GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history
Remember when Mitt Romney told America that he just didn’t give a rip about poor people?
He did, you know. He said it word for word, on Feb. 1, 2012, and I quote:
“I’m not concerned about the very poor.”
Of course, that’s not what Romney meant, and everyone knew that’s not what he meant. Taken in context, he meant that the safety net for the very poor remains intact, and that the real challenges lay in solving the problems of the middle class. So after a brief kerfuffle in which a few people tried irresponsibly to make his statement into something it clearly wasn’t, everybody moved on.
Contrast that to what the Republicans are doing with Obama’s “You didn’t build that” statement. Like Romney, he said it word for word: “You didn’t build that.” And just like Romney, that is not what he meant and everyone knows that’s not what he meant.
Taken in context, he meant that no person or business succeeds alone. For those who care about such things, here are his actual remarks:
“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.”
In my mind, it says a lot that the Republicans are building their 2012 convention message, and much of their 2012 campaign, around what they know in their hearts to be a blatant lie. That lie is repeated and repeated and repeated, and it gets no more truthful with each iteration. In fact, as demonstrated by an RNC video shown at the convention last night, it gets worse.
Note that the audio has been edited to remove the entire runup to the magic four words — the part in bold above — leaving behind no audible trace that Obama ever uttered it. The words simply vanish, and history is altered. As George Orwell wrote in 1984:
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
It is distressing to see so many Americans gleefully embrace and rally around what they know in their hearts to be a doctored version of history. And it gives an ironic twist to the fine words of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie last night in his speech to the GOP convention, in which he stressed the importance of telling the truth to the American people:
“We’ve never been a country to shy away from the truth,” he said. “History shows that we stand up when it counts and it’s this quality that has defined our character and our significance in the world.”
“Standing up when it counts” does not mean basing much of a campaign on an obvious, shameless lie. Not in New Jersey, and not anywhere else in this great country.
Except perhaps in Tampa.
– Jay Bookman
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Ewrin's cat
August 29th, 2012
10:42 am
TP enough with your trademark straw man response…I said mission work, and you as expected respond with something else
Again, as for GCC, I gave you the microphone, the stage and the spotlight to articulate your position in 3 sentences and you blew it
If you can stay on point, I’ll be happy to debate, but I refuse to be distracted with your rabbit holes
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
August 29th, 2012
10:43 am
Really? You people are arguing who invented “asshat”? Like it’s something to be proud of.
I invented asshat! ~ Al Gore
Joe Hussein Mama
August 29th, 2012
10:43 am
Do any of our conservative posters not see the hypocrisy in having someone like Sher Valenzuela speaking at the RNC convention?
Or do they somehow not see government loans and contracts as being ‘help?’ I can’t for the life of me see how that rationalize that sort of arrangement.
TaxPayer
August 29th, 2012
10:43 am
Marc Wolpow, a former Bain colleague of Romney’s, told reporters during Mitt’s first Senate run that Romney erred in trying to sell his business as good for everyone. “I believed he was making a mistake by framing himself as a job creator,” said Wolpow. “That was not his or Bain’s or the industry’s primary objective. The objective of the LBO business is maximizing returns for investors.” When it comes to private equity, American workers – not to mention their families and communities – simply don’t enter into the equation.
Valerie Jansen
August 29th, 2012
10:44 am
Thank the Lord someone has finally gotten down to the truth. I haven’t had a TV for 12 years and of the few commercials and speeches that I have heard from the Republican party I can clearly see their misleading statements and quotes about our president. The House of Representatives have acted like adolescent boys since our President took office. Shame on them for the lies and lack of ability to work as a team for the American People. Thank you for your article. Valerie
Joe Hussein Mama
August 29th, 2012
10:44 am
Correction to above — ” . . . how THEY rationalize that sort of arrangement”
the cat
August 29th, 2012
10:45 am
Steve-USA “None of the Above”
August 29th, 2012
10:43 am
Really? You people are arguing who invented “asshat”? Like it’s something to be proud of.
