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Posted on July 15, 2012


Obama: "If You've Been Successful, You Didn't Get There On Your Own"





PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. 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. (Applause.)
 
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. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.



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This is really one of the dumbest things i have ever heard him say.   

Insane beyond words. 

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Technically, in the grand scheme of things, he's right.

BUT, the individual wouldnt get anywhere without drive, motivation, intelligence, and work ethic. So yeah, its kind of a dumb statement.

Wasnt that the whole premise behind Soviet era communism? You cant do anything without someone else, therefore you should work solely for the good of the whole?

"Shoe and shoelace, one is meaningless without the other"

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He is dead wrong since the Government has no assets or money that it did not steal, tax, or borrow from the productivity and income of people first.  

The government did not build a road and then Ford invented a car.   It works the other way around.  The work of industrious people created a demand for cars and roads.  But guess who paid for the roads?   The taxpayers!  

And whats funny too is that this ghetto communist street poverty merchant says there were "teachers" along the way?   Really?  

Many hardened criminals had the very same teachers!  Does obama blame those teachers for that?  

And another thing - this communist wretch wants to lay the success of people at the feet of the govt, fine, but what about the failures?  

Oh no!   Can't do that in the mind of a communist.  

 

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Watch and learn folks. 

The govt does not create anything.

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He is dead wrong since the Government has no assets or money that it did not steal, tax, or borrow from the productivity and income of people first.  

The government did not build a road and then Ford invented a car.   It works the other way around.  The work of industrious people created a demand for cars and roads.  But guess who paid for the roads?   The taxpayers!  


So let me get this right...

Taxpayer money, in your opinion, should not be used to create a nations basic infrastructure? Roads, bridges - these are just socialist remnants of government theft of people's hard earned cash?

BTW - how do you get to your 'law office' in the mornings?

Also - are you also saying that cars existed before roads?

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So let me get this right...

Taxpayer money, in your opinion, should not be used to create a nations basic infrastructure? Roads, bridges - these are just socialist remnants of government theft of people's hard earned cash?

BTW - how do you get to your 'law office' in the mornings?

Also - are you also saying that cars existed before roads?


Roads paid for by taxpayers are paid from their productivity and income, not from the good graces of politicians.  The government has no assets to build infrastructure that it first does not steal, borrow or tax from others first.     

Roads and infrastructure are supposed to be built to accomodate the needs and demands of citizens, not to be a works' project on its own.  Bridges to nowhere, roads to nowhere, etc do nothing at all but waste money and destroy the productivity of earners who would be using that money for other productive endeavors of their choosing. 

As far as getting to work, I take a road that I pay for every time I pay a toll, gas taxes, etc.


 



         

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Obama has no clue on economics whatsoever.   He is a complete fool. 

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holy fu#k you have to be playing dumb now.  he said, "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."

i think every time i read your post i'm killing off some of my brain cells  :D

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holy fu#k you have to be playing dumb now.  he said, "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."

i think every time i read your post i'm killing off some of my brain cells  :D




Really? 

What about failure?   Huh? 

Does the government ever get blame for failures by Obama considering many hardened criminals, drug dealers, drug addicts, thieves, murderers, also had those same "teachers" along the way? 


You can't have it both ways. 

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'And what do you know?': Business leaders hit back at Obama after he says the wealthy AREN'T responsible for their own success



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174160/Obama-says-wealthy-ARENT-responsible-success.html



•National Federation of Independent Business slams Obama for remarks challenging significance of U.S. entrepreneurs
•Obama told supporters over the weekend that it was governments - not individuals - who create jobs
•Romney camp adds that his view shows how unqualified he is to lead the country into economic recovery
•Radio host Rush Limbaugh accuses the president of 'destroying the American dream'

 


By Toby Harnden
 
PUBLISHED: 00:43 EST, 16 July 2012 | UPDATED: 18:29 EST, 16 July 2012

Comments (655)
 

America's leading small business association has slammed Barack Obama for showing 'an utter lack of understanding' of the country's entrepreneurs when he told them: 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'

In a hard-hitting statement to Mail Online, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) president Dan Danne said: 'What a disappointment to hear President Obama's revealing comments challenging the significance of America's entrepreneurs.

