Daemon Sophic
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No. He wasn’t. Look, you obviously had some nerve hit by some tag-line in a political commercial somewhere. You suggested that we can’t find common ground, but I’m standing on it, and I’m trying to bring you back down.I've listened to the video many times before.
He actually said it.
That is unlike Al Gore, who didn't say what was attributed to him.
As for Obama's context, he was dishonestly creating a straw man,
ie, the myth that entrepreneurs believe they succeed by doing every
task personally without using any infrastructure. He was selling
pure hokum to manipulate the masses into believing they're entitled
to a bigger piece of someone else's pie. Entrepreneurs are no
smarter or harder working, & therefore don't deserve what they've
built. He was selling entitlement to more than what they worked for.
In that speech, Obama was doing two things. 1. Rallying the crowd into the idea of all Americans working together are a stronger force than an America divided. and 2. Opposing the extension of Bush era tax cuts as proposed by his opponent, Mitt Romney; for many of the reasons we are discussing in this very thread. That decreasing the income disparity that has afflicted the US; to make sure that hard working people can be assured of a living wage. That the chance for upward mobility actually remain alive. That the infrastructure that made the US great in the second half of the 20th century continue.
That is what his speech was about. If you don’t believe me, then perhaps you can believe reality.
Here.