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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Dude, Barry wasn’t around those that spoke Ebonics until he was in Rev. Wright’s Circus. No, Barry was definitely a loner … a momma’s boy.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Yes. I tried to point out, during the campaign, that the key to many of his stupid mistakes emanated from the fact that he is not really “American”, in the sense of being raised as an American. The ’57 state’ gaffe was one that only a non-American could ever make. Americans tend to confuse 50 and 52, but never 57. He made a lot of these mistakes – especially with respect to history, where it was obvious that he had the view of a third-worlder. But this never caught on during the campaign. To me, it stuck out like a sore thumb.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM
If TOTUS was allowed in the Oval Office he’ve set the man straight sooner.
Maquis on March 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Right, getalife. People like you think “god damn America, and God bless obama.”
You’re an idiot.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Cartoonist Michael Ramirez as always is spot on (re/ a Tonight show appearance by a sitting POTUS)
http://www.lucianne.com/images/lucianne/DailyPhoto/2009-03-22.bmp
Marcus on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Barry may not have known who Churchill was. Men lacking spine tend not to.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Knucklehead on March 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I am everywhere.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Nope. They used illegals, Pelosi thought it would be “more American.”
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
NewFlash!
Tuesday, June 18, 2009:
President Barak Obama was reportedly found lying in the fetal position in the corner of the oval office with his thumb in his mouth saying, “Mama!”
Members of the administration were unavailable for comment.
Film at 11…
Joe Pyne on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
That’s what I thought, at first. But he was raised by his typical, white grandmother, and his mother, at times. It was the Indonesian schooling, I think. I doubt his mother or grandmother, being typical white people, had any problems with the indefinite article. Very odd stuff.
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Three words: Nation of Islam.
The thing that always slowed down liberal dilettante Communists is that they had the diametrically opposed goals of trying to collectivise the American economy while keeping as much wealth as possible for themselves.
Obama has no such compunction. His only goal is to throw as many monkey wrenches in the works as fast as he possibly can. He was trained since birth to be radical, and he is absolutely nothing else.
Real Islam, like Communism, has as its ultimate tenet that uniting the world under one giant yoke will magically create a Paradise on earth.
The Chicago-based Nation of Islam doesn’t preach that. Its only goal can be summed up in three words: “God damn America.” After the purge of the ancestors of slave traders, the doctrine just sort of lapses into some gibberish about a giant spaceship from the planet Zepton or something.
The details of the endgame are pretty darned fuzzy. But Obama’s short term goal could not possibly be more clear.
logis on March 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Like spoor mold.
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Are you claiming that Obama has done something that made those numbers possible? If so, what?
Esthier on March 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
WELL, then… BY ALL MEANS, ABORT ANYTHING IN THE FETAL POSITION! (Right, libtards?)
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Queen Nan was heard saying: “They’re going to grow Mexican Cake for you un-American tax-payers.”
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
The Lightweight Worker was yukking it up on 60 minutes about the economic crisis. What a complete clown. What, did he think he was still on Leno or something?
I have this feeling that the train wreck cometh, and its name is Obama. The only people who aren’t worried, publicly or otherwise, are those who are so invested in the Tabula Rasa, the Empty Suit, that they refuse to see what’s so obviously before them: a rank amateur in his first real job with absolutely no f’ing idea what he’s doing.
mr.blacksheep on March 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
So are flies.
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
LOL. You’re killing me!
progressoverpeace on March 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Markus, here’s a legible link. Ramirez is the greatest artist of our tragic zeitgeist.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM
You’re right. Thanks for the clarification.
nolapol on March 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM
OT: This obnoxious letter to Chirac makes me wonder WHO thought THAT was a GOOD idea? Are there no brains in the WH? How can one man surround himself with so many equally lame-brained people? It’s astonishing!
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Why is that noteworthy? So we can have a repeat of 2002-2006 where Bush and the Republicans spent like drunken sailors? Where Bush/Republicans can create another massive welfare program like the Medicare prescriptions? Where they can expand the public school system like never in our history? Where they can attempt to pass amnesty in the dead of night with no hearings, no reading of proposals ala Stimulus bill?
You mean you want us to go back to that?
If they ever get power again, I wonder what those losers will do, I wonder if they’ll spit in the faces of their supporters again.
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Esthier on March 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
It is complicated and hard to tell so I will go with all his economic proposals combined to clean up this disaster.
With all that money thrown at it, it will work.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Interesting question…………
………. to bad no one else has asked it.
:O)
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
You can take the Obama from the Madrassa, but…..
hillbillyjim on March 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Gnats, rats, mice, squirrels, rabbits, ants, spiders, mosquitos, etc….
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
Maquis on March 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I doubt they will change.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Bravo. Mitt Romney is the most impressive politician that this 62 year old lawyer/Economics graduate has ever seen. And the idiots who can’t abide his Norman Rockwell family are just that, idiots.
Romney/Jindal in 2012.
