He'll never learn! President Algy Solyndra Obama’s History Lesson

A man who has enjoyed a million dollars of elite education yet has never created a dime of wealth in his life sneers at a crippled farm boy with an eighth-grade schooling who establishes a successful business...
Obama’s own dismal speech [was] too obviously reliant on “Half-a-Dozen Surefire Cheap Cracks for Lazy Public Speakers.”

Obama’s History Lesson - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously.
MARCH 17, 2012  By Mark Steyn

Our lesson for today comes from George and Ira Gershwin:
     They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
     When he said the world was round
     They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
     They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
     When they said that man could fly
     They told Marconi wireless was a phony . . .
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sang it in the film Shall We Dance? (1937). Seventy-five years on, the president revived it to tap dance around his rising gas prices and falling approval numbers. Delivering his big speech on energy at Prince George’s Community College, he insisted the American economy will be going gangbusters again just as soon as we start running it on algae and windmills. He noted that, as with Wilbur and his brother, there were those inclined to titter:
Let me tell you something. If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail — [Laughter] — they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society. [Laughter.] They would not have believed that the world was round. [Applause.] We’ve heard these folks in the past. They probably would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who said, “Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.” [Laughter.] One of Henry Ford’s advisers was quoted as saying, “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a fad.” [Laughter.]
The crowd loved it. But President Algy Solyndra wasn’t done:
There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don’t believe in the future, and don’t believe in trying to do things differently. One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, “It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?”