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Ryan claimed that Obama, while campaigning for President four years ago, promised a GM plant would not be closed. "That plant didn’t last another year," Ryan said. "It is locked up and empty to this day."
According to David Sherpardson, who covered Obama’s Wisconsin appearance in 2008 for the Detroit Free Press, Obama made no such promise and the plant actually closed in December, when George W. Bush was still occupying the White House.
Ryan criticized Obama for not supporting a deficit commission report. What Ryan failed to mention was that he angrily stormed out of the committee meeting considering the report, His actions, in effect, killed it.
He also charged the President took $716 from Medicare to help fund his health insurance plan. What Ryan failed to say is that his health care plan calls for the exact same transfer of funds.
He also blamed Obama for Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the American debt. In reality, the reason S&P took the action it did, in the agency’s own words, was because Congress, led by Ryan’s efforts, refused to take any action to increase revenues.
The man is pathological and unfit for public office.
Other impressions from Wednesday at the GOP convention:
After listening to John McCain, I was certainly glad he wasn’t elected. I lost count of how many wars he wanted us to fight during his speech. But, in a way, I do feel sorry for the man. He must have the record for appearing at the most Republican conventions that were nominating people he can not stand. (The reason Sarah Palin became the GOP VP nominee four years ago was because of McCain’s outright disdain for Romney.)
The best speech of the night did not come from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (I know far too many individuals — all of them African Americans — whose memories of living in Montgomery, Ala., in the early 1960s were far more unpleasant, to say the least, than hers), but from New Mexico’s first-term governor Susana Martinez. Now there’s a Republican I could support.
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