Mr Danne added: 'His unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.'

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Under fire: President Obama, pictured today speaking at a town hall rally in Cincinnati, has been blasted by business leaders who say he has a lack of understanding of American entrepreneurs
 
President Obama said in a speech at the weekend that governments and not individuals create jobs, telling entrepreneurs: 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'

He added: '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.'
 

The inflammatory campaign speech comments underline the extent to which Obama believes that the state rather than ordinary citizens create jobs and wealth.
 
They highlight a key contrast with Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, who is preaching a message of wealth creation by individuals and reinvigorating the private sector.

Andrea Saul, spokeswoman for Romney, told Fox News that the remarks 'reflect just how unqualified he is to lead us to a real economic recovery' and were ' insulting to the hardworking entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and job creators who are the backbone of our economy.'



Attack: Barack Obama said in a speech in Virginia on Saturday that small business owners could not claim credit for their own success


An NFIB spokesman added: 'I'm sure every small-business owner who took a second mortgage on their home, maxed out their credit cards or borrowed money from their own retirement savings to start their business disagrees strongly with President Obama's claim. They know that hard work does matter.

'Every small business is not indebted to the government or some other benefactor. If anything, small businesses are historically an economic and job-creating powerhouse in spite of the government.'


The NFIB was founded in 1943 and has some 350,000 members. It is officially a non-partisan organisation but tends to contribute heavily to Republican candidates. In 2010, 25 of its members, all republicans, were elected to Congress.

David Chavern, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that the basic idea behind Obama’s comments, and other similar sentiments expressed by allies, 'is really objectionable and offensive.'

 
Reaching out: Obama said in a speech at the weekend that governments - not individuals - create jobs
 
'The problem with the Obama administration’s view, he wrote in a blog post, was that ‘it only looks at the good outcomes’ rather than what went before.


Mr Chavern wrote: ‘Success is apparently a collective effort - but where was that "collective" during the periods of risk-taking and failure? The vast majority of businesses fail. Period.

He added: 'Every day millions of people put their lives, savings, houses and families on the line and work 20 hours a day just to grab their small slice of the American dream. Where is the collective when all of this is going on?  And if the collective is really responsible for success, how come everyone isn’t successful?

'[Obama's] unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.'
- NFIB statement
 
Meanwhile, on his daily radio show, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said that Obama’s Roanoke remarks were proof positive that the president 'hates' America. 'I'll tell you what,' he said. 'I think it can now be said, without equivocation - without equivocation - that this man hates this country. He is trying -- Barack Obama is trying - to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream.'

Speaking at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday night, Obama made the case that those who created businesses should be taxed at higher rates because they are fortunate and were helped to achieve success by the government and other people.

'There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me - because they want to give something back,' he said. 'They know they didn't - look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.

 

Plans: Obama recently unveiled a new proposal to raise taxes on all those who earn more than $250,000, a measure that Romney contends will hit small businesses.


'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.'

Obama recently unveiled a new proposal to raise taxes on all those who earn more than $250,000, a measure that Romney contends will hit small businesses.

He continued: '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.



 


Rival: Mitt Romney has stressed his business experience in his campaign
 


'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.'

He made the argument that all this showed that 'there are some things we do better together' and was how the American middle class was built.


OBAMA'S BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CALLED INTO QUESTION


As President Obama comes under scrutiny for remarks that he made about entrepreneurs over the weekend, it's not surprising to many that the president has never served in a leadership level at any private sector job.

The president has held a number of jobs since the late 1980s, including editor, writer and professor before getting into politics.

