ROMNEY PRESIDENT OF BAIN CLUELESS FOR 3 YEARS LIKE EBELE

What do President Ebele, Obama and Romney of Bain Capital have in common? Ok. Say - according to some Nigerians and some Americans, the 3 have no clue what has been going on for three years as President and Chief Executive. Nigerians portray President Ebele as someone that has been so overwhelmed that he is over his head. Believe it or not he admitted he was destabilized by Boko Haram. Romney presidency may be worse.

The main argument of Mr. Romney against President Obama is that Obama has no clue because he was so overwhelmed. We now find out that Romney was the President and Chief Executive of Bain Capital since 1999 but without a clue of what was going on for 3 years. Though he was collecting salary, the major shareholder and attended some board meetings according to his testimony while running for the Governor of Massachusetts.

The irony here is that Mr. Romney had retired retroactively from Bain Capital while Mr. Dick Cheney was in charge. Romney was coordinating Olympics with all countries and in that spirit, while waiting for some Presidents like Nigeria’s Ebele, got Bermuda and Swiss accounts. *Excuse this writer, he got it wrong. Ebele was not President then. Mr. Cheney never ran Bain Capital, he was the powerful Vice President of Bush. Swiss account? Well.

Mr. Cheney was so powerful, some thought he ran Bush Administration, yet he could not make President Bush pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Bush was not that clueless as Romney at Bain, after all. You can imagine why McCain prefer Palin after looking at his taxes. Opponents of Mr. Romney during Primary see an opportunity to derail him. Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul would be glad to release their tax returns from years.

Romney may do the same if he becomes the President of United States. After all, Nigeria had President Yar’Adua, god knows for how many years, that ruled Nigeria without any clue of what was going on in the world, or in Nigeria. It seems that the way American campaign is going, Nigerian politicians are watching and anticipating the next move. We adopted their presidential system and every word out of our politicians has USA mark.

Poor Obama. This is a man that has been criticized for tackling too many responsibilities at one time. Indeed Republicans were praying feverishly that once the Supreme Court overturned his Affordable Care Act, he would have wasted all his years in office and nothing to show as an accomplishment. But Obama saved the world from economic collapsed, ended the Iraq war, got Osama Bin Laden and signed equal pay for women.

Wow, in any other country Obama would be credited for accomplishing difficult tasks. In Nigeria we are still stuck with – To Keep Nigeria One Is A Task That Must Be Done. Since that task began in Nigeria, we are still working on it but it seems we are getting further away than closer to accomplishing the single task of security to life and property. Forget other tasks like infrastructure and corruption, Ebele can only fight one - Boko Haram.

Those Africans that do not believe in “ecrube” must think about who actually washed the head of Obama’s father before he left Kenya. Since the days of the African Popes and black rulers of Europe, his son was the one anointed to be the President of USA. He did more than some US presidents in eight years, but as a black man, he will never be fully credited. How many of his race has?

Africans are always fascinated with democratic elections in Europe and America. They claim to be free and fair but the results have been doubtful recently. When the Liberal Party in Britain decided against the Labor and backed Conservative Party into power, little did they realize that they were heading to a double deep recession. Some of us, yes O, we told you so! Romney, without any clue wants the same economy as World leader.

We have to credit Conservative and Republican parties in Britain and USA, they told their constituencies how they were going to revive the recession by austerity measures on the middle class. Before Obama Administration, that was what Bush Administration preached and implemented. Tax cut and tax cut that benefited you the more money you make. Deregulations that allowed Wall Street to run wild, crashed and cut in safety nets.

Guess what, it got them double deep recession in Britain and Romney wants same old stuff implemented from his first day in office as the President of world economic leader. The problem is the US will go into another recession like Britain when cuts to safety net, deregulation, and tax cut balloon the same deficit they care so much about. Careless though of tax cut for those that neither asked for nor needed it. It makes deficit worse.

Those familiar with Romney in Massachusetts said he may be right because when he was Governor, he got so bored and did not run for second term. He had no clue when he signed their Health law, so he is against it nationally. Romney would be defended by conservative press. As the President of United State, he would be obsessed with hiding his money in foreign banks and helping his friends do the same like Nigerian politicians.

However, Mr. Romney is neither President Ebele nor President Mandela because he only served one term in Massachusetts. He is filthy rich and we know how he made his money legitimately by business acumen. Some have called him a corporate raider like Mr. Carl Icahn and they have justified the process of killing weak companies so that the strong ones could survive. But that might have killed General Motors that Obama saved.

A word of caution to Obama supporters. Several months ago many of you were sure that Republicans could not produce a formidable opponent to Obama, you now know the race is too close to call and there are still some months to go.*One can build a reputation for many years and it can come, tumbling down in a moment. A moment is a long time in politics. Obama may be the first President in US history to be outspent.

