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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Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
$10 bet that TOTUS takes a daily 2 hour martini lunch!
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 12:54 AM
This is tough because I really don’t like or trust him. By itself it is an indicator that something is not completely clicking with him. It is just one measure. I think the interviewers reaction shows that he finds his joking out of place. I would like to see the interaction on video though. I am very curious.
msmveritas on March 23, 2009 at 12:54 AM
No worries! I’d rather be set straight twice than not at all!
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:54 AM
The scary thing is that, by definition, gallows humor is made by the person who believes that death/impending doom is INEVITABLE.
Daggett on March 23, 2009 at 12:55 AM
The Entitlement TOTUS
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 12:55 AM
If only TOTUS snorted coke… Oh wait…
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 12:55 AM
” enemies foreign and domestic”, about says it all.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Horsepotatos
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:56 AM
It may be our only choice.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
You have to think big. When we are eventually living in a Thunderdome world, ammo will be valuable barter currency. I plan on having so much raw material to make ammo that I’ll be able to buy my way into power.
Who run Bartertown? Uncle BISHOP run Bartertown!
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Thanks for your take. I’m fascinated by this stuff, like watching a slow motion train wreck, and being tied to the track…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Good idea.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Yeah but Feral Boy thows a mean boomerang!
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Confidence just tinkled down its leg.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM
I wonder what they edited out? Show us the un-cut version!
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM
I think he is laughing because he knows what he and his band of advisors have done and are doing to this country. That’s why he is laughing like that. He knows exactly what is going on and that his plans to ruin this country are right on track.
cjs1943 on March 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Anyone who thinks blacks will disown Obama no matter how bad he does is crazy. There are still libtards who think Jimmy Carter was a better President than Reagan. And I don’t think Obama will be as dumb as Jimmy in making decisions.
Speedwagon82 on March 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Yeah, but that doom is coming towards the one laughing. It’s a raw kind of humor directed at yourself. I don’t think Obama is laughing because he sees the train headed for his presidency.
INC on March 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Road warrior.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM
I posted this at the beginning of this thread, and since you’re an expert, do you think he’s on the “edge” of a breakdown? I too wish I’d watched it.
I looked at some of those Leno videos, Obama keeps looking down at the corner of the couch. Anyone else notice? Did he have crib notes?
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM
:)
TimothyTimorous GeithnerEntelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM
There are three types of people in the world, Chuck.
Ogabe is the third type.
Bishop on March 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Maybe TOTUS will run along and join the drug cartels in Mexico. He scores. We score!
Win/Win
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Ha…
You should explain the difference between the two verbs to Chris.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM
I think they would use him in a very un-Presidential way… yeah win/win
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM
What would Captain Walker do?
Exactly what Captain Barry won’t….
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM
LOL
From your keyboard to The One’s ears.
soundingboard on March 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM
the succinct truth
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM
She actually learned this phrase from Gibbs at the last transparent press conference.
Upstater85 on March 23, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Where’s Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo when you need him?
Daggett on March 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM
“Are you punch-drunk” is really just a nice way of saying “are you nuts”
or maybe
“are you in over your head”
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM
The link for the police interview is really good. That is why I said I would like to see the video. Deception, denial are real possibilities. I would love to see a body language evaluation.
msmveritas on March 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Obama has passed Carter and is pulling away, with dumb decisions.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM
If you go on the CBS site, it’s about 12 or 13 minutes into the interview I believe. I’d also like your take on Kroft at that point. I’ve got to run, but I’ll check back tomorrow to see if you have any more thoughts.
INC on March 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM
God, it does. *Groan*
Not only have we always been at war with Eurasia, but Ogabe’s always been our President here in Orwell Land.
Jenfidel on March 23, 2009 at 1:06 AM
One last comment: I’m glad you liked the link. When the police site came up, I thought I’d check it out as he probably has a lot of experience dealing with deception!
INC on March 23, 2009 at 1:06 AM
I think it was “are you nuts” and I don’t think there IS a nice way to say that. I like his choice of words, personally, but not because it’s a nice way to say “are you nuts?”
Daggett on March 23, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Naw man, I was jus in Cali and decided to try out somma that medical marijuana,he he ha ha. Now I have a case of the giggles and man do I have the munchies. Got pie?– BHO.
canditaylor68 on March 23, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Hoo-hoooo!
