Democrats hold ground on 'you didn't build that,' tap Warren for convention speech

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    Democrats hold ground on 'you didn't build that,' tap Warren for convention speech

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...vention-speech/?test=latestnews#ixzz22FiLP1ok


    Democrats are digging in after the "you didn't build that" backlash, tapping the firebrand Harvard professor credited with crafting that business-government rhetoric for a plum speaking spot at the party's national convention in early September.
    Elizabeth Warren, who is also running for Senate in Massachusetts against GOP incumbent Scott Brown, was announced overnight as the speaker who will take the stage on the Wednesday of convention week "just before" former President Bill Clinton closes the night.
    Democratic National Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa praised her as a champion of the middle class and a deputy in President Obama's efforts to "level the playing field."
    "Like President Obama, Elizabeth is a leader committed to rebuilding the economy from the middle class out, instead of focusing on the top down economics of the past fueled by outsourcing good jobs, risky financial deals and budget-busting tax cuts for only the wealthiest few," Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles mayor, said.
    It was by any measure a bold move by Democrats, considering Warren gave the talk last year that is credited with inspiring Obama's controversial remarks earlier this month on America's businesses. Those remarks have since fueled a wave of GOP attack ads.
    As might be expected, Republicans pounced Tuesday on the decision to grant Warren a prime speaking spot in Charlotte, N.C.
    "Professor Warren represents the arrogance, the anger and the government-knows-best mentality that has put a stranglehold on America's small businesses, and Republicans welcome a very clear contrast in visions for the future that she will present," said Brian Walsh, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
    Though the controversy over Obama's remarks has focused on the disputed remark in which he said to business owners, "you didn't build that," Warren never actually said those words.
    But just as Obama's speech carried the message that America's entrepreneurs owe some measure of success to government investment, Warren made the same case in 2011.
    "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own, nobody," she said at the time. "You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear, you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
    "You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did," she said.
    Warren argued that business owners should keep a "big hunk" of their income, but also "take a hunk of that and pay forward" for the next generation.
    Obama, in Roanoke, Va., made a similar argument, in remarks that have played a starring role in Republican advertising. Mitt Romney's campaign hammered the comments, even as the GOP candidate completed a weeklong overseas tour.
    That the Democrats have picked Warren to introduce former President Clinton shows the party is hardly retreating from the sentiment.
    Though this might be off-putting for independents, Republican commentator and Tea Party 365 founder David Webb said it's actually a good move for the Democrats. "They need to shore up their base," he told Fox News. "They need to play to the progressives and the subsets who they want to stay in line."
    Further, the party could be trying to give Warren a boost in her race against Brown, one of several tight Senate contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress come January. Brown has tried to gain traction recently by raising questions about Warren's past claims of Native American heritage, which she cited while applying for a post at Harvard University.
    Brown's campaign, though, is portraying Warren's speaking slot as a downgrade -- considering that she had already been floated in the media as a possible keynote speaker. She didn't get that job.
    Brown's campaign told the National Journal that her "anti-free enterprise rhetoric" got her "downgraded" in Charlotte.
    In a statement, Warren described the speaking role as an "honor."
    "I grew up in a hardworking family, in an America that was investing in kids like me. President Obama is committed to making sure that America has a level playing field for all our families and to ensuring that every kid has the opportunity to make it," she said. "Mitt Romney and the Republicans want to go back to the same policies that broke this economy. It is time to move forward."
    Mark Hannah, a former aide to the Obama and John Kerry presidential campaigns, suggested the hubbub over Warren's and Obama's remarks is overblown.
    "To come out and say that Elizabeth Warren, by saying we should be collectively responsible on some level for our prosperity in this country ... that is somehow a Communist platform, shows a gross misunderstanding of both Communism and the Democratic platform," he said.
    Still, he said there is clearly a "massive, massive philosophical difference" between the two candidates over how a capitalist economy should be run.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...vention-speech/?test=latestnews#ixzz22FiU7Nny


    Yes!!! They are going to run on Obama incredibly damaging gaff! Can you believe that?

    Isn't Elizabeth Warren the fake native American lady? Why would they use the fake Indian to defend the empty suit?

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    Obama's "you didn't build that" speech was a declaration of war against all businessmen and entrepeneurs and I hope people are paying attention.
     
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    I know it pains you for workers to have more rights. And better pay.
     
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    Fortunately the dems aren't bright enough to run away from Obama's crazy remarks. So we will have this stick to beat them over and over again
    at least through September. Thank you guys.

