Quotes of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on January 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
“This is no ordinary time in the history of our democracy, and none of us can afford to behave like ordinary people. Every patriot must wish for the new president to succeed. These wintry days are gloomy indeed, but the dawn of the Barack Obama era brings with it the light of hope. Not false optimism, but rather the assurance that though we must walk through a dark valley for a time, if we keep our eyes on the mountaintop, we can make it through, together.”
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“Some of this patriotism may be of the sunshine variety — in for a day or a season, when the costs are not great. Or more cynically: in to show that their hatred for America is really just another form of political ‘dissent.’ Yet whatever the nature of these changes they cannot for now be discounted. Consider: When President Obama commits this nation to war against the Islamic terrorists, as he already has in Afghanistan, he will take millions of previously alienated and disaffected Americans with him, and they will support our troops in a way that most of his party has refused to support them until now. When another liberal, Bill Clinton went to war from the air, there was no anti-war movement in the streets or in his party’s ranks to oppose him. That is an encouraging fact for us in the dangerous world we confront.”
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“DON’T question the motives – question the policy. When you disagree with Obama’s policies, say so, and make it clear why. But remember that President Obama is doing what he thinks is best for the country, as President Bush did. Both men love America and want what’s best for her. End of story.”
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I keep expecting the media to all simultaneously start speaking in tongues re: Obama
SouthernGent on January 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Obamalallia?
Randy
williars on January 20, 2009 at 10:41 PM
“This war is lost.”
The patriotism of the Obama camp.
*spit*
profitsbeard on January 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I wish we were at the end of this story.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Consider: When President Obama commits this nation to war against the Islamic terrorists, as he already has in Afghanistan, he will take millions of previously alienated and disaffected Americans with him, and they will support our troops in a way that most of his party has refused to support them until now.
Well isn’t that just a bowl full of consarned peaches, leftist support of our troops is dependent on whether their guy sits in the White House or not?
Eff you, I’m questioning your patriotism.
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM
It’s interesting that George W. Bush, for all his faults, appears to be a big enough man to embrace the new president despite the invective directed at him for eight years. And yet probably 80% of the comments on this thread won’t be able to acknowledge that Obama is now their president.
Maybe Bush isn’t fanatical like some of his supporters. I’m hoping Obama isn’t either like some of his.
Now tell me why I’m wrong and how Obama will never be your president.
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I don’t recall anyone writing about, or telling liberals how to ‘celebrate’ Ronald Reagan or any conservative presidency, nor asking for “bipartisanship”.
All of you who do – go back to the crotch you slipped out from for today’s circus. The rest of us have to work and pay for your farking around among yourselves, with the One, but primarily with our country.
Entelechy on January 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I didn’t watch the Inauguration Festivities. As he walked by, did the media throw rose petal at his feet?
jgapinoy on January 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM
petalssss
jgapinoy on January 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Really?
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 10:45 PM
“This is no ordinary time in the history of our democracy, and none of us can afford to behave like ordinary people. Every patriot must wish for the new president to succeed. ….”
Ridiculous hyperbole. Set aside the fact that these vaunted editors of a major newspaper don’t know this is a Republic, not a Democracy, I’ll take my cue from the founding fathers in hoping the party opposite fails in spectacular fashion and remind them of their failures constantly.
Dusty on January 20, 2009 at 10:45 PM
OK, I’ll bite……………
………… he was never vetted. No one knows exactly what his policies are, they are generalities in speeches that he changes from crowd to crowd.
……… the majority of his voting record is “present”, and the rest of his records are sealed.
………… he received millions of funding from over seas through the Internet, and the media didn’t blink an eye.
……. how much is he beholden to George Soros, and what effect on his policies will he have?
……. this is just scratching the surface,
…………… are you kidding me?
………… you betch ‘ya.
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM
a Leftist Media “Obamasm” (TM) over the Obamination (R)…great!
I’ll give The Marxist Muslim Messiah, Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SWT)(SAW) the same respect, the same chances, cut him the same slack and breaks that his Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-American Leftist Racist Democratic Traitor Moonbat Nutbag (TM) Supporters gave President Bush…Oh, say about 2 nanoseconds!DONE!
Dale in Atlanta on January 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Let the congregation say Amen!