You’re on a tear…
Remind me to stay out of your sights!
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Got any pizza?
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:08 AM
No worries, I never go after people of substance.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Selfish quote of the day: (sorry, just looked at the time stamps on the posts)
Happy birthday!
3-23
3:43am
3rd child
Draft number…..er….3(yeah THAT was a lucky day)
Ok, now back to Barry & the Pirates…..
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM
He finally told us what those values are that he is going to enforce. He said bankers should not make more than teachers.
Hold on to your wallets and your liberty, folks.
PattyJ on March 23, 2009 at 1:13 AM
With shroom toppings Im guessing that would be Obama’s fav kind…lol does anyone else get the feeling Obama is becoming more unhinged?
canditaylor68 on March 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM
“Reformed” terrorist teachers, or normal teachers?
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 1:15 AM
Such individuals who lack ulterior motive have traditionally been referred to in layman’s terms simply as a variation of a pyromaniac. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are failing to stop or they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Motivation is also classified as pathological and non-pathological. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at horrific situations is pathological. Other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in horrific situations for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of supposed rational decision making. I hope this helps.
Sigmund on March 23, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Lim, a big e-hug. May you live a healthy life, to at least 100, and may you fight them with all you’ve got. May yours always love you because they have a treasure in their midst,
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM
per wall street journal:
Timmy’s got a $1 TRILLION plan to buy toxic assets. With private investors (financial banks) and government (taxpayers) money. Private investors, you know the very investors whose heads they wanted!
With zero transparency to guard the taxpayers (1TRILLION) investment, no regulations, what could possibly go wrong?
Yep. That’s an ADDITIONAL $1 TRILLION…..
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Using that same logic, it stands to reason that lawyers should make less than dishwashers. Right, Mr. President?
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:18 AM
…and, most importantly, hold on to your children.
Liberals only WANT all your money. They NEED your kids.
If Obama is telling the truth, and he honestly intends to keep some bankers alive, then his short-term plan isn’t as catastrophically bad as it appears right now. And all we really need to worry about is the next round of nationalizations.
Unfortunately, that’s a really big “if”.
logis on March 23, 2009 at 1:19 AM
Shouldn’t the question have been…”are you Power drunk”?
Gohawgs on March 23, 2009 at 1:20 AM
And all congress critters should make less than dishwashers; during, and up to 10 years, of leaving office!
For the good of the country of course!
TN Mom on March 23, 2009 at 1:22 AM
100? Damn, I better pack my bags then ;)
Sorry to jack the thread…..i’m still 18 somewhere inside here.
Back to Barry, the man has one goal, Rushmore. Nothing less will satisfy him. He doesn’t care who gets in the way he and his TOTUS will make it in stone.
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 1:23 AM
I blush.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:26 AM
Thanks!!
In laymans terms “he gets his nut off by watching the country implode while he’s pulling the trigger”
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 1:27 AM
18? I always thought 8 :)
Where are Spirit, RushBaby, JiangxiDad and a few other old-timers? Have they headed to gulches already?
Rushmore? Nah, he’ll need a mountain peak all to himself.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:27 AM
I was in Czechoslovakia years ago and the person that I was visiting, pointed out a person who was digging a ditch and said ” DId you know that the person who is digging that ditch makes the same amount of money as a doctor?”. I ask my friend ” Then why would anyone want to be a doctor?”.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Sigmund on March 23, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Was, is, and always will be a pathological narcissistic cipher.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM
This is no small point…
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM
Well that’s about it in a nutshell, but I have learned that I have to be a bit long winded in my psychoanalysis if I am to justify my fees.
Sigmund on March 23, 2009 at 1:32 AM
The real reason for pre-K and kindergarten.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:32 AM
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Bravo!
I am stealing that arrow and keeping it well stored in my quiver.
Thanks for that.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM
Buy stock in guns, ammo and beer.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:35 AM
Is there a difference anymore?
