Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on March 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant government he leads…
In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy…
He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself ‘transformative,’ a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited.
During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that ‘I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can’t figure out what for.’
I laughed then, but no more.”
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“Smithers, release the hounds..”
blatantblue on March 22, 2009 at 9:33 PM
“Too cool for his own good.”
Repurblican on March 22, 2009 at 9:33 PM
He is an embarrassment to this country like no other…
redshirt on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Lately he has been the very opposite of the man he promised
……..
Lately?
How about from day one?
artist on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 PM
The questions is…how much damage can he do in four years and will it be too late to correct. These costly social programs are near impossible to reverse.
rich8450 on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 PM
In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy…
………..
You don’t say?
artist on March 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM
You said it.
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM
During the campaign I assumed he was just allowing himself to be cast as the messiah because it would help him get elected. Apparently he believed it himself.
Jeff_McAwesome on March 22, 2009 at 9:36 PM
There is no there, there.
RobCon on March 22, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Values in common with: Chavez, Marx, François Mitterrand, etc., but nothing in common with Americans.
WashJeff on March 22, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Well, at least a lot of people here can have the satisfaction of saying “I told you so.”
Is that worth anything in the new collapsed order?
kc8ukw on March 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I don’t see the guy lasting until 2012 – I’m half hoping we don’t lose him before 2010.
Marcus on March 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I am waiting for a Cronkite moment with Obama sometime in the next couple of years. A tipping point when the media turns on him to save their own
assescredability.RobCon on March 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I hope Obama is enjoying all of this popularity while he has it.
Mord on March 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Pants on fire!!
christene on March 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Right now it doesn’t matter, the Democrats will win as long as Republicans have no strategy other than trying to appease the media.
Obama’s presidancy is not in jeopardy as long as people turn a blind eye towards what he is doing.
Rode Werk on March 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM
A bunch of arrogant, clueless frat boys is running the country, and this is the permanent hazing of America. (Don’t cringe at my grammar, “is” refers to bunch, not boys.)
College Prof on March 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant government he leads…
Hence the fact that ammunition and reloading supplies are becoming so scarce they are practically black market commodities.
Ogabe is unlike any other who has come before; he actually believes the hype about himself and because of that he is truly dangerous.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM
First quote:
I am speechless at the ignorance of these journalists. There are so many commenters on this blog alone who could have told you exactly who Obama is and what his agenda would be. Soem of the chattering class is finally getting the message.
Second quote:
Obama is an evil, deceptive man whose “gallows humor” just reveals his inner nastiness. Rush said Obama is a cold, mean man. Rush is right.
INC on March 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold’s The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists.
Arnold taught me to question everyone–my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn’t supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That’s the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.
That’s Obama’s world.
He’s telling the truth when he says that he doesn’t agree with Bill Ayers’ violent bombing tactics, but it’s a tactical disagreement. Why use dynamite when mass media and community organizing work so much better?
- Jerry Bowyer
Who needs Molotov when we’ve got Alinski?
MB4 on March 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Seriously, what where reports listening to during the election? Anyone will to see reality and listen to Obama new that his voting record did not lie. He is the most leftist man ever, and hoperfully never again, elected to the
POTUSTOTUSWashJeff on March 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Good thing all the facts that were on the table for everyone to see……………
……….. were reported to the American people in an unbiased way, so they would have an educated, informed opinion to choose the best leader of their country.
Yeah………
……………… good thing.
By the way……….
………… how many apperances on “60 Minutes” is this, and only now they are asking, “Are you Punch Drunk?”
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 9:41 PM
He is such a poser. As if he thinks if I act Presidential I will be Presidential. Schadenfreud is fun at the expense of the Obamabots but it is very expensive for all of us.
RobCon on March 22, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Y’know, Gang. It’s pretty bad when an idiot like Hugo Chvez called the President of the United States an ignoramus. Even Chavez has him nailed.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Chvez=Chavez
oops
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM
The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Mr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the misanthropic Mr. Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other; in mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
Sigmund on March 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM
And this is just the economy. Iran IS going nuclear very soon. What is Mr. wonderful Obama and his pathetic schmuck of a Vice-President Joe Biden going to do then?
RobCon on March 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM
NO
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 9:44 PM
And I quote – “Lay off.”
Stephen M on March 22, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Yep. But instead of for what, maybe we should ask for who? Soros?
Zorro on March 22, 2009 at 9:45 PM
They’ll probably leak coordinates of the most vulnerable spots in Israel to Iran.
