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RutherfordGate: Historian Responds to President Obama’s Hayes Slur
New York News and Features ^
| 3/15/2012
| Dan Amira
Posted on 03/15/2012 12:13:42 PM PDT by blueyon
It's not unusual for President Obama to criticize his Republican predecessors from time to time, but this morning, he targeted his scorn not at George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, but ... Rutherford B. Hayes. As Politico reported:
Speaking about the need to develop new sources of American energy in Largo, Md., Obama used our 19th president as a failure of forward-thinking leadership.
"One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: 'Its a great invention but who would ever want to use one?'" Obama said. "That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore."
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaigning; democrats; drillbabydrill; election; flatearthers; flatearthersspeech; obama; rutherfordhayes
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LOL...Mr I have been to all 57 states does it again.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:13:56 PM PDT
by
blueyon
To: blueyon
Obama is still mad that Hayes ended Reconstruction.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:15:19 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
To: blueyon
I guess it is expecting too much for the o to know WHY anyone is on Mt. R.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:17:05 PM PDT
by
mathluv
( Conservative first and foremost, republican second)
To: ClearCase_guy
He didn’t say any thing about shovel ready
Reconstruction jobs?
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:18:19 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:20:07 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: blueyon
In fairness to Obama, his staff found it on a European website. So, when the quote when from English to Austrian and back to English it got garbled.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:20:56 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Frodo lives!)
To: blueyon
From the
POTUS files:
Rutherford B. Hayes Points of Interest:
- Hayes' father died a few months before he was born.
- Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes was the only one to be wounded.
- Arriving in San Francisco on September 8, 1880, Hayes became the first president to visit the West Coast while in office.
- Hayes was the first president to graduate from law school.
- Mrs. Hayes was known as "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House.
- Lucy Hayes was the first First Lady to have graduated from college.
- He won the presidency by only one electorial vote.
- He signed the act that permitted women to plead before the Supreme Court.
- The first White House telephone was installed, by Alexander Graham Bell himself, during the Hayes administration.
- The first Easter egg roll on the White House lawn was conducted by Hayes and his wife.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:20:56 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: blueyon
It doesn’t really matter though. Obama took those young minds and warped em. Now they believe him. It has nothing to do with facts or truth.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:21:15 PM PDT
by
Freddd
(NoPA ngineers.)
To: blueyon
I’m somewhat surprised he knows who Rutherford B. Hayes is.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:22:13 PM PDT
by
WPaCon
To: blueyon
Like Everything else he says, IT'S A LIE
From the
Washington Times:
New York Magazine contacted the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio to get the real story about President Hayes:
Nan Card, the Curator of Manuscripts, was plenty willing to correct Obama's ignorance of White House history. Just as soon as she finished chuckling.
"I've heard that before, and no one ever knows where it came from," Card said of Hayes's alleged phone remark, "but people just keep repeating it and repeating it, so it's out there." Wait, so Hayes didn't even say the quote that Obama is mocking him for? "No, no," Card confirmed.
She then read aloud a newspaper article from June 29, 1877, which describes Hayes's delight upon first experiencing the magic of the telephone. The Providence Journal story reported that as Hayes listened on the phone, "a gradually increasing smile wreathe[d] his lips and wonder shone in his eyes more and more. Hayes took the phone from his ear, "looked at it a moment in surprise and remarked, 'That is wonderful.'"
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:23:53 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: WPaCon
Im somewhat surprised he knows who Rutherford B. Hayes is. He probably didn't. He just had a speechwriter who did.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:24:51 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
To: blueyon
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isnt so.
Ronald Reagan
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:25:25 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Frodo lives!)
To: blueyon
Well, zero will never be on Mt. Rushmore, either....
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:26:01 PM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Izzy Dunne
So 100 years from now, future presidents and public figures will be quoting Obama for the stupid things he said during his public life.
I hope he understands that misquotes will be part of it.
But to really grasp what Obama is as a President, all the stupid things he’s said and done will be on record.
This guy is the 1/2 black Joe Biden.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:30:24 PM PDT
by
Jack Burton007
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Jack Burton007
Biden is at least good for comic relief. ObaMao is an evil, power mad narcissist with incurable delusions of grandeur.
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posted on
03/15/2012 12:36:37 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Izzy Dunne
"a gradually increasing smile wreathe[d] his lips How could they tell?
To: blueyon
Obama isn't qualified to mow the grass around Rutherford B. Hayes' gravesite.
To: blueyon
Sarah Palin was right about Paul Revere, and Obama is ignorant when it comes to Presidential history!And that is the fact, Jack.
To: Jack Burton007
I would love for them to carve a figure of Obama at the base of Mt Rushmore shining the shoes of the presidents who are there honorably. That would be a very bad move, as Obama isn't qualified for that job.
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