Posted on 08/22/2012 6:32:51 AM PDT by raptor22
Ideology: The battle is on between entrepreneurship and crony socialism, between candidates who believe innovative risk-takers create jobs and an administration that believes all blessings flow from the government.
By President Obama's logic, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps didn't really win all those medals on his record-setting run. The credit should go to those who built the pools he trained in and filled them with water.
Building on the reaction to President Obama's disparagement of entrepreneurs and businessmen large and small, the GOP at next week's Republican National Convention will dedicate Tuesday night to the theme of "We Built This!"
Speakers will include Sher Valenzeula, a Latina candidate for lieutenant governor in Delaware. Her campaign website notes she and her husband started an upholstery business that makes padding for baseball umpires and military vests.
"Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive," the president famously has said of business owners. "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
According to Obama, those of you who thought that those bridges and roads were built with the tax dollars paid by businesses and the people they employ were sadly mistaken. The GOP hopes to capitalize on the justified anger of those who made personal sacrifices and put long hours into building their businesses.
This disdain for the individual and the American system of free enterprise designed to let everyone reach the limits of his or her talents and ambitions should be the overarching theme of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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-- Winston Churchill"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
THEY BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL!!1!
*ducks and covers*
Yeah. Knee deep in the hoopla....
If they play that song, regardless of permission, then they are STUPID!
It’s, by far, the WORST SONG WRITTEN IN ROCK!
Republicans OCCUPY Tampa!
I think they should ditch that song and come up with one that is more in keeping with the gop e philosophy. Some alternatives:
“Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
“Macho Man” by the Village People
“I touch myself” by the divinyls
That's because the two best known Jefferson Airplane songs (White Rabbit, and Somebody To Love) are covers of songs by The Great Society (the band Grace Slick was in with Darby Slick).
Didn’t everybody learn to play “Somebody to Love”?
Who the heck are learned to play “We Built This City”?
Rush’s “Working Man” work be great, but the message may be lost on many.
Plus they’re canucks. But I do like Rush. They’re Objectivists.
A little ironic in that the convention is being held in a building that was mostly built through public financing.
I’m guessing “Yank Me, Crank Me” by Ted Nugent isn’t a possibility. :-)
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It's nauseatingly bad.
I put it in the same league as “Having My Baby” by Paul Anka.
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