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Article Source: The L.A. Times
"We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad"
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.
I would submit that it is deliberately ignored because he has long been a hero to the media and repeating his gaffes ruins the narrative that he is a brilliant statesman and we're all lucky he's in charge. Now if Michelle Bachmann had said it...
Of course he meant to say the "Transcontinental Railroad." For the record, I don't think it means anything. It's kind of funny, but that's about it. If I had to talk to crowds as much as these people do, I can't imagine the silly things I would say.
The Intercontinental Railroad is totally a thing. It's how the Death Panels commute from The Bridge to Nowhere (via a series of tubes) to John Wayne Gacy's house (on Elvis' b-day or day he died -- it changes). Sometimes it makes unscheduled stops in Juarez which is "in America."
Michelle Bachmann had said it.
No no no, he misspoke and used the wrong word, transcontinental,intercontinental.
As Miss Bachman said when you speak 6 time in a day you will make mistakes.
Lame
No no no, he misspoke and used the wrong word, transcontinental,intercontinental.
Exactly, lame. Yawn.
I hate when that teleprompter jumps up and bites you in the a@@. barry barry barry. Too bad you will live off my taxes until.....
Put another point in the Palin column against her hipocritical "perfectionist" detractors.
I think this railroad connects continents through the invisible 51st to 57th states. It all works out in the magical world of Obama.
Really!?...Really? You are talking about...this?
Really!!??
Oh thank God. The man who is nothing but speeches and words actually misspoke. This ought to keep the haters busy for a month or two.
Wait wait wait. So let me get this straight.
Bush can't even recite the simple phrase "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me," and when we made fun of him the righties called us unpatriotic.
But when Obama makes a very small mistake in what he's saying, you have every right to make fun of him? Is that it?
Every day the right reminds me how hypocritical and childish they are.
Or he could have meant intracontinental Railroad.....either way only a twit would make an issue out of this. Our last Prez could barely speak English and made up words as he went along. But, hey, we all got ust to it.
I was gonna say
"Good, maybe people can use this instead of the now 3? year old "57 states" thing they keep trotting out", but 1.6 had to ruin that
But when Obama makes a very small mistake in what he's saying, you have every right to make fun of him?
Yeah, but most of us are only make fun of him. Most people here are not saying that this little gaffe makes him unfit to be president. There is a difference.
Most people here are not saying that this little gaffe makes him unfit to be president. There is a difference.
"Most people" on the right are the onlyones talking about this. They have already given their bogus reasons they think he shouldn't be President this is just fuel to their illegitimate fire.
Really?....between Trans and Inter. you guys are making a big deal about that?
If Palin or Bachmann had said it, it would have been front page news on the Vine, with a couple of hundred comments about it already.
Face it - the "Commander in Training" isnt as smart as he thinks he is, and America is now saying that he's no better than Bush.
No, it isn't like Obama doesn't understand the difference between Trans and Inter. He just mispoke. In most of the gaffes from Bachmann, and especially Palin, it is a matter of not understanding the subject they are speaking about.
But hey, have fun with your tit for tat.
Face it - the "Commander in Training" isnt as smart as he thinks he is, and America is now saying that he's no better than Bush.
Pop quiz -- name one President that WASN'T a "commander in training."
Yes, I know. It's a trick question. They all were.
No, it isn't like Obama doesn't understand the difference between Trans and Inter. He just mispoke. In most of the gaffes from Bachmann, and especially Palin, it is a matter of not understanding the subject they are speaking about.
Oh, I'm so sure...and your basis and facts to back that statement up with?
and your basis and facts to back that statement up with?
Graduated from Columbia and then Harvard Law School with a J.D. magna cum laude. Sure, not really proof, but neither do you have any proof he didn't simply misspeak.
Graduated from Columbia and then Harvard Law School with a J.D. magna cum laude.
All that says is that he went to college...big deal
Sure, not really proof, but neither do you have any proof he didn't simply misspeak.
Uh, I believe we have it on record as to what he actually SAID. If you wish to refer to that as misspeak, then go right ahead.
All that says is that he went to college...big deal
Did you get accepted to that class of higher education? Did you graduate mcl ?
what he actually SAID
...and yet you still can't show he didn't misspeak.
I take it you finally went and saw the "57" video, hmmm?
Did you get accepted to that class of higher education? Did you graduate mcl ?
