Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Building the "We Built It" theme - Commentary: "Why "We Built It" is so effective"  "The president was only speaking from his heart when he gave his memorable critique of individualism. It wasn’t really a gaffe because it was just Obama discussing his core philosophy about society."

14 comments:

Nigel Tufnel said...

Sher Valenzuela, a featured speaker at the Republican convention announced she was entering politics.

Which would explain her stunning ability to mouth the 'we built it' platitude with a straight face, despite receiving millions between SBA loans and government contracts.

Which is totally cool and what Obama was actually talking about as he praised the hard work of successful go-getters.

The Help said...

Ann Romney's speech was better: "Nobody helped George Romney's rich, Harvard-educated son, he did it all by himself. And now Mitt helps so many others, because there is no higher calling."

Nigel Tufnel said...

George Romney? You mean the guy who wrote this about the GOP in response to an angry letter from Barry Goldwater for his unwillingness to endorse him?:

"Dogmatic, ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation, lead to governmental crises and deadlocks, and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve freedom and achieve progress."

This could be written on page 1 of the GOP's current playbook.

George Romney viewed that approach as political suicide and was convinced his Republican party would lose the election.

Anonymous said...

You're right, Nigel. It might be written on page 1 of the GOP's playbook, but, unfortunately it's already the ONLY thing in the Dem playbook.

“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” said...

You mean the same George Romney whose presidential ambitions were derailed in 1967 when his opponents falsely extracted a single phrase, "brainwashing," out of its context within a longer and sensible statement, and then twisted it and mocked it to make it a cartoon position Romney hadn't said, but was nevertheless attacked for?

In unrelated matters... WE BUILT THAT!

Anonymous said...

Barry Goldwater? George Romney?

Call me when the Eugene Debs debate starts.

Emma Goldman Sachs said...

No, no, your history is out of order... Eugene Debs Jr. comes AFTER Romney and Ryan usher back the Gilded Age.

siacd999 said...

Well, of course Obama and his ilk don't like "we built this". After all, such a phrase implies responsibility, something Obama and his ilk will never admit to, or 'fess up to. Obama can't admit he built himself up to be the saviour of America; no, he had advisors tell him what words to say, what image to present so he could be a blank slate for voters to create expectations for Obama. No, Obama didn't get his own grade or Harvard Law degree; others gave it to him (release the transcripts, Obama, or maybe a few of those papers you wrote for Harvard Law Review). No, Obama didn't build any of the legislation he proposed; he had advsiors and his cabinet of financial industry insiders and political operatives do it for him.
No, the only thing you'll hear Obama admit is his part in the death of bin Laden. And if it wasn't for that pesky CIA or those rotten SEALs, we'd all believe Obama personally went to Pakistan, hunted out bin Laden, and shot him himself.

Nigel Tufnel said...

"Obama and his 'ilk'."

Right.

Nigel Tufnel said...

It is chilling to read this article from the NYT in 1990 and realize the depth of Obama's conspiracy, the roots of which date back to the 1970s:

"...Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.
Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters.
Black enrollment at Harvard Law School, after a dip in the mid-1980's, has reached a record high this year, said Joyce Curll, the director of admissions. Of the 1,620 students in the three-year school, 12.5 percent this year are blacks, she said, and 14 percent of the first-year class are black. Nationwide enrollment by blacks in undergraduate colleges has dropped in recent years.
Mr. Obama succeeds Peter Yu, a first-generation Chinese-American, as president of The Law Review. After graduation, Mr. Yu plans to serve as a clerk for Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Yu said Mr. Obama's election ''was a choice on the merits, but others may read something into it.''

Nigel Tufnel said...

It is chilling to read this article from the NYT in 1990 and realize the depth of Obama's conspiracy, the roots of which date back to the 1970s:

"...Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.
Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters.
Black enrollment at Harvard Law School, after a dip in the mid-1980's, has reached a record high this year, said Joyce Curll, the director of admissions. Of the 1,620 students in the three-year school, 12.5 percent this year are blacks, she said, and 14 percent of the first-year class are black. Nationwide enrollment by blacks in undergraduate colleges has dropped in recent years.
Mr. Obama succeeds Peter Yu, a first-generation Chinese-American, as president of The Law Review. After graduation, Mr. Yu plans to serve as a clerk for Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Yu said Mr. Obama's election ''was a choice on the merits, but others may read something into it.''

Sgt. Ilko said...

The Harvard Law Review is the ilkiest ilk that ever ilked!

Nigel Tufnel said...

I know it's a waste of time, but Nigel feels the need to point out to siacd999, some of whose best friends, for sure, are part of Obama's ilk:

When you're on the Harvard Law Review you're an editor, not a writer. When you're elected President of the HLR by your fellow editors, you become the editor-in-chief.

Obama graduated magna cum laude, but that must have been part of the grand conspiracy as well.

Core philosophies about society said...

[i]"Why "We Built It" is so effective"[/i]

Obamacare: Romney built that!