{"id":12748,"date":"2012-10-30T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T02:12:27","slug":"chrysler-itself-has-refuted-romneys-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/10\/30\/chrysler-itself-has-refuted-romneys-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler ITSELF has refuted Romney&#8217;s lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only hope that Romney has overplayed his hand.  If enough people doubt his veracity on this issue, maybe they will come to doubt other things he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iE5wBfM1LQ?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I do have to wonder if Obama is really trying, though.<\/p>\n<p>Obama failed to say in the debate or any time before or after the debate, that if we just follow Obama&#8217;s current policies 12 million jobs will be created.  So Romney&#8217;s claim to this number is a foregone conclusion if he just follows Obama&#8217;s &#8220;failed&#8221; policies.  If Obama gets a Congress that will work with him, then we can do much better.<\/p>\n<p>I first found the link to this ad in <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em> story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-romney-obama-jeep-ads-20121029,0,7378026.story\" title=\"The Los Angeles Times article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama ad calls out Romney &#8216;lie&#8217; on flight of Jeep jobs<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The article adds the following bit of information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs to selling Chrysler \u201cto the Italians,\u201d  industry expert David Kiley of AOL Autos gave the missing context: \u201cItalian automaker Fiat was the only company that stepped up to make an offer for Chrysler, which badly needed another car company with which to partner. Fiat&#8217;s intervention has kept the company in one piece, saved Chrysler from dissolution, increased the quality ratings of the company&#8217;s products, raised its market share and profit, and resulted in a huge recovery of jobs in Michigan and Ohio.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only hope that Romney has overplayed his hand. If enough people doubt his veracity on this issue, maybe they will come to doubt other things he said. I do have to wonder if Obama is really trying, though. Obama failed to say in the debate or any time before or after the debate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27899,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions\/27899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}