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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121068)	9/18/2012 2:02:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Poor choice of words? He used 2 paragraphs to develop a thought, as did Obama (3). I'm part of the 47%, BTW Try this punctuation... = "Somebody invested in roads and bridges; if you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that." "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. "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. "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. == "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... "He starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. So he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean, that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121068)	9/18/2012 3:01:29 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

But if you want to continue to play word games...... I don't play with words. I gave you a video of what he said because you added the extra phrase about Government. (* "You didn't build that, the government did." - Obama siliconinvestor.com So I wondered where you got that lie. So it not playing with words. It is about the actual words that were uttered. And you talk about poor choice of words by Romney! It is not. It is the attitude he has and has inculcated that in his family. That explains why Ann Romney used the phrase "you people", a us vs them attitude. It is attitude not words.