Unfortunately for President Obama, his "You didn't build that" speech is NOT going away. And the Obama campaign is a little nervous about its staying power.
From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:
"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."
That ad follows two separate ones from his campaign attempting damage control. His campaign appearances are now about backpedaling and proclaiming his love for small business. And the Democratic National Committee produced its own panicked memo, which vowed to "turn the page" on Mr. Romney's "out of context . . . BS"—thereby acknowledging that Chicago has lost control of the message."
Unfortunately for the Prez, we have the video of his speech so we KNOW what he said and we KNOW it was NOT taken out of context. We also have other evidence, from Obama's comments to Joe the Plumber 4 years ago about redistributing wealth, the the Obama campaign's own website, where the animated story of Julia emphasizes the government's role in her success, that supports his "You didn't built that" speech's theme
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"Only 40% of Americans overall view Romney favorably, 49 percent unfavorably - leaving him underwater in 10 straight polls this year. A new high of 30 percent now see him "strongly" unfavorably, nearly double his strongly favorable score"
This: "The poll indicated that 46 percent of registered voters thought Obama was stronger on jobs and the economy, compared with 44 percent for Romney. And on tax matters, 49 percent saw Obama as stronger, compared with 38 percent for Romney."
And this: "Obama's lead over Romney among registered voters was 49 percent to 42 percent, up slightly from the 6-point advantage the president held a month earlier over the former Massachusetts governor."
Uh-oh!! Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter (you remember, the one who called Mitt Romney a "felon")has cancelled her scheduled appearance on ABC's THIS WEEK. Could it be because she got caught in a HUGE lie this week?? She claimed to be unfamiliar with Joe Soptic's story of his wife dying at the hands of Mitt Romney.
Said Cutter on CNN:
I dont know the facts about when Mr. Soptics wife got sick or the facts about his health insurance.
In the audio from a few months ago, Joe Soptic is heard telling Miss Cutter all about his wife's illness. So, she is caught in a lie. No big deal, right. The folks in the Obama campaign lie ALL THE TIME. Big whoop!
Oh, but there is more. If Miss Cutter and the Obama campaign knew about this story, did they then pursue Mr. Soptic to tell his story on the ad? The ad was paid for by an Obama superpac. The folks at the Obama campaign are not allowed to work with people running their superpac. It is against the law. In fact it is a FELONY!!!
“Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope… Yet the question confronting the country nearly four years later is not who was the better candidate four years ago. It is whether the winner has delivered on his promises. And the sad truth is that he has not… …We are becoming the 50–50 nation—half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits.” (Niall Ferguson/Newsweek) CHICAGO, August 21, 2012— Newsweek columnist and Harvard professor, Niall Ferguson wrote a damning editorial about President Obama. It is this week’s cover story. Since its release Monday, the magazine cover created controversy and raised hackles. It generated heated debate and discussion. That is what good journalism is supposed to do.
Says P Krugman: "There are multiple errors and misrepresentations in Niall Ferguson’s cover story in Newsweek — I guess they don’t do fact-checking — but this is the one that jumped out at me. Ferguson says: "The president pledged that health-care reform would not add a cent to the deficit. But the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation now estimate that the insurance-coverage provisions of the ACA will have a net cost of close to $1.2 trillion over the 2012–22 period."
Readers are no doubt meant to interpret this as saying that CBO found that the Act will increase the deficit. But anyone who actually read, or even skimmed, the CBO report (pdf) knows that it found that the ACA would reduce, not increase, the deficit — because the insurance subsidies were fully paid for. "
Are there SERIOUSLY people out there who are stupid enough to BELIEVE that crap?? A HUGE new government entitlement is NOT going to add to the deficit because, like ALL government programs, it is going to be a model of efficiency. RIGHT!!
I love how folks on the left parade out this complete MORON Krugman, who has been proven wrong time after time after time, but because he won a Nobel Prize, that somehow lends him credibility! Watch this clip of him on ABC's THIS WEEK:
Here he proves that he doesn't know the distinction between tax payer's dollars confiscated by the federal government and investors dollars willingly invested in a firm. The man is a complete intellectual lightweight who won a nobel prize for the same reason Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama did; he is shill for the progressive movement. Every ime I see Krugman on TV I wonder how he dressed himself.
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President Obama is 4 for 4; four years of deficits over $1 trillion. Three key messages emerge from the updated budget outlook released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)[1]: 1.For the fourth year in a row, the federal government in 2012 will run a budget deficit exceeding $1 trillion; 2.The nations fiscal and economic challenges going forward remain both daunting and unaddressed, with continued record spending and deficits and high unemployment; and 3.Another recession threatens in 2013 if Congress fails to defuse Taxmageddon and the fiscal cliff.
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The most telling line from that ad? "That's what happened when I was president." That's right, Bill; it happened when YOU were president, but it ain't happenin' now!.
President Barack Obama was today forced to announce he will fly to storm-hit Louisiana on Monday – hours after Mitt Romney beat him to the punch by deciding to head there this afternoon. After it emerged that Obama was still taking time to fit in a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, before checking out how clean-up operations are proceeding in the Bayou state, the Obama campaign abruptly cancelled that event, though he will still hold a rally in Toledo, Ohio before heading south. But the Republican presidential candidate touched down in the Hurricane ravaged state this afternoon - a full three days before Obama - touring the flooded areas around Lafitte and showing his support for local residents.
Mitt Romney told a Louisiana resident, who had lost her home to flooding, "go home and call 211."
Associated Presss: ---------- Romney and Jindal spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states. ----------
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)