We Did ‘Build That,’ and Our Government Helped
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July 27 (Bloomberg) -- The flap over President BarackObama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe -- playing endlessly in TVads and sure to be a major theme of the Republican NationalConvention in late August -- is at once sillier and moresignificant than it seems.
It’s sillier because fair-minded observers -- includingneutral fact-checking referees -- agree that the president’swords are shamelessly being taken out of context. For Romney tobase so much of his campaign on bogus editing is lame.