For those of you who like more fun in the political posts....
Trying to squirm out of his 47-percent video mess, Mitt Romney unearthed a 14-year-old video of then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama saying, “I actually believe in redistribution.” But we have come to learn through experience that video coming out of Boston must be viewed with caution.
President Obama's campaign released a new web video Thursday comprised of entirely out-of-context clips of opponent Mitt Romney, intended, they say, to illustrate that Romney's attack on Obama's "redistribution" comment was unfair because it didn't include his full explanation.
"In a desperate attempt to distract Americans from another disastrous week for Mitt Romney, his campaign has once again flagrantly taken the president's statements out of context to make a point that simply doesn't exist," said Obama deputy press secretary Adam Fetcher in a statement. "After falsely accusing the president of wanting to redistribute wealth when he was actually talking about reforming government and making it more effective, it’s now come to light that they selectively removed additional context from the 14-year-old remarks in which then-Senator Obama stressed the need for competition, innovation and a strong marketplace in expanding opportunity for all Americans."
Trying to squirm out of his 47-percent video mess, Mitt Romney unearthed a 14-year-old video of then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama saying, “I actually believe in redistribution.” But we have come to learn through experience that video coming out of Boston must be viewed with caution.
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Decentralize? Competition? Marketplace? Innovation? I wonder how many people in that audience then wondered if the fella with the funny name was a closet Republican. As David Firestone of the New York Times noted yesterday, this nation “has long redistributed wealth, and that the country expects it to do so.” That’s why, as Stephen Stromberg argued yesterday, this attack by Romney “makes him look even more desperate.”
