Posted on 03/15/2012 2:59:22 PM PDT by A'elian' nation
Obama today compared his visionary thinking to that of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Gotta check - ok, he was a republican. Couldn't blame Bush somehow.
In his call for the need of alternative energy sources he had to put down President Hayes. Said Obama,
"One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: 'It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?'" Obama said. "That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore."
Oh, the inconvenience of actual facts. According to the curator of Hayes' Presidential Center, it turns out President Hayes was right on the cutting edge for his day. He was the first to install the telephone in the White House. If you wanted to call the president, you dialed his phone number - 1. He was the first president to use a typewriter, and he had Thomas Edison come to the White House to demonstrate the phonograph. The curator, Nan Card, said that President Hayes never made the comment quoted by Obama.
Reader comments to this latest presidential gaffe are priceless:
Suyu said: "Quote from a future President . . . . . One of my predecessors, Pres Obama reportedly said about the Constitution- It's a great document, but who would ever want to use it?"
Wardtom said: "And you did not press 2 for Spanish."
Guitarista said: "Hayes totally sucked! And everybody knows he sucked. In evidence I proffer this: He totally sucked!"
Funbud23 said: "Hayes owned one of the first Siamese cats brought to the United States. His wife was the first First Lady with a college degree. Rutherford's uncle left him a million dollar estate."
(that must be why Obama attacked Rutherford. He was a 1%er.)
JohnMoser said: "Hey Barry, the telephone . . NOT funded by the government, as evidenced by the fact it worked."
Obama wants to be on Mt. Rushmore ?
The EARS would take as much room as the entire Crazy Horse monument!!
The Rutherford B. Hayes Center was the first Presidential Library. It is still not funded by the US Park service. It is private. It is a must see in Fremont, Ohio. This is one of the most active presidential museums you will ever visit. It has undergone an extensive renovation. And you will see where he got his phone installed. Of course, Obama’s museum will be on a sand dune in . . . hell, would could possibly guess. Or care.
WOW, when New York Magazine starts reporting OBAMA STUPIDITIES the sun is beginning to change its course and will rise in the West.
Heads will roll.....?, or maybe we can do your evaluation in my apartment tonight?
Obama already has the Dumbo ride at Disneyland
0bama lies and the MSM gets busy with new revisionist history...
0bama?
I'd rather vote for Rutherford B. Hayes.
The executive power is large because not defined in the Constitution. The real test has never come, because the Presidents have down to the present been conservative, or what might be called conscientious men, and have kept within limited range. And there is an unwritten law of usage that has come to regulate an average administration. But if a Napoleon ever became President, he could make the executive almost what he wished to make it. The war power of President Lincoln went to lengths which could scarcely be surpassed in despotic principle.
Executive Orders and National Emergencies: How Presidents Have Come to “Run the Country” by Usurping Legislative Power, CATO Policy Analysis #358 (October 28, 1999)
The real question is which one of Obama’s teleprompters will be fired because of this gaffe. Right or left?
Let's compromise and put his face on Porta Potties instead.
Rutherford Hayes was the most bad-@ss war hero president the U.S. ever had.
He was shot on five seperate occasions in action, 1861-1865.
What scandal was he involved in? I remember learning in school that his opponents called him Rutherfraud Hayes.
Hayes-Tilden election - Hayes won in the House by some moves that were questionable at best.
Thanks.
Both sides cheated. The Redeemers violent suppressed the black vote in South Carolina. Tilden was backed by Tammany Hall. Hayes had to promise to abandon southern black Republicans to their fates in several southern states and promise to serve only one term.
Reading up on Hayes I learned that we have him to thank for his 1880 policy stating that any canal built in Central America had to be in American control.
At the time, France was trying to build a Panama Canal.
The First Lady was called Lemonade Lucy for her refusal to serve alcoholic beverages in the White House. She only made one exception when Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch of Russia visited the White House. Hayes was also a teetotaler.
She was the first president’s wife to be called ‘First Lady of the Land.’
And Hayes’ son, James Webb, was given the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
In the White House, Hayes and Lucy held morning prayer readings every day after breakfast.
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