US Olympic Uniforms Made in China — Romney Remains Silent but Congress Does Not

To be fair the policies of Obama have nothing to do with being competitive with the Chinese.
The regulations causing Amerika not to be competitive are long running policies of many past administrations.
Everyone is asking why is Romney not saying anything but the question of why isn't their president Obama not saying anything remains out of the conversation.
Perhaps he is too busy knocking Romney for his jobs record, which is quite funny considering Obama's record for putting Amerikans back to work.

Obama's record of putting Americans back to work? You mean slow but steady?

Oblama has never started a business or ran a business. The only thing he can do is denigrate those that do own and operate businesses.

Oblama could have helped his cause if he hadn't out-sourced $29 billion of production through the "stimulus" fiasco. Companies in Finland, Denmark and Mexico all got "stimulus" and the company I work for got a tax increase. Someone should tell Oblama to stop trying to help and just get out of the way.

Is "Oblama" a typo or supposed to be an insult?

Government is not a business, does not run like a business and should not run like a business. Very few past leaders and presidents were business owners and operators primarily.

I agree with Rory and Four More Years, the Government is not Wallstreet.

Government is also not a charity. If politiicians want to give away money to buy union support, they should use their own.
I do not want my tax dollars used as bribes for votes.

Holy mackerel!

It doesn't matter where it's made, good grief. Just like it doesn't matter where in the US something is made, i.e. your state or another state, your city or another city, etc. What matters is the freedom to produce, trade, etc.

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl refused to "politicize" the Olympic uniform issue yet made an analogy that American businesses are to compete like Olympic athletes, yet told to do so with a huge weight around their necks in the form of taxes.

I'm no fan of Kyl, but he got it half right. The other half he failed to mention is the outrageous regulatory system, which works primarily as a system of corporate welfare.

I agree Mitt's silence might be a problem. He's missing another opportunity to defend liberty and free markets. But I understand that's his M.O.

It only matters because of the state of the economy and the issue being made about how China is "ripping us off" (in the words of Republican, Donald Trump)

It is also a symbolic thing. American pride is in serious decline, having your patriotic uniforms for the world's largest showcase of national pride made by a foreign country (and not just any foreign country but the one you owe all that money to) is an embarrassment.

Romney's only loyalty is to money and those, like him, who have lots of it.

Exactly right.

''"This is just a glimpse of what life would be like under a President Mitt Romney, the great outsourcer-in-chief. He has remained silent on this issue. ""

So has Obama hypocrite.

And to offer a glimpse under 4 more years of Obama we had Olympic uniforms made in China under his watch. Disgraceful...

Now Obama is in charge of the Olympic committee?
So George W. Bush was responsible for the Burma-made uniforms in 2002? Not Romney?

Do the arms of Republicans ever get tired from pointing their finger in so many different directions?

""Do the arms of Republicans ever get tired from pointing their finger in so many different directions? ""

That's just rich. I was being sarcastic by employing liberal logic. The truth? The company who was asked to make the uniforms had them made in China. It was you who turned a bad decision by Ralph Lauren and started pointing at Romney.

So, why has Obama been so quiet on this?

Obama was never chief executive of Olympic games. Romney was. It's odd that Romney has no comment on an issue where he has some real experience.

Romney is running for president of the United States of America. Your dog and pony side show distraction is not going to stop him from his historic presidency; The first white President to be elected after the first black president.

I know you guys would rather talk about outfits and and other things that make you look as ridiculous as truthers and birthers but we have an adult running for president now and he doesn't need a teleprompter. The debt, the deficit, jobs are going to be the discussion despite how pathetic Obama's record on the three important things is. Get used to it.

Jeff H. Jul 16, 2012, 3:50pm EDT
Romney is running for president of the United States of America. Your dog and pony side show distraction is not going to stop him from his historic presidency; The first white President to be elected after the first black president.

