Nice attempt to rewrite history,

Actually JM, I'm not trying to rewrite history, just picking it (snark on me)

but the reality is that the left already had Bush labeled and pegged as an idiot before 9-11

Absolutely correct, but quite beside the point I was trying to make (I definitely mis-stated in an effort to make a point, my bad). The point I was trying to make is that in a time of crises, we (americans, MSM) tend to give our leaders a break. We overlook their flaws. As I said before:I don't recall any one calling Bush an "idiot" in the first few months after 9/11.

That was the thrust of my comment, in the rest I was trying to say that as this economic crises fades, there will be plenty of fault finding with Obama.

Well, an additional reality is that they made a correct assessment...

Even if that were true, tom p would still be wrong.

but the reality is that the left already had Bush labeled and pegged as an idiot before 9-11

Well, an additional reality is that they made a correct assessment...

he's going after what people feel, rather than the facts of the thing

Spoken like someone who's intellectual growth never move far beyond reading Ayn Rand as a young man...

but he used the bible to figure out that the earth wasn't flat by reading it.

Columbus got the circumference of the earth completely wrong, when his contemporaries had is remarkably right. I don't think you really want to go making the Bible responsible for his mistakes.

False facts such as Columbus proved the earth wasn't flat, etc.

but he used the bible to figure out that the earth wasn't flat by reading it.

Obama didn't make a mistake. He is painting with a large brush

No, he made a mistake. You can argue about why he made the mistake, but it was still a mistake. Unless he was talking about Germany, which I find unlikely.

Actually, he won the 1921 Nobel prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect

Okay, so I was off by a decade, I was pulling from memory.

not for the special and general theories of relativity--which surprised the hell out of me when I first read it, esp. given that general relativity had received observational verification in 1919.

Physics belonged to the quantum theory in those days, and relativity didn't (and still doesn't) play nice with quantum theory.

Not sure where you were during the 2000 election cycle, but I remember Bush being labeled an idiot during the election cycle and several of the Bushisms books coming out right around the time of his first innaugaration.

Nice attempt to rewrite history, but the reality is that the left already had Bush labeled and pegged as an idiot before 9-11 and they stuck to that story and every miss step and flub was one more mark in the "proof he is an idiot" column. Obama, because he hasn't had the idiot label hung on him gets a free pass or the "he was over tired" excuse when he flubs things up.

Shoot with regard to the car,. he can just blame his speech writers and a lack of care to detail on his part.

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But only God makes Solar Energy!

Technically, solar energy was not "invented" by anybody. It was first harnessed by somebody.

If Bush had said them, they'd be all over late-night television and CNN and MSNBC would be dissecting how stupid he was.

Uhhhh, a little perspective is helpful: I don't recall any one calling Bush an "idiot" in the first few months after 9/11. Even after they began to acknowledge he was an idiot, he was our idiot, and then he was considered a lovable idiot. It took a while before everybody finally admitted that, "No, he's just an idiot."

Don't worry, soon enuf Obama won't get any slack for this kind of stuff (watch the Daily Show lately? They can be just as vicious to Obama)

Einstein wrote about the photoelectric effect in the 1920s.

Actually, he won the 1921 Nobel prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, and not for the special and general theories of relativity--which surprised the hell out of me when I first read it, esp. given that general relativity had received observational verification in 1919.