You cant explain the "Clown in Chief", so you choose to attack me?
I didnt make the statement - he did.
I take it you finally went and saw the "57" video, hmmm?
What does that have to do with this incident?
Let me clue you in...ZERO.
Graduated from Columbia and then Harvard Law School with a J.D. magna cum laude.All that says is that he went to college...big deal
...Are you kidding me?
He graduated from HARVARD. With HONORS. Do you even comprehend that? Harvard. You don't get through Harvard Law if you're not intelligent. It just doesn't happen. And an intelligent person wouldn't actually believe we built in intercontinental railroad. Do I have to spell it out for you?
mister momo
He graduated with more than honors, he graduated in the top 10% of his class.
It Aint So
You cant explain the "Clown in Chief", so you choose to attack me?
This discussion isn't about Bush, so stay on topic, he isn't attacking you, you brought up Obamas smarts and what you think of his education.
I didnt make the statement - he did.
but you seem to have taken authority of whether he misspoke or just doesn't know any better
Face it - the "Commander in Training" isnt as smart as he thinks he is, and America is now saying that he's no better than Bush.
No just republicans are.
IAS -
No reason for me to respond for the most part. Others have done a fine job of that.
I take it you finally went and saw the "57" video, hmmm?
What does that have to do with this incident?
Uh, you brought it up in the #5 thread. I called you out for not understanding that one, too.
...Are you kidding me?
He graduated from HARVARD. With HONORS. Do you even comprehend that? Harvard. You don't get through Harvard Law if you're not intelligent. It just doesn't happen. And an intelligent person wouldn't actually believe we built in intercontinental railroad. Do I have to spell it out for you?
You do know that Bush was a Harvard graduate as well....so was Bill O'Reilly.
carbon,
er um, going to harvard business school is not the same thing as attending harvard. You don't even need to have a degree to get an MBA at harvard business school.
As for O'Reilly, what I find strange is that he earned a master of public administration (what the frack is that anyways lol) at Harvard, so why does he hate government so much.
Obama graduating with a J.D. magna cum laude, was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[34] and president of the journal in his second year. MUCH more significant accomplishments.
I guess the teleprompter lied to him again...but think about it...a railroad to ALL 57 states might be considered intercontinental.
#5 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:53 PM EDTRight, another case where he misspoke. If you watch the entire video, it is easy to see that he meant 47 but said 57.
However, I'll bet you never knew that. You never got tht far to see the actual situation.
The teleprompter meme... Will someone please explain it to me? Obama is hardly their only client. I can list a number of politicians, of all stripes, GOP included, who has used them. Anyone can, really - just put politicians' names in a hat and draw at random.
there ARE 57 congressional districts, 50 states plus 7 non state districts, like the US VI, etc...
there ARE 57 congressional districts
Boy, you guys can spin better than obama himself!
Boy, you guys can spin better than obama himself!
He meant 47 and flubbed. Big deal. Everybody flubs, sometimes, per REM. Something like that, anyway. Every politician also teleprompters, sometime. If you think either are big deals, however, please do make your case. If, on the other hand, it's just tit for tat schoolyard taunting, that's fine too. But let's not pretend its anything more than that, then.
IAS -
I repeat -
If you watch the entire video, it is easy to see that he meant 47 but said 57.
However, I'll bet you never knew that. You never got tht far to see the actual situation.
there ARE 57 congressional districts
I think if you really check you will find out there are 435 congressional districts. Most states have more than one.
The teleprompter meme... Will someone please explain it to me? Obama is hardly their only client. I can list a number of politicians, of all stripes, GOP included, who has used them. Anyone can, really - just put politicians' names in a hat and draw at random.
Of course. But Faux tells the righties that Obama using a teleprompter is somehow a bad thing, so they take it as their duty to parrot that at every chance they get.
The teleprompter meme... Will someone please explain it to me? Obama is hardly their only client. I can list a number of politicians, of all stripes, GOP included, who has used them. Anyone can, really - just put politicians' names in a hat and draw at random.
Of course. But Faux tells the righties that Obama using a teleprompter is somehow a bad thing, so they take it as their duty to parrot that at every chance they get.
I had to take a Communications III class in college (essentially a course in public speaking). I was dreading it so much that I enrolled & dropped it whatever the maximum number of times I was allowed to until I finally had to do it.
