Now, it's personal. Our naf of a president has again insulted every American who has worked hard and attained some measure of success. President Barack Obama last week again belittled business owners, diminishing their industry, dismissing their perseverance and deriding their ingenuity. Yes, this is very personal.

"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," Obama said at a Virginia campaign event. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges."

Of course somebody helped us. In my case, it wasn't a community organizer. David Johnson worked hard to buy the food Dorothy Johnson prepared for me and my brothers. Ralph Sims, my maternal grandfather, helped me get a job in construction, hefting shovels to dig ditches in 100-degree heat. The federal government didn't lift a single shovel.

Gladys Sims pinched pennies and counted quarters so she and my mother could stock my pantry on trips to Cookeville, where I was the first in our family to attend a university. My irascible uncle, Arley Johnson, hired me to work summers servicing swimming pools so I could pay my own way at Tennessee Technological University.

Norma Blair, my high school English teacher, taught me to write. Julia Householder, my history teacher, challenged me to think. Bill Williams, my science teacher, took me to the University of Tennessee, where I first set foot on a college campus. Chick Graning, my high school football coach, later hired me to coach college football before recommending me for my first job in financial services.

Of course many more helped, but not one did it for the money. Not one was part of some grand plan by a Harvard graduate who can barely mask his Marxism. They did it for love.

Obama's biggest insult was to business owners. "If you've got a business you didn't build that," Obama said. "Somebody else made that happen."

Is he nuts? Seriously. Is our president insane? Or just stupid? Is this why we've never seen his college transcripts? Would they reveal his ignorance in its totality?

I've worked with business people for more than a quarter of a century now. Want to know why hiring is slow? The people who took the risk, worked their behinds off and built something from nothing feel belittled by this president. He hates them, and they don't trust him.

Obama speaks of "paying it forward." Well, my family did. Those teachers did. Now many, many, many of us are paying it forward to our kids, to our churches, to our communities. And this president has the audacity to equate taxation with family, friends and community? He insults us all and the American Dream.

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