bain capital. i ve reduced employees in my city 25% because it s the only way we would survive. call me a job cutter if you want. let s call me a job cutter. he was out there being cory booker and not really considering how to advance the president s message. yes! i think he s absolutely wrong if he s saying that bain capital in looking at the record is off limits because what else is there in this campaign? looking at the massachusetts record of mitt romney? in that regard, he was serving his own constituency, that is his donors and the people in manhattan. not only did he say that bain was off limits, he actually also said that bain overall had done good for the economy, and he was touting bain, and more important, i think, than any of that is he s implicitly saying that barack obama, that
he never takes an ounce of credit for that. not at all. in the meantime, romney was against that. you could have shut down the auto industry. it will be about europe. germany is ascendant. obama is missing the point. it s not bain. it s gm. i think obama is saying, jim, you put your finger right on it. this is not about what happened to bain capital. i reduced the employees in my city by 25%. it s the only way my government would survive. call me a job cutter, if you want. we re seeing two men with fundamentally different ideals. one would have let the auto industry fail, costing this nation not just the auto industry. auto dealerships, people that make and sell parts. these are the big ideas i think obama is talking about but is not getting through. the sexy stuff of campaigns the media plays over and over again that we waste time talking about is this negative stuff. the reality is i listen to obama. i have obama surrogate notes here. they re talking about the positive issues t
he makes a classically clumsy comment and plays to the notion that he was a heartless corporate job cutter. i like being able to fire people. i like being able to fire people. i like being able to fire people. but were those words wrenched out of context as we just did there? plus, we ll look at cbs s launch of a newsy morning show with charlie rose and gale king, and her interview with michelle obama and a controversial book about the first couple. you would think michelle obama is angry, she s unhappy, she feels burdened, she feels frustrated. do you feel frustrated as first lady of the united states? the question for cbs, do network viewers want that much politics for breakfast? i m hourt kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it was almost comical as i flipped around the cable chat shows before the polls closed in new hampshire to watch the pundits try to set the bar for mitt romney. he needed 35% of the vote. no, it had to be bovl 37%. when the former governor
we lost our jobs, they made millions. businesses, they are all gone. jobs we ll never see again. that is guy lyinlying? those are the facts. mitt romney is the front-runner for the republican nomination, oon outsourcer, job cutter, he allegedly took millions from workers, he was confronted today but a representative from the united auto workers union who wanted to know why in the world mitt wanted to let the auto workers go and not support them when president obama did? you say those people, people from your own state of michigan would have been better off either bankruptcy where they would have really very likely lost their jobs, instead of where they are today, once again, the number one auto company in the united states? i don t understand that. ma am, we have been very patient. you need to get to the answer now, thank you. let s get to the answer.
mitt romney and bain capital came in and took the place over and eventually shut it down. we lost our jobs, they made millions. businesses, they are all gone. jobs we ll never see again. that is guy lying. those are the facts. mitt romney is the front-runner for the republican nomination, on outsourcer, job cutter, he allegedly took millions from workers, he was confronted today but a representative from the united auto workers union who wanted to know why in the world mitt wanted to let the auto workers go and not support them when president obama did? you say those people, people from your own state of michigan would have been better off either bankruptcy where they would have really very likely lost their jobs, instead of where they are today, once again, the number one auto company in the united states? i don t understand that.