Ted Strickland in 2012 Democratic National Convention speeches

On Corporations: Auto industry slogging back, but we've got a long way to go

It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go. But all over Ohio--all over America--men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped "Made in America." Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth.

Mitt Romney proudly wrote an op-ed entitled, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." If he had had his way, devastation would have cascaded from Michigan to Ohio and across the nation.