He took the Globe's advice (or were they simply given a heads-up?):
"Paul Ryan deserves serious consideration for VP" August 11, 2012
A contest centered on Paul Ryan’s budget promises to be fierce, but at least it would be built around issues of direct relevance to the moment — unlike, say, Obama’s ads accusing Romney of outsourcing jobs through Bain Capital, or Romney’s assertion that Obama’s willingness to give welfare waivers to some states amounts to a gutting of the work requirement.
Yeah, the foundations of the economic system that has destroyed the American middle class isn't important.
What depresses voters and raises cynicism about politics is not just negativity, but the way certain attacks gratuitiously exploit existing resentments while simultaneously steering the conversation away from actual policy choices.
Speak for yourself, Globe.
Btw, isn't that highlight the job of the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, script-reading corporate media?
Voters come away angrier than ever, but less sure of the ground they’re standing on — less able to say what they’ll really get when they pull the lever in November....
I was wondering why I wasn't feeling that great.
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Related: Romney taps Ryan, shakes up race
I think the Globe was tipped off.
Selection of Paul Ryan may add substance to campaign
Unless he is talking the end of empire, corporate control of government, the incarceration of banksters, and the altering of the economic system with the elimination of the private central banking cartel is all lacking substance.
Is the Medicare debate elevated or enervating?
Globe having second thoughts?
Ryan pick is clarifying moment for Romney, election
It's the smell of bulls*** that does it for me.
"Interviews with his opponent, his family, and his longtime supporters paint a portrait of a canny politician from an aw-shucks town who from the start was determined to take on some of the nation’s knottiest issues....
The urge to get into politics had begun shortly after Ryan graduated from Miami University in Ohio, with degrees in political science and economics. Before that, Ryan’s work experience consisted largely of flipping burgers at a McDonald’s and selling meat for Oscar Mayer....
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Also see:
Paul Ryan’s early self-reliance laid ground for conservatism
This stuff has been by cleared by the campaign, right?
Ryan hits hard on Obama, economy in speech
Ryan’s plan would aid Romney, wealthy taxpayers
Romney says he’ll release tax return by Oct. 15
Ryan tax rates revealed in two years of returns
Ryan opposed new, Obama-backed disaster aid regime
Paul Ryan’s budget plan is built on a series of rosy assumptions
Paul Ryan backs off marathon time
Ryan sought funds while decrying stimulus
What do you mean he didn't know what he was signing?
Paul Ryan denied he sought stimulus funds
Paul Ryan criticizes China policy that he voted against changing
Like looking through a crystal as I'm up to my waist.
Just the same old song and dance I guess.
"The poll also shows that more respondents disapproved than approved of Ryan as the Republican vice presidential candidate. And they gave low grades to Democrat Joe Biden, the office’s current occupant. Ryan’s ascension to the national Republican ticket has increased the focus on Medicare....
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Must be the lying:
"Fact-checkers dispute Romney claims" by Bobby Caina Calvan | Globe Staff, August 31, 2012
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Romney hammered Obama on Medicare, repeating one of his most frequent criticisms.
“His $716 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obamacare will both hurt today’s seniors, and depress innovation — and jobs — in medicine.”
That line rings hollow, however, primarily because Republicans, including Romney’s running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, have proposed making similar cuts. Obama uses the savings to help fund his signature health care program.
Potentially the most effective attack plan for the Romney campaign is the president’s handling of the economy.
“The president can ask us to be patient,” Romney said Thursday. “This president can tell us that the next four years he’ll get it right. But this president cannot tell us that you are better off today than when he took office.”
Certainly, the unemployment rate is higher today than it was in January 2009, when Obama took office, rising from 7.8 percent to 8.3 percent. But the rate of joblessness crested at 10 percent in October 2009. As the Obama campaign reminds voters, Obama inherited a declining economy that kept spiraling downward even in the months after he took office.
But at what point should Obama begin to shoulder blame, and at what point should he be given credit for the economic recovery, regardless of how slow the recovery?
According to FactCheck.org, the president’s $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law a month after Obama took office, did in fact create jobs.
See: Administration Telling the Truth About Stimuloot
It's all in the calculations.
Citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office, it said the stimulus package held down the jobless rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.8 percentage points, translating to anywhere from 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.
Romney has touted his experience in business, particularly while helming Bain Capital, as his leading qualification to be president.
Romney mentioned the genesis of the company Thursday speech, but his version is at odds with other accounts.
The way he put it, he was 37 when he and his partners, who had been employed by a consulting firm “had this idea that if we really believed our advice was helping companies, we should invest in companies. We should bet on ourselves and on our advice.” That, he said, was the beginning of Bain Capital.
In fact, it was not his idea to start the company; it was part of an offer from his mentor, the founder of Bain & Co.
According to “The Real Romney,” a book written by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman earlier this year, Romney was far more cautious in considering the offer back then.
As the book noted, it was a risk-free opportunity for Romney. He was granted his request that he be allowed to return to his old job, with all raises and benefits he would have received in the interim, should the Bain Capital idea not pan out. In addition, his bosses assured him they would protect his reputation with a cover story.
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