Obama The Ignorant

Go back a thousand years in English history and you will encounter King Ethelred the Unready. What we read today as "Unready" translates to "ill-advised" or "uncounseled" in Old English. However we translate it, Ethelred was unable to stop decades of Viking raids from washing over his kingdom. It got so bad he ran to Normandy in 1013 and stayed there for a year.

We don't have a thousand years of history to explore for such a character. Lucky for us, we don't have to go back a day because Obama the Ignorant is with us. OTR has documented Obama's remarkable lack of even basic knowledge of American history over the past two and a half years. Just think, my friends, we have at least two more years to experience this product of Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School in action. OTR expects to see far more executive ignorance coming from the White House and its "ill advisers."

The latest example comes from Obama's already infamous interview yesterday with a local television reporter from Texas. In that interview, Obama made this statement:

Texas has always been a pretty Republican state for, you know, historic reasons.

Scott Johnson, blogging at Power Line, nailed this unbelievable ignorance today. Taking one point from Johnson, OTR will remind his readers that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a liberal Democrat from Texas.

Obama was a political science major at Columbia. Who would guess? Maybe he was just ill-advised.

UPDATE: Instapundit has commentary and a link at how vulnerable Obama is speaking in a truly public forum.