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Updated 5:49 p.m. - President Obama sought to directly explain to voters what he meant by a comment about small business that has reverberated through Republican attacks on his re-election.
The new ad, “Always,” which will air in in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada, argues that Republicans were mischaracterizing a comment he’d made that seemed to suggest that small businesses weren’t solely responsible for their own successes.
“Those ads taking my words about small business out of context - they’re flat out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses,” Obama says in the ad.
"It's clear what President Obama believes because he told us: 'if you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.’ He said it, and he meant it," Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman, responded.
Obama’s initial comments earlier this month came in the context of a speech about how government, through spending and investment on projects, can help foster an environment in which businesses can better succeed.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the internet," the president said July 13 in Virginia.
Republicans have seized on the “you didn’t build that” portion by itself. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign sported new signage at an event on Monday, saying, “We DID Build It.”
And Romney called the initial Obama remark indicative of the president’s ideology at an event last week.
"It wasn't a gaffe. It was instead his ideology," Romney said at a stop last week in Massachusetts. "The president does, in fact, believe that people who build enterprises like this really aren't responsible for it. But in fact it's a collective success of the whole society that somehow builds enterprises like this. My view, we have to celebrate people who started enterprises and employ other people."
In the new Obama campaign ad, the president speaks directly to the camera looking to dispute the GOP-led attack.
His full quote:
Those ads taking my words about small business out of context -- they’re flat out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses. Every day, hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run. And what I said was that we need to stand behind them, as America always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges, research and technology.
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I'm a small business owner, and I support the President.
I also find it interesting that Mitt want to tell you what the President believes - Mitt doesn't even know what Mitt believes. He's waiting for a poll or a neo-con or a deep-pocketed donor to tell him what he believes.
You are probably on Welfare, give me a break. No small business owners support this idiot.
The words came right from Obama's mouth. No distortion. It is called a Freudian Slip. He finally let his Marxist views show.
He got caught now he is trying to flip flop.
Stop Obama's war on capitalism.
Willard and these RePubCons are so full of poop. Take the comment of RedSucksTurd and that in itself is proof.
It's so funny that anyone that disagrees with the right wing, according to them, don't have a job, or own a business. That means that those 68,000,000 voters that voted for Obama don't have jobs.
I wonder how that explains that in my city, Obama polls at 64%, favorable, and the unemployment rate is 6.1 percent?
Again we never accused the right wing of being the smart ones. Most likely many of them need jobs, or some simple job skills.
Redsox--can't stand the truth, can you? Typical Republican: call Democrats slackers and welfare queens. Guess what? The reddest states are the highest in welfare. And guess what else? We Democrats work hard, harder than the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to buy our country. When you can't win with facts, call names.
Actually, only 80% of small business is against Obama.
The other 20% that support Obama probably say Elvis is one of their best customers.
Yep ... and the Obama's handlers that thought doing away with that teleprompter thingy to let the real Obama shine through will be in the new unemployment statistics at the end of the month.
Funny how the great communicator has such a problem communicating with without scripted speeches, huh?
And the war on the Constitution, personal freedoms, on fossil energy, .... suits against the states .....
Keep hammering RSR - great comments.
Larry, I did use facts. Libbys are slackers and takers. Stop bashing the 1% who pay for everything.
Now get off your butt and do something rather than just take something.
RedSoxRule
only a moron or an ignorant person didn't understand the simple sentence. Only an idiot or a Fox News listener did not understand what "that" meant.
RedSox, tell me, if it doesn't take a village to run a business - big or small - why isn't Bain doing business in Somalia, Russia, Haiti, North Korea? Huh? Why are they investing in majority in this evil, business-unfriendly United States of America?
It should be noted that the people who believe that Obama "said" business people didn't build their own businesses are the exact same people who judge students who go to college as snobs.
In college, you learn what an antecedent is. These people are completely clueless as to what the word "that" refers.
booby,
examples?
proof?
as compared to whom? Romney and his wife?
