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March 17, 2012
That "Rutherford Hayes" Speech by "The Smartest Man in the Tomb"
The president sneers at the ignorance of 15th-century Spaniards, when in fact he is the one entirely ignorant of them.A man who has enjoyed a million dollars of elite education yet has never created a dime of wealth in his life sneers at a crippled farm boy with an eighth-grade schooling who establishes a successful business and introduces electrical distribution across Michigan all the way up to Sault Ste. Marie. A man who sneers at one of the pioneering women in broadcasting, a lady who brought the voices of T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, and others into the farthest-flung classrooms and would surely have rejected Obama’s own dismal speech as being too obviously reliant on “Half-a-Dozen Surefire Cheap Cracks for Lazy Public Speakers.” A man whose own budget officials predict the collapse of the entire U.S. economy by 2027 sneers at a solvent predecessor for being insufficiently “forward-looking.” -- Obama’s History Lesson - Mark Steyn
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 17, 2012 10:45 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Best social-network comment so far, on the latest entry into the anals of Obama fuck-ups:
"Please, Obama's doing the best he can w/ the mess he inherited from Rutherford B. Hayes."
I LOL'd.
Posted by: Morgan K Freeberg at March 18, 2012 6:05 AM
I love how Rutherford B. Hayes has become the latest hot internet meme. Who would have predicted it?
Giving credit where it's due, I suppose we have Obama to thank for that.
Posted by: rickl at March 18, 2012 4:54 PM