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Obama’s whopper about Rutherford B. Hayes and the telephone
Washington Post ^ | March 15, 2012 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 03/16/2012 11:09:03 AM PDT by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Hayes, in fact, was such a technology buff that he installed the first telephone in the White House. A list of telephone subscribers published in the article “The Telephones Comes to Washington,” by Richard T. Loomis, shows that the White House was given the number “1.”...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anwr; energy; keystonexl; lied; lies; obama; opec; rutherfordbhayes
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1 posted on 03/16/2012 11:09:10 AM PDT by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Another Teleprompter fired?


2 posted on 03/16/2012 11:21:16 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

obama is such a little snot.


3 posted on 03/16/2012 11:25:37 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: NavyCanDo

Apparently the WH staffies took the Hayes story straight off Al Gore’s interweb as the gospel truth - just like those stories about the sea level rising and drowning thousands of islanders.


4 posted on 03/16/2012 11:25:52 AM PDT by Pecos (O.K., joke's over. Time to bring back the Constitution.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Can we start a running list of how many historical inaccuracies this guy had made?

1) He said the US invented the car—wrong
2) He implied his birth was a result of the Selma march.
3) His latest Columbus slip
4) Joe Bidens FDR on TV screw up.
5) The US liberation of Auschwitz—wrong.

What else?


5 posted on 03/16/2012 11:27:07 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

He’s been lying so long that he no longer recognizes the difference. How comforting for his children...though who’ve likely been raised as pathological liars themselves.


6 posted on 03/16/2012 11:27:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

The crowd he was talking to was full of parasites who produce nothing and live on the producers expense so it makes no difference what ever lie he tells them.


7 posted on 03/16/2012 11:28:13 AM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops)
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To: jveritas

Erkel was just trying to be cool and show everyone how smart he his. But like everything else, he is a miserable failure at it. Go ride your girly bike.


8 posted on 03/16/2012 11:36:36 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore because he’s looking backwards. He’s not looking forwards.

What a low class thing to say about another President. He's an embarrassment.

I never thought I'd live to see a president "talk shit" the way this guy does.

9 posted on 03/16/2012 11:41:38 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
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Obama is a one trick pony.

10 posted on 03/16/2012 11:42:44 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: CommieCutter

It’s not a mistake unless the msm covers it...and they won’t...so it didn’t happen.


11 posted on 03/16/2012 11:46:58 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: NavyCanDo

They no longer fire them, they are reassigned to Joe Biden


12 posted on 03/16/2012 11:52:19 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

I know a man who is a pathological liar. Lying is in his nature and, so far, no psychiatry or psychology has been able to modify his behavior. Obama acts so much like him that they are virtually carbon copies of one another. Being pathological does not remove the responsibility of lying. Lying is a choice the person makes regardless of pathology. My friend can always make the decision not to lie, but he goes ahead and does it anyway. Obama is still responsible for his lies regardless of anything pathological.


13 posted on 03/16/2012 12:58:17 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: onedoug

“....been raised as pathological liars themselves.”

.....and brats! n/s


14 posted on 03/16/2012 1:00:28 PM PDT by cameraeye (A happy kaffir!)
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To: righttackle44

That’s a good explanation. I ask my wife all the time, “How does he sleep at night? I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I lied like that!”


15 posted on 03/16/2012 1:11:29 PM PDT by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
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To: kjo

Believe it or not, the article is from the lefty, Washington Post! I doubt the mainstream TV news will cover it though.


16 posted on 03/16/2012 1:14:02 PM PDT by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Somebody emailed me a comic takeoff on this news item from the PJTatler:


RutherfordGate part of a pattern for Obama

By now you’ve probably already heard about RutherfordGate — in which President Obama thoughtlessly repeated a bogus quote falsely attributed to President Rutherford B. Hayes in order to slander his opponents and (almost as an afterthought) Hayes himself:

“One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: ‘It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’” Obama said. “That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.”

A quick bit of fact-checking uncovered that the quote — as has been long known to anyone with a passing knowledge of history — is just an urban legend.

But this is not the first time Obama has done this. In recent months, he’s been citing all sorts of fabricated quotes attributed to his presidential predecessors, and then mocking their obvious inferiority to his visionary self. Here are just a few examples overlooked by the media:

January 13, Toledo, Ohio:

“When Bill Clinton first surfed the Internet, he said, ‘Golly, this’ll never be good for anything but porn and cyber-stalking,’” Obama announced. “That’s why he’s now nothing but a disgraced, impeached sex addict in a sham marriage to the worst Secretary of State in history.”

January 24, Panama City, Florida:

“When Harry Truman first learned about the atom bomb, he thought it was a ‘senseless waste of uranium’ and tried to ship a couple to the Emperor of Japan as novelty gifts,” Obama said. “If they hadn’t fallen out of the plane, Japan would still be our ally today.”

February 3, Burbank, California:

“When FDR was shown his first television, he deemed it ‘The Devil’s Toolbox’ and smashed it up with a sledgehammer, accidentally injuring his leg in the process,” Obama said. “He was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and is now known as an elitist 1%er who bankrupted America with a Ponzi Scheme known as Social Security.”

February 17, Baltimore, Maryland:

“When Abraham Lincoln was shown the Gatling Gun, he laughed and said ‘Why would anyone want to shoot more than one bullet at a time?’” Obama scoffed. “That’s why he isn’t on Mount Rushmore.” [Aide hurriedly whispers in Obama’s ear.] “Oh, he is? Well, then, that’s why we’re going to replace his ugly face with my classic profile.”

February 28, San Antonio, Texas:

“When Thomas Jefferson first learned of the steam-powered locomotive, he insisted that ‘Nothing will ever replace the horse as mankind’s primary mode of transportation,’” Obama claimed. “That’s because he was a slave-owning rapist who declared an imperialist war on our Muslim brothers. More than any single person he is responsible for developing the supremacist philosophy underpinning this racist Amerikkka, and I have ordered all his portraits removed from the White House.”


17 posted on 03/16/2012 1:26:54 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: CommieCutter

In his 2009 speech in Cairo, Obama said that Islamic scholarship inspired the Italian Renaissance.


18 posted on 03/16/2012 1:53:51 PM PDT by Parmenio
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19 posted on 03/16/2012 1:57:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

19th President: “Rutherfraud” B. Hayes

44th pResident: AnotherFraud, B. Hussein


20 posted on 03/16/2012 1:59:46 PM PDT by mikrofon (NObama '12 -- No Way, No How)
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