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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: Libloather

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.


101 posted on 09/23/2011 9:10:41 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Libloather
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102 posted on 09/23/2011 9:12:10 AM PDT by mojitojoe (WH says potus didnÂ’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: Kenny Bunk

It’s PASS. There is no FAIL at HLS.

Oops, I forgot.


103 posted on 09/23/2011 9:19:34 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: tiki; All

So I should pay billions in this boondoggle so you can go to Rome on a choo choo cause you hate to fly....


104 posted on 09/23/2011 9:21:30 AM PDT by KevinDavis (What has Ron Paul done in Congress??)
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To: Eleutheria5

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.


105 posted on 09/23/2011 9:23:35 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: Eleutheria5

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.


106 posted on 09/23/2011 9:24:00 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: hsalaw

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.


107 posted on 09/23/2011 9:32:27 AM PDT by bagman
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To: Ezekiel

ROTFLINANK!!!

(the last part means I need a new keyboard)


108 posted on 09/23/2011 10:22:00 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Anybody but Baracchio in 2012)
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To: Libloather
When speaking about the Underground Railroad, Obama said it demonstrated the ingenuity, determination and hardwork of black Americans, that they were able to build thousands of miles of of underground tunnels, railroad tracks and steam engines all under the noses of the southern slave owners.
109 posted on 09/23/2011 10:53:32 AM PDT by apillar
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To: apillar

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”.


110 posted on 09/23/2011 11:01:55 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Libloather

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.


111 posted on 09/23/2011 1:08:36 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Libloather

Willie Green can be extra super proud of his country.


112 posted on 09/23/2011 5:34:23 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: rod1
Bak-bak.
113 posted on 09/23/2011 5:40:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Libloather

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


114 posted on 09/23/2011 9:17:14 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Libloather
This guy has said more stupid things than Bush I, Bush II, RR, Jimmuh Cahtuh, Jerry Ford, Nixon, LBJ, JFK, and Ike COMBINED!

Someone needs to start a serious on-line Obama Dumb Stuff Museum.

115 posted on 09/23/2011 9:46:09 PM PDT by cookcounty (2012 choice: It's the Tea Party or the Slumber Party.)
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