Claim: Barack Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be 'the wrong thing to do.
Fact-check: Mitt Romney says Obama once criticized appointments like Richard Cordray's as 'wrong thing to do'
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Henry J. Gomez
Date published: 2012-01-11T00:00:00