A sampling of the discourse:

Businesses do not succeed because of government, they succeed in spite of government.
Odumba has never had to work a day in his life…He panders to any person or group he can just to get a vote. He was a terrible senator in Illinois (yes, I was living there) and he is even a worse President.
Sorry, that is not what the President said. Just twisting a few words from his speech…He just underlined the fact that there is a contribution from government for the success of most private ventures.
If customers do not support your business or product, will it be successful? So yes, people help in your success! If I sell tires and no one buys any, how successful would my business be?
NASA advancement is in most corners of our house, and military innovation made the Internet possible. We cannot slash the federal government to the bone and expect to remain a top country.
Who was he preaching to? It's a technically correct, irrelevant statement.
Knowing how the man thinks as respects to obviously wanting bigger government and tax upon tax and abuse of executive power and downright sneakiness and outright lies…what would anyone with half a brain negatively think about any of his statements? I take that back. The ones with half a brain or less would keep him in office.
I want the White House number that sends prospective clients to me that are guaranteed to purchase. And, even IF it was taken out of context by FOX news, they learned it from the pros: ABC, CBS, NBC & MSNBC.
It's just more of the same victimization scam and closeted class warfare this guy is known for. Only this time, it's middle-class business guys who are the ogre, and the political elites like Obama are the victims, because the small business owners are pushing back against an Obama tax increase targeted directly at them.
He said nothing to the context that Romney claims. Who would you rely upon to pay people to teach your children, or pave your streets, maintain your infrastructure, or save your things from fire? Your neighbor? Do you have any idea how much the technology you use to do your daily things costs? Would you prefer we go back to the 1300s like our extremist Muslim brothers?
I think that is a spit in the face to anyone who has put their blood, sweat, and tears into their business! So someone else did all the prospecting, spent money on the marketing, missed important family engagements all to hopefully bring the American dream to fruition!? Cannot even believe it was said with a straight face!
We succeed because someone else gave us an opportunity or we were at the right place at the right time to exploit a new opportunity.

Whether or not Obama was being disingenuous or the quote was taken out of context is by this time beside the point. To me, the real issue is the level of polarization that's evident among voters, even in comments by a group of people sharing the challenges of the same industry. When nobody will budge from their opinions, we end up falling at each other's throats like a scene from "True Blood." In Congress, it's the kind of thing that causes gridlock.

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