“Just sayin’”
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 9:47 PM
someone above said that we all agree that bambi is BAD, but nothing will change unless we stop waiting for the media to change it for us.
i’m protesting 4/15–not that its a monumental thing, but i’m becoming more involved. everybody needs to “get in their faces” more. our movement has to MOVE
kelley in virginia on March 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM
You know what’s not too big to fail?
Our government.
The bigger it gets, the greater it’s failures.
Greg Toombs on March 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM
And so it goes… Day 60 of Barry’s “War on Prosperity”
Even liberal paper with the highest metro-NYC circulation sees the radical…
phreshone on March 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM
It’s not so much the damage he’s doing or that he’s floundering. We all pretty much knew that would happen. What’s amazing to to me is the speed in which he’s doing it.
lowandslow on March 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM
But why did Chavez call Obama an ignoramus? It was because Obama accused Chavez of exporting terrorism. So agreeing with Chavez is not a good line of argument unless you genuinely think he is not in cahoots with FARC.
aengus on March 22, 2009 at 9:50 PM
War on Prosperity
War on Security
War on the Security of our friends
War on our grandchildren
War on the USA
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM
It’s so nice not to have a you-know-what on this thread so far. Can we just enjoy this for a minute?
That surprises me that Kroft would ask him that.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM
. There’s gotta be a gallows to get you through the day,”
Thats’ right Presidente Pinnochio, a gallows is just what is needed for you and a bunch of lying Congress Critters,and Senate Scumbags.
You who are destroying this great country and savaging its wealth and wealth producers. A gallows then TERM LIMITS
dhunter on March 22, 2009 at 9:52 PM
That Daily News story is fantastic. A bit too late, and many of us came to that conclusion a LONG time ago. But nevertheless, it’s still good to see it in print. May there be more.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 9:52 PM
And every freakin’ nimrod that voted for this guy is an equal embarrassment. Hear that, trolls?
So, now that we as a nation are starting to see the ramifications of this monumental mistake, how do we go about the process of a complete overthrow? (Preferably, BEFORE we get destroyed by our enemies whom are giddy over our lack of leadership.)
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 9:52 PM
“Words, just words”
Whatever he says, he will do the opposite. This is how we must hear him.
katy on March 22, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Only for the American citizen who is easily taken in by a cult personality.
For the rest of us, it’s playing out as we expected. It’s like watching a movie in which the smiling villain is obvious to everyone except the one he is deceiving. Gaslight is one example of many that could serve and Obama is playing the part of Charles Boyer.
INC on March 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM
What’s going to make this all worse will be the inevitable foreign threat. God help us all, when that happens.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Like I’ve said many times before, obama works directly for the enemy. We’ve never been weaker.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM
From 0 to worst President evah at the speed of light.
Hog Wild on March 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM
I don’t think he’s human.
We elected a cyborg.
katy on March 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM
yes, not having trolls here for a few minutes is like those first golden minutes after the children have gone to bed & the house is blessfully silent.
kelley in virginia on March 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Oh, and just so everyone remembers, the Press just phoned it in.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 9:56 PM
God Bless America
Land, that I LOVE
Stand beside Her
And Guide Her
Through the night…..
TN Mom on March 22, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Yep. I’m just surprised that the realization for many has come so soon. I thought Obama could at least fake it a little while longer, maybe until autumn.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 9:56 PM
No he’s not punch drunk. I saw the same thing Kroft saw when Obama debated McCain, and the war hero stated that Obama began his political career at a coffee meeting in the home of unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.
Obama didn’t defend, or minimize, or attempt to refute the claim. Instead, he laughed. That’s all.
But it wasn’t a humble “aw come on” laugh. It was the laugh of a sociopath knowing he’s getting away with something.
That’s what Kroft saw.
jeff_from_mpls on March 22, 2009 at 9:56 PM
aengus on March 22, 2009 at 9:50 PM
That’s good if Obama actually got something right. In no way would I ever agree with Chavez on anything except this. In defending his horrible activities, he accidently nailed Obama with a word that describes the way he has conducted his governance of the nation so far. Ignoramus certainly fits Obama up to this point.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM
A perfect storm of corruption, incompetence, and communism.
I never thought it could happen here, and it is happening here.
Dhuka on March 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM
No, we’ve elected a muslim terrorist. He knows exactly what he’s doing. His plan is going perfectly, as far as he and his little wifey are concerned.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I was just a kid during the Cuban missle crisis, but I knew enough about what was going on that I was pretty scared by it. I’m beginning to get that same kind of fear again now.
