Obama saboteurs are twisting the truth
Carlos Latuff | Wikimedia Commons | Text altered by Dan
Tuesday Column Reprise
Note from Dan: While I’m on vacation, I’m treating you to columns from the past. This one originally appeared July 22, 9 days after President Obama’s ‘You didn’t built that’ speech in Roanoke. The right wing quickly snatched the phrase out if its context and turned it into a Romney campaign rallying cry that ultimately failed. Virginians weren’t fooled by the spin and lies. And it brought in a lot of response from readers (by my estimation, roughly 51 pro to 47 con).
A week ago Friday, President Barack Obama uttered some now notorious words that his political opponents have twisted into a nationwide anti-business anthem.
He said them at the corner of Market Street and Church Avenue, in front of historic Fire Station No. 1, right here in Roanoke. Which means our once-gritty railroad town is on the lips of just about every political pundit in the land.
Here are his words:
“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.”
Some cynical Obama haters have plucked a few bits from that middle paragraph and are now using them to weave lies about what the president meant.
But anyone who bothers to peer past the critics’ sleazy spin would quickly realize that our historic, charming and thriving city is a perfect metaphor for Obama’s message. So was the place where he uttered them.
READ THE REST OF THIS COLUMN HERE.
December 18, 2012 - 6:00 AM
The Roanoke Times rushes to the defense of the White House and the President. It makes one wonder what you are not willing to tell us about the government because it might hurt the President.
Obama saboteurs twisting the truth? Really?
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Lars, I prefer the blog post you wrote titled “Was Roanoke’s Firehouse #1 Obama’s Waterloo?”
Answer: Nope!
I particularly enjoyed your observation that “Obama was truly the personification of: “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”!
Remarkably, that’s exactly what the Romney campaign proved to be, by cooking their own polls and then believing them.
That made no sense at all, Henry.
Lars Hagen, why do you not allow comments on your blog? I saw the send comments to line, but why don’t you post comments for others to see?
I’d like to step in for a moment to once again point out suzie’s amazing prognostication abilities. She predicted long ago and far away that the press would soon be attacking and ripping to shreds Coaches Boeheim and K because they are honorable successful conservative Catholics. Well, there it is today — the MSM absolutely spewing bile all over Boeheim for his 900th win and pummeling K for leading a somewhat undermanned team to the No. 1 ranking.
Great predictions, suzie!!!! Now when is that election?
so, it has been reported that the Benghazi-gate fiasco was a result of “systemic failure” of leadership in the state department (but, it’s nobody’s fault…).
and, billary will be praised by the libs for her Herculean effort at globe-trotting over the past 4 years to like a gazilion-or-so foreign countries… then, oh, how tiring…oh, i have a head ache, oh, oh, oh.