrat” that said leader is working with. With this, Romney makes the full leap into Orwell-land, but with signs that some folks actually buy or at the very least want very much to believe this, it’s important to point out to those voters the precise nature of this con game.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/30/michael-tomasky-on-mitt-romney-s-closing-con-game.html
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
9:39 pm
ODD OWL, question for you. When they have the ability to make Jeeps in China, do you think they’ll keep exporting the 33K they sell there now from the US or will they produce them in China?
If you think they’ll make them in China, wouldn’t that be MOVING the production to China?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
Senior Digits, nope. I’ll comment as i please when you lie and stoop to the lowest commentary. It would be nice to see you actually show some real principles and real debating. My posting that you are lying is backed by credible evidence to support the claim and prove its truth. So yes it does mean you are lying.
ad
October 30th, 2012
9:42 pm
RB – your obsession with semantics reminds me of the people who were selling the “signed” Picasso prints. Of course, they weren’t signed by Picasso, but someone had signed them. Romney’s desperation has led him to push the truth about that far.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:47 pm
No RB, Chrysler is expanding US production. So if they build 1 million Jeeps in the US and export 33k to China now, and they build 1.2 million next year in the US and 50k in China, its NOT moving production. It’s a “expansion” of production. [My numbers are for discussion purposes and may not represent actual production]
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:47 pm
Let’s see, every face of Mitt is a two-faced face so how many faces does two-faced Mitt have. More than a single binder’s worth.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:49 pm
Mitt is the perfect Republican. A liar through and through.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:49 pm
To all concerned:
“Good Fight” habitually lies on his posts and distorts the truth in his failed efforts to advance his liberal positions. In spite of numerous attempts to convince him to cease and desist from these dispicable efforts he continues to do so.
Be forwarned.
That is all …………. at ease ……….. I will be in the company area all day.
redneckbluedog
October 30th, 2012
9:51 pm
Hurricane Sandy….!!!! President Obama heads back to the White House to do his job as President…!!!! Mitt Romney heads to Ohio to do his job, too, for the last 6 years….Campaigning for President…!?!?!?!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:51 pm
Excuse me: I meant “despicable”.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:51 pm
redneckbluedog:
Thank you ! Very astute comment and observation.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
P.S.
That’s the way it works.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
The frequency of Mitt’s lies track his level of desperation. The loser will do anything if he thinks it will get him another vote. He’s pathetic and so Republican.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:53 pm
Scout is a Republican, just like Mitt.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazBzvQ0ZAM&feature=related
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
-The frequency of obama’s lies track his level of desperation. The loser will do anything if he thinks it will get him another vote. He’s pathetic and so Democrat
Fixed your typo.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
TaxPayer is a Democrat, just like Obama.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 30th, 2012
9:56 pm
JKL2:
These guys have been a lot of fun tonight but I have to get up early.
Please take the point !
Ooo Rah !
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:57 pm
White voter registration in Georgia dropped to 59%.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:58 pm
Proud to be a progressive liberal myself…. wish Obama were more of one.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
9:58 pm
TaxPayer is a Democrat, just like Obama.
I proudly stand with President Obama. Scout is one of Mitt’s 47%.
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
9:59 pm
Bro, “Not that the question was posed to me, but I’d call that a business move to increase profitability. ”
I agree. And I’d say the same for Bain and GE and every other company that make decisions about where they produce goods to either maximize their profits or put themselves in a position to remain competitive and in business.
The fact remains the 33K vehicles they currently produce here and send to China will be produced in China when the plants are up and running.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
10:00 pm
Fixed your typo.
No. You simply demonstrate that you approve of Mitt’s lies.
Go Navy
October 30th, 2012
10:01 pm
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ODD OWL
October 30th, 2012
10:02 pm
@ R B… Words have meaning… expand has one meaning and move has another meaning… Chrysler didn’t say anything about closing down a factory in the U.S., laying off the employees and “move” that factory to China… Chrysler said that they’re”expanding” their business to include selling cars in China… If you remove the Republican political doublespeak from the equation, its crystal clear…
Mary Elizabeth
October 30th, 2012
10:04 pm
RB in Gwinnett, 9:03 pm
Here is what the top executive of Jeep said in his closing lines of The Detroit News article, above:
“Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.”
