> This article is wrong. He wasn't calling them losers
He pretty clearly is rattling off a list and then naming them as (a) Obama/gov't picks and (b) losers. Really, the best defense you can get of his comment is "well, that's what Romney said his friend said, not what he personally said."
> He was basically saying that Obama was trying to pick the winners in green but that it wasn't working because the market isn't ready (basically claiming he is failing because government can't make an industry a winner through policy).
Is he correct? Over in a parallel discussion, someone pointed at this piece:
He pretty clearly is rattling off a list and then naming them as (a) Obama/gov't picks and (b) losers. Really, the best defense you can get of his comment is "well, that's what Romney said his friend said, not what he personally said."
> He was basically saying that Obama was trying to pick the winners in green but that it wasn't working because the market isn't ready (basically claiming he is failing because government can't make an industry a winner through policy).
Is he correct? Over in a parallel discussion, someone pointed at this piece:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-abound-sola...
which seems to indicate that the DOE loan program is actually pretty good at loaning to if not outright producing successes.