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Title: “If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”
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Published: Jul 16, 2012
Author: Dan
Post Date: 2012-07-16 20:50:04 by A K A Stone
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On July 13, 2012, at a campaign event at Roanoke Fire Station #1, in Roanoke, Virginia, President Barack Obama said: “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 bolding is mine. I agree with all of the non-bolded part. It’s the bolded part that I disagree with. Just imagine if someone had said: “If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.” Or imagine if someone had said: “If J.K. Rowling is cited as the author of the Harry Potter books, she didn’t write them. Somebody else made that happen.” Or imagine if someone had said: “If the Beatles are credited for writing and performing Rubber Soul, they didn’t do that. Someone else made that happen.” Obama’s statement isn’t just incorrect – it’s evil. It’s evil, because he is saying that all the hard work that someone did to start a business was not really done by them – it was done by someone else. Working 60 or 80 hours a week – risking your life savings – eating peanut sandwiches in the beginning so you can pay your bills – Obama is saying that people didn’t actually do these things. It’s evil because Obama is denying the existence of individual effort and individual responsibility. He is denying the very existence of the individual. That’s not just false – it’s evil.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Excellent!!!!!
“If A K A Stone has a web site, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”... Al Gore & Moderator X
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
I'd say that guy Neil who wrote the software for starters. And whoever is providing him the server access.
Bought and paid for by the Communists....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
So if the person isn't Already in the Club, s/he can't get in using Legacy Rules....Lulz....;} See Idiot Son of Poppy for details. I can't even believe the GOP Agit Prop thinks this will fly.
“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.” Huh? Practically everybody I know has said that,including me.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.
"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom (A.K.A. minnigold)
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: hondo68, A K A Stone (#2)
“If A K A Stone has a web site, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”
#4. To: A K A Stone (#0)
“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”
#5. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#6. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Just imagine if someone had said:
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