Quotes of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on April 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and [liberal philanthropist] George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.’”
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“Mr. Obama may think he can soar above all of this, but he’ll soon learn otherwise. The Beltway’s political energy will focus more on the spectacle of revenge, and less on his agenda. The CIA will have its reputation smeared, and its agents second-guessing themselves. And if there is another terror attack against Americans, Mr. Obama will have set himself up for the argument that his campaign against the Bush policies are partly to blame.”
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“At the White House, Press Secretary Adam Brickley said that President Sarah Palin stands firmly behind the decision. ‘It’s not as if we relish the thought of prosecuting members of the previous administration,’ Brickley said, ‘but, at this point, there is a clearly established precedent – set in place by the Obama Administration themselves – which says that government officials must be held accountable if they contributed in any way to major breaches of the law. In this case, the individuals under investigation do appear to have purposefully allowed these terrorists to continue their actions – prioritizing international public opinion over the lives of the American people. So, while this may be a politically charged issue, there is a real need to prosecute.’”
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Has a nice ring to it.
javamartini on April 23, 2009 at 10:38 PM
that entire last quote has a mighty big HEH attached to it …
:-)
Buckaroo on April 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM
That’s something I have been telling liberal friends… Obama and Democrats will not be in power forever, and if Obama wants to set this politicalization of the interrogation memos into action and have trials, don’t be shocked when some Republican down the line decides to review and treat the mismanagement of the stimulus etc. as crimes.
Wineaholic on April 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
Why do we have folks caring about these rats? These sub-human pieces of amphibian shit; I could care less about their comfort level.
Make ‘em eat hot dogs all day.
We have to be right all the time. These stupid sub human scum bags only need to get right once to kill a few thousand of us, and these stupid moronic schlep bag loser dog c*cks bemoaning “torture” want to help them.
If I see one more stupid “socially” minded leftist from the campus Social Justice Alliance dressed up in one more stupid orange jumpsuit while some greasy haired Lilith Fair chick with a few nose piercings and a pocketful of birth control and Planned Parenthood business cards, I just might hit someone
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Exactly
BuckNutty on April 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Moving to Canada won’t save you–she can see it from her house.
hicsuget on April 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Why would anyone attack us, Obowa made anger, fear and hatred disappear the day he was inaugurated.
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM
edit:
*slaps head* proofread you moran!
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM
What goes around, comes around. Someday 0bama is going to get his, too.
cjs1943 on April 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM
The Precedent and his staff and all the dems in Congress who are pushing this idiotic witch hunt are traitors who need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Plain and simple, they are working to harm America and aid our enemies.
I will not forget their treason and I hope that no American does.
This should not have to wait for a change in administration to happen. The evidence is all too clear. Of course, the evidence that The Precedent ran an illegal funding operation for his campaign (which should have landed him in federal prison, all by itself) is also all out for anyone to see. Someday, Americans will see.
progressoverpeace on April 23, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Noticed the comments under the blog. Evidently O’s supporters don’t believe in precedent when it comes to the actions of Presidents and their administrations. Sort of shows how short sighted they can be.
jimmy2shoes on April 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Light at the end of the tunnel.
As far as those douchebag democrats apologizing to families, they will simply blame the Bush Administration for angering these poor, misunderstood masters of man-made disasters.
HornetSting on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
This torture thing has the right unhinged more than usual.
President Sarah Palin?
LOL.
getalife on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
King has this about right.
Purple Fury on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Forgive my ignorance, but who’s Adam Brickley? Myself, I might’ve picked Ann Coulter for Palin’s press secretary, . Press conferences would never be the same.
At any rate….President Palin. Here’s hoping we have many, many more chances to say those words in future.
TheQuestion on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Obama can only say “no” for so long to his base on the left, or to the leaders in Congress, before his desire to be loved by his peer group causes him to fold and give in, because he’s fearful of not having his special interest groups covering his back, even when logic says he needs to stand up to them and tell them to shut up.
Too much pressure from the left over continuing Bush’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing the threat of having to send in more troops to keep the Taliban from getting Pakistan’s nuclear weapons? Throw the left a bone and say you’ll prosecute people over waterboarding (he’ll be doing the same thing for the unions anytime now, since they’re no doubt irked over his flip on backing a Columbian free trade agreement).
jon1979 on April 23, 2009 at 10:46 PM
That got my blood boiling…I couldn’t agree more.
RepubChica on April 23, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Thank God laws exist to protect us all from morons like you who assume the self-appointed task of deciding who are “sub-human pieces of amphibian shit” and who qualify as human.
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
People like you are truly sick, sad, individuals.
Despicable.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Obama & Holder would flee to Cuba or Venezuela . Why do you think they are paling around with dictators? They need lessons on how to do it. Everything Obama is doing is just a smoke screen. We will know when it is time.
izoneguy on April 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Troll, perhaps you should stop writing things.
