Quote of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on August 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“Instead of giving big speeches at big stadiums, he needs to give straight-up 10-word answers to people at Wal-Mart about how he would improve their lives.”
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That is above my pay grade.
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Damn, you beat me to it.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:09 PM
he can’t because he won’t.
right4life on August 16, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Seriously, did anyone that watched this think that McCain did not kick Obama’s butt?
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Yea!
I had practice at LGF. Dang their threads move fast.
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I remember when George H. W. was filmed going through the check out line at a grocery store and was fascinated by the UPC code scanner. That was one of the nails in his electoral coffin.
Does Wal Mart sell arugula ?
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Presidents can seldom really do much to significantly improve the lives of large numbers of people, the can do things to make them significantly worse however.
MB4 on August 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
I love the headline in the link “Allies ask Obama to be more specific about Hope”. Yeap, that would be helpful, or maybe not.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:17 PM
I dunno. Is arugula produced in China?
MB4 on August 16, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Phil Bredesen is my governor and I hate to say it but he has been as good or better for the state of TN than some of the more recent Republicans. He would make a good president. McCain ought to interview him for veep.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I was sure that was going to be the quote of the day. After a gaffe like that, he really needs John Kerry on the ticket.
fluffy on August 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM
LOL
Texas Gal on August 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM
McCain stomped Obambi!!
ArmyAunt on August 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Obama spoke in warmed over drivel that channels Saul Alinsky, and does not change anyone’s life for the better.
Lower prices at Wal-Mart drive liberals crazy, since they do not get a piece of the action in union dues
Right_of_Attila on August 16, 2008 at 10:22 PM
China, and I believe also Vermont.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:22 PM
I know. I am so glad that Barry is back from vacation; I missed his “gaffe per day”.
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Over on Tapper’s ABC blog, McCain is winning the day by far. Even some of the liberals have admitted that he handed Obama his buttocks.
Buford Gooch on August 16, 2008 at 10:26 PM
The more I think about it the more bizarre it sounds. What the devil IS Hussien’s pay grade ? That response needs to be woven through the McCain campaign attack ads somehow.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM
What’s with all this Wal-Mart shoppin’
And skeptics like Strickland and Bredesen contemplatin’
How my campaign they’d like to start rearrangin’
When that’s not what anyone really should do
When heaven has found you
Can’t you see
That it’s all wrapped up in the Messiah that’s me
So follow me
Come on, voters
Follow me
I’m Obama the Piper
And I’ll show you where Hope and Change is at
Come on, voters
Can’t you see
I’m Obama the Piper
Trust in me
Voters
Don’t be scared to into the White House to help me move
Hey, voters
What do you think I’m tryin’ to prove
It ain’t true
That my Hope and Change has got nothin’ in it for you
It’s just in your mind
And that’s all that’s trickin’ you
So step in line
Come on, voters
Follow me
Come on, voters
Trust in me
Come on, voters
Can’t you see
Come on, voters
Follow me
MB4 on August 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Minimizing his race????? If he was not Black, no one would have heard of him.
jgapinoy on August 16, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Allies Ask Obama tp Make ‘Hope’ More Specific.
HOPE Except
OVER takes Politics
POWER in Overrules
Europe Hope
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I’ll try this mess again!UGH
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Allies Ask Obama to make ‘Hope’ More Specific.
Hope
Over takes
Power in
Europe
on the flipside,
Except
Politics
Overrules
Hope
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 10:43 PM
The sounds of a new generation. The words are good but I can’t dance to the tune.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Nice thoughts, but it works better with a pallendrome scenario.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:45 PM
You know I am just about sick of these people who blame the fact that not everyone is enamored with their candidate is scared because he looks different. Different then who? Are these people under the impression that there is anyone in the U.S. who hasn’t seen a black person? It is just about the stupidest argument going.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I myself reject him because he looks different. He reminds me of Alfred E. Newman. That is the least of his short comings though.
JonRoss on August 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Cindy, they are truly obsessed with race. They try to link every issue to race or sex. It is in their political genes.
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Did you sleep through the 80s?
TheBigOldDog on August 16, 2008 at 10:59 PM
I know but it’s dumb, black people in every aspect of life. I don’t get it. As for sex, I want to yawn openly in the face of anyone who tries to make me their sexual confident. Heterosexual or Homosexual.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Wow… so now his allies are telling him exactly what we’ve been saying throughout the entire campaign?
I believe that’s a paraphrase of something I’ve literally said dozens of times.
RightWinged on August 16, 2008 at 11:02 PM
So,Hopey/Changey,in the spirit of the olympics,
has a sh#tload of hurdles to jump put out by the
DNC!
Hopey has to heal,or fix, A-Z in the Liberal
Democratic Party!
We’ll soon see how this ‘Mission’gets ‘Accomplished’
in Denver!
Every group in the Liberal party has an axe to grind!
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Racist! LOL
RushBaby on August 16, 2008 at 11:23 PM
8 for 8!
TheBigOldDog on August 16, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
- Confucius
MB4 on August 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM
No. Did you sleep through English class?
MB4 on August 16, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Racist LOL
RushBaby on Aug 16,2008 at 11:23PM.
RushBaby: A proud member of AxeGrinders,since 1901!
