Our President builds a Railroad

[samfp1943]

Murphy Siding

 

samfp1943:

 

Yesterday, President Obama, traveled to the Cincinnati,Ohio and Covington, Ky area to showcase the planned reconstruction of the Spence Bridge over the Ohio River. 

 

  Isn't this the bridge that ConcivtedOne thinks needs to be repainted by CSX?

 

 

 

Murphy Siding;

 He Said:  Leaving no stone unturned!

[Murphy Siding]

samfp1943

Yesterday, President Obama, traveled to the Cincinnati,Ohio and Covington, Ky area to showcase the planned reconstruction of the Spence Bridge over the Ohio River. 

  Isn't this the bridge that ConcivtedOne thinks needs to be repainted by CSX?

[Victrola1]

When I read this, I filed it under fluff by commenting at Siberian Tunnel thread.

[chutton01]

Bucyrus

What exactly is the topic?

President Obama said "Intercontinental" instead of "Transcontinential"
Note that although the LA Times may or may not be considered friendly to the Obama Admistration, Andrew Malcolm has been fairly hostile to Obama for a long time now.

That's about it, really.

[Anonymous]

I am not concerned about the gaffe whatsoever.  Here is the speech:

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-gaffe-jobs-act-speech-brent-spence-bridge-ohio.html

 

 

The premise is that we have people who need jobs and things that need doing.  Therefore, put the people who need jobs to work doing the things that need doing. 

 

The problem is that it does no good to enrich some people with a livelihood if sucking the money out of the economy to do so puts other people out of work. 

 

I would say a lot more, but I don’t want get political.

[mudchicken]

He got it from his dim bulb Transportation Secretary who said the same thing in front of a room full of railroaders in Minneapolis on Monday (including me).

[Phoebe Vet]

As long as it stays on topic it should be OK, but the topic will be irresistible bait for people with strong political opinions.

[PNWRMNM]

Samfp

I aint gona touch it,

Mac McCulloch

[samfp1943]

Yesterday, President Obama, traveled to the Cincinnati,Ohio and Covington, Ky area to showcase the planned reconstruction of the Spence Bridge over the Ohio River.

Interestingly, he read the following comment:  ""We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad," Barack Obama."

This was taken from a Los  Angeles Times

story by Andrew Malcolm

posted :   September 23, 2011 |  5:24 am

FTA:'...That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.

A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge!..."

FTA:"...Now, we used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in America. We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad, the Interstate Highway System. We built the Hoover Dam. We built the Grand Central Station.

So how can we now sit back and let China build the best railroads?  And let Europe build the best highways?  And have Singapore build a nicer airport?..."

 

I thought this was an interesting and unusual article and take on our President from what is usually thought to be a newspaper that is or has been considered in his 'camp'.  The whole article is an interesting reading of who/how our President seems to view history, and railroads. He being a major force behind the current  HSR Train movement in this Country.

In posting this, I am curious what the 'take away' is currently here among our posters.  Hope it can be commented on without getting it locked up.