But questions have been raised about Obama's lack of business experience as the U.S. struggles with a high joblessness rate and a frail economy.

It was a point that Obama's political foes were quick to exploit in their attacks on Monday.

Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindal, appearing alongside Mitt Romney today, said: 'We have a president who hadn't run anything before he was in the White House.'

He added: '[Obama is the] most liberal and incompetent president since Jimmy Carter. No offense to Jimmy Carter.'
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'That's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president - because I still believe in that idea.  You're not on your own, we're in this together.'

Obama, who was speaking in a fire station, tried to equate the economy with state-run emergency services. 'There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.'

Obama's comments strongly echo controversial remarks made by Elizabeth Warren, a liberal darling and candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts, in August 2011 when she said: 'There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.'

She then made the case that the wealthy only got wealthy because of others. 'You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.


'You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.'

She linked this with a demand for the rich to be taxed at a higher rate.

'Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.'

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Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business
 Heritage Foundation ^ | Amy Payne


Posted on Monday, July 16, 2012 10:02:11



That sound you hear is silence—as millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs were left speechless this weekend from President Obama’s latest insult.

The slap in the face to hard-working Americans conveyed Obama’s belief that it takes a village—a heavily subsidized village—to create that venture you’re profiting from:

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.

Obama pushed his policy goals of infrastructure (aka stimulus) spending and “government research” as part of a collectivist utopia “doing things together.” It’s simply stunning that he would tell Americans, “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that.”

After all, could individuals be resourceful and hard-working enough to create whole new enterprises? Obama said:

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.

It is this view of successful businesses—essentially, “You owe us”—that drives Obama’s continued attacks on the country’s job creators in the form of tax hikes and regulations.

It’s a tough time to be a business owner and entrepreneur in America. Surveys show small business owners are struggling, and they are not expanding or hiring because of tax and regulatory uncertainty. Federal agencies, from Health and Human Services to the Environmental Protection Agency, are regulating them to death. And just last week, President Obama announced his latest economic plan was to hit job creators with a tax increase.

The President’s plan to raise taxes on earnings above $200,000 ($250,000 for joint filers) would hit 1.2 million small-business employers who pay their taxes through the individual income tax, known as flow-through businesses. These businesses that are creating jobs earn almost all—91 percent—of the income earned by flow-through employer-businesses.

The new tax increase could be equivalent to one employee per small business. According to calculations by The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, the average American with $250,000 or more in income can expect an average $24,888 tax increase next year under Obama’s proposed policies. That $24,888 figure is often enough for a salary. So the President could be putting about 1.2 million jobs—perhaps even more—at risk with this tax hike.

Hitting private job creators while advocating more stimulus spending and government jobs. That’s the President’s plan for the economy.

Meanwhile, businesses large and small suffer from the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. This has long made the U.S. an uncompetitive place for new investment and has driven new jobs to other, more competitive nations, meaning fewer jobs and lower wages for all Americans.

If the U.S. is to see economic recovery, we must encourage entrepreneurship. Stopping the biggest tax increase in American history, Taxmageddon, would be a good place to start. It’s a $494 billion tax hike set to hit on January 1, when a number of tax policies expire and just a few of Obamacare’s new taxes kick in. Businesses are already hesitating on hiring decisions because of the impending effects of these taxes.

Democratic leaders are demanding tax hikes, however, and threatening to allow Taxmageddon for the sake of politics—despite warnings that it would send the U.S. back into recession.

Real recovery will take even more than saving job creators from punishing taxes and regulations. It requires leadership that appreciates and values the long hours that America’s business builders put in and the personal sacrifices they make for their dreams. It will take leaders who say, “If you’ve got a business—you built that. And we want more of that in America.”

