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New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'
LA Times ^ | 9/23/11 | Andrew Malcolm

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; democratsarelosers; gaffe; intercontinental; kenyanvillageidiot; nobama2012; obama; obamanation; railroad; transcontinental; unfitforcommand
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To: luvbach1
I’d love to give the anointed one a vocabulary test. On what? a teleprompter? I've never seen the guy read anything else.
41 posted on 09/23/2011 6:27:14 AM PDT by Loud Mime (AJM - 1 Mar 1924 - 17 Sept 2010 - - Thanks Dad!)
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To: greene66
Paging Richard Dix! Ha, it’s been thirty years since I saw that film on a late-show, but I still remember it.

Last time I saw it (A couple of years ago), I was thinking"Sheesh! This hasn't aged well!"...

42 posted on 09/23/2011 6:27:39 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: Bitsy
No one has his grades from Harvard Law School, but he was handed the Law Review Presidency, and a Magna Cum Laude (top 10% of class) just for being Obama.

Obama would sooner reveal he frequented bathhouses than he would his LSAT's.

43 posted on 09/23/2011 6:28:13 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Libloather
This further supports the suspicion that many have that he truly is "The Affirmative Action President." I think he was passed through in college and Harvard Law School based solely on his race and his backers support.

There is no way a person can graduate "Magna cum Laude" from HLS without knowing that one says ". . . an economic . . ." rather than ". . . a economic . . ." or that one says ". . . the problem is . . ." rather than ". . . the problem is, is that . . ." or any of the other myriad of grammatical errors he makes on a routine basis.

The fact that he doesn't know American history doesn't surprise me, he wasn't raised here--never mind the citizenship issue--he was raised in a foreign culture, how could he possibly know what we Americans know almost intuitively?

Obama's "brilliance" is just another part of the con-job that the MSM sold to the American voters.
44 posted on 09/23/2011 6:28:29 AM PDT by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: Libloather

That surely much be one of the worst presidential gaffes ever? That must have been pretty wet work building that sucker. Does a ticket come with an automatic swimsuit?


45 posted on 09/23/2011 6:29:57 AM PDT by rod1
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To: WPaCon
The LA Times is reporting this?

The honeymoon is over. Divorce to follow.

46 posted on 09/23/2011 6:31:33 AM PDT by bgill (There, happy now?)
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To: Reeses

Presumably not to Mongolia after he blocked out their leader’s face with his “classy” hand waving gaffe.


47 posted on 09/23/2011 6:32:17 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Libloather

i know plenty of libs who can blab like they kissed the Blarney Stone and think they are making a difference but all they are doing is exercising their tongue.

If they wanted to make a difference they, like the wise old owl, would zip the lips.


48 posted on 09/23/2011 6:33:12 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sudetenland

At least he may know rudimentary Indonesian history.


49 posted on 09/23/2011 6:33:22 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Libloather

And his great great grandfather Mogobo Atumbo Obama swung one of the sledges at the golden spike.


50 posted on 09/23/2011 6:33:30 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Libloather

The other point that he and his liberal friends miss is that the TRANS-Continental Railroads wwere built by private industry without government “infrastructure” money. There wasn’t even an income tax then.


51 posted on 09/23/2011 6:35:30 AM PDT by denydenydeny (The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
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To: Libloather
I have maintained a file list of liberal lackeys (beginning with Michael Bechloss) who have made the absurd claim that Obama is smart.

I enjoy how Obama has constantly "acted stupidly" and made them look idiotic, too.

Obama is a very thick, dull, person.

52 posted on 09/23/2011 6:37:22 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: Libloather
We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad

I know of two intercontinental railroads--the Trans-Siberian Railroad, which runs from Moscow to Vladivostok, Russia, and Turkey's Republican State Railroad, which offers rail service between Asian and European Turkey. However, I doubt if the US had a hand in building either of these railroads.

53 posted on 09/23/2011 6:40:49 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Lady Lucky

If it was he would have said Intergalactic Highway. Of course the Earth gets destroyed for the off ramp. But hey, so long and thanks for all the fish.


54 posted on 09/23/2011 6:52:03 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: denydenydeny

I think that you will find that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific had substantial backing from the Federal government.


55 posted on 09/23/2011 6:53:21 AM PDT by bagman
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To: Libloather

Somewhere, an Indonesian village is missing its idiot.


56 posted on 09/23/2011 6:54:00 AM PDT by bagman
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To: bagman

Who do you think sent the new sheriff to Rock Ridge?


57 posted on 09/23/2011 6:56:20 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: bagman

Who do you think sent the new sheriff to Rock Ridge?


58 posted on 09/23/2011 6:56:31 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Andrew Malcolm, LATimes’s house conservative. Pretty good one, too.


59 posted on 09/23/2011 6:57:29 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (My two cents' worth.)
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To: Portcall24
Obama is a walking example of people being advanced throughout life with no basis of intellect or knowledge.

That statement can be shortened to affirmative action hire.

60 posted on 09/23/2011 6:59:42 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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