Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on March 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
“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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Only 56% approve of Obama as of today.
Thirty-five percent (35%} of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.Thirty-one percent (31%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4 (see trends). The number of Americans who believe government spending will rise during the Obama years has increased significantly in recent months.
Also noteworthy is how Republicans have taken the lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Buller? Buller!?!?
DannoJyd on March 22, 2009 at 10:48 PM
You do what you are told.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM
September 12, McCain +3
September 16, McCain +1
September 19, even
September 20, Obama +1
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM
You will hear some
blunt honestyb.s. and you will notlikebelieve it.getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Fixed it for ‘ya. Honesty is not something Obama seems to be familiar with.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Sorry I can’t resist, it’s how I’m keeping my sanity.
thomasaur on March 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Name the POLICY………
…….. the SPECIFIC PLAN that you say exists, other than the Chinese flooding the American market buying up cheap houses.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Big shift at the end huh?
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
It’s right here, getalife.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Fixed the little fishy in the barrel.
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
All of them combined can’t lose.
Like the banks.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Instapundit has another Tea Party update:
INC on March 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Right. An orchestrated crisis can do that.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Holy sh!t! How do such boneheaded moves make their way through the whole chain? As stupid as I’ve been saying these people are … they’re even worse. This is just off the charts (not that the DVD gift was anything that would have been on the charts, or that stupid ‘reset’ button that looked like The Button, or the ‘overcharged’ gaffe, …).
Oy. The force of all this stupidity is just awesome. Beyond imagination, really.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
The liar had never left. S/he is good for HA capitalism. Traffic is good.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
1860 redux?
OldEnglish on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Then you will not have a problem…….
….. naming just one.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
So says another ObamaBot.
DannoJyd on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
INC on March 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Ah, the gathering to show patriotism and support the bailouts.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
^But not at the end. It was still a month and a half until the election.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Maybe you do what your told, but I on the other hand have no need to led by OZ.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
New housing numbers in Feb.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Yeah, wow:
–Privately-owned housing starts in February were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 583,000. This is 22.2 percent (±13.8%) above the revised January estimate of 477,000, but is 47.3 percent (±5.3%) below the revised February 2008 rate of 1,107,000.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
And where will you be during that time? You misread everything that is posted criticizing Obama and his policies. If as we suspect that these policies cause economic and social stress, you Obama followers will be affected just like the cons. If we are suffering so will you.
docdave on March 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
You seem to be implying that someone is going to hack into his teleprompter’s programing.
MB4 on March 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Please, I remember this cycle very well and they shifted their numbers at the end.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Wait a freaggin minute,the Lefty operatives were consistently singing to the tune,that Bush wasn’t
all that smart,
in the Liberal viewpoint and mindset of course!
But,now,crafty coniving,Liberal operatives are
trying to blame President Bush!
How convenient!
Let me guess,its because of the wars!UGH!
canopfor on March 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Getaclue never lets the truth get in the way of a snarky reply.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
He will play the blame game.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 10:55 PM
………… still waiting.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
OK, that does it. I don’t think Obama is an evil genius; he’s just an idiot.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Our government now owns 80% of AIG, so our president decides to demonize AIG very publicly.
Thanks for looking out for our interests,
MessiahMistake.It looks like Obama and his community-organizing comrades are attempting to generate a groundswell of anger toward anyone who has been successful in their lives. Who doesn’t think this is a prelude to more redistribution schemes?
At what point do the idiots in Congress realize they are backing a lame horse, and begin voting in a sane manner?
If only.
hillbillyjim on March 22, 2009 at 10:57 PM
“Are you going to believe me, or your own eyes?” LOL
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Who would have believed a liberal commentator on a liberal news program would ask the POTUS if he were punch drunk.
As much as they hated George W. Bush even the liberal press had enough respect to not try such a thing!
This is what we have become thanks to Obama and the Dem congress and Senators a freakin joke
dhunter on March 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Getaclue never lets the truth get in the way of a snarky reply.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
They systematic destruction he has suffered on this thread would have driven a sane person off, but not getaclue; he must like getting whupped.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Seven Percent Solution: You may be waiting awhile. getagrip doesn’t seem to pay attention to comments that he can’t answer or slap him down with his own words.
