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Jeffrey Feldman  The Drowning Man  Posted: 10/27/2012 6:12 pm
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a man drowning: arms
flailing wildly, desperate gasps for breath, the struggle to
climb out again and again. OK -- keep that image in your head as
you open your eyes and read this article about Mitt Romney
trying yet again to claim that his position on the auto industry
bailout was that government should offer help:  In Defiance,
Ohio, on Thursday evening, at a large rally with what the Romney
campaign said was a crowd of 12,000 people in the part of the
state most dependent on auto jobs, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
took to the stage to introduce Romney to the crowd. And in his
warm-up speech, Portman spent a few minutes talking at length on
the auto bailout issue. He zeroed in on Obama's debate comment.
Obama "said that Mitt Romney didn't want the auto industry to
get any government help. We need to talk about this," Portman
said. "Mitt Romney did p