Obama: Romney's tough talk on China "not credible"
(CBS News) Mitt Romney's tough talk on U.S.-Chinese relations is "just not credible," President Obama told a crowd of supporters at a rally at Ohio's Bowling Green State University Wednesday.
"He says he's going to take the fight to them," Mr. Obama said of his Republican rival. "That message is better than what he's actually done about this thing... When you hear this newfound outrage, it feels a lot more like the fox saying we need more secure chicken coops."
Both Mr. Obama and Romney took their campaigns on Wednesday to the critical swing state of Ohio, where the state of the once-robust manufacturing sector makes the debate over outsourcing and trade with China especially resonant.
In Westerville, Ohio, earlier in the day, Romney said, "We're going to crack down on China.... They've stolen our jobs; that's gotta stop."
Mr. Obama said that kind of rhetoric didn't hold up to "all those years [Romney] spent profiting from our jobs sent" to China. By contrast, the president said, "I'm not just talking the talk." He boasted of bringing more trade cases against China in one term than the previous administration did in two. "And by the way, we've been winning those cases."
Mr. Obama also defended his decision to place a tariff on Chinese tires in 2009 that Romney has criticized. "We've got over 1,000 American workers back to work producing American tires," the president said. "If you want to know who's going to actually fight for workers and fight for American jobs, you can look at the record. Look at who said what before election time."
The Romney campaign has called the tariff ineffective while blaming it for higher costs for American consumers.
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The president today also touted his decision to expand the auto bailout, noting that the auto industry supports one in eight Ohio jobs and supports businesses in 82 out of 88 Ohio counties.
According to the latest Quinnipiac University/ CBS News/ New York Times poll, Mr. Obama has opened up a 10-point lead in Ohio, besting Romney 53 percent to 43 percent. At Bowling Green University, Mr. Obama was likely to find an especially welcoming audience -- the poll shows that voters ages 18 to 34 in Ohio prefer the president over Romney, 66 percent to 31 percent.
In the Quinnipiac/ CBS/ NYT poll, 60 percent of likely Ohio voters described the auto bailout as a success, while 30 percent characterized it as a failure. Fifty-one percent of Ohio voters said Mr. Obama would do a better job on the economy, while 45 percent said Romney would.
Romney is campaigning vigorously in the state, making three stops in Ohio Wednesday as he wraps up a bus tour there.
Early voting starts in the swing state on October 2, in just six days, and Mr. Obama on Wednesday urged the students to get out and vote. He noted that the student who introduced him at the rally had a broken wrist, remarking, "If Seth can come up here with a broken wrist, there is not a student here who cannot get registered and make sure they go to vote. No excuses -- you gotta play through injuries."
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Thanks to President Obama, taxpayer money, mostly in the form of stimulus funds, ended up in the hands of companies overseas. Instead of creating jobs in America, the stimulus and other Obama policies created jobs or sent money to Finland, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, China, Denmark, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, Russia, Luxembourg, El Salvador, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, and France.
How did this happen? Consider the example of Fisker Automotive. The company received $500 million in loan guarantees from the U.S. government to produce electric cars. Then they took their money and decided to produce their $100,000 electric sports cars in Finland.
President Obama's policies may be spurring job creation in Scandinavia. But here at home, twenty-three million Americans are struggling for work. Millions of middle class families can barely make ends meet.
The billions of dollars that went overseas largely had to be borrowed. In other words, President Obama borrowed money from countries like China to send money to... countries like China. It's that kind of reckless spending that led President Obama to rack up $5.6 trillion in debt over the last three and a half years, bringing our total national debt to $15.8 trillion
GE moved out of the US; with Obama's blessing; just weeks after meeting with Obama.
Obama is constantly putting both feet in his mouth.
Therefore; he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
HE HAS, and probably will continue, to send companies and therefore jobs, to CHINA!...He has bragged about it!
Just because they spoke does not mean The President gave his blessing. ...You wish!
No - that's mittys forte!
It was NOT immediate either.
And mitty has sent his share too!
Actually he has tried to stop them, but reps keep stopping him!
You vote for mitty and your job may be next!
Was it in the national interest for BIG OIL to drill at the US NAVAL OIL RESERVE at Teapot Dome?
Would it be in the national interests to have no-bid contracts, for oil pipelines, awarded to the Koch brothers?
Obama said, "it feels a lot more like the fox saying we need more secure chicken coops." He's right. Who better than to understand what is wrong with the chicken coop than the fox? The fox knows where the holes are.
Sometimes outsourcing jobs can mean saving a company. Would you rather save 1000 jobs by sending 10,000 jobs to China? Or would you rather lose all 11,000 jobs? Obama seems to support the latter by villainizing those who outsource jobs. Romney understands the factors that force a company into sending jobs overseas. Does Obama? Because Romney understands these factors, he's in a better position to change those factors and make it more profitable to keep jobs here.
Obama said, "it feels a lot more like the fox saying we need more secure chicken coops." He's right. Who better than to understand what is wrong with the chicken coop than the fox? The fox knows where the holes are.
Sometimes outsourcing jobs can mean saving a company. Would you rather save 1000 jobs by sending 10,000 jobs to China? Or would you rather lose all 11,000 jobs? Obama seems to support the latter by villainizing those who outsource jobs. Romney understands the factors that force a company into sending jobs overseas. Does Obama? Because Romney understands these factors, he's in a better position to change those factors and make it more profitable to keep jobs here.
Even lyin Willardo's Mexican daddy knew what he would be like when he grew up So he gave him his first name "Willardo" after the large movie rat. He gave him his middle name after an old baseball glove that they found in the family outhouse that was full of shxt. They shortened lyin Willardo's first name to Willard and their last name from Robberos to Romney when they smuggled little lyin Willardo over here from his birthplace in Tijuana.
He is now known by most people as Mitt Robme.
It is amazing how these right wing nuts believe that lyin Willardo, in any way is going to do anything but destroy our country again. He is going to eliminate regulations so that his corporate criminal masters can rob and steal from us once again as they did under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang led by President Cheney.