Romney the details man?

Romney has always savored details when it helps him make money, Reich writes, but when it comes to running or holding office he?s been a standout for keeping the public in the dark.

By Robert Reich,?Guest blogger / October 22, 2012

In this October 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event in front of a barn at Ida Lee Park in Leesburg, Va. A recent New York Times article paints Romney as a details person, but Reich argues otherwise.

Alex Brandon/AP/File

Enlarge

The so-called ?mainstream media? (aka?The New York Times) is constantly being assailed by Republicans and the right for their supposedly liberal slant. Yet another convenient right-wing lie.

Skip to next paragraph Robert Reich

Robert is chancellor?s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Clinton. Time Magazine?named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including ?The Work of Nations,? his latest best-seller ?Aftershock: The Next Economy and America?s Future," and a new?e-book, ?Beyond Outrage.??He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.

Recent posts

' + google_ads[0].line2 + '
' + google_ads[0].line3 + '

'; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { ad_unit += ''; } } document.getElementById("ad_unit").innerHTML += ad_unit; google_adnum += google_ads.length; return; } var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-6743622525202572"; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_feedback = "on"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_adtest = "on"; google_image_size = '230x105'; google_skip = '0'; // -->

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of
The Christian Science Monitor
Weekly Digital Edition

Take, for example, Saturday?s above-the-fold NY Times story, entitled (in the print edition that arrived at my home this morning):? ?Romney Recalled as Leader Who Savors Details.?

What?

It?s mainly a puff piece, aglow with Romney?s supposed managerial prowess. Coming just a bit more than three weeks before Election Day, it attempts to confirm Romney?s central selling point ? that he can run the government better than Obama.

Nowhere does the?Times?bother to mention that Romney?s campaign has been devoid of? any detail at all ? details about his economic plan, his budget plan, his plan for what to replace Obamacare with, his plan to replace Dodd-Frank, or even details about the taxes he?s paid.

When he was governor of Massachusetts, the citizens of the Commonwealth had no idea what he was doing (I can attest because I was there, and as much in the dark as most people). He kept the details of his governing to himself and his staff. And he spent most of his last two years in office laying the groundwork for his run for the presidency.

Romney has always savored details when it helps him make money. But when it comes to running or holding office he?s been a standout for avoiding all details and keeping the public in the dark.

The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best economy-related bloggers out there. Our guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. To contact us about a blogger, click here. This post originally ran on www.robertreich.org.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/h5iZqHw2I_4/Romney-the-details-man

Magic Mike Anderson Cooper Gay adele NBA draft 2012 alicia sacramone Don Grady ann curry