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'And what do you know?': Business leaders hit back at Obama after he says the wealthy AREN'T responsible for their own success



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174160/Obama-says-wealthy-ARENT-responsible-success.html



•National Federation of Independent Business slams Obama for remarks challenging significance of U.S. entrepreneurs
•Obama told supporters over the weekend that it was governments - not individuals - who create jobs
•Romney camp adds that his view shows how unqualified he is to lead the country into economic recovery
•Radio host Rush Limbaugh accuses the president of 'destroying the American dream'

 


By Toby Harnden
 
PUBLISHED: 00:43 EST, 16 July 2012 | UPDATED: 18:29 EST, 16 July 2012

Comments (655)
 

America's leading small business association has slammed Barack Obama for showing 'an utter lack of understanding' of the country's entrepreneurs when he told them: 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'

In a hard-hitting statement to Mail Online, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) president Dan Danne said: 'What a disappointment to hear President Obama's revealing comments challenging the significance of America's entrepreneurs.

Mr Danne added: 'His unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.'

Scroll down for video

 


Under fire: President Obama, pictured today speaking at a town hall rally in Cincinnati, has been blasted by business leaders who say he has a lack of understanding of American entrepreneurs
 
President Obama said in a speech at the weekend that governments and not individuals create jobs, telling entrepreneurs: 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'
He added: '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.'
 

The inflammatory campaign speech comments underline the extent to which Obama believes that the state rather than ordinary citizens create jobs and wealth.
 
They highlight a key contrast with Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, who is preaching a message of wealth creation by individuals and reinvigorating the private sector.

Andrea Saul, spokeswoman for Romney, told Fox News that the remarks 'reflect just how unqualified he is to lead us to a real economic recovery' and were ' insulting to the hardworking entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and job creators who are the backbone of our economy.'



Attack: Barack Obama said in a speech in Virginia on Saturday that small business owners could not claim credit for their own success


An NFIB spokesman added: 'I'm sure every small-business owner who took a second mortgage on their home, maxed out their credit cards or borrowed money from their own retirement savings to start their business disagrees strongly with President Obama's claim. They know that hard work does matter.

'Every small business is not indebted to the government or some other benefactor. If anything, small businesses are historically an economic and job-creating powerhouse in spite of the government.'


The NFIB was founded in 1943 and has some 350,000 members. It is officially a non-partisan organisation but tends to contribute heavily to Republican candidates. In 2010, 25 of its members, all republicans, were elected to Congress.

David Chavern, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that the basic idea behind Obama’s comments, and other similar sentiments expressed by allies, 'is really objectionable and offensive.'

 
Reaching out: Obama said in a speech at the weekend that governments - not individuals - create jobs
 
'The problem with the Obama administration’s view, he wrote in a blog post, was that ‘it only looks at the good outcomes’ rather than what went before.


Mr Chavern wrote: ‘Success is apparently a collective effort - but where was that "collective" during the periods of risk-taking and failure? The vast majority of businesses fail. Period.

He added: 'Every day millions of people put their lives, savings, houses and families on the line and work 20 hours a day just to grab their small slice of the American dream. Where is the collective when all of this is going on?  And if the collective is really responsible for success, how come everyone isn’t successful?

'[Obama's] unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.'
- NFIB statement
 
Meanwhile, on his daily radio show, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said that Obama’s Roanoke remarks were proof positive that the president 'hates' America. 'I'll tell you what,' he said. 'I think it can now be said, without equivocation - without equivocation - that this man hates this country. He is trying -- Barack Obama is trying - to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream.'

Speaking at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday night, Obama made the case that those who created businesses should be taxed at higher rates because they are fortunate and were helped to achieve success by the government and other people.

'There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me - because they want to give something back,' he said. 'They know they didn't - look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.

 

Plans: Obama recently unveiled a new proposal to raise taxes on all those who earn more than $250,000, a measure that Romney contends will hit small businesses.


'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.'

Obama recently unveiled a new proposal to raise taxes on all those who earn more than $250,000, a measure that Romney contends will hit small businesses.

He continued: '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.