I invented asshat! ~ Al Gore
Just a fun distraction, calm down.
Soothsayer
August 29th, 2012
10:45 am
jwc: that was great! Did you get that from a website? If so, would you please share it with us?
Live from the RNC in Tampa. Where is George W. Bush?
August 29th, 2012
10:46 am
The U.S. government’s drive to rebuild Iraq “put billions of American taxpayer dollars at risk of fraud, waste and abuse,” and the amount misspent will never be known, according to the final report by a U.S. watchdog agency.
The report by Special Inspector for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen, released today, questioned almost $636 million in costs through June. Auditors found such lapses as “inadequate reviews of contractors’ invoices,” a lack of sufficient oversight staff and poor recordkeeping, according to the report.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-13/iraq-rebuilding-risked-billions-in-funds-auditor-finds.html
Thulsa Doom
August 29th, 2012
10:46 am
“Pick a cat fight over the definition of is with JHM, he enjoys that silly crap.”
Dang Fred. You’re good. You killed 2 birds with 1 stone on that one.
Brosephus™
August 29th, 2012
10:46 am
Well I’ll be… Glenn Kessler didn’t really take to Ann Romney’s speech last night…
In the theme of “You didn’t build that”…
Can an entire convention be built around a grammatical error?
We wondered about that as we watched the first night of Republican Convention. From House Speaker John Boehner to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to Ann Romney, speaker after speaker made reference to Obama’s statement that “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
When Ann Romney declared that her husband “was not handed success — he built it,” the delegates even began chanting “We built it” — which in fact was the official theme for the convention on Tuesday. As our former colleague Peter Baker tweeted, “If Obama had a nickel for every time a Republican quoted his “didn’t build it” line, that would take care of the whole national debt problem.”…
However, in light of the GOP’s repeated misuse of this Obama quote in speech after speech, we feel compelled to increase the Pinocchio rating to Four. (Warning to Democrats: You will get the same scrutiny of out-of-context Romney quotes next week. It’s really a silly thing on which to base a campaign.)
That’s gotta be bad when the spouse of the candidate is included in on the “whopper” category. So looking forward to the Democratic Party getting called out for this crap if they pull the same thing. I wish people would just quit lying about each other and focus on what they would truthfully do. Then again, doing that would eliminate 99% of all elected candidates and their competition.
Peadawg
August 29th, 2012
10:47 am
“I clarify *my* comments when asked. I elaborate on *my* posts when asked.”
You’re right. If by elaborate, you mean moving goal posts, saying “but but republicans”, etc. then yes you elaborate.
But if someone asks for a straight, to the point, no goal post movement, yes or no answer? You’re awful at it.
Fred ™
August 29th, 2012
10:47 am
Look at ” one in the same as Obama” New French President approval ratings in France. Oh my, it appears the money folks, the tax payers, the job creators ARE ALL FLEEING !!!!!!! GET A Clue AMERICA of Obama part 2 if allowed to happen. Thinks it’s bad now. Wait till the folks paying the bills skips. See France, exhibit 1.Oh course, you won’t see this in main stream. They wouldn’t dare tell it.
France? Really? Are THEY the “new Ireland” for your radio talk show host Gods to use? I mean that whole Ireland doesn’t tax corporations thing look how good they are doing kinda went to hell in a hand basket didn’t it. So now they are trying the “France is socialist” thing?
Newflash genius: France has been socialist for decades now. They are the ones who instituted the 32 hour work week.
Just damn, as if we needed MORE proof of how uneducated the hardcore right wing fanatics are………
Jay
August 29th, 2012
10:48 am
sheets
Newby
August 29th, 2012
10:48 am
Rags said, “Dear USinUK, I think my interpretation is fair – a supreme egoist such as Obama, when he says “we,” is using the royal or editorial “we.”
