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Originally Posted by joeydb
Which part of
“If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
did you not understand?
Direct quote, not paraphrasing. Obama stepped in it this time. This might have been a Howard Dean scream moment for him.
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LOL - Taken totally out of context deliberately, and you've fallen for it. Please - don't be so gullible to feed your Obama Hate. I know the GOP only has fear and anger this year. Don't help them too readily.
As I said in the thread start:
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REPORT: Fox News Spends Two-Plus Hours Distorting Obama's Small Business Comments
Over two days, Fox News spent 42 segments and more than two hours of airtime manufacturing a scandal by deceptively editing comments President Obama made at a campaign appearance in Virginia.
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Here's the entire quote - tell me what part
you don't understand.
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"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.
"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
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So what we really had was the President applauding the greatness of the United States, and how it's enabled individual success.