The first day of the Republican National Convention leaned heavily on the party's rebuke to Obama's, "You didn't build that" line. In fact, the official theme of day one was: "We Built It."
On Tuesday, the first official day of the convention, the Republican National Committee unveiled a series of three videos in which small business owners declared Obama's claim that business owners benefit from government help to be, in one of the businessman's words, "complete nonsense."
Metal fabricating company owner Jack Gilchrist also went after the "you didn't build that" line in a speech delivered at the convention. "This Administration is killing us out here," he said, citing the difficulty following the government's "rules and regulations."
Bev Gray, owner of a company called Exhibit Edge, delivered a speech on that theme as well. "The President said that business owners didn't get there on our own," she said. "Well, he's wrong. We risked everything and succeeded because of our hard work and commitment."
Their remarks were echoed by the speeches of major figures in the GOP, including Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. "Big government didn't build America: You built America!" he said. "Small businesses don't come out of Washington, D.C. pre-made on flatbed trucks.
That coffee shop in Henrico; that florist in Virginia Beach, that bakery in Radford, they were all built by entrepreneurial Americans with big dreams, not a big-spending government with a wide-open wallet full of other people's money!"
In fact, Obama never said that entrepreneurs didn't build their businesses; he said that they built it while taking advantage of government infrastructure such as roads and electricity. And as Rachel Maddow pointed out, the convention itself is taking place at an arena in Tampa whose construction was subsidized in large part by government funds.
Joy Reid, MSNBC contributor and managing editor of The Grio, tweets: "The entire first night of #RNC2012 is built on a misquote. Ah, politics... #msnbc2012"
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Most people built their business with government or bank help - the GOP decided to take out a lot of the text from the speech spoken by Obama to suit themselves. As usual !!
The republicans are so pathetic......Wow.....
willard never built it, he destroyed it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAkRTOHiP4o&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=civrt8Vl35c&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcPVRBts-o
The republican convention do over.
Republican lies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPIDbf4INro&feature=relmfu
Mitt's tax break.....an his plan for a middle class tax increase.
He pays less, you pay more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=r1D1jI61ckY
The GOP Convention starts out concentrating on the negative and seem determined to preserve the idea that progress only occurs at the whim of the wealthy. As has been done throughout this Primary season, they continue with the drastic mis-quotes and false generalities. Has our culture drifted so far into the darkside that we would be attracted to a party that continuously advocates the negatives of all but that successful one or two percent? Independents will, in my opinion, turn the TV off, rather than endure much of this.
Most history books seem to emphasize the U.S. Army, the Corps of Engineers, the federal government, banks, and industry working in a complex partnership for settling America. If you read much military history this becomes immediately apparent. The taxpayer paid for West Point where officers studied engineering, management, and went out surveying the land when not engaged in combat operations. Soldiers themselves established roads, trails, water wells, and small forts that became relay stations for communication routes. The Erie Canal was built despite state of New York financing because the frontier army and militia had such a terrible time moving supplies. The same thing happened with the transcontinental railroad completed in 1869. Railroads were guarded, funded, and ran by Army soldiers and West Point Army officers who were the only people with engineering training in the country besides naval engineers. We also can see the Army Corps of Engineers dredging the Ohio River, the Mississippi, and building river ports along with levies and dams and even canals to improve river navigation. The partnership of the military-industrial-government complex created the infrastructure, the rule of the law that settled the frontier. Businessmen created commerce from utilizing that infrastructure.
Families in religious groups formed villages and farms at the edge of this infrastructure. Really only after major the heavy lifting was done by the government-military-industrial complex could large scale settlement of families begin along with agricultural and mercantile industries supported by commerce. Business is important but business and commerce can not exist without government infrastructure and much of the new technology. Certain people got rich because a whole society and set of institutions and partnership built the infrastructure and rule of the law that made the advancement of civilization a real possibility, otherwise the accumulation of excess wealth would have been impossible. We should celebrate the Army Corps of Engineers, West point, and the hard back breaking work of the soldiers, sailors, and workmen who built the infrastructure that made civilization expand along the frontier and every where else under the rule of the law provided by the government. Businessmen and entrepreneurs don't build a country on their own its a joint partnership as it is today and will remain in the future.
Great points the President could use! Do you ever send him a line?
Rex, And the tax payers paid for the education of the Army Officers and solders, the tax payers paid for West Point, and the tools and equipment of the military. And who among the citizenry pays more taxes, the poor or the wealthy, the worker or the business owner. To say the Government Built That, even referring to the roads and infrastructure, is to say the tax payer built that, which is to say the business owner built that. Obama acts as if we are lost but for the Government, when in fact it is the opposite, the Government is lost without US.
