Posted on 03/15/2012 6:05:46 PM PDT by Nachum
While excoriating his Republican rivals for not having sufficient faith in alternative energy earlier today, President Obama threw a historically inaccurate elbow at a presidential predecessor. (snip) The president decried the naysayers who dont believe in the future, and dont believe in trying to do things differently. He then cited President Rutherford B. Hayes whom, he said, reportedly said about the telephone, Its a great invention, but who would ever want to use one? (snip) Those students need to run back to history class, because Mr. Obamas lesson about the 19th president seems wrong, at least according to
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Actually, Hayes did make that quote, but it was about the teleprompter.
“Buggy whips were a great invention! I want to bring them back and have buggy whip factories all over the country selling stuff. Buggy whips are the “silver bullet” to high gasoline prices.” - Barry Soetoro
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It wasn’t his fault. TOTUS is the one who screwed up.
Socialism always fails, always. Soetoro is a charlatan.
Courtesy of the “Make stuff up” administration, kind of like, “Saved or Created”, “You can keep your doctor” “There are no death panels” “My healthcare proposal will not add to the defecit”
LIES and more LIES from this treasonous pack of Communists.
What a nervy charlatan this Obama is. Steals the language of the wise and sensible and uses it to promote foolishness.
Can I play Mr. Obvious? What if Sarah P. had said it?
I can tell you exactly how it would have went down.
According to that article what Obama said is a common mistake much like the Paul Revere story.
She would have told the truth and the media would have spun the common mistake in an attempt to make her look stupid.
I know you were being rhetorical I just couldn’t help myself.
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