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National Review ^ | Aug 6, 2012 | Yuval Levin

Posted on 08/07/2012 2:26:04 AM PDT by FactsNLogic

President Obama must surely wish he could undo the campaign speech he delivered in Roanoke, Va., on July 13. That was where he offered up the view that "if you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen." It is a line that could haunt him right to November, revealing as it does an unwillingness to credit success and a hostility toward the culture of entrepreneurship. But the remark came in the context of a broader argument that was just as telling on a different point, and no less troubling.

The president simply equates doing things together with doing things through government. He sees the citizen and the state, and nothing in between - and thus sees every political question as a choice between radical individualism and a federal program.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; government; obama; youdidntbuildthat

1 posted on 08/07/2012 2:26:13 AM PDT by FactsNLogic
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To: FactsNLogic

What a great. explanatory article.


2 posted on 08/07/2012 2:39:03 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: FactsNLogic

It also provides a rich context to Obama’s very early attack on charitable giving; either he’s hidden that impulse or we’ve stopped paying attention to it. Biden and his .1 of 1% giving is the flesh and blood face of those motivations.


3 posted on 08/07/2012 2:46:10 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: FactsNLogic
>>But he should also take the opportunity the president has handed him to offer a defense of American life
 
 
"The [my] only connection [to the Republican Party]is I'm registered as a Republican"
--Mitt RRRRRomney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbXdOCQQMs
 
NO SALE.
 
{ and screw you pansies in the rainbow "true blue" peanut gallery, too }

4 posted on 08/07/2012 2:48:05 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: FactsNLogic
You didn't build that!

Public, Serve Us!


5 posted on 08/07/2012 2:56:37 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: FactsNLogic

Great article bump


6 posted on 08/07/2012 4:29:45 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: OldEarlGray
I have to say it's pretty shocking to find out though your post that Romney is a RINO...and not an American Too!!!

Silly me I thought Romney was a rock solid conservation all this time..

/ s

7 posted on 08/07/2012 4:35:11 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: Popman

>>I have to say

Of course you did.

/s


8 posted on 08/07/2012 4:55:37 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: OldEarlGray

Wow!! Aren’t you a brilliant man. You can actually cut and paste the same post over, and over, and over again. I certainly wish you would do this on EVERY post.


9 posted on 08/07/2012 5:01:10 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Awe, does the Rainbow Pine Parrot have a problem with the TRUTH?

KMA.


10 posted on 08/07/2012 5:03:29 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: FactsNLogic

Makes a brief, clear case that Obama’s a fascist. Maybe he’s going toward communism, but in practice so far he’s definitely a fascist.


11 posted on 08/07/2012 6:08:19 AM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: FactsNLogic
This is a great article, and I'll add to it by suggesting something that may have been too politically incorrect for the author.

Barack Obama's political agenda is aimed at eliminating those "intermediate institutions" like families, businesses, religious institutions, civic groups, etc. because by any measure he's a complete loser whose own personal background represents a failure of every one of those institutions. He identifies himself with cultural/ethnic groups that couldn't build and sustain an "intermediate institution" of any note if they were given a thousand years and an endless supply of money to complete the task. That's why his message -- as an affirmative-action leech, a half-@ssed lawyer, and a community organizer -- has been to rail against the establishment and demand that other people "do more" to help people like the misfits and losers who litter his own family and personal background.

12 posted on 08/07/2012 7:51:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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