Obama's Cars

In tonight's Presidential address to Congress, Mr. Obama referred to automobiles as an American invention. Actually, most historians credit the first internal combustion engined automobile to Karl Benz of Germany. Steam-engined cars are said to have preceded this and was the brainchild of a Frenchman. Henry Ford was an American whose contribution was the introduction of the assembly line; he made automobiles widely available to the masses.

At least it's not like our Prez lays claim to inventing any widespread commodity.