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The link was also made available, below, to that full article, I believe, when I cut and pasted the quote above.
The way that I understand the executive’s words, and also from what I have heard in the media about this, JEEP simply has now a growing world market for its vehicle. Just as corporations such as Starbucks or McDonalds start locally and, if successful, expand nationally, and then internationally, so JEEP is simply expanding its market globally because of demand throughout the globe. Part of that demand is for JEEP vehicles by customers in China, so that some of the JEEP vehicles will be made locally in China in order to supply the demand for them there.
However, that is quite different from what Mitt Romney wished to communicate to a fearful American audience. What he wanted to communicate was that JEEP was outsourcing American jobs to China and costing American workers their livelihood, as a result. He knew exactly what he was doing and how misleading he was being because he simply wants to win Ohio’s electoral votes, even if he had to lie to do it. His statement was quite ironic, as well as false, because Bain, his company, actually did outsource American jobs to foreign nations for profit purposes, costing American workers their livelihood when Bain closed down the American plant with workers here made to train the Chinese workers for the jobs the Chinese were taking away from them. Unconscienable.
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From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121030/AUTO0101/210300401#ixzz2ApukqYkL
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:07 pm
Keep, the volume of their production is irrelevant. The issue is they are MOVING production from the US to China. There is no way around that. The 33K vehicles currently being made here will be made there. Is there something about that you just aren’t capable of understanding? Or is it you just aren’t willing to understand it?
Thank you President Obama for saving General Motors. Mitt Romeny said "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"
October 30th, 2012
10:09 pm
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I want this guy to have MY back
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RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:16 pm
Odd Owl, “Chrysler didn’t say anything about closing down a factory in the U.S.,” Who said anything about closing factories?
“laying off the employees and “move” that factory to China… ” Nobody said they did. What’s your point?
“Chrysler said that they’re”expanding” their business to include selling cars in China…” They’ve already sold 33K vehicles in China YTD, ODD. They aren’t just starting up a plant in China to sell vehicle number 1 and grow from there. Those vehicles are currently made here and will be made there when their plants are ready. How is that not MOVING production?
Are you intentionally think headed or just not that bright?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
10:28 pm
So apparently anyone who points out that expansion of production at two locations is not “moving production” is “just not capable of understanding”, “think [sic] headed or just not that bright”
Methinks the problem lies with you RB.
Gmare
October 30th, 2012
10:32 pm
Thanks to ALL for the good wishes re my surgery!
Re last night: after reading thru the comments, I just checked in to wish Fred a
Happy Birthday & signed off quickly.
Jay, I think you chastised Recon, and probably justly so, BUT, there were some strange folks here last night. Okay, he sent me good wishes re my surgery, so I gotta defend him at least this once. Thanks,
Recon.
Gmare
October 30th, 2012
10:34 pm
Someone asked me if I voted. I did, absentee a couple of weeks ago. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!!
Marc
October 30th, 2012
10:34 pm
Jay how about Benghazi?
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:35 pm
Keep, one more time for the perpetually thick headed…
The number of vehicles being produced here is not relevant. The issue is where are the vehicles for the Asian market being built. Today they’re being built here; in the future they’ll be built in China by cheap Chinese labor. Any person with any sense (or intellectual honesty) knows that means they have MOVED the production to China.
You know, if that Obama water ever gets too heavy to carry, you can put it down.
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:39 pm
“Jay how about Benghazi?”
Shhhhh….. The AJC doesn’t want readers to know about that. Hence the complete lack of news stories on the subject.
Rick Fletcher
October 30th, 2012
10:41 pm
seems Jay is wrong to me….
independent thinker
October 30th, 2012
10:41 pm
To all those victims of Sandy whose houses were destroyed or who are staying in a shelter, do not despair Mitt’s got a can of soup for you. Forget about FEMA – that is an unnecessary government program for the 47% who are lazy and want to be permanent victims- VOTE FOR ROMNEY !
gm
October 30th, 2012
10:42 pm
Mitt is lying piece of scum, this fake will say anything do anything to gain power, hey Mitt how is Femmie working for those rep in Ny, NJ ?
