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Obama: Romney "twisting my words" over small business remark
Reuters ^ | July 24, 2012 | Alister Bull

Posted on 07/24/2012 6:33:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday of misrepresenting a comment he made about small business owners that the former Massachusetts governor's campaign has pounced upon as a sign the Democratic incumbent is anti-business.

Romney's campaign seized on Obama's comment that "if you own a business, you didn't build that," to portray the president as unsympathetic to small businesses that help boost the U.S. economy.

Obama's point was that successful business owners have had the public's help at some point in their lives through public education, roads or other government-funded projects that created an environment for businesses to bloom.

"It wasn't a gaffe," Romney said at a trucking company just outside of Boston last week. "It was instead his ideology."

On Tuesday Obama's campaign released an ad rejecting Romney's interpretation of the remarks, and at a campaign event in Oregon, the president addressed the issue directly.

"He's been twisting my words around to suggest that I don't value small business," Obama said of his Republican opponent.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; romney; smallbusiness
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To: DoughtyOne
Adios Heffe...

Correction: Make that, "Hasta la vista Heffe..."

21 posted on 07/24/2012 6:58:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: JohnD9207

WAAA, my pussy hurts.


22 posted on 07/24/2012 6:59:40 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama vs Obama hehe


23 posted on 07/24/2012 7:00:38 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FBHO


24 posted on 07/24/2012 7:00:57 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m really getting to enjoy Romney and the “context is worse than the quote” is so refreshing, and amusing and true.


25 posted on 07/24/2012 7:01:14 PM PDT by Kanzan
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To: gov_bean_ counter


26 posted on 07/24/2012 7:04:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This was arguably the stupidest statement ever uttered by a North American politician since the Spanish discovered America. Nobody needs to twist this one.


27 posted on 07/24/2012 7:06:08 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama has no idea what he read. He’s on drugs all the time.


28 posted on 07/24/2012 7:08:20 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama is stunned that someone is turning his own words back on him.

How can that happen to Chris Mattews’ “Perfect American”?

To the smartest man to ever occupy the presidency?

To the “Golden Orator”?

It’s dirty politics, that’s what it is!


29 posted on 07/24/2012 7:15:18 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: JohnD9207
Two degenerate con men liars, cowards, and thieves are fighting it out over who gets to control and redistribute the cash extorted by the IRS from us suckers who pay taxes.

Color me non excited.

30 posted on 07/24/2012 7:16:03 PM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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To: DoughtyOne
I hope that’s a model for his Presidential painting. It’s the hallmark of his presidency.
1. It wasn’t my fault
2. It was his fault


31 posted on 07/24/2012 7:31:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It's obama's specialty:

straw man
n.
1. A person who is set up as a cover or front for a questionable enterprise.
2. An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
3. A bundle of straw made into the likeness of a man and often used as a scarecrow.

32 posted on 07/24/2012 7:33:41 PM PDT by hemogoblin
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To: Iron Munro

I believe the Baraq Hussein Obama Presidential Library and Choom Gang Museum will have three branches:

Hawaii, California, and Chicago.


33 posted on 07/24/2012 7:36:04 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: hemogoblin


34 posted on 07/24/2012 7:38:47 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Psst...O, Read my tagline! The government didn’t do it, my CUSTOMERS did. I’m succesful because of them - not the government.


35 posted on 07/24/2012 8:03:23 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY


36 posted on 07/24/2012 8:10:31 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: nascarnation
I believe the Baraq Hussein Obama Presidential Library and Choom Gang Museum will have three branches: Hawaii, California, and Chicago.

The windows in the smoking rooms will be locked closed.


37 posted on 07/24/2012 8:14:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That bell isn’t going to get unrung no matter how
hard his handlers try to walk it back....


38 posted on 07/24/2012 8:27:02 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: nascarnation

There was reference to the choom gang on another thread a few days back. Who or what is the choom gang?


39 posted on 07/24/2012 8:36:18 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
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To: Conservative4Ever
google it...
40 posted on 07/24/2012 8:41:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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