(Yes, I know we still have some fine teachers but even they have to use crappy text books and PC BS.)
mrsmwp on March 23, 2009 at 1:35 AM
Sure, in communism the ditch diggers got the state provided cheap apartments and other privilages, long before any intelligentsia. That was the “workers’ paradise”, don’t forget. Now I’ll have to have bad dreams. How I thought that I’d escaped that for good. How wrong I was.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:35 AM
We will no longer have to bury you. Now you will bury yourselves.
PootyPoot on March 23, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Here’s a perfect distinction btw. socialism and capitalism. I got it from my good e-friend, Limerick.
“The postal service moves 1 lb. of goods with 5 people. FedEx, UPS, etc. move 5 lbs. of goods with 1 person”.
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 1:39 AM
There will be no shoe pounding on the podium around here. Putin wears those ninja slippers.
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 1:40 AM
I was sorta goofing on Obama’s buddy Ayers.
But I do hear ya! I have problems with the teaching establishment and their aggressive nature regarding other folks kids. I am not one to put teachers on pedestals. I respect some, maybe most, but trust almost none.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 1:42 AM
And UPS and Fedex can find illegal aliens.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM
Hell, let’s not leave out the President while we’re at it.
I wonder what he thinks of the incomes of professional athletes and Hollywood personalities? They shouldn’t make more than social workers and park rangers.
And, I’m sure he feels that news anchors should be on an equal income level with county health department officials.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:45 AM
G’nite HotAirheads. Tomorrow is another day to do battle for “truth, justice, and all that stuff”.
(I’m gonna miss Hot Air when Olberman seizes it in a hostile takeover)
Limerick on March 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM
And what should tax evaders make?
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:47 AM
And book writers! Obama should sign a law retroactively taxing 90% of his book sale profits! This would really cut down on tell-all political memoirs too, not a bad outcome…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 1:47 AM
Me too, good night all.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 1:48 AM
I just watched that 60 minutes video. Thanks to whoever posted it.
Our. Commander. In. Chief. Is. Nuts.
I don’t think he even understood most of the questions.
The. Laugh. Was. Evil.
I’m going to have nightmares tonight. Please stop the world, I want to get off.
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 1:48 AM
I think there’s a bruhaha going on with the Dodgers, charities and contracts.
I’m too tired to find the article tonight.
Knucklehead on March 23, 2009 at 1:52 AM
If only the media hadn’t waited until after Obama was elected to actually ask him some difficult questions.
RightOFLeft on March 23, 2009 at 1:52 AM
I remember in a documentary I watched years ago I learned that the Bolsheviks, after storming the Winter Palace, dressed themselves up in overalls and workmen’s clothes the better to pretend that they were ordinary blue-collar schlubs. They were of course the middle-class Russian intelligentsia. It was a clever ruse though.
aengus on March 23, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Yeah. If only child molesters would lock themselves in jail before committing the heinous crime.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 1:58 AM
Poseurs. Always.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 1:58 AM
I never thought of Obama as being super intelligent. I think he’s an empty suit. He has people telling him how clever he is, patting him on the back, building up his ego. Even in college when he was appointed to run the Harvard Review it was most likely because he is Black. They probably convinced him he was smart and that sroked his ego some more. Then other handlers took over and carried his career further. They couldn’t do the work for him all the time, as his failure with the Annenberg Challenge shows, but they managed to keep him believing he was really that smart and capable.
Perhaps that’s what attracted his wife, she can also pat him on the head and make him feel important, while she runs the show. I picture him as a show dog like an Irish Setter, all appearance but on his own unable to perform the work he should be doing. The worst part is that his handlers may be in over their heads now with the problems he is facing or they could lose control.
With someone like Obama, it’s the men/women behind the curtain we have to worry about.
Deanna on March 23, 2009 at 2:00 AM
I know most people won’t believe me or want to hear this but Putin is not a Communist. Yes he worked for the KGB but that is not ideologically significant – every Russian was a part of the Communist apparatus to some extent.
He is a Russian Nationalist – a frigheningly intelligent and dangerous one – but there is no evidence that he is acting on the basis of Marxist principles. If anything it’s the West that is Communist-leaning and Putin is acting out of pure national self-interest.
aengus on March 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Damn straight…
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Yes. Damned straight.
