Thursday, August 8, 2013

Don't Know Much Geography

Mary Katherine Ham, blogging on the well-known Hot Air site, concerning President Obama's comments to Jay Leno about improving U.S. ports to take advantage of the widening of the Panama Canal. Obama told Leno:
If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we’ll lose jobs. Businesses won’t locate here.
Of course, none of those three ports is located on the Gulf; all are on the Atlantic Ocean. Two of the three mentioned states have no Gulf coast whatsoever. A sampling of Gulf ports, Mr. President, would include Tampa, Mobile, Biloxi, New Orleans, Galveston/Houston, and Corpus Christi.

Obama is rumored to be a college graduate; I guess he left the teleprompter at home. If you go to the Hot Air site linked above you can watch him say those very (wrong) words for yourself.