days in jail for spying on his gay roommate with a webcam. that roommate committed suicide. was it a fair sentence? we begin with evening with president obama s most personal and most direct critique of his republican challenger, mitt romney. speaking in chicago at the conclusion of the nato summit and brush ago side criticism from a prominent democratic ally the president took aim at governor romney s tun you re at the head of the private equity firm bain capital. this issue is, quote, not a distraction. this is part of a debate we ll be having in this election campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success? the distraction critique came from cory booker who sunday urged the president and republicans to focus on the country s biggest problem. this kind of stuff is nauz ating on both sides. it is nauz ating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking priv
saying i m ceo of this company. what s bizarre to me is they find themselves where he seems to be simultaneously away from the company and running the company two two different groups. they re telling the federal government he s still the ceo. all of this has been done so that he has some plausible deniability in this deal with gst steel who fired a lot of folks and sent the jobs over. what gst steel did wasn t that different from anything bain did in the years when romney was actually running bain. i mean, bain was doing what bain was doing which was in some cases bankrupting companies and in other cases outsourcing jobs because that s what private equity companies do. he was doing that the whole way through. they re now caught in this trap by making this distinction what bain did before 1999 and after. it was in effect doing the same things. yeah.