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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I know, I know …….
……. the bigger muskets and powder are for home defense.
I need something to make a loud “bang” to disperse those that aren’t serious when need be ……..
……. so those who are left, attract my undivided attention.
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I agree he’ll be a disaster for the Black community. I always thought that after the first Black president Barack we’d be given the opportunity to elect the first “real” Black president, no White ancestors and genuine slave blood, just because the “Dream” was only partially fulfilled.
Now I think Blacks will shortly be citing his ancestral short-comings in order to distance themselves from his disaster in progress, because Zero is the wrong kind of Dream.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I think you have a point. Sometimes I wonder if Obama even cares if he gets re-elected. Sometimes I think he just wanted to try this out to prove to all of those “cool kids” that he too would someday be cool… I know it goes a lot deeper, but I don’t think that Obama is a “soft hearted liberal.”
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I know there’s a technical/medical name for people who laugh in the face of a catastrophe. What is it?Oink on March 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM
OldEnglish on March 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Plus he might not be thought of so highly once illegal amigos start taking the jobs that blacks want…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Don’t know much about diplomacy
Don’t know much about producing energy
Don’t know much about an economics book
Don’t know much about the constitutional law I took
But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(Diplomacy)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Producing energy)
La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(Economics book)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Constitutional law I took)
But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
- The Boy Emperor
MB4 on March 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM
To me, he sounds like one of those marxist robots who can’t string two thoughts together, but once you get on one of their practiced areas, they have a whole script they start reciting. Like a Latin American anti-capitalist. That’s why it strikes me as coming from Indonesia. Ages five to ten are formative years.
I would really love to know who funded all of his schooling and traveling.
progressoverpeace on March 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM
progressoverpeace on March 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Well, crap, maybe…but I sure hope not :) .
I think he, like every other liberal, wants power plain and simple. I believe that he handled the porkulus bill the way he did so that Congress would “owe him” when it came time for him to push through his health care and other radical plans. Just like Bush thought that he could get points with Congress by increasing spending on education and other crap like that.
I have no way of knowing if he agreed with Rev. Wright or if he even payed attention to what the guy was saying. He wasn’t there for spiritual fulfillment. He used the Rev, and the church, and the Black community to get cred…to get power. And it worked.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM
It is sort of like the stock market, you have got to diversify. 22 cal.,. 380, 9mm, 40 cal., 44 special, 44 mag., 45 long Colt, 45 ACP, .50, 270, 30-30, 30-06 and a 12 guage and a good gun safe. And with the Glocks, no rust problem.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM
That’s been going on forever already… Oh, you mean when they take all those magical jobs he was going to line up for his homies that will never happen?
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Ok…I obviously missed something here and I will gladly pay you tuesday to tell me what Ogabe said today. What did he say on 60 Minutes? Anyone willing to fess up and save me the research time?
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Strike that. ::sigh::
Moriaty?
OldEnglish on March 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Correctly stated, Barry is slicker than Slick Willie and Hillary combined.
lasertex on March 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Confessions of a sick mind indeed.
lasertex on March 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM
You have an interesting point, but do you think that Congress would really remember their IOU? I mean if he proposed something really controversial that could cost Queen Nan an election, do you think she would *Rahm* it through the House?
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM
I didn’t watch it………..
……… but I heard he was “Punch Drunk”.
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
The One was kept chuckling while talking about what horrible shape America was in right now so the interviewer asked him if he was “punch drunk.”
I bet TOTUS had a few words for him when he got home.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
There’s a tasteless joke in there but I think I’ll leave there.
thomasaur on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
It is sort of like the stock market, you have got to diversify. 22 cal.,. 380, 9mm, 40 cal., 44 special, 44 mag., 45 long Colt, 45 ACP, .50, 270, 30-30, 30-06 and a 12 guage and a good gun safe. And with the Glocks, no rust problem.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM
But…I don’t see the mention of .223 in your list..*GASP!*
Heretic!!!11!11!!eleventy!!
Get out!
