Posted on 08/15/2013 7:41:03 PM PDT by JSDude1
Over a half-century after Cooke wrote that lighthearted song, such ignorance is now all too real. Even our best and brightest -- or rather our elites especially -- are not too familiar with history or geography.
Both disciplines are the building blocks of learning. Without awareness of natural and human geography, we are reduced to a sort of self-contained void without accurate awareness of the space around us. An ignorance of history also creates the same sort of self-imposed exile, leaving us ignorant of both what came before us and what is likely to follow.
In the case of geography, Harvard Law School graduate Barack Obama recently lectured that, "If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf -- places like Charleston, South Carolina; or Savannah, Georgia; or Jacksonville, Florida ..." The problem is that all the examples he cited are cities on the East Coast, not the Gulf of Mexico. If Obama does not know where these ports are, how can he deepen them?
Obama's geographical confusion has become habitual. He once claimed that he had been to all "57 states."
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The people who vote for them don't care if they make repeated gaffes.
“If Liberals can’t do better than this we (the farm team) are going to run circles around them.”
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That may be true of FReepers, but the public is dominated by the Marxist education and media complexes.
That is how they took over America and why we have a filthy Marxist, illegal alien, POTUS.
While it is most encouraging that Obozo’s approval is falling, it may be too little, too late.
It will take a really big act of God to save us.
Which is even better for us: both the lib leadership and their voters are weak and clueless. We fear them becoming like WWII Germany, but if they do, they’ll only end up like the incompetent Germans we saw in that old show Hogan’s Heroes.
Liberals do not want history taught in the schools anymore so they can make it up as needed to justify whatever end run around the Constitution they are planning next.
On a recent thread here about Queen Okrah’s Great Foreign Adventure, a poster identified residents of Switzerland as “Swedes”.
Geography isn’t part of the No Child Left Behind “annual yearly progress” testing.
Only Math, English, and, in recent years, science.
Law of unintended consequences.
Yes indeed, the American people can't even define "gaffe" much less be bothered by one.
GWB still believes in “No child left behind” but many are.
My kids have been over this half of the world and experienced English, Spanish and Portuguese as spoken language on a regular basis.
But the only Geography I'm teaching them is the difference between a free nation and a socialist slave nation.
Just so they know the difference. Then they can decide which language to speak.
I hope you're right.
Don’t worry about it-just follow the signs on the interstate and you’ll get where you want to go! /s;)
OK, FRiends, try your hand at Geoguessr...
http://url.geoguessr.com/41Gw — I scored 10,985 points
http://url.geoguessr.com/41H9 — I scored 12,102 points
Well, at least that Obama son had the right continent! Progress...
Tattle-tale. Gaffes happen.
NOT his fault, he's just reading what's on the teleprompter. ;D
Fun...I got 12561
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