"The Private Sector's Doing Fine"

What do you do if someone says something weird, and you are interested in learning the truth, and the truth about what they think?

You ask: "Hey, did you mean that?"

So, if the GOP cared about the truth here, they'd ask:

"Hey, you said the private sector's doing fine. Did you mean that?"

Whereupon Obama would say:

"No, of course not. If you look at what I was talking about, I meant that the private sector's doing better than the public sector. And that's true."

If, however, you're only interested in scoring political points and tricking people into voting for you...you make this.

Obama doesn't think that the private sector is doing fine, and everyone who knows anything about politics knows that. I know that the Dems often pounce on such things, too, but GOP irrationality and mendacity has gone so far over the top that I'm disinclined to emphasize the Dems' comparatively rather minor sins.

Consider, e.g., "corporations are people my friends." Now that's a quote one can honestly disseminate with some justification. Yes, they're forensic persons. But yes, it matters that R-Money is so enthusiastic about it.