Pinocchio for President

Over last weekend Gov. Mitt Romney began airing a political ad in Ohio specifically focusing on the auto industry, one of Ohio's biggest career areas. Now to most folks this is fairly commonplace during presidential  election time, but the thing that's got everyone's attention is the wonderful little morsel that Romney set before us but didn't think we'd notice. His incredibly blatant lie to Ohioans about their own industry. In a tv spot ad Romney has been stating that, "Obama sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China". However Chairman and CEO of Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne, gave a reply to local papers and news stations stating that Chrysler has "no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China". Well now, you'd think to save his rear end Romney would correct himself and move on to his next political agenda. But no, what does he do? Romney goes on to make several more radio and television ads stating the same lie. Mr. Marchionne stated again to the press saying "I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from North America to China", and what does Romney do? He releases another radio ad stating the lie over again and saying the auto industry is a huge failure. Now that Romney shoved the entire auto industry into the same pile General Moters felt Romney targeting them too and their spokesman stated "We've clearly entered some parallel universe... campaign politics at its cynical worst" and "At this stage, we're looking at Hubble telescope-length distance between campaign ads and reality". Now see it's one thing if Romney was lying about Medicare or Welfare, but he's lying to people who work in the auto industry in the heart of that industry's territory and as Rachel Meddow of The Rachel Meddow Show said: "You can tell Romney's lie about Jeep isn't going to work in Ohio in part because Ohio voters follow the car industry like it's the local football team". So it's obvious Romney is getting scared that he's losing the election if he's pulling stunts like this in a hail mary-esk attempt to snag Ohio voters. Honestly, do we really want a president that lies so horribly that he trips over it in public?