Posted by
Dennis Pemberton on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:24:27 AM
To justify spending tax dollars to kill embryos to make our lives better, President Obama said yesterday that "
Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident." I know that he's the smartest President ever, much smarter than that dolt Bush, but the depth of his ignorance of history is breathtaking. Probably the greatest medical miracle, penicillin, was discovered by a guy who didn't clean his petri dish. Quinine, the miracle treatment for malaria, was discovered by a thirsty Andean with a fever. The discovery of smallpox vaccination was initiated by a milkmaid who noticed that people who got cowpox didn't get smallpox. Roentgen discovered x-rays quite by accident while noodling around with cathode rays.
He's either ignorant of history, or thinks you are, and is trying to fool you. I think it is actually a large measure of both. But man, can he read a teleprompter!