“We Tried Our Plan And. . .” “We Don’t Have A Definitive Solution. . .We Just Don’t Like Yours”

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1. crap wrong thread.

2. Plan? We don’t need no stinkin’ plan! Now…… we ride!

3. Oh, they have a plan, all right – but they dare not describe it to the electorate, or they wouldn’t carry a single state.

4. Well, well…haven’t we seen this before? Taking quotes out of context, and often using selective editing such
   as with the “didn’t build that” misquotation, seems to be a common tactic used
   by the right wing media, and a tactic which  pathological liar Romney
   frequently utilizes.

   How do you know when Mitt Romney is lying? One clue
   is that his mouth is moving. How do you know when right wingers are
   lying about what Obama said or believes?  David Weigel has a way to
   determine this–if it is a weekday. (I’m not sure why he excludes the
   weekends).  Weigel writes It’s a Weekday, So It’s Time for Another Misleading Edit of an Obama Quote

   Here’s the right wing out of context version (via National Review):

   Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan—and
   it worked. That’s the difference. That’s the choice in this election. 
   That’s why I’m running for a second term.

   Here’s what Obama actually said:
   .

   I’ll cut out government spending that’s not working, that we can’t afford, but I’m also going to ask anybody making over $250,000 a year to go back to the tax rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, back when our economy created 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history and everybody did well. Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan — and it worked. That’s the difference. That’s the choice in this election. That’s why I’m running for a second term.

   Weigel concludes: “So the truncated version of the Obama quote is insanely misleading. At best, it’ll only appear in $10.4 million or so
   of TV ads.”

   Considering how frequently Romney distorts Obama’s views in his speeches, I wonder how long it will be until Romney picks up on this one.

5.  Except that the extended version is a lie too.

   One teensy difference: Bill Clinton didn’t impose a trillion or so dollars in new costs by regulations under a healthcare law passed as dishonestly as possible.

6.  Good to see a right winger conceding that many right wingers, including Smitty, are condoning and actively spreading a blatantly dishonest lie for partisan purposes.

7.  English isn’t your first or second language, since it’s probably obvious to the WYB that I was responding to the expanded quote of what Obama actually said.

   Flap away, dungbat.

8. You wrote: “Except that the extended version is a lie too.” (No dishonest editing here.)

   Too bad, you need more training to mask your inner feelings. That one just slipped through from your subconscious in a rare public display of honesty in cases where it hurts your cause.

   You are right though in one thing; Eng is my third language.

9.  Anamika,

   I wouldn’t give SDN the benefit of doubt like you do. He argues that Obama lied in the “extended version” and believes that Obama lied even in the out of context version. So, in his wingnut delirium, he assumed Obama lied twice!  That’s explains the “too.” The only thing he seems sure is Obama lies!; damn the context that gets in between a wingnut and his multiple orgasms.

10.  Sorry, ladies, Mrs SDN has that covered.

11. Why do dingbats and dungbats think the context improves Comrade President’s tirades? His plans were, are and will be doomed to failure because command collectivist plans always fail. He’s not really willing to cut spending so adding context merely adds outright lies to the hubris of the shorter version.
    Further more Bush’s plan isn’t our plan. Cutting taxes while increasing spending and exploding regulations and tolerating crony capitalism isn’t our plan.

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