    This is about as sharp as Nan Pelosi claiming that Jews are smart and they only support Romney so they can save their money and don't really care that much about Israel.

    Yes...we all know about the crafty Jew and his love of money! Thanks Nancy....Herr Goebbles called. He wants his talking points back.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...save-on-taxes/2012/07/28/gJQAuCCXGX_blog.html
     
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    You must be talking about government jobs.
     
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    Excellent. Warren will rip Romney another you know what. And the wimp Romney won't be man enough to man up and release his tax returns.
     
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    About as much as Romney is 'Just that Bain guy'.
     
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    They are trying to minimalize the damage caused by this glimpse of Democrat truth (they dont tell the truth often but watch out when they do). They are going to try to normalize this type of thinking. I think its a good idea.... Pffffffttttttttt HAHAHA!!!!!

    Please let this be true, dear Baby Jesus PLEASE :please: If it is i will see you Dumbocrats in November. I'll be the one throwing a victory party!!! :winner::party:
     
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    Obama's collectivist "you didn't build that" screed has been viral on social media for a week.

    They're hoping to excite their base by pandering to families of illegals...
    reminiscing over the CLINTON years (anything but the Obama years, right?)...
    and pandering to gay marriage.

    THEN, they're going to reenergize the business community and reignite social media memes by trotting out Marxist Warren as a featured speaker.

    Are they trying to get him out of the White House, too?
     
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    Of course.Fauxahontas is another Obama boot-licker like Poodle Head Wasserman-Shultz.
     
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    Yup, (*)(*)(*)(*) highways and internet........
     
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    yes,because her mother had high cheekbones ,shes a native American.Or some B.S. like that.Yet,no one can seem to really trace her roots back to it.
    I think she lied about her Native American heritage to take advantage of affirmative action.
    The only high light of the DNC Convention will be Slick Willie,who apposed tax hikes on the rich,and called Romneys career at Bain "sterling",and had his historical welfare reform torn to shreds by Obama.

    Clinton being there is a sign O is in trouble.
     
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    And that gaffe was the "gaffe of all gaffes" and its going to be his downfall.
    The sad thing is,it really "wasnt" a gaffe.He's a statist,and believes in Government more than individualism.
     
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    Yeah, with her trusty tomahawk, Bwahahahahaha!
     
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    I completely disagree.

    Its a declaration, by Obama and pals, of their belief in COMMUNISM.

    and now theyre doubling down, on their communist beliefs, claiming the government is in control over the means of production.

    Leftys have been crying for months every time I call Obama and pals, Communists.

    Ive been proven correct, by their very words.

    I expect an apology.

    Lets go COMMIES, man up and apologize !!!
     
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    I think its time for a new boogie man. Nobody is afraid of this nonexistent threat....Much like your ridiculous claims of sharia law.
     
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    You are the boogie man.

    Your lust for anothers possessions will destroy us all.
     
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    Yes I know you are still fooled by trickle down economics. After 30 years the money is going to be trickling down any day now! Just a little longer!
     
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    Obama's statement wasn't so much a gaffe, as it was people taking his words completely out of context and then pretending the out of context sentence was true. In context it becomes clear Obama was saying that we, as a society, rely on one another for help. It didn't have anything to do with government or welfare, as much as people like to think it was.
     
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    Target acquired. Wait, they just blew themselves up.
     
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    Yeah, it's like saying, "If you've got a child, you didn't bear that. I’m always struck by people who think ‘well, it must be because I was just so macho’. There are a lot of macho people out there! ‘It must be because I pumped harder than everybody else.’ Let me tell you something—there are a whole bunch of hardpumping people out there!

    "If you had a baby, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great nurse somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American baby that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in hospitals and doctors. If you’ve got a baby -- you didn’t bear that. Somebody else made that happen. The speculum didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the speculum so that all the parents could make babies.”

    Yeah, according to Obama "we" made the middle class. The same "we" that built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.

    It is pretty apparent that Obama thinks business could not exist without government yet the exact opposite is the truth.
     
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    That's ^^^ suitable for framing :)
     
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    Promoting Warren is political suicide. The hard left is really doped up on their own koolaid. LOL, sucks to be them.
     
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    You are actually expected to work for a living. I know its shocking and all, but its true.

    People who sit on their asses expecting the government to provide them with a livelihood, will always be left wanting.
     
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    actually a more fitting phrase would be " you did not think of that". Seems like this is just more proof that Warren's and Obama's original thinking could be documented on a post it note

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/0...arrative-from-progressive-berkeley-professor/
     

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