New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'

LA Times ^ | 9/23/11 | Andrew Malcolm

[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.

[Loud Mime]

I’d love to give the anointed one a vocabulary test. On what? a teleprompter? I've never seen the guy read anything else.

[LRS]

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!"...

[Plutarch]

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.

[Sudetenland]

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.

[rod1]

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?

[bgill]

The LA Times is reporting this?

The honeymoon is over. Divorce to follow.

[rod1]

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

[yldstrk]

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.

[rod1]

At least he may know rudimentary Indonesian history.

[Proud2BeRight]

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

[denydenydeny]

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.

[steelyourfaith]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[massgopguy]

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.

[bagman]

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

[bagman]

Somewhere, an Indonesian village is missing its idiot.

[massgopguy]

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

[massgopguy]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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

[RJS1950]

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.