You Didn’t Build That
19th July 2012
The “you didn’t build that” passage of President Obama’s Roanoke speech has gone viral on the Internet, with the Republican National Committee posting posters of Steve Jobs, the Wright Brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell. The Wall Street Journal has an editorial calling it “the line of the year.”
And anyone who said that Obama is not a socialist is now shown to be a fool … or a liar.
July 19th, 2012 at 13:33
“And anyone who said that Obama is not a socialist is now shown to be a fool … or a liar.” Sorry, not demonstrated. Try again, only this time make some connection between ‘acknowledging that nobody does it alone’ and ‘socialism’.
From the article: “Obama substituted the enabling power of the state for the power of God” Quite a leap from what he said to what the writer wants you to believe he said. Teachers, roads, and bridges all pre-date the ‘enabling power of the state’ by many, many centuries.
Of course this is all a smokescreen to divert from his actual message, which is, “You didn’t do it alone.” Jobs didn’t. Bell didn’t. The Wrights didn’t. Gates didn’t. Ford didn’t. Nobody ever does.
And I find it supremely ironic that the article invokes the family, that most socialist of all human institutions, to try to refute the imputed ‘socialism’ of the president. Delicious.
July 19th, 2012 at 17:29
Shocking as the statement was in its sheer idiocy to “moderate” ears – if Romney’s campaign has a scoop of brains they’re already at work on the campaign ads centered on this moronic statement of Obama’s – it surprised me not in the slightest: that is the academic Marxist mindset; government did it all, and you just happened to come along and pick up a freshly-minted small business (or invention; or successful corporation; etc., etc.) on the side of the metaphorical road.
I got to talking with my “Independent-minded moderate Republican” back fence neighbor about it yesterday afternoon while fixing a sprinkler head in my backyard. He voted for Obama in ’08 because – supposedly – Sarah Palin had said something somewhere sometime that scared the pants off of him (actually, he voted for Obama because his wife had just read what The Derb calls a “white guilt porn” book of some kind or another, and convinced him he would be “on the wrong side of history” if he didn’t vote like she was going to); he is also a very successful small businessman.
He affected to be shocked – shocked, I tell you! – about Obama’s views regarding his business – which he literally built from scratch. Neither Obama nor any government had the slightest thing to do with it, roads or no roads, schools or no schools, he protested. I politely pointed out that voting for a guy who had never held a real job in his entire life and had been in the United States Senate for all of three years wasn’t, perhaps, an entirely-thought-through decision at the time it was made; he snorted and offered to help me with my sprinkler head, and we moved on to other subjects, non-political subjects.
The mentality that put this amateurish Leftist in office in the first place is the real root of the problem; I hope Romney can pull it off in November, but I have my doubts.
July 20th, 2012 at 08:06
**“And anyone who said that Obama is not a socialist…” Sorry, not demonstrated. Try again, only this time make some connection between ‘acknowledging that nobody does it alone’ and ‘socialism’.**
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
Mr Obama was making the case that businesses are the fruit of government. They are the buds that grow off the ends of the branches that the government grows. The bigger the government, the more the branches (and business buds at the end of them.) He is attempting to convince Americans they are already socialist and don’t know it. Clever. You know, they are really the people’s businesses, hence socialist.
Male bovine excrement (hereafter MBE)
He’s lying about the nature, duties and accomplishments of the federal government and omitting state and local governments that do the majority of business friendly innovation (infrastructure, local tax rate negotiation…). He is attempting to attribute everyone’s (business persons) success to the “rightful manager” of the federal government, the Democratic Party (in his eyes). MBE
It is ironic that these businesses, already intact, successful, and lucrative are often sought out by local governments to move into their community. They (the local governments) of course couldn’t begin to employ or generate the income for the community that these already existing businesses can.
These local governments (which I must point out are made up of private citizens holding office) are vying for businesses to take advantage of their “free enterprise” environment. In doing this, those companies enrich the community and increase the tax base of that local government. In a sense they are engaging in free enterprise themselves, “bidding” for businesses against other communities.
Mr. Obama understands none of this though he deserves some recognition for his manipulation of blame and credit.
July 20th, 2012 at 15:33
“Mr Obama was making the case that businesses are the fruit of government.”
They spin a myth, and you swallow it hook, line, and sinker.