Obama Talks Out of His Ass (I Know, I Know)

As the Powerline guys point out, Obama appears not to know crap about basic facts concerning these United States.  To be fair, maybe when he said "Gulf Ports" he meant 'ports within, say, three or four states of the Gulf.'  Who knows.

Anyway, check out the video clip where he appears to sound like he knows what he is talking about, i.e. the ostensible need to invest in expanding and upgrading port infrastructure in places like Savannah to adjust to new economic realities like the widening of the Panama Canal.

Um, er, except that this is already being done.  The city fathers of Savannah and the state of Georgia is already on it, Mr. Lightworker.

Four massive new ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal today, bringing the total number of electric-powered container cranes to 25 – the most of any single terminal in the U.S. 

“These new super-post Panamax cranes further enhance the cargo handling efficiency at the fourth-busiest container terminal in the nation,” said GPA Executive Director Curtis Foltz. “Combined with the largest single container terminal in North America and two Class I railroads on site, these cranes will make the customer experience even smoother.” 

Of the GPA’s current fleet of cranes, nine are post-Panamax (accommodating the largest vessels capable of transiting the Panama Canal) and 16 are super post-Panamax (for vessels too large to transit Panama). The cranes operate over a dock featuring 9,700 feet of contiguous berth space.

The arrival of the new super post-Panamax cranes fulfills an order the GPA placed with Konecranes in 2011. The crane purchase, along with the planned Savannah Harbor deepening, anticipates a move in the world fleet toward larger ships.

 What a doofus.