The trees are right height? I don't care about poor people? what do you people want from us? corporations are people my friend? you want me to keep going?
as compared to 2008? when 2.6 million jobs were lost in one year? even with a slow job growth in the private sector, Obama is doing wonderful compared to his Republican predecessor who cut the throat of the private job sector and let it bleed out to death.
Jan-742133
Becareful about throwing big words around. People like RedSox and bob will call YOU the snob.
You are so right. It's common sense what "that" mean but they are attracted to this non-issue like flyes are to $hit!
Its another case of President Obama "evolving", evidently.
Deny all you want, but the President did say "you didnt build that", and he did not mean just the roads and other stuff like that.
Until of course it rebounded on him and became a bad thing to have said, and then the evolution to "of course you built that".
For a person that is supposed to be such an intelligent person, President Obama sure does seem to be having to "evolve" a lot lately....
Really? Romney said it too, about Olympians, 2002. He said that they didn't get to the Olympics alone. They had sisters and teachers, ad nauseum. Are you equally offended by that?
Of course business people don't build businesses alone. That is, unless they don't drive on tax supported roads, use the internet, electricity or water.
Do you suppose they don't do those things?
Mitt is actually waiting for Norquist and the Koch people to tell him what he believes. He's like this puppet with Norquist's hand up his butt moving his mouth. Mitt hasn't had an original thought in years. The President says something and two days later Mitt says the opposite. Heck of a platform you have there Mitt. He is the perfect puppet.
I'm sorry but I really don't need the affirmation that "I built my own business" from a man that's never worked for, or been involved with a business period -- Not from a President that advocates policies that add more overhead costs to American business, during a recession, and while we scramble to produce products capable of competing with Chinese and other offshore manufacturers!
He just doesn't get it... He has got to go!!!
Romney 2012
NewDay,
Is that the new argument?
Are you trying to say that somehow, some way...
Olympic Athletes are the same as small business owners...
And Loving Families are somehow equal to the government?
Lolololololssss.....
Yeah, good luck with THAT one.
Are you trying to say, Alil, that sports, including Olympic sports are not one of the biggest business in the United States today?
Really?
You are delusional.
Explain then please why Mittens takes a business write off on the very expensive Warmblood that he will have in the Olympics this year? Should you pay for this animal that the Romney's, bought purely for their own self gratification?
Get a clue.
You have to love the liberal spin when trying educate. That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. Spoken by the true king of liberal spin. Now liberals are defining what was meant by the chosen word "that," versus the word that would make their argument correct "those."
You didn't build that is singular, versus you didn't build those is plural. Roads and bridges would appear to be a plural, while you didn't build that business is very much singular. Funny how liberals have to interpret what Obama meant, rather then agree with what he actually said.
This smacks of an apology on O'bama's words being taken out of context. This is a mistake on O'bama's part. First off Romney knew what the President meant. His campaign knew what the President meant. This is not the first time O'bama positions were taken out of context by the GOP nor will this be the last. Anytime the GOP can force O'bama into a retreat, it's a tactical victory for GOP. NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR HOLDING THE HIGH GROUND.
Its so funny that anyone that disagrees with a lib is a racist, bigot, woman hating, bible-thumping, redneck idiot.
The most intolerant people in the country are liberals.
So business people havent already paid for those things? Do athletes pay for their families and friends and communities that support them?
The most intolerant people in the country are liberals. High corn lie, the most intolerant people in the country are rednecks. I have redneck cousins truedat, I live in the deep south. I am a hereditary redneck who chooses not to act like one.
What ? Obama is doing the "crawdad" move ?? Is Obama trying to clarify what Obama said by saying "something else" now ??? This man seems to be hell-bent on contradicting himself !
I think it was a Freudian slip .... he said what he actually thinks, and now that he has pooped on himself, he is desperate to fix his booboo !! Of course, the media will spin this as an "evolution" of his thoughts.
See what happens when the teleprompters are gone ?
Are you saying there are more welfare queens and slackers in the flyover states than in CA, NY. IL, MI, etc; that's highly doubtful at best.
As for who works the hardest; it's a good bet it's not the able-bodied, able-minded among 50% in this country that pay no income taxes and have no skin in the game, but believe they have a right to lifetime "free stuff" at the expense of hard working, productive, taxpaying Americans.
