Obama’s Gift To Romney: ‘You didn’t build that’

Wall Street Journal
On The Impact Of Obama’s Remark

The immediate effect was to suck away the president’s momentum. Mr. Obama has little positive to brag about, and his campaign hinges on keeping negative attention on his opponent. For months, the president’s team hammered on Mr. Romney’s time at Bain, his Massachusetts tenure, his tax returns. “You didn’t build that” shifted the focus to the president, and his decision to respond to the criticisms has only legitimized them and guaranteed they continue.

The Obama campaign’s bigger problem, both sides are now realizing, is that his words go beyond politics and are more devastating than the Romney complaints that Mr. Obama is too big-government oriented or has mishandled the economy. They raise the far more potent issue of national identity and feed the suspicion that Mr. Obama is actively hostile to American ideals and aspirations. Republicans are doing their own voter surveys, and they note that Mr. Obama’s problem is that his words cause an emotional response, and that they disturb voters in nearly every demographic.


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  1. dick grace, 28 July, 2012

    Our president is an avowed socialist who no regard for the economic engine that has led the entire world into an era of prosperity previously unknown. Everyone employed understands that he intends to take everything he can from the producers and give it to the non producers. We who work and pay taxes in this once great country will not work for nothing. Only a fool would believe otherwise. When we work more than half the year just to pay taxes we are saying no more. The government is an out of control meth addict who will never have enough of our money to satisfy their profligate plans. Enough of this nonsense. Fire them all congress, judges and bureaucrats at every level. We need to stop congress from passing huge bills and enabling unelected bureaucrats to fill in the blanks with regulations. They have bankrupted this country.

  2. Cindy Tilley-Johnson, 28 July, 2012

    1st, show me where he has vowed to be a socialist! Then we will go on to the next gaffe of yours. And btw, who is “they”? He predecessors had nothing to do with any of this??? Hmmm pot calling the kettle black isn’t it?

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