Some Help for the Wingnuts

It's been amusing to see the posts on Facebook and other places quoting Obama as saying, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that."  I really do try to be patient with my Right-Wing friends.  After all, they do seem to have short attention spans and have trouble processing more than a sentence or two at a time.  Maybe that's the problem they are having here.  They rely on someone else to pick out one sentence for them from an entire speech.  If you get most of your information from either Fox News or chain emails--and it's debatable which of those two is more reliable--the rest of us need to make allowances for you.

But for those Right-Wingers that want to try to focus for a few additional seconds, here is the entire paragraph from which the above sentence is extracted:

"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."

If you try real hard, you might be able to process the whole thing.  We will try to be patient.

For those Wingnuts who feel really adventurous, the whole speech can be found  here (and many other places).  Take your time, I'm sure you can get through it eventually.  Good luck.