I love Paul Ryan.
It wwas Rep. Paul Ryan’s wife, Janna, who first saw — via Twitter — President Obama’s recent comments about American entrepreneurs, that “if you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
And the Wisconsin Republican — thought to be on Mitt Romney’s running-mate short list — couldn’t believe it. He thought someone must “have been putting words in the president’s mouth.”
But Obama said it all. And Ryan absolutely tore into the president in a chat I had with him earlier today. Among the highlights:
– “The idea that these entrepreneurs owe all their success to some government bureaucrat or some centralized planner just defies reality.”
– “Every now and then, President Obama pierces the veil. He’s usually pretty coy about his ideology, but he lets the veil slip from time to time.”
– “We believe in free communities and this is a statist attack on free communities.”– “He’s deluded himself into thinking that his so-called enemies are these crazy individualists who believe in some dog-eat-dog society when what he’s really doing is basically attacking people like entrepreneurs and stacking up a list of scapegoats to blame for his failures.”
– “As all of his big government spending programs fail to restore jobs and growth, he seems to be retreating into a statist vision of government direction and control of a free society that looks backward to the failed ideologies of the 20th century.”
– “Those of us who are conservative believe in government, we just believe government has limits. We want government to do what it does well and respect its limits so civil society and families can flourish on their own and do well and achieve their potential.”
– “He wants to be as transformational as Reagan by undoing the entire Reagan revolution.”
Mitt Romney also spoke about the president’s absurd remarks… some call it an attack…
For Ronald:
this person, Obama, has proven that this once great nation was a land where anyone could be president – his main goal as president is to make sure no one else can be president, or anything else for that matter
Interesting theory…
It’s like this Ms. Pam.
If the Obamessiah can convince you that you didn’t succeed on your own, that you must have had the help and support of all of society, it becomes easier to convince you that we should all share everything.
After all, since you cannot accomplish anything on your own it’s only fair to share the benefits equally with the rest of the country (world).
Socialist mind control.
davek
Judging by how many people voted for obama last time, it works! Fortunately, not all of us are led around by our noses and can think for ourselves…
now I understand Easy Rider and why the Hippies were hated in the late 60′s & 70′s – I finally forgive that cop for giving me a ticket cause he thought I was one of them -
It was just a few short months ago that those on the left were getting hammered for taking Romney’s statements out of context. Most admitted what they were doing yet still made sure it stayed alive.
Today, we’re seeing the same thing out of those on the right but the difference is that the admission of taking Obama’s words out of context isn’t there. Fox News plays edited clips and spends hours airing it while avoiding the entire text. The Romney campaign is being dishonest about it as well. It’s pretty sophomoric but when the well of rational arguments and intellectual honesty runs dry, I guess that’s all you have left. When you can’t find something with an iota of credence to it, just make something up.
When you can’t find something with an iota of credence to it, just make something up.
I don’t have to make anything up about obama… everything he’s done and said is enough!
Good grief.
I read the entire transcript. Nothing was taken out of context. Now, go find something productive to do like work.
Ronald, I once owned a business, something Obama has no idea about, so I took those words personally as I do most of his ramblings – I am sorry but you people have no common sense, let’s be honest here, you were just dumb to put someone with absolutely no experience other than hustling in the White House – I will not tell you to shut up since I gave 4 years of my young life to protect that right, now I just ask that you clowns that have done nothing but try and take away that right to kiss my ass.
A quote fro TAP’s Paul Waldman pretty well sums it up:
When this quote worked its way up from the conservative media to the Romney campaign, they knew they had something. Sure, it’s obvious that when Obama said “you didn’t build that” he was talking about roads and bridges. But who cares? You can take that one sentence out of context, lie about what “that” in the quote refers to, and you’ve got evidence of Obama’s America-hating heart.
And yes, it is a lie, a word I use carefully. Romney and the people who work for him know full well what Obama was and wasn’t saying. But they decided to go ahead and engage in an act of intentional deception anyway, and I’m sure he’ll be repeating it many times.
There’s actually a discussion to be had about the radical individualism that has taken over the conservative movement, which Obama was responding to in his speech.
Now this is something that people who aren’t divorced from reality or have a reasonable concept of rational thinking can grasp. It is however, quite understandable that it may fly over the the heads of several of the regular contributors here.
You’re as wrong as you could possibly be, Ronald… but I have a feeling that you don’t really care.
Ronald, how much do you get paid for spamming this crap – my instincts tell me you are not as stupid as you sound, but then again I can be wrong -
Hey, Ronald, go fuck yourself.
Really, I refuse to argue with these fuckheads.
He won’t be back. Well, he might possibly try to return, but since he’s only interested in spamming, I’ll spam him.