I can not wait till Obama show this piece of scum saying we should do away with femma, now the piece of scum is back tracking his statement, this guy is only as low as his voters.
femma,
gm
October 30th, 2012
10:44 pm
For all you Obama haters, 3500 Americans dead 911 under W Rep administration
end of story
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:45 pm
Do you libs ever discuss the massive debt you’ve run up for your kids with them or do you just pretend it doesn’t exist or that it’s somebody else’s problem?
Maybe you should at least tell them the truth, eh?
RB from Gwinnett
October 30th, 2012
10:46 pm
gm, you’re a complete effing idiot. end of story.
JamVet
October 30th, 2012
11:01 pm
Go Navy, rock on! From a USAF brother.
It is our sacred duty to keep that coward from Massachusetts out of the White House.
The man is UNFIT to lead our troops and our nation.
ad
October 30th, 2012
11:04 pm
RB – My kids know about the massive amount of stimulus money that was required to keep us from going into a full-blown depression after 2 disasterous terms of GW Bush. They know that the economy is in recovery thanks to that stimulus and that their parents’ retirement funds were saved. They know that, over time, we need to bring spending and revenues in line and that the GOP has blocked any increase in taxes on the uber-rich that might help close that gap. They know that the GOP wants to increase military spending on such useful tools to fight terrorism such as new nuclear submarines. They know that our last GOP president started 2 wars and, instead of trying to pay for them with taxes, cut taxes. They know that his neo-con advisors (Mitt’s advisors, too) said that the Iraq war would “pay for itself.” My children will be voting for the sane party – the Democrats.
Cherokee
October 30th, 2012
11:05 pm
But he was a missionary for Elohim in France – isn’t that good enough for you?
Cherokee
October 30th, 2012
11:10 pm
“gm, you’re a complete effing idiot. end of story.”
I guess Jay can’t be around all the time to enforce the civility rules.
Actually gm is correct. Dubya moved heaven and earth to get all you Fox News parrots to ignore the fact that he failed to heed the clear warnings about terror attacks in the US.
So you’ll forgive those of us with working brain cells if we sneer at your unfounded hysteria over Benghazi.
Mick
October 30th, 2012
11:12 pm
These ads are romneys hail mary and the ball will be knocked down in the end zone…bye…bye…
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
11:28 pm
taxpayer- White voter registration in Georgia dropped to 59%
Good to see you still believe skin color is the most important trait in a politician.
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
11:31 pm
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Ambassador Stevens thought the same thing…
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
11:37 pm
gm- For all you Obama haters, 3500 Americans dead 911 under W Rep administration . end of story
Sweet victory for you gm. Good to see another happy Democrat celebrating dead Americans.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
obama luvs him some Hurricane Sandy!
JamVet
October 30th, 2012
11:40 pm
White voter registration in Georgia dropped to 59%
Very bad news for the completely self-segregated, Klan-fed, Lily White GOP.
GREAT news for Georgia…
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
11:41 pm
jamvet- The man is UNFIT to lead our troops and our nation
ROFL! but, but, but, obama’s got your back….
Bwahahahahaha
Cherokee
October 30th, 2012
11:50 pm
Yes he does.
You think Romney cares about you? Seriously? That’s funny….
Morality?
October 31st, 2012
12:58 am
Yes Chrysler was bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers and then sold to a foreign company most of their tax dollars now go out of the U.S.
Tealiban Party
October 31st, 2012
1:46 am
Chris Christie, fierce Obama critic, praises president’s response to Hurricane Sandy
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has blasted President Obama’s leadership, heaped praise on Obama on Tuesday for his handling of Hurricane Sandy.
“The president has been outstanding in this and so have the folks at FEMA,” Christie said on NBC’s “Today” show.
Christie, whose state is among the hardest hit by the storm, made appearances on several morning talk shows on Tuesday and applauded Obama at each stop.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Christie said “the president has been all over this, and he deserves great credit. He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything and he absolutely means it, and it’s been very good working with the president and his administration.”
On CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien,” Christie added that Obama “has been incredibly supportive and helpful to our state, and not once did he bring up the election.”
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/10/30/chris-christie-fierce-obama-critic-praises-president-response-hurricane-sandy/0JUUf3NDsg6GuUleJr20XJ/story.html
Fred ™
October 31st, 2012
3:17 am
Morality?
October 31st, 2012
12:58 am
Yes Chrysler was bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers and then sold to a foreign company most of their tax dollars now go out of the U.S.