I know you guys would rather talk about outfits and and other things that make you look as ridiculous as truthers and birthers but we have an adult running for president now and he doesn't need a teleprompter. The debt, the deficit, jobs are going to be the discussion despite how pathetic Obama's record on the three important things is. Get used to it.


ROFL! Funniest stuff I've heard in along time.

Now, to be accurate....replace the word "adult" with "puppet". And no, puppets don't need teleprompters, they have someone behind them speaking. The puppet's mouth moves, but it has no brain and no decision-making ability.

And like I've said before, anyone who wants America sold off in pieces like a stolen car to a chop-shop will vote for Romney. He'll line his pockets with the profits and then move back home to Mexico while America crumbles. But hey, at least Mitt will have made a few bucks, right?

HA~love the Etch-A-Sketch graphic~it's priceless!

Jeff H. said:
"Romney is running for president of the United States of America... not going to stop him from his historic presidency; The first white President to be elected after the first black president.

...we have an adult running for president now and he doesn't need a teleprompter."

So Romney, the first white President after the first black president is an adult, inferring that Obama is not.

Just go ahead and say it, go ahead and call Obama "boy".

""And no, puppets don't need teleprompters, they have someone behind them speaking. ""

Actually, the teleprompter has a guy behind the curtain running it. Puppet.

""Just go ahead and say it, go ahead and call Obama "boy". ""

I've called him a lot worse than "boy". Gather T.O.S . frowns upon me telling you how I really feel.

Obama is throwing all the mud he can and hoping something will stick. Retail is in the biggest slump since the recession started and Obama is calling Romney a felon. Yeah, the guy who admitted to committing felonies in the two books he wrote about himself is calling somebody else a felon with no facts or evidence. It's has more to do with desperation that immaturity.

Romney is trying to have an adult conversation. Take that how ever you want.

FOUR MORE, I have to admit that's a good pic. But Obama has flipped and flopped like the best of them.

Okay, Jeff, you win. You are the number one racist in the Gather anti-Obama crowd. Congratulations.

It always amuses me that you white liberals think you are the arbiters of who is and who isn't racist. Nobody takes your labels and accusations serious anymore because it's so laughable. Then again when being faced getting your but kicked in a debate or refusing to enter it by calling the other a racist, a cowardly act that takes absolutely no intellectual thought whatsoever, I kind of see why you do it.

I judge everybody on an individual basis. Race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other superficial label that you liberals like to categorize people in, has no influence.

Jeff

1) It always amuses me that you white liberals think you are the arbiters of who is and who isn't racist.

2) I judge everybody on an individual basis


To which I would ask;

If No 2 is really true, then why did you purposely refer to "White Liberals" in No.1 (both parahrased above)

It would appear that you need to reevaluate your personal morals, since it is evident that you did not realize that you were expressing your own biased feelings toward others in the same comment in which you claimed to be an unbiased person.

""If No 2 is really true, then why did you purposely refer to "White Liberals" in No.1 (both parahrased above)""

Because 99.9% of the time it is white liberals who call me a racist. It's an observation and a judgment. Even though I generalized, it was in reference to the people of this post, all who have called me racist.

I Have worked under and have had black people work under me and I have never once been accused of being racist. My son is half black and even though when I won full custody of him from his grandparents and they accused me of trying to turn him into a "white man" they never actually accused me of hating black people or being a racist. It is always white liberals.

The Dems HAVE to do something! They were made by a company that donates to OBAMA!.

Wooo haaa haa. I guess MSNBC and Stewart didn't run this story!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173620/Democrats-MADE-IN-CHINA-U-S-Olympic-uniform-designer-Ralph-Lauren-revealed-party-donor.html

Yes, this probably another trap Obama set up -- he would talk to his donor and tell them to outsource Olympic uniforms so that he can draw attention to Romney for also doing the same thing in the 2002 winter games.

