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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/374454/20120816/joe-biden-virginia-business-mcmurray-obama-build.htmA small-business owner in Virginia shunned an advance team for Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday, not for recent comments Biden made that Republican policies would put Americans "back in chains" but because of President Barack Obama's "you didn't build that" statement.
Chris McMurray, owner of the 3-month-old bakery Crumb and Get It, told WDBJ7 that though it was "an opportunity of a lifetime" to have Biden in his establishment, he just had to turn him down.
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Anybody want to place bets that he got great rates on his small business loans?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)If course, the odds are in my favor since most new businesses fail.
ananda
(28,876 posts)Nobody is saying they didn't work hard and build
their own businesses.. just that they didn't do it
alone, without infrastructure, government loans,
and other goods and services.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)but shit, they just can't find out facts for themselves can they? They just blindly follow the Fox God or what?
How can you not call them dumb? Dumb or traitorous. One or the other. All republicans are one or the other.
JHB
(37,162 posts)I'm not in that area so I have no idea how his baked goods taste, but if he's dumb enough to believe such a naked lie (and the guy who builds a whole campaign theme around an edit worthy of Soviet Pravda), I'm sure other people are just lining up to swindle him.
But at least Comrade Chris is a Model Soviet///////Republican Citizen. If Party leadership say so, it must be true!
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It's why so many of them watch Fox Pravda . . . damned the facts, it's about NARRATIVE!! Adheres perfectly to their black/white, Side A/Side B thinking.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Not a single person I personally know was offended by that, except Tea Baggers and Republicans. It's manufactured, partisan outrage. Plain and simple.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)part man all 86
(367 posts)Fla Dem
(23,745 posts)If there are, he won't be getting their business. Then we'll see who built his business.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)His teachers are weeping.
Bok_Tukalo
(4,323 posts)The marketing of political disagreement, perhaps?
countingbluecars
(4,766 posts)where Radford University, a public college, is located. I'm guessing he wouldn't have much business if not for the students.