AMEN!
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I hope Mr. Obama keeps this country safe, for all our sakes.
I don’t hope – I know – he will fail miserably at everything else.
Damian G. on January 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
If she needed adults she wouldn’t have voted for a boy king, with zero experience of note.
Laugh of the day. Stupid and evil are indignant. These masses today, here and around the world are creepy.
Entelechy on January 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
This is the most disturbing day I have had since 9/11. I feel the same fear, sadness, anxiety and dread.
My head is spinning from the all of the utter absurdity and adoration of this man.
I’m afraid we have turned a corner from a world we will never see again.
I have no hail and I have no chief.
I am a woman without a country….
katy on January 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM
The only problem is when Liberals go to war,
like the ‘accidental bombing of the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade’they tend to screw up royaly
every time!
And since its a Liberal President,for Liberals,
its their war,hence,it’ll be managed better,and
safer!Gag!
I bet the El Code Pinko’s and the Anti-War left
will be silent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM
They can’t speak when their tongue is otherwise engaged.
Entelechy on January 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM
No, both men do NOT. One loves America… the other sees opportunity.
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
It was interesting that both my twins, Seniors in High School, had to watch the inaguration in class today.
One in a Theatre class, one in a Europeon History class.
When asked, neither could remember watching ANY prior inaguation, in class or out.
The brainwashing continues.
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Then say a final good bye to your family and friends.
katy on January 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Obama is going to be my role model. I’m going to let everyone around me do my hating for the next four
twentyyears, and just nod along with the crowd. When I get called on, all y’all are going under the bus. Okay, get to hating!Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
No, but they did lay palm branches as he entered the city the other day.
Ciannaky on January 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
AMEN!
califcon on January 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Seriously…I have had enough. I am not going to shut up and be nice. The liberals weren’t nice…even today. I am supposed to be bigger than they are? Why? I don’t think I could ever stoop to the level of vitriol displayed by the libs – I am more mature than that – but no way in Hell am I gonna start holding hands and singing kumbaya because “they” say so.
HawaiiLwyr on January 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM
He is my President alright and he is one third the government. Now when you consider the Congress that’s a whole new ball of wax to consider. The next four years are really going to be a blast.
mixplix on January 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Liberal Fence Post Turtles Unite!
——————————–
Does President Hopey know what he’s getting into….
ah..umm..ah…
the Liberal voters,why did you vote for Hopey,
ah..umm..ah…(Sarc!).
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Was that a jackass he was ridin’, or Joe Biden?
profitsbeard on January 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Why! What exactly constitutes an Obama success? Bigger government, higher taxes, open borders, less real liberty and freedoms. Yes this has got to be what every patriot hopes for. So am I now considered unpatroitic because I hope he doesn’t succeed in these thing? I sure Tom Hanks can tell me what I am.
Tommy_G on January 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Was he riding an ass? Which one?
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM
During Bush dissent was patriotic. During Bush protesting and obstructing was patriotic. During Bush motivating our enemies and demoralizing our troops was patriotic.
Now that The One is in office?
Even disagreeing with him makes you unpatriotic. Want to stop his spendingpalooza? Unpatriotic. It’s time for us to come together and be bipartisan! You have to support the President! Dissent is unpatriotic!
My how times have changed for the left and Republicans whose top priority is to be liked, huh?
amerpundit on January 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Harry Reid.
amerpundit on January 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Uh! You beat me to it.
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I pray that America succeeds… And I hope that the One ends up a one term laughing stock. We deserve both.
RalphyBoy on January 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Yes, let’s all join the adoration-fest for our new Lord and Savior, Osama Obama! It’s time for unicorns and rainbows!
If he does something good for the country, I’ll certainly applaud. After all, party and ideology aren’t that important if one does what’s right.
But with his retinue of left-wing damaged goods, ranging from race-baiters to felons to those who are arrogant and unqualified as he is, I’m expecting the only thing that will protect us from disaster is a solid opposition.
MrScribbler on January 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Didn’t have my glasses son so I couldn’t tell…not that it would have made a difference anyway!!! but thank you, you just gave me a great idea for a cartoon.
Ciannaky on January 20, 2009 at 10:56 PM
It’s funny. Now is the time to come togather.