Just like he continued the gun-walking procedures established under George W. Bush just so he could pass anti-gun laws.

With all these plots and plans, when does he have time to run the country?

Bush's "Wide Receiver" was cancelled well before Obama took office. And as part of the final report, it was written that the policy was a failure and not recommended. Wide Receiver was done with in coordination with the Mexican government and had tracking devices built into the guns.

Don't confuse F & F with WR, it isn't the same program.

Yes, Wide Receiver had ended, but there was another operation under Bush in 2007.

And this was the first time the feds had tried this?

No. In fact, two similar gun-walking operations, including one run out of the same Phoenix-area office that oversaw Operation Fast and Furious, were conducted under President George W. Bush. The first, Operation Wide Receiver, ran from 2006 to 2007, and tried to make use of the same chain of gun buyers, smugglers, and middle men who tossed deadly weapons up the ladder to cartel enforcers. Both Wide Receiver and the 2007 probe allowed guns to make their way across the border in a manner similar to Fast and Furious.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/21/what-is-operation-fast-and-furious-11-questions-answers.html

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/why-obamas-strategy-is-to-kill-romney.php

Sure its commentary. Its just another opinion. Just like your's and mine.

"He has remained silent on this issue. Why? Because Olympic uniforms were made in Burma during the 2002 Olympics that Romney is so proud of. Burma was a military dictatorship at that time."

WOW, wonder who's gonna run with this one?!!?

August Lady

WOW, wonder who's gonna run with this one?!!?

Hopefully, it will appear in an Obama anti Romney campaign commercial in the near future. Every day more and more unethical attributes of Romney's character comes to light.

Like your new avatar.

Thanx Scott, I should check to see if I can update from '08... :-)

The uniforms were purchased by the US Olympic Comm. Romney was I charge of the Salt Lake Organizing Comm.
For those of you that are to dense to realize what this means ..IT IS TWO TOTALLY SEPERATE ENTITIES NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY.
Romney could not have changed the source of the uniforms if he wanted to.

Perhaps he simply signed the paperwork for the uniforms but had no actual responsibility for it, sound about right?

Most clothes are made in China. Is this suppose to be news?
Do you know how ard it is to find shoes not made in China?

Companies move their busnesses to other countries where the cost of doing business is lower so they can stay competitive. It is extremely difficult for US companies to survive because of all the costly regulations, insurance, and taxes imposed by the left. Why should they be surpised that the US Olympic uniforms are not made in the US?

Why are you lefties not complaining about Obama's theft of US tax dollars so he could send money to foreign own business in foreign countries that he said would produce green jobs in the US?

The so called Stimulus money ended up for a solar panel factory in Mexico, windmills in Denmark and a battery manufacturer in South Korea.

Though many young women want to be under President Obama I guess and so are biased, it is plain that Obama should have got Sally Fields to whip up some clothes for those athletes. American women could have got to sewin, shucking and jiving to the pickin up stiches on sleek duds. In Alaska there are still people who now how to make buckskin clothing and with sufficient notice enough deer could have been harvested by hunters to get the skirts on the competitors..

In Chicago they could have developed some sort of ink-jet spray on uniforms for the Olympic team I would guess, if the ink cartridge arrived from China on Boeing aircraft partly made in China headquartered in Chicago.

Gary

There is still two things held dearest to the American peoples heart, which are called "Pride, Patriotism and Love of Country." It would appear that you have removed yourself from that Brotherhood.

I do not know you, however, you have my sympathy for your loss.

Pride in 16 trillion of public debt, patriotism in high unemployment rates without a clue about what to do to change that, and love of comfort, prosperity, easy living and no draft to serve in the military. At least I did volunteer as a cold war era reservist combat engineer, chemical specialist and indirect fire infantryman, took my college degrees in the U.S.A. and never lived abroad.

Because I am an American and want a good nation with full employment, are covering ecosystem and liberty and justice for all while keeping freedom for all citizens and work to that end it should not be a cause for being regarded as unpatriotic.