"free stuff" the disabled on S.S.D. are not getting "free stuff" they were able bodied people who are not able bodied now, they earned disability. The elderly on S.S.A. paid into social security. The Unemployed paid into programs that help them now. Please define "free stuff" for me.
Oh my. Isn't Jan the sanctimonious little snob.
Way to avoid all the welfare and food stamp for lifers that have never paid a dime into any system.
Dont forget about those fraudulent disability pensioners.
Why is it always taken out of context when Barry shows his true thoughts? This guy has never held a job in the private sector....all he knows is taking from the government.
I have listened to this steady stream of moron talk long enough! First they took one line out of an entire speech and made it the whole speech! Second, No one in this country got anything on their own, This is a simple fact! You were educated in schools paid by all, you drive on roads we all pay for. If you got a loan to start you business the bank is funded by everyone who has money in it. If you have workers we paid to educate them! You can try and turn this into something it is not but the simple truth is there is no story here! If this is not fact to some of you by now you are delusional!!!!
Darryl,
I went to catholic school which means that it was paid for out of pocket. A loan from a bank is just that a loan and it has to be paid back, it is not free money or other peoples money. Barry hates business because he has never worked for one and knows nothing about the private sector.
Irish, So as a child you paid for your own schooling? A loan is still someone Else's money rather you pay it back or not! This does not negate the fact that you needed some ones help. And the banks money is peoples money last time i checked! Bottom line, You did noting on you own this is simply a Right wing delusion! As stated no one got rich on their own!!!!
Your right Darryl.....the government has made everyone rich. Not their own hard work. My father in law started his own business with money he saved, not a bank loan. But he didnt start that on his own according to you. If you want to have the government help you every step of the way be my guest but I would rather have my success be made on my own hard work.
As far as school....no my parents had to work their butts off to put their 4 kids through school and sacrafice to do so. They didnt want us in crappy public school systems. But again you have all the answers.
Should have said you are right..
I own a small business. Those of us with half a brain know REAL small businesses aren't forking out 250k+ per year to a single owner. We also know anyone pulling out that much is not a "struggling business owner". We ALSO know that demand creates jobs, not higher profits. Do you even know what a profit is? It's the money you made beyond your expenses... AFTER you paid employees. How would taxing money I've already decided not to hire with going to create jobs?
Henry Ford knew you had to pay workers enough to afford your products. You don't get rich unless you're able to overcharge or underpay enough to generate a large profit. That's just how it works. Any small business owner who supports the Republican agenda is utterly brainwashed, isn't taking in reality efficiently, or is completely corrupting that reality once it gets into their mixed up heads.
How does "over 250k for a single individual" translate into "struggling small business owner"? Only if you're wearing the Universal Oligarch-To-Pleb Translator. Wake up fools.
Irish, Nothing you have posted negated my point.Rather your parents paid for your schooling or not simple fact is, some one else paid to educate you. Even if your Father in law stated his own business with his own money, Unless he did every job himself his employees had a hand in it's success. For the life of me i don't understand why people continue to try to ague this simple basic fact! No one is saying that you did not start a business and work hard to make it a success, What we are saying is you did not do it on your own. And no amount of changeing stories will negate this fact!!!!
Daryl, sure the govt. provided education for a person that is successuful. With that said, they also FAILED all the kids that ended up poor. It is 100% the govts. fault these kids were a failure. Your logic. I worked for a guy that started his business in a shed. He worked 18 hrs a day 7 days a week. He saved and got enough money to build a shop. His business expaned until he had control over half the state of N.C. with his bread plant. Yes he did this all on his own. If he made a bad product, he would of not made it. IT WAS ALL ON HIM. I went to work for him when he was 70. By far the best employer I ever had, and I gladly worked for him for 12 yrs until he sold the business to Flowers Corp. His business sold for $500 million. Yes it was all him, his wisdom and understanding of how business worked and his big gamble. Through him, the govt. made millions in tax dollars. He could have been a bum, and ended up on welfare. Without taxes, there is no govt.
Way to avoid all the welfare and food stamp for lifers that have never paid a dime into any system.
