Context doesn’t improve Obama’s comments on building businesses

Published July 18, 2012 4:00am ET



Mitt Romney’s success in going after Barack Obama’s recent declaration that, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” has prompted liberal bloggers to charge that Obama’s comments were taken wildly out of context. But even if viewed in their full context, Obama’s comments downplay the accomplishments of successful small business owners and diminish their contributions to government.

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