IBD omitted part of Obama's statement undermining its accusation of "arrogance"
SUMMARY: Accusing Sen. Barack Obama of "arrogance," an Investor's Business Daily editorial stated that "Obama has also been acting as if he's got the presidency in the bag," and then quoted Obama telling a crowd in Virginia: "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here." But IBD cropped Obama's full statement; Obama said immediately afterward: "[B]ut we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction."
On October 24, an Investor's Business Daily editorial stated that "[Sen. Barack] Obama has also been acting as if he's got the presidency in the bag," and then quoted Obama telling a crowd in Virginia: "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here." IBD then suggested that "Ronald Reagan ma[de] a point of avoiding overconfidence at the end of the 1980 campaign when it was clear that he would beat Jimmy Carter" and that "Reagan would go after Obama for his arrogance." IBD wrote: "In his inimitable style, Reagan would no doubt warn Obama that that 'righteous wind' he feels could soon become a head wind, and blow all his hot air right back into his face." However, IBD cropped Obama's full statement to the crowd in Virginia, making it appear as though Obama was asserting victory. In fact, Obama said immediately afterward: "[B]ut we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction."
Here is what Obama actually said during the October 22 campaign stop in Leesburg, Virginia (compiled from a Breitbart.tv video clip of the first part of Obama's remarks and an MSNBC video clip of the second part):
OBAMA: And in 13 days, if you'll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington. Now, that's the good news. I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction.
From the October 24 IBD editorial:
Saying a whole bunch of nothing with a nice ring to it is not the only way Obama is copying "the little man on the wedding cake," as the ever-witty Alice Roosevelt Longworth referred to Dewey. Obama has also been acting as if he's got the presidency in the bag.
"I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here," he told a northern Virginia crowd Wednesday.
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In his book "With Reagan," Edwin Meese recalled Ronald Reagan making a point of avoiding overconfidence at the end of the 1980 campaign when it was clear that he would beat Jimmy Carter.
Reagan knew, according to Meese, that "planning to govern before being elected would smack of smugness and have a negative effect on the electorate," and he "constantly worried about being a latter-day Thomas Dewey."
Imagine how Reagan would go after Obama for his arrogance -- which extends to his misguided policies to tax the investment that drives the economy, mask tax credits as welfare, spend hundreds of billions more annually and use talk to win the global war on terror.
In his inimitable style, Reagan would no doubt warn Obama that that "righteous wind" he feels could soon become a head wind, and blow all his hot air right back into his face.
Investment drives the economy? I thought it was the people who get up every morning and go to work who drive the economy. Investments don't mean jack if nobody has the money to buy stuff.
But if you want to talk about investment, let's talk about investing the things that will keep the country competitive in the global economy. Let's invest in infrastructure, green technology, education and healthcare. Let's put people to work building our country for the long-term security of our country.
That's the part of the equation that the Trickle-downers seem to forget. Capital does help create jobs, but where does that capital come from? Do the Billionaires grow it in their back yards? Does God rain it down on the righteous? No, workers generate it by making things that other people buy. Period. Without the great unwashed masses to buy their stuff, Billionaires don't exist.
Who cares what Investor's Business Daily says? Aren't these people the ones who have been selling our country down the river? We're better off reading the Paris Business Review...
I thought it was the people who get up every morning and go to work who drive the economy.
No, Roundhouse, we're only parasites, living off of the generosity of rich people who risk paying more taxes by giving us the gift of a job.I don't like to pick on the crazy girl who carved the backward B on her face and blamed a scary black Obama supporter, but she's a pretty good symbol for the GOP base.
I don't know a lot about the psychology of "cutters", but I'd guess that it's some combination of low self-esteem, masochism, a need for a scapegoat and a need to feel something, even pain. A reliable GOP voter.
Right. I forgot. We're not like those masters of the universe who pay themselves 500 times more than us parasites, make multibillion dollar companies go extinct then demand we leave them alone as they drain the public kitty. Those guys are just good, hard working businessmen.
Nice character sketch of a reliable GOP voter, by the way.
"Right. I forgot. We're not like those masters of the universe who pay themselves 500 times more than us parasites, make multibillion dollar companies go extinct then demand we leave them alone as they drain the public kitty.:
At first I thought you were talking about wall street capitalists, but when you put those parameters on it, I know you're talking about Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.. right on!
A couple posters here wrote in yesterday’s item on this that it's fair to crop Obama's "wind at our backs" quote and make it out to mean something that he did not assert as long as the report includes the phrase "ear splitting". For shame, IDB, for failing to use this key qualifier.
Amazing how easily these people lie, isn't it? I've only seen snippets of Obama's speeches, and I know that he has repeatedly cautioned his supporters not to be overconfident.
I guess it's remotely possible that there are other clips of him saying that he's got it in the bag.... but where are they? When is FOX "News" going to air those clips? You know they would if they existed.
The only "arrogance" is the IBD and the hate they have toward Obama.
Thing is. I bet Reagan would vote for Obama were he still alive.
What proof did the hygrometer test the kool-aid out at this week? LOL
it's really a sign of desperation of persuasion when you have to assert that a guy who the left reviles, certain California kooks hold annual pilgrimages to pee on his grave, and has been the penultimate villian of most of your rhetoric the last 28 years is suddenly going to favor your candidate! Wow. talk about dissociated/schizo or what!
Deperation of persuasion? Been listening to Sarah this week, lol lol lol lol lol lol
I never did dislike Ronnie. He was affable and more likeable than shrub, shooter or grampy. His policy positions were just as bad, however.
Judging from your repy, I can only guess that they passed on putting grain alcohol in the kool-aid this week in favor of straight ethylene glycol. It must be that the libs are expecting hell to freeze over soon. LOL
Smealls of loons!
"In his inimitable style, which we will immediately claim to imitate...."
No arrogance here, no siree.
The supposed arrogance doesn't offend me...but I'm truly offended with Obama mixing politics and religion...righteous indeed!
Oh Thomas Jefferson...where fore art thou?
Ha Ha. Like you care.
Next time you have a stupid remark like that, do like you did in the voting booth, just don't bother.