Dont forget about those fraudulent disability pensioners.
So a few people abuse S.S.D. you want to end it for everyone, truedat? You can tell when people are disabled and when they are faking it? You didn't post a reply, you just posted a cheap shot.
Did he build the infrastructure Kevin T? Even if he is the sole owner and employee of his business he benefited from the roads, utilities, and telecommunication lines that connected his business to his customer base.
KevinT, I did not apply myself through elementary school to high school. I had to be driven by my mom and dad. All the government does is provide an opportunity to learn with tax payer funded education k to the 12th grade. It is not the Governments fault I did so badly in high school, it's my fault. Starting at Kaplan and Strayer I turned my life around, I'm starting as a junior this fall at the University of South Florida as a transfer student. Sure I worked hard to get to this point, but it was a team effort, for all my hard work I did not do it alone.
Wade thanks for tying to get through to people who still refuse to see a simple fact. We are the United Sates of America, Not the United States of Me! The very make up of this country is that we accomplish great things when we work together as a nation of people! This fact as been lost to some i am afraid! They are laboring under the delusion that everyone who has accomplished something did it all by them selves. The very nature of this country makes that impossible!!!!!
A smart move. I said in the aftermath of his "you didn't build that" speech that it wasn't what he said as much as how he said it.
Obama campaign officials obviously either agreed with my sentiments or found some other reason to be concerned that the "you didn't build that" speech had offended the majority of a group of voters (business owners, especially small business owners) in a year in which there will be NO votes to spare, or else we wouldn't have this "contrition" and correction ad !!
Willard LIES with ease!....
........and now, in his address to the VFW, openly called President Obama corrupt!
Willard is unfit to be president!
And sleaze, much like his cult members!
Tickity...tock... ☺
Seeing that MSDNC plays Obama Ads on their website for free, I guess they have no presence of impartiality.
But we all knew that. No news here.
I suggest you all google the Scott Brown Ad on the very same subject. You know just for some balance. Or then again, MSDNC could step up and show some journalistic integrity.
Do you think I'll have to wait long to see the Scott Brown Ad on this site? It's probably the most compelling political Ad in the last couple decades. If you want to stay somewhat informed I suggest you look beyond this "front" of a news source.
So tell me, does it not bother you that Faux produced a Romney campaign ad? You know, "Fair and Balanced?" You have some stones accusing NBC of anything because compared to the Faux propaganda mouthpiece they are down right impartial.
I wish I could go anywhere,TV, Internet, print media and just read news without a personal slant. News articles should just report the facts. Opinions should be limited to the editorial pages, because opinions are like a$$ holes. Everybody has one but nobody wants to be forced to hear yours. Stick to just the facts, in the articles. Then again, if they did that, I wouldn't be able to come here and read these comments. Talk about man's inhumanity to man. You're doing a good job of acting like your idols in D.C. Fight nicely, children.
Here's a link to the Scott Brown ad..... It's pretty compelling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oqDIjGsBEP8#!
A quick note about Scott Brown, and why he became so important.
RedSox, not sure if you're here or not, but if you are, you already know this stuff.
See... Ted Kennedey was our hero. Maybe not everybody's, but to a lot of us. He took pretty good care of our state. Sure, he was dirty and half in the bag most of the time, but he always made sure Ma was on the winning end of the deal.
But he died. And at a bad time, too. See, Teddy wanted universal healthcare, but he would have looked out for us. Himself too, but also us.
We sent a clear message to DC by filling his seat with a republican. *GASP*
For one reason only.
To vote against the healthcare act.
Ma, one of the most liberal states on the planet, and we put a young, untested republican into the seat of our dead Hero, based solely on his promise to vote against the healthcare act.
We sent Scott Brown to break the Supermajority.
Obama ignored our message.
Using reconciliation, he passed the healthcare act just before midnight on Christmas Eve, in order to avoid Scott Brown having a vote.
See, in Ma, we have a system that works for us. Romney, working with the democratic house and senate, was able to pass a pretty good bill that works for us here in our state.
Every state is different, and I believe each state is entitled to find the best solution for themselves... but I digress.
