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Not his real message about how infrastructure and education support the growth of businesses, but the part where his out-of-context remark became the main theme of the Republican National Convention. “Obviously, I have regrets for my syntax,” Obama told NBC 12 in Richmond, Virginia. “But not for the point, because everyone who was there watching knows exactly what I was saying.” He’s clearly choosing his words more carefully these days. The president added, “This is an example of … for the other side, a tendency to shave the truth a little bit to try to win political points,” though he was clearly longing to lob a “You lie!” back at Republicans.
