Obama on GOP convention and ideas: "You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV"

[ProSense]

Obama on GOP convention and ideas: "You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV"

by First Amendment

Folks, The President is "en fuego"!

Mittens and the GOP are dealing with a well oiled campaign machine and a great campaigner. The President is really enjoying himself. I can't wait for our convention because, I truly believe it will cement our lead and the President will cruise home to victory!

UPDATE: I embedded the video that has the money quote.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-gop-ideas-better-last-century-191555406--election.html

President Barack Obama, in Iowa to kick off a campaign swing, mockingly charged Saturday that the just-concluded Republican convention had showcased policies "better suited for the last century."

"You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV," Obama told a cheering crowd of thousands in Urbandale, outside Des Moines.

"It was something to behold. Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century what they offered over those three days was, more often than not, an agenda that was better suited for the last century," he said. "It was a re-run. We'd seen it before."

"If you didn't DVR it, let me recap it for you: Everything's bad, it's Obama's fault, and Governor Romney is the only one who knows the secret to creating jobs and growing the economy," he said. "That was the pitch."

"And when Governor Romney had his chance to let you in on his secret, he did not offer a single new idea. Just retreads of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years," Obama charged.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/01/1126817/-Obama-on-GOP-convention-and-ideas-You-might-as-well-have-watched-it-on-a-black-and-white-TV

Love it!

[RagAss]

1. Classic slap down !

[Curtland1015]

2. Countdown until someone pops up and says it was a bad comment...

...because some people only have black and white TVs:

3... 2...

[AllyCat]

23. I can think of two who might do this.

Great one from our awesome prez though, eh?

[avebury]

3. K&R nt

[BeyondGeography]

4. Just watching it play out and remembering why I got on board in Feb. 2007

I don't have to worry with this guy. He's together in his personal and emotional life and he doesn't screw up in public. Ever. And, as for the political talent, it's-once-in-a-lifetime stuff. We're lucky to have him, especially given the abyss that GOP would drag us into.

Now let's hold up our end of the bargain and kick some ground-game ass, folks.

[Cha]

13. +1 Exponentially!

Thanks BeyondGeography!

[Kalidurga]

5. It was awesome...

and not an empty chair in sight. If his convention speech is this good the bump is going to be huge.

[BREMPRO]

6. Obama is going to destroy him in the debates with this kind of biting rebuke and humor!

the stiff fact less nostalgia of Rmoney will crumble...

[Ebadlun]

7. Grainy 80s VHS more like

If it had been black and white TV, it would have depicted the rather more sensible policies of Eisenhower and Kennedy.

[madrchsod]

8. yup ,the debates are going to be brutal......

[SoapBox]

9. Oh SNAP!

And I as well can hardly wait for the debates.

Mittens is gonna be all twitchy and blinky.

[rocktivity]

14. One "Oh, snap!" coming right up!

rocktivity

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I thought it was hilareous

Sortof like this -

[Tom Ripley]

11. Oh man, that works on three levels

Only a fool would try to match wits with him

[AlbertCat]

12. I love the mult-layered-ness of it.

I know it was most likely unintentional, but "black and white" can refer to more than the TV signal.

[JohnnyLib2]

15. "on a black and white tv"

Perfect! Wish I'd thought of that one.

[drm604]

16. More like a movie theater newsreel.

Black and white TV is too modern.

[ibegurpard]

17. uh no

you may as well have read about it by carrier-pigeon message.

[ProSense]

22. What an image

Mitt standing at the window of his ivory tower preparing to toss a carrier-pigeon out. The message: Earth is flat!

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Actually, a just a white TV would have sufficed ...

there really wan't much else to see.

[reflection]

19. Outstanding response.

Mock him mercilessly.

[reformist2]

20. Obama knows how to cut through all the BS like no other!

[Zalatix]

21. DAMN, that stings!

[oldsarge54]

24. Obama was Being Generous

Actually, I thought Obama was being kind. I really believe that the Republicans are aiming for 1900. You know, no food regulations, no job safety, no unions, no Fed, no public radio, no social security (private funded only), no medical (private funded only), no minorities (except in slums and servant's quarters), no EPA, and only one democratic president since the civil war. The party of no indeed, NO 20th CENTURY.

[rks306]

25. Most growth when tax rates were high

30 years of supply side economics has just about destroyed us. Greed is not good. We just have seen what letting Wall St. right it's own rules does for the rest of the 99%. Let us have enough since to not go back there.