And I’m increasingly convinced that a good lot of those people are not American and, to take it further, not Western.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Indeed. Same with the “workers’ paradise” hooey.
aengus on March 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM
I believe every word of it. Best regards, aengus. Hold the fort over there,
Entelechy on March 23, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Barak Obama has made it perfectly clear that the last thing in the world he wants is to be “just like the guys on the dollar bills.”
His only goal in life is to get as far away from their legacy as he possibly can — and to take America with him.
logis on March 23, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Yup. TOTUS is only the marionette strings, someone else is doing the manipulating.
Looking at his/their inability to populate Treasury and such it is evident that they are incompetent, but perhaps we should be considering other reasons as well, possibilities include:
1) They are unwilling to share/dilute their power.
2) They cannot find that many people they can trust to participate in a conspiracy without exposing their plans.
I believe the first is confirmed. The second I fear is so as well.
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM
Tim Geithner is as sharp as ten pounds of wet leather…
RealDemocrat on March 23, 2009 at 2:10 AM
Krakatoa.
hillbillyjim on March 23, 2009 at 2:10 AM
Nonsense. The only possible reason Barak Obama could have had for hiding his school records is because he got straight A’s, and he doesn’t want the world to have too high an opinion of him.
logis on March 23, 2009 at 2:10 AM
UnAmerican all the way. Sadly.
Shame that all his foreign connections and overseas raising and non-American bigamist Communist African Papa and his Madrassa days and his refusal to release mounds of documents to include his birth certificate weren’t enough to tip us off…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:12 AM
I’m actually beginning to think Obama is a sociaopath. It is simply mad to propose his agenda right now.
It is mad to go all the way to California when his Treasury Department is not staffed. It is madness.
What are we going to do with a madman as President? He hasn’t even surrounded himself with anyone competent to lead as a shadow leader. Like Kissinger, Nixon’s people might have been ethically challanged but they weren’t complete idiots like the folks Obama surrounds himself with.
Who is going to lead? Carville? And Noone better say Biden bbecause that is just ridiculus!
People here talk like there is some way to get rid of him before his term is up and there isn’t! A man like this knows how not to break the law. And he is a control freak on the lines of Stalin. Anyone with talent and he doesn’t want them close.
Obama is the worst disaster in American history.
petunia on March 23, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Foul! You’re not allowed to say that.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 2:16 AM
I’m pretty sure that when the new Iron Curtain falls all of us on HA sans the trolls are going to be receiving lots of attention from the authorities…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Oops!
I’m pretty sure that when the new Iron Curtain falls all of us on HA sans the trolls are going to be receiving lots of attention from the authorities…
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:19 AM
I’ve got to work in the morning.
Night all.
A pleasure to chat with all you America loving nut-jobs. Makes me feel right at home.
Cheers.
Saltysam on March 23, 2009 at 2:21 AM
Wolfgang Petry’s words, appropriate now, but a hard translation.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM
He is a Russian Nationalist – a frigheningly intelligent and dangerous one – but there is no evidence that he is acting on the basis of Marxist principles. If anything it’s the West that is Communist-leaning and Putin is acting out of pure national self-interest.
aengus on March 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Yes I would agree. Putin is Russian Nationalist and Russia doesn’t have a history of representive government. And they come by communes through history so that way would always be more natural for them than us.
What I think is scariest about Putin is his totalitarian tendency. And his sense that parts of the old USSR that Russia might have some historical claim to are part of his agenda.
World dominance and regaining national honor… remaining a super power, etc. Those are more important to Putin than Marxist type government I think.
petunia on March 23, 2009 at 2:23 AM
That’s pretty much the Russian psyche isn’t it?
Maquis on March 23, 2009 at 2:26 AM
And not in the psychiatric sense either. He quite literally hates American society. He’s been taught since birth that America is an evil land, based on slavery, that wants to kill him and everyone who looks like him.
There are literally MILLIONS of black Americans who feel that way. But many people would rather die than admit it’s possible that Obama might be a member of that “imaginary conspiracy.”
What incredibly rational reason do they have for believing that? Because Barak Obama is soft-spoken — and even went to college for crying out loud; ergo, he can’t be “really” black. And the only possible reason anyone could have for not sharing their opinion is because everyone other than them is a racist.
logis on March 23, 2009 at 2:27 AM
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