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Video: Romney's Best Speech Yet

Ste Wrote: Jul 18, 2012 11:04 PM
“Best speech yet?” Usually, that language is reserved for people who’ve already HAD a good speech or two. LIke “Tom Hanks, in his best performance yet!” Maybe what distinguished today from other days is that his lies were more blatant - an air of desperation around him, as he took Obama’s comments totally out of context and allowed his audience to believe something that just wasn’t true. Maybe “best yet” means “best lies to date.” Today’s right-wing relishes good lies. And that’s too bad.

I dissected Obama's "worst speech yet" back in April (he hasn't topped it since, though he's come close), so why not write the uplifting companion piece?  Romney does most of the heavy lifting for me, taking a rhetorical battering ram to the president's insulting and demeaning "you didn't build that" remarks in Virginia over the weekend.  The presumptive Republican nominee hit the trail in Irwin, Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon and just unloaded on his opponent, savaging the president's ubiquitous strawmen and mounting a spirited defense of merit, individual accomplishment and American...

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