New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'

LA Times ^ | 9/23/11 | Andrew Malcolm

[Libloather]

New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'
Andrew Malcolm
September 23, 2011 | 5:24 am

"We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad," Barack Obama.

That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.

A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge!

It's yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate, overlooked by most media for whatever reason. Like Obama saying Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. Or Navy corpseman. Or the Austrian language. Fifty-seven states. The president of Canada. Etc.

If you talk as much as this guy likes to talk instead of governing, if you believe you are a Real Good Talker as much as this guy does, you're gonna blow a few lines. But this many?

No doubt, we'll see a collection of Obama's Best Bombs on 'Saturday Night Live' this weekend, one right after the other. No doubt.

[Libloather]

Community agitators don't need to study no history lessons.

[SMARTY]

M O R O N

[aruanan]

He also said yesterday that Warren Buffet’s secretary shouldn’t have to pay a lower tax rate than Buffet.

[Vaquero]

it went to all 57 states

[the invisib1e hand]

2+ syllables, if it isn't "reparations," or "betrayal," or "Anglo-Saxon" or some such, probably can't be put into TOTUS.

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Anyway, what's he proposing, reparation to the Chinese?

[tet68]

You’d think he’d be familiar with trannys.

[Lady Lucky]

Is TOTUS loaded with Babel fish?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

From Kenya to the 57th state?

[WPaCon]

The LA Times is reporting this?

Wow.

[Vaquero]

It’s the train that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs!!

[rovenstinez]

Probably the schools in Indonesia didn’t teach this.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Yep, built that damn thing to a county that speak Austrian.

What a moron.

[GeronL]

his way out is to say its his new jobs plan, to build an intercontinental railway.

[the invisib1e hand]

so the LA times has switched flags, has it?

opportunistic media whore.

[GeronL]

probably web-only reporting

[Bitsy]

It’s yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate,

He is sait to be “brilliant”. Does anyone have his grades from Harvard? I don’t find him brilliant at all - devious, angry, anti American, and a liar but never brilliant.

[Bitsy]

It’s yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate,

He is said to be “brilliant”. Does anyone have his grades from Harvard? I don’t find him brilliant at all - devious, angry, anti American, and a liar but never brilliant. They sure as $ell turned over every rock to find GWB’s grades.

[moovova]

We don’t need no stinkin’ bridges...

...not when our President walks on water.

[Past Your Eyes]

Their flag blows whichever way the wind takes it.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[tiki]

I’m so glad, I hate to fly and would love to go to Rome.

[Huskrrrr]

Still not as bad as “potatoe”. /sarc

[Rudder]

The intercontinental railroad connects all 57 states, some of which are the size of small continents in Obama’s lame excuse for a brain.

[Montanabound]

Andrew Malcolm is the lone conservative at the LA Times.

[ILS21R]

We’re also the country that built the Jupiter 2. And if it wasn’t for Dr. Smith (R), we would all be living in the Alpha Centauri system while our planet healed itself.

[LRS]

Little Zero thinks “Trans Atlantic Tunnel” (1935) was real...

[Reeses]

Give Barky a break, he needs a vacation. </s>

[TomGuy]

That must be the railroad that connects the lower 48 with the others to make up the 57.

Those extra states must be on the continent of MU, because they aren't on the continents of North or South America -- thus intercontinental.

[rightwingcrazy]

“We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad”

To be fair, that depends by what he means by “we”. I think the Trans-Siberian would qualify.

[Ezekiel]

Who can name the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad?

[charlene4]

I detest the , uh, whatever he is. Do have to admit though that he has been brilliant- destroying our economy and our Nation, he has caused the most division amongst parties and races that I have ever experienced. He did set out and proclaimed that he would, *fundamentally change America* in that regard ,he has proven to be quite brilliant. Also pretty good at hiding his whole life record. We have no idea who or what he is! ~Brilliant traitor, dictator,and socialist creep~

[Calusa]

awwwrrrruuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmpppmmmmppmmmpppphhhhh!

Chewbacca?! The surrounding cubicals must be wondering why I am physically ROTFLMAO. If they knew I would be sent to the re-education office

[WPaCon]

That’s an unenviable position.

Frankly, I’m ignorant on papers like the LA Times, because I don’t want to give their websites any hits.

[SMARTY]

Ain't it the truth!!

ANYTHING anyone claims about “O’s” intellectual capacity has to be regarded as a howling lie until or unless his actual academic record is verified.

I am still in shock that the MSM thought this was an incidental detail about “O’s” background WHILE calling Bush (and ALL “O’s” opposition) ‘stupid’, etc. REALLY????

There went your credibility, MSM

[greene66]

Paging Richard Dix! Ha, it’s been thirty years since I saw that film on a late-show, but I still remember it.

[luvbach1]

I’d love to give the anointed one a vocabulary test.

[Portcall24]

Obama is a walking example of people being advanced throughout life with no basis of intellect or knowledge.

[tal hajus]

The oceanic rails were REALLY difficult. Lay a rail, come up for air, lay a rail come up for air...

[Loud Mime]

I’d love to give the anointed one a vocabulary test. On what? a teleprompter? I've never seen the guy read anything else.

[LRS]

Paging Richard Dix! Ha, it’s been thirty years since I saw that film on a late-show, but I still remember it.

Last time I saw it (A couple of years ago), I was thinking"Sheesh! This hasn't aged well!"...

[Plutarch]

No one has his grades from Harvard Law School, but he was handed the Law Review Presidency, and a Magna Cum Laude (top 10% of class) just for being Obama.

Obama would sooner reveal he frequented bathhouses than he would his LSAT's.

[Sudetenland]

This further supports the suspicion that many have that he truly is "The Affirmative Action President." I think he was passed through in college and Harvard Law School based solely on his race and his backers support.

There is no way a person can graduate "Magna cum Laude" from HLS without knowing that one says ". . . an economic . . ." rather than ". . . a economic . . ." or that one says ". . . the problem is . . ." rather than ". . . the problem is, is that . . ." or any of the other myriad of grammatical errors he makes on a routine basis.

The fact that he doesn't know American history doesn't surprise me, he wasn't raised here--never mind the citizenship issue--he was raised in a foreign culture, how could he possibly know what we Americans know almost intuitively?

Obama's "brilliance" is just another part of the con-job that the MSM sold to the American voters.

[rod1]

That surely much be one of the worst presidential gaffes ever? That must have been pretty wet work building that sucker. Does a ticket come with an automatic swimsuit?

[bgill]

The LA Times is reporting this?

The honeymoon is over. Divorce to follow.

[rod1]

Presumably not to Mongolia after he blocked out their leader’s face with his “classy” hand waving gaffe.

[yldstrk]

i know plenty of libs who can blab like they kissed the Blarney Stone and think they are making a difference but all they are doing is exercising their tongue.

If they wanted to make a difference they, like the wise old owl, would zip the lips.

[rod1]

At least he may know rudimentary Indonesian history.

[Proud2BeRight]

And his great great grandfather Mogobo Atumbo Obama swung one of the sledges at the golden spike.