The Obama campaign has gone to DEFCON 1 over the national reaction to the president’s “You didn’t build that!” speech in Roanoke. Last week the campaign trotted out a video ad that deceptively edited Obama’s own speech to attempt to refute an effective Romney ad. Today, in a visual cue that its previous attempt failed, the campaign has rolled out a second ad that features the president himself reading to the camera.
He had time to sit for this shoot, but not to meet with his jobs council. Just sayin’. We all know he’s got a lot on his plate.
OBAMA: Those ads…taking my words about small business out of context. They’re just wrong.
Stop the tape. Here is what President Obama said.
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
In the first paragraph, Obama sets up an appeal to authority (“There are many rich people who agree with me”) before launching into what might be called the “unexceptional American” section. [L]ook, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
You didn’t get there on your own (said twice for emphasis), you aren’t smarter and you didn’t work harder (so you don’t really deserve the fruits of your success). You had help: government help. And because you had government help, you ought to “give back” like the unnamed rich people in the opening sentence.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The “You didn’t build that!” line resonated most quickly because it’s the clearest rebuke to business starters and builders in the speech. “Somebody else made that happen” gives the credit to whoever invested in the roads and other infrastructure, which, in America’s progressive tax system, are the very same successful people Obama is rebuking. It’s debatable whether the “that” refers to roads and bridges or to the businesses themselves, but the fact remains that the entire passage of the speech is an unmistakable slap at business creators. Context does not help him one bit. The context fully explains Obama’s innate anti-business mindset.
He really really must be getting hurt over his own words..
Real Americans want to know when the President will start running a campaign based on his record of accomplishments in office…
just saying….
Yes. And he should note that roads, bridges, and education were before Eisenhower and the so-called great society locally or privately done.
During the 1960s-70s everyone was reading James O’Connor’s The Fiscal Crisis of the State, which made the same argument as Warren and Obama. He taught at that utopian outpost of Leninism UC Santa Cruz. The cultural work of the Soviet Union has been so effective and pervasive, that many will fall for the statist line and won’t know about private financing of such accomplishments as the transcontinental railroad or the Golden Gate Bridge. I wrote a blog about the cultural work of communism here, contrasting it with the early Progressives: see http://clarespark.com/2012/07/19/communist-ideas-go-mainstream/.
Our president is at his worst when he is runnin’ jive for the approbation of his benighted supporters. Example: “I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.”
Wouldn’t anyone with half a brain question how he ascertains how people think? I have never met a successful business person who has told me he thinks “…I was just so smart.” Obama, jive hustler in chief, proclaims he is always struck by such occasions.
What a moaks!
Remember Slick, the wrestling manager from way back when? Remember that theme song of his, “Jive Soul Bro”? I’m no good at this kind of thing, but SOMEBODY needs to do a parody of that with Obama on vocals. God knows the man’s run his mouth in front of the cameras enough that there should be plenty of vocal samples out there.
Suggested lyrics:
“Well, I got myself elected in 2K8/By running as a total unknown/But since I’ve been in office three years and change/My cover is totally blown!
Who’s your Preezy now, America?
Back then they adored me/But now they don’t/I might get re-elected, but it looks like I won’t/So I said to the people, Gimme four more years!/But they all hollered back, and it rang in my ears
You’re a jive soul bro, a jive soul bro, you’ve spent four years livin’ a lie/You’re a jive soul bro, a jive soul bro, and it’s time for you to go bye-bye!
What are you talking about America? You know I deserve four more years! Heh, heh…
Well you’d think the mid-terms would have gotten me to listen/But I still kept demanding my way/Why just the other day, I was out there dissin’/Every business in the USA!
You didn’t build that, somebody else did!
Then I said, Check the tape, I didn’t really say that/They said, “You said it, you lyin’ dirty rat”/Then I said I didn’t mean it, but the damage was done/’Cause I’ve been lying through my teeth since back on Day One, singin’
Jive soul bro, a jive soul bro, and the country’s had enough of you/You’re a jive soul bro, a jive soul bro, and your time in the White House is through
(Jive soul bro)
Hey, wait a minute, America!
(Jive soul bro)
The private sector’s doing fine!
(Jive soul bro, Jive soul bro)
I want to play some more golf!
(Jive soul bro)
[Repeat and fade]
If you can do a good recording of this, with Obama on vocals, you have my permission to go ahead and use these lyrics. One condition: it’s got to sound like Obama, though.
If you really think it’s worth making it into a song, check out AlfonZo Rachel’s site http://alfonzorachel.com/.
If anyone could make this a reality, it would be him. And he’d enjoy doing it to boot.
Mi mi mi mi mi… (Me me me me MEeee!) sibilence … is this thing on?
OK, now, to warmup my voice to sound EXACTLY like Obies, first I’ll try barking out these simple words:
“It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?” … (repeat).
Why Dark, you got game.
Boris B.
He really really must be getting hurt over his own words..
Real Americans want to know when the President will start running a campaign based on his record of accomplishments in office…
just saying….
Yea HE killed Osama…….. What else?
Real Americans (i.e., NW Europeans, nobody else) are hardly in any need of more anti-Obwana evidence. The problem is that real Amercians are hard-put to deliver a majority at the polls today. In business, there’s an old saying: personnel is policy. This isn’t organizational wisdom, it’s simply an observation about one of the many rules governing Human Nature. You may believe O’bwana to be an usually bad leader. But, for an African, he’s lookin’ like Pericles. Coalman Young. Marion Berry. Idi Amin Dada. Robert Mugabe. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Larry Sinclair?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA Do you think that is going to ever really happen? Man, you ought to write comedy, that was funny!!