 


Rival: Mitt Romney has stressed his business experience in his campaign
 


'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.'

He made the argument that all this showed that 'there are some things we do better together' and was how the American middle class was built.


OBAMA'S BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CALLED INTO QUESTION


As President Obama comes under scrutiny for remarks that he made about entrepreneurs over the weekend, it's not surprising to many that the president has never served in a leadership level at any private sector job.

The president has held a number of jobs since the late 1980s, including editor, writer and professor before getting into politics.

But questions have been raised about Obama's lack of business experience as the U.S. struggles with a high joblessness rate and a frail economy.

It was a point that Obama's political foes were quick to exploit in their attacks on Monday.

Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindal, appearing alongside Mitt Romney today, said: 'We have a president who hadn't run anything before he was in the White House.'

He added: '[Obama is the] most liberal and incompetent president since Jimmy Carter. No offense to Jimmy Carter.'
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'That's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president - because I still believe in that idea.  You're not on your own, we're in this together.'

Obama, who was speaking in a fire station, tried to equate the economy with state-run emergency services. 'There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.'

Obama's comments strongly echo controversial remarks made by Elizabeth Warren, a liberal darling and candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts, in August 2011 when she said: 'There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.'

She then made the case that the wealthy only got wealthy because of others. 'You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.


'You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.'

She linked this with a demand for the rich to be taxed at a higher rate.

'Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.'


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Private success is the reason for the gov't.

It is because of private success that we have roads , courts, aircraft carriers etc. Private success is the reason we have the system of gov't that we have and the economy that we have. It is not the other way around--that would be the soviet union.



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July 17, 2012
Is Obama Ripping Off the Mask?
By James Lewis


American candidates for president have a predictable trajectory.  They begin by telling the party troops that they are really coming from the honest-to-gosh right or left, and then they move steadily toward the great fuzzy middle, so that by election time they end up sounding like Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee.

But Obama has been going off the standard script -- most recently by attacking capitalism in radical terms.  Namely, "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that.  Somebody else made that happen."

Democratic senators are reportedly "horrified" by Obama's behavior.

Last week, an Obama surrogate was accusing Mitt Romney of being a felon.

This is a new low in presidential hardball politics -- at least since LBJ accused Barry Goldwater of wanting to explode nuclear weapons on little girls picking daisies.

Ben Shapiro of Breitbart reports the following Obama transcript:

Is any of this (use of tax havens) actually illegal?

It appears not, but it's impossible to know for sure because Romney refuses to release enough information to let people make their own judgments.

Writes Shapiro:

... Last time I checked,  ...  there is a presumption of innocence[.] But Obama needs no evidence. He just needs innuendo.

"And when did you stop beating your wife?" to quote the old legal joke.  But this is not a joke.

If Breitbart is right, the Obama campaign is actually raising money in China -- quite possibly from non-U.S. citizens, since its controls are lax.  Not a legal move, even if it's ignored by the Federal Election Commission.

The Obama campaign may be committing felonies while accusing others of being felons.  Hardball politics isn't new, but crazy hardball tends to be self-defeating.  It reflects rage and desperation rather than cold calculations.  Obama now seems to be playing crazy ball.

In 2008, Obama ran as a messianic figure, come to bring peace and love to earth.  But in 2012 he is tearing off the mask bequeathed by Saul Alinsky and his other radical left mentors.

I think there might be two reasons.  First, Obama really is an ideological radical -- there's no honest doubt about it anymore, given his expressed anti-capitalist and anti-constitutionalist views, his solid phalanx of radical associates throughout life, and his repeated assault on everyday Americans.  And while Obama is the most convincing liar since Bill Clinton, he has essentially given up on hiding his radicalism.

That is hugely important.

