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 administrations 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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So he steals lines, but is he punching above his weight?
Then who paid for Columbia & Harvard, Obama?
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.
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