Don’t know about anybody else but I’d like to know what deal he has cut with Putin? And his buddies in China? He must really think the American people are stupid.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dems nominate hillary, and lil barry is retired. Btw, does anybody think all of obama’s czars are a shadow government?
Obama did run on his accomplishments, sir! It was used as 5 seconds of filler in the 6 second long NASA program listing the contributions of muslims to science.
What will be so wonderful after this election is the nonstop LYING from this administration will finally get its comeuppance. I am so looking forward to a president who doesn’t lie every time he opens his mouth. It’s incredibly annoying and stressful to put up with every day.
What I’m looking forward to is a dejected Barack and Michelle staring at their shoes as Mitt Romney is sworn in.
But I suspect they won’t show up and fire hoses and law enforcement will need to be employed to physically remove them from the White House.
Yeah. I’ve got a very low opinion of these squatters.
One of the things that really disgusted me about Dear Leader’s inauguration (besides his fans trashing of the nation’s capital) was his almost complete dismissal of GW Bush. If Romney is elected I hope one of the first things he does is apologize to Dubya that it’s coming four years late but that he honors his service to his country and his almost complete lack of partisanship while dealing with the American people (IOW the complete opposite of Chairman Clueless).
Not only that but if you think what the Clinton staffers did to the White House was bad, wait until the “progressives” leave. It will look like an Occupy camp and probably smell like it too.
You have to understand that president Obama just views his current job as a stepping stone to greater things (in his mind) like head of the U.N. or just Insufferable Moral Authority a la Jimmy Carter.
As someone who has failed upward his entire career, Himself will be secretly pleased to see Romney sworn in.
I’ve always maintained that He is holding out for Ultimate Totality God Of Everything For The Rest Of Eternity.
Remember the faux Greek columns from His first Presidential campaign? I think they are a clue.
I suspect that He imagines Himself sitting on a mountaintop, screaming incoherent “commands”, and then throwing lightning bolts at anyone who doesn’t obey quickly enough, or who just can’t figure out what the H**l He’s babbling about.
That, I believe, is His vision of His personal “fulfillment”.
Yes, I long ago concluded that He is few quarts low on His oil, as we used to say.
clear ether
eon
A sandwich shy of a picnic.
I have to say that watching Obama with all those halo shots combined with his egotistical faux “Office of the President Elect” seal really told me all I needed to know about him before he was even sworn info office. Not to mention the company he has kept and those he surrounds himself with currently. I don’t think in my 50 years that I have ever seen such a man with such a giant ego while having laid a path of destruction in his wake. And he still has a 45% job approval… Sigh
Scratch the thunderbolts. Blacks are incapable of keeping the electricty on. See, all of sub-Saharan Africa, post-colonial period.
It used to be that you could be a cult leader, or you could be President, but you couldn’t be both. My, how things have changed.
While I can picture this scenario nicely painted by you; I can not get over this lying scumbag. The other questions is, whatelse these two grifters will do out of hate and vindictivenessbefore they get hauled out; or will they refuse to leave?
At this point, I don’t put nothing past them, including hurting americans simple to give America one more taste of their racial hateness towards us, while they scream ‘America , you owe us’!
Give them a break. They’ll be busy selling their memoirs and building his presidential library. The movies will come out, too. They’ll be celebrities forever. Class isn’t in their vocabulary. They won’t disappear from the public eye, either. The LSM won’t allow it. They’ll spend the second half of their adult lives as they did the first: living off taxpayers.
Perspective, here. If Americans learn their lesson, and never again elect an African President, we can count O’bwana’s reign a bargain.
I 100% agree, Karen. Obama’s policies are dismaying, frustrating, enraging, depressing; but it’s the constant lying (and worse, the constant lying aided and abetted by the MSM) that raises my blood pressure and most nauseates me. It will be such a relief to not have a POTUS whose almost every sentence is a piece of Orwellian doublespeak.
If Romney wins, I am dreading the last-minute Presidential pardons. WJC made a bunch of bad “pay-for-play” deals (e.g. Mark Rich, et. al.), but BHO’s last acts will be politically and ideologically driven. I would not be surprised should he finally shut down Gitmo under this mechanism.
Can obama pardon someone who hasnt been charged with a crime? If so, wouldnt it be best to hold off charges until after January.
Any feedback?
Yes, Obama can pardon someone who hasn’t been charged yet.
Think of President Ford’s pardon of Nixon. Nixon was pardoned even though he hadn’t been charged with any crime yet.
So yes, Obama could pardon his entire gangster cabinet if he wanted to.
The lying is exhausting, yes, but also the refusal to take responsibility for anything, including his own words and actions. Now it’s Romney’s fault for quoting him. Bush’s fault, Republicans’ fault. The man is not responsible for anything, and he can look into the camera and deny that he meant what he is captured on video saying. What a relief it will be to have a president who will take responsibility for the good and the bad, for things under his control and the things that he may not control but is still responsible for as the president who is in office. Of course he can’t control Europe, the Middle East, and every aspect of the economy, but neither could any previous president, yet they did not spend 4 years blaming the previous president for every hurdle in the way of their reelection.
Don’t you remember HST famous saying; “The buck stops w/ you”?
No other quote captures this dimwit so succinctly.
And a President that doesn’t stammer, stutter, and swollow his “g’s”. One that doesn’t em and er while he is thinking up his next lie or has lost his place on the teleprompter.
