FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Omaha, Neb. Romney is aggressively defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and insists it makes him qualified to be president.
Jae C. Hong, File, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is aggressively defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and insists it makes him qualified to be president.
Romney told Time magazine on Wednesday that "someone who spent their career in the economy" is better qualified to fix the economy than someone who spent their life in politics and as a community organizer. President Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago before he entered politics.
Romney's response follows Obama's sharp criticism this week of Romney's record as head of Bain Capital.
Obama said making money for investors isn't what being president is all about. He said a president's job is to worry about everybody, not just some.
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Of course he's defending his time at Bain Capital.
He LIKES to fire people, why wouldn't he defend that!
One thing is sure -- Romney's scorched-earth policies at Bain show that he does like to fire people (and, don't forget, outsource jobs and force companies into bankrupty, all so that the rich investors in Bain could make even larger More..
People loss their jobs when Obama took over GM. You fire to save the others, and re-build the company. GM still owes the tax payers thirty five billion dollars, and BO doesn't know what to do.
Hmm! How many people have loss their More..