Well, I'll try to cut this short..... (too late! shorter, maybe)
Bottom Line on Healthcare?
The Rich can absorb the cost, The Poor will be subsidised....
The Hammer will fall on the middle class.
Back to Obama's "You didn't build that"...
He said it. It was NOT taken out of context. If anything, in context, it's even worse.
You might try to wish it away, but he can't "unsay" it.
Even if he thinks that way, it's bad enough.
To actually SAY that publicly?
Well, you'd have to be a total Moron.
For the record, I got no love for RObamaney.... I'm a Ron Paul guy.
RObamaney are the same people... Romney says he would have voted for the NDAA, which basically strips all of America of thier Constitutional Liberties, and Obama wants to bomb Iran.
Healthcare? Same.
Civil Liberties? Same.
Bail out the Banksters? Same.
Economy? Both Kenyesians. Same.
Seriously, what's the difference?
Having said that, a lot of the economy is mental, and I wouldn't be suprised to see the economy take off once Obama is out, regardless of what's real... a lot of things move on confidence alone.
Well that explains a lot...
Alil Common Sense, I find your posts devoid of common sense, the GOP is willing to make deals with the devil to rest control of the country back into their hands and you see NO DIFFERENCE between today's between Today's GOP and Today's DEMOCRATS.
To me, a Lincoln Republican, the Democrats of today are using the 1860's Republican platform and, and the GOP of today has embraced the platform of Jefferson Davis, and the Southern Democratic party. It makes more sense for me as a center left Republican to follow Today's Democrats.
Quite frankly I don't care what you think of me. I have ZERO respect for you now. You have been added to my ignore list. We're on the verge of a civil war and you back someone who wants to go back to the 1800's constitution. The 1800's was not a golden age, and I have NO desire to live that way.
So Fiesty,
Obama has never told a lie? He has never had to retract a statement? Oh thats right.......they are always taken out of context. Now bury your head back in the sand sweetie. Oops....called you sweetie. But thats okay because I call everyone sweetie, even men on my staff. (Barrys words)
D. Price,
What is your point? Barry has most of the top "news" outlets in the bag for him. But you are going to cry because Fox, a conservative station, is backing Romney?
Lol at you Wade.
Warmongering "Liberal".
What a joke. Phony.
I'm a real liberal. Remember "Question Authority"
Remember "Bring The Troops Home Now!"
Yeah, that's me, and proud of it.
You fake liberals and your fake leader make me sick.
Civil war... who is it that is dividing us along racial and economic lines?
Hint - It's Obama!
I guess after November Obama can add YouTube to his list of job killing technologies. It will join ATMs, airport kiosks, and the Internet.
Psssst- Obama? The speech is memorialized. Millions have seen it. Spinning it, trying to lead people to believe you didn't say what you said? Not working.
psst: no jo: get a clue: you can spin this however you want to, but what your President said is true.
By the way, do you still hate the man that much because he beat your crush HIllary? There is probably help out there for that.
You're talking about Willard!
Looks like the "Pension Queen" has a little bit of a reading comprehension issue...no wonder they say Jersey teachers suck.
[By the way, do you still hate the man that much because he beat your crush HIllary?]
No Way!!! NoJo was a Hillary supporter?
That must mean NoJo is a de...de...deeee...
DEMOCRAT?!?
And here I thought the Jersey Bigot simply didn't like black people.
Yes, she was a Hillary supporter and she did not take Obama beating her well.
But, thinking there may be some of that not liking black people too. Though I don't think no jo likes anyone!
[Yes, she was a Hillary supporter...]
Well, isn't that just a bag over the head, punch in the face if I ever saw one...holy. crap. I never saw that coming. So she's just pissed the black guy beat out a woman for the White House?
Well slap my ass and call me Sally! NoJo's a DEMOCRAT...no wonder she's loving her some teachers pension...
It is indeed strange, Mickey.
There's a HUGE difference between a liberal and a blind party hack.
Go read my posts. I hate Obama.
But guess what?
I'm a LIBERAL.
Yeah, a liberal. No, not a fake liberal, a REAL liberal.
