Obama and "Earning your success"

You will be more confused looking at this administration's actions, they don't match what is coming out of their mouths. I don't understand how it can keep going on as it is, speech after speech, figure after figure give wrong and disproven by the agencies that control the figures for that agency. But never any correction - just more of the same. Just lie after lie.

Rion said:

And I agree, actions do speak louder than words.

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Quite a difference between "If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." and "America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got to earn your success."

That is until you put them together. Then you get "America will give you the business, - you didn't build your success."

**(please note, it still does not include anything about bridges.)

RedPaddy said:

Quite a difference between "If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." and "America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got to earn your success."

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Where is the difference? The meaning of the first doesn't conflict with the second.

**(please note, it still does not include anything about bridges.)

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So?

Paradoxum said:

Where is the difference? The meaning of the first doesn't conflict with the second.

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It only works for people who never listened to the speech.

Viren said:

It only works for people who never listened to the speech.

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You mean him or me, because I heard what Obama said.

Paradoxum said:

You mean him or me, because I heard what Obama said.

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I meant anyone who hasn't listened to the speech, but only what Romney and Rush have been saying. You're too well informed to see anything inconsistent.

The charge of it's taken out of context is like the race card. Both are used without proof. Just saying it makes it so in the minds of liberals. You can quote the whole speech and you are still taking it out of context. You can give point by point reasons why you appose this radical leftist prez-doesn't matter, you're a racist. It's because he is so radical that the only defense the left has is; what he said isn't what he said and what he did didn't do what it did.

Rion said:

I heard it. I'm just not in denial.

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Really, you heard the sentence that summed up the speech? "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."

Now compare that to what Obama said later. "America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got to earn your success"

It's sounds consistent to me.

Viren said:

I meant anyone who hasn't listened to the speech, but only what Romney and Rush have been saying. You're too well informed to see anything inconsistent.

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Thank you

conamer said:

The charge of it's taken out of context is like the race card. Both are used without proof. Just saying it makes it so in the minds of liberals.

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Well that is incorrect because I have heard the race card used against Republicans a number of times, but as for myself I try to stay away from it.

You can quote the whole speech and you are still taking it out of context. You can give point by point reasons why you appose this radical leftist prez-doesn't matter, you're a racist. It's because he is so radical that the only defense the left has is; what he said isn't what he said and what he did didn't do what it did.

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I think if you we explain why that sentence isn't talking about the roads and bridges bit then you are right to say that you are taking it out of context. Then you would be just misunderstanding Obama. That is, assuming if you think the sentence is literally what Obama believes.

I doubt he is all that radical. The defence of Obama isn't that he didn't say what he said, but that you are misunderstanding what he meant. I can't comment on what he did because I am not sure what you are referring to.