It is a scandal if it causes a wild amount of controversy. When you tell millions of Americans who built their businesses with their own money and hard work, that they didn't do it themselves, then you cause a scandal.
Of course, he didn't actually say that; what he said is that you didn't build the infrastructure on which your business depends. To quote: "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. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam."
As usual, the line is taken out of context, but is it too much that the President chose more precise language and grammar, after all, he is the leader of the free world. Also, the binder full of women thing. A scandal for sure, but obviously not the actual intent of the comment.
Thank you, Baltimorean, for comprehensively explaining how that was a totally manufactured "scandal". My other favorite was the government department deputy or something who used the word "niggardly" in a speech and everyone had an utter cow. I think he wound up having to resign. My GOD, I can't believe how willfully stupid people are.
How is Palin not naming a newspaper she read a scandal or Dean making a strange shout? This is either poorly titled or several "scandals" should be taken out.
Dean's strange shout cost him the presidency that year. He was endlessly ridiculed and no longer became a serious option to voters. It was more than a "strange shout." Now...to EDUCATED people, he was just excited...but to people who actually vote, he sounded dumb.
Yes, a key part of education is the ability to properly differentiate between one's screaming sounding "dumb" (a charge no one made) and sounding "excited".
It's a massive overstatement to say that his scream cost him the presidency. He had just finished third in the Iowa Caucus after he had a huge lead just prior to the voting, and the scream came later that night after the results came in. He only won a single primary in his home state of Vermont. He was mostly an outsider in the entire race, regardless of how much press he got.
Palin couldn’t name a single newspaper. When asked which newspapers she read, she said, “All of them.” When asked to give just one example of a newspaper she read, she kept saying, “All of them.” It seemed like she had never heard of any American newspaper. Why couldn’t she just say, “The Wall Street Journal”? That would have made many American conservatives happy. But she apparently didn’t know the name of any newspaper. She also apparently thought Africa was a country and that the Queen is really the ruler of the UK. But she’s about as knowledgeable as the current president, so maybe I’m being too hard on her.
Well, considering I couldn't spell Akin, not spelling blago isn't so bad. I had same problem with Craig - I could remember the Larry, and first letter C, but that was it.
I love how people think things they live through are the most [whatever] in the entire history. It's amazing how Clinton, Bush, Obam and Trump were all, one right after the other, the worst, most duplicitous, treasonous and corrupt by far in American history. That is, according to people who know none.
I shudder to think of the number of scandalous, or at least wildly embarrassing, comments we will be able to list from Trump by time November comes around.
The Todd Akin, Ted Stevens and certainly the Howard Dean quotes are not scandals. The Akin and Stevens quotes can be attributed to sheer ignorance, while Dean should not be condemned for shouting into a mike in a crowded, noisy room at the very moment that the crowd finally decided to shut the hell up (as they had been asked to do no less than a half-dozen times).
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ps: we all saw how it ended