A second reason why Obama seems to be wandering off script is his genuine rage and anger toward those who dissent from his radical orthodoxy.  Early in his administration, Obama gave one of those televised White House seminars on the economy. Congressman Paul Ryan was there, and instead of listening obediently, the way Republicans are supposed to, he presented a clear and articulate argument against federal overspending.  Obama was caught unprepared, and right there on live TV, he suddenly looked enraged.  That used-car salesman smile was gone.  For a moment, we could see the man behind the Carteresque grin.  He didn't look kind and compassionate.

You can bet that Vladimir Putin and Hu Jin Tao played and replayed that clip over and over again to see the real Obama.  All the novice KGB thugs are being trained on this one.

(Look at this photo of Obama's soulmate, Elizabeth Warren, and you can see the identical rage.)

The Daily Kos loves this collectivist Obama stuff.  But the Kosovars are already in his back pocket.  Why is Obama echoing the mad-dog left three and a half months before November?

One reason could be money.  The Great O is far behind his money-raising record from 2007 and 2008.  But in 2008, Obama kept his real feelings for the private delight of behind-the-scene fund-raisers.

Right now Obama's denial of business achievements is on the White House website (above).  Americans who don't hate business (70-80 percent) are not comfortable with those words.  If the people in the Romney campaign are smart, they'll run that one over and over toward November.  Add a few occupistas running wild in business districts around the country, and they will add Obama's smiling endorsement of those idealistic kids, just to hammer the point home.  Obama is his own worst enemy.

In emotional terms, Obama and Warren are "leaking" their real feelings while trying to cover them up.  Popular narcissists can be devastatingly nice and charming, until they run into opposition.  Then their real feelings leak out.

In his heart of hearts, President O is always enraged at the American people -- those bitter clingers -- but this time it's personal.  Gone is the smiling messiah, and in his place we see a persecutory personality, a real witch-hunter who may lose the election but won't pass up a chance to scourge this country with the whip of righteousness, to tell us what he really thinks.  Under the smiling mask, Obama is Rev. Jerry Wright.

 By Labor Day, when all the football fans and SUV moms take their eyes of the TV, they will see it, too.

If Obama doesn't hammer his rage and anger home to the voters, Romney should do it for him.  This is self-destructive strategy.  You don't end a campaign by ranting at the voters.

Obama is not a conventional politician.  For sure, he loves the trappings, Air Force One, the chance to finally lord it over other people.  But Obama is dyed-in-the-wool ideologue.  In the last four years he's changed everything except his deeply embedded beliefs.  America is still the real enemy.

Obama has become Jimmy Carter, who's gotten more and more stuck in trying to justify his catastrophic policies from 30 years ago.

Jimmy Carter is still trying to be president.  Emotionally, he can't come to terms with his defeat in 1978.  That's why he can't leave the public stage, or stop defending his defeatist policies toward the most hardened enemies of this country.

If Obama is defeated in this election, chances are that he will become another Jimmy Carter -- a "bitter clinger" if ever there was one.

The left has always thought long-term.  Radical leftism is a utopian ideology, not a normal American political party.  The left wants to turn America upside-down -- the original meaning of "revolution," from Copernicus' book on the rotation (revolving) of the earth

So far, America is still rightside-up, but Obama won't stop if he is defeated.  On the contrary.  To keep his stuck beliefs intact, Obama will have to redouble his missionary efforts.

If that happens, Obama the "bitter clinger" will haunt the Democratic Party 'til the end of his days.

Which would be a kind of poetic justice.

(Obama image by Otto Veblin)

 

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July 17, 2012

The Most Anti-Business President Ever

By David Limbaugh

7/17/2012


 
 If I didn't know better, I might conclude that President Obama is trying to validate my book. His personal attacks on Mitt Romney have been so harsh that Romney called them "beneath the dignity of the presidency."

Not only did I devote several chapters to documenting Obama's practice of bullying and attacking his political opponents but my final chapter, uncannily, details Obama's "War on the Dignity of His Office."

Having presided over 41 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent and possessing no arrows in his economic quiver besides deficit spending and raising taxes, it's not surprising Obama continues to resort to these gutter tactics.

