Just Plain Wrong
Obama was wrong on many things in tonight’s speech but there was one whopper that stood head and shoulders above the rest. He said:
I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
The trouble is we didn’t invent it. I assume he is referring to Henry Ford. But Henry Ford was simply the first to mass produce automobiles. He was not the automobile’s inventor. As is often the case, there are multiple claims and multiple contributors to the invention (Henry Ford is not even one of those) but the distinction usually goes to Karl Benz.