Impressively quick reflexes from the Romney campaign -- hopefully this is only the beginning of a wider attack strategy constructed around "it worked:"
Liberals are again claiming that Obama is being taken "out of context" here. Slate's Dave Weigel
says Obama was obviously referring to the Clinton-era tax rates --
which he mentioned just prior to "it worked." Five points: (1) If you read the full transcript
of the speech, Obama was building a broader case against Mitt Romney's
"top down" approach to governance (full of distortions, of course, but
that's politics). The president described at length the "contrasting
visions" that separate himself from his opponent, listing off
tendentiously-phrased examples along the way. So the "context" of "it
worked" was ambiguous, at best. The Examiner's Joel Gehrke makes this point, as does The Fix's Aaron Blake, albeit reluctantly:
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We've already seen enough cherry picked sound bites, dog on car roof stories, phony Bain capital attacks, phony proBain capital claims, and enough mudlsinging ad money to sponsor 3 superbowls to make this perhaps the biggest race to the bottom of the crap pile we've seen in years. Can we get this over already??!!
ReplyDeleteIt did work. He set out to destroy America and he has pretty much accomplished his goal.
ReplyDelete10:06 Change is what I believe he called it.
ReplyDeleteWhy waste so much money on attack ads, I would think donating some would help out their view in our eyes right? Obama is screwed.
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