with Wolf on the Situation Room. They have to explain it to the media like they're children sometimes. I still think Wolf didn't understand...

when {their} salary depends upon {their} not understanding it."
--Upton Sinclair

But more to the point.



Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake
Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active
role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any
Bain Capital entity in any way. The investments reported on pages 5-7 of Schedule A of
this Report were made pursuant to an agreement with Bain Capital regarding Mr.
Romney's retirement from Bain Capital. That agreement has expired, but the Reporting
Entities retain certain investments identified on this Report pursuant to investments made
prior to expiration of such agreement. All of such investments are passive in nature. The
total asset value and total income amount for these funds are reported as of December 31,
2010, which is the most recent date for which such information is available to the
Reporting Entities. The Reporting Entities have requested information about underlying
holdings of these investments and value and income amounts for these underlying
holdings. However, the fund managers have informed the Reporting Entities that this
information is confidential and proprietary, and have declined to provide such
information.






It seems to read that he left but then came back. I'm not a lawyer but Lawrence O'Donnell started his show tonight by saying that we don't know if he made false filings (paraphrased). I need more than this one oddly phrased paragraph.

if Romney committed a crime, then he should be charged. Maybe you can pass this onto the Obama campaign and they can get the justice department to charge the dude.

He claims to have left in 99 but in subsequent SEC filings he signs off as President and CEO.

The claim to leave in 99 is the lie, fucking Weird Willard was totally running that operation but he lied because he wants to avoid the blow back for what was going on with Bain during that stretch.
The path to the felony is if he isn't lying about leaving but was fraudulently reporting those positions in the company.

The OP's point is Weird Willard is lying and was running Bain in the early 2000's. Put him under oath and he'll match the filings but no one is going to put him under oath before the election so he can continue to lie like a rug but fewer and fewer will buy it and wonder why is he obviously hiding shit (which is simple he is an entitled, lying, smarmy fuck who can't even imagine being accountable and just wanted to dodge tough questions about his practices).

Lying to voters, Meh.

If you believe that Romney was NOT CEO of Bain Capital in 2001/2002 then the Obama campaign is badly confused in their belief that he was.

The average "Joe the Plumber" isn't going to understand any of this, but he fucked up royally and can't explain his way around it with time travel.

SEC filings and FEC filings, I take your point.

My one caveat would be that the felony dialog puts Romney in the position of having to pick between being a felon and being a liar.

The felony "charge" was a rhetorical device making the point that there is a slew of sworn documents demonstrating beyond any doubt that Mitt was lying. (And to get the word out there.)

and no, the Obama Team did not call him a felon or say he committed a felony.

They did say that it was possible, that if he lied on federal forms to the SEC or FEC, he might have committed a crime.

But he did lie. They've got proof.

I think the Obama campaign is going to push him until he admits that he lied.

He'll have to. He was either at Bain, and lied about it. Or he was not at Bain and lied about it.

The administration should have access to both the FEC and the SEC documents; so they know that there is a conflict.

There are a lot of little political cartoons out there that are being shared on Facebook about Obama being a liar. I hope we come out of this with a good 'Romey is a liar' cartoon.

It seems to me that republicans really don't like it when someone lies. Unless it is to justify going to war.

Technically he would at best have engaged in felonious activities. To actually be a "felon" he would need to be charged and convicted. The Obama campaign stated that “misrepresenting his position” at Bain to the SEC, “which is a felony“ is correct from a legal standpoint, and damn shrewed because the only way Romney can distance himself from the association is by full disclosure. I'd give odds that we'll never see that.

say so and so is a "felon", and they are just blowing smoke? I guess it makes sense.

It is becoming crystal clear that Romney signed documents sent to the SEC that would be a felony to provide if not accurate. That is a legal fact. It's up to Romney to provide documentation that clarifies that issue and he has said repeatedly that he will not. Well played by team O in my view.

A felon has a conviction, no one claimed Weird Willard is a felon. The point is if he was not the President and CEO of Bain post 1999 but claimed he was on SEC filings then that could well be be a felony crime and if convicted of such he would then be a felon.

What are you seeing as a misrepresentation? Are you saying falsifying filings isn't a potential felony? What is your position?

wasn't he charged if he committed a crime? You would think his republican opponents would have used this in the campaign, like a Newt Gingrich, god knows he hated Romney. Instead, they were mum on this. It doesn't make any sense. Unless I put a tin foil hat on and start imagining some kind of conspiracies to protect Romney.

The point is to catch him in the lie. There is no evidence Weird Willard wasn't President and CEO of Bain in the early 2000's no matter what silly bullshit he spews.

Now if he were to stick to the lie under oath then he'd potentially be in serious trouble legally but he won't ever be under oath before the election even if the thing was really pressed and under oath he'd tell the truth once it doesn't matter.

He has two options. Be an admitted liar or run serious risk of being felon. It isn't complicated or misleading in the slightest, it is black and white in block print.

His opposition did call him on Bain, that is what started the goofy ass lying as far as I can tell. He didn't want the the blow back for the operation during the early 2000's so he just spun bullshit he wasn't there. Since then there has been digging and his signature is all over the place.

What is this conspiracy stuff? What is your position that he didn't claim not to be associated with Bain during the disputed time period? That he did not sign off as President and CEO on official filings during the same time? That false filings aren't illegal?

What the TeaPubliKlans did or didn't do and all of that is not relevant, it is a distraction from the facts.

some duers seem convinced he did commit a serious crime, a felony, and you are saying its possible he merely lied, which is not a crime. So it is a little confusing and like getting whiplash from these conflicting opinions I have been reading.