What finally drew Romney's ire was Obama's accusing Romney of committing a felony and then Obama's refusing to apologize. This is simply Chicago Thug Politics 101. President Obama's favorite whipping boy, President George W. Bush, would have never stooped to this level. Even in the face of brutal, scurrilous attacks, Bush refused to diminish the dignity of the office.

In recent days, Obama also provided supplemental material for my chapter detailing his "War on Business" by revealing, yet again, his attitude toward the private sector, entrepreneurship and business. He told a crowd in Roanoke, Va., "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

His apologists will say his remarks were taken out of context, but I'm afraid that's not the case. Though no one can deny Obama's assertion that all successful people have benefited from others -- teachers and other mentors -- the thrust of his remarks was directed at crediting government with having an indispensible role in the success of businesses.

Watch the video. He referred wistfully to the Clinton years as a period of unbridled economic growth -- and he attributed that growth to tax increases on the "wealthy." He said that during those years, "we created a lot of millionaires." We? Created? In other words, government created a lot of millionaires; it wasn't their ingenuity, and it certainly wasn't their "hard work" -- a point he made emphatically clear. The government's infrastructure, its roads and bridges, said Obama, created the climate for businesses to thrive. Oh, boy.

This is Obama's orientation. This is his mindset. He believes that government is the granddaddy of business and not the other way around. He was very explicit in his Osawatomie, Kan., speech that capitalism can't work without extensive government regulations and that businesses don't flourish on their own. They can only succeed when jump-started by infusions of government money and wisdom. Does it ever occur to him that there would be no government if businesses and individuals weren't pouring their revenues into the federal coffers?

Despite Obama's insistence that he is a fierce advocate of the free market and his fanfare about streamlining government regulations, he has amassed regulations at an unprecedented rate, dwarfing all previous presidents, including George W. Bush. Indeed, his burdensome regulatory and tax policies have businesses paralyzed in an anxiety-shaped straightjacket and scared to death to expand because of the stifling atmosphere of uncertainty.

During his term, employment at federal agencies has increased, while it has been abysmal in the private sector. He has demonized the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and savaged the private jet industry, causing major damage to that industry and costing thousands of jobs. He has inspired an adversarial, even hostile, climate between labor unions and management, exemplified by his National Labor Relations Board's trying to prevent Boeing from opening up a new manufacturing plant in another state.

Obama has few people with business experience in his administration. He has no former CEOs in his Cabinet, and there is almost no top-level private-sector experience among his inner circle of advisers. Time magazine's Fareed Zakaria, a liberal and a big fan of Obama's, admits that even the business leaders who voted for Obama believe he is, "at his core, anti-business."

George Buckley, CEO of 3M, said: "We know what his instincts are. ... He is anti-business." Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, said: "This administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it. ... Everybody complains about how much money is on the side in America."

Even Obama's attacks against Romney are mostly grounded in Obama's antipathy toward Romney's success in business and Obama's innate hostility toward the private sector.

Obama's punitively anti-business policies have made it very difficult for businesses to flourish and for job growth to occur. His anti-business attitude and rhetoric have poisoned the market that much more.

If and when Obama is defeated in November, we should anticipate an explosion in business and entrepreneurial activity among ordinary Americans who realize they're about to be liberated from the most anti-business president in our history.

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David Limbaugh  :D :D :D :D your kidding right fat mans little brother,can't wait to you start posting stuff from becks little brother  :D

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again your pulling one sentence out of context  ::)

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again your pulling one sentence out of context  ::)


So - it was obama's one sentence in 2008 to Joe the plumber that revealed what he was all about. 

Same here. 

When off teleprompter obama cant help himself but reveal himself for the communist he he is.  He sounds like this raving bitch no? 


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Typical Obama: Punish and deride those who are successful, while literally paying people to not work.

