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Obama: "When I Try Something That Doesn't Work, Then I Don't Try It Again"
RCP Video ^ | Barack Obama

Posted on 07/16/2012 2:19:06 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

(video transcript)

"I don't know about you, but in my life what I found -- you know, sometimes I do boneheaded things. I've made mistakes. What I find is when I try something that doesn't work, then I don't try it again," President Obama said at a campaign event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"We don't go back to doing something that didn't work," Obama also said.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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more delusion
1 posted on 07/16/2012 2:19:07 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Like being president?


2 posted on 07/16/2012 2:20:26 PM PDT by exnavy (The time is upon us, fish or cut bait, may God guide your heart.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

So does this mean he’s dropping out of running for re-election..because his 4 years of being President has been an EPIC FAILURE..but hey Obama not all is lost, run for President in Venezuela, you would win in a landslide


3 posted on 07/16/2012 2:21:24 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sir Napsalot

“”I don’t know about you, but in my life what I found — you know, sometimes I do boneheaded things. I’ve made mistakes. What I find is when I try something that doesn’t work, then I don’t try it again,” President Obama said at a campaign event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Good thing Edison didn’t subscribe to that theory...


4 posted on 07/16/2012 2:21:24 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution's Murderers' Row." - Jeffrey Lord, Reagan Admin.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Obama: "When I Try Something That Doesn't Work, Then I Don't Try It Again"

So obviously, he's found that declaring success in the face of failure...

...works.

That's why he's doing it here.

5 posted on 07/16/2012 2:23:22 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Programmed self-instruction for the commander of the military and leader of the free world.


6 posted on 07/16/2012 2:24:08 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Sir Napsalot

Another Lie.....


7 posted on 07/16/2012 2:24:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I wonder if there is on record any single complete sentence out this jerkball’s mouth that isn’t a flat out lie.


8 posted on 07/16/2012 2:24:16 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
What I find is when I try something that doesn't work, then I don't try it again.

Well how about you study just a little bit of history pertinent to your job, and look at what others have tried that didn't work time and time again and then not try that one again?

What was that definition of "insanity"?

9 posted on 07/16/2012 2:24:22 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: Sir Napsalot

Delusion indeed. Has there ever been any idea more fraught with epic failure than Marxist? Yet they keep going back to it as the only ‘solution’


10 posted on 07/16/2012 2:24:51 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: Sir Napsalot

He must have attempted the same thing more than once after having failed the first time. BHO YouLie!


11 posted on 07/16/2012 2:28:50 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

THEN WHY IS HE RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION?????........


12 posted on 07/16/2012 2:29:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“So does this mean he’s dropping out of running for re-election..because his 4 years of being President has been an EPIC FAILURE..but hey Obama not all is lost, run for President in Venezuela, you would win in a landslide”

His failure wasn’t the result of a mistake...


13 posted on 07/16/2012 2:30:18 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: jessduntno
Good thing Edison didn’t subscribe to that theory...

Well, Edison is different. He had tremendous faith in the brilliant genius of Tesla. So he knew that if he just kept at it, he could find a way to make the ideas he stole from Tesla into workable inventions.

That's why he famously said that "genius is 1% inspiration, 99% persperation." Stealing the ideas - that was easy. Making them work, now, that was hard.

Well, hard for his workers. Why, he had to keep them up all night, night after night! Do you have any idea what that did to Edison's digestion?

Telsa had it easy - he could run endurance tests by calculating the mathematics of wear and tear in his mind by imagining virtual scenarios of operating equipment. Where's the work in that? Bunch of navel gazing. But Edison had to pay salaries!

Of course, he paid with the money that would have gone to Tesla, but if you're so stupid as to not make friends with JP Morgan before you go off inventing things, well, it's your own damn fault, right?

14 posted on 07/16/2012 2:30:42 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Well, this explains why his daughters don’t look like him.


15 posted on 07/16/2012 2:31:06 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

What a meaningless statement. Nothing he has tried has worked...and he’s still doing the same thing....trying to get more money out of the guys who make jobs and chomping at the bit to get the rest of us through the Obama IRS thugs.


16 posted on 07/16/2012 2:31:35 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sir Napsalot

The man is making me ILL!


