{"id":28583,"date":"2012-07-15T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/mitt-on-bain-plant-closures-and-politics.html"},"modified":"2012-07-15T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:21:24","slug":"mitt-on-bain-plant-closures-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/mitt-on-bain-plant-closures-and-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitt on Bain, plant closures, and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He seems to be trying to prove himself wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105854477836714634695'>Jim Feig<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fonline%2Fblogs%2Fnewsdesk%2Fthumbnail%2Fnewsdesk.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2012\/07\/mitt-romney-psychic.html'>Mitt Romney, Psychic<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMitt Romney, speaking to the Salt Lake Tribune about Bain Capital and his political career in February of 1999, just after he decided to take the job turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics: I\u2019m not a&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/2Ho1AvtBGC2' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He seems to be trying to prove himself wrong. Reshared post from +Jim Feig Embedded Link Mitt Romney, Psychic Mitt Romney, speaking to the Salt Lake Tribune about Bain Capital and his political career in February of 1999, just after he decided to take the job turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics: I\u2019m not a&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/mitt-on-bain-plant-closures-and-politics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mitt on Bain, plant closures, and politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28548,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/mitt-romney-figurehead-or-liar.html","url_meta":{"origin":28583,"position":0},"title":"Mitt Romney: Figurehead or Liar?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jul-12 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, that's kind of blunt, but it's hard to come up with any other labels here. \u00a0How can a company not have its president, CEO, board chairman and sole stockholder -- all Mitt Romney, in Bain Capital's case -- somehow involved in its operations and business decisions? 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