What is it they say? “Every word out of Obama’s mouth is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’” (or something like that)?
Whatever the exact expression is, Obama proves he owns it, every single day.
All Barack Obama’s public statements come with an expiration date, after which they are no longer valid. This one hit it’s “best by” faster than most, or else it was rotten when packaged. But now that he’s disavowed it, he’s genuinely outraged that anyone would continue to hold him to it. This is who he is. It’s WHAT he is. It’s what he does.
The original comment was by writer Mary McCarthy on the Stalinist playwright and liar Lillian Hellman: “Every word she wrote was a lie, including ‘a,’ ‘and,’ and ‘the.’”
definitely applies to Comrade Urkel and his apparatchiki.
Thank you, John Cunningham, for kindly supplying the complete reference.
Knowing the context, I think it fits Dear Comrade Obama even better than I expected…
Don’t be hatin’ on Urkel. He’s a good guy, compared to this … democrat.
How do you know when Obama’s lying? His lips are moving!
I think the Roanoke speech was not just a re-working of what Running Mouth, Elizabeth Warren, has said. I think it comes from 20 years of listening to
Jeremiah Wright’s ‘sermons’.
Obama is a demagogue wanna-be. If re-elected he’ll show his true stripes.
Elizabeth Warren does not seem to be hurting from either her Cherokee nonsense or her economic notions that inspired Obama’s imitation, according to recent polls. Of course, those are Massachussetts voters.
I do agree that Obama did something that has damaged him with a lot of people, but mostly this has simply brought his malignant philosophy into clear focus for people who already didn’t like him or weren’t sure about him. Obama and Warren are articulating an irrational economic philosophy that a lot of Americans actually believe.
The election should not be this close even at this stage, which is an indictment of the ignorant foolishness of so many fo our fellow “Americans.”
On the heels of “the private sector is fine”, surely he faces a skeptical reception of this ad. Gov. Romney needs to refute this foolishness in an ad – Mr. Preston’s post would make a great template. The ad should end with a question – is it Obama’s ignorance of the work required for private enterprise or is it from a life of unearned successes that he has built his worldview? He did build that on his own, without any help from the real world.
They are obviously polling this in the White House and the results must be scaring the pants off them. Obama keeps on providing these Romney moments. He can’t help himself. Remember when he said he was a better speechwriter than his speechwriters ?
Well, in all fairness, that’s not saying much. His speechwriters are a gaggle of gaseous clowns.
How about when he gave himself a grade of A-?
His modesty would not allow to give himself an A+.
Now, now, let’s be fair. He gave himself a good, solid B+.
“There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there.”
Please quote him correctly.
He was in Roanoke….Yeah! Roanoke in da house…Harvard, here!
He said,
“There are a whole bunch a hard workin’ people out there.”
Pay no attention to that man behind the teleprompter…
Popups now, PJM? Thanks for convincing me to get around to installing an adblocker. Oh, and don’t think I don’t see that default-checked checkbox below asking to spam me.
If I hear the phrase “Give back to the community” from politicians one more time I’m gonna puke.
You wanna see what happens when business gives up and leaves instead of “taking” (or so the politicians believe) from the local community? See Detroit!
Business gives: goods, services, jobs, and taxes. That’s enough. It doesn’t need to “give back.”
“Give back” is another brilliant catch phrase the Left devised to win arguments by simply labeling things differently. The word “back” infers what you have was “given” to you. So you should “give back.” That’s why Obama used the phrase at the beginning of the paragraph, to set the stage for what followed. Those unmentioned successful people want to “give back.” Why? Because they supposedly know they didn’t earn what they have in the first place. But they’re good people who know the right thing is to return thir unearned wealth to those who “gave” it to them in the first place, unlike those other greedy people who foolishly imagine they earned their money and want to reinvest it in their businesses, or, horrors, spend or save it. It’s just a variation on the college dorm Marxist statement that “property is theft.” and college dorm Zmarxism is what Barry knows best. In act, it’s the only thing he “knows.”
When you mentioned that Marxist statement “Property equals theft”, it makes me laugh at the hypocrisy of the Marxists… Ever notice how much property is OWNED by the elite Marxists who are in power??? They just don’t want the peons to have anything. That is what leftism is all about. Tyranny over the masses and power and wealth held by a limited few elite.
It’s why they believe rich businessmen to be greedy oppressors who didnt earn what they have but rather stole it from someone else….it’s projection.
Its bad enough that he gave that lame marxist type screed but he plagiarized it from Elizabeth Warren the phony Indian.
I am a teacher. I go to work, a job that I love. I’m forutnate that I have the job, that the citizens pay property taxes to pay me. I don’t think what I do is what the President means by help, I work. I believe I do it well, but that is for others to decide. I help those in my free time, friends, family members complete stangers when I choose too. I believe that is help, not doing my agreed upon job.
Like you, I love what I do, and I’m paid to do it by the local taxpayers (I’m a public librarian). Every day I show up determined to give the people of my city their money’s worth and more, because it’s a privilege to do what I do. And most of all, I try to remain mindful of my institution’s debt to great entrepreneurs: the local businessmen who pay the taxes that keep us going, and the father of us all, the great Andrew Carnegie, without whom most cities and towns would never have established public libraries. One might even say to government, “You didn’t get there on your own…Somebody else made that happen!”
