This video is really something. Here’s the text version: it goes through several of Romney’s statements urging tougher sanctions on Iran, and focuses particularly on a speech in which he called on New York’s comptroller to disinvest from Iran.
Then it goes through all of the money — and it’s quite a lot — that the Romneys have invested in companies doing big business in Iran. Like Gazprom, Lukoil, Cnooc, and Sinopec, which have deals in Iran worth, respectively, $7.5 billion, $1 billion, $16 billion, and — yes — $100 billion. Those are all with a “b,” by the way. It’s not a typo.
The conclusion: the Romneys’ investments in Iran are worth about $1.5 million, and they generated about $215,000 of income in 2006.
And the hypocrisy just never stops.
HT: Cliff Schecter.
Certain people might say that Romney is “giv[ing] aid and comfort to the enemy” and that “This ultimately has the effect of possibly puting the lives of our service members in jeapardy.” Not to put words in anyone’s mouth, though.
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**NB: For the record, I’m not inferring [sic] that anyone here don’t speak no smart.
I love how Republicans will use the United Nations as an imprimatur of right and honor when convenient, then go out and campaign against it when it doesn’t.
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Also, an interesting Freudian slip showing Romney’s attitude about them bad terrorist nonJesusits:
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It’s not just the government that should feel the pain, it’s everyone in Iran.
We want to squeeze the pressure on that country.
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ROTFL
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One puts pressure on a country. One squeezes pimples (well, not really advised).
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It strikes me that Romney is channeling GWBush and his “put food on your family.”
I click back through the links and attributions to find where ROMNEY is invested in Iran, and finally arrive at THIS, an unattibuted and unsourced bit on the Huffington Post saying his DONORS are.
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Where’s the link for ROMNEY’S investment? And lest we forget, the blind trust debacle of a few months ago…
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http://www.nctimes.c…
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I’m not saying this answers your question, but I have a feeling that a few minutes on google would have answered your question or given you more substance to counter David’s post then simply the “Oh yeah? Prove it.” defense.
…if investments in Romney’s “blind trust” are publicly known, it isn’t particularly “blind.”
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Is Romney a jackass? Does he believe we are all fools? Rhetorical questions.
Is Romney a hypocrite for earning money of a company that performs embryonic stem cell research?
Is it possible to be a hypocrite, when neither you nor your audience believes you have constant principles to begin with?
That story is about Venezuela. Venezuela is a different country from Iran, located in a different part of the world.
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The sourcing (there aren’t any links) for the video is indicated in the video itself. I haven’t checked any of it myself; I’m assuming they’ve done their homework. Most of the stuff on Romney’s investments is apparently based on his financial disclosures; the stuff on the companies in which he’s invested is from WSJ articles and the like.
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I trust you’ll give us the full rundown shortly.
Mitt on blind trusts…
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“The blind trust is an age-old ruse,” Romney told the Boston Globe in October of that year. “You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don’t invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they’re going to get an advantage from me.”
is a lying Fraud.
http://www.debka.com…
…Bain Capital would be able to invest in Gazprom. It’s the Russian national natural gas company, which supplies natural gas to western Europe and, apparently, also to Iran, or perhaps through Iran to the Gulf for transport elsewhere.
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But, since it is a government-owned company, how would Bain be able to invest in it?
Link.