Like I said, get him a glass of water so he can go back to bed. This is the grown ups time.
SerenityFL on March 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to the republican party since Gingrich …
Only 56% approve of Obama as of today.
Thirty-five percent (35%} of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-one percent (31%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4 (see trends). The number of Americans who believe government spending will rise during the Obama years has increased significantly in recent months.
Also noteworthy is how Republicans have taken the lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
I hope Obama continues to ‘succeed’ as TOTUS.
DannoJyd on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Divide and conquer. An oldie, but a goodie.
OldEnglish on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Get ready Seven, this is normally when he/she/it tells us to look it up on Wikipedia.
So clever, this one is.
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
It’s a long list.
Use the google.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Nothing new
To those who knew
A cipher then
From way when
Media get a clue
Getalife et company
Having an epiphany
Their cipher worse than Carter
For superiority they barter
All needing a lobotomy
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
This is a joke, right?
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Do these trolls work for Hotair in order to generate more comments?
I mean, some of the comments are so blatantly idiotic that I’d swear someone is just having fun writing in caricature of leftist stupidity.
Saltysam on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Where have all these people been living the past two years? Obama is doing exactly what he said he would do. From day one he has told us in plain English what his vision for America was, and what you see being played out is exactly what he said he would do; “spread the wealth around”. Remember Joe the Plumber?
Just because what Obama said he would do if elected was so unbelievable that many choose to not hear it does not mean he didn’t tell us. So many people just heard what they wanted to hear. And he told us that too. He said clearly at one point that he was a blank screen onto which people projected what they wanted to see. Did you think that was just a Zen thing or what?
America is now in full throated death rattle and we are sitting at our keyboards trying to decipher stupid, abstract ideas about who and what Obama really is instead of standing up and stopping the coup-de-gras Obama promised to end the American dream. While the future of our children and grandchildren is converted from one of boundless opportunity to a wasteland of socialistic tyranny, our entire society is mesmerized into inaction. Perhaps we don’t really deserve freedom, as declared long ago about those who would trade it for a little security: and now we have neither; unless we are actually prepared to take both back by force.
You can think what you will about my views and the future, but one thing you need to quit fooling yourself about is who Obama is. He has a lot of things wrong, but he did not lie about who he is and what he plans for us.
MikeA on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Well, it looks like all of the Obama missteps might make the Obama recession turn into the Obama/FDR depression.
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Getalife is Punch Drunk.
Clyde5445 on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Perfect.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Oh man, I was so freaking close!
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I hope it is… Is it?
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
MikeA on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
True.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Last Friday some people were claiming that getalife = AP…
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
one comment later:
LMFAO, fogw. You called that one.
SerenityFL on March 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
AP, you hit the bull; transformative is what he wants to be. Now the folks are seeing what he meant. Just hope he shows his real colors sooner that later.
PaCadle on March 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Especially because I just finished watching part of the clip on You Tube in which Obama criticizes Cheney.
I’m looking for just the clip when asked if he’s punch drunk.
Obama looks medicated to me.
INC on March 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
LOL! you still get points.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Saltysam on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM
They also sound like being the same person. If I wouldn’t know better, I’d think they’re hired by HA, and not by the Axelrod/Emanuel machine. Just laugh at them and keep going. They are, contrary to their Utopian idealism, very good for capitalism.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:05 PM
First Brown. Now Sarkozy:
Boy I sure hope Obama wants to work with the ACTUAL leader of France in the next four years as well.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
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This is similar to what I call the ‘Al Gore light bulb got’cha‘… Once you accept his prodding and change to those compact fluorescent lights… He’s got’cha. You then become much less resistant to any other suggestion he makes.
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Same thing here, you can’t argue with history in the making. But a POS is still a POS in my book.
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RalphyBoy on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
But the best news is the drones have the enemy running scared.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Corrected it for you SerenityFL
Clyde5445 on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
You are the one that said it as fact…….
…. give an example, back up your opinion with a fact.
Again, just one will do, one policy, on piece of legislation, not a bill no one could read before it was signed, not a speech from TOTUS, what did he actually put forward as his own, pass in the light of day, and cause the economy to start to recover.