I’m glad you sympathize with murdering jihadists.
Perhaps you should go join AQ, Shabaab, or Jemmah Islamiyyah — maybe you’ll end up on the receiving end of a double tap.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Thanks for tossing us a bone, AP. I can go to sleep happy now with the phrase “President Sarah Palin” in my mind.
jimmy the notable on April 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
You’re the sick one.
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Who said I “sympathize” with AQ? Oh wait, you did, O decider of human worth.
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Hm?
Because I believe those who murder innocent civilians don’t have rights?
And because that is true?
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM
“TheQuestion on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM”
iirc, adam brickey is a palin backer/blogger/something …
Buckaroo on April 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Well…in all fairness, we were yucking it up at the possibility of banana boy becoming our prez…so stranger things have occurred…
RepubChica on April 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM
You seem to care an awful lot about their well being, drooling troll.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Grow up, douche.
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
heh
I rest my case
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
hey g.f., it’s not b.b. or anyone “deciding” who is [or isn't] the enemy. these douches were encountered ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST SOLDIERS OF THIS NATION. Save yer 1st year law student posturing for the local starbucks crowd …
/eyeroll
Buckaroo on April 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Torture is illegal, immoral, evil, unAmerican and you call me sick.
Look in the mirror.
getalife on April 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Letting Americans die is unAmerican.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:54 PM
How peculiar
I wonder what these trolls would have done with a 9/11 hijacker had they personally been interrogating them before 9/11.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
His drugged-out mommy didn’t name him “Hussein” for nothing..
TexasJew on April 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
fwiw, a.p. prolly should have included the greg-a-louge quoted a few threads down as part 4 of the q.o.t.d. …
:-)
Buckaroo on April 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
“We don’t torture” is a great theory for the classroom. But let’s say that Washington D.C. is about to be vaporized, complete with the First Family and politicians within its borders. Is President Obama (and his fellow theorists) going to say “Yeah, I let my girls die so we don’t torture Abu Zumiya”? Or is he going to take a baseball bat to Abu Zumiyas knee caps?
It’s all disingenuous crap by the administration to look like it can stop enhanced interrogation and keep America safe. Meanwhile, it continues extraordinary rendition or we’ll find out that stopping “torture” in ticking timebomb scenarios was more of a suggestion than a rule. Pelosi & Co. didn’t seem to care about waterboarding when it wasn’t public and a politically opportune issue.
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Torture is illegal, immoral, evil, unAmerican and you call me sick.
Look in the mirror.
getalife on April 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Quit talking about Obama.
itsspideyman on April 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
I see the annoying troll sisters are here, doin there tweak thang.
Yawn.
fogw on April 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
“blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM”
u mean, besides aplogizing for detaining them for insufficent cause?
:-0
Buckaroo on April 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM
So if your options are between thousands of Americans dying or torturing a terrorist, you’ll just apologize to the families of the lost? Please. Like I said, it’s a nice theory when you’re not in a position of having to actually make the call.
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Thank God laws exist to protect us all from morons like you who assume the self-appointed task of deciding who are “sub-human pieces of amphibian shit” and who qualify as human.
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Sorry, but it’s the libs who made themselves the deciders of that, long ago with Roe v. Wade. True, I’ve never exactly heard a lib refer to unborn children or those who survived abortions and then were tossed in the trash as “sub-human pieces of amphibian shit”, but the treatment those babies received would certainly make that an apt moniker.
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Unfortunately, the children in the House and Senate cannot see beyond their little pointed noses. Americans die in this country again, those bastards will run for cover, just like the cockroaches they are.
GarandFan on April 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
They tend to avoid realities.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Unfortunately……………
……… the time will come for the Left to answer;
And that does not make me happy. It does not give me a sense of glee. It does not make my children safe. It is just the sad, sad truth……….
Seven Percent Solution on April 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Brickley was probably the first blogger to get rev up the Palin for VP train. He was a big fan of hers long before she entered the national spotlight. Ran a blog called PalinForVP or something like that. Needless to say, he got a lot of attention when McCain made his selection. I remember reading the blog the night before the announcement and people were just crazy into the possibility of Palin being the pick. Folks were even tracking private jets from Anchorage, hoping that one of them carried the Governor and her family.
BardMan on April 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
By the by, you hob nobber, any person that targets innocent people, and forces them to jump from 100 stories IS a sub-human piece of amphibian shit.
Any person that goes and lights a car bomb off in a Baghdadi market filled with women and children is said material.
Give me a break.
I’m supposed to feel empathy for these people? I think not. I feel empathy for the people that burned alive in the World Trade Center, or the people killed in the Bali night club bombing, or the people in the embassy bombings. On and on
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Heh, getaclue and similar human oddities would be banging down the door of the local Army recruiting center, demanding to be let in and wailing for protection, if the next attack were to happen in their neighborhood.
