"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government ...research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.... We say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That's how we funded the GI Bill. That's how we created the middle class. That's how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That's how we invented the Internet. That's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You're not on your own, we're in this together."
- Barack Obama
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And meanwhile Republican CatholicVote, on the same day that the President pulls his ads off the air in the wake of the latest Colorado trajedy, puts out an attack piece altogether reminicient of Nazi propaganda. It makes it look like the President is attacking Jesus Christ who is a CEO of some big business. Before you click on the link below, be ready to be shocked and thoroughly disgusted by the utter baseness of the attack:
http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=33411
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