Not meant to be taken seriously…
jim
August 29th, 2012
10:49 am
The illiteracy openly embraced by the GOP is astounding. Mr. Obama was speaking “informally” when he said, “…you didn’t build that”. The “that” in question being the roads, bridges, infrastructure, etc. that we all take for granted and use in our daily lives. That the GOP has chosen to play word games and “redefine” the sentence’s intended object, speaks to their desperation, or at best, lack of creativity.
Fred ™
August 29th, 2012
10:49 am
Valerie Jansen
August 29th, 2012
10:44 am
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Are yo8u the same Valerie who used to call up Neal Boortz and give him hell a few years ago?
TaxPayer
August 29th, 2012
10:50 am
TP enough with your trademark straw man response…I said mission work, and you as expected respond with something else
Again, as for GCC, I gave you the microphone, the stage and the spotlight to articulate your position in 3 sentences and you blew it
If you can stay on point, I’ll be happy to debate, but I refuse to be distracted with your rabbit holes
Erwin,
You do not dictate what I post and I will call you out as often as I wish regarding your failure to back up your baseless gut feelings about the hard work of climate scientists. I gave you every opportunity to discuss the scientist’s work and all you did was offer up the same old rehash from your past about how unpredictable weather is. The topic is climate change. Learn your basic definitions first. Then perhaps we can move on to a determination of your qualifications to truly debate the issue.
Now, did you have something to say about Mitt’s failed efforts to get the French to give up their wine during his tour of duty over there during the Vietnam war. I gave you his own words towork with. What have you got.
Misty Fyed
August 29th, 2012
10:50 am
The bolded text in Obama’s statement doesn’t change the gist of what he said at all. There is no revision here. If Obama’s statement were out of character with his actions, you would have an argument. It isn’t out of character. It is consistent with most of Obama’s other statements and policies.
I’ll give you credit though for being embarrassed by the statement but the true revision comes from the democrats attempts to revise what Obama really meant.
Fred ™
August 29th, 2012
10:51 am
Thulsa Doom
August 29th, 2012
10:46 am
“Pick a cat fight over the definition of is with JHM, he enjoys that silly crap.”
Dang Fred. You’re good. You killed 2 birds with 1 stone on that one.
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
I hope the sheets upstairs prove to be as funny as the ones here. There were some great one on this thread.
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
10:51 am
Valerie………………..No misleading from the Dems I guess…..All the Gospel?
Joe Hussein Mama
August 29th, 2012
10:53 am
Peadawg — “You’re right. If by elaborate, you mean moving goal posts, saying “but but republicans”, etc. then yes you elaborate.”
That’s not what I did in the conversation to which you refer and I’m not going to explain it to you again. You *walked in* on a discussion in progress and demanded that I peel off and address your issue in the way you demanded. I didn’t care to be drawn off the subject I was already discussing and you pressed me for an answer.
So I gave you an answer you didn’t like and you’re still butthurt about it. Shrug.
If you hadn’t been so demanding about me shifting my attention to you instead of the conversation I was ALREADY having, I might not have been so diffficult with you. Then again, you were being pretty difficult yourself, Peadawg.
“But if someone asks for a straight, to the point, no goal post movement, yes or no answer? You’re awful at it.”
Well, that’s your opinion and you’re certainly welcome to it.
Ewrin's cat
August 29th, 2012
10:53 am
I rest my case
They BOTH suck
August 29th, 2012
10:54 am
Bro
Candidates have been lying about each other since the inception of our country. 24 hr news (opinion), internet, etc just allows us to see and hear the bs much quicker than ever before.
Thulsa Doom
August 29th, 2012
10:56 am
Criticizing mission work that helps people? Can’t get any lower than that.
Ewrin's cat
August 29th, 2012
10:56 am
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-22/romney-in-car-crash-led-mormons-from-tragedy-in-france
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
10:56 am
Jim, Obama has never had a real job, so saying ” you didn’t build that” is something that is really something he doesn’t understand. Now, filling out government forms to get people free apartments is something he understands……But what business owners do to start and sustain a business…..He’s clueless..
