Posted on 09/02/2012 7:40:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The official theme of the GOP convention Wednesday night was "We Can Change That," but that didn’t stop several of the speakers from revisiting Tuesday’s theme, the base-rallying battle cry: “We Built It.” The message: The righteous exploitation of President Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That” gaffe isn’t going away.
Ever since the president stood before a crowd of supporters in Roanoke, Va., on July 13 and, while explaining why the wealthy should pay more in taxes, uttered the infamous words “If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen,” conservatives have hammered him for his disregard for small-business owners. And liberals have hammered back that Obama was taken out of context. To be fair, this is the full quote:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. 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. If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Obama supporters can complain all they want. They can argue that when he said “that,” he was talking about the roads and bridges, not the business itself. It doesn’t matter. And it’s pointless to blame Mitt Romney or the RNC or anyone else for taking it out of context. Here’s why....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I commend Slate for trying to explain this to their readers. Afeter reading the comments from the “Progressives”, sadly, it didn’t work.
Very eloquent summary.
This is what he meant.
If you’ve got a business, that...you didn’t build that. Someone else made that happen.
That is why he must have a teleprompter. He cannot contain his hostility towards America without it.
He’s an idiot and a husk.
‘Property is theft’ since ‘You didn’t build that’, you have no complaint when it’s taken from you by force (which is government) if necessary.
If you think he said what you heard him say, you’re a waysis too!.....
I wholeheartedly agree — there’s no such thing as bad publicity about Zero’s public expression of his real attitude — which is reparations [sic] and redistribution in a dissent-free environment.
I just emailed carmax and told them I would never purchase a car from them again due to the owners support of Obummers comments. I told them to get ready to be "Chick-fil-a'd" in reverse. everybody needs to email these people.
Is it any wonder a person who firmly believes “white folks’ greed runs a world in need” - a line Obama quoted approvingly in his own book (page 293) - would also believe that a business owner only owns it by taking advantage of others?
You’re exactly right, and notice that Slate did not include those portions of the speech when they put the “You didn’t build that” into “context.” They conveniently left off the key sentences of the entire speech, which shows that “you didn’t build that” meant exactly what conservatives have been saying he meant:
“I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.”
I did the same thing as you, only my course was in Comparative Religions. What I learned about a little understood religion called Islam alarmed and frightened me, because I could extrapolate into the future the events that eventually came true on a bright sunny September morning in 2001. Islam and Marxism have a whole lot in common.......
Yes, thank you, and I would add to that, that not only do some us do things with out help, we also acomplish things against great odds, with others - even family members - saying “You can’t do that, it will never work out.” And we get up and do it anyway. That’s what really makes me angry about that statement.
Aw that’s racist — to expect to interpret Barack’s remark as though it had been put in English! Ebonics mixes singulars and plurals without rhyme or reason. Surely there was an elided word [stuff] as in “You didn’t build that [stuff].”
The thing about the spin from the left on this as to what the President “actually meant” is that it doesn’t at all change the meaning - the point of the speech still remains to diminish the significance of individual achievement - that is the only thing it could have meant - with that sentence preceded by the other mocking comments about people claiming to be “so smart” and claiming they “worked hard”, etc. Their spin is also just as incorrect - the roads and bridges would not be there without business owners and their employees producing the capital that was taxed. Look at the old pictures of towns / cities when they were first starting up - no roads, no bridges. Dirt paths and little boats to take things across. Totally wrong - he and his fellow liberals have it backwards.
Sarah Palin NEVER, EVER uttered such a stupid and inane comment........
Both believe in ganging up to do brutal, unthinkable things.
I wonder how professor thomas crapper feels about this. who knew obama helped him invent the toilet with the help of roads and bridges.
I wonder how professor thomas crapper feels about this. who knew obama helped him invent the toilet with the help of roads and bridges.
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