Comrade Obama Says 'You Didn't Build That', Small Business Owners Say 'Yes We Did!'

DENVER (CBS4) – As Mitt Romney prepares to visit Colorado this week the campaigns have been arguing over a remark President Barack Obama made about small businesses.

The economy will likely be the topic when Romney visits this Thursday and the numbers aren’t good. But the president isn’t doing anyone any favors either when he makes remarks that some small business owners see as an insult.

Republicans have branded the president as big-government and anti-business, and lately he’s playing right into that.

“If you’re successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” Obama said. “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”


From ads to press conferences Republicans are having a field day with the president’s “you didn’t build it” blunder as Democrats move to do damage control.

“I did build my business, Mr. President, you didn’t,” Martin Mendez with Splash Publications said.

“The message was taken out of context,” Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb said.