Quote of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on July 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.”
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My two quotes of the day:
John Stewart (paraphrasing): “Obama’s visiting Bethlehem to see the place where he was born”.
And: “Tomorrow his tour takes him to France. In a scene Lance would recognize, a throng of adoring fans awaits Senator Obama in Paris – and that’s just the American press.””
amerpundit on July 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Really getting sick of this fraud Omama.
Texyank on July 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Uhhh… whats that Cocoa Puff on the left side of his face, it looks malignant? 8^|
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
We have a few additions…
* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audiences - Check
* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise - Check
* Creates his own new symbols of power - Check
* Associates with racists, hatemongers and violent radicals - Check
* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light - Check
* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations - Check (see German campaign poster for example)
* Wants Secret Police force - Check
* Somebody powerful people think they can control - Check
* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents - Check
* Seeks to replace God with the State - Check
* People adopting his name as their own - Check
* Inspires adoration art - Check
* Appropriates symbols of past German glory - Check
* Never plans on giving up power - Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)
* A narcissistic megalomaniac - Check
* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments - Check
* Wants to build “youth” movement through State service - Check
* Acts as if in power before he is - Check
* Some followers believe him to be divine - Check
* Worshiped and aided greatly by the media - Check
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Gerard Baker definitely gets it. We’re sick of him and the obamedia too.
thedecider on July 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Hah.
I’m not sure it’s the “Caveats” that are preventing the unleashing of the tribes.
More like too few bullets and tanks that won’t work and planes that can’t fly.
SteveMG on July 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
Big Lie: Used in Hitler’s psychological profile
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Someone in Europe has retained sense of proportion and humor!
gmoonster on July 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Scumbag.
Obama scraps visit to wounded troops
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924E4KO0&show_article=1
Texyank on July 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
I love the writings of Gerard Baker, even when we disagree.
Humility is watching Obama, and his.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Great stuff from the reliably great Gerard Baker. While we’re admiring the Lightworker, we should also not miss this from Der Speigel (Number 44 has Spoken):
Does this sound like a parody, or what? I sure thought it was until I read some more and discovered that his guy is not kidding. Read on…
Buy Danish on July 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Texyank, apparently the miltary told him not to make a campaigning event out of it, per NBC, which I don’t watch. MB4 contributed the info in another thread.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 10:50 PM
FIRE CAN’T MELT STEEL!
>:D
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Texyank, that also means that the Obama campaign lied about the reason why they canceled.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 10:50 PM
He reissued his statement and is now trying to blame the Pentagon for the cancellation. I’ll see if I can find it and post again.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM
That was probably the best column I have read in a long, long time. What a brilliant summation of the MSM and the idiots who are worshiping at the feet of the Chosen One.
flytier on July 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Allahpundit titled a HA thread today “Christ appears in Berlin”.
I think it’s more like “The anti-Christ appears in Europe. However, he doesn’t speak German and French”.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
LMAO!! snort snort!
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
THAT’S RACIST!
That’s like always saying a black-hearted person is bad, but a white lie is okay!
SouthernGent on July 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
“All’s we’s can say is..”
carbon_footprint on July 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
She didn’t give a link but here it is:
UPDATE: Obama Campaign Blames Pentagon for Troop Snub in Germany
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Naw, Lemmy from Motorhead has a cocoa-puff. What you’re seeing is a scar from that abortive test of his Orwellian Rat Sack ™.
innominatus on July 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
CNN AK “Black in America” Has all the credibility of MSNBC.
TroubledMonkey on July 24, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Yes, I saw an ad with Soledad O’Brian speaking about the hardship of being black in America. Soledad O’Brian is black? Who knew!?!
carbon_footprint on July 24, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I can’t get enough columns like this. Its good to see some adults in the press who take pride in thier work and those in the tank will drown.
Greenhorn on July 24, 2008 at 10:59 PM
He’s still a scumbag.
“Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military,” said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.
Texyank on July 24, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 10:59 PM
I wish that were parody. That was one REALLY SCARY article. I don’t like hearing stuff like that come out of Germany.
progressoverpeace on July 24, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Lemmy does have a few Cocoa Puffs.. >:D
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM
How many in the media have offered to “service” BHO so far? Not counting Chris Matthews.
roninacreage on July 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Thanks BigOldDog.
Texyank on July 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM
You know what’s so funny…’8 or 10 years from now’ the majority of the idiots who are going to elect this mental and moral idiot into the Whitehouse will still be blaming the Republicans for the disasterous mistakes this buffoon made as President. Welcome to the rest of your lives…sob!
