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Former President Bill Clinton claims Mitt Romney will ‘come after Irish next’

Says Mitt’s comments on Italians owning Chrysler was attempt to create conspiracy theory

JAMES O'SHEA,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Monday, November 5, 2012, 7:05 AM

Updated Monday, November 5, 2012, 7:19 AM

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Bill Clinton speaking on the Obama / Biden campaign trail

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Bill Clinton has claimed that Republican Mitt Romney will “come after the Irish next” after recent disparaging comments about Italians owning the car company Chrysler.

After Clinton made the Irish comment he added, “which means I’m in trouble” pointing to his Irish ancestry during a speech in St.Cloud Minnesota.

Clinton was referring to Romney’s recent statements that Barack Obama had sold the Chrysler Car Company to Italians and that the “Italians” had then sent American jobs to China.

The allegations that the company would ship Jeep jobs to China were part of an advertising campaign which was unusually refuted by both Chrysler and GM car executives.

Clinton explained that Chrysler had been sold to Italian car company Fiat who had actually turned the company around and restored it to profitability.

Clinton called Romney’s allegations about foreign influence absurd and stated it was an attempt to create some kind of “Deep dark conspiracy.”

It was then he used the line that the Irish could be next on Romney’s hit list.

Clinton has been hot on the stump for President Obama in the final days of the campaign and has been acting as his surrogate in several second tier battleground states such as Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

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Wakjob | Mar 13, 2013, 04:00 PM EDT

Well Bill you came after white American techies in 1998 and 2001 making sure they could never work in the US again by flooding the USA with millions of 3rd world workers. So we're even ok. Pot. Kettle. Black.

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Madeliene | Jan 06, 2013, 05:44 PM EST

Bill Clinton is not and never was fir to shine Mr Romneys shoes! I know, this will not be printed in a liberal post, but TRUTH is TRUTH and SHOULD BE!

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BARNEYKX | Nov 08, 2012, 03:46 PM EST

to me Romney was and is a phoney baloney full of what makes the grass grow green in Texas. Everytime I heard him say he would create X million jobs I wanted to bring up, as he is one of the reasons for the high unemployment rate in the US being CEO of the Bain Investment Company which closed upteen plants in the USA and shipped them overseas to China,Sri Lanka, etc etc. also some in Canada as well.??

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EphraimKibbey | Nov 07, 2012, 08:52 PM EST

Thanks Bill! Actually thanks Mitt, Paul and the whole GOP for making it soooo easy! Forward Obama - 4 more years! Hillary in 2016! As the old, old, old GOP dies off the Big Tent Democratic Party grows ever larger. You alienate them and the Dems embrace them. This is working out very nicely!

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CJECoyne | Nov 07, 2012, 04:55 PM EST

Clinton is the biggest liar of them all. He was the mastermind of Whitewater where he made millions illegally.Most all the people that had any info on that are DEAD under suspicious circumstances. His wife & daughter can't trust him. If his lips are moving, he's lying.

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Scrivner | Nov 07, 2012, 02:11 PM EST

This sending American jobs abroad charge is really quitte hypocritical. Obama sent many jobs abroad using taxpayer money! Frisker electric car (a beautiful, expensive piece of engineering) rec'd mucho grants, then the owner outsourced fabrication to Finland, mandated solar panels for gov't buildings depended on Solindra (which collapsed from incompetent management) so the gov't outsorced these panels to China. On a more macabre note, security at US embassies traditionally has been a job for Marines, State Dept security personnel and the like, but the Bengazhi outpost was solely guarded by a private Lybian contractor. Here is where American jobs might well have saved American lives. Oh well, another four years of angst.

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marciaashley | Nov 07, 2012, 10:14 AM EST

i will not praise clinton

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marciaashley | Nov 07, 2012, 10:14 AM EST

what if he does go after the irish whatever. when there is an injustice we need to speak louder. right.

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marciaashley | Nov 07, 2012, 10:13 AM EST

mr. clinton you had your chance as president. why critize romeny. did you leave a trail behind. i am sure you did.

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marciaashley | Nov 07, 2012, 10:12 AM EST

there should be a recount in pennsylvania. also i dont even know who the so called new president is. but i am sure we will find out, when we become sick or hungry. right.

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bobby | Nov 07, 2012, 06:00 AM EST

Congratulations Barack Obama.

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boydshield | Nov 06, 2012, 05:16 PM EST

Clinton = Blarney

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eiriamach | Nov 06, 2012, 01:57 PM EST

Shuvonn writes, "Romney sent jobs overseas, and NOW he claims he can create them in the US?" And not only does that claim make Romney unbelievable, but he also claims (A) Government can't create jobs and (B) in the top government job of President, he will create jobs! Uhhhhhhuh! Unless he intends to privatize the presidency, he's caught in a self-contradiction. Ah, but it's only one of many of his contradictory statements. I'd rather vote for someone who (A) makes sense and (B) can be trusted to do what he says he'll do (Obama).

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michaelidaho | Nov 06, 2012, 09:56 AM EST

Shuvonn, First, as a private citizen Romney did what most honest, hard-working people would do in his position-maximize his tax return and work for the mutual benefit of himself and his company. Second, Romney is not against clean energy, he just knows, like most rational people, that you should not make it the center piece of your economic plan like Obama has. Third, it is true that not everybody can afford to pay for the costs of attending a 4 year private university. However, there are many fine public, two year colleges with online programs that allow anybody with limited resources to obtain the necessary training for an entry level job in a high demand field. That is a far better path to take then going to a private university like Saint John’s University, majoring in a social science, receiving nearly $20,000 in Pell Grants, graduating with over $100,000 in debt , and then only being able to get the same job at Circuit City that you had when you were a teenager upon receiving your B.S. degree (no pun intended). Finally, I would not really bring up FEMA, because it is obvious that both Democratic and Republican administrations have proven woefully inadequate in disaster relief, as evidenced by Katrina and now with Sandy on the east coast.

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shuvonn | Nov 06, 2012, 09:30 AM EST

michaelinidaho, you didn't mention Romney sent jobs overseas, and NOW he claims he can create them in the US? He voted for Obamacare in Mass and now is against it? Wants to get rid of FEMA, and give that over to the individual states. Romney has bank accounts overseas to avoid taxes in the US, left the country to avoid serving in the military complained about Obama living abroad when he did the same thing. Green energy is the way of the future, you think Sandy just came out of the blue? The US needs to invest ahead even if it does not pay off now. And kids in lower middle class deserve a chance at a reasonably priced college education also, NOT just richer kids. If you do not see any of that as an issue, I am not sure what else to say, those are all major issues to a rational person and that's aside from his foot in mouth while abroad, 3 countries, 3 idiotic statements ....

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