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ellisonz

(27,776 posts)
Thu May 10, 2012, 03:40 PM May 2012

Dear Mitt: You Did Nothing to Save Detroit

Posted: 05/08/2012 9:45 pm
By Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan, Faculty at UC Berkeley, Host of "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm" on Current TV

Dear Mitt Romney:

There are politics, there are lies, and then there's you. You take it to a whole 'nother level.

OK, I admit that I have a particular animus toward you, as a guy that knifed us in the back when Michigan was on its knees, but you simply cannot be our president. It cannot happen.

As you know, Mitt, I was governor of Michigan during that horrible time, when the financial industry was melting down and the auto industry was in free fall. And you were running for president. You saw the polls about the unpopularity of bailouts and you lumped the auto industry in with the bank industry -- the auto industry, where your father and so many of your family members had worked.

You raised your finger into the air, saw which way the wind was blowing, and followed it. Way to lead, Mitt.

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Dear Mitt: You Did Nothing to Save Detroit (Original Post) ellisonz May 2012 OP
If I had a time machine I'd go back to February 4, 1959 and smuggle Granholm's mom to the US. Gidney N Cloyd May 2012 #1
Of you could go back to 1787 and edit the Constitution! ellisonz May 2012 #2
Now THAT would just be silly. Gidney N Cloyd May 2012 #3

Gidney N Cloyd

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1. If I had a time machine I'd go back to February 4, 1959 and smuggle Granholm's mom to the US.
Thu May 10, 2012, 03:51 PM
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