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I never thought I’d ever say this but our President is worse than Jimmy Carter.
lavell12 on March 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Make sure you read to the end of the second article when Obama has the gall to criticize Cheney:
Obama set up a straw man to push for the law enforcement model. Cheney explained how some of the Bush administration policies had been effective in preventing terrorism.
In the King interview Cheney gave as a specific example “the potential attack coming out of Heathrow, when they were going to have several American planes with terrorists on board, with liquid explosives, and they were going to blow those planes up over the United States.”
Cheney also said this about going back to the law enforcement model:
INC on March 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM
This is exactly the point. This is not about the economy, or rather the economy is but one sub issue of a complete change in society and government. Obama is a direct assault on our freedoms and liberties as Americans and even as humans (but don’t go looking for Bono to save us either). We delude ourselves if we continue to think the media and those with a bully pulpit will get us out of this. Marches are a start, But we need big ideas going forward. It doesn’t end with The Precedent but it would be a nice start.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM
HISTORICAL
Hopey/Changeys grand Utopian Socialist Dream,seems to be
smooth sailing,not even a ripple!
The question should be,Mr President,when will Ayers and Dorhns be done spending American Taxpayer’s money!
Does Dorhns/Ayers still need another 3 to 5 Trillion!
When Ayers was working out your Presidentcy in the living
room,what details of destroying America can you devulge,
and I’m only interested in the pillage of raiding the
treasury,under the ruse,of saving the economy,under
the stealth of the ‘Stimulus Bill’,to smokescreen the
real plan of Reperations for Slavery,under the talking
points,
of Wealth Re-Distrbution of getting *evenism-withism!!!!!!!
*(canopfor would like to note,that evenism-withism,has
been ripped from one of Rush’s phrases!)ahem.
of screwing the Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinkin Rich!!!!
canopfor on March 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM
scary laugh. like the laugh of the grim reaper.
time to watch another John Wayne movie. Oh God bless me, why did i decide to quit smoking at a time like this?
kelley in virginia on March 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
ericdijon on March 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Why does Gallup keep showing his numbers going up, but Rasmussen has them going down?
SouthernGent on March 22, 2009 at 10:00 PM
The key will be when he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt from people who can make his agenda happen(ie Senate democrats). There’s a reason why he wants to kill the filibuster rule on legislation.
The key will also be in how he reacts to it- a good scenario would be where he just gets sulky, bitter says fine and just enjoys the trappings of the office.
The other scenarios are too grim to contemplate-yet.
jjshaka on March 22, 2009 at 10:00 PM
President Government is on a steroid overdose of imposing his vision of “social justice” that will skid this nation into poverty, dependence, and hopelessness.
Congress, stand up to this megalomaniac.
onlineanalyst on March 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM
What those of us who didn’t succumb to the MSM-led suck-fest knew all along was (and is) this:
Osama Obama never has been “the man he promised!”
He has never done a tangible thing in his life. He never will.
He needs to be removed from office before D.C. 2009 becomes Moscow 1917.
MrScribbler on March 22, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Never trust any of these polls. I always had an inkling they made Bush’s numbers much worse in public opinion than they probably actually were. (I have no facts to back this up; just a hunch.) And I believe these same people running the polls are propping up obama more than public support actually dictates.
I trust the polling people about as much as I trust the MSM.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 10:04 PM
What in the world would be influencing an increase in poll numbers? Nearly every person I know that voted for the man has expressed some reservation if not serious doubt.
msmveritas on March 22, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Folks. No fooling … it’s time to impeach Barak Obama.
It’s a bona fide emergency. This man must be impeached.
pabarge on March 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Does anybody here really believe 300 million people who have grown up with liberty will give it up without a fight?
I don’t.
They’re behind Obama because they believe they will gain personally, in the form of cash money.
The rate at which people realize they did not get cash money is the rate at which Obama will be rejected by his own voters.
That’s why the Obama team is busy whipping mobs into a frenzy of anger. He needs to buy a little time. But the house of cards will come down. You can take that to the bank.
jeff_from_mpls on March 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM
At least Jimmy Carter, as bad as he was, had served in the military and did like, if not love, his country. Obama is a malevolent pathological narcissist who is a sadist who wants us to feel our pain.
Dhuka on March 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM
His close friend and associate.. Rashid Khalidid.
His close friend and asscocoate who helped him attain money for his Harvard education…Saudi businessman Rashid Monsour.
First phone call of his Presidency went to the leader of the Palestinians.
Video message to the Iranians.
Ya think?…
katy on March 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Khalidi
katy on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Really!! You’re lucky.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM
INC on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM
The punch-drunk exchange is leading Billy Cunningham.
Awesome.
jeff_from_mpls on March 22, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Next up……………..
