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Title: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Viking on September 22, 2009, 08:29:00 AM: http://www.cracked.com/blog/history-texbook-from-the-future-holy-*expletive deleted*it/
I lol'd a bit :laugh:.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: BryanP on September 22, 2009, 08:42:42 AM: Now that's funny.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Iain on September 22, 2009, 08:47:35 AM: The sidebar on pg 138 :)
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: MechAg94 on September 22, 2009, 09:45:22 AM: No mention about hundreds of speeches about health care?

"Charlie Sheen? No, really, Charlie Sheen?" :D
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Silver Bullet on September 22, 2009, 09:54:55 AM: 245 days down, 1216 days to go.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: ilbob on September 22, 2009, 10:21:05 AM: Seriously, a lot depends on who wins the elections in the future. If the left wins, it is almost certain they will make every effort to write and re-write history to suit themselves.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: lee n. field on September 22, 2009, 11:22:41 AM: Quote from: Silver Bullet on September 22, 2009, 09:54:55 AM
245 days down, 1216 days to go.

"A time, times, and half a time. (http://obamaclock.org)"

(For those of you not up on your bible, that's the repeated refrain in John's Apocalypse for how long bad end times things persist. Three and a half years.)
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: mellestad on September 22, 2009, 12:05:29 PM: Lol, I love cracked.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: longeyes on September 22, 2009, 12:17:27 PM: Whoever wins the history books of the future will look like tele-novelas or, who knows, those Japanese S&M comic books.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: charby on September 22, 2009, 03:15:42 PM: Quote from: lee n. field on September 22, 2009, 11:22:41 AM
"A time, times, and half a time. (http://obamaclock.org)"

(For those of you not up on your bible, that's the repeated refrain in John's Apocalypse for how long bad end times things persist. Three and a half years.)

Well we are getting close to 12-21-2012.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Silver Bullet on September 22, 2009, 11:10:02 PM: Quote from: charby on September 22, 2009, 03:15:42 PM
Well we are getting close to 12-21-2012.

But we're waaaaay closer to 10-10-2010. =)
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 23, 2009, 11:30:14 AM: Quote from: ilbob on September 22, 2009, 10:21:05 AM
Seriously, a lot depends on who wins the elections in the future. If the left wins, it is almost certain they will make every effort to write and re-write history to suit themselves.

They will do that regardless, until they lose academia.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: HankB on October 01, 2009, 02:12:33 PM: "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon Bonapart

"History, Sir, will lie." Gen. John Burgoyne

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell

Or perhaps the most apropos . . .

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." - Dan Quayle
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: Standing Wolf on October 01, 2009, 04:52:29 PM: Quote
They will do that regardless, until they lose academia.

You beat me to it, Fistful.
Title: Re: What the history text books of the future will say about Obama
Post by: MicroBalrog on October 01, 2009, 07:43:16 PM: Quote from: HankB on October 01, 2009, 02:12:33 PM
quotes

I'll see your quotes and raise you one:

‘They will not say that Belgium invaded Germany.’ ~~ Clemenceau