It was NOT taken out of context. He said it, he meant it.
“It was NOT taken out of context. He said it, he meant it.”
Only those who are not intelligent enough to understand the heavily-nuanced speech of brilliant, intellectual, Progressive geniuses will say what he said was what he meant when what he really said, even though he said what he said, did not really mean what he said because he was speaking in heavily-nuanced, brilliant, intelligent, intellectual-genius Progressive speech, which people like you will never understand. See? Ya know?
/SARC/
The broader context is his view of America. He does, after all, want to transform the nation, right? The context is not just this one single group of 4 words, but his belief that America is unfair, American capitalism is evil, American businessmen are the ones to blame for the social injustice, and that Government-based solutions (restrictions, regulations, taxes) to economic issues are the change we need.
I like what one caller to Rush’s show pointed out yesterday. He noted that as Obama attempts to walk back his “you didn’t build this” comment, he has to continually extol the virtues of America’s capitalist system. Well, if it is so wonderful, then why does it need fixing? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Mr. President?