OMG: AP at it again, pans Obamas speech

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Wednesday February 25, 2009 · 11:00 AM PST

2009/02/25 · 11:00

Once again, Republican shills at the Associated Press, on the day after our president gave what is universally recognized as one of the greatest and most important addresses of the past 100 years, launch a nit-picking fusillade of hair splitting, distortions, and outright lies.

Get this for the AP's idea of just how bone-headed Obama's speech really was:

OBAMA: "And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."

THE FACTS: Depends what your definition of automobiles, is. According to the Library of Congress, the inventor of the first true automobile was probably Germany's Karl Benz, who created the first auto powered by an internal combustion gasoline engine, in 1885 or 1886. In the U.S., Charles Duryea tested what library researchers called the first successful gas-powered car in 1893. Nobody disputes that Henry Ford created the first assembly line that made cars affordable.

http://news.yahoo.com/...

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 7:11 PM PST

2009/01/18 · 19:11

Today on Meet the Press, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin distilled the essence of what makes Obama a new kind of president:

I think the great thing about Lincoln is not only what he did--which Obama has also tried in some ways to emulate by putting powerful people around him who are going to argue and question him, so he's going to get a lot of options--it's who Lincoln was. There's no better person to summon the spirit of than somebody who had the emotional intelligence of Abraham Lincoln, and I think we see hints of it in Obama: not wanting to demonize the opposition, bringing people like David Brooks and other people around him to--and Reverend Warren in, who may not agree with him on all occasions, but wants to listen to them.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

We are all so proud right now, of our party, of our country and our president elect, but this passage captures something more important that the obvious changes of the Obama election: we are entering a new era of politics, and ushering in a new generation of politicians.

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 7:09 PM PDT

2008/09/06 · 19:09

In the Jan. 30 debate John McCain famously made the political error of answering a hypothetical question. When asked whether he would support the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, McCain responded:

"No, I would not, because we know what the situation is today. The people want the borders secured first."

This prerogative to "secure the border first" finds its origin in Newt Gingrich's "Citizen United" ad of June 2007, in which Gingrich gives us the much-touted "amnesty" meme, stating:

Amnesty makes our laws meaningless and invites millions more to cross the border illegally – making the problem worse. Not better. The new McCain-Kennedy immigration plan does not secure our borders, and it does not protect our values.
http://www.factcheck.org/...

There is much that is not true in this statement. Border security can be provided through steel, concrete, and razor wire, or it can be provided through legal remedy and common sense. The latter approach is much cheaper and in closer keeping with true American values.

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Thursday August 07, 2008 · 7:09 PM PDT

2008/08/07 · 19:09

The AP just picked up a week-old story in which Prince George's Country police raided the home of a local mayor in a bizarre case of identity theft, and shot his dogs dead:

Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...

This was by no means the first time the PG police have violated its citizens.

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