Posted on 07/21/2012 10:11:42 PM PDT by neverdem
‘If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen”: President Obama’s 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 you’ve been successful, you didn’t 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 didn’t 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 that’s why Obama’s “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 president’s 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 that’s the fall election in a nutshell.
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Whose worse, Obama or the fools that voted for him.
Hussein’s mindless fools, because they take his own words and simply ASSUME they mean something else, and then SLAM anyone who doesn’t make their same blind leap of faith.
All they’re doing is repeating the same paragraph over and over and saying, “See, it’s OBVIOUS he didn’t mean that!”
Stupid Hussein Heads don’t know or care about anything other than Democrat GOOD, Republican BAD.
Yes
But the real tragedy and puzzle are the “ball-less” GOP who have been totally silent about his abuses of power and outright lawlessness.
All 3 branches of government know he is a liar, fraud and an open traitor to the nation. He took an oath of office to protect and defend the constitution and broke it at every opportunity.
FUBO! and your minions.
November is coming.
An environment where free people, and entrepeneurs can exercise that freedom is what the federal government should provide...
What we have now is an obstructionist alphabet choking soup.
Fire the feds.
If the girly boy (dude) had come from our culture he would never have made such a statement.
Obama's handlers knew there'd be trouble if The One winged it without TOTUS and they were right.
The redistributive effort also hasn’t gone to the great unwashed, for they are still getting just the pittancve handouts...The real money is going to the bundlers and the felons who are into “solar” energy and the like....More like money laundering schemes for King Bozo Outagamie.
What really gets me is the fact that 40%of the population don’t pay any taxes and a large percent of those get tax credits for money they haven’t paid in the first place. So his statement that other people helped to pay for businesses is a bunch of crap.
And that’s why Obama’s “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.
If this is the focal point of the election, we’ll win.
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It had better become the focal point of this election if we are to restore America! (But I’m not counting on it, there are too many too clever by half GOP consultants.)
the American people know what it takes...
Our heritage envelopes WWII.
Our remembrance goes back to CWI.
Turn us loose and we will prosper.
All Three Branches of Government Are Acting Above the Law - What do we do about it?
Questions about Huma Abedin MUST READ; there are plenty of links at the NRO source.
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Michael Walsh is a brilliant, fascinating guy. Former music critic for the San Francisco Examiner and Time Magazine, co-founder of BigJournalism.com with Andrew Breitbart, best-selling fiction author (”Hostile Intent” reached number one in Kindle sales), now a regular writer for National Review.
Thanks for the ping!
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
1984
"These words are the official slogans of the Party, and are inscribed in massive letters on the white pyramid of the Ministry of Truth, as Winston observes in Book One, Chapter I. Because it is introduced so early in the novel, this creed serves as the reader’s first introduction to the idea of doublethink. By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical—for instance, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of waging war, the Ministry of Love is in charge of political torture, and the Ministry of Truth is in charge of doctoring history books to reflect the Party’s ideology.
"That the national slogan of Oceania is equally contradictory is an important testament to the power of the Party’s mass campaign of psychological control. In theory, the Party is able to maintain that “War Is Peace” because having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united.
“Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail.
"By the same token, “Slavery Is Freedom,” because the man subjected to the collective will is free from danger and want.
"Ignorance Is Strength” because the inability of the people to recognize these contradictions cements the power of the authoritarian regime."
So yes, there are several required ingredients necessary to establish an absolute socialist utopia.
People just need to see it to defeat the totalitarians. We still have a Constitutional Representative Democracy.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
1984
"These words are the official slogans of the Party, and are inscribed in massive letters on the white pyramid of the Ministry of Truth, as Winston observes in Book One, Chapter I. Because it is introduced so early in the novel, this creed serves as the reader’s first introduction to the idea of doublethink. By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical—for instance, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of waging war, the Ministry of Love is in charge of political torture, and the Ministry of Truth is in charge of doctoring history books to reflect the Party’s ideology.
"That the national slogan of Oceania is equally contradictory is an important testament to the power of the Party’s mass campaign of psychological control. In theory, the Party is able to maintain that “War Is Peace” because having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united.
“Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail.
"By the same token, “Slavery Is Freedom,” because the man subjected to the collective will is free from danger and want.
"Ignorance Is Strength” because the inability of the people to recognize these contradictions cements the power of the authoritarian regime."
So yes, there are several required ingredients necessary to establish an absolute socialist utopia.
People just need to see it to defeat the totalitarians. We still have a Constitutional Representative Democracy.
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