Tom Middleton
August 29th, 2012
10:57 am
Romney aide yesterday: “We are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checking.”
And Jay, maybe since what they are proposing for our future is a doubling down on what has failed us so badly in our past, they think they can’t win without lying. And you know what? For the first time in their miserable campaign, they may be right about something, probably why they can’t talk about Obama without telling another huge whopper.
I sure hope the voters figure them out before November, or we will all be screwed!
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
10:59 am
Tom, as your friends on here like to say….link please.
alittlecommonsense
August 29th, 2012
10:59 am
In the full context of his speech, he was minimizing the acheivement of small business people and assigning some (much) of the credit for their acheivement to the government. That is exactly what he was saying. I will give him some slack for saying “you didn’t build that” assuming he may have been talking about roads and bridges (even though gramatical clues say he was talking about the business). So yes, Republicans are using the sound bite. That’s a reflection of voter attention spans today. The sound bite is not misrepresentative of the overall context though. It’s really how he feels.
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
11:01 am
Obama aide yesterday…..We need a 60% top federal rate and more spending and get rid of this damn expensive military……………………..See how easy it is Tom?
Bible -vs- Book of Mormons
August 29th, 2012
11:02 am
Is this a Christian nation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpJpjsxCD4
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 29th, 2012
11:06 am
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
10:30 am
So Fred, let me get this straight. An ex president, committing Adultery in the white house and has been accused of rape…not charged mind you, but accused, Is someone to speak for the party that is supposedly the voice of women’s rights.
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Politics is full of ironies like that.
Ronald Reagan a huge family values kinda guy was married twice, forced himself on a lady named Selene Waters (not charged mind you!!) , impregnated then abandoned Jacqueline Park and also impregnanted
Nancy BEFORE they were married.
Tonto
August 29th, 2012
11:06 am
What will a new Republican Administration do differently from the last one?
Romney may not enjoy firing people, but he doesn’t care about middle class jobs. He has no proposed plans to help the middle class other than giving tax cuts to him and his rich friends and letting it trickle down as a golden shower. He has already said that he would not have saved GM and Chrysler but “let them die” along with hundreds of thousands manufacturing jobs. If you get rid of union workers you get rid of union voters. He calls it “Creative Destructionism” where you destroy America to replace it with all the power in the hands of the rich and ruling class.
Newby
August 29th, 2012
11:10 am
Bennie said “Joe, are you willing to disavow government handouts and take rsponsibility for your own life?”
Ben doesn’t drive on roads, drink municipal water, or live in a country defended by US soldiers. He neither has nor wants fire protection, no police protection.
Ben is obviously full of something.
Tom Middleton
August 29th, 2012
11:11 am
Your Google broken, ghost?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/romney-camp-bets-welfare-attack
Newby
August 29th, 2012
11:12 am
Ben: “Hey Joe, speakign of housebroken, do you still “Depend” (pun intended) on government being there to wipe your butt?”
I’m just a Newby, but, is this Ben a “troll”?
alittlecommonsense
August 29th, 2012
11:13 am
His speech was anti personal acheivement. You could make the same speech about any type of personal acheivement whether it is athletic, financial, political, etc. So no one should be proud of their acheivements. Oddly I don’t see him telling the same thing to the olympic medallists. Or his hollywood supporters, or any other type of acheivement. He only denigrates acheivement in the business world. Is it any wonder the employment situation isn’t getting any better when we have a president who feels that negatively about private businesses?
Brosephus™
August 29th, 2012
11:13 am
They BOTH
I know, but when has there ever been an entire campaign built on lies? At least every other previous candidate has told at least one truthful thing in the past.
