That’s a reference to Ms. Streisand’s classic mistake of using a cool-sounding Shakespeare ‘quote’ that she apparently found on the Internet without checking it to see whether it was, in fact, correct. Which it wasn’t; and that particular example is probably a major reason why Ms. Streisand has done us all the favor of not airing out her political opinions lately. Personally, I’m grateful.
But I digress.
At any rate, President Obama, while making what was apparently a rather lackluster rally speech* for his health care debacle, used this ‘Lincoln’ quote:
I have the great pleasure of having a really nice library at the White House. And I was tooling through some of the writings of some previous Presidents and I came upon this quote by Abraham Lincoln: “I am not bound to win, but I’m bound to be true. I’m not bound to succeed, but I’m bound to live up to what light I have.”
…which, as NRO Corner notes, is actually listed here as being incorrect.
Of course, this should be easy to check: all the President has to do is tell us what book he got it out of. Although I should note that Brainy Quote won’t count…
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Crossposted to Moe Lane.
*H/T Instapundit.
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NickDeringer (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 12:48AM EDT (link)Vote no on ObamaCare.
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Obama's got no street cred.
SoFiMil (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 12:52AM EDT (link)Anyone who trusts him is a fool.
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This guy is the biggest pseudo-intellectual in government
bannedtroll Sunday, March 21st at 1:24AM EDT (link)A temporary, part-time Constitutional professor at U Chicago, yet he published nothing. We can’t even get access to so much as a school thesis, much less his grades. I’d love to get the opportunity to examine something we know he has written since “Dreams of My Father” has been purportedly ghostwritten by Bill Ayers. Get him off the prompter and he sounds like a bumbling fool. This guy is such a fraud.
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.
A good reporter would retort with another Lincoln quote
GregInFla (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 1:26AM EDT (link)From those in your diary, such as any of the famous “Cannot quotes”. Obama would not be so fond of those, I believe. Please scroll up and read them all.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
And to be clear, and not to pull a Barbra, even thought Lincoln may
GregInFla (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 1:30AM EDT (link)not have said the “Cannot Quotes”, it does not make the statements themselves any less true.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
Of course it affects the statements' credibility!
Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 3:47AM EDT (link)If Obama intended the words to stand on their own, he need only have not attributed them to one of our most revered Presidents.
In assigning them to Lincoln, falsely, he attempts to invoke Lincoln’s legacy – the same effect as the “appeal to authority” logical fallacy. Presidents have nearly unlimited resources in vetting a speech, far more than the average speaker who we would hold to a higher standard. He had to know this was not a Lincoln quote.
I suppose it might be argued he is just too dumb to be responsible for whatever nonsense comes out of his mouth, but wasn’t this straight off the Teleprompter?
How about "you can fool all of the people some of the time..."
Next93 (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 9:21AM EDT (link)N/T
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
obama can not speak without lying. He makes me ill.NT
bobojake (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 1:29AM EDT (link)I wasn't his fault
RedBeard Sunday, March 21st at 8:31AM EDT (link)It was his teleprompter that made the mistake. Big O was just passing the words along. As usual.
Hey, maybe we have found a career for Obama after he gets booted from office in 2012. He reads teleprompters with ease, he looks well groomed (or “clean” as Joe Biden called him), he’s completely empty-headed on facts, long on left-wing bias, and enjoys making boatloads of money for doing nothing (like not writing his own books)….. I think we’ve found the next host of the CBS Evening News!
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
It's not that he can't quote Lincoln that bothers me...
Next93 (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 9:20AM EDT (link)It’s that he seems to be channeling Marx that scares me a whole lot more.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.