Remember "Question Authority"?
Remember "Bring The Troops Home NOW!"?
Yeah, that's me.
Obama? He has ATF kicking in the doors of Amish farmers, with machine guns, for selling raw milk. Ironically, it's mostly liberal as fuxxx hippies and vegans they sell it to.
Obama has SWAT teams raiding medical marijuana dispensarys, despite all his flowery words.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/obama-marijuana-raids-rolling-stone_n_1451744.html
And when does he call the troops home?
You know he could do that at anytime. He is, after all, the Commander in Chief.
How come Obama never adressed DOMA in the 2 yeears he had total control?
How come he has done NOTHING to make it easier for my gay friends, who are LEGALLY MARRIED, to file thier Federal Tax returns? How come they cant file as MARRIED???
How come Obama hasn't ended the endless Wars? Did you know we now have "boots on the ground" in 8 more countries than we did when Bush left? True story.
I'm a Liberal. I'm not some BullSheeet Blind Partisan Hackjob.
Hitlers people followed whatever he said, never questioned it.
That aint me.
Is that You?
Seriously, look inside yourself, ask yourself the question.
PS - If Hilary would run, I and many other True Liberals would flock to her flag. She would win.
Obama?
Not a chance.
Also - I'm a Proud card carrying Union Member. You know what would help me and my Brothers and Sisters get a strong contract?
A good economy. Duh.
Alil Great post. I am a republican and agree with you 100%. I wish more liberals thought like you. Yes we do need to bring the troops home.
The democrats took control of the house and senate in Jan of 2007. Their only message to the people was to end the wars. After they got elected, the wars continued, then with a supermajority, they still let the wars continue. All I ever asked the democrats to do is get our troops home. Looks like all they are interested in doing is expanding the wars. The only time I seen foreign policy as bad as this is when LBJ was in power. The middle east is a disaster.
ROMNEY's message is called Freedom.
It is embodied in the US Constitution and has made this country the strongest,
freest, most wealthy nation on earth.
OBAMA's dogma is called Marxism.
It has enslaved literally billions of people for generations in its brutal, oppressive, horrific (100+ million killed or starved to death) grasp.
Marxism (forced redistribution of
wealth, power, property, liberty) does not work, never has worked, and never
will work.
But don't take my word for it. Ask any Cuban refugee, any person
who lived behind the Iron Curtain, any survivor of Pol Pot, any one of the Vietnamese boat people, any Chinese dissident, any escapee from North Korea. They, so unlike those ‘enlightened’ leftist professors, or our much more ‘in tune’ progressive media, know how Marxism really works.
zen--your comment reeks of fear. And you're hoping to infect others with your terror. Won't happen. More Americans are seeing through Mitt every day. And it's not pretty.
Here is a excerpt from a recent Romney speech. Repubs....please tell me the difference in what Romney is saying and what President Obama said.
"There are a lot of people in government who help us and allow us to have an economy that works and allow entrepreneurs and business leaders of various kinds to start businesses and create jobs. We all recognize that. That's an important thing.... I know that you recognize that a lot of people help you in a business. Perhaps the banks, the investors. There's no question your mom and dad. Your school teachers. The people that provide roads, the fire, and the police. A lot of people help."
Romney went so far as to say yesterday Americans "couldn't have" businesses were it not for public institutions.
http://www.sternfannetwork.com/xen/index.php?threads/romney-admits-obama-was-right-small-business-need-govt-to-succeed.666600/
"If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. 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.
"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. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."
His campaign defended him, but it took several day before they started to walk it back with the out of context defense. Its clear that his campaign underestimated the damage this would do, hence the out of context statement.
[His campaign defended him, but it took several day before they started to walk it back with the out of context defense.]
Hi thetotas...when you say something that you know doesn't need an explanation, you don't give one, do you?
It's pefectly clear what the president said, and for those who choose to make an issue of it, well...they know darned well what the president said.
Curious...what do YOU think President Obama meant?
