Romney's Convention Lie

In Romney’s August 30, 2012 speech he said: “I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division… How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America, many of you felt that way on election day 4 years ago, hope and change had a powerful appeal…If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama…You know there’s something wrong when the kind of job he’s done as President when the best feeling you had is the day you voted for him… and the centerpiece of the President’s entire reelection campaign is attacking success, is it any wonder that someone who is attacking success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. In America we celebrate success, we don’t apologize for success…That’s why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last 4 years and say with satisfaction that you’re better off than you were 4 years ago, except Jimmy Carter and except this president. This president can ask us to be patient, this president can tell us it was someone else’s fault…We’re no better off today than when he took office, America has been patient, Americans have supported this President in good faith, but today the time has come to turn the page, today the time has come to for us to put the disappointments of the last 4 years behind us, to put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations, to forget about what might have been and to look ahead at what can be, now is the time to restore the promise of America.” The Huffington Post on September 1 reported that in a 2009 Larry King interview Romney said he wanted liberal policies to fail and Obama to fail on many other issues. This is just another lie by Romney.

Romney was right in saying “Now is the moment we can do something…Now is the moment when we can stand up and say I am an American, I make my destiny; we deserve better…my country deserves better.” The Great Depression and our biggest recession began with Republicans. Democrats have been trying to clean up Republican messes for decades – today is no different. If you care about America, not just you, cast your vote to stop the Republicans from getting us into a bigger jam.