LOL! Yes, and he didn't claim that HE invented the automobile, which is more than we could say for Al Gore under the same circumstances.
Is the Hillary tit grabber still writing Obama's speeches?
Posted on 02/25/2009 1:04:35 PM PST by mojito
In tonight's mini-State of the Union, President Obama said the "nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." One problem. We didn't. That would be Karl Benz, in Mannheim, Germany. Just sayin'...
Just keep your eyes closed as you get close and there’ll be less confusion.
Dunno about that - I have an involuntary condition called motorboatitis which, when I deliberately close my eyes, causes first my left neck muscles to contract, then release, while my right neck muscles then contract and release.
It's a good way to pull a neck muscle, or get whiplash, is all I'm sayin'.
WHo said anything about ford? I never did.
Do you enjoy getting knocked around? If so, just sit back and accept it.
LOL! Yes, and he didn't claim that HE invented the automobile, which is more than we could say for Al Gore under the same circumstances.
Is the Hillary tit grabber still writing Obama's speeches?
The most common "factoid" about the automobile in American society at large is that "Ford invented the automobile". Using ObamlogicTM, you (not you, but most people, including our President & his semi-educated speechifiers, apparently) then arrive at the notion that America invented the automobile, since Ford was a Merkun.
I guess it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick... :-)
Maybe so, but Ransom Olds got a US Patent on the assembly line, and is now in the Inventors Hall of Fame. I saw his picture there. He was also one of my grandfather’s cousins.
Actually, you really couldn’t call it “assembly” in a slaughterhouse. It would actually be “dissassembly”. But it’s still the same concept.
Merkun?
Since we’re talking about mainstream American stupidity, I used the colloquialism for Americans - “Merkun”.
Ford invented the first USEFUL automobile with an I.C.E....but not the first auto.
I still maintain that the first auto was invented by americans. Benz patented his creation first, but that means diddly-squat as far as I’m concerned. And like I stated earlier, I don’t count 3 wheel tricycles or motorcycles with training wheels.
And rush is a dufus. And so are all the others that jump on his words like mindless robots.
What the heck has that got to do with anything? Was this on Rush Limbaugh, too?
I saw it in USA Today, myself.
It's you who is the Doofus, I fear. Reality doesn't change just because you want to "maintain it so" or "as far as you are concerned". Utterly ridiculous.
Yes, rush attacked obama on his radio show one day for claiming that americans invented the automobile. I turned his show off when he did. I am getting increasingly impatient with rush these days. I fear he is following the same trajectory that he accuses the global warming goons of following.
That trajectory is one in which they get increasingly ridiculous with their claims and their attacks in order to maintain their popularity growth. Eventually they reach a point where they are a joke and they implode.
I am very concerned that rush’s “operation chaos” may have been his first step onto such a trajectory. And his current claim to be the leader of the republican party seems to be one step further on that trajectory.
I am concerned that this idea that rush is the leader of the republican party is a talk show equivalent of john lennon claiming to be more popular than god, or of fonzi jumping the shark...the beginning of the end.
THere were american steam powered cars in america years before the germans even began playing with wooden motorcycles and three wheeled things. THat’s reality, dufus.
Tell me...how does it feel to be such an “utterly ridiculous” dufus?
Your argumentation is pathetic. A proper automobile with internal combustion that was to be taken seriously was Benz' patent. It was also the first produced in series and marketed. The previous vehicles were merely experiments. The fact that Benz' automobile was working properly with an internal combustion engine makes is more relevant than the number of wheels you seem obsessed about.
You dismiss this but not the previous experimental vehicles? Ridiculous. To make things worse, you insist that for all intents and purposes Ford should be credited... lame.
Maybe the reason is that you are a Obama admirer and want him to be right... *shrug*
LOL!
Yeah, I’m an obama admirer like I’m a chavez admirer. I chose to vote for someone that I truly HATE(mccain) rather than vote for obama, who I merely disgust. Thank you for the laugh.
You don’t think ford is worthy of credit? What is wrong with you? The ford model T was the commodore 64 of the auto industry.
The benz and everything else before the model T were impractical toys of the jetset and the technophile fringe. If you are going to go previous to the “T”, then go all the way.
BTW, Oldsmobile(I think, maybe it was some other brand) had steam powered cars(w/4 real wheels), practical ones, that predated the benz tricycle.
a) The number of wheels are irrelevant.
b) Benz’ vehicle was the first produced and marketed vehicle with internal combustion engine. It is therefore rightly called the first proper automobile. Everything else before was experimentation.
c) Ford’s achievement was producing more effectively. This has nothing to do with INVENTING the automobile.
Obama might have had a point, had he said that “America has pioneered in the automobile industry” or something of that sort. But his actual statement was patently false and the defense of his gaffe is equally amusing as it is futile.
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