<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BuckeyeFarmer @ Feb 24 2009, 09:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
President Obama gave his first State of the Union address and I just love this analysis of his speech and his promises.

State of the Union speech analysis[/b]
Of course you would love it......now ask yourself how often you looked into fact check when Bush was in office?

Here are two of the facts that they checked.....Wow Obama like the rest of Amercia thinks Henry Ford was the inventor. Maybe we could all learn something.

Next if you or anyone else does not think we have a problem with low oil reserves 3% and high consumption close to 25% then you stick to posting nitpicking points if you think that problem is not real. No damn wonder we are where we are.


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&#39;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.

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OBAMA: "We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before."

THE FACTS: Oil imports peaked in 2005 at just over 5 billion barrels, and have been declining slightly since. The figure in 2007 was 4.9 billion barrels, or about 58 percent of total consumption. The nation is on pace this year to import 4.7 billion barrels, and government projections are for imports to hold steady or decrease a bit over the next two decades.