Quote of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on November 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
Kroft: There’s been talk on Capitol Hill and a number of Democratic congressmen have proposed programs that are part of sort of a new New Deal. The possibility of reviving agencies like the Home Ownership Loan Corporation.
Mr. Obama: Two points I’d make on this. Number one, although there are some parallels to the problems that we’re seeing now and what we say back in the ’30s, no period is exactly the same. For us to simply recreate what existed back in the ’30s in the 21st century, I think would be missing the boat. We’ve gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that’s gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound.
I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that’s a principle that we’ve gotta hold to as well. But what I don’t wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.
And whether it’s coming from FDR or it’s coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we’re gonna apply it. And things that don’t work we’re gonna get rid of.
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The Cipher of Opportunism, more flexible han Gumby.
profitsbeard on November 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
koslambs b.p.s go through the roof in 5, 4, …
:-)
Buckaroo on November 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
…or Karl Marx…
Jim Treacher on November 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
There is no point in quoting a man who repeatedly and regularly contradicts himself. Stop paying attention to what Obama says in public and look at what he does, who he associates with, and what he says when he doesn’t think he’s being recorded.
D0WNT0WN on November 16, 2008 at 10:10 PM
wiggle..wiggle..wiggle
I Think the next couple months will be interesting.
HawaiiLwyr on November 16, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Because labels like “socialism” and “Marxism” are really counterproductive at times like this…
Jaibones on November 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
When his words = his actions, call me.
He’s good at speaking Moderate, but he’s best at doing Far-Left Radical.
p0s3r on November 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM
You have to admit he’s good with the words. Thankfully he will be judged by his actions.
Those remain to be seen.
patrick neid on November 16, 2008 at 10:15 PM
this is boring; talk to me when he’s in office and we’ll talk.
jibber jabber is pointless. when he’s no longer a cipher, you’ll see what happens.
lorien1973 on November 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
That role is cutting taxes and spending. Not the other way around.
boomer on November 16, 2008 at 10:17 PM
true to our times………
true to this moment……,
comments by herr’ Hopey/Zee/Changey!
———————————-
OH BOY,thats Liberal speak,this needs to be
interpreted,and explored in all its Moon Batty
glory,me thinks!
Me thinks that any resident trolls need apply,
for this code talk,of Hopey’s ‘New Deal Do Over’!
All trolls are welcome for this translation*,accept
for Rywall!
*(canopfor is intending for responsible trolls to
translate,strictly for Entertainment Purposes Only!)
Ha Ha,a hem!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Trying to discern from his words what Obama will do, is like trying to nail jello to a wall.
From all we know of Obama’s education, mentors, and associates, if Martians landed tomorrow in Vegas, they bet the flying saucer on Jim’s assertion (see 10:04 PM above.)
Sergeant Tim on November 16, 2008 at 10:23 PM
If only that meant what I wanted it to mean.
jukin on November 16, 2008 at 10:23 PM
This guy is never decisive. He takes a conservative president and a liberal one, who are the most admired of each party, to make everyone “feel good.”
It makes me feel sick and I have to stand through this for four years.
I really don’t know how people survived Jimmy Carter (I’m a Reagan baby born in ’83), because Obama may be worse than the peanut farmer.
jencab on November 16, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Nice words, but what the hell do they mean actually?
4shoes on November 16, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Scratch that, what I hoped it meant.
jukin on November 16, 2008 at 10:25 PM
It means nothing. That’s the point. Wait till he’s in office. When he actually has to do something – for once in his life. Then you’ll see where his heart lies.
We already know; but many do not. Yet.
lorien1973 on November 16, 2008 at 10:26 PM
He has said absolutely NOTHING. It’s the old…”Let me say this about that…” He’s a master at VERBAL SHELL GAMES…
CynicalOptimist on November 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM
This guy has been campaigning for two years, he won the presidency, and still nobody knows what he is going to do.
Mark1971 on November 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I hope this guy is the pragmatist he pretends to be, but his association with every lunatic he could find makes me suspicious.
sharrukin on November 16, 2008 at 10:29 PM
This guy can sound to the Left of Marx or to the right of Newt, depending on his audience.
ccc on November 16, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I get the feeling he has NO clue what he’s going to do.
terryannonline on November 16, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Probably.
