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DAVENPORT, Iowa Ross Murty likes business, but he doesnt like President Obama.
And so the co-owner of the Village Corner Deli here agreed to cater Obamas visit Wednesday but not before donning a t-shirt blaring the message: Government didnt build my business. I did.
It was a reference to a remark Obama made several weeks ago that his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, has seized upon to portray Obama as anti-business. Obama, referring to the help government provides to businesses by building roads and providing education and other services, said, If youve got a business you didnt build that."
No one from the government was there when we were sweating it, when we were building this business, Murty said. Before him was a bank of chafing dishes filled with smoked beef brisket, pulled pork, vegetable parmesan bake and cheesy hash brown casserole provided to the White House press corps covering the presidents three-day swing across Iowa this week.
Murty, 45, a registered Republican, didnt really have a choice with the catering job. His partner, Bret Dalton (a registered Democrat), accepted the work on Saturday while Murty was away in Chicago watching a Cubs game. Dalton volunteered for Vice President Bidens presidential campaign in 1988, when he was a student at Iowa State University.
Full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/iowa-deli-co-owner-caters-for-obama-visit-but-his-t-shirt-tells-another-story/2012/08/15/abde5208-e71e-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.html
Does he not know that Romney has made similar assertions, both in the 2002 olympics closing ceremony speech and this year on the campaign trail?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)While talking to a secret service guy and laughed. It's amazing how that phrase took off when it was obvious what Obama really said. Scary is what it is.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)A labor of their own and their every failure as the fault of the government.
Floyd_Gondolli
(1,277 posts)Id love to see him try and run his business without roads, water or power. Imbeciles every one of them.
RC
(25,592 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Does that moran have no one around him that can explain the entire paragraph to him? ass.
otohara
(24,135 posts)Even if its total bullshit
orwell
(7,775 posts)...because it came from a campaign for a GOVERNMENT JOB...
Yeah, like that's going to happen...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)That was completely unprofessional. What an ingrate. I don't think any political message would have been appropriate. Though a pro-Obama one would have been more understandable since this was a Democratic event.
milwaukeelib33
(140 posts)I would've cancelled the order, but on such short notice it might have been difficult to set new catering arrangements. Sounds like he was spotted with the t-shirt on as he was in the process of preparing their order.
Doubt anyone will be fired seeing as...
"And so the co-owner of the Village Corner Deli here agreed to cater Obamas visit Wednesday but not before donning a t-shirt blaring the message: Government didnt build my business. I did.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)It would be interesting to know if business drops off. I for one even if I agreed with the message would be put off by it. I don't like businesses to be overtly political, unless that is their business. Such as places that sell political stuff and they just slant one way or the other. But, I don't want to walk into say the neighborhood grocery and see anti-anyone ads in the store. I am not there to get my groceries not be subjected to political ads. And yes I have gone into places that do similar things to this and some have been left leaning. It is a turn off.