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Another thing to consider is that Obama has ordered that used military brass cannot be sold as is to be reloaded, commercially or otherwise. It is all to be melted down. That’s gonna hurt ammunition prices big-time. Especially 5.56 and 9mil I suppose.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Haha… I don’t know, Obama does seem to be giving his well-connected homies jobs and burning the rest.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Bishop, this is from the transcript
I just want to say that– the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money (LAUGHS) into the auto industry. So–
STEVE KROFT:
18 percent are in favor.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
(LAUGHS) That’s–
STEVE KROFT:
Seventy-six percent against.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
It– it– it’s not a high number.
STEVE KROFT:
You’re sitting here. And you’re– you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, “I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about (LAUGHTER) money–” How do you deal with– I mean, wh– explain -
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
Well–
STEVE KROFT:
–the mood and your laughter.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
Yeah, I mean, there’s got to be–
STEVE KROFT:
Are you punch drunk?
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to (LAUGHS) get you through the day. You know, sometimes my team– talks about the fact that if– if you had said to us a year ago that– the least of my problems would be Iraq, which is still a pretty serious problem– I don’t think anybody would have believed it. But– but we’ve got a lot on our plate. And– a lot of difficult decisions that we’re going to have to make.
msmveritas on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM
No. I think it’s the same mistake that Bush made when he first got in. He was used to making nice with Democrats in his state and thought he would get something back for it. Oops.
I think that Obama fails to understand that Democrats in congress don’t care about anything, no program, no ideology, no nothin’, anywhere near as much as they care about the personal acquisition of power.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Ahhh…thank you for the clarification about the “punch drunk” comments I’ve seen referenced.
So Super Fly was chuckling about the horrid state of affairs in which we find ourselves. Great, just effin great.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM
And I’m about to freak out, and, and…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Eh…the European socialists have managed to transform their society without changing their governing structures.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Dang! Wish I would have watched it now.
SerenityFL on March 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM
My grandson owns the .223, so I dare not claim it.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Anyone happen to watch Huckabee this weekend (I know yuk). He did his show from Elkart Indiana with those almost out of business RV manufacturers that the Boy King promised he would fix when he campaigned there.
They. Are. Not. Happy.
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Yeah. I’m sure he’s home right now sobbing like an innocent little babe over that utterly inexplicable deviation from what you know – deep down inside – to be his REAL character.
Because he is exactly like every other liberal in the world: he only wants “rainbows and butterflies.” And everyone who disagrees with that must be a lunatic, right Sigmund?
logis on March 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Which lead us to our muskets and powder………
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Always with those negative waves….
James on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
I saw a little bit of that interview and the only thing he can do is try to pin everything on Bush. He was asked about decisions he has to make on a daily basis and he replied that his decision making would be easier if decisions made last year, 2 years ago, or even 5 years ago weren’t made the way they were. Everything is always someone else’s fault. He won’t own up to anything. He has skated all of his life and he plans on skating to the end of his term.
cjs1943 on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Yes, by nature, progressives crave power, but I think there are programs that they go out of their way to support. For example, Queen Nan taking on her “faith” over abortions/contraceptives. Clearly, she believes government funding of sex toys is a constitutional right… I wonder if she could still appease her San Fran community if she wasn’t as outspoken.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
…and he sees every one of these “crises” as an opportunity to expand governmental control of the economy and society.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
But– but we’ve got a lot on our plate. And– a lot of difficult decisions that we’re going to have to make.
And I really don’t have the first clue on how to do any of this. Presidenting is tough, ya know, and I don’t get a lot of sleep and one of the aholes on my staff should have frackin’ TOLD me that there was more to the job than cocktail parties and my nifty Air Force One jacket.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Oddball is that you?
thomasaur on March 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM
That’s a good way of putting it.
At least, he’s soft-headed.
progressoverpeace on March 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Didn’t see it. Reminds me of those yacht builders going out of business over the luxury tax some years back. The haters just never seem to break the code that punishing “wealth” hurts everyone.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM
What’s the betting pool on when Hillary jumps ship?
