17 Jan 2013 10:28 am
Came across this old thread concerning the Obama 'you didn't build that' comment, while doing some forum cleanup.'Totally Rad', on 24 Jul 2012 - 16:01, said:It's perfectly Clear to me. Success in society is never a solo effort.Sorry, not what he said. He said if you have a company, you didn't build it.You can keep trying to spin this all you want, but the reason he's being forced to repeatedly "explain" his comment, is because he screwed up.'You didn't build that:' A theme out of context."Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own," he said. "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," he continued. "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. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own."It was obvious to anyone who read the full comments that when Obama said, 'you didn't build that' he was referring to this 'unbelievable American system' that allowed you to thrive.Could he have worded it better? Sure.Lying little trolls like Golfboy are just waiting for Obama or Biden to word something inartfully, so they pounce on it and have their gotcha moment.But that's what dishonest trolls do.