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Criminal
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Lair, but not a criminal
Current Winner
Romney's name was on the paper, he signed the paper. He was in BAIN untill 2002 whether he like it or not.
Romney's problem is that he is used to being given respect in his world, based on respect for money. In Obama's world that respect has to be earned. It is far more valuable.
It is difficult to believe that Romney had all those titles and $200 million tied up with Bain, yet he had no role in managing the company. We are to believe he let Bain lay there like a dead fish.
As I commented yesterday, Martha Stewart
was sent to prison and barred from management of a public held company
for ONE statement, material to nobody and nothing and also immediately
refudiated, as Sarah Palin would say.
The fact that Romney actually did personally sign documents proving his involvement with Bain after he claimed no longer to be involved, i.e., because the facts alleged are true.
He might not be a criminal but he did lie, sorry, the suggestion is not that he lied on the SEC documents, it's that he was telling the truth to the SEC and lying to everyone else.
Sure, you can be the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board without doing anything associated with those titles, but it does require a bit of explaining at a minimum.
How can a corporation be a person when you can't even identify who is in charge? We've made things far to convenient for corporate executives to hide behind the amorphous anonymity provided by their corporations in order to avoid taking personal or legal responsibility for anything. If Bain said Romney was the CEO, and they were banking on his name to drum up business and uphold the company's reputation, then Romney either should have made them stop or, more plausibly, he was the one making the decisions. He certainly took the money.