President obama. Colin powells former chief of staff on sununus charge. And Michael Eric Dyson on racism as a Campaign Tactic in the year 2012. Plus righties are freaking out, calling the Obama Campaign satanic over this ad. Super uncool to be out and about, i wasnt ready. And lives hang in the balance if obama care gets repealed. Pearl jam guitarist Mike Mccready is standing up for people with preexisting conditions and he joins the ed show tonight. Thanks for watching. All eyes are on ohio in the final weeks of the 2012 election. The Romney Campaign hit a sour note last night at a rally in the buckeye state. Actually, the note mitt romney hit was a heck of a lot worse than that. The republican normminee out of nowhere told a crowd of supporters some unexpected information about auto jobs in nearby toledo, ohio. Saw a story today of one of the great manufacturers of the state, jeep, now owned by italians is thinking of moving all production to china. I will fight for every good job in america and im going to fight to make sure trade is fair. Moving all production to china. Folks, this is a gigantic lie. Earlier this week, chryslers Parent Company announced that its in talks to increase operations throughout the entire world. Now as Bloomberg News reported chrysler referred to adding jeep production sites rather than shifting output from north america to china. Translation, chrysler is so flushed with cash they are looking to expand operations to other countries including the Worlds Largest customer. Today chrysler announced 1100 new jobs at its Jeep Assembly plant in detroit, michigan. But wait a minute, mitt romney he didnt say anything about that. You see mitt romney would be talking about job creation then and thats something he says that barack obama doesnt know anything about. Chrysler responded to this controversy. I want you to pay close attention to what a Corporation Said about what mitt romney said. First they start out saying, lets set the record straight. Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its jeep models out of north america to china. Its simply reviewing the opportunities to return jeep output to china for the Worlds Largest auto market. U. S. Jeep Assembly Lines will continue to stay in operation, a careful and unbliesed reading of the bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments. You know what, folks . I dont think the Obama Campaign could have written that release. In fact, mitt romneys entire campaign is about unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments. His lie about chrysler was not only dishonest, it was irresponsible. Romney said hundreds of jobs were at stake with no facts whatsoever to support his claim. Where does he get his information. What kind of president is this guy going to be . Its like shouting fire in a crowded theater. Romney is also a hypocrite. As president obama points out, mitt romneys plan for the auto workers of ohio would have actually sent jobs to china. Hes hoping you remember that its likely to create jobs in china because is shifts them overseas instead of here in the United States of america. If mitt romney had been president when the Auto Industry was on the verge of collapse, we might not have an Automobile Industry today. Wed be buying cars from china instead of selling to them. Mitt romneys path to the presidency is impossible without ohios 18 electoral votes. Right now winning ohio is not looking good for romney. Six ohio polls were released this week. Five of them have president obama leading. One is tied. President obamas average lead in ohio is 2. 3 points. Thats a big lead, seriously. Now families in Northern Ohio have not forgotten what the rescue of the Automobile Industry did for their state. One in eight ohio jobs are about the Automobile Industry. This is why mitt romney is doing everything he possibly can to down play the impact of the auto rescue. His political director says the Obama Campaign dropped the auto bailout on us, but theres only so long you can ride that one trick pony. You think getting a paycheck is a onetrick pony . Romney called last nights event a victory rally. Today romney gave a standard stump speech in iowa, but his campaign called it a victory event. So if you believe mitt romney, heck, hes already won the election. The auto rescue was no big deal and ohio jobs are getting shipped over to china. You cant believe a word this guy says. One no knows this isnt true is rob portman. Portman knows romney is toast without ohio. If we dont win ohio, its stuff to see us winning the election nationally. Its possible, but its difficult. Along with all of that, we have said that mitt romney is a candidate who is really lacking in e detail on every subject. Now his electoral chances boil down to one state. The biggest deal in ohio is the economy. Mitt romney flat out opposed the rescue, although hes tried to reinvent that time and time again. Its not surprising he would lie about car manufacturing jobs going to china. If he admits the the truth, hell be finished in that state. So hes out there creating a story, telling people that a plant is going to be shut down by chrysler and the jobs are going overseas. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is just falling right into the hands of the Obama Campaign. You cant make this stuff up. But you see if he were to talk about the 1100 jobs that chrysler added in detroit, then of course, that would be complimenting the president on job creation and saving the Automobile Industry. Its a tight spot for romney and his surrogates. Get your cell phones out. Tonights question, is lying the only way mitt romney can win ohio . Text a for yes, b for no to 622639. You can go to our blog online. Well bring you results later on in the program. Im joined by a couple sources who know all about automobile rescue. That is former governor Ted Strickland of ohio. And also with us tonight is congressman tim ryan of ohio. Gentlemen, great to have you with us. Governor, you first. I can only think that this is a complete disservice to the people of ohio to go out in front of a crowd and erroneously put out information that cuts right to the fabric of what this election is all about and thats jobs. Whats your reaction . My reaction is that mitt romney is a desperate man. He knows hes losing ohio. If he loses ohio, hes lose iin the election. For him to do what he did is despicable. Think of the angst that those workers felt when they heard him say that. Obviously, it showed a lack of judgment and a lack of truthfulness. This man is not ready to be the president of the United States of america. As jon huntsman said duri, you know where hes going to be on any given day. The latest example of his desperation in trying to reach the ohio voter but ohioans have figured this guy out, they know whos on their side and its barack obama and joe biden. And thats why i am convinced to my depths that ohio is going to do the right thing and the president is going to be reelected with ohios support. Congressman ryan, accuracy is important in your business. To stand up in front of people and Say Something thats flat out false, doesnt this speak to the character of mitt romney to play with peoples emotions like this . I dont think theres any doubt about it. It does show the kind of coldness that we saw with him at bain capital. The kind of detachment when he talks about these issues. He didnt even consider the families that would have been affected in northwest ohio by his comments. They have had enough problems dealing with the romney policies, the bush economic policies, the way they have handled things. But hes not happy with that. He comes in and