While reading the newspaper, the article "Eat, drink and... be partisan" stuck out at me as the most interesting. When on the campaign trail, Barack Obama would occasional need to stop to get some food from a local restaurant or bar. Many small-business owners aren't too fond of Obama's "You didn't build that" phrase - meaning that if you're successful now, it's because other people helped you get there, not because of what you did to get there. This insulted them, causing them to not willing accept the president nor his vice president Joe Biden into their businesses. One bakery in Virginia opposed having to let Joe Biden into his store since he did not agree with Obama's side comment about "not building it." Yet owner of the pizza shop Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Scott Van Duzer, according to the article, "was thrilled to have the leader of the free world in his restaurant" and gave the president a ginormous bear-hug, despite the fact that Scott was a Republican. Other Republicans and Republican small-business owners saw this as a "traitorous act" and many posted bad reviews about his restaurant, saying that he must not have "built it.". Despite the bad reviews, his business went up 200 percent. It's amazing how one small comment given by the president could have such a large impact on the way small-business owners view Obama now. Despite many of these owners' political views, other business owners welcome the attention and publicity for the sake of their shops.
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