One of the things we were required to do is practice & give a speech using a teleprompter (this was in the 80s).
How horrendous of a thing could it be if it's actually taught to college level students, let alone at an aeronautical university? Furthermore, isn't it standard practice for the POTUS to use a teleprompter?
mariyam
considering that more often than not, the president doesn't actually see the speach until just before he gives the speech, then yeah. (though they know the content, they don't necessarily see the speech itself).
Fail......it doesn't even come close to the countless number of gaffes of Bush Jr........although it makes me long for the good ol' days of logging on to YouTube and watching hours and hours of Dubya's inadequacies with the English language.
#6 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:56 PM EDTBush isn't president now. Get over it.
Obama is, get over it!
Bush isn't president now. Get over it.
Bush's @!$%#ups are still around for us all to enjoy over and over and over:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5516649.ece
Bush isn't president now. Get over it.
As soon as y'all get over the fact that Obama IS President.
As soon as y'all get over the fact that Obama IS President.
Sad and kinda unbelievable, isnt it...
Sad and kinda unbelievable, isnt it...
Hand in there only 15 months to go before it's over.
What, you think he's going to be beaten by Rick Perry or Mitt Romney? LOL. I'd really like to know what kind of fantasy land you're living in.
Romney could win at the national level, but we'll never know since I see the Republican primary grinding him into a fine powder since he's not willing to say all the crazy "IT MUST APPEAL TO THE BASE!!" madness Perry and Bachman are willing to do
Sad and silly you righties have small narrow minds. A pox on you all!
#7 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:57 PM EDTYeahhhh that was definitely a typo.
Course there are a lot of news stories that seem to get a lot of information wrong about the railroads.
#8 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:58 PM EDTYes boo the gay military member active duty in Iraq. Let that 30 year old die with out the insurance.
Wow no wonder the country is in the toilet.
No sense of community and no respect for the President.
#9 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:13 PM EDTno respect for the President.
Respect is earned - not demanded.
scott9876
no respect for the President.
Were you of this opinion when the media went out of its way to point out the speaking errors of President Bush or do you only respect theoffice of President when your guy is in there?
Respect is earned - not demanded.
And 43 presidents before this one earned the respect for the OFFICE of the President...and compared to the way the teabaggers have behaved, he as most assuredly EARNED respect for the office.
Here's the headline: "Misstatement by President final proof... that he's human!"
For crying out loud, kids; this is the sort of thing that managed to get Bush labelled a moron by some, and a charming cooloquialist by others.
Okay, so he said 'Intercontinental' when he meant to say 'transcontinental'. Big deal! Move on.
I don't like a lot of Obama's platform, I would not have voted for him if I were an American, but this sort of thing is just petty. Take exception to the man's politics if you wish, but jumping on him misspeaking lessens your strength of argument.
#10 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:23 PM EDTpjwbur-
Welcome to American politics. Magnify the problem to your base and let them do the dirty work for you.
No cant say I did.
I see the office more respected around the world.
#11 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:24 PM EDTGood thing Sarah and Michele were alerted. They'd have never recognized the gaffe left to their own devices.
#12 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:28 PM EDTI heard that and went Huh? But at least a railroad was built to link the east and west coast of this continent.
#13 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:58 PM EDTObama can misspeak with the best of us. The major difference in this current gaffe is that he really knows about the railroad that was built across the U.S.
It was also one of the very first public-private partnerships that we are dearly in need of today to get us out of the hole some of our less intelligent leaders have gotten us into these days.
BTW, for those of you who do not understand Keynesian Economics, the Transcontinental Railroad was financed by floating bonds backed by the U.S. Hmmm, the nation took on debt to get us out of the hole created by the Civil War. Any connections some of you can make with today's problems is not coincidental (or is the "trans"cendental?).
#14 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:59 PM EDTThe Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway is more commonly known as Interstate 10 or "I-10".
On one hand it is an "interstate" highway because it connects the states that it passes through. On the other hand, it's referred to as Interstate or I-10 in each of those states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida).
Meaning: Interstate system I-10 = Transcontinental Highway Christopher Columbus
I hate public speaking, even interviewing simply because of the deer in the headlight factor.
It speaks volumes that these are the things that this particular group of people are using to try to disparage United States President Obama.
