Romney Picks Up ‘Didn’t Build That’ Attack Where He Left Off | Talking Points Memo

Colorado voters are still being shielded from campaign ads in the wake of the massive Aurora shooting. But the rest of the country is wading back into the presidential campaign — and that means Mitt Romney is quickly reviving his go-to attack against President Obama: an out-of-context quote he has wielded as evidence Obama doesn’t understand the American capitalist system.Until the early Friday morning shooting ground the campaign to a halt, the GOP had been aggressively pouncing on the “you didn’t build that” line — selectively editing Obama’s words to suggest he doesn’t believe businesspeople are responsible for their own success.


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