In what will surely be seen as a provocative move by the new administration, President Barack Obama announced last night in a televised address to the U.S. Congress that all inventions of note from at least the last 200 years will now be credited to Americans.
The president revealed last evening that credit for the invention of the automobile will be transferred from one Karl Benz of Germany to an unspecified American. In the president's words: "...the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
Karl Who?
"Look, if credit for its invention happens to fall in our pocket and we forget about it until we get home from the inventions store, then, you know, it's all good," Obama did not continue.
It is widely assumed credit will eventually be awarded to Henry Ford, or possibly Kato Kaelin.
In related news, the Obama administration has laid out an aggressive agenda for the re-assignment of credit for the diesel engine, the pretzel, pants, asparagus-breath, elaborately engineered eyeglasses, Heidi Klum and darkness from Germany to their rightful home of the US of A. As a token of gratitude, the Obama administration if offering Germany credit for Oxi-Clean.
mtakahashi says:
09:04 AM, 02/25/09
Don't forget the ShamWow!
"It comes from Germany...You know the Germans always make good stuff."
flicmod says:
09:16 AM, 02/25/09
LOL. Great post.
g8gtnorth says:
10:20 AM, 02/25/09
Classic post
rick8365 says:
10:34 AM, 02/25/09
good stuff...thanks for the laugh.
ctpax says:
11:11 AM, 02/25/09
OMG, not another Bush...
altimadude00 says:
11:25 AM, 02/25/09
The French had to have come up with The Clapper.
mycatcroaked says:
11:50 AM, 02/25/09
According to the Library of Congress, the inventor of the first true automobile was probably Germany'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 the first successful gas-powered car in 1893. Henry Ford created the first assembly line that made cars affordable and would only get credit for the development of mass automobile production.
And it's Barack (not Barak) in case anyone wants to know.
albook says:
01:39 PM, 02/26/09
Well I dind't hear the speech but if this is the only thing people have to critique, Obama muct have done a good job. I bet no one would object if he said Heidi Klum was American...