The biggest problem with the wording is that it left a nice little gap open for the kind of stuff quoted in the article, and allowing the Romney campaign to push ads implying the President thinks business owners didn't do squat to make a living, it was all the Big Government handing out welfare*.
I don't think it the wording
reveals anything or
hints at anything we haven't already heard from the President
Taking the president's own summation is enough I think - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
Now you can disagree about what role government has and whatnot, but there isn't much room for
serious discussion of the meaning of the sentence.
*= To anyone who thinks this is what This All Means - In this pair of sentences, to what does the "that" refer?
Quote:
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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.
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Answers on a postcard care of Tchocky-should-cut-the-grass-and-get-off the-computer.
