Text of new Romney video “These Hands”

Mitt Romney released a devastating new web video this morning hitting President Obama for saying, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” The ad, titled “These Hands,” features New Hampshire business owner Jack Gilchrist who operates Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company with his family. The full text of the ad is below:

VIDEO TEXT: “Hudson, New Hampshire”   PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.”  
VIDEO TEXT: “Jack Gilchrist, Owner”   PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.”   VIDEO TEXT: “Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company” PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something.” PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”   JACK GILCHRIST: “My father’s hands didn’t build this company? My hands didn’t build this company? My son’s hands aren’t building this company? Did somebody else take out the loan on my father’s house to finance the equipment? Did somebody else make payroll every week or figure out where it’s coming from? President Obama, you’re killing us out here. Through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. Why are you demonizing us for it? We are the solution, not the problem. It’s time we had somebody who believes in us, someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded, not punished. We need somebody who believes in America.” MITT ROMNEY: The idea, to say that Steve Jobs didn’t build Apple, that Henry Ford didn’t build Ford Motor…to say something like that is not just foolishness: it’s insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in America, and it’s wrong.” MITT ROMNEY: “President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.” VIDEO TEXT: “After Four Years of Being Torn Down.” VIDEO TEXT: “It’s Time to Rebuild.”

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