AUINSC on July 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM
LMAO.. hehe…
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I’m confused. Didn’t Barry say in his big speech (and in an interview with Brian Williams) that he was just there as a “citizen”? Didn’t his campaign tell us that he was in Europe on a fact-finding mission, and that he was not campaigning? And if Barry wanted to show his appreciation to the troops, then why not leave the cameras and reporters behind and make a private visit? He had time to make a non-campaign speech to a non-voting bunch of Germans, so surely he had time to spare for a private visit with the troops he admires so much.
AZCoyote on July 24, 2008 at 11:05 PM
My pleasure.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Obama Scraps Visit to Wounded Troops.
bnelson44 on July 24, 2008 at 11:10 PM
gonna bookmark this article.. :}
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Wow! A Biblical writer found in the melting ice of global warming.
Travis1 on July 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Buy Danish, thanks for that Spiegel article. I’m saving it so I can remind them in Nov. What a bunch of dreamers. I can’t believe that so many people are that stupid. I’m shocked. Europeans live on another planet.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM
So he didn’t go show his appreciation for our troops because he didn’t want his campaign to overshadow that all he really wanted to do was show his appreciation for our troops? So by not showing his appreciation for our troops, are we to understand that he showed his appreciation for our troops?
I feel like this one would give Joseph Heller a headache…
Ferris on July 24, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Actually, and I just caught part of it on TV while only half way paying attention, NBC said that they asked him rather than told him. That’s the way they put it anyway. I think they said “asked”. If it was asked then his campaign statement does not contradict what NBC reported.
It’s a shadow. He has plenty of actual vulnerabilities to go after him on if only people would see them.
MB4 on July 24, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Which ones are the MB4?
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM
That was just off the hook funny.
Diogenes of Sinope on July 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM
Maybe if you spent a little more time pointing them out instead of McCain’s, they would see them.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:30 PM
He had me at:
“In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.”
Gold. Pure gold.
Diogenes of Sinope on July 24, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Quietly visiting wounded troops could never be construed as campaigning. Dragging the entire press corps along with his version of Leni Riefenstahl is another matter.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:33 PM
As if.
Like that’s going to happen with this one trick pony.
wise_man on July 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
I mean, the guy put up campaign signs as the Western Wall! He has no shame.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Just giving him a shot a redemption.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Seems like it would be pretty easy to just say, “I’m going in here alone, guys. No media today.”
I might have even respected him a bit if he did that. I’m sure the troops would have really appreciated it.
Ferris on July 24, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Sanguis Bibimus.
Corpus Edimus.
Tolle Corpus Obama !
Obama !
Obama !
Ave !
Ave !
Obama !
elgeneralisimo on July 24, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Thou shall not forsake the savior.
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Exactly. He didn’t want to go so he found an excuse not to because he doesn’t give a sh!t about them. He just doesn’t have to balls to admit it.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:41 PM
I.m an Apostate. They’ll be tracking me down by my ip and sending me off to an Obamaland reeducation camp after they gain full control.
TheBigOldDog on July 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM
it’s all about ME, ME, ME, ME.. I’m gonna get mine..
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Obama, “People of the world, lend me your ears and your money all of it, even your CHANGE!!!”
Chakra Hammer on July 24, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Couldn’t agree more. People find a way to do the things they really want to.
Spirit of 1776 on July 24, 2008 at 11:45 PM
I went back and re-read it, because I thought that maybe I had it wrong, and it was a parody. Surely nothing that over the top could be serious. But I still think he’s not kidding.
Either that or he’s way too nuanced for me.
Buy Danish on July 24, 2008 at 11:46 PM
The rest of you, just focus on your own lists. MB4 will vote for Goldwater, and his vote doesn’t count anyway. If McCain depends on his vote in Portland, then he’s in more trouble than assumed. Oregon won’t matter for McCain.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Buy Daish, he’s not kidding, except his very last line is doubtful. Oh, the pain they’ll go through in Nov…
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Maybe what The Obama is claiming is that there’s this other voice in his head he calls “The Pentagon” who instructs him to walk on by and ignore U.S. military troops even when they’re standing right there within hand-shaking range.
Like, for example, that OTHER
S on July 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Even if Obama wins, he can’t deliver not even a minimatesimal fraction of his bloviating speeches…they’re all going to be let down that the universe wasn’t saved by him.
