Your President Thinks You’re an Idiot
Sometimes it’s simply obvious. I mean slap-in-the-face, palm-to-the-forehead simple as that. Try to follow this without retching:
The Obama campaign has now put out an ad:
It accuses Mitt Romney of “saying anything to get elected” by, well…quoting the president’s own words.
The ad shows the governor reading from a piece of paper the infamous “you didn’t build that” line from last week, followed by a slide that says (get this): “The only problem? That’s not what he said.”
Um… but that is precisely what he said.
Here’s the point in a post like this that I’d usually link to and/or imbed a video of the president actually saying that. Only I don’t have to, because if you keep watching the president’s own ad, at forty seconds in, you see…the president saying that.
Does your leader, the Commander in Chief, the most powerful man in the world think that you, the average voter is not only so stupid that you don’t see though his pitiful attempt to distract you that he put his own quote in the ad? You know, the one that Mitt Romney apparently made up or something?
Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts…”outsourcing”…vulture capital…1%er…call Mitt Romney anything you want, but at least he respects you, the American voter enough not to think you’re so stupid that you wouldn’t notice in his own ad that he is lying…
ht, TWS
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HHQ)
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Well, I think it’s all good, because I think the President is a liar
So whatever he says, I can be pretty sure that if it’s true, it’s not the whole truth.
Comment by Hi — July 19, 2012 @ 5:58 pm - July 19, 2012
Well, to be fair he’s 52% correct.
Comment by bastiches — July 19, 2012 @ 6:14 pm - July 19, 2012
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Pingback by GayPatriot » If Obama didn’t mean to say that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, why doesn’t he retract* the remark — July 19, 2012 @ 6:18 pm - July 19, 2012
How dare Romney misaccurately quote the President’s words verbatim!
Comment by BigJ — July 19, 2012 @ 6:34 pm - July 19, 2012
Team Obama must’ve been smoking too much weed when they put this one together…or they’re just naturally insane.
Comment by Az Mo in NYC — July 19, 2012 @ 7:23 pm - July 19, 2012
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. When the Party reduced the chocolate ration, it increased the chocolate ration.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 19, 2012 @ 10:22 pm - July 19, 2012
No, Romney is not quoting the words verbatim. Check the clip.
Comment by homer — July 19, 2012 @ 10:34 pm - July 19, 2012
You are correct, homer. Romney said this:
Obama said this:
Real big distinction, there.
Comment by Rattlesnake — July 20, 2012 @ 12:15 am - July 20, 2012
Actually, for those of who of you who are parsing Obama’s words so finely, it’s a huge distinction. Romney is doing what ILC did in the previous thread, when ILC claimed he said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” ILC chose the punctuation to look like it’s one complete sentence, with the first half completing the second.
But that doesn’t work with what Obama actually said. Listening to the clip, and reading the actual transcript, ILC and Romney’s interpretation doesn’t fly. Obama started saying one thing and then changed. It’s not intellectually honest (to use ILC’s term) to pretend it’s one continuous flow.
This detailed parsing all ridiculous, of course, along with the notion that “that” can never refer to a set of things. But if you insist on parsing the words, then at least get the words right.
Comment by homer — July 20, 2012 @ 12:53 am - July 20, 2012
Actually, homer, you lie; ILC quoted Obama’s statement both before AND after the specific sentence.
Since you misquoted ILC deliberately in order to protect Obama, you have no credibility whatsoever in trying to parse Obama’s words. You have proven that you operate with ideological blinders, and thus are not a reliable source for any type of Obama analysis.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — July 20, 2012 @ 1:37 am - July 20, 2012
I don’t think one can conclude with absolute certainty what Obama meant to say, but you can use available evidence to try to determine what he probably meant to say. It seems to me that the more likely meaning was the following: that small businesses rely on the government to be successful (which is true, but other factors are far more important), but the extent to which they rely on the government is greater than what is normally understood.
And my point was that Romney did quote Obama verbatim aside from the space filler (i.e. the first “that”) which Romney obviously didn’t feel the need to repeat.
Comment by Rattlesnake — July 20, 2012 @ 1:45 am - July 20, 2012
Rattlesnake: good point about the removal of one word–”that”. Seeing both quotes on top of one another in #8 above, it really didn’t change the context of Obama’s speech. And if anything, it was very generous of Romney’s team to clean up the quote to seem more clear and concise (and accurate).
After four years, I’ve noticed that Barack-The-Greatest-Orator-Of-Ever-Obama is an extremely sloppy speaker. He has very annoying and lazy speech patterns that show disorganized and undisciplined thought…”uh uh uh” as well as broken sentences, and fragments in place of full sentences.
Comment by AF_Vet — July 20, 2012 @ 7:01 am - July 20, 2012
AF Vet,
It’s been noted by Glenn Beck and others that he has a clear stutter and other quirks when he goes off script.
Comment by The_Livewire — July 20, 2012 @ 7:53 am - July 20, 2012
LOL.