Farouk Martins Aresa

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/71659-romney-president-bain-clueless-3-years-like-ebele.html

Nigerians feeding themselves bologne in place of truth. Romney is a successful business man, do you think that it takes someone who has no clue to be one of those? Abeg put this trash where it belongs, in the locked section . . .

You missed the joke but got the point.

Romney has no business saying Obama has no clue for all his accomplishments and a seating president for almost four years other than to disrespect him. You need to keep a sharp mind to understand that.

Republicans speak in codes that all their supporters understand but some blacks do not. Slighting Obama in a subtle way without coming out, like he has no clue, is understood. If they get enough people to argue whether it is an insult or not, they have accomplished their goal.

Kobojunkie: Nigerians feeding themselves bologne in place of truth. Romney is a successful business man, do you think that it takes someone who has no clue to be one of those? Abeg put this trash where it belongs, in the locked section . . .

Kobo, I agree with you the the author's analysis/comparism was in the pits.

But I disagree on Romney. He is claiming to be a job creator (but that is a lie). Rather he is a successful investor.

Romney founded Bain Capital and made fortune by buying smaller companies, get investors, declear it bankrupt (sack worker - no retainment benefits for them), then offer to hire them at lower salaries, outsource the jobs, and also bank the money offshore were you will not pay much taxes. Yes he made a lot of money repeatedly.

Between 1999 - 2002 was the worst of the sacking and outsourcing - yes he was heading the Olympics - Romney is now saying he was not part of what happened there. But he was listed in all official fillings as Founder, CEO and sole shareholder. He have also refused to disclose his tax fillings that would have shown the facts. And yes he was paid salary through the same period.

egift:

Kobo, I agree with you the the author's analysis/comparism was in the pits.

But I disagree on Romney. He is claiming to be a job creator (but that is a lie). Rather he is a successful investor.

Romney founded Bain Capital and made fortune by buying smaller companies, get investors, declear it bankrupt (sack worker - no retainment benefits for them), then offer to hire them at lower salaries, outsource the jobs, and also bank the money offshore were you will not pay much taxes. Yes he made a lot of money repeatedly.

Between 1999 - 2002 was the worst of the sacking and outsourcing - yes he was heading the Olympics - Romney is now saying he was not part of what happened there. But he was listed in all official fillings as Founder, CEO and sole shareholder. He have also refused to disclose his tax fillings that would have shown the facts. And yes he was paid salary through the same period.

I agree with your analysis which is almost the sane as the writer. So where is the pits?

Many thanks

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nobaga:
I agree with your analysis which is almost the sane as the writer. So where is the pits?

I only faulted the OP on his comparism with on the 3 men. My post above was more of highlighting the challenges Romney faces now - embrace Bain Capital or Distance Himself.

1. Embracing It: Will help Obama and his team as they can highlight all the layoffs, outsourcing jobs to other countries, offshore accounts, tax invasion, etc, by Romney's Bain.

2. Distancing Himself: Still does not help. Because its on records that company records says he was. He also got salaries between 1999 - 2002.

So all he is doing now is dance around the issue, refuse releasing tax returns, no disclosure on the offsoure accounts and other investments nor accept responsibility for what happened between 1999 - 2002 (which where the worst).

egift:

I only faulted the OP on his comparism with on the 3 men. My post above was more of highlighting the challenges Romney faces now - embrace Bain Capital or Distance Himself.

1. Embracing It: Will help Obama and his team as they can highlight all the layoffs, outsourcing jobs to other countries, offshore accounts, tax invasion, etc, by Romney's Bain.

2. Distancing Himself: Still does not help. Because its on records that company records says he was. He also got salaries between 1999 - 2002.

So all he is doing now is dance around the issue, refuse releasing tax returns, no disclosure on the offsoure accounts and other investments nor accept responsibility for what happened between 1999 - 2002 (which where the worst).

Egift,

You are right, either way Romney is a fake and releasing his income tax will back that up. Income tax says a great deal about someone that wants to lead the country like Romney and the President declaring his assert like Joe. Romney kept millions outside like our politicians. I do not know about Joe though but his wife did.
There is this feeling that if you are rich, you know what you are doing and they expect us to worship them. Not all rich people are dirty but Nigeria politicians will do anything to get rich and they get respect from most Nigerians. In the case of a corporate raider like Romney, he demand respect and disrespect Obama because Obama has to think of everyone not just corporate share holders. This is why I agree with the writer.
Romney is a fluke and will change his position anytime to suit the situation even against his healthcare in Mass. for the whole country. At least Bush was honest, he did not give a damn and the country knew that but still elected him and got them into two wars.

Romney was a successful PE investor and built, Bain Capital, a mean machine. However, he is also a liar, potentially a tax cheat and a job outsourcer who may have helped criminals launder money through Panama and other offshore centres.

