Sounds like the makings of a very busy "ping list".
Cheers mah "Hillybilly Brutha"... ; )
Posted on 07/19/2008 5:32:28 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly
Barack Obama delivered a speech in West Lafeyette, IN on Wednesday and once again mangled some well known historical facts:
Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world.
Aaah yes – "the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor." Who can forget that? It was the big one, the one that took out all those boats. I guess Obama's political correctness prevents him from noting someone actually dropped "the bomb" and it didn't just fall.
This is a surprising error for a Hawaii native (via the great Kansas heartland) to make. Perhaps Obama was merely confused, as he and his surrogates so often accuse John McCain of being.
> This is a surprising error for a Hawaii native (via the great Kansas heartland) to make.
Maybe he isn’t a Hawaii native?
“Maybe he isn’t a Hawaii native?”
Lol!!!!!
Sheesh.
The neocons have brought their liberalism in and tried to pretend to be conservative, but things like the dishonesty give them away. Sorry, Weekly Stanadard, but true conservatism doesn't have to play such games, because we know the truth supports our position.
Obama will speak at the Victory Column in Germany. This tower was built by Hitler to commemorate the German victory in WW2. I have been there and it is impressive piece of work. It also is very ironic that it was used to commemorate a victory that never happened and the same might happen for Obama.
When Germany dropped that bomb, Hawaii had not yet become the 57th state.
lol!
(no more calls, please-we have a winner!)
I’m filing this one with Obama’s claim that his uncle liberated Auschwitz, and the statement that some of the people Memorial Day honors are in his audiences.
Sounds like the makings of a very busy "ping list".
Cheers mah "Hillybilly Brutha"... ; )
I believe that tower was built in the 19th century to commemorate the unification of Germany. Prior to that it was a collection of small states.
It would be very 'pingy', wouldn't it?
No.
When President Bush said that it is crystal clear that the one is meant to represent an entire class. (Is there a name for this sort of literary device?)
“The bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor” just doesn’t work. Either he meant to say “The Bombs” and merely had a slip of the tongue or he is truly as historically tone-deaf as his manifold other statements have shown him to be. I seriously and honestly cannot tell which it is. If this were an isolated event I would give him the benefit of the doubt. But he has repeatedly shown an appalling level of historical ignorance and tone deafness.
You are correct. I looked it up and my tour guide was incorrect. They claimed the the wreath contained a swastika that was knocked out after the war. I will have to correct 25 years of false information stuck in my brain. I wonder what else they told us is incorrect.
Maybe he went into rap mode. You know...
Da bomb dat fell...
You are right, the moron truly thought there was just one bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor. How did he ever get through Harvard?
I'm reminded of Gerald Foed in the debate insisting that Eastern Europe had never been under Soviet domination.
The Victory Column (Siegessäule) was designed to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Prusso-Danish War of 1864 and was inaugurated at a site opposite the Reichstag in 1873 after Prussia had also defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871.
Hitler moved the column to its present site in 1939 as part of the monumental redesign of a future Berlin and the height of the column was increased by 7.5 meters at the time by adding a fourth section to the column but the monument was not a Nazi-era monument.
Victory Column, 1905
Victory Column, Today
Obama isn’t confused, he is just a bold faced liar about this in particular and most of his other “facts”.
In fairness, cudda been a slip of the tongue. My money favors historical ignorance bred from indifference, however.
He ignored all the torpedoes; I wonder why?
We've actually been going to the Smokies quite a bit recently, but I have loads of family in Arkansas. Mostly in Little Rock and Hot Springs. A direct relative of mine served as one of the first state geologists.
Did something happen to Pearl Harbor? When was this? I didn’t see anything about it on TV.
Is this another of those VRWC issues?
Was Hawaii the 57th or 58th state at that time? /sarc
And Harvard charges HOW much for an education??
fixed it...
As far as I am concerned what ever we say against this guy is just fine. If we nitpick at things he says that is ok too, because that is what the Dems do, that is how they get the votes(outside of outright voter fraud)by lying, obfuscating and making our side seem like buffoons and criminals. We need to use the same tactics against this marxist traitor or we will be shackled in the chains of tyranny before long. To say we don't need to use these tactics is just being naive. McCain has finally started taking the gloves off with his "Obama is more left than a socialist" statement, and he better get even more tough if he wants to win, else we will be looking at another dole candidacy.
“to the lawlessness of the frontier”
Not to mention the lawlessness of our present society.
This is the paragraph right after his 'Pearl Harbor bomb'
And for most of our history, the most significant danger to our security came from nation states. The physical safety of our people was protected by oceans. The national security of the United States was buttressed by our extraordinary economic strength and a powerful military that answered every call.Maybe I'm being picky? After all Barry did have a clarifier, 'most'. And the 'protected by oceans' canard has become some sort of 'fact'. But to say America always had a strong military is just historically wrong. After every war we've always demobilized, including after the Civil War.I guess the Barbary Pirates don't count even though 'our people' were being kidnapped, ships seized and tribute paid.
Then we have the war of 1812. The Brits took New York and Torched the White House. Our military wasn't exactly 'strong' then. The war was basically a draw.
After that we have WWI. Prior to our joining we had no military to speak of, and for sure not one which was 'strong'. And the oceans didn't protect us then, it was the only the proposed deal between Germany and MEXICO which got us into it.
Now we're at pre Pearl Harbor era and once again our military was on a 'shoe string'. After Dec 7th the first draftees trained with WOODEN 'pretend guns'. A 'strong military' we did not have.
Which now brings us to Korea, and again we're short on troops. WWII vets had to be called up to get us to fighting strength. And during Korea, the Army once again used pretend guns for training. I know - as a kid I HAD an '03 Springfield 'training rifle'(1) which the guy who lived upstairs 'appropriated' (I was now the coolest kid when playing War).
(1) It was exact in every way, except no magazine the bolt wasn't real.
Patty Murray, Barbara Boxer, and Tom Harkin are all happy. For years people have debated which of those three is the stupidest member of the Senate. Well, we now know it’s Obama.
He’s stupid, and/or a liar, and/or both.
I think his history professor was named Blutarsky.
He's as tone deaf as the Chicom posters infesting our happy home. The Meccan candidate should have studied up instead of using "blow".
Yes, I corrected that in another post. I had a bad tour guide when I visited the column. I have since been reeducated.
I’d rather we spent our time getting the word out on real problems with the candidate, rather than things like this that make his opponents look petty.
It doesn’t make McCain look petty, it makes Obama look petty and stupid also. As I said, it is straight out of the Dem playbook and I am glad we are finally starting to fight that way, even a little. MO and I will keep it.
He's a student of Admiral Farragut?
LOL!
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