The difference is, in the paragraph you quote, Romney says others help while President Obama said "if you have a business, you didn't build it". Somebody else made that happen. My grandfather and my grandmother each owned businesses separately for most of their lives. As do/did my mother, my father and my brother. My husband and I have owned two small businesses. While our employees help run those businesses we built them. The law protects our employees but it does not protect us. At the end of the day we are responsible and liable for every aspect of our businesses functionality and sustainability. There was nothing in what President Obama said which even acknowleged his understanding of the drive and determination and sacrifice small business ownership requires. His comments were a real slap in the face.
Did you build the infrastructure that gets your goods to your customers AKansan? Did you educate your employees from kindergarten to the 12th grade? If you cannot answer yes to those questions, then you and your family had help from the Government for 3 generations.
Obama said it correct and should not have to walk it back.
Company owners STARTED there business and should be commended. Bu they did not build it. It is built by the hard working employees.
The workers should come first because they take their hard earned money and reinvest in their local economys.
I get sick and tired of ROBney saying corporations are people and it is about the stock holders.
the only way this country will grow again is when it becomes about the middle class working americans.
NO ROMNEY or GOP.
They have blocked all the job bills because they know they will work and make them look like the morons they are!!!!!!
So now Odumbo is retracting what he said on live TV. hahahahaha. We know what you said, and we now how you lie. Don't believe anything you say. Romney for president
Of course Obama didn't mean what he said. He meant something entirely different and how dare Romney say anything to the contrary. Now let's get it straight.
Obama didn't mean what he didn't mean when he didn't mean it. Got it? Now enough with this. Obama's got a golf game and he can't be troubled with having to explain what he didn't mean.
If they keep this up, Obama's going to have to find someone's A$$ to kick.
Great job Ron ... simply too funny !
You said the sentence Mr. President. Spin it all you want but you said, "if you have a business, you didn't build it, someone else did." Instead of blaming others, as you have done your entire presidency why don't you just apologize to every American entrepreneaur past, present and future.
Mr Obama, don't you feel the world closing in around you a little bit?
A realization in your heart that your grand experiment was an even grander failure?
Yeah, well...too bad for you.
Really? How would you know Mr. President? Sometimes its just better to shut up and take it on the chin...
Obama attacked Romney all throughout June and July and Romney didn't flinch or get in a pissing contest over the attacks... Now Romney finally decides to punch back and already Obama is in defense mode and playing Romney's game now... Obama and his campaign are imploding...
Romney 2012
I'm sorry but I really don't need the affirmation that "I built my own business" from a man that's never worked for or been involved with a business period. Especially from a President that advocates policies that add more overhead costs to American business, during a recession, and while we scramble to produce products capable of competing with Chinese and other offshore manufacturers!
He just doesn't get it...
This statement will go down in history as one of the most colossal political blunders of all times... Obama's effort at trying to smooth it over just amplifies the ignorance of his business acumen... He offended the heads of very engine that he needed to save this economy... And in business, once we see the true colors of someone such as these, we don't have the luxury of giving passes.
Obama claims to be building an economy where everybody has a fair and equal chance at success. Well I'm sorry and let me break it to you liberals as gently as I can.... Life isn't fair and neither is capitalism...
As usual stepping n his own poo then back tracking and flip flopping to hide what he actually believed at first and still does now. He has no clue about small businesses that creates jobs, stimulate the economy and pay taxes to fix roads and bridges.
Obama is still doing a great job of failed campaigning and defeating himself.
So, Jug-head said just what he meant, which you liberal nuts do also, and now you don't like that it's in the open. Too bad liberals, pound sand.
Right Tad,
Many evangelicals had reservations about voting for Romney because he is a Mormon. That was until Obama endorsed Gay marriage. That just lost much of the South for Obama.
Then he puts the squash on the Keystone pipeline project, costing many union workers their paychecks for the next eight years.
Then he gives out pocket/backdoor amnesty to about one million illegal aliens and tops it off with work permits, thus costing many union construction workers any chance of finding work.
Then he becomes complicit in the Fast and Furious cover up by invoking his "executive privilege" to halt the criminal investigation of AG Eric Holder.
Obama is screwing up almost on a daily basis now. This is a sure sign of Libbie desperation. You can almost smell it in the air.
