The irony meter explodes: Romney accuses Obama of being soft on China

[Zalatix]

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-calls-treasury-report-delay-another-missed-opportunity-205119084--abc-news-politics.html

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio - It was all about China for the Romney-Ryan ticket today, the two politicians hammering the Obama administration for delaying the release of a report that could label China a currency manipulator.

"I want to make sure that when people cheat, when they don't follow the rules in trade, we finally hold them accountable," Mitt Romney told a crowd of 3,000 who had gathered on a college quad to hear him speak.

"You know the president, the president has an opportunity, had an opportunity, was required as of last Friday to officially designate whether China is a currency manipulator," Romney said, going on to explain that being a currency manipulator means that a country is "artificially" holding down the value of its currency so the products it sells are less expensive than those made in other countries, and so that American companies making the same products go out of business.

"And yet over the past several years, the President's failed to call China a currency manipulator," Romney said. "He had the occasion on Friday to come out with that official designation. Do you know what they said? We're not going to make any determination until after the election.

[aquart]

1. True. Obama's soft on China but Romney's hard-on for it just won't quit.

[Zalatix]

4. Obama has slapped tariffs on China and has won cases against them in the WTO.

[aquart]

6. See? Soft.

But dickhard Romney will give China orgasms of ecstasy all night long.

[Zalatix]

8. LOL, up is down in the polkadot skies of Romneyworld.

[B Calm]

10. The workers at Sensata will point out

how much Romney hates China. . .

[garthranzz]

2. Not irony - Rove 101

One of Rove's primary tactics - accuse your opponent of possessing your fault. It muddies the mind of the voter and acts as a shield and defense against the truth.

[renate]

3. my first thought as well

They don't even try to be subtle any more.

[AverageJoe90]

5. Exactly. EXACTLY! n/t

[oldhippydude]

7. bingo..........

when the truth comes out... they say both do it, thus perpetuating the false equivalency argument..

[B Calm]

9. Since Romney has outsourced thousands

of US manafacturing jobs to China, he thinks he's an expert on China.