Posted on 07/21/2012 10:11:42 PM PDT by neverdem
If youve got a business you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen: President Obamas words last week are likely to haunt his campaign and possibly cost him the election.
The line insulted millions of entrepreneurs, small-business owners, garage inventors and plain old dreamers. (The Post reported this week on a few of the New Yorkers who took exception.)
Of course, Obama supporters have relentlessly pointed out that the instantly viral head-scratcher was preceded by some no-man-is-an-island boilerplate. If youve been successful, you didnt get there on your own. . . somebody along the line gave you some help, the president said.
And: There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
But you didnt build that still stands as...
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The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the light bulb, the MacBook, the iPhone and the iPad all disprove his thesis. Great inventions are most often conceived by private individuals, sitting alone in a room, not government bureaucrats.
And thats why Obamas gaffe could well become a focal point of the election a sharp line of demarcation between a party that stands for collectivism and one that not only celebrates the individual but also gets out of his way.
The presidents been promising fundamental transformation of the country since 2008. Altering the relationship between citizen and state is certainly part of that.
Which is why Romney gets to the heart of the matter when he asks: Do we believe in an America that is great because of government or do we believe in an America that is great because of free people allowed to pursue their dreams?
And thats the fall election in a nutshell.
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Of course, Walsh is correct. But Obama isn’t speaking to rational people when he gives his anti-business/free-market harangues. He’s talking to the millions of Americans who think wealth simply exists, and the rich people got to the pile of wealth before the rest of us. The Democrat Party is mostly composed of people who are jealous of the success of others. That is the element Obama was speaking to. The ignorati.
Obama, by his own words, has revealed to all who will listen who he is and where he wants to take the country.
A perfect description of the colossal difference between the parties.
There’s a third alternative worth considering: conservatives who’d rather have an Obama 2nd term.
That is simply outstanding. Stealing for future use!
When I first read 0bamas comment I thought he meant that business was built on the backs of the workers, after all he is a Marxist.
That’s what he meant.
Hopefully a lot of somebodies will make make his defeat happen in November.
Even Hussein’s sycophants are worried that this is his Holiness’ “Read my lips” moment.
FU Hussein, and the Hussein Heads you rode in on!
That Nobel Peace Prize? You didn't earn it!
I saw one devout Hussein Head imbecile post Hussein’s rant against business word for word and say, “See, it’s obvious he was referring to roads and bridges, not business!”
It’s become the religion of Hussein, who is perfect, can do no wrong and is above reproach.
Hallelujhah — Heil Hussein!
I like to say I can smell November from my house!
Someone should do a music video called “You didn’t build that” maybe using a Hussein Head singer’s work like “We Didn’t Start the Fire”....
Ahhh! the smell of napalm in the morning.
The hilarious thing is that it is money extracted from the small businesses that built the roads and bridges anyway
Anyone here on FR remember the Hurst 4 Speed Shifter?
George Hurst created that in his one car garage in Pennsylvania with long hours of tinkering to perfect it.
He created a million dollar business.
I am pretty darn sure he didn’t get any help from the Federal Government.
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