Obama: If You've Got a Business, You Didn't Build That ...

At a campaign event on July 13 in Roanoke, VA Obama said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

A full transcript of Obama's remarks is available from the White House website here: http://erik.gs/PVr6Vp

Related blog post: http://erik.gs/N9uX0N

Follow up blog post, "What Context?": http://erik.gs/MscOrF

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[serviodeo]

pff Harvard grad. Yeah right. He didn't go to Harvard, somebody else did.

[JRod527763]

I looked at the context myself, and what I got was essentially the same message. I get that a lot of people get help when they succeed. But that help comes from friends, family, community members who want to support something. Not government programs that entitle us to commodities. Yes. We use roads and education systems. But who pays for those? Us. The tax payers. We don't just get that stuff from the government and say, "Oh, well thank you government. How nice of you." The message is the same.

[jbfane]

Yes, he is an absolute lie. You are correct. Everything about him is a lie. Thanks for saying so.

[headly66]

Absolute LIES

[jbfane]

Obama had benefactors who paid his way; one in particular was a Saudi Arabian business man. It should make you wonder what his real agenda and why he is not more forth coming with the truth. He didn't pay for his own education, he didn't pay for his first house, he did change his name several times and has several fake social security numbers. The list goes on and one but when you have blind love and faith in someone you don't want to know and that seems to be where you are at.

[headly66]

Prove me wrong.

[headly66]

Only people hateful are right wingers.

He said the truth.

You lost. LOL

[EnuffsEnuff318]

This hateful prick stands there and insults even the people who voted for him...and you STILL want to suck him off. That's slavery of the worst kind, you moron.

[OGLOCNYGA]

Good grief. Please do 12 seconds of research before making statements like this.

[headly66]

Our founding fathers were all slave owners.

You sound like an idiot.

[headly66]

Obama is an accomplished lawyer (13 years) and law professor (12 years).

[OGLOCNYGA]

Obama is not a self made man. He's a career politician. Nothing more than a leech.