Virginia Postrel Virginia Postrel  The controversy surrounding
President Barack Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a
business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that
happen” has defied the usual election-year pattern.  Normally a
political faux pas lasts little more than a news cycle. People
hear the story, decide what they think, and quickly move on to
the next brouhaha, following what the journalist Mickey Kaus
calls the Feiler Faster Thesis. A gaffe that might have ruined a
candidate 20 years ago is now forgotten within days.  Three
weeks later, Obama’s comment is still a big deal.   Hectoring
Entrepreneurs  The president’s sermon struck a nerve in part
because it marked a sharp departure from the traditional
Democratic criticism of financiers and big corporations, instead
hectoring the people who own dry cleaners and nail salons, car
repair shops and restaurants -- Main Street, not Wall Street.
(Obama did work in a swipe at Internet businesses.) The
president didn’t simply argue for higher