President Barack Obama used a speech at the United Auto Workers
conference Tuesday for a wide ranging attack on the candidates vying for
the Republican nomination to oppose him, bashing their views on the
auto bailout, organized labor and values.
Obama focused most of
his attention on new digs at Mitt Romney for opposing his measures to
save the big three American car companies — the latest and deepest in a
line of indirect swipes at the Republican candidate he’s long been
focused on facing in the fall.
“It’s been funny to watch some of these politicians
completely rewrite history now that you’re back on your feet. These are
the folks who said if we went forward with our plan to rescue Detroit,
‘You can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye,’” Obama told
United Auto Workers meeting in Washington, quoting directly from
Romney’s 2008 New York Times op-ed on the bailout without mentioning the
former Massachusetts governor by name.