Basilsbest on March 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
LOL…the Democratic Party motto.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
That’s right, there are no brains in the White House. Just an empty suit with nice teeth.
Oh, I’m sorry. There is a brain in the WH. I completely forgot.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Is that seriously your argument? Just like Public Schools, right? We just haven’t thrown quite enough money at them in the last century … that’s why they’re getting worse the more we spend…
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Without going too far out on a limb, just take this bit from the Quote of the Day, and apply it to foreign policy.
Just sayin’…
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM
? What? He can’t decide what he is. Can somebody please explain what Mitt Romney represents?
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Nah. I don’t dig it when people throw out the “Manchurian Candidate” explanation, or even the Nation of Islam one.
Obama is a capital “L” Liberal. Plain and simple. There isn’t anything secret or conspiratorial about it. This is how liberals think, this is what they have wanted for decades. He’s governing exactly the way Pelosi or Reid or Frank would govern in his place.
Don’t let the left off of the hook for Obama by blaming all this crap on some conspiracy. This is Liberalism in all it’s glory.
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
They scramble every day for a new enemy
To direct the heat away from he
They search high and they search low
For someone at which to strike their latest blow
If they could only see what an enema 2010 will for them be
MB4 on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
NO. It won’t.
Ph.D. economist sends
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Unlike Liberal Democrats……….
………. we do not promote those who lie, cheat, steal, graft, corrupt, embezzle, and are traitors to our military.
Google it……..
……… by the way, still waiting for one example.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:30 PM
gop motto, let the mess we created fail.
Hoover.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Bingo. All the Dems would have to do is play that YouTube video of him debating Kennedy over who’s more pro-choice and pro-gay marriage.
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
What would they know? They weren’t educated in the fine art of Community Organizing.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
How many may finally be thinking that Obama is not a smart man, as we have been told? Nor is he a calculating man, as has been inferred. He probably isn’t anywhere near the educated man, as has been touted. He is not any of the things his supporters tried to convince us we would see in him.
His single-mindedness, which can just as quickly morph into indeciveness, surrounded by near-evil smiles and nervous laughter is disconcerting.
I believe that we are actually looking at a very real sociopath who has nearly learned to hide the affliction with the deftness of a Chameleon.
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Obama’s second term.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
No offense to Mitt. Nice guy and I have nothing against him. With that being said, he doesn’t have the heart for this fight.
There’s only one person I trust to take the fight to the machine, and it sure isn’t Mitt Romney.
Nat Hound on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
LOL!
You remind me of a guy I know that started wrenching on his his motorcycle to fix a simple timing problem. Two days later, with grease on his face and sweat dripping off the end of his nose, he took the whole mess to the pro shop in milk crates.
That had to be the most expensive tune up I’ve ever seen anyone suffer through.
Saltysam on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
It already is.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Perhaps Hoover’s (I doubt – can’t find it on the google), but Hoover was no neo-liberal.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
gop motto, let the mess we created fail.
Hoover.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Just wanted to cite a more recent example.
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
There are several of them here on HA, there and elsewhere. They have quite a few things, easily recognizeable, in common:
- noms de internet
- writing style
- same exact talking points, on any topic, given to them by their masters
- staying power – don’t get mad at them, just smile at the gnats-a-dozen they are
- nothing better to do all day, every day, every thread
- serving their masters, blindly
- not very deep
- plus a few others which escape me; I’ve documented them here in the past – they’re just too easy to spot in their machinery.
They should never be confused with the few serious liberals/democrats who comment here.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
This is a joke…right?
I mean, it better be a joke, my 3 year old has more sense.
Joe Pyne on March 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Mormonism.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Thank you. Ramirez is brilliant and a wonderful anti-dote to the vacuous liberal media.
Basilsbest on March 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
You think that his Economic Plan will work? Can’t wait for a few months, then hear your sniveling like a baby. I can tell you are not all there. I pity you. The Market could have stabilized before TOTUS took Office. They should have waited but they are greedy money hungry thieves. BTW, with the 600.00 or so a month for losers as yourself. Remember you will pay taxes on that money!
sheebe on March 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I am everywhere.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Not a Romney guy here, but I know he’s a capitalist. Your president seems to represent people who don’t want to work.
Patrick S on March 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Ein Minderjohrigkeit mit Minderwertigkeitsgefuhl.
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Who is my President? If you mean Obama, then he’s your President as well.
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
No, getalife. You just THINK it is. It is not.
But hey, everything you post suggests that you are probably a C- student in an age of inflated grades.
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Wall Street doesn’t need to be proped up.
Free Markets self correct.
This is a Banana Republic Market in the making.
Geithner is going to make a speech tomorrow about Wall Street compensation….
Prepare for another 800+ drop in the DOW tomorrow.
Kini on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
“If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough”
Albert Einstein
“First, do no harm.”
Hippocratic Oath
Saltysam on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Can somebody please explain what Mitt Romney represents?
