[High Praise! to Hunter of Atomic Monkey Action Squad]

I had a lot of help

This story is not about Barack Obama.

When he emailed me, Hunter explained that although the whole thing with Obama telling entrepreneurs that they “had help” was the spark that ignited this compellingly dramatic write-up of a very dire personal experience, the story is only tangential at the point of the phrase itself, and is neither political nor related to Obama’s speech.

But I’ll make a political connection anyway.

The kind of help Obama talks about is compulsory, impersonal, and not nearly as helpful as he wants you to think.

The kinds of help Hunter talks about are basic human decency, and the acceptance of gifts freely offered.

The connection is that whenever Obama speaks of the former, he hopes you’ll mistakenly interpret it as being the latter.

Whether you read Hunter’s story or not, I know you know better than to fall prey to such sleight-of-hand Presidential chicanery.

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