Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The controversy surrounding President
Barack Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a business --
you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” has
defied the usual election-year pattern.
Normally a political faux pas lasts little more than a news
cycle. People hear the story, decide what they think, and
quickly move on to the next brouhaha, following what the
journalist Mickey Kaus calls the Feiler Faster Thesis. A gaffe
that might have ruined a candidate 20 years ago is now forgotten
within days.
