Posted on 09/23/2011 6:01:20 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Hims don’t knows hims hist’ry real goods.
Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property: the rightful owners.
Wait a minute... there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching!
Land, land... "Land: see Snatch".......Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!
Good thing I wasn’t drinking my morning coffee when I saw this. Epic. Simply Epic.
...this...
Millions of slaves lost their lives.
Trans...inter...whatever. It’s not like Dan Quayle or George Bush said it.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea from Alaska to Vladivostok, provided it could be insulated from gales, or from Spain via Gibraltar to Fez. I believe there is a railroad from European to Asiatic Russia.
You’re brilliant if you go to Harvard Law School and discover that all the political indoctrination you’ve been exposed to is so much nonsense, and the truth is usually the exact opposite. But most students at Harvard are not that smart.
ha
He is an idiot.What was his last gaffe?That someone formed the republican party?I think his worst is Navy Corpsemen.Did he ever apologize for this?Oh and don’t forget his citing of a soldier to come on up and the soldier was dead or something?Also was it Obama or Biden asking a man in a wheelchair to stand or come on up?
“What has happened to the democrat party?”
It was taken over by the Radical International Socialists, and the DEMOCRATS were run out.
Remember what Howard Dean said after the 2004 Kerry Loss?
“We OWN the Democratic Party now, it’s ours, we paid for it!”
What a bourgeois concept. It's PASS. There is no FAIL at HLS.
I can’t wait until David Letterman revives his “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches” routine.
Actually only one of the transcontinental railroads (US) was privately financed, the “Great Northern”. The real gaffe overlooked here is the premise that the transcontinental railroad was a great success. See:
http://mises.org/daily/2317
The whole discussion on market entrepreneurs vs. political entrepreneurs is quite enlightening, but specific to this discussion, scroll down to the section “James J. Hill versus the Real Robber Barons”.
“You had to go to college to say something that stupid”.
— Dennis Prager
“The oceanic rails were REALLY difficult. Lay a rail, come up for air, lay a rail come up for air...”
You silly goose, the wooden cross ties held them up!
LOL!!
That’s one long-ass train! Love those rails that float on top of the ocean.
I think he meant to say that we are the country that built the Intercontinental Hotel.
Hmmm Hydro-phobic rails...spec sheets don’t ask and don’t tell bedding.
Knows it? He really believes that he is America’s Suharto. Seriously.
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