If this were not happening in front of our eyes, I wouldn’t believe it.
Humility is watching it all. She’s not happy.
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Arggh, cut-off my thought…error (^^).
(Continuing):
Like, for example, that OTHER voice in his head he calls “The Senate Banking Committee” that he THINKS he’s a member of.
Daily, Obama reveals (with that big ole’ smile) yet more delusions, or, perhaps, intentional lies because he assumes no one will (or “can”) catch him.
S on July 24, 2008 at 11:50 PM
It was a miraculous speech: for the first time in 12 months when the caller ID said “Private Caller” (i.e., RNC calling), I answered the phone, didn’t scold, and donated. Praise Be Obama - you done what I thought was impossible.
Marcus on July 24, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Can ANYone explain to me why ANY Jew is supporting Obama? WHY? Didn’t some Jews support Hitler, too? In all seriousness, can someone explain this?
S on July 24, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Some speech defects:
Despite peace, Belfast walls are growing in size and number
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080503/despite-peace-belfast-walls-are-growing-in-size-and-number.htm
Fact-checking Barack Obama on climate change
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2008/07/fact-checking-barack-obama-on-climate.html
Let’s fact check Obama
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2008/07/24/lets-fact-check-obama/
bnelson44 on July 24, 2008 at 11:53 PM
How come the absence of the Prince Saviour’s wife is not mentioned during this trip? Nor by Mr. Baker?
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM
That “defeat the (atom)” part as to what Obama declared from Berlin just did it for me. I mean, that was just IT. Surely it was a language concern that ANYone was not rolling on the floor laughing in Berlin when Obama said that. Or, if not, then my worries need to quickly be extended far more than already.
S on July 24, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Maybe she’s on the Terrorist Watch List and was likely not to get back in the U.S.A. once out of it.
S on July 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM
I’m gonna make so many people mad when I circulate this tomorrow.
Obama is so slimy.
Dubn8tr on July 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Hanan is a five year old—from Berlin.
This whole thing is just getting too scary.
IrishEi on July 25, 2008 at 12:05 AM
How come the absence of the Prince Saviour’s wife is not mentioned during this trip? Nor by Mr. Baker?
Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Her broom is pretty fast, but it can’t keep up with O-Force-One. She’s still somewhere over the Mediterranean.
innominatus on July 25, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Obama Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfogMFL7UJo
bnelson44 on July 25, 2008 at 12:11 AM
I thought this paragraph about his father was b.s. too and needed to be fact checked:
At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.
Somebody, somewhere? Barry won’t give credit to who that somebody was? Or he doesn’t know? But what about his prior speeches about the airlift, and J.F.K.?
Moreover, if he is going to use his father as a romantic symbol of the Cold War, then it’s fair to point out that his father was a full-blown Communist, no? I know that others have said this is irrelevant, but it seems to me that if he wants to use his father as some sort of dreamy symbol, it’s only fair that
Americansthe world be reminded of the truth of the matter.Buy Danish on July 25, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Yeah but can Obama speak Hittite and Abbasid? No? Ugh, now I’m embarrassed to be an American.
Bishop on July 25, 2008 at 12:14 AM
If Obamakaiser showed up on my doorstep tonight saying he had a flat tire, I’d point down the road and counsel; “Pay phone is a block and a half.”
Cue: Slam door, weapon back on safety.
So, you see, we all CAN be alike. I just lumped him in with our various meth runners here and there, white, black, Hispanic and “other.” Aren’t we ALL THE SAME?
Chope!
wccawa on July 25, 2008 at 12:14 AM
After excitedly awaiting her turn to speak, Hanan added: “We spent a whole day at school learning about him.”
And that particular teacher had a hell of a time filling the “whole” day, considering how little Obama has accomplished.
“Well…he’s black and a senator. He’s from Chicago…aaaaannd…did I mention he’s black? Ok, lets go to lunch early”.
Bishop on July 25, 2008 at 12:17 AM
No one every gave me the answers, so I don’t see why I should give them out. Wouldn’t be kosher.
I will give you a hint though, ‘wise_man’ is one of the ones who ain’t on the right track in the way he goes after Obama. And he sure ain’t on the right track in the way he “defends” McCain.
MB4 on July 25, 2008 at 12:17 AM
SECOND LOOK AT RECESS!
wccawa on July 25, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Matthew 7:14 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.”
Trtle2001 on July 25, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Going back to Barry’s romantic interlude about his father in his Bamboozled in Berlin speech, this is what he said in the past:
Why the lack of specificity now? Hmmmmm?
