I think it’s a sport for President Obama to make outrageous statements like “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” — which he said in a recent campaign stop in Roanoke — and then watch Republicans go predictably bananas.

Certainly the multimillionaire business supporters of the president on Wall Street and in Hollywood know this is absurd. Anyone with the mildest understanding of business and capitalism knows this is absurd.