#15 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:40 PM EDTYou forgot Georgia
if you ever run for president, this shall now be using against you, FOREVER!!!
I didn't forget Georgia, I never considered it since it's not one of the states I-10 travels through.
FOREVER!!!
the bad grammar....well worse than normal for me should have been a clue I was just messing with you considering the seed topic :)
Well then maybe you should 1) stop messing with me and 2) stop telling lies or do you want me to start messing with you?
If you had an intercontinental railroad you could transport fish on your family.
#16 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:24 PM EDTBush gaffes were malapropisms. Those are caused by not knowing what you are talking about or not knowing the meaning of the words you use. Almost everyone on the planet has said Marine Corpse instead of Marine Corps. Or intercontinental instead of transcontinental. A lot of people are trying to intimidate that Bush's gaffes and Obama's gaffes are equivalent. They aren't.
Bush may have very well said incontinental railroad. See the difference? Apparently the doofus writing for the L.A. Times who calls himself a urinalist can't.
#17 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:36 PM EDTawww, don't get all pissy about it. ;) /sarc
DISCLAIMER: For those without a sense of humor, this comment was a play on the usage of the word 'urinalist' in the parent post and should be considered sarcasm. For those without sarcasm detectors, lacking in wit, or just a plain partisan knob, sod off.
I didn't know the word "urinalist" was used in the original post. I didn't read the whole thing, but I'm tired, and missed the satire, if that is what it was. I've just read so many stories about Obama saying "57 states" that I took it at face value. So my bad. Eff you (sarc.)
...malapropisms. Those are caused by not knowing what you are talking about or not knowing the meaning of the words you use.
mal·a·prop·ism (ml-prp-zm)n.
1. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
Obama's use of the word "Intercontinental" in this context could be used as a dictionary example of the word 'malapropism.'
Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the malapropisms of Bush and Quayle, as well. But trying to defend Obama here is just silly.
He accidentally said something funny. Snicker and move on.
What does your user name of Door King mean? I'm asking because every time I leave my front door I see a label with the number Delta-Sierra-Seven-Bravo on it and a bar code of 77578-02019.
It showed up on 3-9-11.
What does your user name of Door King mean? I'm asking because every time I leave my front door I see a label with the number Delta-Sierra-Seven-Bravo on it and a bar code of 77578-02019.
It showed up on 3-9-11.
So, Bush's gaffes means Bush is an idiot. Obama's gaffes means he's still a genius.
I'm just trying to break down your logic in terms us uneducated folk can comprehend.
bush's gaffes didn't make him an idiot, his idiocy made him an idiot.
Well, it sounds as though the Obama groupies want Obama to be given a pass on his "misspeak"regarding the intercontinental railroad. I am all in favor of doing so, as long as these same groupies will also explain the following "misspeaks:
Pass this stimulus and unemployment will not go above 8 percent
Pass this healthcare bill and we will reduce the federal debt by 1 trillion dollars.
Pass this healthcare bill and no one will have to change the plan they currently have.
Elect me president and every teacher in America will get a raise.
These are the 4 top gems. There are plenty more gaffes in Obama's arsenal. Calling an entire police dept out as "acting stupidly" before even having one shred of information about an incident. The list does seem to go on forever, but let's stop right there. Wouldn't want people to get the impression I am piling on. Have to give special consideration to the black president. Wouldn't want to hold him up to the same standards as a white president.
#18 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:38 PM EDTFirst off, your list isn't a list of "misspeaks". A misspeak is mixing up terms. Therefore, they cannot be gaffes.
Calling an entire police dept out as "acting stupidly" before even having one shred of information about an incident.
That wasn't a misspeak - the officers over-reacted. Proof is that the ridiculus charges were dropped against the professor.
The list does seem to go on forever, but let's stop right there.
Oh, please don't stop on our account. Each item you add to the list just shows you have no idea of what mis-speaking is. And I know it gives me a good chuckle to see someone show they don't know what they are talking about.
Obama can gaffe all he wants. When he tries to sell me WMD's in the desert, then I'll start looking at him suspiciously.
Spox:
I apologize. After looking at them, you are right. They are not simply choosing the wrong word. They are outright lies. Yes, that's what they are. Must confess, if I were Obama, I would rather have them termed misspeaks. Doesn't make him look as bad as telling bold faced lies do.
But again, I offer you the chance to clarify these "lies"?
