Posted on 04/20/2011 9:41:57 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Barack Obama is a creature of the modern university and therefore an amazingly shallow man. I have written about his historical howlers in the New York Post column "Anti-terror oops," in the Weekly Standard column "The Kennedy-Khrushchev conference for dummies," and in the Power Line post "Obama veers into the Daily Ditch."
Obama's historical ignorance could be a full time beat for somebody who does this work for a living, and it tells us something truly important about Barack Obama. His ignorance is as broad as it is deep. Not that you couldn't deduce that on your own from his performance on the job.
Yesterday he was at it again, in his peevish interview with the feisty local broadcast reporter from Texas. Why are you so unpopular in Texas? the reporter asked. Obama being Obama, he was unable to laugh off the question and say he'd do better next time around. Obama responded: "Texas has always been a pretty Republican state, for, you know, historic reasons."
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There is nothing to talk about here, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama knows absolutely nothing about American history!!! End of story!!!
LBJ aside, who was dat udder guy, wattshisname, Sam Rayburn or something?
Which, is pretty much accurate.
Unless and until Zero releases his college transcripts, I’m still saying he majored in ethnic studies, meaning he learned absolutely nothing from his college days.
Wrong topic for the man...ask him about islamic history!
You are right, he did say that. In the same interview he spoke just as Scott Johnson quoted.
The NappyOne
And Anne Richards and Lloyd Bentsen?
obama wants to recharge the image of Brandon McClelland in Texas
playing those race cards up his sleeve
You mean it’s perfectly O-shaped?
So... we're BOTH right? Super! I love happy endings. The gang at Powerline are some of my most trusted sources... I'm glad to hear they're not getting sloppy.
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