Steve Rattner, a veteran of Wall Street who served as President Obama’s “car czar” and helped oversee the auto-industry bailout, goes after Mitt Romney’s characterization of his time at Bain Capital in a strongly-worded op-ed in the New York Times. Rattner was dragged into the debate over whether or not attacks on Bain were fair game and his initial contention that the attacks were unfair landed him in an RNC video attacking Obama. But Rattner has backtracked since then, saying that Obama’s contention, that he is not attacking private equity per se but rather examining Romney’s record, is fair game. In the op-ed, Rattner condemns how the former Bain CEO has construed his own business record, “trot[ting] around the country erroneously calling himself a ‘venture capitalist.'”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=156283