re: #156 palomino

Yeah, the Obama campaign has been using Bain as an attack; effectively enough thus far that it’s prompted Romney’s camp to get very defensive.

I don’t think this qualifies as character assassination. We’re talking about the firm Romney oversaw and its practices—totally fair game, especially in light of Romney’s claim that Bain is his greatest achievement and qualifies him to be Prez. Not surprisingly he downplays his term as Mass. Gov—anything that reminds Republicans of Romneycare, his pro-choice record, or the fact that he used to be a moderate, is gonna be pushed aside.

But he’s done nothing illegal.

Unfortunately some people think that running a large corporation qualifies you as President, I guess because you deal with people and budgets and so forth. But whatever it is, the aim of the company, any company, is profit. That is not the aim of government. Government takes care of society and its needs. So certainly if you think that, they won’t care much about Bain.

Now the part they may care about is the outsourcing. Not a popular thing, even among (or maybe even especially among) Republicans. Again, not illegal, but is probably the foremost reason of job loss here.