The ghost of Henry Ford drove into political traffic this summer.
A horn blared his way in the form of President Obama's "If you've got a business, you didn't build that."
To which Mitt Romney beeped, "To say that ... Henry Ford didn't build Ford Motors ... it's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in America."
Ford with his Model T, which hit the road in 1908 and cornered two-thirds of the car market by the mid-1920s. Getty Images View Enlarged Image
Ford the man has been dead 65 years, yet here he is rolling again after the president's blast.
"I'm sure he turned in his grave when he heard that," John Heitmann, a University of Dayton professor who helped research M.J. York's book "Henry Ford: Manufacturing Mogul," told IBD. "The main thing that concerned Henry Ford the most was how he controlled his life in business, whether it was dealing with lawyers, unions or partnerships in his early days. He believed above all in his automobile. For anyone to say success has nothing to do with your actions would've made him go crazy because that was the main thing with him. That success is what makes him create."
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