Posted on 09/10/2011 5:28:35 AM PDT by radioone
Barack Obama has gone to Congress asking for more money to spend. The President, in a rambling and tedious exercise mixing blame with demands, made quite a few dubious statements in laying out the case for Congress to vote for the plan which as yet does not exist. Much like Obamacare, Congress must ultimately vote for the bill to know what is in it.
At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.
Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.
Such a gaffe would have brought huge amounts of ridicule and derision on George W. Bush, but in the case of Obama the media yawned.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Government did NOT build the transcontinental railroad.”
Yeah, that’s what this history books say THIS year. Next year, students will learn that it was build with money from a stimulus package.
Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house. That was a Tina Fey joke in a Saturday Night Live skit.
Thanks for the compliment, but I didn’t do it; I just found it and posted it.
No, I haven’t. Do you have a link to that? :)
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