Thursday, July 26, 2012

Obama Throws Himself and Liz Warren Under the Bus

The Obama campaign has gone to DEFCON 1 over the national reaction to the president’s “You didn’t build that!” speech in Roanoke. Last week the campaign trotted out a video ad that deceptively edited Obama’s own speech to attempt to refute an effective Romney ad. Today, in a visual cue that its previous attempt failed, the campaign has rolled out a second ad that features the president himself reading to the camera.
He had time to sit for this shoot, but not to meet with his jobs council. Just sayin’. We all know he’s got a lot on his plate.
Stop the tape. Here is what President Obama said.
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. (Applause.)
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.

Read more: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/24/obama-throws-himself-and-liz-warren-under-the-bus/

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