2 years out from a state senate seat, where he admitted he served in obscurity. Now president? He’s just gonna rubber stamp what the house/senate give him. I can’t imagine him having a clue beyond that. He’ll play good cop, good speaker and it’ll work for a while, i’m sure.
lorien1973 on November 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Subjecting oneself to this drivel is the price for keeping the rest of us informed. Whatever AP gets paid isn’t enough. I haven’t watched network Pravda for a long time.
Feedie on November 16, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I know how to read, but what did he mean? He didn’t finish crap. Cliff Hanger!
sheebe on November 16, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I want to know when this guy is “gonna” start sounding like the ivy league intellectual he wants us to believe he is.
AndAwayWeGo on November 16, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Well if that’s the case. We already know that neither Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid are Ronald Reagan. So there goes that notion out the window!
terryannonline on November 16, 2008 at 10:38 PM
“jencab on November 16, 2008 at 10:24 PM”
i wuz a kid during peanut boy, and my folks did a good job of shielding me from the dour stupidity of those years; i remember their palpable joy as 1980 dawned and the increasing optimsim that culminated in a november victory …
/i hope i can do the same for my kids now and let them experience a similar scenario with Saracuda!
Buckaroo on November 16, 2008 at 10:41 PM
More awesome pearls of Socialist wisdom from
HopeLess/ChangeLess,
____________________________________________
“But what I don’t wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of
ideology and is this conservative or liberal”!
____________________________________________________
Actually,its bottled Kool-Aid,that is been poured
by Obama,the ‘wanna be’,Hopey the ‘AUTHORITARIAN’!
Who lives at the Roman Temple of Pillars of Perpetual
Hope and NeverEnding Change,
who is guarded by the Temple Pillar Troopers,
who belong to the National Civilian Secruity Forces,
who want to be,
“Just as Powerful”
“Just as Strong”
“Just as Well-Funded”!
Jus sayin!:)(Snark!):)
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 10:41 PM
He’s back to saying nothing better than anyone before him.
Saltysam on November 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
COngress, congress, congress…
The root of all evil.
Not once addressed.
nothing will change.
mylegsareswollen on November 16, 2008 at 10:45 PM
When will that be? And, how?
Schadenfreude on November 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I think this little nugget is telling. In an effort to look smart to the Europeans, he’s also giving ammunition to our enemy’s
How about making sure the American people are safe from terrorism.
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Forget about Quote of the Day. Let’s have Deed of the Day. I only want to know what this guy is doing. He’s more flexible than Clinton with his words. Conservative lip service is not supported by his associations or his past deeds.
keep the change on November 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
The ultimate post-modern statement.
Greenhelmet on November 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
How about making sure the American people are safe from terrorism.
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM
In and…out….of the womb.
Saltysam on November 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Bravo. I like the way you summed the last two years up. Too bad a nation as ‘great’ as ours fell for so much “nothing”.
Cipher X nothing = zero
Fark the world. It adores this guy because he makes America sheep-like, in other words the spine-/ballless lemmings that they are.
Schadenfreude on November 16, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Good Gawd,wait till the first
‘State of the Union Address’!
I hope the “Obama speak translation book”
is out before then!!!
Now that would be a best seller!a hem.
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Give the guy a break–hes just startin his 2012 campaignin.
dragondrop on November 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Playing both sides….again.
At least BillyJeff let us know when he was going to f*** us with his smooth talkin’ voice, lip bitin’ and thumb pointin’.
[Channeling Olberdouche] Mr. President-Elect, if you have any sense of common decency…..pick Reagan’s model, enact it…..and……resign (sarc).
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM
The man was president of the Harvard Law Review. Ask him whether you should use “cert. denied” citations. Maybe we could get a straight answer to THAT.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Start putting the list together. I’ll need a few cocktails for his first SOTU.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM
In his first post-
erectionelection press conference he insulted Nancy Reagan. Now, he claims to be Ronald Reagan…Schadenfreude on November 16, 2008 at 10:55 PM
It was an awful, awful four years.
Kensington on November 16, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I’m no economic expert, but it seems to me that the lending business requires trust, and that can’t be bought by throwing more promises and more paper. Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac laundered TRUST, and unless and until that is addressed and fixed, all the paper money in the world is not gonna earn trust.