Liar, liar, pants on fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=r1D1jI61ckY
My TV is not on the convention......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMndjLIQUFw&feature=relmfu
Thanks for the pink slip, willard.
Rape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anc_gP2_QeI
RNC theme "We Built It" I agree they built a national debit like none other in the world!
They also have built! A astounding bridge of lies! And plan on building a road to ruin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=6kbXgkNvAiE&NR=1
Take the fear out of rape!
TM--Why did you leave me all alone with Rick Santorum?
Sorry about that, I though you said you were going. I got busy looking at the Obama dinner parties he had with people from all over, and I just tried to imagin having dinner with willard. Then I got sick to my stomack and had to throw up.../s/
NO! America built it and you republicans tore it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE&feature=related
With the real willard please stand up......I'm a betting Mormon....... I pay my tithes just not my taxes.
Ed your right about Kasich I live in Ohio!! He is behind the voter supression here!!!!!
The Convention will go on after Willard proclaimed! "The waves are just the right height"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMW39wFHpRo&feature=related
I wouldn't doubt Willard will be making the same promises by the end of the campaign too! Nice little gem TMom!
The RNC in it infinite wisdom decided not to have Ron Paul speak or have a screech from Sarah Palin or Michele Squawkmann! I guess they are really afraid that Ron Paul would have a better response! Looks like the Chickenhawk won't have Eric Cantspeak too crow for him either! So what I expect to to hear is a continuation of the slampaign and flag waving and maybe a couple of thumps from the once anti-Romney candidates to stump for this corporate mannequin. So just where are the real backers of this bought and paid for nominee. Rove Norquist Koches and all the other billionaires who destroyed the other candidates in the primary? Thanks SCOTUS for making politics a money race and not a true form of picking a candidate for the highest office. More like this fnck off!
Yep....republicans built one huge deficit!
Yep..........republicans built a web of lies that no rational, sane person could unravel..........which is why they sound so ridiculous in their speeches and comments
Obama/Biden 2012 FORWARD FOUR MORE YEARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQwrB1vu74c&feature=related
DemE: Posted this great thing I thought you shouldn't miss it!
DemElizabeth
80-year study: Democrats better at economics
August 17, 2012 | 8:42 am
Paul Bedard
Washington Secrets
The Washington Examiner
@SecretsBedard
When it comes to which party is better for the economy, Republicans talk the talk, but it's Democrats who deliver the goods according to an unusual 80-year study of the impact presidents have on growth, personal wealth, the stock market and even 401ks.
The bottom line, according to Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: Of the five best economic presidents since Herbert Hoover, only one is a Republican. The paydirt finding: $100,000 invested during the 40 years Republicans had the White House would be worth $126,027. The same amount invested in the stock market during the Democrat's 40 years would be $3,912,210.
"Our book is a myth buster," said financial planner Bob Deitrick who co-authored Bulls, Bears with CPA and educator Lew Goldfarb.
Goldfarb blamed the conventional wisdom that Republican presidents are better economic managers on the inability of Democrats to tell their story. "Democrats stand on their message so poorly," he said. "Republicans, on the other hand, win the salesmanship merit badge every single year."
The duo stumbled on their conclusions while working on a different issue. Researching the impact of politics on stock market trends, Deitrick realized that in the last 80 years, Democrats and Republicans have held the White House 40 years each, minus President Obama's term. They came up with a ranking system based on stock market returns, personal income, economic growth and business prosperity.
The best period was during the Kennedy-Johnson years, the worst Herbert Hoover, who presided over the Great Depression. In order, the rankings are: JFK/LBJ, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, and Hoover. Carter was the only Democrat in the bottom half of the list.
Theirs is a non-political book that also suggests that the Democrats have been luckier than the Republicans. Just consider that George H.W. Bush had a flat economy that was starting to surge when Clinton was elected and it roared during his term. By the time George W. Bush took over, the Clinton-era internet bubble had popped and he started two wars. For example, they write, $100,000 invested in 1993 was worth $341,894 at the end of Clinton's term. Under Bush, that $100,000 was worth $64,990 after his eight years, a difference of $277,000.
#4 - Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:56 PM CDT
Rick Santorium continue to tell the lie that Obama removed the welfare work requirement law..just lies from the convention floor:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/mitt-romney-lies_b_1838016.html
cm
here is the actual authorizing memo. If you read it it states that the Secretary is easing the definition or "work" to include school and other activities. decide for your self but it looks like watering down to me.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203.html
correction she is allowing a change not mandating it she will grant waivers.