Newwtricks: So you want the President to be a fortune teller, so that every single prediction he makes comes true?
If you would think for maybe 30 seconds you would realize that the predictions he made were given to him by economic advisors and such. Blame them.
Mister Momo:
When the opposition stated that Obama was dead wrong on whether the Healthcare bill was going to reduce the deficit, Obama was not listening to his economic advisors, he was ignoring the opposition.
When Obama asked the American public to get behind his stimulus, he never once said unemployment "should" , "most likely" or any other term that would lead a person to believe that there is a possibility he wasn't 100 percent sure.
When Obama told the attendees at a NEA meeting that he would give every teacher in America a raise if elected, he never follwed that up with a disclaimer that he had noauthority to give teachers in any school district a raise, because teachers pay is regualted at a local level, and out of the jurisdiction of the POTUS.
When Obama needed support for the passage of his Obamacare, his advisors should have been able to do simple math and tell him that if a business can pay $1,000 per year per employee in fines, or $ 5,000 per year per employee for coverage, well duhhhhhhh. If it is truly Obama's advisors that instructed him to continue that claim then first you fire his advisors, then you fire Obama for being stupid enough to not come to that conclusion on his own.
These were not predictions. They were statements made by the POTUS. They were lies told to the American public to get them to vote with Obama, when he should have known better. But, thanks for playing "Let's try to find excuses for Obama's screwups." Please see Carol Merril for your parting gift.
They are outright lies. Yes, that's what they are.
Newwtricks, have you ever told someone you'd do something but it never panned out? Did that make you a liar or was it that circumstances got in the way.
Now imagine that you said you'd do something but everytime you asked for the help you needed you were told "No" by the people you thought would help. In fact, you were told "No!" all the time. You even had monies taken from you that you thought you'd use to fulfill what you'd promised.
Does that make you a liar? Or does it make you a victim of sabotage...? Hmmm,,,,,
Spox, I'm not sure which makes for a worse president - a liar or a perpetual victim.
Spox:
So,you are claiming that this Harvard educated, state senator, US Senator was not aware that the federal government does not control the pay levels for America's teachers? How convienient that it was in front of the thousands attending a speech at the NEA.
Obama and his advisors should have known that if companies who offer HC coverage to employees are now capable of only paying a simple fine, that these companies will look at the bottom line first. To claim that you don't know this is absurd.
Obama had the books cooked on his Obamacare so that it would show a 1 trillion dollar reduction. Until it was passed into law. All of a sudden it was calculated in a different manner and now it will cost 1 trillion instead. Oops.
Obama would not have gotten his stimulus bill passed,had he honestly stated that it "might" keep unemployment below 8 percent. He knew it. He said whatever he thought people wanted to hear so that he could get a few hundred extra billion dollars to waste, and use to reward those who got him elected.
For everyone who claims Obama mispoke, will you also claim that Bush mispoke with strategery?
Didn't think so.
#19 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:47 PM EDTI gave him a pass on many of his oral gaffes. Especially his famous "Fool me once - fool me twice..." statement. You could see he was tired and his brain just stopped working for a moment, but he needed to finish. So he just said what popped into his head.
Hilarious - but I never thought to seed an article about something so trivial just to try and make it seem like a big deal. <-- (said while glancing sideways at Martymoose).
Too bad the media for 8 years didn't think like you. It is common knowledge ever since 2009, that a president gets a pass for misspeaking. Before that, it was front page news whenever it happened.
Lolno. There's a difference between misspeaking (this new gaffe) and being an idiot (Ya fool me I can't get fooled again!). I know you all know the difference. You're just too stubborn and partisan to admit it.
Hilarious - but I never thought to seed an article about something so trivial just to try and make it seem like a big deal. <-- (said while glancing sideways at Martymoose).
Well-put. Verbal gaffes are verbal gaffes. I don't think much of them one way or another -- it's when people try to embue them with extra meaning that it gets out of hand.
Bush wasn't stupid because he had a knack for misspeaking any more than Obama is un-American because he said "57 states." And for all the caterwauling that the media's coverage is one-sided, I remember quite a bit of attention around each of Obama's gaffes. Not to mention Republicans cackling about them and snarkily bringing them up years after they've happened, sometimes from the same GOP stalwarts who complained that the left wouldn't let go of Bush's gaffes.
