In rest of '98 clip, Obama speaks of 'competition' and 'the marketplace'

[PoliticalTiger]

Mitt Romney's campaign this week has pounced on a 14-year-old clip of Obama speaking about "redistribution" in October 1998 at a conference in Chicago, in which the future president seems to extol the virtues of redistributing wealth.

Yet NBC News has obtained the entirety of the relevant remarks, which includes additional comments by Obama that weren't included in the video circulated by Republicans. That omission features additional words of praise for "competition" and the "marketplace" by the then-state senator.

In the whole clip, Obama says:

Quote:I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot. How do we pool resources at the same time as we decentralize delivery systems in ways that both foster competition, can work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and can be tailored to particular communities.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...place?lite

[jaxx]

Good find. And piss on Willard for trying to slither his way out of his rotten words.

[There Is No Spoon]

Heh, they had to desperately throw out a 1998!, 1998! video to counter what jackass elitist Romney said just 4 months ago while running for President. Oh, and yes, the statement Obama as a State Senator made was deliberately taken out of context - as usual per Breitbart standards.

Republicans are a joke - and not even a good one.