Political & Elections

SamuraiLandshark · Guru

RE: Obama's "Flat Earth" comments

soccerguy315 · Guru

hope · Guru

Oh good . That sounds like fun.Let's start with memorial day, 2008, when he saw " many of our unbroken line of fallen heroes" in the audience. Roflol.

john doe · Guru

Whether he knows american history or not is irrelevant to the statements made in regards to his flat earth comments. They have nothing to do with american history so I really don't understand your responses. Perhaps you should start another thread entitled: Obama doesn't know American History.

john doe · Guru

"If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society," he said. "They would not have believed that the world was round."

Let's look at this statement to see what Obama was getting at. First when Columbus set sail, there were people who believed that the earth was flat and while much of the scientific world may have believed otherwise, the typical uneducated peasant who hadn't traveled past their village thought otherwise. Secondly there is a Flat Earth Society today. The point that Obama was making was that contrary to accepted scientific dogma, there are ignoramuses who do not accept scientific evidence in regards to anything. Unlike the ignorant villager 500 years ago who had an excuse for his ignorance, these morons who do not believe in evolution, believe the earth is 6000 years old or that there isn't any man made climate change refuse to believe the scientific evidence staring them in the face.

hope · Guru

Sorry, john doe, in my considered opinion, Obama has evidenced no interest in, and no knowledge of, American history.

I believe he sees this country as something that has to be fixed, and that he believes he is the one to do it. This view is really not that much of a stretch, nor idiotic, if one considers his affiliation with Dr. Jeremiah Wright, and Dr. Derrick Bell.

Imo, what is idiotic, is that we are called upon to believe that all this (including his allegiences and interests at Columbia), don't point to a certain interest in the struggle. We just have to close our eyes and block or ears, hear nothing, see nothing, and love love Obama (and he loves us back!!!!).

On another note, the SWAG exhibited by Pres O at the whatever basketball game eating hotdogs with the Prime Minister was enough to make one vomit. As was his exhibition at Prince George's Community College (even worse, actually).

-- Edited by hope on Sunday 18th of March 2012 05:38:30 PM

longprime · Guru

Nasa may be correct. However in the 1950's I and sibs were taught, that flat earth was the accepted view evidenced by era maps.

john doe · Guru

What an idiotic response to Obama's flat earth comments.

hope · Guru

Obama demonstrated an off putting quality of intellectual arrogance that is not backed up by an intellect. Before he makes another faulty historical analogy, he would be advised to take a remedial course in history.

Obama doesn't care about America's history--unless it's about the struggle.

winchester · Guru

One also wonders what other things the president knows that aren't so.

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SamuraiLandshark · Guru

Obama Demonstrates History Impairment with 'Flat Earth' Remark

By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 20 hrs ago

COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama, speaking to an audience at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., compared Republicans who look askance at his alternative energy schemes to people who believe that Earth is flat, according to Politico.

In so doing, Obama demonstrated a certain ignorance of history.

"If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society," he said. "They would not have believed that the world was round."

Actually, in 1492, the round Earth was an accepted fact and had been since the time of Aristotle,according to an education page maintained by NASA. People who opposed Columbus did so because they thought he had underestimated the size of the Earth, meaning that his fleet would not have reached Asia before running out of provisions. It turned out, those people were right. However, the Americas happened to be in the way between Europe and Asia.

One has to wonder at the value of the education Obama got at Columbia if he adheres to that common misconception. Or perhaps one should not be surprised since, according to a story in the New York Sun, a study conducted by Intercollegiate Studies Institute found that students at Ivy League institutions of learning score low on exams testing history knowledge.

One also wonders what other things the president knows that aren't so.

Obama also mischaracterized the nature of the opposition to his green-energy schemes. Most Republicans do not object to alternate-energy research. They do object to the president's war on fossil fuels that provide the bulk of America's energy needs in the year 2012.

Newt Gingrich, for example, suggests opening up land and offshore leases for oil and gas development and using the royalties paid to the government to finance alternate energy research.

The "they laughed at Columbus" is an interesting gambit. However all has to do is to respond, "They laughed at Donald Duck as well."

Obama demonstrated an off putting quality of intellectual arrogance that is not backed up by an intellect. Before he makes another faulty historical analogy, he would be advised to take a remedial course in history.

-- Edited by SamuraiLandshark on Friday 16th of March 2012 04:25:24 PM