In the Middle
August 29th, 2012
11:14 am
Reagans ghost, here you go:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/romney-power-team-dissects-2012-together-in-tampa/
Madmax
August 29th, 2012
11:17 am
Jay, All of us, including those business owners, paid for this infrastructure but these business owners are the ones with the guts, dreams and insight to build something out of it and provide jobs to those of us who are too timid, lazy, uninterested, less driven, etc. Instead of being happy commuting to and from home, these guys sought ways to use that infrastructure to their benefit, and if they didn’t, there would be no jobs, there would be no federal, state or local government and we would all be sleeping under the stars wondering who was going to raid and plunder our tribe. We would be nothing as a nation if we did not have business. If business did not exist, where would your all powerful federal government get it’s revenue? (our problem now is that our government grown to the point that it is spending more than our economy can generate) Does this mean that everything business does is right. No, but Obama’s speech promoted the idea that we all deserve additional rewards because we helped build the infrastructure. Hogwash! We already have been rewarded; it’s called jobs and careers so Obama’s suggestion that we should be rewarded because we helped build that is a pure play to the lazy and ignorant.
So no, the Republicans are not rewriting or distorting Obama’s words. He sincerely believes that when one person does well, the government has the responsibility of redistributing the fruits of that persons labor to those that didn’t take the risk because “you didn’t build that on your own”. His speech suggests that everyone who works hard or is smart should be rewarded. There are no guarantees that if you work hard, or you are smart, you will get rewarded. In fact, most ventures fail. Does he believe that we should reward someone for working hard for something that has no chance of success? Does he believe that smart people should be rewarded if they don’t succeed? That speech sums up his philosophy and to most working people with dreams, his vision is not our vision of America. By the way, I am one of those who chose to not risk it all but I applaud those that do.
H. G. Pennypacker
August 29th, 2012
11:18 am
I apologize if this was previously noted as I am late to the party, but the video above uses a farmer that did not mind taking almost $80,000 in government subsidies for his farm.
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A09247564
They BOTH suck
August 29th, 2012
11:20 am
Bro
It has been this way for a long long time. When you have time one day go look up the campaign rhetoric throughout history. It was pretty bad.
I agree that it might be worse, but it has always been to some degree or another in the gutter.
Jack
August 29th, 2012
11:21 am
Mrs. Romney has class. The S.C. governor has class. And their obvious class and intelligence was refreshing. I noticed they needed no tele-prompter and they looked straight at the camera; sort of a lost art with the present administration. Another thing: I think Mrs. Romney has been proud of America all along; not being dependent on someone’s recognition.
Brosephus™
August 29th, 2012
11:23 am
They BOTH
I understand the rhetoric and all, and I generally tune it out. However, there are usually truths imbedded in the mudslinging that can be verified by fact. Such is not the case with Romney. Seems like his fact or fiction machine got stuck on fiction.
Jay
August 29th, 2012
11:24 am
Sorry Jack. Ann Romney DID use a Teleprompter.
Reagans ghost
August 29th, 2012
11:25 am
In the middle…..thanks…I read it.
Madmax
August 29th, 2012
11:32 am
Tonto
August 29th, 2012
11:06 am
What will a new Obama Administration do differently from the last one? He’s not proposing anything new, in fact, he’s making the same promosies he did the last time. Why would we expect him to do it as a lame duck president?
Newby
August 29th, 2012
11:42 am
Max – fair questions.
It seems to some of us that Romney offers little to the middle class except net tax increases, and cuts in governement services (which means fewer government employees, more unemployment, less demand for goods and services, etc.)
Maybe I’ll just stick with the devil I know…
Brosephus™
August 29th, 2012
11:47 am
I noticed they needed no tele-prompter and they looked straight at the camera
Damn!! I’m guessing that he changed the channel when that tight camera view panned out to a much wider shot.
Tonto
August 29th, 2012
11:55 am
Madmax
What will a new Republican Administration do differently from the last one?