Come on girl……..
………… what, they didn’t provide those talking points?
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Sure yuk it up guys! Laugh your ass off at the trolls while the whole world is laughing their ass off at us and our POTUS!
Didn’t President Urkel just say something about humor to get you through the day or was that a gallows we need?
dhunter on March 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
I swear I had thought about it, in a very, very cynical way.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Sadly, I think that it was quite deliberate.
OldEnglish on March 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Evidently not.
INC on March 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
It’s hard to tell so I will stick with all of them.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Ditto, but then I’m a smartass cynic.
thomasaur on March 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Ooops. Looks like Wethal beat me to it.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM
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Just thinking about some tests… as in… Your in.
RalphyBoy on March 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I only saw a little clip of the interview. I don’t know if he’s medicated (he always strikes me as slow when he’s speaking), but he still has problems with the indefinite article – “a unprecedented …”. He seems to like to enunciate the mistake, too! I’ve noticed that he has huge problems using ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly. I always wondered why no one ever brought this up. It’s almost as if he didn’t grow up in America …
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Yes, Mam!
I do and I will!
Saltysam on March 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM
dhunter on March 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Yes, lighten up.
We will be fine.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Your answer defeats your own arguement……
….. If it’s so hard to tell, why is it so hard?
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Obama is just so impressed at how Chirac managed to make/keep the French economy so centralized while still not being referred to as a leftist, but instead as a moderate…
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I suppose now we know why Zero sent the Churchill bust back to Britain, he thought Winston might be missing it.
Maquis on March 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
If you believe all that I’ve got some April S&P 1000 calls to sell ya.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
ROFLMAO! How did you do that? That’s like the blog equivalent of a hole-in-one.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Thanks for the compliment but let me put that rumor to rest with these words.
God bless President Obama.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I’ve found it to be one of the common mistakes made by people from S.E. Asia.
OldEnglish on March 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
I just wish that we could have given them Bawney instead of the Churchill bust. The bust is definitely more valuable.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Plus Bawney could have been the Queen in waiting.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
It’s complicated.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Submit that bad boy. I think we’ve got tomorrow’s “Obamateurism of the Day.”
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM
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As Rev Wright would say…
RalphyBoy on March 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM
I am not sure about medicated but I definitely think there is something to the incongruent affect.
msmveritas on March 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Hey! Thanks for reminding me. I’ll do it right now.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM
More like an A-hole in one.
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Heh…you’re a jewel, dear.
Patrick S on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Chrysler, GM, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Obama/dem created deficit, 1.15 trillion dollars printed, countless banks and financial institutions, 401k’s, inflation, unemployment, gas going back up…….. Almost to Carter and headed for FDR.
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
A product of ebonics?? Just a hunch.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Since God doesn’t exist, I’ll go with that.
OldEnglish on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Getaclue is over at Politico too, doing the same lame crap as here. Goes by a different handle but way too easy to spot. Go take look and see if you can find him/her.
Knucklehead on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Not the “ha, ha” kind, though.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Wow, I’m scared at how idiotic these people running the White House are.
deidre on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Thanks for the laughing tears. The endorphin release is great. If you think this would absolve you from being him…think again. I’m aching from laughing.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
No……….
…….. it really isn’t. But between all the appearances on “60 Minutes”, the “Jay Leno” show, and the weekly cocktail parties at the White House, I can see how you may think so.
Come on……..
……….. don’t give up so easily, think about it.
They just planted a garden at the White House……
…….. that had to put at least ten people back to work.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
If this is truly the way getalife thinks, then getalife should pay for the tax increases of every conservative on this blog.
It’s dipsh!ts like getalife that got our country into this mess.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
A child’s crayon rendering of Churchill is more valuable!
Maquis on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Just call it a comeback.
We will be fine.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I suppose now we know why Zero sent the Churchill bust back to Britain, he thought Winston might be missing it.
Maquis on March 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Pffft! Ogabe thought the bust WAS Churchill. The Secret Service detail finally got brave enough to tell the President that the bust wasn’t the real man and he should stop talking to it.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
+1000
RalphyBoy on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
“Jonathan Martin”? LOL
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 11:19 PM
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