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Well, here we go again. Ed Rendell is on Hardball saying that the hits on Bain are a little harsh.
I swear, they're trying to blow this!
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Can't these idiots get on message? if not, then shut up.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)grrr. Are they idiots or what.
Raine
(30,540 posts)trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)they need to be purged.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)My blood is boiling! As is Tweety's!
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Then went after Bain for taking 100 million out of a company and screwed over the pension holders.
You could tell the guest wanted to say, "what the fuck would you call sucking the money away from retirees?"
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)No more potent investigative tool has ever been invented for finding the source of corruption..
enough
(13,259 posts)within 24 hours of the closing of the poles in 2000.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)He's featured in this video: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002714993
I'll watch both after work (sigh)
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Good thing Rendell isn't running for office. Someone might accuse him of being a flip-flopper.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)What a dick.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)UGH!
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)This seems more and more like the Obama campaign is egging this story on. Despite Tweety's "concern", we're yet again talking about Bain and Mitten's role of playing vulture "capitalist". The game right now is to paint Willard as a greedy rich boy and the more the name Bain stays in the news the more that reputation is cemented.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)but right now, it's like they're turning on the President.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)The corporate media needs a horse race and to manufacture angst where it doesn't really exist. I found it interesting that the moment the rushpublicans put out the video with Booker, Team Obama was up with one showing all the rushpublicans who dissed Rmoney. In the bigger scheme of things the more there's talk about Bain the deeper people will scrutinize both the company and Willard...and there's not much to like unless you're an investor.
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)Thom Hartmann had a great discussion on this subject today. He was explaining the difference between venture capitalism and private equity (vulture capitalist) firms, such as Bain. In the process, he suggested that, like the vast majority of the population, Cory Booker probably doesn't understand the difference between the two. I am willing to bet that neither does Ed Rendell.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama campaign is egging the story on, either. At the very least, it's getting people to look a little deeper into what Bain does, and what Willard did when he was there.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)It's just getting a little frustrating!
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)...you'd better know whose money you're taking.
I really, really liked Corey Booker, and I was very impressed with him, with his intelligence, his energy level, and his commitment.
If this was just an error on Booker's part, then he's far more naive than I had assumed.
If it wasn't an error, that's just unforgivable.
Either way you slice it, I'm really disappointed in the man.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)The more I look at this the more I see an interesting game being played here. Of course Booker and Rendell know the difference between companies that generate jobs vs. generating wealth. And so do most people...especially President Obama. And that's where I see a little rope-a-dope going on as the more people like Rendell and Booker and Ratner and others come out to "defend" the vultures on Wall Street the more populist the President looks. Booker, as we've seen here, created a shitstorm of outrage with his statement as he came off defending the "1%" and President Obama appearing to be on the side with the "working" people. The fact that Mittens glammed onto defending Booker only solidfies his image of being the greedy rich boy.
At this point I don't think a lot of people understand what type of "capitalism" Mittens was involved with but the more its made an issue the more people will understand and that's not a good thing if you're a rushpublican.
Cheers...
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)and they're firing up the base.
ellen fl
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)Hawkowl
(5,213 posts)Calling him an asshole, I mean...
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)Lilyeye
(1,417 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)I knew he was a POS when he said his state, Pennsylvania, would never vote for a black man.
He was as wrong then as he is now.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)maybe they can fire him.. sadly the controversies work for their bottom line
RZM
(8,556 posts)Shouldn't he be telling the private equity sector to 'take it like a man?'
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)Grow up, Ed.
leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)remember dumb ass... it`s going to be their world when both you and i are gone. maybe you should think about them instead of your own stupid ass.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Traitors, blue dogs, conserva-dems, new democrats, DLC, they are killing the party.