SouthernGent on March 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
There’s nothing more terrifying than bottomless incompetence wrapped up in impervious self-confidence.
Cicero43 on March 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Huh? Like every other liberal he exploits economic fear to push a political agenda of bigger government and more control. See: FDR. Read: Liberal Facism
I have no idea where you’re getting this “lunatic” stuff.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Sounds like the rhetorical grunts of an underground Clinton-Sharpton strategy.
Ouch!
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Reloaded, or melted? Big difference. A case can only be reloaded so many times and each individual case must be inspected…well…unless you are a Russian or Chicom.
A stretched neck on a case or a popped primer between hammer and sear(common reload problem) can run an M4’s whole day (not to mention the good fella pointing the rascal).
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Always with those negative waves….
James on March 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That’s my other dog imitation.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Anyone other than me think Biden would be an improvement? Sure couldn’t be worse.
platypus on March 23, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Ask Blacque Jacques Chirac.
(Wasn’t Blacque Jacques Chirac a Bugs Bunny villain? Maybe that’s who Obama thought he was writing to…)
Daggett on March 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM
I’ll quote this in my lectures. Thanks,
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM
We may need to consider devising and disseminating alternative weapon designs to make an end-run around shortages and bans.
Remember those stamped-metal one-shot .45s we dropped in occupied France? Just enough to get close and take a Nazi weapon…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM
If you want to feel some confidence tickling up your leg, look at this image…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Great movie. Even the German was for free markets.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I would prefer it that your assessment was correct. At least someone who wants power is rational. To me, the difference between The Precedent and Liberals is akin to the difference between Iran, or Al Quaeda, with nukes and the Soviets with nukes.
progressoverpeace on March 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Thank you for the transcript of that part. That’s vile.
Is there a psychologist in the house?
What does it mean when someone when they laugh at a horrific situation, especially when said person is in a position to help correct it, but instead only acts to make it worse?
INC on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
They had some big shots from a couple boat companies there too. Luxury tax, that was good one, but I’d better shut up, getalife may run back to the White House and make that request again.
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
I know he inspires such confidence, I am so moved/sarc. I mean we are a long way off from healing the planet and curing cancer aren’t we? The man is so over his head.
msmveritas on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Great read. Goldberg is one of the pundits that I rarely get upset with…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
The first to ever use a real Tiger. It was a sight to behold!
I still think Rickles stole the show.
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
He’s not giving anyone a chance to inspect them to determine if they can be reloaded, they are all going straight to the crucible for melt-down. Sorry I don’t have a link, read about it this weekend.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
I dunno. I believe Nan belongs lock, stock and barrel to the abortion lobby. She says that crazy crap because she’s from San-Fran and it gets her funded and re-elected. Is she really that crazy? Sure. But she’s crazy like a fox.
It’s all worked so far, she’s one of the most powerful women in the world.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM
I think I see a dorsal fin cutting the water’s surface.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM
My grandson owns the .223, so I dare not claim it.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Well….ok, I guess. It just doesn’t feel right to see a home armory not containing .223/5.56 firearms; seems so..so..so..un-American.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Am I the only one who thinks this guy is realllllly creeeeeeepy looking?
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Cripes, just read the transcript of that 60 Minutes piece.
Between 7 and 10 am, he sort of knows what he’s doing. When he’s working out and eating breakfast, he sort of knows what he’s doing but the rest of the day? Not a damn clue.
SerenityFL on March 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM
0bama has no clue as to what is going on and he doesn’t care what is going on. He also thought it was funny to get lost in the White House because its so big. He is classless.
cjs1943 on March 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM
I have a MS in counseling Psych, I am just going to say when someone displays humor in an inappropriate situation it is referred to as incongruent affect. It is something that is used to evaluate in the Mental Status Exam.
msmveritas on March 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Or ten.