Obama has been surrounded his entire life by the equivalents of homer, Cinesnatch, and Pomposity who will do anything, repeat ANYTHING, he says.
So yes, he does think we’re stupid. Mainly because he’s never dealt with anything other than stupid people.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — July 20, 2012 @ 11:03 am - July 20, 2012
OF COURSE Obama considers America to be populated by idiots. THey elected HIM, after all… and some still support him, after all he’s done to the country.
Comment by DaveP. — July 20, 2012 @ 2:10 pm - July 20, 2012
[...] doing it with an ad that attacks Mitt Romney for quoting him accurately. Not only that, but as my pal Gay Patriot remarked, the ad actually includes Obama’s quote itself! Just [...]
Pingback by Hilarious! Obama Attacks Romney For Quoting Him | Sago — July 20, 2012 @ 3:13 pm - July 20, 2012
Thanks guys. You are correct, homer knowingly misrepresented what I did in the other thread. In other words, home lied about me. I want my irony meter back, I think it just broke.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 20, 2012 @ 3:29 pm - July 20, 2012
ILC, I don’t see the misrepresentation. Can you explain?
Comment by homer — July 20, 2012 @ 3:56 pm - July 20, 2012
Actually, don’t bother. The following are simple facts:
FACT: ILC claimed Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”
FACT: ILC chose the punctuation to look like it’s one complete sentence, with the first half completing the second.
FACT: ILC got the Obama’s words wrong.
Those are facts. I have not misrepresented or misquoted ILC in any way. The fact that ILC’s is now dishonestly calling me a liar does indeed break the irony meter.
Comment by homer — July 20, 2012 @ 4:02 pm - July 20, 2012
FACT: Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”
FACT: I didn’t choose the punctuation. I did copy from others who listened to Obama’s speech, and I myself listened to the clip, to make sure it was the correct way to transcribe it. It was.
FACT: I did not get “the Obama’s” [sic] words wrong.
FACT: I provided EXTENSIVE CONTEXT for Obama’s remarks, to make sure it was not being interpreted out of context.
FACT: You have tried to give people the opposite impression.
FACT: Obama’s defenders had claimed specifically – their claim, not my convention – that his singular “that” must refer to the plural “roads and bridges” – and I explained why that doesn’t fly, including drawing upon Obama’s other sentences for the fullest possible context and insight.
You’ve shown, homer, that you are a liar. You can go f*ck yourself now.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 20, 2012 @ 4:21 pm - July 20, 2012
Sorry typo, “not my -in-vention”
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 20, 2012 @ 4:22 pm - July 20, 2012
ILC, Obama didn’t indicate the punctuation as he spoke, so whether you invented it yourself or chose someone else’s interpretation, you still chose it.
It was not the right way to transcribe it, because you didn’t get the words right. You left one out. The word you left out made your choice of punctuation impossible.
You did provide context. I have not claimed otherwise in any way. The fact that you provided context does not contradict a single thing in what I wrote.
You’ve decided I’m a liar but you cannot point to a lie. Again, the fact that you’re dishonestly accusing me of lying does break the irony meter.
Comment by homer — July 20, 2012 @ 4:30 pm - July 20, 2012
Jman >> If we’re dogsh!t on your shoe, why are you licking it instead of using water to rinse it off? Explain that one.
Comment by Cinesnatch — July 20, 2012 @ 4:44 pm - July 20, 2012
Here is the official White House transcript of what Obama said: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia
At the present time (I wouldn’t put it past them, to whitewash things in the future – Soviet style), it still says this:
Note that the dashed (–) construct can often be (and here, it is) functionally/symantically a comma. (People, including myself, often mis-use ellipses the same way… like that.)
Note that the White House transcript does not differ in any significant way from the transcripts I quoted from extensively.
Thank you, jman. I know. I do it partly for the benefit of other readers, and partly from my sense of justice. My sense of justice is also what tells me when to stop: for example, when someone misrepresents me rather than having a substantive answer to my points.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 20, 2012 @ 4:50 pm - July 20, 2012
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Comment by jman1961 — July 20, 2012 @ 4:59 pm - July 20, 2012
“For the last few weeks, you’re syntax and grammar (although not you’re maturity nor your reasoning) have improved by orders of magnitude.”
That damn irony meter is still broken!
Comment by homer — July 20, 2012 @ 5:02 pm - July 20, 2012
Too bad your fingers aren’t in the same condition, then we’d not have to suffer your convoluted offerings.
Comment by jman1961 — July 20, 2012 @ 5:06 pm - July 20, 2012
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Comment by Cinesnatch — July 20, 2012 @ 5:38 pm - July 20, 2012
Today was a bad day to test my patience in your comments personally insulting each other.
Enough.
Comment by GayPatriot — July 20, 2012 @ 6:10 pm - July 20, 2012
Typo at #24, I misspelled “semantically” and regret the error.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 20, 2012 @ 6:23 pm - July 20, 2012