Their bullshat posturing is laughable, as if the worst we can expect these days is a company of British redcoats marching toward us down the local dirt road, muskets held high.
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM
And, what is your description of the terrorist?
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I just don’t get it.
Some matted haired chick in class on Tuesday went on about “universal human rights.” I could have sworn she had an Amnesty International handbook on her person (turned out shes a member).
Why do these people care so much about someone who’d enjoy seeing their infidel throat slit by the Sword of Allah?
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
It is bedtime.
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
For the record, do you not consider individuals seeking to kill innocent Americans “sub-human pieces of amphibian shit”? Or do they qualify as “freedom fighters” to you?
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
I can promise you that if we are hit by another terrorist attack and thousands more Americans die and it can be proved that it could have been stopped, then there will be a March on Washington the likes of which the politicians cannot even begin to imagine. I can even see these marchers storming the White House and Congress and making those responsible pay.
Ceroth on April 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Why wait, let’s do it now, before any more Americans have to die!
HornetSting on April 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Because they’re under the impression that being nice to them fixes the issue. They believe that these people are just acting in such a manner because America has wronged them in some way.
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
And, with a dull knife.
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Obama is an elitist pussy that’s in WAY OVER HIS HEAD…
Does that about sum everything up??
BigWyo on April 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I watched the Nick Berg video — and gosh that’s when I really realized who we were truly up against. I’ll never go back to my mentality prior.
No mercy
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Gawd… ‘President Sarah Palin’
The sound of that makes my skin crawl.
The odds of her being elected POTUS are about as good as aliens landing on Earth and curing every disease known to man in one solitary day in November 2011, 2015, 2019, etc ad nauseum.
When will people get a friggin’ clue? She’s dead weight chained to the ankle of the GOP. A natural born loser as the potential for the national ticket for POTUS.
The GOP better get someone savvy and at the very least viable on point soon or it’s a guaranteed 4-more-years for Barack Hussein Obama. And we ain’t seen nothin’ yet since he’ll be termed out on re-election. He’ll have absolutely nothing to lose no matter what he does short of impeachable offense. He’s going to pull out all the stops and whammy this country so hard it will take multiple generations to find our way back.
I live in California. I can see Mexico from my house!
SilverStar830 on April 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
suicidal tendencies, i suppose
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
LOL you have just knocked a bee hive with a bat with that one
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM
That last piece, that the third quote was from, was terrific!
Alana on April 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Yes, they are still out there planning their next attack and taking over Pakistan.
They should apologize to their families for cutting and running to Iraq.
Complete and utter failures.
getalife on April 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
He better watch out, if he pisses off the CIA enough, they just might produce his real birth certificate…
blue13326 on April 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Libtard heads are exploding over at AOL under this blog in the comment section.=) That makes my day.
canditaylor68 on April 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Really…and just loaded with tons of creamy ‘And here’s why’….
*gag*
BigWyo on April 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM
I see who you choose to call names.
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
The anger of the American people is becoming palpable and as the Japanese feared during WWII, Obama and the Demoncrats are waking up a sleeping giant.
Ceroth on April 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
What in the hell are you talking about? Simple options: Torture a terrorist or have Americans die. Which one do you choose?
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
And that’s assuming waterboarding even qualifies for “torture.” Which I would not agree with.
Alana on April 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Yes, that’s why Obama’s approval rating is skyhigh. Meanwhile, on Planet Wingnuttia……
Grow Fins on April 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Brilliant!!! Couldn’t agree more.
BigWyo on April 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Yeah, your man won.
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Why do these people care so much about someone who’d enjoy seeing their infidel throat slit by the Sword of Allah?
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Because their cloistered life has never seen the reality of what awaits them beyond our national borders.
They really have no clue just how murderous, violent, merciless and brutal some of our enemies are, precisely because their notion of the world is centered on gathering in a circle in the campus common area, wearing keffiyas and chanting about human rights. Then heading back to play a rousing game of Halo 2.
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Your Kos village called…they want their idiot back.
If obama is your hero, you are a zero.
HornetSting on April 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
As are the ratings of most presidents in their first few weeks/months.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
YES!! I want to see the Party of Unintended Consequences get blasted by all the Pandora’s boxes they’ve been opening over the past long while.
ddrintn on April 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
“Skyhigh”? Rasmussen has him at 55. The national average is 61.
Carter’s was higher at this point. Bush had an approval at one point in the 90s range. That worked out well for both, huh? Oh, wait, people slowly got more and more pissed off and punished them.
amerpundit on April 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Yeah, but it may not stay sky-high. Depends on how the economy turns out, among other things.
NathanG on April 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Libs don’t care about tortured terrorists any more than they care about “black people” or “immigrants”. The poor misunderstood terrorists are just the libs’ latest convenient pawn to spite America and scratch away its foundation.