Lizzie loves little businesses
All the little business in her state
Yes, she truly loves them all
Wants to tax them to the wall
So the government can make things really great
I read something somewhere else here on PJ that might have something to do with this. I think it was in the comments section of something, but on the other hand the first speech, the one he’s been castigated for, bears evidence that it’s true.
They tried a short-lived experiment to wean him off of his teleprompter. There’s no question the guy is good with a prepared speech: that’s how he came to the attention of the National party in the first place, back when he was an Illinois state legislator. The question is whether he can be trusted to speak in a public setting, without the teleprompter telling him what to say. I submit that his speech in Roanoke is a poor distillation of Elizabeth Warren’s comments (more coherent, if no less objectionable) in Mass a few weeks ago. Warren was pretty explicit in that she insisted that a factory owner who built a factory moved product to market using roads built by “the rest of us”, which would be a good point if said factory owner somehow didn’t pay taxes (and higher ones at that). But Obama’s remarks are much less coherent, in that his “You didn’t build that” statement can be taken as referring to the roads, the factory or business, almost anything. I think he stumbled pretty badly because there were no scripted remarks for him to follow…
…and now he’s walking them back, using (of course) his prepared statement. He no doubt either memorized the lines or read them somehow. I’ll be honest, I don’t even want to hear what he had to say, so I didn’t watch the video, and won’t.
It looks like he’s desperate, badly so, and flailing around looking for something to take hold of. Hope it keeps up this way…
Almost without fail, Obama hurts himself when he goes off the teleprompter. He just can’t help but expose his natural political tendencies. He is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, and only a speechwriter and a teleprompter can keep him from exposing himself for what he truly is.
I beg to differ. Obama is not a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. He is a RADICAL.
These days, what’s the difference?
He has the laziest staff in the history of the country.A simple google search of ‘who created internet’ yields “Xerox”. They also created the GUI that Apple and Gates stole because Xerox didnt really care at the time about it.But I digress.Thes clowns are without a doubt to lazy and stupid to be in charge of the henhouse in DC. Send them home soon,PLEASE!
Whoa, now. Apple paid Xerox for the rights to the technologies that Jobs first saw on a tour of their PARC facility. They didn’t “steal” anything. That Jobs saw potential where the Xerox engineers did not, and acted on what he saw, neither equates to stealing nor diminishes the accomplishment of the original visionaries. Xerox got a large payment for what they considered developmental by-product, Apple got a new computational paradigm that has since become ubiquitous and the rest of us got computers we can actually do real work with. Everybody wins.
This is how capitalism works. It is not a zero-sum game. This essential aspect of capitalism has forever eluded the Left as has been shown most recently by the asinine comments of the President and Ms. Warren and countless others.
More than just Obama, Stephanie Cutter chimes in to call Romney a liar (again). http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/24/cutter_romney_not_telling_the_truth_taking_obama_out_of_context.html
BHO hoists himself on his own petard daily.
It is truly funny to watch.
I have been saying all along, BHO and the Democrats lose by a historic margin in November.
The only thing that saddens me at all about this election season is that Andrew Breitbart is no longer here to enjoy it with us.
Otherwise, this has been a colorful pinata o’ pleasure, dumping out yummy surprises wherever it gets smacked. Good clean fun for the whole family!
Iam unable to laugh because there are still 45% out there who may (will) vote for this incompetitent!
There is a lot of truth in the words of Warren as poorly parroted by Obambus, BUT they are basically sudden death in a public campaign UNLESS you are willing to play the role of a committed socialist.
Obambus has his whole life gotten away with stuff, and didn’t make the appropriate judgement on the UTILITY of these public words and positions, valid or not. Did he even run this past his brain trust first, or take a flyer on his own?
The entire thrust of the speech, the context HE set, lends itself to the WORST possible interpretation of the key words. You can omit that one sentence and the rest of the talk is just as bad. So, I’m surprised he’s even trying to back away from it. Just put on the Che shirt, Barry, and get on with it.
poor little barry will never be allowed to wing it again.
His handlers can’t trust him to invent his own lies, or even spew the lies written for him unless they are in big block letters and pictures on the prompter. But 60 million American’s were stupid enough to fall for the scam, and it isn’t clear whether after 4 cruel years of it they will decide they still believe in wonderland.
Has there even been somebody this stupid in a position of power in a major county.
When I heard Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech, I shouted to the screen, “Yeah, bro’, sing it! Sing it loud and and sing it proud!” I hope he listens to me.
Just put on the Che shirt, Barry, and get on with it. — Josh
This! /\
Since all of this small business talk revolves around “the middle class,” would it be out of line to point out that Obama spent twenty years in the pew of a church which had as one of its central tenets “the disavowal of middleclassness?”
No. And I’ll go further: He keeps talking about ‘Helping the middle class’; a dead giveaway that he has the middle class in his targeting sites.
The man’s reaching up a hog’s ass for a ham sandwich.
Yeah, a ham sandwich with Mao.
I don’t know that he’s trying to guilt the rich into paying more taxes. I think he’s just a gnat’s ass away from saying that the rich got there on the working man’s back. That all these things belong to the proletariat. maybe even how the rich kick back on their sofas counting their money while we break our backs. I’m expecting a full mao or lenin quote any day now.
“I’m expecting a full mao or lenin quote any day now.”
And you’d get it if Obama had actually read any Mao or Lenin. But I wager he hasn’t. The important parts were distilled for him by his mentors and served up as sound bites or bullet points.
Nothing Obama does or says shows a shred of evidence that he has any reading comprehension skills beyond the 3rd grade.
