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 ...
He’s just reading whatever has been written on the ‘prompter.
Sometimes I wonder whether the writers put these gaffes in intentionally.
And he’s too stupid to catch the error.
It’s PASS. There is no FAIL at HLS.
Oops, I forgot.
So I should pay billions in this boondoggle so you can go to Rome on a choo choo cause you hate to fly....
But most students at Harvard are not that smart.
You’re right - they can’t be very bright. I guess it costs a lot of money to beo TOLD you are brilliant. If they haven’t figured out that socialism STILL doesn’t work (Europe) they are waisting valuable time, space and money because they are just droids.
But most students at Harvard are not that smart.
You’re right - they can’t be very bright. I guess it costs a lot of money to beo TOLD you are brilliant. If they haven’t figured out that socialism STILL doesn’t work (Europe) they are wasting valuable time, space and money because they are just droids.
Please see Post 65 of this thread. The railroads were given land, which they could sell and a substantial amount of Federal bonds which could be sold and converted to cash - $16,000 per mile built over an easy grade, $32,000 per mile in the high plains, and $48,000 per mile in the mountains.
ROTFLINANK!!!
(the last part means I need a new keyboard)
Okay, I want Mel Brooks to make that movie. Just as soon as he finds somebody as good as Cleavon Little to sing “I Get A Kick Out Of You”.
Hello!!!
This is not the first time he said ‘intercontinental railroad’.
The Gaffe that Time Forgot: Lincoln’s Intercontinental Railroad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2743539/posts
One other commenter in the LATimeblog section also mentioned he made the same gaffe in previous two occassions.
Willie Green can be extra super proud of his country.
Did someone actually feed this into TOTUS? I would think Carville is correct it is about time to fire TOTUS or it’s loader. Obviously Ozero is not to blame for these screw ups. The news media is showing their racist tendencies for even bringing this up. /s
Someone needs to start a serious on-line Obama Dumb Stuff Museum.
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