Obama: I Defy You To Believe What I Said About Business

Obama’s desperate protests that his anti-business rant was taken out of context are betrayed both by that very context and because they are a part of a piece — just one more component of his war against the American entrepreneurial spirit.

He would have us believe that his words “you didn’t build that” referred to roads and bridges and not businesses.

Given his accompanying statements — “you didn’t get there on your own,” etc. — that is an absurd construction. But even if that’s what he meant, why would he have felt compelled to point out that businesses don’t succeed without access to roads and bridges? Do roads and bridges not connect the population to failed businesses?

Why would any American president be inclined to think or talk this way? Of course governments — funded by individual and business revenues, by the way — build the roads and bridges, to successful and failed businesses.

But why isn’t Obama moved instead to echo the words of past presidents, who championed small businesses, such as those showcased in Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign ad?

Can anyone imagine Obama, on or off prompter and not under duress, saying the following words, which were said by President Lyndon Baines Johnson? “I am so proud of our system of government, of our system of free enterprise, where our incentive system and our men who head our big industries are willing to get up at daylight and work till midnight to offer employment and create new jobs for people.”

Can you picture Obama, like Ronald Reagan, praising American small businesses as heroes for feeding “a hungry world and keep(ing) our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America”?

Obama is way too busy criticizing capitalism and the free market for any number of sins that exist only in his mind. Obama can’t possibly champion as heroes those whom he believes have so unfairly exploited a system at the expense of a victim class.

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