That’s precisely what Elizabeth Warren said:
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyDR2b71ag
IOW, the factory owner’s wealth all belongs to society (or the government). But Ms. Warren will graciously allow the factory owner to “keep a big hunk of it.”
Precisely!
“You didn’t build that,” is their justification for robbing you of the wealth you earned and redistributing it to whomever they choose, by their determination the more deserving.
We all through taxes pay for the roads, teachers, schools, etcetera ad nauseum. But that’s not enough for the true progressive. They have so many plans for making the world a paradise on earth, and they would all come to fruition if only we greedy rich folks could be made to contribute to the cause. The fact that whenever this has been tried they blow through all the wealth and leave poverty and devastation in their wake is always glossed over with the claim, “but we’re smarter now, we’ll get it right this time!”
Case in point, the War on Poverty. Tens of years later, trillions of dollars spent, and no improvement, and a growing class of entitled dependent unproductive nulls.
WOW.
This thing is really significant.
Never has the Criminal tried this hard to convince people his lies aren’t lies. Usually, he just depends on the clean articulate Negro schtick. Sometimes, he sneers at some stupid strawmen the kids on the campaign come up with. In a pinch, he makes up false data.
But this is far beyond the norm for the man who wakes up lying to himself in his dreams.
Emoting? Inflections, other than condescension? Attemt at persuading? aw-schucksing? “of course”ing?
This behavior is very significant for the guy who hates to even acknowledge other people.
But I’m about persuaded by the people who say minds are already made up. I think 60% will take only one message from this sure to be oscar nominated performance…he said it and it isn’t extempoaneous; therefore it’s a sneering bald-faced contemptuous lie.
Unless you think of PJM as a safehouse for bigotry you might want to think about not undercutting their credibility with your rhetoric.
YOU are calling someone else a bigot. Look in the mirror, chump.
What is this non-sequitur garbage??? Talk about coming from LEFT field!
You need to remember that one of the qualifications that got Obama to he head of the line in the Democratic party is that he was a clean and well spoken negro.
Lighten up. It’s long past time we stopped being afraid to shove their own words back down their throats. If there’s anything most obvious about Obama, it’s his schizophrenic racial mannerisms and speech patterns. The most pathetic thing about this is he isn’t even original here, as Hillary is better at it than him. She probably coached him on it.
That was Joe ‘gaffe-a-minute’ Biden who said that. Obama was an ideal candidate because he was a black guy who was clean and articulate. The commenter is just pointing out that Obama rode that image (assisted by a huge amount of white guilt) to assist in his election.
I didn’t get any bigotry there. Would it be bigotry against Indians to say that Fauxahontas Warren rode her ‘I’m Native American and therefore disadvantaged’ shtick to academic success?
And (me being too lazy to post twice) to the above commenter who called O a liberal – try ‘redistributionist, anti-colonial Marxist’ for a start.
Progressive fascist is a better term.
“It’s debatable whether the “that” refers to roads and bridges or to the businesses themselves”
You mean it all depends on what your definition of “that” is. Now let me see, where have I heard that before?
World’s greatest orator can’t string together a simple sentence? Either way, A major problem with this is that a current federal politician is making a moral claim to our properties and yields based on the prior work of societies both living and dead and to a lesser extent governments both extant and extinct at all levels but mostly not at the US federal level. As for commercial application of military tech, that’s been bought and paid for in that tax receipts have generally exceeded military spending and the borrowed money mostly goes to transfer payments to olds. The things he describes are not even in the job description of the federal government, and he seems to be looking after his moocher constituency anyway based on spending habits and promotion of freebies.
It’s debatable only if one does not understand basic rules of grammar.
Fauxcohontas and Dances With Words are trying to walk back their Marxist statements that go over so well at their radical leftist fundraisers.
But despite the Fabian camouflage, the loathing of capitalism and the free market oozes and seeps out of them from behind the masks.
From the first days of witnessing the campaign of this crowd and their ilk, they gave clear signs that they didn’t like corporate America one bit.
Not big business, not Wall Street, and not even the “little business” that Fauxcohontas now says she simply adores.
Michele Obama said this in Ohio on 2008:
“Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that.”
“CAPITALISM IS an economic system that is inherently crisis-prone. It is driven by forces which cause it to be unstable, anarchic and self-destructive. This is as true today as it was over 150 years ago, when Karl Marx and his collaborator Frederick Engels described capitalism in the Communist Manifesto as “a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, [that it] is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chapter 1, ¶27
When you listen to a Marxist you hear a Marxist. When you listen to a Fabian Marxist or “small c communist”, you hear an actor playing a role as a centrist.
They don’t like capitalism, they don’t like the free market, they want an authoritarian government with a dependent people on their knees. One will put his boot on your neck. The other will put a laurel wreath around it. They both want to crush your windpipe.
Well there’s a difference between us all being in this together and you legislating that fact ya frickin’ commie.
I was just reading the comment guidelines above and they seem very Bloombergish.
Threats are taken seriously and oh, stay on topic. Ok, I guess I am not on topic. Silly and stupid.
But the essential fact remains that he is in a statistical tie with Romney. All he needs is his base and people who still believe in whatever he is peddling and it will be enough for him to win.
A ‘statistical tie’ does not take into account that:
a) the undecideds will more likely break against the incumbent
b) voter turnout in O’s base is not likely to be as high as previously was
c) polls are often of ‘registered voters’ not ‘likely voters’
I’ve said since the beginning that O will hold a significant advantage despite his failures (because of money, media, and the plus of holding the office he’s running for), but I still think you need to take the above factors into consideration.