Oh Ricky you just love Willard! NOT! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! What a fake suckup!
Hey where's XEPTDX or what ever???
Hi, xxx: Sally kicked XEPpy out for being a racist ass-hole. Did you know while he was being inflammatory that he was in a chopper on his way to Rodeo Dr.? He was trailering a Maserati or some BS like that while in the sky. <sarc> What a lying, POS troll.....takes all kinds.
Who in their right mind would vote for Willard? I guess it will be the dittoheads the doorknobs and doormats!
KKK no way!
This guy Rep. Davis is very angry at Obama, I don't know what happened, but he is an opportunist that is intent on doing harm, what a Liar, he is repeating the Rick Santorium Lies about welfare work requirement...I cannot have respect for LIARS...
Hi, cm!!
Know what you mean about not respecting liars.....have no time for them at all.
This whole season with the "new GOP" primaries, campaign and convention has been, is and will be one big fat lie out of their mouths. I so hope that the American people are paying attention to hear them and get to the polls. This "Sleeping Giant" has got to wake up once more!!
They ran out of room for all the liars in their party who wanted to be speakers so the tp'ers pretty much got left out. Thank, goodness.
Was hoping that Ron Paul would get a chance to shake things up a bit and give us an intermission from all of this lying from the "right".
Thanks!
I can't believe this woman is saying what this.
She is right that the republicans do deserve Mitt romney. We liberals just don't want him.
She lies about the lawsuit, Boewing brought it against the union. I can't see how Obama had anything to do with it.
They are all just angry. Oh, what a blast. Clowns.
Time to get out the Violins. ♫ ♬ ♫
Robme built it, Yeah a fortune of screwing the Buisness's and workers of the Country. Come on Robme, go to the store get some Hardware and come out and see how WE really Build it, Someone will have a dream, and construction workers will Build it
how do I log out of this website? !!
Just pull your head out of your butt! And shoot out the power lines!
Wow I thought it was Jay Leno and he had a bad wig on! It was Nikki Haley. Leno has a smaller chin!
Is it my eyesight, or what? but are their any People of Color at this Convention?
Arthur Davis doesn't count
I'm sure Willard's eyesight is perfect 20/20 hindsight! And when he thinks about it, he wishes he wasn't colorblind!
Hi Rachael,
Artur Davis is from Alabama and I think his mamma didn't know how to spell Arthur. I don't mean to make fun, but I am not happy with the turncoat.
He has decided to be a republican..............bad choice. I wish President Obama would show us the letters of the states that requested a temporary work requirement delay. Which states asked for this and who signed off on it?
Let's find that out.
A few Rachael They focus on them as often as they can, but notice they are surrounded by white ones. I saw four to day. one was in the mostly white musical group, one was just standing in the crowd, and one presented a nomination.....that was it.
I have to barf again....ann is on.You would think romney was bat man instead of bain capital.....and how many years has willard been running for office and failed??? and he lied about his residence in the state he did win. That is the man we need for the job alright. You can't trust willard.
Romney Claims Waivers He Used To Support Will ‘Gut Welfare Reform’
By Travis Waldron on Aug 7, 2012 at 9:32 am
Mitt Romney’s campaign launched a full-on attack on Tuesday accusing President Obama of gutting welfare reform. In a new ad, policy memo, and press release, Romney claims that the administration’s decision to offer waivers to states that develop innovative ways to meet the law’s work requirements is actually an attempt to “remove work participation rate requirements all together.”
“Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job,” the ad’s narrator says. “They just send you your welfare check.”
The ad is blatantly false — the administration’s plan specifically maintains the work requirement, but allows states to experiment with other methods of transitioning recipients from welfare to work. This is a policy that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says will make Temporary Assistance for Needy Families a more effective program.
But the ad is also disingenuous, as it fails to mention that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney explicitly supported the same waiver program he is now criticizing. Romney was one of 29 Republican governors to sign a 2005 letter from the Republican Governor’s Association to congressional leadership touting the benefits a waiver program would bring their states:
Dem--I agree the president should present a list at the Democratic Convention, and read the names of all the Republican Governors who asked for Tarp-and Welfare exemptions.
Good Post Dem--
TM--This is very unusual for a Convention, Usually they are very diversified. I was really shocked to only see C. Rice as the only one..
TM--Could you "PLEASE" re post that video on the other page please, I don't want to mess it up again--