……………. TOTUS’s Civil Defense Force to deal with all this criticism.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:07 PM
From the Goodwin article:
Of course there’s no history for it. That’s why he’s The Precedent.
No. The Precedent is just naturally stupid. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together understood this way back during the campaign.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I saw a reference to this in a Political Punch comment and found the article in the Birmingham news.
Obama volunteers hunt budget support in Birmingham, Alabama grassroots campaign
Just thought you’d want to know about the thinking of at least one Obamatron.
INC on March 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM
He is a liar, a swindler, a bamboozler, an okie-doker. Sixty million people have been horn swaggled. This is authentic American western jibberish for- Man, are we in trouble.
ndulik on March 22, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Dear Fox Network: tell Barack Hussein Obama you refuse to air his address to the nation. Especially not during “American Idol.”
Tell him if he wants to take over a time slot, he can have the ever more apropos slot “The Biggest Loser.”
jeff_from_mpls on March 22, 2009 at 10:09 PM
And to think, for this American Idiot, we passed over Governor Palin. Fools. Nobody had any reason to believe that he nothing but a Chicago thug. Just look at his history. Special Olympics comment. My. God.
bloggless on March 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Dunno. Maybe Gallup uses a 65%D, 10%R, 25%I sample. LOL I wouldn’t be surprised.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Even if every young person between the age of 16 and 25 signed up it wouldn’t be enough to make a difference ina threatened US population.
My worry is foreign troops on US soil under Obama’s command.
katy on March 22, 2009 at 10:11 PM
We’re full.
SerenityFL on March 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Jeff, I agree. Why should “American Idol” be preempted for an “American Idiot”?
bloggless on March 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Watch Hillary …
Because when “The One’s” stock has hit rock bottom – you’ll know it because Hillary will be there to put the death blow to him to create herself as the “savior” of the Democratic Party.
HondaV65 on March 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Now you are agreeing with Chavez. Wow.
Did you agree with him when he called your hero the devil?
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM
“We’re looking for supporters,” said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event’s organizers. “We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.”
Careful what you ask for, dude, you might just get it; you’re not the only one preparing for confrontation.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Precisely. Polls can be rigged to show anything. Rasmussen, however, usually gets things right more than other polls.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM
He certainly must be thrown out. It’s either him or the US. I’m still counting on the SCOTUS finding their guts and doing their duty, eventually, but I admit that there’s a huge amount of stupidity engulfing everything these days. There’s no doubt that this is the Bolshevik US, right now. The only question is whether The Precedent fails, unlike Lenin. It’s going to be a close call. We’ll see what’s really left of America.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Not only is The One a danger to our national traditions and historical order I honestly believe his Liberalism will get us in to a serious war with a real world power. And he will have so emasculated our military we will be in for the fight of our lives. Liberalism is always a slow road to conflict because it fears to engage and destroy the enemy. Look at Europe, it fears to confront the Muslim cancer that threatens its very existence and the American Left fails to learn.
DerKrieger on March 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Poof- there goes the whole plan for the public/private partnership.
aquaviva on March 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM
QUESTION- DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK THAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE ECONOMY OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS HAS BEEN DELIBERATE? TO ALLOW THE PASSAGE OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT WILL BEGIN IN EARNEST THE DECLINE OF AMERICA?
bloggless on March 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM
When I told my dad about the regulation of executive pay Obama plans to do, he said, “That’s what Fidel did in Cuba when I lived through the ‘revolution.’ He demonized bank owners, small business owners, and gas station owners.”
My dad was a political prisoner in Cuba.
That should send shivers down any capitalists’ spine.
You Obama drones really screwed America.
jencab on March 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM
You can bet there will be a massive Islamic terror attack and Obama’s response will shock everyone. Even us….
katy on March 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I met Dick Cheney 25 years ago when I lived in WY and he was the US Rep for Wy. I have closely followed his career. When this know nothing, never accomplished anything 0 sneered about how much wiser he was then Cheney my TV was in danger of being demolished. And then 0, “The buck stops here” guy, couldn’t resist telling about how hard it was to have to correct those bad decision that were made l year ago, 5 years ago, the camera turned to Kroft and it seemed he was totally disgusted with 0. When that appears on CBS, things sure must be changing.
Oleta on March 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM
You’re in a quagmire, old friend. This might very well be the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party. What’s your exit strategy?
jeff_from_mpls on March 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Some like it hot and some sweat
When the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that
They can´t go on
Some like it hot, but you can´t tell how hot
Til you try
Some like it hot, so let´s turn up the heat
Til the cyborgs fry
MB4 on March 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM
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