So, don’t be totally discouraged – it could be alot worse, and I think it’s going to get better, as O shows more of himself as the campaign gets into the trenches of Autumn.
Statistical ties are only in polling heavily weighted D. The last WSJ/NBC poll had D+12. Twelve? In the last eight elections including those in which the D’s prevailed, the spread was never greater than D+4. The weighting on the D side has increased over the last few months, indicating that the ‘close’ outcome is the preconceived conclusion that the data is ‘fitted’ to support. Sorry, but this election is not even close at this point except in blueville, where dems are starting to question The Won. A blowout doesn’t sell newspapers.
Also a large portion of Obama’s campaign funding went to polling. Ask yourself why throw money away (when it’s HIS money and he’s more careful with it) – the answer is he’s not. If he didn’t sponsor polling that counter polls where he’s behind, he couldn’t claim the ‘statistical tie’ that doesn’t exist.
Indeed, and no Democrats wants Obama anywhere near them, including Scott Walker’s opponent in the recall election.
Obama always seems so surprised when people object whenever he says something insulting or threatening. He honestly believes his words are magic, and people will just swallow them wholesale.
That alone disqualifies him to be any sort of leader, let alone POTUS.
“It’s debatable whether the “that” refers to roads and bridges or to the businesses themselves”. This statement if true only if you don’t understand English grammar. The demonstrative pronoun that would refer to and replace “roads and bridges or to the businesses themselves” would be the plural “those.” It is quite clear, from the context, that the singular demonstrative “that” could only refer back to and replace its singular antecedent noun “business.” So, there is no way to explain what Obama said by claiming it was taken “out of context” or he meant other than he meant. The grammar is quite clear: if you have a business, you didn’t build that (business).
Perfect. Was about to hit that point myself. I don’t even know how someone could contest that with a straight face without conceding that the Prez missed 5th grade (or thereabouts).
Absolutely ‘on the money’ Grammarian. All Barry HUSSEIN Soetero and his apologists can do is either admit that he, ‘the smartest man in the room’, is an English grammar ignoramus or put up their hands and see he condemned out of his own mouth.His continued protests will just make that even more obvious as you have so clearly pointed out.
His and their attempts to use the ‘out of context’ argument just show the contempt they have for the average American voter who they believes are English grammar ignoramuses too.
Finally!! Someone who can explain what the meaning of “is” is!!
I find this whole thing totally amusing.
First of all (having listened to the speech), I’m going to disagree. I think that Obama was clearly referring to his previous statement regarding the roads and bridges. But his desire to appeal to ‘the folks’ (barf), led him to try and use a more colloquial style of speech and careless grammar (‘workin’, ‘that’ instead of ‘those’) . Which tripped him up and led to the misinterpretation of his ‘that’ as referring to businesses, rather than what he meant, which was roads and bridges.
The funny part is that when he tries to redeem himself by loudly protesting that his remarks were twisted and taken out of context, people are reminded to go look at the rest of the speech – that says exactly what he is trying to disavow. Romney (for a change) actually pointed this out quite well in his most recent attack ad.
It’s like someone trying to free themselves from quicksand – the more they struggle, the more the become enmired in it. Except the quicksand in this case is his own words and ideologies. With a little help from Running Mouth (Warren).
Your quicksand analogy is very on point. Let us hope he sinks in it.
Bryan – Had O said, he didn’t mean what he said, or that he said it badly, he might have an excuse. To deny that he said what he said continues to prove the point that for Leftists truth is what they want it to be, not what it empirically is. Hence, my point (and that of others) — that to be a Leftist is to have a form of mental illness.
Obama has the deadest-looking eyes of any politician I’ve ever seen.
Watch the video again, and look at his eyes.
Creepy.
Agreed. But he’s clearly been working on his delivery. Perhaps his BFF George Clooney has been coaching him?
This president is not just anti-business and he’s not just unAmerican. He is stridently AntiAmerican. He is evil. He must be stopped. His evil party must be barred from power for the next 50 years at the voting booth.
AMEN!
Not sure why Obama and his “tough guys” from Chicago are crying their eyes out over this. Aren’t we all supposed to be impressed/intimidated by their hardball tactics? But in the end all they can do is weep bitter tears about what poopy head Mitt Romney is being. lol
Context, the original speech, proves that the president is trying to lie his way out of a hole now.
Doesn’t matter. The Democrat Party propaganda arm, er, I mean MSM, will cover for him.
Obama can’t lie his way out of this one. He clearly said what he clearly said.
Nor does the “taken out of context” lie work. So nobody makes it in life all by his own efforts. Let’s reduce this line to its most basic: We were all born helpless. Mom did everything for us. Without her, we wouldn’t have had a life to begin with. But – this is news? We also speak a language invented by others. We breathe air that we most certainly did not put there.
When something applies to everybody, it’s just silly to point it out as if it’s a major insight. Obama has gone from the grandiose (“the seas stopped rising”) to the inane (“you didn’t do that yourself”) in a mere four years.
Shouldn’t we all help and give back by picking on oMarxo and driving him and his ruthless group of political crooks out of office and power? I’m working overtime and spending my own after tax dollars to slow down this insane drive at government control of our lives. Keep beating on the commie.
Romney needs to cram his words back up his arse. Run that smarmy ad and then follow it with video of him in Roanake, saying exactly what he said. Full context. The context is actually devastating. Then close with, “Who you gonna believe, Obama or your lying eyes? President doesn’t believe in America. I do. I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this message.
