Yes, it’s Lincoln’s Intercontinental Railroad:
“Listen, Abraham Lincoln helped to build the interstate… intercontinental railroad in the middle of the Civil War”.
Jump to 56 seconds before the end (timer counts down):
1) The TRANSCONTINENTAL railroad was completed in 1869, 4 years after both the War and Lincoln ended
2) It was done by private companies. To haul freight. For profit.
6 second audio clip here:
[audio:http://www.imao.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Obama-Intercontinental-Railroad.mp3]Ya know, I thought it odd that TMJ4, who did the interview, deliberately chose not to make the video embeddable. Guess they were afraid Obama’s idiocy would go viral.
Welcome to the internet, TMJ4.
UPDATE: Oh God… it’s not even the first time he’s said it.
UPDATE 2: And at a commencement address at University of Michigan in May of 2010…
Lincoln built the intercontinental railroad just like Obama’s uncle liberated Auschwitz.
Y-you’re just jealous because you’ll never be as great as Obama!
Lincoln was know as an accomplished rail splitter. I always figured it was wood fence rails he split. Guess I was wrong – must have been iron rails. What a man!
He’s not really wrong this time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
True, it wasn’t intercontinental. But that’s just mis-speaking.
David – by giving government-owned land to a private company. Funny how Obama’s high-speed rail plan would require generous use of eminent domain, which is exactly the opposite.
And it’s not misspeaking. Obama’s been using the term for at least 2 years and nobody’s called him on it.
Funny, the only time that idiot Bush used the phrase, it was in an Onion parody:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-challenges-america-to-produce-the-perfect-rom,1330/
show me any passenger rail service that turned a profit. a 53 billion investment. if tickets cost $1,000 it would only take 5.3 millon people to break even. so if 1 million people a year ride then it will only take a little over 5 years to start turning a profit. fail proof plan. Joey B will be the first rider I’m sure
Seriously, when you attend a posh high school and an Ivy league college you would expect to get something in the way of education there. Of course maybe like in todays high schools all of the history teachers are either “Ward Churchillites” or coaches.
Why let the facts derail (pun, pun, pun, pun) a good speech or reason to spend billions of Americans hard earned cash.
Damn, I wish I could afford a Harvard education.
Well, someone wrote it down for him, obviously, because he was sure checking him some note cards.
Paul: Maybe he was using a TelePrompTer app on his iPhone.
We all knew he was an idiot. He has proved it time and again. Why be surprised when he proves it again? It is starting to be predictable .
I think what makes this funny for me is that throughout my formative years the word “intercontinental” was most often followed by “ballistic missile”. That brings to mind an image more humorous than just a bridge across the bearing strait.
This (for what it’s worth) is according to Wikipedia…The railroad was motivated in part to bind the eastern and western states of the United States together. The Central Pacific started work in 1863. Due to competition with the War for workers, rails, ties, railroad engines and supplies, the Union Pacific RR did not start construction until July 1865. The official “date of completion” of the Transcontinental Railroad is November 6, 1869.
I stand corrected.
He did the same thing when comparing the US Postal Service to Fed-Ex.
I don’t care! I hear that this train is going to go like 2,000 mph or something! If so, I want to ride that bad boy! I could go from New York to California in 2.5 hours! Hey…I hate New York and California…so why would I ride a train all that way? So I could jump on at Minneapolis – although at 2,000 mph I’m not sure how they will board us. Possibly teleportation like Star Trek or something? I just hope I don’t get beamed into the engine or something where I have the cylinders beating the snot out of me for two hours! That would like, suck!
I think Obama is dreaming about the Supertrain TV Series from 1979. Supertrain was atomic powered, went 200 MPH, and had its own indoor pool. It cost NBC a bootload of money and lasted about 7 weeks.
There’s a longer clip from the Today Show that has Tom Brokaw doing a perfect impersonation of Chevy Chase as he tries to hype the show. The clip also has a guest appearance from the late Dandy Don Meredith.
Harvey, when you get the chance and inclination, please moderate my comment. Mebbe it was the two links I used, or it could have been my reference to Dandy Don Meredith, which we all know are blacklisted words for IMAO.
This little fink was probably too busy sipping wine with some cushy domestic terrorist guy to even watch the stinking History Channel.
As re-election insurance, Obama has re-designated many of our advanced weapons as Continental Ballistic Missiles.
Sadly, Lincoln’s plan for the intercontinental
railroad was never accomplished.
He hoped that it would be completed
by the time that the team he founded in 1860,
the Harlem Globetrotters, invented a sport for tall men
that was worthy of trotting around the globe.
Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway act which provided federal funding for the construction of a transcontinental railroad in 1891.
Still, if liberals are going to waste our tax dollars on SOMETHING, it might as well be on something cool like a lightning fast supertrain.
If liberals are going to waste our tax dollars on SOMETHING, it ought to be on rope to hang themselves with.
// Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway act which provided federal funding for the construction of a transcontinental railroad in 1891.//
Wow, that’s an awesome trick considering that Lincoln was assassinated April, 14, 1865, 26 years before 1891. Yes I know that your talking about the “Golden Spike” moment of 1891 but others may not. He signed the Pacific Railway Act that provided some, SOME federal funding, not a majority, not a controlling interest and not a government subsidy in 1862. Men like J Pierpoint Morgan, Vanderbuilt, Huntington, Stanford and Durant used their own money and money from investors to build rail lines that provided the engine for the US economy for more than a century.
Name me one organization or entity that the federal government has been successful running, or even overseeing.
Post office
NASA
Homeland Security
Medicade/Medicare
VA
Fanny and Freddy
and so many more.
If the governments involved one can guarantee bad service, high cost, low morale and waste, waste, waste. Time to pull the plug and take out the trash.
But he’s telling the truth! Lincoln himself designed the Intercontinental Railroad to connect with the Underground Railroad at Conjunction Junction to ferry escaping slaves to the railroad’s terminus at Calais, France. You would not believe how many Chinese workers they went through while tunneling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
And now Precedent Stupid wants to build high-speed rail at gov’t expense so people can get to the unemployment/welfare office in a fraction of the time it takes now.
How considerate.
Vote Democrat party
The CouRage to run away.
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Why is this so hard? Is it just to avoid the unasked questions?
Obama said he had been to 57 states AND HAD ONE MORE TO GO TO! AND…AND was not allowed to go to Alaska and Hawaii.
The total is 60 states, not 57. The un-asked question(s): WHY was he not allowed to his “home” state”? BY WHOM was he forbidden to go there?