Mitt Romney hammers Barack Obama over his “you didn’t build that” comment, and John Sununu says he wishes Obama “would learn to be an American”

  By now you have heard Barack Obama’s anti-capitalist, Marxist rant where he told a group of people that basically nobody can make it without the help of the federal government, the federal government is the entity which makes all private business ventures possible.

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen

    That was the comment that provoked my former governor, John Sununu, to say that he wished the president would “learn how to be an American.” It goes without saying that the mainstream media will try to claim that John Sununu is a birther in an attempt to discredit him–and the Republican party–by neglecting to use his statement in context:

What I thought I said, but I guess I didn’t say, is that the President has to learn the American formula for creating businesses. The American formula for creating business is not having the government creating business. The American formula for creating business that I wish he would get comfortable with is to create an environment in which entrepreneurs’ can thrive. If I didn’t give all that detail, then I apologize.

  And clearly you can see that was precisely what he was trying to say in the first place when you read the whole quote:

These are the people who are the backbone of our economy and the President clearly demonstrated he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses from the ground up — that’s how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way and I wish this President would learn how to be an American

  But that is the way the media rolls and we should expect nothing less. Mitt Romney understands this as well and it would be my guess that is the reason why Mitt Romney hasn’t been willing to go after Barack Obama with the same zeal the Obama regime has exhibited toward him. Mitt Romney knows he is fighting against both Barack Obama and the media and if he hopes to have any chance at defeating Barack Obama in November he has to say the hell with it and go after Barack Obama with both guns blazing.

 And maybe, just maybe, we saw the first signs that Mitt Romney is about to do just that when he came out firing at Barack Obama today for the president’s comments attack on America’s small business owners and entrepreneurs:

I’m convinced he wants Americans to be ashamed of success … [but] I don’t  want government to take credit for what individuals accomplish,” Romney told a cheering crowd in swing-state Pennsylvania.

“The idea to say that Steve Jobs didn’t build Apple, that Henry Ford didn’t  build Ford Motor, that Papa John didn’t build Papa John Pizza, that Ray Kroc  didn’t build McDonald’s, that Bill Gates didn’t build Microsoft … is not just  foolishness, it is insulting to every entrepreneur

The president’s logic doesn’t just extend to the entrepreneurs that start a  barber shop or a taxi operation or an oil field service business,” he said.

It “extends to everybody in America that wants to lift themself up … [because] the president would say, ‘Well, you didn’t do that’ [and] ‘you  couldn’t have gotten to school without the roads that government built for you … so you are not responsible for that success

  Mitt Romney basically said what John Sununu was trying to say, only he articulated it much better and it is about time that Romney stood up for not only himself–because to this point the Obama regime seemed to have made Romney embarrassed about his success–but for all other Americans who are trying to better themselves by starting up businesses based on the seed of an idea they have planted in the hopes it will bloom into a  money making venture which will benefit the economy and thusly all Americans.

  Barack Obama’s point was supposed to be that taxes paid for the roads and the schools which benefited those who are successful and otherwise these people wouldn’t have been able to succeed, but what the president either doesn’t understand or is simply ignoring is this: These entrepreneurs created jobs which the government was able to tax (on top of taxing the business owners) in order to create the services about which he speaks, therefore the government cannot do it on its own and could not exist without the very people whom Obama is vilifying for their success. Yet Barack Obama wants to punish these people instead of admitting the fact that the government needs people to create jobs if it wants to continue to rake in tax revenues at the worker’s expense.

  This might just have been Romney’s coming out speech and while it was a good start he must continue to keep the pressure on Barack Obama if he wants to have any chance of defeating Barack Obama in November. If enough pressure is put on Barack Obama over these comments this could prove to be the day that Barack Obama lost the presidency, and we will all be better off for it.

  Barack Obama’s comments might play well to his base, but they are going to vote for him anyway and I question how many new votes he could possible gain by this line of attack.