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So - it was obama's one sentence in 2008 to Joe the plumber that revealed what he was all about. 

Same here. 

When off teleprompter obama cant help himself but reveal himself for the communist he he is.  He sounds like this raving bitch no? 



holy shit can we even stick to the topic you started  :D :D

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Paul Ryan Went On An Epic Rant Over Obama's Comment About Business
 
James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute|Jul. 17, 2012, 10:30 AM|1,264|20

 

It was Rep. Paul Ryan’s wife, Janna, who first saw — via Twitter— President Obama’s recent comments about American entrepreneurs, that “if you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
 
And the Wisconsin Republican — thought to be on Mitt Romney’s running-mate short list — couldn’t believe it. He thought someone must “have been putting words in the president’s mouth.”
 
But Obama said it all. And Ryan absolutely tore into the president in a chat I had with him earlier today. Among the highlights:
 
– “The idea that these entrepreneurs owe all their success to some government bureaucrat or some centralized planner just defies reality.”
 
– “Every now and then, President Obama pierces the veil. He’s usually pretty coy about his ideology, but he lets the veil slip from time to time.”
 
– “We believe in free communities and this is a statist attack on free communities.”
 
– “He’s deluded himself into thinking that his so-called enemies are these crazy individualists who believe in some dog-eat-dog society when what he’s really doing is basically attacking people like entrepreneurs and stacking up a list of scapegoats to blame for his failures.”
 
– “As all of his big government spending programs fail to restore jobs and growth, he seems to be retreating into a statist vision of government direction and control of a free society that looks backward to the failed ideologies of the 20th century.”
 
– “Those of us who are conservative believe in government, we just believe government has limits. We want government to do what it does well and respect its limits so civil society and families can flourish on their own and do well and achieve their potential.”
 
– “He wants to be as transformational as Reagan by undoing the entire Reagan revolution.”
 
Now here are some longer excerpts:
 
Every now and then, he pierces the veil. He’s usually pretty coy about his ideology, but he lets the veil slip from time to time. … His straw man argument is this ridiculous caricature where he’s trying to say if you want any security in life, you stick with me. If you go with these Republicans, they’re going to feed you to the wolves because they believe in some Hobbesian state of nature, and it’s one or the other which is complete bunk, absolutely ridiculous. But it seems to be the only way he thinks he can make his case. He’s deluded himself into thinking that his so-called enemies are these crazy individualists who believe in some dog-eat-dog society when what he’s really doing is basically attacking people like entrepreneurs and stacking up a list of scapegoats to blame for his failures.
 
His comments seem to derive from a naive vision of a government-centered society and a government-directed economy. It stems from an idea that the nucleus of society and the economy is government not the people. … It is antithetical to the American idea. We believe in free communities, and this is a statist attack on free communities. … As all of his big government spending programs fail to restore jobs and growth, he seems to be retreating into a statist vision of government direction and control of a free society that looks backward to the failed ideologies of the 20th century.
 
This is not a Bill Clinton Democrat. He’s got this very government-centric, old 20th century collectivist philosophy which negates the American experiment which is people living in communities, supporting one another, having government stick to its limits so it can do its job really well … Those of us who are conservative believe in government, we just believe government has limits. We want government to do what it does well and respect its limits so civil society and families can flourish on their own and do well and achieve their potential.
 
How does building roads and bridge justify Obamacare? If you like the GI Bill therefore we must go along with socialized medicine. It’s a strange leap that he takes. … To me it’s the laziest form of a debate to affix views to your opponent that they do not have so you can demonize them and defeat them and win the debate by default
 
I think he believes America was on the right path until Reagan came along, and Reagan got us going in the wrong direction. And and he wants to be as transformational as Reagan by undoing the entire Reagan revolution. … I think he sees himself as bringing about this wave of progressivism, and the only thing stopping him are these meddling conservatives who believe in these founding principles so he has to caricature them in the ugliest light possible to win the argument.


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