What about the last 8 years? Anything the right does that is over the top or less than classy the next 4 years, they were taught how to do it by the Dem’s and MSM. I’ll not be quick to scold anyone who criticizes Obama and crew for any reason.
The left and the MSM has no shame. I’ve been converted this election cycle. Thanks to HA and other sources I learned a lot. The main thing I learned, we are at war with the left. And anything goes. Not my rules, not the rules I would choose, but it’s the way it is.
Let’s play.
Hog Wild on January 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I think this is naive. Obama supporters think he can do no wrong and presumably believe that he will achieve a swift and decisive victory because he is the Great I Am. If that victory isn’t so swift and sure (and we’ve been in Afghanistan for over 7 years now), if our allies continue to refuse to contribute and we get bogged down, trapped in a quagmire and even more troops are needed, I think it likely that many Obama supporters will look for the next anti-war Democrat coming down the pike. And this is assuming he isn’t forced to engage in some hot war somewhere else at the same time. Who knows?
Democrats haven’t suddenly fallen in love with the military. It’s kind of silly to think that.
Bennett on January 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM
As I said in another thread…
Someday soon… may be a week, may be a few months… America is going to wake up… with a terrible hangover, a new tatoo, and find themselves in bed with a transvestite, and ask themselves “just what the hell did I do last night?”
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 10:59 PM
So you’re going to become an anti-American Rightist Racist Republican Traitor Wingnut Nutbag?
SnarkVader on January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
When asked, neither could remember watching ANY prior inaguation, in class or out.
The brainwashing continues.
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I’m here in Atlanta, and the exact same thing happened today with my three daughters!
The 9yo in 3rd Grade was Forced to watch, when she told them she wasn’t interested, she was given the assignment of “reporter”, going around asking other kids what they thought of the “historical” day.
My 11yo, in 6th Grade, was also told she HAD to watch; she told the teacher she didn’t want to, and wanted to read a book; the teacher made her leave the class to run errands, as “punishment’.
My 17yo, in 12th Grade, was told it was an ALL DAY event to watch, they literally had no classes, and had to sit watching the TV all day!
Of course, down here in Atlanta, we’ve been feeling the ramifications of the election of The Messiah, since the night of the election.
My 11yo was pelted with sneakers last week, before school, in the school gym, by the Obama “contingent” in the school; she’s known as a “non-supporter”; they let her know the shoe throwing was in honor of the Iraqi shoe-thrower at President Bush!
Nice touch, huh? I spent an hour and a half in the school last week, reading the Vice Principal the riot act, and letting him, and everyone within earshot, that I was holding them personally responsible for my daughter’s safety, and if it happened again, I would be back!
My wife and all three girls, were harrassed by a posse of Obama supporters 3 nights ago, in the Wendy’s down the street, they was a gangsta crowd of about 7 Obamaites just letting eveyone know in the late night Wendy’s, that the “Bro’s” were getting ready to take over the country, and pay-back was going to start!
I’m seriously considering moving my family to Idaho or Montana…
Dale in Atlanta on January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
LOL? Really?
Can anyone share with us where in Barrys past he’s put country first? A man who wont release his birth certificate, said “I wont wear that pin” attended a Church for 20+ years that hated on America, who’s friends are all American haters, who voted 4 time to end the life of the unborn,who voted against our military, accused our military of dishonorable acts, disrespected our flag,….need I say more?!?!
I don’t want our Military cut, our weapons dismantled,my tax dollars to pay for abortions, a civilian task force, reparations for blacks, talks that will mean NOTHING with Iran, and many,many more reason why I don’t want Barrys agenda to succeed.
christene on January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Holy Guacamole! Succeed at what? Just give him a blank check? Since when do patriots give anyone a blank check?
MB4 on January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Go ahead Mr. AllahPundit. You honor the MSM pundits with your citations, and I’ll honor those that I wish to honor with mine. I choose to honor Ricardo Montalban who, sadly, passed on recently. Collie, why don’t you give them the quote that I have in mind?
My collie says:
That’s all I have to offer the Democrats. Sorry — but I will not submit to the false god named Obama.
CyberCipher on January 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM
MB4 on January 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM
DITTO! My daughter told me the same thing,..they HAD to.
christene on January 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM
If his ideas and idealism succeed then the rest of the world succeed at the expense of our country, and our wallets.
