Romney's New 'You Didn't Build That' Attack Ad: What Do You Think?

I'll admit, the way Obama made his statement, it was kind of jumbled up, but the message was clear. And the problem is Mitt Romney didn't quote Obama's words verbatim. He left out a significant portion. What Obama said was this “ 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.” In other words, you business man, didn't build the roads, bridges, the public sector did. What Romney did was leave out "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges." and picked up "If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." He did that to deceive you because he knows that you won't listen to an Obama speech and will listen to Fox News and Mitt Romney instead. In case you don't know this, Roosevelt's "New Deal" was the government, often employing WWII veterans built the highway system, dams and power plants like the Tennessee Valley Authority. Prior to the TVA, most of the south had no electricity. In stead of doing your research and finding out what Obama actually said, you're listening to Romney's attack ads. Romney deliberately left out part of Obama's speech and is claiming Obama said something that he didn't say and that is why I say that Mitt Romney is a liar.

As I figured, no response to the report on Romney's financial resources. No facts from you to deny whether or not the article was true. Just a bunch of Liberal blah, blah, blah name calling. Here's one for you about your boy Paul Ryan: Chew and attack this one
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"So the "self-reliance" that Ryan learned as a teenager provides, it would seem, the key to his entire career. But a few paragraphs down, Steinhauer and co. indicate their awareness that this story has a gaping hole in it:

Yet even if he is viewed as politically pure by the modern-day standards of his party’s base, he is not without contradictions.... Even as he delved more deeply into libertarian economic theory in college, his tuition was partially paid by the Social Security benefits he received after his father died.

Whoa--"not without contradictions"? If Ryan's life story is to connect up in any way with his extreme anti-government political philosophy, then "self-reliant" has to mean "as opposed to relying on government."

Yet Ryan, in the wake of his father's death, was crucially aided by government. “It was a tough time for our family, and Social Security was there to help us when we needed the help,” Ryan told AP (1/16/05; cited in New Yorker,8/15/12). "I was a personal beneficiary of the Social Security safety net system." (Presumably Ryan's elderly grandmother was also receiving Medicare benefits.)

It should go without saying that there's nothing wrong with a child whose parent has died taking survivor's benefits--that's what they're for! But it's hard to frame receiving such benefits as the core element of a story whose moral is that people should be independent of the government.

Nor does the rest of Ryan's story do much to bolster a "self-reliant" narrative. He used those Social Security benefits to learn about libertarian economics at publicly financed Miami University, (FYI Miami University (informally known as Miami, Miami U, Miami of Ohio, and MU) is a coeducational PUBLIC research university) and after college got a job on the PUBLIC payroll as a Capitol Hill staffer (American Prospect, 8/14/12). His ONLY ADULT JOB in the for-profit private sector, in fact, was a year spent working as a marketing consultant at his extended family's construction business--which is also hard to frame as a sign of "self-reliance." (As Salon noted--8/14/12--THE RYAN FAMILY BUSINESS HAS RELIED HEAVILY ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS OVER THE YEARS.)

Yet "self-reliance" as the key to Ryan's character is the story corporate media were fed, and by and large they swallowed it. Maybe they could do with a little less reliance on campaign spin."

I guess you and Paul have something in common. You two are good at blabbering.