It's a good ad. Romney and all the right wing liars completely took his comment out of context and it's something that Romney has said incredibly similar things.
Obama never said that if you own a business you didn't build it. He said you didn't build the roads and such. it was obvious to everyone except those that wish to keep their blinders on.
Oh give me a break. No, no it's not. You know how I know that. Becuase almost no one on this forum once began the "He's OBVIOUSLY specifically referencing the roads and bridges" prior to the point where the administration and their people began to come out in the media and say that.
The thing he said can absolutely be interprited in multiple ways. Personally, the "He's specifically meaning you had no involvement in building your business" is a ridiculously poor way to interprite it...but frankly so is "He's SPECIFICALLY meaning that you didn't build the roads, not that you didn't build the businesses".
To me, the interpritation that seems clearest is that Barack Obama's was suggesting that yes...Bill Gates or Steve Jobs didn't "build" their businesses, but rather "WE/The Community" along with them built it TOGETHER through all the various ways government and other people impacted their life in the creation of that business. Essentially "YOU singularly didn't build the business but rather everyone that helped you along the way built it with you."
My reading of it is different than many on the right...it's different than what the administration is stating which people are attempting to argue is gospel truth (wow, wonder if that level of standard will be applied to things the Romney camp comes out and "clarifies" in the future. I remember how quick so many were to critique anyone who commented about Palin seeing Russia from her porch)...but to be frank it's no less legitimate than any other, because the horribly delivered and phrased line is one that is not clear cut and unquestionably designed to make only one answer be the absolute 100% definitive obvious answer.
The hillarious thing is the Obama campaign in this video is doing similar to what Romney did in his speech, and yet no one's pissing and moaning about "blinders" on that. Romney acknowledged that yes....teachers help, roads help, etc...however, where Obama stated that and declared then that the focus shouldn't be on YOU building that business but rather that everything together allowed it to be built, Romney's argument was that DESPITE those things the individual should still be the one promoted and held up as the person creating it. He acknowledged Obama's point...that infastructure plays into it...but disagreed with the final conclussion of the premise, that because of that the praise of the end result should be shared not individualized. Yet they paint Romney as a liar...how? By taking
THEIR interpritation of what he's saying and responding based on THEIR interpritation. You know...what Romney did.
I love the ad, I want more like it, for one reason and one reason alone. I would absolutely love to see this campaign become one between a side that wishes to Promote the Community and Minimize the individual and anothe rside that wishes to Promote the Individual and Minimize the Community, becuase it will make for a FAR more interesting race then some of the crap presented so far and would spark some interesting actual debates as the two I believe are sincerely (and I don't get to say that word, to be frank, with either of them) stating their honest view point in terms of it. I'd love to see where this snap shot of the American People end up weighing in at on the issue.
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