In the immortal words of the great W.C. Fields, “Never mind what I said, you do as I tell you.”
I don’t think Barry realizes what a comedic talent he really is.
“We’re all in this together” Yeeaahh right! And because of this you have to sacrifice for others. This Ad is even worse than his parasite speech.
Why does Barry HUSSEIN Soetero LIE so much? Well first and foremost he’s a SOCIALIST and thats what Socialists have to do to justify their nonsense. But whats more he’s a Socialist who spent his formative years in Jakarta being schooled and instructed as a MUSLIM. Now anyone who knows Islam knows that in Islam it is not only acceptable but actually encouraged to protect or advance Islams cause. Given that this narcissist is extremely likely to identify Islams cause with his own it is easy to see how he lies so often and with such conviction.
I just want to know, since they obviously cannot think for themselves, who originally posited the ideas they, (Warren and Obama) have espoused to their chagrin?
I believe the original idiot could bear some scrutiny.
this garbled rhetoric came into being the first time some arrogant human tried, quite self-indulgently, to tinker and twist natural law to fit his own ends
others would say this all came into existence when adam and eve got all uppity
(in other words, as long as there are human beings this fight will linger on until the end of time)
How any American can stomach the class warfare that this President is spewing is beyond my comprehension. A person “gives back” what he took that didn’t belong to him. You don’t give back what you earned.
When Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or any other successful businessperson gives to charity or community development, they age GIVING; they are NOT giving anything back.
Successful companies like M/S or Apple have given fair value to those who bought their products and have made many of those who invested in them wealthy. That wealth belongs to those companies, their founders, employees and owners. They DID build it – not B.H. Obama, not the government and not “someone else.”
You’d be surprised how popular Elizabeth Warren’s speech is among the left-wingers in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
This is precisely the stuff that students who major in liberal arts believe: Capitalism is icky; in a socialist society, their B.A. degree in Collective Basket Weaving will be truly honored more than the achievements of a Thomas Edison or a Steve Jobs.
Richard Nixon: “I am not a crook”
Barrak Obama “I did not say that”
Barrack Obama;
“I am not a liar”.
BWAAAAHAAAAAA!
I’m getting cramps from all the laughter.
Obama will soon be back on the teleprompter, full time. It is scary when he speaks without it because his true beliefs are exposed. Then his storm troopers have to go public, re-form the message,refute it and claim that his honest remarks were ‘taken out of context’ (‘You didn’t build that’). Words are powerful and you can’t take them back. He can’t afford to have his own used against him.
Since Obama never accomplished anything on his own without affirmative action, he assumes others have never accomplished anything either. Hey, Socialism has always worked for Obama. He can’t fathom a life based upon hard work, Besides, the 1st roads and bridges in America were PRIVATE, toll roads and bridges.
Obama, the first Android President. Made in (China?)
Obama’s rampant runaway ignorance trying to cover up previous rampant runaway ignorance.
I love it!
Keep it coming, Dumbo.
Or this:
Obama’s attack ad attacks previous Obama attack ad.
Does no one remember the “Kingfish”?
“Kingfish” as in Mystic Knights of the Sea? As in “Amos and Andy”??
I do…
And it fits, Andy.
He should fire T-POTUS (Teleprompter of the United States).
What’s sad is they are arguing to not take his quote out of context. But when you back up and look at the context of the speech it doesn’t get much better. The whole thing reeks of the statist mindset. That all functions within the society exist because the government ALLOWS them to be. It just shows his disconnect with the American experience that it’s the consent of the governed from which the government derives it’s powers. This guy’s been pissing down our leg for 4 years telling us it’s raining. It’s time to put a diaper on this thin-skinned baby and send him out to pasture. Let him spend his days getting paid to give speeches telling us about how America is just too racist to re-elect the first black president.
“His Roanoke speech wasn’t a call to stand behind businesses, it was a call to guilt successful people so they will “give something back.” It was a call for higher taxes on successful people.”
In short, Obama wants to take money away from people who have it and give it to people who don’t, regardless of why they don’t have it. I call that socialism and it’s about time the rest of the people in the mainstream media do the same. We will have a clear choice in November. Go down the socialist path with people like Obama and Warren, or stick with Romney and capitalism, a form of government that has only made America the greatest nation on the planet. The choice really is up to us. I vote for capitalism. I like being a citizen of the greatest nation on the planet, and not France.
Its more like “take it from those who earned it and give it to those that didn’t”.
Teachers and roads and bridges are there for everyone. Then he needs to explain why is it only some people create successful businesses? And many of them without any extra handouts from the government beyond what everyone already has access to. And why did so many of his crony handouts result in failures?
“I am Barack Obama and I approve the content of this ad. Unless of course it turns out to be embarrassing, and then I didn’t say it, or somebody else made me say it, or it’s taken out of context even if it plainly looks like it is in context and agrees with my totally embarrassingly stupid worldview. In fact assume that anything I say or ever have said comes with an expiration date. For example, remember that transparency thingy I promised? Nah. Out of context, but that change thing, I’ve done that one, and before I am through with it, nobody will even recognize America.”
As of this Friday, Dear Leader will never have made that statement at all. Update all historical texts accordingly.
–Ministry of Truth Directive GHT48893 – a7
No matter how much editing or changes are made, people have already got the message loud and clear what President Obama originally spoke in his campaign meeting. People who create business and run them successfully know pretty well what they are doing. Even in his edited version, Obama talks about construction and education investments. Government is not and should not be an investor and it should be left with those who are capable of doing things well. Bigger government and too much interference are the real faults anf the remedy is in the small government that will hopefully happen after the 6th November election.