I have only four issues with this man:
1. His beliefs, socialism/communism (oh, he’ll hide it in the first term, but then watch out..)
2. His inexperience
3. His utter arrogance
4. His wife – they’ll keep her and Biden locked up for the most part, but don’t underestimate that woman, ever.
There are no Übermenschen on earth and, yet, he acts, and his minions act, as if he is one. It is really, really creepy.
Entelechy on January 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
So you’re going to become an anti-American Rightist Racist Republican Traitor Wingnut Nutbag?
SnarkVader on January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Copyright Infringement, you’ll be hearing from my Lawyer!
Dale in Atlanta on January 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
At Bill Clintons,swearing in,Rush played the sound bite
of an actor,who was a liberal,and is now a Republican!
The Airforce was doing a fly-over,and he said,from memory,
“what are they going here”?
And,some other Lib said,”Relax,their our planes now”!
Thats all you need to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
DITTO! My daughter told me the same thing,..they HAD to.
christene on January 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Yep, and I know there’s no use complaining about this one!
Dale in Atlanta on January 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Let the slaughter of the innocents escalate! Partial birth abortion…PASSED!!! Infants born alive from abortion…Delegated to the dirty linen room to die out of sight. I really don’t think this is an overstatement. He already voted this way in the past. Now with the gang of 5 Republican senators ready to stand behind him, what’s to say this legislation won’t make it.
Glynn on January 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM
If his ideas……
Entelechy on Jan 20,2009 at 11:03PM.
Entelechy:I’m in your boat,’E’.:)
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Well now that is a comfort. What if Obama wants us in a war that is not on balance in our interests, if at all in our interests? What then?
MB4 on January 20, 2009 at 11:06 PM
East Cobb will do just fine.
angryed on January 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
………….. forgive me,
AMEN!
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM
It was called Yugoslavia, the leftists got in lock step and claimed it was a success, even though the fighting and killing continued for years. They couldn’t get the country under control and it was eventually divided up.
(hmm… maybe the libs ARE pissed that Bush succeeded at Iraq… he did nation building better than the Democrats did…)
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM
One of the mistakes many pundits on the right are making, is in the idea that suddenly, now that they are in power, the Left will grow up and behave reasonably.
They went ape shit about 6 years ago, and started celebrating the most extreme of their groups. KOS, Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan… extremists got not only a platform, but lauded for their extremism, and given support (code pink got front row seats today…).
Since then, they have driven the agenda through sheer volume. They yell, they scream, they protest, and the media gives them attention, while ignoring any other viewpoint.
Well, it worked folks. In the last 6 years they took over the House, the Senate, and the Presidency…
Now, do you really believe that they are going to change their behaviour WHEN THEY WON?
The Right, while attempting to be reasonable, has lost out to pure volume from the left… and until they start to yell back, it is not going to change.
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 11:10 PM
This quote is accurate: there was no opposition to Clinton’s military tactics. But when Bush did the right thing in going after the Taliban, the very group that oppresses women more than any other group on earth, NOW (National Order of Women) opposed it because it was Bush making the decision. NOW ranked partisan politics over their own principles of freeing women from oppression.
jediwebdude on January 20, 2009 at 11:10 PM
East Cobb will do just fine.
angryed on January 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Touche!
Dale in Atlanta on January 20, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I bolded these two statements from the larger quote AP gave to illustrate how topsy-turvy-through-the-looking-glass the whole media has become. Mr. Horowitz is addressing this to Conservatives, that’s his audience (actually its not his audience, but he wants us to think it is so I’ll play along). In the first part he chides the notion of patriotism that wilts when the going gets rough, as well as it being redefined cynically as dissent. But then, in the second part he admits that he knows full well that many on the Left will now support the troops, not out of a renewed sense of tough patriotism, but because their guy is in office, demonstrating the very kind of fluffy patriotism that Horowitz feels the need to warn conservatives of. Plus, in warning us to not be cynical in showing our hatred for America by redefining patriotism as dissent (a definition codified by the new Sec. State herself) he then defines those who were guilty of that very “sin” of cynically expressing their hatred of America, as “alienated” and “disaffected”. This is what really burns my grits, that Horowitz, and those like him, when assessing the situation, feels the need to chide conservatives into not behaving like Democrats, while excusing and/or ignoring those very acts by Democrats. This is why I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that nothing, and I really mean nothing has changed, and there is no desire for unity.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM
………….. forgive me,
AMEN!