Hilarious - but I never thought to seed an article about something so trivial just to try and make it seem like a big deal.
Uh...What?
Well-put. Verbal gaffes are verbal gaffes. I don't think much of them one way or another -- it's when people try to embue them with extra meaning that it gets out of hand.
Well, unless it's sarcasm, it's not really all that well put. I left the very first comment here and I wrote
For the record, I don't think it means anything. It's kind of funny, but that's about it.
I understand your position, Marty. I was referring to people who make make more of these gaffes than there really is, and that includes the ones from both Bush and Obama. I presume that was Spox's basic point too.
Regardless of whether you think it means anything about Obama himself, you did take the opportunity as a launching point to criticize the media treatment of gaffes. I touched on that in the latter half of my comment. Personally, I'm not seeing the disparity that you claim exists between the two groups.
Generally speaking, the media at large will report on a gaffe from either party once, and political opponents will have a laugh at it for a bit longer. Bush's got a lot of attention due to the sheer staggering number of them, but I don't think the press really harped on each one of them. Liberals liked to poke fun at him, but no more than conservatives still quote "57 states" like it's a non-sequitur nervous tick.
My hope is that he will always be smart enough to be on the correct side of the issues.
#20 - Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:08 PM EDTMy hope is that he will always be smart enough to be on the correct side of the issues.
I think we stand a good chance of that being the case, although lately I have had my doubts!
This man, Obummer, has proven to be ONE stupid person who thinks he knows the history of the USA. He continues making statements that are just plain not true. However, he has, to my knowledge EVER gone back to these statements and ADMITS he made the errors. I wish my life was as good and he pretends his is. He just walks and talks, never does anything he says, and ignores ALL the problems of our USA. I would suggest that when we elect another person to be our President in 2012 that this person knows there are 50 states in the USA, Abraham Lincoln did NOT start the Republican party and WE THE PEOLE, do NOT want our National Anthem OR our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America changed or rewritten! Has anyone ever heard him say "I'm sorry, I was wrong"? Please do not make excuses for this man, he just doesn't give a damn what he says because he knows he has so many people that do not listen and will vote on his looks, his supposedly education and all those words he spits out.
#21 - Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:23 PM EDTGood lord this is going to take awhile.
1.) He misspoke and while you have candidates on the right who don't know who the fore fathers are or what Paul Revere did it's Obama that's stupid.
2.) If you believe all the problems in the US aren't being addressed by Obama but are by Republicans you must be rich or a sheep of the Repulican party.
3.) The pledge has been rewritten once to include "under God" and it wasn't that long ago. Also I don't remember seeing anybody saying we should change the national anthem.
4.) Judging by your numerous grammatical errors, I believe if more education would do anyone good it would be you.
5.) He didn't make an un-true statement. He said "Inter" instead of "Trans".
Try again and this time don't just regurgitate talking points.
jeffinva,
maybe he was thinking of the INTERcourse he was going to be partaking in with his wife later on in the evening. ;)
(yes that was a joke, omg the president having sex ewwwww!!!!! that's even worse than my parents having sex )
yeah that was a joke too.
Hell I'd bang her. I could then say I slept with one of the most powerful women in the world.
Has anyone ever heard him say "I'm sorry, I was wrong"?
I don't think I can recall any president using those exact words. Probably because it would fuel their critics and bite them during campaign season. There's a difference between humility and stupidity.
I have, however, heard Obama concede mistakes plenty of times: being wrong in how he presented the stimulus projections, his mistake in referring to them as "shovel-ready jobs," and his gaffe saying a police officer "acted stupidly" come to mind. That's off the top of my head, and more than I can recall from George W Bush, who perpetually argued that all of his decisions were correct and guided by God Himself.
Usually when people complain that Obama doesn't acknowledge his faults, they're complaining that he doesn't acknowledge what they think his faults are. Which is a bit ridiculous. If he doesn't agree with you on whether he did something wrong, why would he hang his head low and confess to it? If you thought you were in the right and someone else thought you were in the wrong, would you apologize to them just to protect their precious little feelings?
Has anyone ever heard him say "I'm sorry, I was wrong"?
From here, there is this:
President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success to avoid: “I was wrong.”
Feel free to add links to all the times every other President has ever said it.
It is funny, it is a gaffe, he isn't perfect, it happens, can we get back to business now?
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