The government’ promises are empty because the government is the mob. You can’t buy trust, you can only earn it. This government hasn’t, Barack Obama hasn’t, and nothing either one of them do is going to win that back among people who live in the real world.
Obama says the government will do whatever it takes to fix the economy. I’d say throwing a bunch of crooks in office and passing reforms to make sure they can never screw the American people again would be a nice start. But that’s not what he meant. He meant the government will make as many empty promises as he thinks it’ll take. Ain’t gonna work.
Just my take on it.
justincase on November 16, 2008 at 11:02 PM
1. Don’t watch it.
2. Don’t watch it.
3. Don’t watch it.
Schadenfreude on November 16, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Here’s a thought: He’s Manchuria’s Manchurian. We already know he’ll say anything to get elected.
Has he played the far left as well? He has no real record of commitment to much of anything but rhetoric which plays well to the left and then relative center. Could it be that he only plays radical on the campaign channel?
TinMan13 on November 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Double digit unemployment, inflation, and a hostage crisis in Iran and in the United States.
I’ve dusted off my misery index meter and calibrated it to today’s environment.
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I think this nugget is telling…….
Kini on Nov 16,2008 at 10:47PM.
Kini: Aloha,and good point!
The liberal appeasers,like Ayers,beleive and think,that
making all these concessions at America’s expense will be
a goodwill gesture!
Or,hey where just like you,so,we can get along,right?
______________________________________________________
Meanwhile,in reality,from a scene from the movie,
‘Independence Day’,would be Hopey/Changey asks Terrorists
how about we live in peace?
The answer from(Alien)Terrorist group!
D—————————I————————–E!
(partial Snark!):)
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
He can buy a lot from those that live in the dream world, though.
Check this out.
Saltysam on November 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM
What magic combination of government policies is really going to get us out of this economic mess? Everything proposed or done to this date has simply scared private money away from where ever the government aims its sights.
OneEyedJack on November 16, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Aloha canopfor!
Some people seem to forget that we were attacked, not once but several times before we started doing something about it.
Ayers, Wright and these other ding-dongs have repeatedly said this was all our fault and we had it coming. They’ve never given a reason why and how we had it coming. Just what did the US do to deserve to be attacked?
Except for our moral direction and the money we dole out to the very people/countries that hate us, I don’t see what needs changing about our moral stature in the world.
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 11:14 PM
This doesn’t make sense. He’s clearly concerned about perception but moral stature? The moral character of this nation is determined by others? No.
!!!
What does he think we have been doing? Somebody ask this guy to name 18 provinces and then ask how many are under Iraqi control?
He’s already tripping over his ears. This is gonna be a fun four years.
tuffy on November 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM
CRAP! I don’t qualify!
It’s not too late to sell and buy beyond my means…. is it?
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM
In other words, he has no damn idea what to do.
drjohn on November 16, 2008 at 11:19 PM
What magic combination of government policies is really going to get us out of this economic mess?
OneEyedJack on November 16, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Forced labor, collectivism, and an unfettered Hollywood.
Saltysam on November 16, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Yahup.
However, He’s relying on Clinton retreads to tell him what to do.
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM
I feel violated!
That is not meant to be funny. I feel VIOLATED!
Saltysam on November 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Start putting the list together.
DrCwac.Cwac on Nov 16,2008 at 10:53PM.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac: No Sh#t! haha, a hem:)
The Ultimate Liberal Kryptonite:
‘USE THEIR VERY OWN PHRASES AND WORDS AGAISNT THEM’!!
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
I’ve dusted off my misery index meter and calibrated it
to today’s environment.
Kini on nov 16,2008 at 11:03PM.
Kini: While I hold my breath,please tell me its not
colour coded?:)He he.
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 11:31 PM
It’s the Left’s fanatical belief in the superiority of Socialism that leads to stupid statements like this.
The U.S.S.R. failed because it wasn’t the right time. Cuba is a miserable, third world country not because they’re Socialist, but because they didn’t do it quite right, their timing was off.
They are the Bullwinkle to our Rocky:
29Victor on November 16, 2008 at 11:32 PM
They are the Bullwinkle to our Rocky:
29Victor on Nov 16,2008 at 11:32PM.
