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In reply to the discussion: Turns out we were wrong. Mitt is a veteran. Mitt did serve. [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)since I haven't seen anything (yet) that says anyone (Rmoney or anyone else) lied about the actual financial facts in the depositions. It was a company that may have had a lot of potential, but it's a tough business where there was certainly no guarantee of success, and based on the stock price in the few years that followed, it's tough to argue that success was "right around the corner". Yes the company did eventually become very profitable, but I can't imagine most people would have been willing to testify that it would years before it took off.
If it helps get votes for Obama, great, but I haven't seen anything yet to lead me to believe that Rmoney did something here worthy of calling it an "october surprise".
At this point, it seems to me to be more a case of Allred using the election to gain PR for a client, than of revealing information that is of any real value to the voters. If we weren't 2 weeks away from an election that Rmoney was running in, I doubt this story would have even made the papers.