re: #133 Dark_Falcon

Yes, he can be blamed. He should push for effective policies, not try to pass blame to others. If the buck stopped at Mitt Romney’s desk at Bain while he was CEO, then it currently stops at Rahm Emanuel’s desk while he is Chicago’s mayor.

Of course you realize that your man Romney is arguing that the buck did not stop with him.

CRAWFORD: But you say it’s ridiculous. But why is there this discrepancy? You said you left Bain in 1999 yet Bain is listing you as CEO up until 2002, so why were you listed as CEO until 2002?

GOV. ROMNEY: The documents show that there’s a difference between ownership, which is I owned shares in Bain, but I did not manage Bain. I left as everyone knows to go out and run the Olympics in February of 1999. I was full-time running the Olympics. I had no role whatsoever in the management of Bain after I went off to the Olympics. And that’s been demonstrated by people who work at Bain, by all of the documents, but I still retained an ownership interest, I had the capacity if I were not on leave, if I were actually wanting to run the business to do so, but I did not. I left. And that’s been demonstrated time and time again.

CRAWFORD: Even if you weren’t making these daily managerial decisions, though, doesn’t the buck stop with you?

GOV. ROMNEY: Actually when you leave an enterprise, when you have other people who are managing the enterprise, who take responsibility for all the investment decisions, who decide who’s going to get hired and fired, who decide compensation decisions, they’re the managers, they’re the people running the business. I left the business and went off to run the Olympics, did that full time and after three years, when the Olympics were over, we arranged my departure officially from a retirement standpoint.

You were right when you said he stands for nothing but his own desire to be president.