Obama Ad Accuses Romney of 'Launching a False Attack' for Quoting Obama

Weekly Standard ^ | 7-19-12 | DANIEL HALPER

[tcrlaf]

President Obama's reelection campaign accuses Mitt Romney of distorting the president's words, by showing a side by side comparison of the Obama's words and Romney's quotation of those words.

"Mitt Romney is launching a false attack," the ad's text states. But the weird thing is: The Obama campaign is purposefully trying to make it sound like Romney is misquoting the president, when the official White House transcript backs up Romney's quotation.

In the ad, Romney says that Obama revealed his thoughts on business when he said this, "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."

And, in fact, according to official White House transcript that's precisely what Obama said on July 13, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia.

[Old Sarge]

Choir, meet Preacher, Suzi.

[SuziQ]

;o)

[SuziQ]

the whole infrastructure (roads, houses, reservoirs) was built by the entrepreneurs who ran the iron industry. they succeeded despite the government, not because of it.

Yep!

[musicman]

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[kearnyirish2]

Absolutely; the state will simply swoop in to take profits once everything is up & running.