People Will Look It Up

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You’ve held the floor for a while. The — look, I think anybody out there can check the record. Governor Romney, you keep on trying to, you know, airbrush history here. 

You were very clear that you would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. You said that they could get it in the private marketplace. That wasn’t true. They would have gone through a — 

MR. ROMNEY: You’re wrong. You’re wrong, Mr. President. 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I — no, I am not wrong. 

MR. ROMNEY: You’re wrong. 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I am not wrong. And — 

MR. ROMNEY: People can look it up. You’re right. 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: People will look it up. 

MR. ROMNEY: Good.

If you read Romney's 2998 New York Times article carefully, you'll see he would use the government only to provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy private financing and to assure car buyers their investment is not at risk. So Obama's was right last night and Mitt, as usual, was wrong, and pigheaded about it.

It takes a lot of chutzpah for a man who wrote an editorial called "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" to claim he wouldn't let Detroit go bankrupt!

Mr. Romney, people are indeed "looking it up." If there is any justice in this world, you're screwed.


Sources

Dwyer, Sam. (2012, 23 October). Romney's "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" op-ed on the auto industry goes viral. BostInno. Read it here.

Romney, Mitt. (2008, 18 November). Let Detroit go bankrupt. New York Times. Read it here.

Mitt Romney Disagrees With an Auto Bailout. (2008, 20 November). KKCO 11 News. Watch here.

Romney adamantly against auto industry bailout. (2008, 20 November). Associated Press.Read here.

Stein, Sam. (2012, 23 October). Romney on auto bailout in 2008: "If you write a check, they're going to go out of business." Huffington Post. Read here.