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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Pres Obama isn’t someone you wish you could have a beer with,he’s someone you did have a beer with" [View all]
With All Due Humility
Posted on 04/24/2012 at 6:00 pm by JM Ashby
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We added up our assets and there were no assets.
When the president says he and his wife added up their assets and there were no assets, he may as well be speaking a foreign language to a man like Mitt Romney went to college on his assets which were handed to him. And while thats fine for anyone who has been afforded that luxury in life, the idea that Romney can in any way relate to the average American is absurd.
To have a sitting president level with his audience and, with all due humility, relate directly to his constituents in this way is something President Obama is uniquely capable of doing. Because hes been there. Because he knows the value of humility.
No bumper-sticker, television commercial, radio ad, or phony slogan can match this relation in its appeal.
President Obama isnt someone you wish you could have a beer with, hes someone you did have a beer with.
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/04/with-all-due-humility.html
Posted on 04/24/2012 at 6:00 pm by JM Ashby
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Check this out, all right. Im the president of the United States. We only finished paying off our student loans off about eight years ago. That wasnt that long ago. And that wasnt easyespecially because when we had Malia and Sasha, were supposed to be saving up for their college educations, and were still paying off our college educations.
I didnt just read about this. I didnt just get some talking points about this. I didnt just get a policy briefing on this.
We didnt come from wealthy families. When we graduated from college and law school we had a mountain of debt. When we married, we got poor together. We added up our assets and there were no assets. And we added up our liabilities and there were lot of liabilitiesbasically in the form of student loans.
We added up our assets and there were no assets.
When the president says he and his wife added up their assets and there were no assets, he may as well be speaking a foreign language to a man like Mitt Romney went to college on his assets which were handed to him. And while thats fine for anyone who has been afforded that luxury in life, the idea that Romney can in any way relate to the average American is absurd.
To have a sitting president level with his audience and, with all due humility, relate directly to his constituents in this way is something President Obama is uniquely capable of doing. Because hes been there. Because he knows the value of humility.
No bumper-sticker, television commercial, radio ad, or phony slogan can match this relation in its appeal.
President Obama isnt someone you wish you could have a beer with, hes someone you did have a beer with.
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/04/with-all-due-humility.html
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"Pres Obama isn’t someone you wish you could have a beer with,he’s someone you did have a beer with" [View all]
Pirate Smile
Apr 2012
OP
"He didn't impoverish one single person with his own ambition". . . +1. . . n/t
annabanana
Apr 2012
#21
I haven't found the video of this, but when the Pres says "Check this out..."
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2012
#9
That, was an epic moment. Really. You know it is true. 8 years. Only 8 years out and he's
CTyankee
Apr 2012
#23
Hell, I'd have him and his whole family over for a sleep-over with movies on LaserDisc.
HopeHoops
Apr 2012
#22