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
4,000 times as much business and executive acumen as Ogabe.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Yeah, like FDR.
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
I know, you’re omnipresent. Do you like cats?
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
DrStock on March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Read up. I posted the facts that it is.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Our resident idiot, a bigot yet, weighs in. I’m not a Mormon but I find Romney’s Mormonism less of a concern than Obamateurs’ socialism.
Basilsbest on March 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Dogs.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Heh.
Weight of Glory on March 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Ok, that I can accept as a response. As long as you don’t say capitalist after he socialized Massachusetts healthcare system. As well as raised fees so he could avoid calling himself a tax raiser.
I’m not a big Romney fan, but in the end I would have rather had him than Senator McCain.
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
First of all, liberalism is collectivism – which is absolutely nothing BUT conspiracy. That doesn’t mean that it’s always well-planned; in fact in the case of the moonbats it is anything but that. It’s just the gestalt of a bunch of confused mind rejecting reason and replacing it with perceived concensus: what Bill Bennett referred to as “the herd of independant minds.”
Nation of Islam is simply a sub-set of liberalism – like Communism, Socialism, or the radical elements of Islam.
It’s all poison, just different flavors. What Obama is doing is clearly different from what Bill Clinton did.
logis on March 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Yeah……..
……… that’s what the guys at the bar say.
Still got that “Easy Rider” tattoo on your a*s?
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I am everywhere.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Come on now, you can’t be EVERYWHERE; my dog specifically goes in one part of the yard, therefore you can’t possibly be everywhere.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Let’s have a pool on tomorrows DOW. My guess is 320 to the bad.
thomasaur on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I’ve ready to grab a gun and folllow Goodwin to the barricades!!!
notagool on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
In what grade are you?
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
ROTFLOL!!!
Funny. Hoover was a Republican, but you know what mistakes he made in panic and left for FDR to attempt to correct (and screw up even more)?
He allowed one of the biggest tax hikes in American history, he started huge public works programs and started a trade war.
Any of this sound familiar?
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
That ain’t saying much though. 4000×0=0 LOL
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Sure. He’s ONLY a fiscal genius. He’s genuine. He’s built billion dollar businesses from scratch. Every president should have the business knowledge this man has. He also has lived life on the straight-and-narrow, is a self-made man, has a wonderful family, is a solid leader, and is a Reagan style conservative. He wasn’t built up by a chicago-thug-mafia-style machine. He doesn’t believe in taking from one populus to strengthen another. And he believes in defending our country.
Oh, and he’s good looking and makes great speeches… since that seems to be the only thing that’s a presidential pre-requisite in some people’s eyes.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Really, you think 800? I think it is going to be a huge drop but 800 is crash territory. Shall we start a pool?
msmveritas on March 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
No tattoos.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
I can see that you either don’t have a High School Diploma or you are very uninformed. But since you are a Liberal you don’t like to research the other side of things. You haven’t got the ability to balance. You are one sided and on the wrong side. You might think it is working but it isn’t working. I hope you are prepared………………
sheebe on March 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Bush?
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Well, yes. But so does Britney Spears :)
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Tragi-comic and incredulous as this farce and charlatanery is. There will be dire consequences to this foolishness. 2-3 generations might not recover from it.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
These days, I’m learning that I should be happy just having a President who doesn’t see me as the enemy. The quality leadership pickin’s are mighty slim lately, I’ll take what I can get.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I just found out who TOTUS is…
jerrytbg on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
High school or college freshman?
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
getalife is now googling gift stores looking for an omni.
fogw on March 22, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Sorry I didn’t see your post. I would have gone around 300 but I will go with 400.
msmveritas on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
LOL! A graduate of libtard pre-K.
ErinF on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Well, yes. But so does Britney Spears :)
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
As they say in Cambodia:
Touché.
Bishop on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Jr. High?
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Forgive me………
……….. I jest, girl. I will debate you on the facts, but I will never stoop so low again.
I will leave it at that……..
…….. but I will still challenge you on the facts.
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
“Getalife!….Getalife!….YoooHoooo…..
Oh, there you are – Bobby sent me to tell you that mom wants you home, now!
Joe Pyne on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Exactly. Except for the trade war, raising taxes and massive government programs.
Did you read the comment?
29Victor on March 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Unfortunately, yes… That we should be so lucky to continue… strike that… bolster the past policies…
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Isn’t it a Chrysler product?
thomasaur on March 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM
If by genuine you mean genuinely plastic, then I agree with you. I like the straight and narrow stuff, and definitely love the business acumen stuff as well. Don’t misunderstand, I like the guy, but he doesn’t come off too genuine.
Look, at least Obama can lie well, he hid his past very well, so he can at least come off as genuine even though he’s not. Romney needs to work on it.
True_King on March 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Johan Klaus on March 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Retired in the good ole days of President Clinton.
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Because nothing says Friendship like pissing off the Chinese.
Upstater85 on March 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
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