Well, I’ll tell y’what, most anyone who was smart enough, strong enough, or in any other way capable of starting up their own business instead of working for someone else, would sure do so, . . .
. . . . his own business
It is a pity that his own words never apply to Baraq himself. He’s allegedly so smart, so hard-working, but so are lots of other people. He didn’t get there on his own, that’s for sure.
The remarkable thing is that there are so many in this country that are willing to sit on their collective butts, and have not, will not contribute time or money, and, in fact suck it up from others as they whine about the “rich” not giving them enough. Obama is a Marxist, and power is the goal. He doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about people, only making as many dependent on the government as possible.
I think part of why we see thrashing about like this in the President’s behavior is that he may be torn by internally-conflicting impulses. I think he sees part of himself as a Fabian, but that part is largely at war with the part that sees himself as a Jacobin on the model of Robespierre.
We don’t see consistency because this conflict has not been resolved yet, and different aspects “leak out” at different times.
The cat is out of the Bag. Obama spoke without thinking, really thinking about what he was saying. He was trying to make a point and with the sharp vocal talents of a Joe Biden, he stuffed his whole foot in his mouth. When Gov. Romney wins the election, this will be the turning point that sends him into the WH. Thanks Obama.
This new ad is almost as insulting as his original speech. Does he think we are all too stupid to understand what he meant in the first place? His remarks were degrading. No one would give a speech like he did making remarks like he did and think it would be received well by the small business community. He got a huge backlash from small business owners and now is attempting to back pedal. I would have had more respect for him if he just stated that his remarks were inappropriate. He has to go. That’s all I can say. I am tired of being insulted.
Our Chameleon Obama and his wife are classic products of Affirmative Action being “played” for all it’s worth. Affirmative Action is a taxpayer funded social scam laid on us White Folks as a guilt trip. We who had nothing to do with Black slavery are designated by the current professional Black Entitlement Industry as those who must continually “pay reparations”…..under a variety of names, and “reparations” taking a variety of forms, indefinitely.
We Conservatives have our work cut out for ourselves after having witnessed the stick-it-to-the-Establishment voting Liberals succeed in permitting shallow Affirmative Action products into “occupying” authoritative offices. Witness the Wages of Political Correctness. The Liberals have been scammed by empty “charisma”. They don’t care. Any Means justifies their Ends. We must not take our hard earned Democracy lightly or flippantly as voters did so very obviously in putting this Obama crowd in offices in Washington D.C.
Additionally our remaining problem is that we Conservatives are outnumbered by these Liberals, so we’ve got the biggest selling job…..compounding that problem right now is that a mixed-race president has been elected…where do we find open-minded voters who will be discerning enough to see that the Blacks are riding on the coat-tails of a mixed-race man who has chosen to be “Black”? This is why I use the word “chameleon” in referring to Obama.
In effect, we Americans have “Hoist Ourselves on our own” multi-culti-politically-correct- “Petard”. Emotions will trump common sense again in November if we Conservatives permit knee-jerk voters to play their Race/Entitlement Card.
You know they’re workin’ on it.
Affirmative Action is the perfect scheme to promote Leftwingers and people beholden to Leftwing Parties for their newfound position of power and wealth, to march through the institutions and bend them to their Leftwing agenda.
You displace Conservatives and the majority culture poopulation, and promote and replace them with hostile minorities supportive of hostile Leftist policies. If the majority were Jews and the minorities were Arab Muslims, you could see it much easier the foolishness of the scheme with regards to Jewish interests and well being.
ObbieKenyobi is toxic to everything he touches – America, the Dimoncratic Party, Catholics, Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, you name it, he’s toxic to it.
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http://youtu.be/ATAF2Ehq_hQ
A little comedy.
I like the line. ” if you’ve been successful somebody along the line…gave you some help”. So no matter if you think you did or not if you are successfull you get help. End of story. This is your president.
Obama has the same Stalinist world view as his mentor FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS — a card carrying Communist and celebrated pedophile. The only question is : was he Obama ‘s mento in Communism or pedophilia — or both?
Anxious to see how Mitt and Ann are treated by the Obamas and the transition team when Mitt is touring his new home. Hope the dishes and silverware are inventoried before January 20th. One term for Obama.
I couldn’t even play the commercial. I can’t stand even looking at guy anymore.
President Obama promised to set aside politics, but he’s proved to be the most partisan president in American history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKc4PIHUCA&feature=player_embedded
There are people out there that would like to see the end of obama, but I would like him to have a long unhappy life watching his socialist dreams destroyed. Keep remembering that Obama was elected by only 30% of registered voters. There was a 58% turnout and of the people who actually voted, 52% voted for Obama. Multiply 0.58 and 0.52 and you get 0.30. Just 30% of registered voters saddled us with Obama. Forget about the polls and just vote.
Okay, sock puppet, I get that you are trying to make conservatives look like racists. Could you limit your cuckoo eggs to one or two per topic, please?
Mr. Obama;
You wouldn’t be where you are today if no one built you a tele-prompter and wrote your speeches.
The day I heard about his “You didn’t build that” speech, I told several people that this could be the turning point of the election. Obviously we still have 100 days to go, but viewed a couple of weeks later, there is a real groundswell of public opinion going against Obama. You can tell the regime is running scared! Romney has to keep up the pressure, and cannot let up!