If you followed politics especially after President Obama won election in 2008, you will recall that the path Republicans decided to take for the first four years of his presidency was to deny Mr. Obama a second term by saying no to everything he tried to do.
Needless to say the Republicans Block Party didn’t work out too well and after four years of pure obstruction, President Obama overwhelmingly won re-election in 2012 and now, after calling the President a Marxist, a socialist, a communist and all the other ist they could think of, Republicans are now trying to paddle back to the center and stealing portions of Obama’s speeches is apparently the only way they know of getting votes in the 2014 elections.
Watch below, as Lawrence O’ Donnell from MSNBC ‘s The Last Word introduced a video showing Obama making the original speech, then Cantor doing a masterful job of stealing Obama’s stuff.