Here's a few:
Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12. (My note: Before the tornado hit, Greensburg had just 1,500 residents) Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole."Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois? (My note: Four days ago I drove through the part of Missiouri that divides Arkansas from Kentucky, the "boot heal" of Missouri. Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama's Dreams from My Father: "Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don't exist, say the magazine's own historians."
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Oh, c'mon, man!
ReplyDeleteYou can't expect Mr. Perfect to keep track of such silly-assed notions as math, geography, US History, civil rights, tornadic casualties and/or periodicals -- not to mention his own family tree do you?
I think you might be raising the bar a little too high for the poor fella.
Who ever said that his vision of Hope and Change needed to be predicated on facts?
In the words of Homer Simpson:
ReplyDelete"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true. Facts, shmacts."
To the owner of this blog, how far youve come?
ReplyDeleteLove your articles, but the best gaffe has to be when he said in Oregon that he has been in about 50 something states. When will this Messiah madness end. When will people wake up, this guy is such a fake, so arrogant and just plain mean, only in the nbicest way!!!
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