In his attempt to show Gov. Mitt Romney as being the one responsible for Bain Capital’s decision to outsource jobs, as if that’s something bad, Andrew Sullivan has indicted President Obama for everything that’s happened in the government since January 2009.
Sullivan was attempting to fisk a FactCheck.org article showing Romney was not running the day to day operations of Bain Capital when the decision was made to hire people outside the United States. FactCheck writes:
Obama isn’t saying Romney’s firm shipped jobs overseas, he’s saying Romney shipped jobs overseas. That depends on showing that Romney was more involved in the company than he says, and that his former partners say.
To which Sullivan responds:
No it doesn’t. All it requires is proof that Romney was still listed at the SEC as the company’s sole owner and CEO. And we have that. With that title, Romney is responsible for everything Bain did from 1999 until he was formally removed from that position.
Really?
Interesting position. Let’s use that logic.
According to Sullivan, President Obama is responsible for everything the United States government did from January 20, 2009 through today. Therefore, Obama is responsible for:
- Fast and Furious
- Solyndra
- The Secret Service Colombian Hookers Scandal
- The Economy (no more of this “I inherited” crap)
- Green energy loans that created jobs overseas
- The $822,000 taxpayer funded GSA Vegas retreat
- The Iraqi Embassy Sex Tapes
- Lightsquared
- Tareq and Michaele Salahi’s crashing of the White House
- and finally, burning Korans in Afghanistan.
If Gov. Romney is “responsible for everything Bain did from 1999 until he was formally removed from that position,” even when he was not running the day to day operations of Bain, then it follows that President Barack Obama is responsible for everything the federal government did from January 20, 2009 until he was formally removed from that position.
It’s time for Obama to come clean about what happened on the roof of the Iraqi embassy.
The people have a right to know. After all, you are running for president.
Sorry, but how can you be so old as you are, and have a problem with … not logic, but basic reading?
This is a beautiful example of you equating things which aren’t equal, just like your tired “getting a BLT” is the same as “having a job at a religious organization which isn’t an outright church” post.
Here goes:
Romney was at Bain BEFORE 1999, Obama wasn’t YOUR president before 2009. So Romney had real influence, while Obama didn’t
Romney was running an undemocratic organization known as a private enterprise, so he had dictatorial powers, unlike Obama who runs a democratic organization, known as the government where he has to thread very carefully and can’t get anything done unless he appeases foamers aka the teaparty. So Romney had real influence, while Obama didn’t.
Oh well. I suppose that you will give me a lazy “So what?” just like you did on the buying-bacon-is-the-same-as-employer-healthcare-benefits thread.
Oh, dear AAB.
You can’t keep saying these are the same things if you acknowledge with a “so what” that they aren’t the same.
Except for the megalomania of Ross Perot or the micromanagement style of (thankfully)-ex-President Jimmuh (Mr. Peanut) Carter, I’ve known of few CEOs who themselves claim, nor others claim, to personally be responsible for every last paperclip used by their companies. (They are “in charge” and responsible, yes? So they therefore “own” the results of their “dictatorial” power/leadership. Of course, these greedy SOBs should never be rewarded for the weight of such god-like responsibility over the money and people that encompasses. Perish the thought.)
No, paperclips do not equal larger job issues, but for comparison’s sake let’s just take a look at the way Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac has assumed the levers of “I won” power by attempting to rule by ersatz dictatorial (Executive Order & you-name-it Czar) fiat ever since he rode into town on his black-and-white horse. Obama is de facto acting as if he IS “The One” in charge of everything as far as his eyes and “transformational” vision can see (demonstrating a disturbingly thin-skinned response to anyone who deigns to challenge his absolute rule), except for whatever he can conveniently blame-shift to someone/something else — which in actual practice IS pretty much everything.
Except for interacting with (usually confined to “bad dog, bad dog!”) Congress, the various Cabinet officials, and Czars within Obama’s (mis)administration ARE completely under his “control” and responsibility. Their damaging decisions and actions CAN be attributed to “The One” in charge since as UNelected officials each and every one serves at the pleasure of the President and can be summarily removed with a stroke of his Imperial pen. He “owns” them AND all of their decisions AND the results as well.