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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

I’d love to see how they laid railroad tracks across the Ocean bed. When do we get to see this marvel of engineering?


61 posted on 09/23/2011 7:03:53 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: massgopguy
Who do you think sent the new sheriff to Rock Ridge?

The Sheriff is near!

I liked the guy with the Palomino horse and the Gucci saddlebag a whole lot better.

62 posted on 09/23/2011 7:04:23 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Libloather
He meant the Intercontinental Hotel in Kenya.

http://www.intercontinental.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/nairobi


63 posted on 09/23/2011 7:07:40 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: Libloather

Taggart Intercontinental?


64 posted on 09/23/2011 7:09:15 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: bagman
I think that you will find that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific had substantial backing from the Federal government.

Correct.

Each railroad was given 6400 acres of land, which they could sell to settlers to help populate the route with customers, and each railroad was paid $48,000 per mile of track laid.

However, they had 14 years from the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 to complete the job, or they would forfeit ALL the land AND the money.

And in typical Government fashion, the two lines passed each other in Utah because no one was thinking ahead to establish a junction point.

Promontory Point, Utah was selected and the Golden Spike was driven on May 10, 1869. 7 years ahead of schedule.

65 posted on 09/23/2011 7:11:46 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Obama - Wear The Fail!)
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To: Libloather

Has anyone else read the transcript that follows the LA Times article? Barack Obama is completely delusional, and an outright liar. And, it is abundantly evident from the transcript and the crowd response, the “speech’ was delivered to a hand-picked friendly union group.

It’s truly sickening stuff to read. This is the POTUS???? What has happened to the USA? What has happened to the democrat party?


66 posted on 09/23/2011 7:12:07 AM PDT by astounded (Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: Ezekiel
Who can name the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad?

"Me me me me ME yes I CAN!"
67 posted on 09/23/2011 7:15:12 AM PDT by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Vaquero
It’s the train that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs!!

...and the objective was to avoid a black hole...yes?
68 posted on 09/23/2011 7:19:12 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: the invisib1e hand; All

“so the LA times has switched flags, has it?”

Actually, it seems like they have. I’m totally amazed at the continuous stream of anti-0bama (actually simply truth-telling) articles that are coming out about 0bama from the L.A. Times on a daily basis. Right now, it’s the only major daily bird-cage-liner media outlet that is telling some truths about 0bama.

Not sure why. I suppose they figure they can have their cake and eat it too, namely, they can slam him all they want, thereby creating buzz for themselves, yet knowing all along 0bama’s going to win California with no sweat no matter what gets said or what happens.


69 posted on 09/23/2011 7:23:35 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: sasquatch
...and the objective was to avoid a black hole...yes?

I dunno...all I know is that


70 posted on 09/23/2011 7:25:26 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Libloather

His handlers were probably thrilled that he didn’t say “Intercollegiate Railroad”


71 posted on 09/23/2011 7:27:55 AM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: Libloather

Yes, the Intercontinental Railroad was a Teutonic Shift in history!


72 posted on 09/23/2011 7:29:31 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: tet68

LOL!


73 posted on 09/23/2011 7:30:08 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: massgopguy

I think it was either Governor William J Lapetomine or Heddy Lamar.

No, that’s Hedley!!


74 posted on 09/23/2011 7:30:27 AM PDT by bagman
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To: Libloather

Mocking barry has lost some of its fun, now that even hardened leftist don’t even try to defend him.


75 posted on 09/23/2011 7:31:56 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Fight for Liberty)
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To: Ezekiel

LOL Almost snorted my coffee.


76 posted on 09/23/2011 7:32:29 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: N. Theknow
And in typical Government fashion, the two lines passed each other in Utah because no one was thinking ahead to establish a junction point.

Remember the old wall poster from the 1970s? A Promontory Point type scene - but at the point where the rails joined, the southernmost rail from one side joined the northernmost rail from the other. I believe the caption was "Thank God It's Friday".

77 posted on 09/23/2011 7:33:07 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: bagman
"No, that’s Hedley!!"

Yeah, wasn't he the feller who spoke purtier that a twenty-dollar whore?

78 posted on 09/23/2011 7:33:28 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: bagman
I think that you will find that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific had substantial backing from the Federal government.

Maybe to the extent that the government gave them the power of eminent domain/inverse condemnation so they could take the land they needed, but did it provide any funding?

79 posted on 09/23/2011 7:34:46 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: bagman
I think it was either Governor William J Lapetomine or Heddy Lamar.

And they went "intercontinental" with their evil plans. I guess that fellow returned with a shitload of dimes, after all.

80 posted on 09/23/2011 7:35:58 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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