You disingenuous wealth sniffing pseudo-uber-patriots of nothing aren't worth a damn. Because one uses one's rights of citizenship as a native born American it means that one doesn't need to cow-tow to the corrupt party line of your way or you aren't patriotic.

It is upsetting to know that so many white males in America have such seething, racist hatred for our President.
Probably jealousy driven, but still disturbing.

I don't think that the President can run his campaign on a foundation of racism. Independents regard issues objectively and evaluate a President's achievements of failures critically. Sure there are a lot of Americans that aren't white males so stimulating the anti-white male vote is a good tactic for those that are divisive and disingenuous. Yet if one cares about the nation enough to advocate for equal protection of the law and full employment for all American citizens it is useful to stay away from the racist smears.

The President has kept a real unemployment rate-U6- of about 18% and that is unacceptable for us long-term unemployed house repainters. Goodness-the Democrat media even tried to make house painting a 'clan' activity as if white repainters wouldn't repaint a house belonging to a Negro, Chinese, Vietnamese or Hispanic.

The President has created an alarming and rather depraved social environment for youth with his aqdvocay of homosexual marriage-and that concerns those of us with traditional values. It is my experience on writing on the Internet for a decade that the homosexual lobby invariably makes personal attacks on political opponents rather than arguing objectively on the merits of issues. I think that is a long run strategic error on their part and indicates a social inability for that group to co-exist peacefully within a democratic context where free expression of political ideas is valued rather than excoriated.

The President being a negroe just isn't the issue. The issue is his complete lack of competence in economic affairs and his roll over of advisers from prior administrations including those such as Geitner on a non-reform economic team.

Those of us looking ahead to a better society wit low entropy economic, full employment and no public debt are not encouraged by the President's plan to run the national debt up to more than 20 trillion dollars if re-elected. That much debt requires more than a trillion a year in interest payments and may stimulate various forms of national economic failure of a deleterious nature we ought to avoid.

What?

what? what?
If you're referring to my comment above, it's in response to word choice such as "shucking and jiving to the pickin up stiches on sleek duds"

poor word choice

What? hahahahahahahahaha

Just messing with you, Lora...

:)

Shucking and jiving can be cool in most instances. Those American colloquialisms are not racist. Neither is the word 'duds'. That was a fairly common word for clothing in the 1950s. 'Picking up stitches' is a sewing/seamstress concept I heard from a long ago. It was also used by the very square musician Donovan as a lyric.

Since so much of the current ado about the outsourcing of work to Chinese sewers is on U.S. Olympic uniforms I thought it apropos.

Incidentally Mitt Romney's father may have been one of the first Americans to suffer significantly from outsourcing of production overseas as President of American Motors. One would need to research the time better than I have time for presently, yet Detroit in the 60s and 70s underwent major changes in competition with the world auto market. Detroit went through a severe recession and in a way never recovered market share.

Japanese and German auto production became serious rivals for the U.S. market after the U.S. helped restore those nations to economic competitivity with reasonable support (e.g. The Marshall Plan for Europe) and prevention of Nazi and Imperialist recrudescence.

After the end of the cold war there were other challenges from the world again with an expanding labor pool by 2 billion or so that had been unavailable more or less.

Contemporary Americans may have better language for workplace terminology descriptive of manual labor 'getting in the grove' with everything going right-yet I don't know what that would be. Maybe the oyster catch has recovered in Louisiana recently after the oil spill. In Alaska they just cancelled the Kenai River King Salmon fishery this year because there aren't enough fish perhaps even to repopulate the run

With many Americans still unemployed, many think the U.S. Olympic Committee should have off-shored American jobs make uniforms for American athletes in China. What do you think? Should we burn or wear the uniforms made in China? Join the debate next Tuesday 24 in New York City: http://bit.ly/LYNXPM

Burn them!