The AxeGrinders Guild
The AxeGrinders Union of America
If its not a sharp Scottish axe,its crap!
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM
A Double Bill at Denver!
F#$%$K it UNITY/08 in Denver/Liberal AxeGrinders Of Obama!
haha.
canopfor on August 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM
If a President can make things worse, doesn’t it follow that a subsequent President can make things better by undoing the previous President’s damage?
jgapinoy on August 16, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Sometimes, but not all paths have return routes.
MB4 on August 17, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I don’t think Obama’s 10-word answer (”I’m raising your taxes and driving Wal-Mart out of business.”) will work.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 17, 2008 at 12:30 AM
How about this for a Quote of the day:
“Any new US assets in Europe could come under Russian nuclear attack”
- or -
“She persuaded Saakashvili to accept clarifications to the ceasefire accord which contradict Washington’s spirited assurances for Georgia’s ‘territorial integrity’”
August 16, 2008, 5:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA -
Russia’s deputy chief of staff Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warned Poland it was “exposing itself to a strike 100 percent.”
He said any new US assets in Europe could come under Russian nuclear attack. Russian forces would target “the allies of countries having nuclear weapons” to destroy them “as a first priority,” said Gen. Nogovitsyn.
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice persuaded Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to sign on the dotted line Friday night.
In five hours of arm-twisting, she persuaded Saakashvili to accept clarifications to the ceasefire accord which contradict Washington’s spirited assurances for Georgia’s “territorial integrity.”
MB4 on August 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM
August 16, 2008
AS the Russian Dark Lord’s shadow falls across the shires of freedom once again, the response from the West has been confused, belated and inadequate: fear eclipsed courage; ignorance masqueraded as wisdom; and, in “Old Europe,” greed vanquished justice.
Russia won. Diplomacy failed. No state or alliance will reverse the decision. When President Bush spoke out strongly on Friday, Moscow ignored him: Words mean nothing to Prime Minister Putin, a man who regards all compromise as weakness.
Putin is sending an unmistakable message to all other independent states that once belonged to Moscow’s empire: Russia will not tolerate true democracies or Western orientations on its “eternal property.”
- Ralph Peters
MB4 on August 17, 2008 at 12:57 AM
No, I thought so too. And I said, it’s no wonder The Chosen One has turned McCain down on all his townhall invites. His unscripted townhall format is an EPIC FAIL!
MsUnderestimated on August 17, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Barry couldn’t even give a succinct answer to a 7 year about why he wanted to be President. 10 words to a WalMart shopper? He’d pull a brain muscle.
We need uhhhhhhhhh to uhhhhh develop alternativvvve uh fuel …….. sources.
Mallard T. Drake on August 17, 2008 at 1:36 AM
masochismn.
– tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences.
hillbillyjim on August 17, 2008 at 1:54 AM
Wrong thread, oops. (answering Why do I go to Huffpo query on Open Thread. Sorry.
hillbillyjim on August 17, 2008 at 1:58 AM
He can’t because he can’t.
SuperCool on August 17, 2008 at 3:02 AM
HA. So much for that Harvard law degree.
leftnomore on August 17, 2008 at 3:26 AM
Obama’s an interesting study. It almost seems like he’s playing the role of a Presidential candidate instead of actually being one.
I mean, Bill Clinton was a slick politician, but he had a record as Governor. The entire Obama campaign is like a practical joke on America.
Mr. Wednesday Night on August 17, 2008 at 4:58 AM
I thought he had been drilling those 10-word since the beginning?
“I will Rob the Rich to give it to you.”
Rich is defined as anybody (or family, I’m not sure which) making 250k or more.
Sir Napsalot on August 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM
I have a very silly question: Why do people want the president of the United States to imrove their lives? I thought it was the job of the POTUS as CEO to run the country, keep it safe and free. I dont want Obama or any other corrupt politician including McCain “improving” that is, running my life and making my choices for me. I’m perfectly capable of screwing up my own life with no help from the government, thank you very much. Am I in the minority in that view?
But I guess there are lots of people in this country who are craving a nanny state. After all, if govenment takes responsibility for you then you wont have to be held accountable when things screw up, and things will screw up.
abcurtis on August 17, 2008 at 8:05 AM
Aint that the dyin’ truth?
abcurtis on August 17, 2008 at 8:07 AM
b’cause uhmuraka is, uh, you know, not uh, where we, i mean, you, uh, want it to, you know, be.
abcurtis on August 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM
Team Obama announced today that they no longer believe in Hope and Change and will be focusing their campaign around Despair and Sameness…
sabbott on August 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM
This deserves repeating. The role of the POTUS should be really simple. Preserving, protecting and defending the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. That should be the extent of it. Beyond that the POTUS needs to leave me the hell alone.
JonRoss on August 17, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Here is the actual prescribed oath. Washington added “so help me god” at the end when he took the oath. Something tells me that Hussien would choke on these words.
JonRoss on August 17, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Obama thinks the Constitution is what you believe it to be.
And better to leave it up to the more knowledgeable to define it for you.
Sir Napsalot on August 17, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Amen!!! Who really wants an organization with the efficiency of the post office, the responsiveness of FEMA, and the caring of the Baggage Screeners running your life??
landlines on August 17, 2008 at 11:56 PM
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