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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 12:53 PM Aug 2012

Virginia Business Owner Shuns Biden Over Obama’s 'You Didn't Build That' Remark

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/374454/20120816/joe-biden-virginia-business-mcmurray-obama-build.htm



A 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.

/snip

Anybody want to place bets that he got great rates on his small business loans?
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Virginia Business Owner Shuns Biden Over Obama’s 'You Didn't Build That' Remark (Original Post) TalkingDog Aug 2012 OP
Wonder if he has police and fire protect and electricity to do his baking? Lint Head Aug 2012 #1
Juvenile BeyondGeography Aug 2012 #2
I predict his business will fail within a year... rfranklin Aug 2012 #3
Geez, what's with these crazy Reeps. ananda Aug 2012 #4
They don't want us to call them dumb 2pooped2pop Aug 2012 #5
I have a bridge in Nigeria to sell Mr. McMurray JHB Aug 2012 #6
Yes, yet another idiot Republican only hearing what they WANT to hear. HughBeaumont Aug 2012 #7
I don't buy this. He was a Romney supporter from the get go. Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #8
THAT is the correct answer Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #10
Right on. part man all 86 Aug 2012 #12
Hope there's not a lot of Obama supporters in his area. Fla Dem Aug 2012 #9
Oh he taught himself to read the recipes he uses? proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 #11
Looking for a Chik-Fil-A bounce? Bok_Tukalo Aug 2012 #13
This bakery is in Radford, VA countingbluecars Aug 2012 #14
 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
3. I predict his business will fail within a year...
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 12:56 PM
Aug 2012

If course, the odds are in my favor since most new businesses fail.

ananda

(28,876 posts)
4. Geez, what's with these crazy Reeps.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 12:57 PM
Aug 2012

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)
5. They don't want us to call them dumb
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012

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)
6. I have a bridge in Nigeria to sell Mr. McMurray
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 01:05 PM
Aug 2012

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)
7. Yes, yet another idiot Republican only hearing what they WANT to hear.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 01:08 PM
Aug 2012

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)
8. I don't buy this. He was a Romney supporter from the get go.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 01:11 PM
Aug 2012

Not a single person I personally know was offended by that, except Tea Baggers and Republicans. It's manufactured, partisan outrage. Plain and simple.

Fla Dem

(23,745 posts)
9. Hope there's not a lot of Obama supporters in his area.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 01:12 PM
Aug 2012

If there are, he won't be getting their business. Then we'll see who built his business.

countingbluecars

(4,766 posts)
14. This bakery is in Radford, VA
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:10 PM
Aug 2012

where Radford University, a public college, is located. I'm guessing he wouldn't have much business if not for the students.

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