continues to try to scare people. This is a consistent pattern, though, ed. This is the same kind of business these republicans do. They troll around on the intern internet. They find one story thats made up and they use it. Whether its todd akin use iing like his science that he has for legitimate rape or the goofy stuff they come up with climate change. Now he finds an article about china. God knows where its come from. He pedals it as the truth in ohio. But the reality on the ground is so much different. People are working because of obama so the nonsense doesnt work. Congressman, what about the 1100 jobs that chrysler is adding in detroit . Why didnt mitt romney say that . Well, of course, any good news. Im sure he didnt talk about the growth hes had. He didnt talk about any of the positive things happening. He didnt want to bring it up because theres a lot of people in northwest ohio that would work in those plants or would expand because they are part of a supply chain out there. He doesnt want to give obama any credit. People here in ohio are enthusiastic about whats happening in this election and romney is trying to throw water on the fire. But whats actually happening is with all of obama coming in, were throwing gas on the fire and ohio is going to deliver and prevent mitt romney from becoming president. Governor, isnt this a perfect example that mitt romney will say anything, anywhere to try to get a vote . The truth just simply doesnt matter . Absolutely, ed. But ohioans, they figured this guy out. A swiss bank account, investments saying he likes to fire people, cars with el i mean homes with elevators for his cars. Then we saw him in that videotape talking in such a disparaging, disrespectful way about so Many Americans and many of those people are ohioans. This guy doesnt understand regular working people. Hes so out of touch. So it may be easy for him to come into a community and talk as he did and say hes going to lose all these jobs. Not thinking about what it means for all those people. Heres what i take out of the story. This guy wants to be president of the United States. He takes a morsel of information off the internet. Its totally not checked out. Not resourced. Hes willing to use it in front of people. This is the most reckless example we have seen of how he would operate. He simply is not qualified to have the responsibility of the presidency and operate in the oval office. Great to have you with us. Ted strickland of ohio and congressman tim ryan with us. Thank you so much. Remember to answer tonights question there at the bottom of the screen. Share your thoughts on twitter edshow and also on facebook. Coming up, the war of words. Find out why a big endorsement is driving the republicans absolutely crazy tonight. 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I also saw the president get us out of one war and start to get us out of a second war and not into any new wars. Im more comfortable with president obama and his administration when it comes to issues of climate and immigration and education. I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on. The former secretary of state ruffled some republican feathers. The Romney Campaign deployed former governor john sununu to respond. Thats when things got ugly. When you take a look at colin paul, you have to wonder whether thats an endorsement mace basted on issues or whether he has a slightly different reason for preferring president obama. What reason would that be . Well, when you have somebody of your own race that youre proud of being president of the United States, i applaud colin for standing with him. Did you catch the first line from sununu . Here it is. When you take a look at colin powell he said, when you take a look at colin powell. As if its obvious why powell would endorse a black president because hes a black guy too, right . This is outrageous. This morning a radio host had an interview with the president and asked the president if he was offended by sununus remarks. Any suggestion that general powell would make such a profound statement in such an important election based on anything than what he thought was whats going to be best for america i think, doesnt make much sense. Here comes the mop up. Sununu has issued a statement calling general powell a friend and says that he respects the endorsement. He says, i do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support for the president s policies. Its not exactly an apology, is it, folks . He stated that powells decision was influenced by race. Its certainly not about race. Its about policy and the performance of the president of the United States over the last four years. General powell did you want think romney is ready for the job. As for sununu, hes just coming off as an angry old white guy who doesnt like diversity. Lets turn to former chief of staff at the state department during Colin Powells term and currently the visiting professor at the college of william and mary. Right to the point, what do you think of john sununus assessment of colin powell . I have respect for him as a member of the party, but no respect for the position that he seemed to codify. Look at me, ed, im white. Im not black. Colin powell picked me because of the content of my character and competence, as he did every white person, black person, asian, that worked for him. To say that colin powell would endorse president obama because of his skin color is like saying mother theresa worked for profit. Do you agree with general powells endorsement . Do you agree with that . I wont speak for him, but i will say that i thought he was rather forthright in the way he characterized it. I agree basically with the way he characterize d it. President obama inherited a catastrophe of failing housing market, collapsing Automobile Industry, a huge debt, 800,000 jobs lost. He inherited what george bush and dick cheney gave him. In the four years hes been president , hes made steady improvement. He stabilized the financial system, he saved the Automobile Industry. He needs another four years in order to make more improvements because theres still lots of improvements that need to be made including more jobs. So lets give him four years rather than go to a man who is so slick that we dont even know from the primaries to now what he stands for. Colonel wilkerson, in the comment he made, he said when you look at colin powell, there may be other reasons he would support president obama. What does this say about the Republican Party . Isnt this getting to be somewhat of a brand of the Republican Party . I think it was an unfortunate slip of words, but youre insinuating something that is absolutely accurate. My party, unfortunately, is the of those people who are still basing their decision on race. Let me be candid. My party is full of racists. The real reason a considerable portion of my party wants president obama out of the white house has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And thats despicable. What does it say about mitt romney to allow john sununu to slip away with this without repurr cushion whatsoever . It says that mitt romney will use any tactic whatsoever to win the white house. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, great to have you with us. I appreciate your candor so much. Thank you for visiting with us tonight. This isnt the first time that john sununu has engaged in race baiting. Why does the Romney Campaign keep using this guy as a surrogate . Michael dyson will weigh in next. And then mitt romney has no plans to cut ties with richard mur douk. We are right back on the ed show. 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