"You didn't build that" - Obama

[gergroy]

richardhutnik said:

gergroy said:

richardhutnik said:

WiiBox3 said:
Interesting. Thanks for the link.

When I first heard it, I went "WTF? He said people who have their own business didn't build it"?  Then I see it can mean that OR it can refer the infrastructure in the prior sentence.  It isn't a gaffe in my book, but something calculated and said on purpose, probably generating the exact response it is now in some circles.

On my end, I have had the experience of both doing welfare and trying to build a business.

Honestly, I agree that it was probably referring to roads and bridges in the previous sentence.  However, I disagree completely that it wasn't a gaffe.  There is no way that it was some calculated move because it exposes Obama to a common attack by republicans, that he is weak on business.  In a down economy, that is exactly where you don't want to be.  Much more likely is Obama lost his place and missed a point and tried to go back and finish the thought.  

Look at the response killerzX has given in this thread.  And then as, if a normal person reads it, would the be inclined to agree, or would they think killerzX has gone bat loco nuts?  There was a bit of fumbling of words there, but the one would have to read the speech to see what it says.  

thats the whole problem and why I don't think it was calculated.  In a world in which speeches are broken down into tiny out of context blips for political attacks, I don't think Obama would have wanted to use that phrasing.  Obama fumbled, and is now getting hammered for it.  Normal people don't listen to speeches or pay attention to campaigns, they watch the news and see commercials.  I don't see how Obama would have wanted to say something that could have been torn apart like that.

I mean, look at Romney and the I like being able to fire people comment, or that he doesn't care about the poor.  Looking at the context of those statements he obviously meant something else, do you think romney wanted the news to focus on those out of context statements or on the point he was trying to make?  LIke I said, what Obama said was a gaffe.