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Four Little Words (Why the Obama campaign is suddenly so worried)
WSJ ^

Posted on 07/27/2012 5:17:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws

What's the difference between a calm and cool Barack Obama, and a rattled and worried Barack Obama? Four words, it turns out.

"You didn't build that" is swelling to such heights that it has the president somewhere unprecedented: on defense. Mr. Obama has felt compelled—for the first time in this campaign—to cut an ad in which he directly responds to the criticisms of his now-infamous speech, complaining his opponents took his words "out of context."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bho2012; bhoeconomy; bhofascism; democrats; elections; obama; obamatruthfile; smallbusiness; worrieddems; ydbt; youdidntbuildthat
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Great analysis.
1 posted on 07/27/2012 5:17:34 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
USA, Obama you did not build that.
2 posted on 07/27/2012 5:19:51 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: TigerClaws

It was NOT taken out of context. He said it, he meant it.


3 posted on 07/27/2012 5:22:29 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: mountainlion

Fast and Furious...Obama built that.
Solyndra...Obama built that.
Obamacare...Obama built that.
Etc.


4 posted on 07/27/2012 5:23:02 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: TigerClaws

Love it !

From the man who has constructed nothing but lies, finally the nation drew the line somewhere. I was wondering if it ever was going to happen.

Shove it down their collective throats


5 posted on 07/27/2012 5:23:55 AM PDT by reefdiver (Shoeless John Roberts, An American Tragedy.)
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To: TigerClaws

Even some liberals built their own businesses and don’t agree with the kenyan on this. The only morons this appeals to is the food stamp zombies and unions.


6 posted on 07/27/2012 5:24:17 AM PDT by albie
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To: TigerClaws

What it is even worse is the rebuttal ad that makes 0bama to appear to have lazy eye.


7 posted on 07/27/2012 5:26:06 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: TigerClaws

You didn’t say: “You didn’t build that, alone.” You said: “You didn’t build that.” Live with it, Bamster.


8 posted on 07/27/2012 5:26:45 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: mountainlion
Another element here is completely overlooked by the radio talk guys..Liberals in general and Obama in particular pander to their audience of the moment. If he were talking to union folks, his topic would be Scott Walker. If he were addressing a gay/lesbian group, the enemy-of-the-hour would be the fundamental Christians. This speech was given to a group of parasites living off the public teat. Hence the class-warfare stuff.
9 posted on 07/27/2012 5:28:11 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: TigerClaws

Obama doesn’t just have to reveal himself.

He has to reveal himself so starkly that the media can’t effectively cover for him.

That appears to be the case here. I certainly HOPE that this window into Obama’s true beliefs results in CHANGE.


10 posted on 07/27/2012 5:30:59 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: TigerClaws
If you didn't build that, he won't come


11 posted on 07/27/2012 5:31:46 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion, cigars and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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Here's the context, folks (emphasis mine): "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.

"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 point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together."

12 posted on 07/27/2012 5:32:20 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: TigerClaws
Alternate Title:

“Obama Shocked Americans Actually Understand the English Language.”

13 posted on 07/27/2012 5:32:29 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: TigerClaws
YDBT

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14 posted on 07/27/2012 5:32:37 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: TigerClaws

The neat thing about this is he can’t blame Joe Biden for it.


15 posted on 07/27/2012 5:39:01 AM PDT by kempster
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To: Izzy Dunne

Thanks! Will use that copy of the speech to prove the context makes it even worse!


16 posted on 07/27/2012 5:39:25 AM PDT by Moonmad27 ("I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit)
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To: yldstrk

“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/


17 posted on 07/27/2012 5:39:43 AM PDT by ripley
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To: TigerClaws

Pay no attention to that communist behind the curtain!

18 posted on 07/27/2012 5:40:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I love his roads and bridges line. Yeah — sombody did invest in that — the US Taxpayers. The government only exists because of the US Taxpayers.


19 posted on 07/27/2012 5:43:12 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: TigerClaws

Don’t forget the 2008 classic: “I believe in spreading the wealth”


20 posted on 07/27/2012 5:43:56 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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