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Granted, now say twenty hail mary’s and leave a C-note in my PayPal collection plate.
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I have no hail and I have no chief.
I am a woman without a country….
katy on January 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Wow, you’re a pretty sh*tty excuse for an American. You also don’t seem to understand democracy. No offense or anything.
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Bush had good points and bad, and one of his worst was his pi$$-poor judge of character. He has misjudged Obama badly because he is seeing what he wants to see, just as he has before with others – it’s another, “great job, Brownie!” moment. Obama is the ruling head of the American decadent class, who will destroy this country just as their forebears destroyed Rome. Bush is wrong to be courteous, and I’d personally like to see Obama publicly embarrassed, discredited, and destroyed. Better him than the Constitution that he so miserably screwed up pledging to defend today.
commenter on January 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM
That kind of slobbering unquestioning reverence is not the “End of story”, but rather just the beginning of mindless goose stepping sheeple subservience.
MB4 on January 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM
alex, you’re tiresome.
katy on January 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM
…… that was Ron “what’s his face with beard”.
He was in New York on 9/11/2001……….
…….. and was ‘scared straight’ right there and then.
I’m afraid it will have to happen again………
…….. just after Mr. Obama, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid tell us,
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Andrew Sullivan is already gloating over the coming prosecutions, noting that Bush did not pardon anyone associated with torture.
I hope President Obama does not go there, it would be a terrible mistake. I did not support the adhanced interrogation techniques of the Bush Administration and was absolutely against Rummy’s “taking off the gloves” policy at the DoD, but war crime prosecutions would be a disaster for this country.
Mr. Joe on January 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Just bear in mind that by that same measure, you damn the left to pretty-sh*tty-excuse territory as well. The only difference is that you’d actually be accurate.
commenter on January 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I can extend that to Obama, at least for the present. I find it hard to extend it to Pelosi, Reid, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank. I can extend it to Maxine Waters only if I believe she has had a break from reality.
njcommuter on January 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Someday soon… may be a week, may be a few months… America is going to wake up… with a terrible hangover, a new tatoo, and find themselves in bed with a transvestite, and ask themselves “just what the hell did I do last night?”
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Been there.
My Navy days were a wild ride.
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
One defeated al Qaeda in Iraq after al Qaeda said it was the central front in their war against America. The other wanted to surrender. This is a sad day for America – and western civilization. End of story.
Basilsbest on January 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
They did but he just floated above them.
Cheshire Cat on January 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
commenter on January 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Okay, so maybe you’d like to see a military coup with, say, David Petraeus as acting president for an indeterminate length of time to safeguard the constitution. You’d probably be able to find a lot of support on HA if you did. Who knows, maybe he’d accidentally disappear in the process. That wouldn’t be so bad would it? It would place the U.S. that much further out of reach of Stalinism, right?
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:17 PM
If he does it’ll open the door to Clinton and most of Obama’s staff.
Ya know, the guy who STARTED the rendition system?
Who also approved of advanced interrogation techniques?
Who authorized the use of the National Guard against civilians…
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Sorry, Andy, I’m not buying it. The O is indeed “all about the O.”
I will not foam at the mouth like our liberal friends have these past eight years, but neither will I sing Kumbaya. I will wait, and watch–ever vigilant because I do love this country and everything it stands for. The unknown who was elected today will have to prove to me that he loves America at least as much as I, along with many other commenters here, do.
IrishEi on January 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Yep.
I heard all of this from my liberal colleagues in my theater company four years ago.
What does that tell you?
MadisonConservative on January 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
katy on January 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM
And you’re a quasi-fascist apparently.
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
………. will you take Obama coins?
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:19 PM
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I hope Lizard Man takes over; Minnesota could finally have a hometown boy be President.
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM
6 months ago you would’ve found lots of support for that on any Democrat website.
But you won’t find it here.
Personally I’m still surprised Bush didn’t come up with another false flag scenario to declare martial law while using the constitution to wipe his butt and keep the Democrats out of office.