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Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
October 31st, 2012
6:32 am
Good Halloween Morning to all y’all…
I truly believe that Mitt’s comments about Jeep was truly from God. God showed us what a fool the man is. This will cost him Ohio and that will cost him the Presidency…Praise GOD!!!
MiltonMan
October 31st, 2012
6:52 am
“Very bad news for the completely self-segregated, Klan-fed, Lily White GOP.
GREAT news for Georgia…”
Dang the liberal media had reported in the past that George Wallace and Robert Bryd were both Democrats.
Georgia
October 31st, 2012
6:53 am
Christie does looked shell shocked. That’s real, folks. he’s not pretending or spewing memorized talking points. He’s in the moment, realizing finally what the stakes are and how many people trust their government to protect them. He Knows!!! If he’s been blind or deaf or mute to his constituency, He Knows!! He Knows!!! How politics has no place in catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy. Christie is forever enlightened. Contrast him today with the smug arrogant bully at the RNC.
Add that to the Tea Party talking about their reasoned deliberations about their support for the non-support of voting for the Charter Amendment, and I have to say, “Welcome to the United States of America!”. Lets all work on the wording of amendments and make them clear and concise. Who wrote the wording to the Charter Amendment? Who writes any of the amendments? Why are misleading phrases even allowed? Isn’t this voter fraud at it’s most fundemental level?
MiltonMan
October 31st, 2012
6:55 am
“Chris Christie, fierce Obama critic, praises president’s response to Hurricane Sandy”
Too bad that Obama did not have to deal with an idiot like Ray Nagin like W did. Christie puts his citizens first; clowns like Nagin put himself first.
TaxPayer
October 31st, 2012
7:05 am
Buckets and Bootstraps for sale. — Mitt Romney’s Disaster Relief
AU Liberal in ATL
October 31st, 2012
7:07 am
Who is this Lib Par nut case? You’d think he has access to all the classifed information produced by the CIA, FBI and The State Dept. The argument for the nose holding vote is ridiculous.
Jack
October 31st, 2012
7:10 am
The auto manufacturing experts need to start their own car company and then sell them at a loss. See how that works for you.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 31st, 2012
7:14 am
Trick or Treat!
Don’t stand between me and those miniature milky ways…..
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
October 31st, 2012
7:25 am
Good morning Granny G.
Being a sugar free diabetic, Halloween is a real test for me. I’m afraid I’ll ambush my grand kids…
Amazongurl
October 31st, 2012
7:26 am
Thanks Jay for revealing how Mitt consistently lie just to persuade voters so he can become president. We don’t know where he stand on issues. He is not trustworthy.
HDB
October 31st, 2012
7:38 am
I was always told that if one lied on his resume that that was a disqualifier for the job; Romney has been lying throughtout…..and hopefully more people than not have noticed this!!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 31st, 2012
7:49 am
Normal
I can’t imagine how tough that might be.
Blessedly grandbaby “sugar” goes straight to the heart and not the bloodstream.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 31st, 2012
7:54 am
Where is Romney on his “Get the Lie Out” campaign today?
stands for decibels
October 31st, 2012
7:59 am
Mornin’.
I see that Real Clear Politics has quietly shifted another 4 EVs to lean Obama (that’d be NH), and if you click their “no tossups” link, Obama wins with 294 to 244.
Oh, and Nate’s overnight recalc has Obama with slightly better odds of winning VA, as Romney has of winning FL, and OH is up to 77.6% probability for Obama. (unsurprisingly, Obama’s overall probability of winning rises to 77.4% by that reckoning.)
Plus I early-voted yesterday, so there’s that.
but who knows–perhaps Rust-belt voters will hear one thing from a desperate challenger, and another thing from GM and Chrysler, and think “golly, that desperate challenger must be correct” and this whole sucker will turn on a dime, with less than a week to go. Ya never know.
alex
October 31st, 2012
8:00 am
Jay, boy your words bring out the JAMVETS in the world, let’s see something about :KLAN,…Goodness, you’ve got quite the intellectual group here,this is the problem these voters are supporting Obama-what can you expect fron that guy. You think the tea partiers are bad, you people are just as narrow minded and illinformed as them.You think that Obama and the Dem Pacs have not done similar garbage,what about the earlier commercial about the iron worker’s wife whose death was blamed on Romney-pathetic and if this commercial, if untrue-I haven’t seen it and sorry Jay but you’re the leader of this demonically biased crew -then of course it too is pathetic.
