The origins of Obama's "you didn't build that" comment

  I've been pondering that "You didn't build that!" comment by the confident, condescending and oh-so-smart Barack Obama, who complains constantly what a mess the economy was in when he began his reign, completely forgetting that Democrats were in charge of the Senate and House since 2007.
  Not that Republicans have little responsibility for the excess spending and bulging entitlements. They certainly have enjoyed playing Halloween handing out the candy to the children.
  But Dems have developed amnesia concerning their own responsibility for the mess we are in economically and financially, Pelosi even claiming that she worked diligently with the Bush White House.
  Interesting, then, in their eagerness to rewrite history and appear to be so benevolet toward the unwashed masses, that Obama became so combative a few days ago about successful business persons not "building that."

  There are two things going on here that reveal who Obama really is; I don't think these ideas have been bally hooed much in the press.
  Yes, Obama stole the initial idea from Elizabeth Warren, who started the meme that no one is completely independent in being successful. He thought it sounded good, so he repeated it.
  But moreso, Obama was stressing the importance of unions when he spoke those fatal words so condescendingly....the unions who build the roads (that need to be rebuilt every couple years), the unions that clean the streets, the unions that collect the garbage.
  By lauding the efforts of the unions, he is appealing to the least among us. Elevating the garbageman to the height of the business owner. Not that the garbageman has nothing to offer; sometimes he does. 
  However, you become a winner for a reason. 
  But there's another reason, I believe, that Obama lost his cool on that day.
  Politico has a review of a new ebook that reveals the true Obama's motives:

It is Obama’s own burning competitiveness, with his remorseless focus on beating Mitt Romney — an opponent he genuinely views with contempt and fears will be unfit to run the country. [SNIP] Obama’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii, was on display one night last February, when the president spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” the president asked her. [SNIP] 

Obama really doesn’t like, admire or even grudgingly respect Romney. It’s a level of contempt, say aides, he doesn’t even feel for the conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most. “There was a baseline of respect for John McCain. The president always thought he was an honorable man and a war hero,” a longtime Obama adviser said. “That doesn’t hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned war hero.”

  Huh. Imagine if Romney had referred to any Dem as a "boy," particularly an Hispanic male.
  Obama thinks Romney is genuinely unfit to run the country? Like this doofus who's in there now knows what he's doing?
  I believe Obama was speaking directly of Romney, forgot himself for a moment and let his contempt show for a wealthy man who made it on his own without a union.
  This comment was unwittingly personal and vicious. Unfortunately for Obama, the public knew it, saw it and took it personally.
  Once in a while, the mask slips. The teleprompter is off and we see the real Obama.
 Sadly, in the long run, it really is what Obama thinks of the most enterprising among us. 
  It's not just about Romney.
  It's what he thinks about all of us.
  And everyone knew it.
  Obama's contempt for one man got the best of him.