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM
We hear praise of a power-wielding, arm-twisting President who “gets his program through Congress” by knowing the use of power. Throughout the course of history, there have been many other such wielders of power. There have even been dictators who regularly held plebiscites, in which their dictatorships were approved by an Ivory-soap-like percentage of the electorate. But their countries were not free, nor can any country remain free under such despotic power. Some of the current worship of powerful executives may come from those who admire strength and accomplishment of any sort. Others hail the display of Presidential strength simply because they approve of the result reached by the use of power. This is nothing less than the totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means If ever there was a philosophy of government totally at war with that of the Founding Fathers, it is this one.
- Barry Goldwater
MB4 on January 20, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Don’t let the door hit you in the &^& on the way out… and say to Alec Baldwin when you get to wherever you are going.
Bradky on January 20, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I’m too tired to engage with you nutters tonight.
Name calling is always impressive though alex. Always..
katy on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
I’m sure he’ll take a lovely set of Obamachina(tm)
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Take the gloves off? Are you nuts? They subjected KSM and two other top AQ leaders to a technique that caused no lasting injuries, although it admittedly scared the truth and shit out of them.
Anyone who prefers the comfort of terrorists to the lives of innocent people is deranged.
Basilsbest on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
………. will you take Obama coins?
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Sadly no, I already have bags of them stacked on top of plates, mugs, bobble-heads, mouse pads, etc.
If you get me this, we can call it square (yes, that is the Hudson plane crash depicted):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nude-Obama-Unicorn-US-Air-Hudson-River-Miracle-Painting_W0QQitemZ250359245766QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Paintings?hash=item250359245766&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50#ebayphotohosting
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
……….. how is that public education working for you?
Making the big money yet?
…… please, keep writing and making insults.
It’s…………… amusing in these dark days.
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
But Allahpundit, I don’t want to be a Socialist, I don’t look good in PINK! Have you had A Look at the Stock Market Dip today?
Dr Evil on January 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM
How can you possibly take a woman who expresses “I have no country” and conclude she is a fascist?
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM
al-Qaeda terrorists killed by Quotes of the Day and hellfire missile fired by CIA drone…but mostly hellfire missile fired by CIA drone.
/Channeling Ace
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Obama looked pretty determined not to pursue prosecutions, citing forward-looking actions AND not making the good folks in the security world afraid to do their jobs. Maybe he’s smarter than he looks. Pelosi on the other hand, is salivating over dragging the Bush administration through show trials.
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 11:25 PM
katy on January 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Yeah, sorry about that. I just can’t grasp that you feel you no longer have a country because a guy you don’t particularly care for became president. So what, you only have a country during years when Republicans are in power? Don’t they teach civics in high school anymore?
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Glory, don’t fret. All those who disagree with the libtards are facists. Just ask Jonah Goldberg.
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I think 7 Percent pretty much nailed it. As for the whores in the MSM………fuck ‘em. As to Obama, yeah he’s the president. And when he fucks up, I’m gonna do the “patriotic thing” and let him know. Of course his Obamabots suddenly won’t see it that way….as they did with George Bush. You don’t like it? Tough shit. You fucking libitards chose your path for the last 8 years, now all of a sudden all is supposed to be sweetness and light and can’t we all just get along. Well mosey your little asses over to the new White House web site and take a gander at “us”. As I told them “Fuck you!”.
GarandFan on January 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM
…….. I like the geese still in the engine,
but even I have standards……..
……… How about a Cardinals tee-shirt, even though I am a Charger fan?
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM
http://bigcountryexpat.blogspot.com/2009/01/damn-i-though-it-was-too-quiet.html
And so it begins.
Bennett on January 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Wow. Irony just died from exhaustion.
commenter on January 20, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Yes that works well. Convince the people that every patriot must wish for the new president to succeed. Never to be asked is at just what he succeed at. That is the way to gain power. Then use words and terms like “wintry days” and “gloomy indeed” and “dark valley” and scare the crap out of them and then gain absolute power.
PootyPoot on January 20, 2009 at 11:29 PM
And you’re a quasi-fascist apparently.
alex342 on January 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Inigo Montoya said: “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
Bishop on January 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM
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