29Victor: Thanks for the memories,LOL!haha
So,that would mean that,
BORIS is Barack Obama!
and,
NATASHA is OMama, Michelle Obama! Hehe:)
canopfor on November 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM
OK, who was working ObaMcCarthy’s mouth on that quote?
csdeven on November 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Nah, by calibration I mean removing the Disco Duck sticker ~_^
Kini on November 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM
I will believe it when I see it applied.
sheesh on November 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM
did he ever make it to point #2?
DaveC on November 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM
mildly off-topic rant warning
It is a fact now that one in six mortgages are upside down at this point. Regardless of ability to pay those mortgages, that is a lot of potential spending (debt) lost to this economy.
It is also a fact that credit companies are lowering the credit limits of one in five customers. That lowered debt ceiling also affects the potential growth of our economy in the near future.
Those two facts alone point to an economy that won’t be cured by government stimulus of any sort.
17 to 20% of our economy has effectively been put in a cash only purchase position, which is hard to do when that same percentage is heavily debt-laden.
My prediction is that this economy will not heal as a whole until it retracts from the frivolity of today’s society, shucks the shackles of feel-good green policies, and puts people to work in energy and manufacturing production.
This economy won’t grow until it shrinks to the point of buying necessities with cash as opposed to satisfying our desires of the day.
Let’s see…granite countertops, or a simple new refrigerator?
Family plan cell phones, Cable internet and tv…or a sensible economical car?
The list could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Our needs have long since been met, and much of our economy has been directed towards our wants and wishes, and that is a lot of jobs to be shed.
The pessimist in me and the realist in me agree that three to five years of protracted recession lie ahead.
Government may want to help, and government may try to help, but little will improve our situation until we are allowed to produce the energy we need and the products the world needs.
PS think how galling it is that we need the government to allow us to produce that which is good for us.
OneEyedJack on November 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM
God, I hope Obama does better pulling an economic plan out of his ass than Bullwinkle did pulling that “rabbit” out of that hat!
I’m not going to wager on it happening, though.
hillbillyjim on November 16, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Remember, to lose in 2012 he only has to p*ss off about 10 million Democrat
votersautomatons and I’m betting he can do that standing on one leg without breaking a sweat.johnsteele on November 16, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Which is it already Barry? This country isn’t going through anything near/paralleling the Great Depression, or it is?
God, I felt like clawing my eyes out earlier seeing him and his wife try to convince people for the millionth time they’re anything close to the all-American family.
Ryan Gandy on November 16, 2008 at 11:49 PM
We’re about to see the real live sequel to Being There: Chauncey Takes Command. Thrilling.
ddrintn on November 16, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Change has rarely ever changed things.
- Walter Sorrell
MB4 on November 16, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Mark my words people: Get ready for Amateur Hour…
D2Boston on November 16, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Does this moron understand what the phrase, “missing the boat” means? Because it has nothing to do with what he was asked.
The more I hear BHO speak, the dumber he appears to be. That joke of a Harvard education makes me laugh harder with each passing day. I shudder to think of what goes through that empty space between his big ears whenever actual numbers are involved. But, America wanted a President with an IQ of 88 …
progressoverpeace on November 16, 2008 at 11:58 PM
What do you want them to mean?
Sigmund on November 16, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Oh, I donno, how many tried will Obama get?
Kini on November 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM
But surely he won’t be touching anything that reeks of “the failed policies of the past eight years”, will he?
ddrintn on November 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
- Wernher Von Braun
MB4 on November 17, 2008 at 12:03 AM
You are getting warm.
DasObamaReich on November 17, 2008 at 12:05 AM
We are so screwed, and Osama Obama hasn’t even taken office yet!
In four years, we’ll all be wishing we lived in Cuba….
MrScribbler on November 17, 2008 at 12:08 AM
It’s ironic but libs couldn’t care less what BO does now that he’s in office. If he breaks every single promise he made to get there they will understand. They have no ethics, no morality, nothing by which to establish what’s right and what’s wrong. Libtards will defend BO to the death even though he will do basically anything in office whether they like it or not. It will be the rule of 51%. Power for the sake of power. No cause, no philosophy, no foundation, simply power for the sake of power.
God help us all.
