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Opening Arguments

Sure shot

Nothing hotter than women with guns:

Under a drizzly gray sky, Kim Rhode on Sunday became the first American athlete to win five medals in an individual event in five consecutive Olympic Games.

She earned a gold medal in women’s skeet, setting an Olympic record and tying the world record by hitting 99 of 100 targets. She also became the first woman to win three gold medals in Olympic shooting.

The story notes that she got started at age 10, encouraged and then coached by her father and that she shoots 500 to 1,000 rounds a day, seven days a week. That's some serious dedication.

Comments

tim zank
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 12:59pm

Leo, it wasn't her dedication..we know she didn't do it on her own...not without her beloved government...

 

Obama willing (Peace Be To Him) by the time the next Olympics roll around, there will be no more of these silly Gold, Silver and Bronze designations and we will have progressed to the point everyone will share the medal.....as it should be, fair!

Christopher Swing
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 5:34pm

Amazing how much mileage the developmentally-disabled can attempt to get out of a willful misinterpretation. XD

 

tim zank
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 7:05pm

Kinda hard to misinterpret this:

 

"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

 

 

Christopher Swing
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 9:19pm

So everybody who built a business is also personally responsible for all the infrastructure that allowed them to do so?

So you're really just stupid, Tim? Or you're really just at that point where all you have left is harping on a grammar error? :D

The Facts

The president, during a campaign speech in Roanoke, tried to make the case that wealthy people need to have higher taxes in order to help serve the public good. Here is what he said, with the words used in the ad in bold type:

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.”

The biggest problem with Romney’s ad is that it leaves out just enough chunks of Obama’s words — such as a reference to “roads and bridges”— so that it sounds like Obama is attacking individual initiative. The ad deceivingly cuts away from Obama speaking in order to make it seem as if the sentences follow one another, when in fact eight sentences are snipped away.

Suddenly, the word “that” appears as if it is referring to a business, rather than (apparently) to roads and bridges. (Granted, the president’s grammar is off.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/an-unoriginal-obama-quote-taken-out-of-context/2012/07/20/gJQAdG7hyW_blog.html

tim zank
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 10:19pm

Just going by what he said...pretty simple...

 

 

tim zank
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 10:22pm

Just curious Swing, was the 57 states comment a grammar error or a math error?

Christopher Swing
Tue, 07/31/2012 - 3:15am

What Tim, you're too lazy to look at Snopes? http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp

Given your Above Top Secret background, I'm not surprised you'd be referencing something that has to be filed on an urban legends site. XD

When you're down to chasing grammar errors and gaffes, we know you've lost, Zank. :D

tim zank
Tue, 07/31/2012 - 7:09am

http://youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws

 

 

Christopher Swing
Tue, 07/31/2012 - 11:28am

Yes Zank, you've proven someone was tired and mis-spoke four years ago, something no one denies. What's your point?

Here, why don't you try something from this week and closer to home?

"So if you go to a Chick-fil-A in the near future, don’t be surprised if you have to break through a line of protestors to get it. Unless it’s on ThursdayAug. 1, (sic) which former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has declared as 'Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.'"

Now, was Leo (or whoever wrote the editorial that day) tired, or did he open his 2013 calendar early? Were all the copy editors asleep, too? Or was the entire thing just lazy?

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