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Obama: 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth' (Obama steals lines like he steals our money)
msnbc ^ | 4/18/2012 | Ali Weinberg and Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 04/18/2012 3:04:40 PM PDT by tobyhill

President Obama said he related to middle class Americans “looking for a chance,” as he highlighted his administration’s efforts to retrain unemployed workers for new jobs.

"I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn't, either," the president said to a crowd of 400 students at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. “But somebody gave us a chance. Just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.”

The Obama campaign has pushed wealth and economic fairness arguments against Mitt Romney, who would be one of the wealthiest presidents in history -- and that quote was quickly seen as a veiled reference to his GOP opponent this fall.

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To: tobyhill

So he steals lines, but is he punching above his weight?


41 posted on 04/18/2012 7:23:43 PM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: tobyhill

Then who paid for Columbia & Harvard, Obama?


42 posted on 04/18/2012 10:09:39 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Reagan69
He was born with the government’s spoon teat in his mouth.
43 posted on 04/19/2012 12:41:34 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: tobyhill
[. . .Mitt Romney, who would be one of the wealthiest presidents in history. . .]

A poor President like Bill Clinton is forced to sell classified military technology to foreign powers just to build a modest retirement nest egg in secret offshore banks.

44 posted on 04/19/2012 1:19:30 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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