The Governor is quite on the ropes.. I'd like to believe him when he says he means to be on the roped getting beat up... but I am beginning to think he is already out of steam even though we aint got started yet.

These vicious attacks by Obama are not unexpected. Obama has done nothing to address the economy. He has squandered billions, even trillions, of OUR dollars to reward his major contributors, has refused to approve the Keystone Pipeline, refused to allow leases for new oil wells to go forward, had his EPA begin to kill our coal industry, pandered to every union in the country. He can't run on his record, so he lies and goes on the attack. An insect has more ethical sense than Obama and his campaign managers.

I spent three years running the Olympic Games, and after that was over, we worked out our retirement program, our departure-official program, for Bain Capital, and handed over the shares I had," Romney said So in his own words he was in charge of Bain. It does not take three years to hand over shares and work out a severance package.

Romney is a snake that talks with a forked tongue. Trying to place the blame for a slow recovery on the President is pathetic when we know it's the republican Congress, that will not work with the President, that has the lions share of the blame. It was this childish " our way or the highway " tea party attitude that slowed the recovery and got our credit rating lowered. Now these same twits want to once again tell the world we will not pay our bills. Until the republicans throw the tea party under the bus they will wither and die on the vine. Reagan is rolling in the grave at what the tea party has done to his party.

The POTUS is simply agreeing with this paper's expose on Romney's multiple accounts of his business career. The interviews accusing Obama of this and that are rather opportunistic back-slams to save face. He should focus on the Globe reporters if he believes they made an error and explain why documents refute his accounts.

In the interviews, Willard sounds like a spoiled rich boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is trying to explain a little before his daddy buys someone off to get him out of trouble.

Absolutely right. The tea baggers will be responsible for Willard and the party having the worst results since George McGovern.

Sorry, Mr. T. Bagger.. Those are considered positive achievements. Please go back to Montana.

Please don't give Willard's single elected term basking in Olympic success the respect of referring to him as Governor. And why does he call himself Mitt instead of Willard, anyways?

It's not surprising but frustrating to see this narrative described as "viscious attacks." Anyone who's worked with Bain knows the drill and knows that the ethics level there is putrid. The term "viscious attacks" could be applied to many Bain actions toward target company and client retirement programs, minority stockholder equity, and customers, let alone the impact on worker lives. The only real winners have been Bain partners and the "golden parachute" buddies they come in to "help."

this guy exhibits all of the qualities of the coward he truly is.....whether it is running off to France to avoid military service while millions of other Americans, like myself...served, and not taking responsibility for his actions like this Bain Capitol executive charade. We here in Massachusetts understand that this guy was a real governor....unlike other republican governors like Weld, Celluci and Swift who worked with Democrats....romney isolated himself in the State House and did photo ops. Is the tea party (formerly republican) going to build on their dismal record of presidential candidate....bush 2 and now this coward, liar and fraud romney....?

Just like he was an absentee governor here in Massachusetts for the last two years of his term. "Hey, I relinquished control of the State House while I was running for President." Except he will still take credit for any good things that happened in Massachusetts for the entire 4 years.

More importantly. Obama didn't lie about Bain. Romney did. Now you have to deal with it. It's Romney's "I invented the internet."

The Romney campaign has already demanded a retraction. The Globe stood by the story.

Mr. President your quote --"...and I think most Americans figure if you are the chairman, CEO, and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does," Obama said." When are you going to take the responsibility for your administrations scandals and failures and stop blaming Congress and George Bush?

Here they go again: "Questions about his role at Bain, which reaped lucrative dividends from some companies that laid off workers and faced bankruptcy after 1999, have escalated since the Globe reported Thursday that documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission listed Romney as chief executive, president, chairman, and sole stockholder as late as 2002." From Washington Week to CNN to CBS, there have been citings of the Boston Globe's failure to credit in its original story on this topic Mother Jones magazine and an online news outlet called TPM. Yet here we have a third Globe writer raising questions about a politician's honesty, and quoting a ranking official of the campaign being run by the President of the U.S. as implying that Mitt Romney is a felon. Wonder about honesty and truth in reporting? How come Mac Quarrie didn't jump on the assertion by an Obama official named Cutter that charges feloniously criminal conduct to Romney? Was Obama safe from prosecution for drug crimes because the statute of limitations ran out, so he could expose himself in a book?

I am not a Romney afficianado... but I do truly hate abominably untrue charges like this slimey bit from brownmustgo. Exactly what war was this 'hero' brownmustgo serving in that Mitt Romney was "running off to France to avoid militar service"? Evidently brownmustgo does not believe there should have been any deferments from the draft. It's also interesting that this writer does not comment on the salary Romney earned as the governor of of Massachusetts.

You're begging the point. Mitt, not the Globe, claimed to have ended ALL ties to Bain in 1999. He did so after Shannon O'Brien called him on job losses caused by Bain. At the same time he claimed there was "not a dime of difference" between his and Shannon's positions on choice and gay rights. All of it was done to help him get elected Governor. All of it turned out not to be true. It's a pattern: Mitt lies.

It's worth putting this in context. Mitt launched this particular lie when Shannon O'Brien called him on job losses caused by Bain. At the same time he claimed there was "not a dime of difference" between his and Shannon's positions on choice and gay rights. All of it was done to help him get elected Governor. All of it turned out not to be true. It's a pattern: Mitt lies when the truth stands between him and personal gain.

If Romney gets elected, he'll manage the country as he manages his finances, through a "blind trust"…"I don't know where my money is…", or as he did after 1999 with Bain Capital, "I was legally the owner but I didn't have knowledge of any management decisions of my company"…even though he got paid $100K in 2001 and 2002.

Mitt Romney made millions while American jobs were shipped overseas by a company he owned. Mitt Romney wanted to "let Detroit go bankrupt." He really, really doesn't care about American jobs or about the harm that his company did in the name of profits.

It's interesting that the very wealthy seem to complain the most about 'entitlement programs.' And yet, no one seems to feel more entitled than the very wealthy. Romney is an example of that. Entitled to low taxes, entitled to offshore accounts while running to be president of the United States of America, entitled to blow off the American public by refusing to release more than two years of his tax returns,...Apparently, he thinks that such things as this are for the 'masses' to do, not those who are wealthy. It is an arrogant 'I am above all this' attitude. As the old nuns would have said, he's as bold as brass. Reminds me a lot of Leona Helmsley who said, "Only the little people pay taxes." And make no mistake about it, most of us are 'little people' and we had better remember it in November. If anyone thinks that Romney will do anything to help people like us, think again.

Yes, he made millions, and yes he cost many people their jobs as well as their prospects of finding another one using their skills. But Romney's continued stories indicate a serious character flaw: he will say and do anything to get elected president. Does he even HAVE a moral compass, never mind the direction in which it points, if it exists. I believe it was Huckabee who said that he has no soul. I don't know about that, that's between him and God, but as for character, in addition to flip-flopping, he seems now to have moved on to fabrication. We in Massachusetts are not surprised. He ran for governor here only in order to springboard to his next objective. (And he was often out of the state more than he was in it, campaigning for himself.) He toured the country bad-mouthing the state he was supposed to lead. So, offshore accounts, Swiss bank accounts, only two years of tax returns released (one must wonder WHY???) He wants to be the President of the United States of America; he just doesn't want to invest in it.

Numeral, Mitch McConnell: Our only objective is to defeat Obama. So they proceed to block every initiative that would have improved the economy, deliberately, in order to make it seem to bethe president's fault. Said so themselves. So here's my question: If President Obama is responsible now, why do you feel that President Bush wasn't reponsible for what happened when he was in office?