The last Republican Administration destroyed 4,560,000 manufacturing jobs in 8 years, while Obama has increased manufacturing employment by 532,000 since 1/2010. We see business in-sourcing jobs under Obama where skilled workers are more important than low cost workers. The last Republican administration inherited a 4% unemployment and doubled it to 8% at the end of the administration, inherited a surplus and turned it into a trillion dollar deficit, inherited Dow Jones Industrial Average of 10,500 that rose to 11,091 on June 7, 2001 when he signed legislation that started his tax cuts for the rich, but resulted in a 30% decrease to 8,000 by the end of the administration. Tickle down does not seem to work. Republicans make the economy worse, where Democrats make things gradually better.
Manufacturing Employment
Obama increase 532,000 since 1/2010
Last Republican Administration lost 4,560,000 in 8years.
Clinton increase 321,000 in 8 years.
Second to last Republican Administration lost 1,267,000 in 4 years.
Can somebody in the media say “outsourcing anti-American anti-union Republicans?”
What will a new Republican Administration do differently from the last one?
Total Nonfarm Employment
Obama increase last month 163,000 which is more than 14 times greater than last Republican Administration’s average
Since 2/2010 increase of 4,001,000 employees
Last Republican Administration 1,095,000 / 8 years = 136,875 / yr or 11,406 / mo. (all government employees due to Department of Homeland Security)
Clinton 22,740,000 / 8 years = 2,842,500 / yr or 236,875 / mo.
Carter 2,584,000 / yr or 215,400 / mo.
Williebkind
August 29th, 2012
12:15 pm
Tonto
11:55 am
This is Kimosobie!
August 29th, 2012Obama increase 532,000 since 1/2010 but the bankruptcies kind nulled and voided all that huh.
Obambarrassment
August 29th, 2012
12:17 pm
Mr. Bookman pretends that “I’m not worried about the poor (because they’re being taken care of)” is equivalent to “you didn’t build that (because…other people helped you?).”
What Obama certainly was not doing was pointing out the plain fact that none of us live in vacuums or on islands. Obama was indeed claiming that business owners shouldn’t receive credit for their risk taking and hard work.
It is the height of irony that Bookman finds Orwellian spin (overreach, anyone?) in the GOP convention when he lives and cooperates to create a whole world of Orwellian spin.
Obambarrassment
August 29th, 2012
12:19 pm
Tonto,
Appropriately named.
You’re abetting the tontos utiles.
Madmax
August 29th, 2012
12:21 pm
Tonto
$15,990,957,370,305 – only 9 billion left – up $2 billion from yesterday
12,612,893 out of work
23,090,871 out of work or underemployed
1 in 7 of our work force works for the government – put another way – 1/6 of your income is needed to just pay the government workforce (does not include actual program benefits)
$225,015,020,810 in carrying cost for the debt we have and rising – how many programs could we fund w/o that debt?
$1,053.647 – taxpayer unfunded liabilities
How are your kids going to pay that $1 million or are you waiting for Warren Buffet to die and leave all of it to Uncle Sam? By the way, even if he did, you would still have a $1 million dollar unfunded liability.
How much is Obamacare ging to add to this deficit? No body knows including the CBO. If you don’t believe me, read it, it’s full of caveats and then read their projections for Medicare, Medicaid, DOE etc when they were 1st passed.
What has the current administration done to address this problem?
Mark in mid-town
August 29th, 2012
12:24 pm
There are 2 points of attack the Romney Campaign is engaging in that are greatly damaging Obama, which is why the corrupt liberal msm at the behest of Obama is working overdrive to try and discredit them. One is the “you didn’t build that” line, the other is the accusation that Obama has removed the work requirement from welfare. An argument can be made that the “you didn’t build that” line is out of context in an unfair way. But it’s also valid to look at the entirety of Obama’s comments and conclude that the overall context of what Obama was saying was actually much worse. As for the work requirement accusation, I recommend people go read Democrat Mickey Kaus’s take on that. Mickey Kaus, though a Democrat, doesn’t take his orders from Party Central. He’s the farthest thing from a hack which is why he’s so refreshing to read. He’s willing to speak the truth, even when it damages the party and candidate he supports. If people do some research, they will see that regardless of what the fact-checkers from liberal msm say, that it is quite reasonable to conclude that Romney’s attack on the work requirement rule is pretty spot on.