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM
I don’t like reloads. One jam is too many.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Yeah, I don’t want to paint Nan as a pure ideologue; however, I can see her back in the 60’s running around San-Fran with a wire coat hanger…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Nope. The One made a deal with her to dump the Gaffenmeister and take her on in 2012. It was the only way she ended up supporting him. That, and State, because without the Clintons he’d be even more nakid.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Nope. Question: If Timmy G was an animal, what would he be? Explain.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM
So it’s less a matter that he thinks the subject is funny, he’s just unstable, n’est-ce pas?
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Another thing to consider is that Obama has ordered that used military brass cannot be sold as is to be reloaded, commercially or otherwise. It is all to be melted down. That’s gonna hurt ammunition prices big-time. Especially 5.56 and 9mil I suppose.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
A few thousand angry calls and some official interference on the side of the good guys got the plan canceled; it’s back to normal and disaster was averted, this time. I had the link, if you need it I can probably dig it up again.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM
The nose reminds me of Lucy when she meets Wm. Holden at home after the Brown Derby bit.
thomasaur on March 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Yeah. Not a fan myself. Gimme virgin any day. Then again I know some pretty good reloaders.
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Maybe, but he made a deal with the devil. I’m rooting for the devil in this case!
SouthernGent on March 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM
progressoverpeace on March 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I’m pretty sure I’m right on this one. I remember the ’70s. Obama represents nothing more than unrestrained liberalism, just like Jimmy Carter. Clinton had to act like a moderate to get elected and then was restrained even more by a Republican Congress.
And I don’t see liberals in search of power as a rational actor. I see them like a Medieval doctor bleeding a patient. They will insist on keeping up the “cure” until they kill the guy and then say “well, maybe next time.”
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Well, with Michelle in the same bed as you every night… He’s probably afraid he won’t make her proud.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Not only that, but he makes mollusks appear vertebrate.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Good to hear, thanks. No need for the link, I know most of the good guys on HA.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Thanks. Just got a mental image of Nan burning her bra.
I don’t think I can ever forgive you for that.
29Victor on March 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Hmmmm. Interesting.
Do you really think she can “hide” at State, without damaging herself over the next four years?
A lot can happen.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Now THAT is funny.
Daggett on March 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Reloading your own is the wave of the future.
Learn it.
Live it.
Love it.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM
What bra? Sorry…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Ow! Well done.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Massive economy problems. 661K lose their jobs. TOTUS doesn’t work weekends!
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM
deja vu?
Rovin on March 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM
It may be our only choice.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Congress is thinking of passing a bill that would give TOTUS the authority to work on the weekends as well. Of course a pay raise is in order: TOTUS will get to visit Chris Matthews’ leg on Friday nights.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Actually, the NRA and company got that policy reversed last week.
A Balrog of Morgoth on March 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
I’m with ya, anything is better than this fiasco. And I don’t think all of those gaffes Biden made about Obama were really gaffes. Me thinks Biden is now embarassed to be connected to the Boy King
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Thanks. I’ve been searching some on the web. I did find some stuff on a police interview site about laughter and deception that I thought was interesting.
Everyone knows about nervous laughter, but that’s not what took place. I don’t think it’s gallows humor either. To me gallows humor is something you use as an escape valve when you’re hurting. When other people are in a disastrous situation it’s totally inappropriate to laugh.
This was especially incongruent (that words nails it) because he has a great deal of power and his actions directly affect many people around the world.
Honestly, what comes to mind is a James Bond villain.
INC on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Nevermind :)
A Balrog of Morgoth on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
deja vu?
Rovin on March 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Deja vu all over again, as Randy Moss would say? No, Ogabe is wittingly trying to ruin the country, all the better to stomp the socialist boot on our neck as we desperately try to salvage something from the mess.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Do you realize that he has only been in office for 2 months? It seems like 20 years.
cjs1943 on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
I think Wilson knew what he wanted for “his” country… It’s now called the UN.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM
The term is “sociopathic.”
He’d only be a “Moriarty” if he’s also a genius. And I just don’t see that.
logis on March 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM
He’s a lazy bum. He’s never worked for anything. It’s all been given to him because he’s (half) black. The Harvard education, the Chicago church, the Senate seat, the presidency. He has NO idea what a day’s work means.
SouthernGent on March 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM
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