Buy Danish on July 25, 2008 at 12:23 AM
Disturbingly funny, but right on the money…., just follow the money…
Kini on July 25, 2008 at 12:28 AM
Maybe Jessie Jackson has already snipped them.?.
FloatingRock on July 25, 2008 at 12:28 AM
I have purposefully not seen “THE speech” (also I have been in trial all day)…did the ground shake and the heavens open???
P.S. Love the Article - like Rush, I am getting close to profanity on a daily basis - good to see the parody
HawaiiLwyr on July 25, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.”
And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals …
Now did the Lord say, “First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three.
Five is right out.
Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”
Divinely accurate.
Kini on July 25, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Father
Barack talks about his daddy alot.. was the dude a commie?
Chakra Hammer on July 25, 2008 at 12:36 AM
New York: Times Books; 1st edition (July 18, 1995); Hardcover: 403 pages; ISBN 0-8129-2343-X
* This printing is now very rare. Only a few signed copies are known, and are estimated to be worth up to $5,000 (depending on condition).
—————–
Barack has been trying to burn these early versions probably.. before he had them reprinted and edited.
Chakra Hammer on July 25, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Yes he was.
A bit of research at the library reveals the answers about Barack Obama’s father and his father’s convictions which Obama withholds from his readers. A first hint comes from authors E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and David William Cohen in their book The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio U. Press, 2004). On page 182 of their book they describe how Barack Obama’s father, a Harvard trained economist, attacked the economic proposals of pro-Western ‘third way” leader Tom Mboya from the socialist left, siding with communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga, in a paper Barack Obama’s father wrote for the East Africa Journal. As Odhiambo and Cohen write, “The debates [over economic policy] pitted .. Mboya against .. Oginga Odinga and radical economists Dharam Ghai and Barrack Obama, who critiqued the document for being neither African nor socialist enough.”
I have a copy of Barack Obama’s paper here in my hand, obtained from the stacks at UCLA (see the picture above). The paper is as describe by Odhiambo and Cohen, a cutting attack from the left on Tom Mboya’s historically important policy paper “African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya.” The author is given as “Barak H. Obama” and his paper is titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism”, published July, 1965 in the East African Journal, pp. 26-33. [UPDATE: I sent Politico a copy, and they've posted a PDF file of the paper here.]
And while Barry may very well not have known those details about his father until recently, surely he knows it now, so it seems to me it’s not wise to mention him, particularly in this lofty manner.
Buy Danish on July 25, 2008 at 12:46 AM
I watched Ronald Reagan “Talk Down This Wall” speech and then JFK’s speech for the first time today. They made me cry. Obama’s didn’t.
terryannonline on July 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Sorry, I meant “Tear” not “Talk”.
It’s late.
terryannonline on July 25, 2008 at 12:51 AM
One word. Excellent!
MrC_5150 on July 25, 2008 at 12:54 AM
They made me cry. Obama’s didn’t.
terryannonline on July 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM
I did. Ok they were tears of shame and disgust at Obama, but tears nonetheless.
Bishop on July 25, 2008 at 12:54 AM
I cried today too, laughing my head off at the stupidity of humanity. It’s really tragic, though, and I should cry tears of sadness.
Entelechy on July 25, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Imagine what a tiny, tiny level of confidence the Europeans have in themselves, if they depend on such vacuous words to make them feel in the slightest relevant.
Entelechy on July 25, 2008 at 12:58 AM
I thought MB4 was in Oklahoma. Shows how I pay attention.
jaime on July 25, 2008 at 12:58 AM
jaime, that’s where the hill might be - where he served, or went through training. Now he’s retired in Oregon, as he said several times, in the Portland area.
Entelechy on July 25, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Thanks, Gerard. Beauty.
The_Freeze on July 25, 2008 at 1:02 AM
If only it were just the Europeans…
This is what Frank Luntz said tonight on Hannity & Colmes (after an insanely rapturous appraisal of Barry’s idiotic speech):
And you still have people who are challenging him; when you look inside the words, what do they really mean? Quite frankly, we don’t know the answer to that, but the words are powerful.
Buy Danish on July 25, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Yeah, I’m sure you’re right. Like I said, my ADD and all.
jaime on July 25, 2008 at 1:07 AM
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.‘
In other words…Israel, you can kiss my FauxBama butt!
byteshredder on July 25, 2008 at 1:08 AM
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