Pic Of The Moment: Republican National Convention To Feature Anti-Government Theme

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24. I'll probably get pilloried for saying this, but I don't think it matters

"We Built This" does not refer to the Republican Convention. It's designed to stroke the egos of the kind of small business owners who are constantly praising themselves for pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, without any help from anybody (and who are probably going to vote Republican anyway).

Furthermore, whining that Obama's comments were misrepresented is a mug's game. It's the latest manifestation of the idea, responsible for so many Democratic losses in the past, that if we patiently explain the facts to voters, they will eventually come to see the error of their ways. Sorry, but that battle is already lost, time to move on. Point out that the flipside to "We Built This" is "You're on your own", and that the Republican answer to spiralling unemployment is to ask you to open your own mom and pop store and then expect you to compete with Wal-Mart (who they'll be subsidising with your tax dollars). Or something like that, I'm sure the Obama campaign would be able to come up with something much better than my crude efforts.