Saving GM may have gotten Obama a second term, in the process he destroyed the stockholders(get this you welfare recepients-the OWNERS) and the bond holders,sounds fair , huh. The Union came out ok. There can be NO doubt that saving jobs was good, but at what expense ….
Well anyway, more fun for Jay and the extremeist view from the left,by the way if Christie is right then good for EVERYBODY,as I have said,I have been thru a hurricane-it ain’t fun and all the help you can get is appreciated.
For Jay:”TRUTH’, of course there is no absolute truth except for a few laws in physics and any one who projects knowing or being able to recognize the all encompassing political “truth” is a narcicist and has no place in rational discussion. Amazongurl(how comforting), we know where Obama stands and we DON’T like it.
TaxPayer
October 31st, 2012
8:01 am
I built that lie! – Mitt
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 31st, 2012
8:05 am
“Jay and the extremeist view from the left”
Performing seven nights a week with Sunday matinees for the next 4 years.
Get your tour tee-shirts and backstage passes.
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Me, I’m proud to be with the band.
TaxPayer
October 31st, 2012
8:05 am
alex declaring others to be demonically biased! Spin your head around a few more times for us, alex. I always did get a kick out of that demonic trick.
straitroad
October 31st, 2012
8:07 am
It is telling that Jay threatens to ban those based on personal insults when they don’t align with his politics. That is a typical liberal for you, tolerant as long as you agree with me. I’ve been insulted personally on this blog many times but I would never expect those who insult me to be banned. I would rather know someone’s true sentiments. On the topic, this is simply more deflection from serious issues though not unexpected from Bookman. Jay, do you think Obama’s cover up of the Benghazi situation is appropriate? Even if he wins re-election, this cover up will likely doom his second term. The media will have to cover it at some point.
Skip
October 31st, 2012
8:10 am
Put the chocolate in the bag and nobody gets hurt.
Estados Unidos de América
October 31st, 2012
8:11 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IqkRbxcTA
stands for decibels
October 31st, 2012
8:11 am
It is telling that Jay threatens to ban those based on personal insults when they don’t align with his politics.
As opposed to threatened bans of those whose politics DO align with Jay’s? As in when Jay told me a few months ago, “one more post like that and you’re out of here?”
This ongoing charge of bias against conservative posters is provably false, but that won’t keep people from making it over and over and over again.
Headin’ upstairs for chilly plea SHEETZ.
Speed Racer
October 31st, 2012
8:15 am
A Chrysler official indicated that they were looking to move production to China. This was not just a Romney claim: “Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia and president of the Jeep brand, told Bloomberg, ‘We’re reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity’ as well as ’should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio’ to China.”
Speed Racer
October 31st, 2012
8:17 am
And, Fiat’s CEO released a plan that included possibly building some Jeeps in Italy. Again, not a Romney claim. “Fiat Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne presented a plan yesterday to turn around the European operations…The CEO intends to introduce 19 new models through 2016 that will be produced in Italy, including a small Jeep SUV, 9 Alfa Romeos and 6 Maseratis.”
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 31st, 2012
8:18 am
STANDS
Morning…here’s additional fodder relative to Silver…as I said, he’s a damn genious but there are many reasons not to put anymore credence into his odds/projections than the other polls…
I hope his projections are correct or at least in some fashion mirror his 2008 (and only) prior record…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/nate-silver-romney-clearly-could-still-win-147618.html
indigo
October 31st, 2012
8:20 am
Ok, cons. I’m paitently waiting for you to tell those folks who were trashed by Sandy to man up, and don’t ask the Govt. for any help. After all, we just don’t have the money and they should lift themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Right???
JKL2
October 31st, 2012
8:21 am
-cherokee
You think obama cares about you? Seriously? That’s funny….
Recon 0311 2533
October 31st, 2012
8:26 am
Appears that the regressives were active last night. Probably filled with Jay’s Kool-Aid about Romney’s supposed lie about Chrysler. Of course Romney was accurate in what he said but that doesn’t stop the desperate regressives. Hopefully, next week will see the beginning of the end for the worst president in American history.