Mojave Mark on November 17, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Give it time. We’ll get there. Yes, We, Can
Kini on November 17, 2008 at 12:10 AM
”
Yes, progressoverpeace caught that. Obama meant to say, Missing the Point, but instead said Missing the Boat. And the media continue to tell us that he is both highly intelligent and a great speaker. No, he is nether. This is one more example to belie that. But how many in the media caught that flub, or would point it out if they did?
keep the change on November 17, 2008 at 12:10 AM
They’d just tell you that “boat” makes more sense in this case because, well, “ship of state” and all, deep metaphor there to catch the pulse of the American people giddy with the prospect of renewal. If Sarah Palin says that, though…
ddrintn on November 17, 2008 at 12:14 AM
The Obama media, the ones that sat on Obama’s socialist agenda till after most early voting and the election?
That media?
Kini on November 17, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Just watched all 18+ minutes… what a BIZARRE interview.
Equally bizarre editing.
Ugly on November 17, 2008 at 12:16 AM
I think the media’s reaction will be to incorrectly use the phrase ‘missing the boat’ for all sorts of situations, to cover for their idiot messiah.
Personally, I think that this is just one more (oddly) unamerican mistake made by someone who grew up in Indonesia and doesn’t really know much about America or about our style of English. It fits with all of the other weird mistakes of BHO’s from the campaign that no American would ever make (like the “57 states” idiocy and a bunch of others).
progressoverpeace on November 17, 2008 at 12:17 AM
raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!
Reaps on November 17, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Listening to Obama make statments is like watching a lava lamp. It is constantly changing and you can’t describe what it looked like 5 seconds after taking shape because its already changed.
portlandon on November 17, 2008 at 12:20 AM
He’s a lying Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-Semitic/Anti-White Marxist-Muslim POS Moonbag Nutbag…if you believe ANYTHING that comes out of his mouth…then you deserve whatever happens to you, and yours, as a result of this Racist Anti-American POS!
My father, 88yo that he is, sums it up best: When his lips are moving…he’s lying!
Dale in Atlanta on November 17, 2008 at 12:23 AM
You people do realize that this whole interview was edited down in favor of O, right? There were badly edited segments that make it plain to see.
Ugly on November 17, 2008 at 12:23 AM
Fools deserve their leaders.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2008 at 12:26 AM
The media thought Bush was Chancey Gardener. But really, Obama will be the hip hop version of Chancey Gardener, a young black guy who just stumbled into the presidency without even trying, or even really understanding what he was doing, simply by beguiling the Shirley MacLaines types around us with his ability to look like a black guy, talk like a white guy, and do absolutely nothing while looking good in a suit.
keep the change on November 17, 2008 at 12:26 AM
keep the change on November 17, 2008 at 12:26 AM
And while we watch the country goes to hell, like the rest of the world. Heh, but they now love us, while they enjoy our sameness. Lemmings r us, as Rosie would say.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Talking a good game is the easy part.
When the buck stops at your desk, even if you try to throw it under the bus, everyone with half a brain already knows the buck is still on your desk.
Times for promises are over. In a couple of months it will be time to deliver. If Bush was so bad, it shouldn’t be a very difficult bar to jump over.
The world loves us, so no more terroism. High taxes is the way to go so everyone but the rich should be happy, unless the rich decide to stop spending their money, which they have according to a freind of mine who build yachts for a living.
We are quickly approaching where the rubber meets the road. Where talk no longer matters, just results.
Excuse me if I don’t spend my time waiting out by my mailbox for the check that is going to change my life… I already know it’s not coming.
Hog Wild on November 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Interpretation: I have no idea what the fuck I’m going to do.
the wolf on November 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM
If anyone is watching Fox News,
The Obama 24K inaugural coin, a $29 dollar value, now only $9.99 ….
See, our economy has already begun to show 3rd world value!
Kini on November 17, 2008 at 12:35 AM
Good talk, Obama. Now walk the talk. No massive spending expand the government thingie.
Cut taxes, reward investment and productivity.
Read Hayek.
Don’t be (shudder) Jimmy Carter.
PattyJ on November 17, 2008 at 12:36 AM
They do spend it, and bank it, but no longer here. They take it abroad.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2008 at 12:39 AM
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