the “intercontinental railroad”! I always thought that the highway system, the Hoover dam, etc. were pretty impressive. but, this? wow.
what’s funny is that if Bush or Palin made this mistake…the media would have pounced. Rather, it’s given a pass.
More amusing? this isn’t the first time BHO screwed it up. Read the text from his 2010 speech at U of M: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/01/national/main6450952.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1
You’re right, totally ignored by the media.
In the LA Times.
Ha! I knew that was coming which is why I almost took a screenshot of the google results for the query “obama intercontinental railroad”. I really wish that you would do the same before making as big an assumption as you did, because it showed results from Fox news and the LA Times. Rest wer blogs or Breitbart.
Are you considering those (the blogs) major media outlets? Or, do you just not read a lot?
You’re right, totally ignored by the media.
In the LA Times.
Don’t forget the CBS article he linked too.
You really should do some reading before you reply. If you had you would have noted that the CBS article wasn’t even that - it was a speech transcript from 2010, and it wasn’t even linked to the LA Times blog. I found it via Google.
The knee jerk partisan responses are amusing though…
The knee jerk partisan responses are amusing though…
Your inability to notice the irony of this statement is both amusing and scary.
really? my post was knee jerk? I actually went out and validated my argument before posting it - you didn’t - and, yet, you think I’m being knee jerk? You know how I found that 2010 transcript? by not relying on what one source told me. If I was being knee jerk - like you and swmbkrn - then I would have just linked to Michelle Malkin’s blog and called it a day.
Nice try though…
Are you considering those (the blogs) major media outlets? Or, do you just not read a lot?
Nice cheap shot, but I read plenty. Including major newspapers like…the LA Times!
The knee jerk partisan responses are amusing though…
Your inability to notice the irony of this statement is both amusing and scary.
I think one big difference is that he doesn’t pretend he isn’t a partisan. But hey, I notice neither you or the other partisan individual addressed the fact that our President thinks we built an Intercontinental Railroad or that he pumped up a bill to be passed that hasn’t even been introduced yet and his own party in the Senate won’t bring it up for at least a month, or that the bridge he was in front of isn’t in need of repairs but a second bridge is being built to handle an increase in traffic between the two states but lets pretend that our President has a clue and has things under control. You know he is the smartest man in the universe.
addressed the** fact** that our President thinks we built an Intercontinental Railroad
That’s a fact? He really thinks that, and didn’t just make an inter/intra/trans language blunder?
addressed the** fact** that our President thinks we built an Intercontinental Railroad
That’s a fact? He really thinks that, and didn’t just make an inter/intra/trans language blunder?
Neither answer can be countenanced if we’re talking about Obama…
I think one big difference is that he doesn’t pretend he isn’t a partisan. But hey, I notice neither you or the other partisan individual addressed the fact that our President thinks we built an Intercontinental Railroad or that he pumped up a bill to be passed that hasn’t even been introduced yet and his own party in the Senate won’t bring it up for at least a month, or that the bridge he was in front of isn’t in need of repairs but a second bridge is being built to handle an increase in traffic between the two states but lets pretend that our President has a clue and has things under control. You know he is the smartest man in the universe.
Outside of having nothing to do with anything, that was quite the quality rant.
Hence my linking to the transcript of a speech he gave in 2010 where he made the same blunder
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The knee jerk partisan responses are amusing though…
Do you at all see the irony when you make knee jerk posts?
More amusing? this isn’t the first time BHO screwed it up. Read the text from his 2010 speech at U of M:
That is probably the more interesting aspect to the story. Obama seldom speaks without a teleprompter, so it would be useful to know if both times were in that manner. If so, it points to a staffer that has the wrong term stuck in their head. Of course it also points out that Obama can read, and produce his effective oratory, but not be thinking about what he is actually saying. All that is accepting the obvious that Obama should know the difference.
This thread didn’t really go the way you thought it would, did it?
One of the reasons The Great Mojozenmaster is Great is that he reads Obama’s mind with great accuracy. The Great Mojo also allows for gaffes that occasionally accompany the immense pressure and responsibility of being The President of the United States of America.
Here’s the Deal:
Obama was thinking about a railway bridge from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska (over the Bering Strait) = 55 miles to Siberia. Obama is going to Alaska soon to talk about it…soon…
While he was talking about another railroad system entirely.
It will suck that we cannot accomplish such an engineering miracle on ‘Green Energy’ alone, but whatever…
The other problem is what good is such an expensive engineering feat worth when there are no good tracks/roads on the other side of the bridge?
just watched Minn congressman keith Ellison on O’Reilly, and he used the same incorrect “intercontinental railroad”, quick search shows Axlerod also used the term this week, so this looks like a talking point that someone got wrong, and it’s stuck.
Yeah, I have such a track record of doing just that. You missed where your compatriot tried to make the same point. Read the thread much?