I just hope Americans are smart enough to reelect Obama.

while Mr. Joystick Cheney was in charge.

What the ph0ck is wrong with these sanctimonious admins and their word censoring?

You need to be ignored trying to mess up clean discussion.

VoodooDoll,

The problem is with so much money flowing into Romney campaign from his rich friends, those independents with fickle mind can be easily persuaded against their own interest.

The Republicans insistance in allowing limitless flow of cash and blocking laws to disclose big donors to political campaigns, will benefit them them now as they try to dispose Obama. But political offices will now be Cash and Carry.

Look at all these negros talking about American politics? Stupiddd crazy people.

antitpiah: Look at all these negros talking about American politics? Stupiddd crazy people.

Oh, you do not want us to know where the chicanery you applied in Nigerian politics come from, eh?

antitpiah: Look at all these negros talking about American politics? Stupiddd crazy people.

Negro, this is a public forum the last time I checked. If you don't like the topic of a given thread, kindly ignore it and move on to another. It ain't that difficult. Americans talk about African politics too so why do you think Africans do not have the right to discuss american politics especially on a Nigerian forum?

Too many lunatics with inferiority complex/self hate on this forum I tell ya! ugh!

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All I can say is that I have given up on american politics. I truly believe that democrats and republicans are birds of the same feather. They try to make the gullible american public believe that they have very different ideologies but that is not exactly true. When was the last time america had a president (democrat or republican) that served out his presidential term without going to war or throwing bombs in other people's countries?

Besides, america is not democratic. I remember vividly during the elections when bush was running for a second term. His brother Jeb bush was governor of Florida. They were intimidating democrat voters at the voting polls and many ballot boxes went missing. When it comes to true democracy, america is not and can never be the ideal role model abeg.

egift:

Kobo, I agree with you the the author's analysis/comparism was in the pits.

But I disagree on Romney. He is claiming to be a job creator (but that is a lie). Rather he is a successful investor.

Romney founded Bain Capital and made fortune by buying smaller companies, get investors, declear it bankrupt (sack worker - no retainment benefits for them), then offer to hire them at lower salaries, outsource the jobs, and also bank the money offshore were you will not pay much taxes. Yes he made a lot of money repeatedly.

Between 1999 - 2002 was the worst of the sacking and outsourcing - yes he was heading the Olympics - Romney is now saying he was not part of what happened there. But he was listed in all official fillings as Founder, CEO and sole shareholder. He have also refused to disclose his tax fillings that would have shown the facts. And yes he was paid salary through the same period.

WHAT?? WHAT ? WHAT Again . . . .

Kobojunkie: Nigerians feeding themselves bologne in place of truth. Romney is a successful business man, do you think that it takes someone who has no clue to be one of those? Abeg put this trash where it belongs, in the locked section . . .

Not you, but this is why I avoid the foreign politics section like a plague. The kind analysis you get there fit give person brain paralysis, and you only need to look right here to understand why. And this problem is not limited to Nairaland . . . I can't stand to listen to fellow Nigerians here in the US try to talk politics. I can't do it . . it is too much punishment for anyone.

Kobojunkie:

WHAT?? WHAT ? WHAT Again . . . .


Not you, but this is why I avoid the foreign politics section like a plague. The kind analysis you get there fit give person brain paralysis, and you only need to look right here to understand why. And this problem is not limited to Nairaland . . . I can't stand to listen to fellow Nigerians here in the US try to talk politics. I can't do it . . it is too much punishment for anyone.

What is your point? American politics cannot be intelligently discussed by Nigerians or you are not Nigerian. I see some complex here. The article was a good diagnosis of American politics. What do you know?

I don't think that most people would call Romney incompetent. He has done pretty well at most tasks he has put his hands to.

I dunno, I think he'd be a pretty decent president personally.

Good job!

Not even Azikiwe Ebele messed up so much in Britain as Romney.

jara: Not even Azikiwe Ebele messed up so much in Britain as Romney.

One day Britain is not prepared, tomorrow Britain is most ready that anyone in history - Romney can tri-somersault on a spot.

Yesterday, he was in Israel declaring Jerusalem capital - despite efforts to resolve the issues at stake. He even kept threatening Iran with war and encouraging Israel to bomb Iran - that he will back them 100%

He is yet to officially become Nominee for the GOP!

Obama have been very careful on foreign policy when dealing with - Libya, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Russia, China, and everyone not to go to war. Left Iraq, and by next year will withdraw from Afghan.

But Romney want to invade Russia, bomb Iran, send troupes to Syria, Roundup all the Mexicans, what else.

"I do not know what weapon will be used for the WW III, but I certainly know that WW IV will be fought with sticks and stone" Albert Einstein