Watch the comedy as all those dizzy Dems in congress try in vain to distance themselves from Obama and his three ring circus. Sorry boys and girls, too late to get religion now. Anyone who bears the dreaded "D" after their name is toast this November.
Damn, and he said romney took his speech out of context.
I saw the whole speech--He went off script and it bit him in the butt. The main stain media will gloss it over for him and make it look as though Romney made the whole thing up. The President has a problem he can't shake--he believes what he said in Roanoke to his very core. Even the Vice President has made reference to same philosophy several times saying that without government opportunity would not exist. Government is and always will be an anathema to entrepreneurship.
It wasnt just what he said, it is how he said it. His presentation said everything and the cheers from the entitled crowd said everything.
RedsoxRule, can you believe that we agree on something. Liberals- what is your answer to this statement by Obama: They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. 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.
Fox, Romney, the RNC, and others can talk about the speech as a whole and make arguments against it. But when they start off with the segment, "If you own a business. you didn't build that," they force the listener to believe the word "that" is referring to "businesses," which is absurdly deceitful. Someone who makes such a ploy automatically loses credibility. And shows their selves to be untrustworthy.
It's been very sound advice for a long, long time to think before you speak because it's virtually impossible to take back the spoken word. Apologizing for having said it or admitting you were wrong is okay, taking it back not so much.
"Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the internet" What!? The gov did not create the Internet for commerce, that isn't even close. Why hasn't the press called the President on that false statement? Talk about revisionist history; does Al Gore write the President's speeches?
Here is what he said." The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter- linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web(WWW) and the infrastructure to support email. The Government invented it so that all companies could make money. Yeah, that's what they did so that we could stand behind you. Now I have to go play a round of golf. "
That's what he said. Now leave him alone.
Oh, yes....Bama did that all by himself...how old was Bill Gates when he came up with Windows? Railroads were not Gov funded; the Wright bros? Those persons who pioneered American farms? The first schools.Universities.Henry Ford..
What about the American President? Did Bama get there on HIS own? Did I miss something? Isn't Gov supposed to work FOR US? Or is it US working for Obama ?
The internet started out as a defense department program. It was expanded with research from commercial firms, and universities. No one person invented today's internet, it was a collective effort of many people.
I remember what he said. He said, "you didn't build that. Someone else built that for you. And we need to stand behind you. And I can't make any sense out of this. "
Yeah, that's what he said. Now leave him alone. He's got a round of golf to play.
Obama has lost any and all semblance of credability.
Now, when he speaks, we automatically assume he is lying. We pay no attention to his rants anymore. He is just an irritating background noise. Kind of like static.
Liberals make the mistake of believing that we are all stupid. Now, after we have been duped by the media over and over, we take any article written, any interview with a huge grain of salt. Once we realized that these people arn't just reporting the news, they are attempting to control our thinking. That puts all of us on the defensive, and makes any attempt to whitewash Obama's screwups all the more painfully obvious.
No Joseph, the radical right is not stupid, it assigns it's weaknesses to the left, accusing it of lies and misinformation, when all the left is doing is telling the truth about the machinations of the far right. I trust the left and the far left over today's GOP and TEA Party any day.
The lies keep coming and the sycophants here keep believing them. More's the shame.
Try reading...my suggestion would be Thomas Sowell on what you do and what does the dollar mean. Walter Williams on how the economy works in creating jobs. F Hayek and Milton Friedman on why we have the poor and how capitalism works. Then compare it to any liberal thought and what happened the past three years....develop your own reasoning on failure, spending more money ...try reasoning why others explain how government spending does not create wealth....reading does what schools have failed to provide.... educated decisions.
The roads and bridges were built as a response to the ownership of cars and trucks. The cars and trucks came first, and spawned a need for more and better roads. The interstate highway system initiated by President Eisenhower was in response to the cold war, and the need for better means to transport our goods nationwide. One mile in every ten on all our interstate highways must be level and straight to be used as emergency landing strips for our military in case of war. How soon we forget.
And while the federal governent paid for construction of the interstate highway system and established the specifications, the actual construction was done by private enterprise, including many small businesses.