about Rutherford B Hayes & the telephone

[dogtowner]

seems BO once again got it wrong

amid much laughter and fawning the smartest guy in the rooms said

There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don’t believe in the future, and don’t believe in trying to do things differently. One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, “It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?” [Laughter.] That’s why he’s not on Mount Rushmore — [laughter and applause] — because he’s looking backwards. He’s not looking forwards. [Applause.] He’s explaining why we can’t do something, instead of why we can do something.

I guess we could say he doesn't get satire or just be honest and admit he's an affirmative action token.

It fell to Nan Card of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Ohio to inform the website Talking Points Memo that the quotation was apocryphal. Hayes had the first telephone in the White House, and the first typewriter, and Edison visited him to demonstrate the phonograph.

Mark Styen makes an excellent point with the title of this article:

Obama’s History Lesson
Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously.

 

[Gipper]

seems BO once again got it wrong

amid much laughter and fawning the smartest guy in the rooms said



I guess we could say he doesn't get satire or just be honest and admit he's an affirmative action token.



Mark Styen makes an excellent point with the title of this article:

Obama’s History Lesson
Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously.

Obama presents strawman arguments in every speech he gives. Even more than our beloved Pockets can post here. How anyone could believe a word BO says, it beyond me?

This is a concise depiction of BO's beliefs and many libs believe it too. From the article....

But obviously Rutherford B. Hayes isn’t as “forward-looking” as a 21st-century president who believes in Jimmy Carter malaise, 1970s Eurostatist industrial policy, 1940s British health-care reforms, 1930s New Deal–sized entitlements premised on mid-20th-century birth rates and life expectancy, and all paid for by a budget with more zeroes than anybody’s seen since the Weimar Republic. If that’s not a shoo-in for Mount Rushmore, I don’t know what is.