Yes, Obama is such an awful anti-business anti-petroleum president that he managed to get a GM plant in Paul Ryan's home town shut down in 2008, a year before he even took office. How fiendishly diabolical is that?
'"I remember President Obama visiting it when he was first running, saying he'll keep that plant open," Ryan said Thursday at a campaign stop in Ohio, recounting the fact his high school friends worked at the plant. "One more broken promise. We used to build Tahoes and Suburbans. One of the reasons that plant got shut down was $4 gasoline. You see, this costs jobs. The president's terrible energy policies are costing us jobs."
GM cited the low demand for SUVs and high gas prices during the Bush administration as the reason for closing the plant.'
This article, and this (http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-slams-obama-for-not-saving-auto-plant—-in-2008.php) also talk quite a bit about different approaches Romney and Ryan each espoused about the auto industry troubles.
Beyond the chronological problems with Ryan's accusation is the idea that the president (well, one of them, anyway) should do everything in his power to make sure that an auto plant can produce as many big SUVs as it wants, notwithstanding world petroleum prices — which the president (any president) has very little influence over, especially in the short-term.
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Ryan's hometown hard hit by GM plant closure
Washington – Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Thursday used the closing of a General Motors plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wis., to take a swipe at President Barack Obama's …
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Damn Kenyan, time-travelling, Muslims trying to take over the world.
Probably used the same technology to go back and fix his birth certificate and newspaper birth announcements and all of that.
Not a doubt in my mind.