Obama: When I Said "You Didn't Build That," I Really Meant Something Totally Different

 

Isn’t it obvious? Of course he didn’t mean what he said four times while off script a few weekends ago! What the president genuinely meant is written right in the teleprompter, after his messaging team spent more than a week figuring out how to “clarify” his comments.

 

He’s slipping, guys. Historically, Team Obama has been much faster at turning the truth on its head. Time’s Mark Halperin says The One finds himself on the defensive:

 

 

A campaign never wants to let the opposition dictate what it advertises on. I don’t know if this purely defensive move is based on the vaunted Chicago research department picking up trouble in its focus groups and/or polling, or just intuition that anything that threatens to further reinforce the meme that Obama doesn’t understand or appreciate how the

 

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

private sector really works must be countered as soon and as much as possible. But I do know that it is unusual for an incumbent president ahead in the polls to let his rival drive his ad content. This is as surprising as it is significant.

 

Rather than refute the “out of context” canard for a third time, I’ll let Allahpundit take it from here:

 

Am I right in thinking that O never felt obliged to do a spot like this, clarifying his own comments, back in 2008? He gave his speech on race to try to defuse the Rev. Wright uproar, but he never did an ad directly answering an attack that I can recall, not even after his immortal “bitter-clinger” comments at that lefty fundraiser.

 

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via Obama: When I Said “You Didn’t Build That,” I Really Meant Something Totally Different.

 

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