Who is this ‘We’?

Published July 25, 2012 6:01pm ET



This is the president speaking:

We’re going to reward risk and entrepreneurship. People are going to have to sweat and sacrifice for their success. But there are some things that we’re also going to do together to make sure that everyone has success. Not everyone’s going to succeed, but everyone’s going to have a shot at success.

Plainly, the president can’t get past criticism of the remarks in which he told successful entrepreneurs that they didn’t get there on their own and they aren’t really all that smart.  The contretemps has been enjoyable but it is also getting increasingly into the weeds with discussions of context and pronoun antecedents and so forth. Assertions that Mitt Romney has said the same thing. That it is all politics and “bogus.”

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