...Probing the depths of Romney’s dishonesty

[ProSense]

The Morning Plum: Probing the depths of Romney’s dishonesty

By Greg Sargent

The big news at yesterday’s circus-like Donald Trump endorsement of Mitt Romney had nothing to do with anything Trump said or did. Lost in all the noise was something far more important: Mitt Romney again flip-flopped on a topic that has become absolutely central to his whole candidacy — the question of whether the President made the economy worse.

At the presser yesterday, Romney claimed:

“He’s frequently telling us that he did not cause the recession, and that’s true. But he made it worse.”

Keeping track of Romney’s shifting assertions on this subject is a dizzying task, but here goes. Romney first made the claim that Obama made the recession “worse” in his announcement speech back in early June. It was swiftly debunked by independent fact checkers here at the Post and at the Associated Press, both of whom pointed out that the recession actually ended on Obama’s watch. Undaunted, Romney repeated the claim a few weeks later.

Soon after that, an NBC reporter confronted Romney over his falsehood, and Romney backtracked, claming: “I didn’t say that things are worse.” More recently, Romney reverted back to his old line, trotting out the highly dishonest claim that the “net” job loss on Obama’s watch proves he is a job destroyer — another way of saying he made things worse. Fact-checkers then questioned that claim, too. Since then, Romney has begun to acknowledge that, okay, the economy is “getting better,” but only in spite of Obama’s policies.

Now Romney is back to saying Obama made things worse again.

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Clearly Mitt Romney is clueless and his timing sucks.

[FSogol]

1. Mitt is a guy that believes:

that the American Auto Industry should have died and that the financial crisis is continuing because banks are NOT foreclosing on homeowners fast enough.

Has any candidate ever been more out of step with America than Romney?

[zbdent]

2. Romney: "I didn't say Obama made it worse ... I said blah made it blah ..."

[kentuck]

3. I think Mitt should be asked?

How did Obama make it worse? Give us some specifics.