Obambarrassment
August 29th, 2012
12:24 pm
Note to self:
Rewriting Republican speeches, policy platforms to construe them as racist, bigotted = Orwellian rewriting of history.
Mark in mid-town
August 29th, 2012
12:27 pm
It is the height of irony that Bookman finds Orwellian spin (overreach, anyone?) in the GOP convention when he lives and cooperates to create a whole world of Orwellian spin.
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Fantastic. A more demonstrably true sentence than the one above I’ve yet to see in the comments to Bookman’s blog.
Obambarrassment
August 29th, 2012
12:28 pm
Madmax,
Well done setting the bait. If los tontos utiles are going to mention the Obama economic record (even if false or incorrect) it is a marginal victory for us. Then we can talk about what Obama wants to pretend everyone will forget before the election–8% unemployment, rising prices, high debt.
Martin the Calvinist
August 29th, 2012
12:43 pm
So Jay, what about those businesses who failed, they had the same resources if you will as those businesses who have suceeded, they have hard working folks working for them, the entrepenuer had a great educator influence their lives, they had the same road and bridges infrastucture offered them, they had the same police and fire protection. Why did they fail? They failed on their own accord, that’s what you’d say. So how about having a little integrity and admit it is the business man or woman that builds their businesses and are sucessful…..
Tonto
August 29th, 2012
1:07 pm
Martin the ungrateful
What will a new Republican Administration do differently from the last one?
They want to make the Government of the United States of America small, weak, and ineffective. There ideal is to turn America into Somalia. Somalia has no income tax, no regulations and a small, weak, and ineffective government. There the winners are those that can cheat the other guy first or have the guns to kill their opponents and take their money. Do you think if we took your small business and moved it to Somalia or a deserted island that you would be as successful as being in America? What these Republicans are doing is trashing our country saying that we don’t have the best government in the world. Fine, as they say love it or leave it and then do it on your own
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 29th, 2012
2:48 pm
“Ben, one last warning:
If you come here to pick fights with individual posters, you are not welcome.
If you come here to debate and discuss the world of politics, you are more than welcome.
So far, your contributions amount almost exclusively to the first, with little or none of the second.”
Then half of the libs. on here should be gone !
Because I Was “Standing up when it counts” For Michelle Obama, I Was Kicked Off Of Kyle Wingfields's Blog
August 29th, 2012
4:35 pm
RNC 2012: Christie’s speech was better than the reviews it’s gotten.
Kyle Wingfield, August 29, 2012
I WAS KICKED OFF OF KYLE WINGFIELD’S BLOG FOR STANDING UP
FOR OUR FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA.
Because I responded to a blogger who called our First Lady Moo-chelle
and who said that she was fat because I called Chris Christe fat.
I also stated that New Jersey’s unemployment rate was 9.8% and
the national rate is 8.3%.
I GUESS KYLE WINGFIELD CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH.
If you have an OPPOSING VIEW Kyle Wingfield with KICK YOU
OFF HIS BLOG.
It is okay if you say anything NEGATIVE about President Obama and
Michelle Obama.
THIS IS HOW LOW THE CONS HAVE GONE.
You didn’t build that shyte. WE did … | Black Write & Read
August 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
[...] GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history (blogs.ajc.com) [...]
Rabbit
August 29th, 2012
5:52 pm
Nothing’s gonna change my world – unless You and I go vote.
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
coondawg68
August 30th, 2012
7:01 am
Why did you stop Obama’s quote at “Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.”
YOU TOOK HIM OUT OF CONTEXT TO PROVIDE YOUR OWN.
The quote is “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.”
somebody else made that happen…. offensive to every tax payer. Contex
Welcome to the Occupation
September 3rd, 2012
1:01 pm
How come they still allow commie-secular holidays in this great country?