afghanistan so we can do some nation building here at home. that s the right path. so read my plan, compare it to governor romney s and help me decide which is better for you. it s an honor to be your president and i m asking for your vote so together we can keep moving america forward. joining me now are former ohio governor ted strickland and robert reich a professor at university of california, berkeley. governor, i want to read so we can remember what he said. if general motors, ford and chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the automatic motive industry good-bye. it won t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. without that bailout, detroit will need to drastically restructure itself.
i received a letter from general motors. they were suspending my credit line. we had 3700 employees out of work. my wife and i were the last ones there. it was like the dream we worked for was gone. romney blamed the president for auts toe industry-related job losses. according to the treasury department the bailout created 115,000 jobs. according to treasury. regardless, the ad is only the latest in a very convoluted series of messages coming from romney over the years when it comes to the auto bailout. he s very unclear in this. in 2008 he wrote an editorial for the new york times under the headline let detroit go bankrupt. romney wrote then, if general motors, ford and chrysler get their bailout their chief executive asked for yesterday, you can kiss the american auto industry good-bye. it won t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. well, that s really future telling there. that was wrong, of course. and earlier this year he had a very different response
there. it was like the dream we worked for was gone. according to the treasury department the bailout created 115,000 jobs. according to treasury. regardless, the ad is only the latest in a very convoluted message of ads from romney over the years on the auto bailout. in 2008 he wrote an editorial under the headline let detroit go bankrupt. he wrote then if general motors, ford, and chrysler get the bailout they asked for yesterday, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. it won t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. that s future telling there. that was wrong of course. and earlier this year he had a different response. he took credit for the auto bailout. let s watch him this time. my own view was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and frankly that s finally what the president did. i pushed the idea of a managed
yesterday, you can kiss the american automotive industry goodbye. it won t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guarantee. united auto workers president bob king responding. he disagreed with it. well, he said it won t go overnight. so it could be that we are in the process of kissing it goodbye. maybe it was a long-term thing. despite the fact they are doing quite well. i think this is a moment where jon stewart speaks for america. it s just it s comedic at a level that i mean, you just kind of throw up your hands. i think if we re going to take it beyond the comedic, it is now time to bring in a shrink. that s what you need for this question this morning. a homicide detective would be good to talk about what people look like when they re lying and how you kind of read their faces. how about it s time for a new campaign staff? this guy is it s really peculiar. i think a lot of it has to do and we were talking about this yesterday with craig shirley,
quote, if general motors, ford and chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the american automotive industry goodbye. it won t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. john, my buddy, what do you make of this hutzpah here? what he fails to point out is that the americans barack obama invested heartily in the auto industry and brought them back. like you said, chris, help was given and because of that op-ed, mistakes were made. i think it reflects as much as everything certainly some hutzpah, but it reflects the narrowness of the maps of the romney campaign to win. it s very hard for them to win without ohio, and it s very hard to win without putting a couple other obama states in play. michigan, under normal circumstances, because it s romney s home state, might be