17 posted on 07/16/2012 2:31:35 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Sir Napsalot

Socialism has never worked, and yet he keeps trying


18 posted on 07/16/2012 2:32:05 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"If at first you don't succeed ... QUIT"

- Bonehead 0bama

19 posted on 07/16/2012 2:32:40 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ari-freedom
Unfortunately, his 4 years of being President has been a resounding success at dismantling the only Christian nation on Earth.
20 posted on 07/16/2012 2:32:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: exnavy
The Romney campaign could make a terrific 15-second ad with that quote. So very simple -- and simple concepts can be memorable. Just like a 15-second joke is more often repeated than a 60-second one.

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[Video of Obama speaking these words:]"I've made mistakes. What I find is when I try something that doesn't work, then I don't try it again."

[Dissolve to Romney for President logo, with voiceover:] "The American voters agree, Mr. President."

21 posted on 07/16/2012 2:34:03 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina ("Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -- Aesop)
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To: All

22 posted on 07/16/2012 2:35:19 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Geez! Post a warning on these threads!

If I had been drinking hot coffee I WOULD HAVE SPEWED IT OUT OF MY NOSE!


23 posted on 07/16/2012 2:35:50 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Then why are you trying Marxism, numb-nuts?


24 posted on 07/16/2012 2:36:20 PM PDT by RatRipper (Obama, YOU LIE!!! . . .again and again and again and again, ad infinitum. . . .)
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To: Sacajaweau

It’s just that, most of us define ‘failure’ differently.....


25 posted on 07/16/2012 2:46:19 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“I WON.”


26 posted on 07/16/2012 2:48:20 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: driftdiver

“...never worked, and yet he keeps trying.”

A definition of insanity, IINM.


27 posted on 07/16/2012 2:49:21 PM PDT by carriage_hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Where is the list of “Green” Obamah “Investments” that are now bankrupt?
28 posted on 07/16/2012 2:51:08 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Sir Napsalot

Then quit trying to be president.


29 posted on 07/16/2012 2:52:27 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"When I Try Something That Doesn't Work, Then I Don't Try It Again"

like working for a living instead of having 6 social security cards so you could mooch off tax payers

30 posted on 07/16/2012 2:53:29 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sir Napsalot

So why is he running for a second term?


31 posted on 07/16/2012 2:59:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

So, why is he trying for POTUS again?


32 posted on 07/16/2012 3:11:18 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Sir Napsalot

“When I Try Something That Doesn’t Work, Then I Don’t Try It Again”

So..just don’t run for a second term, and that should take care of it.


33 posted on 07/16/2012 3:20:35 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher

Michael Medved said this today, that this very argument is an example of what he is ridiculing. He used this very same pitch in the mid term elections in 2010, and it didn’t work.

so here here is again spouting the same lines, trying it again...I doubt it works again..


34 posted on 07/16/2012 3:26:46 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: All
Please, this is in conjunction with the following thread.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2907192/posts

Obama thinks his “Top Achievement Was Stabilizing the Economy”

35 posted on 07/16/2012 3:29:41 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Liar! You are still trying to think aren't you?
36 posted on 07/16/2012 3:33:37 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Obamacare like all Marxist fails, outlaws redress before increasing it's demand.")
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To: hosepipe
Another Lie.....

Lying works for him. Especially since the media covers for him.

37 posted on 07/16/2012 3:34:31 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

If at first you don’t succeed - give up....please Mr. President. Nothing you have tried has had any success. So please stop.


38 posted on 07/16/2012 3:35:09 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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39 posted on 07/16/2012 3:35:55 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sir Napsalot; All
Obama: "When I Try Something That Doesn't Work,
Then I Don't Try It Again"

40 posted on 07/16/2012 3:40:34 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sir Napsalot

He is so lame. In other words, believe what he says and ignore what he actually does.


41 posted on 07/16/2012 4:00:28 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (It's not a penalty - it's obamaTAX. Make him own it.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Communism doesn’t work, yet, Obama keeps trying that. He is insane: Trying the same tired old Communism over and over again and expecting different results.


42 posted on 07/16/2012 4:05:46 PM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Hey Bozo, you mean like the stimulus???


43 posted on 07/16/2012 4:18:16 PM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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