LibTired on April 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
I love me some Halo 3!
It’s really a disturbing mental state. Copious mary-juana will do that I suppose.
Speaking of keffiyeh circles on campus, I have a great video of that! If only I could get the right video editing program..
:c
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
no attacks after 9/11
torture worked great
bush saved us all
notgetalife on April 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
fogw on April 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Well, gee, we had McCain…AKA the “dead weight around Palin’s ankle”…
ddrintn on April 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
So just over 50% is now sky high? Where is PopTart when you need him: “ROFLPOFLWAFLSNOFLROFL!”
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Yeah..sure.
So does this mean that when it all comes crashing down, I can look you up and knock yer teeth down yer throat??
BigWyo on April 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Guys…. please don’t feed the trolls!
Have you noticed that they don’t respond to your reasoned replies to their completely irrational posts? They don’t care what you have to say, they just want to chuck grenades into the pool and watch the fun.
Trying to talk sense to them is like talking to a brick wall. A complete waste of time.
UltimateBob on April 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
why don’t people get that they won’t be “tortured” if they give up their information? It’s not like someone’s going to just take someone out of gitmo and start waterboarding them. If they don’t hide anything, nothing will happen to them.
Chiasmos on April 23, 2009 at 11:25 PM
We could always get Bob Dole.
Johan Klaus on April 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Remember when you couldn’t help staring at the special ed kids in school.
Same thing with the troll sisters.
fogw on April 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I hope our generation (I’m 25) wakes up somehow and realizes how foolish their politics really are. It’s one thing to be liberal, nothing wrong with that, but the left-wing radicalism that is either cemented or taught to our generation in colleges and it’s scary. They care more about terrorists’ “rights” than they do their own soldiers of their own generation. It’s sickening. I watched “Indoctrination U” some months ago and I’m amazed by how hateful and unhinged these people are on campuses all around the country. I know this is slightly off-topic, but it really speaks to the future of our country, especially when a high percentage of Gen-Xers and the like voted for Obama.
NathanG on April 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Planet Wingnuttia must be an awesome place because you are right smack dab in the middle of it. You can accomplish nothing here. —-
2013 News Conference –President Palin & VP Prejean it is an honor to have you here to celebrate your first 100 days in office.
canditaylor68 on April 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against people playing video games (I’m a PC gamer myself), I just have to laugh at the incredible seriousness with which some of these human-rightsters project.
I don’t have much respect for people who chant, march and scream about how terrible the U.S. is, then when they’re done, stroll back to the BMW convertible Dad provided and getting some Chinese take-out with the family credit card. It’s so fake and preposterous, I can’t take them seriously.
Bishop on April 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM
What goes around, comes around
Kini on April 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM
It’s a bot script I tell you. It might be a hybrid, with a human occasionally to tune and tweak the response mechanism, but notice how the response to the question above doesn’t even get the context right. The response is complete non-sequitur.
What is of interest would be determining how the script is tuned to determine which threads to respond to (random, or having to have something that matches keywords in a response database?) — how often to reply and to whom to reply. It seems to be somewhat limited in its response, unlike the 90’s era “serdar-bot”, it doesn’t respond to every input, only a few. Yet its responses are short, meaningless, and really don’t provide any substance to the topics at hand.
The output mechanism could use a little tuning: Simply grabbing short 1-line responses and using a “print(”%s\n”) is pretty primitive — it would look a lot more authentic if the sentences were strung into paragraphs instead of single-line database entries.
Wonder how big the database is at this point?
AZfederalist on April 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM
I still think a “no surrender” policy is best when dealing with terrorists, that we capture no terrorists alive. That way their little handbook about what to do if captured is useless, and how many people do we get back alive from terrorists unless we take them from the terrorists. I also think, things like this are best kept as state secrets. Obama and the MSM has done this country a great diservice and that borders on treason.
Hog Wild on April 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Let’s see, in just 100 days…
Obama criticizes our country when he is in other countries.
Obama is very friendly with anti-American dictators.
Obama dismantles the ‘war on terror’ and makes cuts in the military.
Obama targets veterans as terrorist suspects.
Obama is now set to go after citizens who kept us safe since 911.
Yep, if the US is hit by another terrorist attack, I can see the Obama adminstration being prosecuted by the new Republican administration.
pearson on April 23, 2009 at 11:33 PM
The Obama administration may well find itself hoist with his own petard. Obama has extended the power of the executive through the prolific use of tsars. These are political appointments that lack the oversight and confirmation process of the deliberative body (such as it is) and one in which loyalty to the president himself is paramount. There is significantly less transparency as the country’s business is handled behind closed doors.
The detestable Robert Byrd has called attention to this very practice.
Given this unusual nature and widespread use of these super aids to the president, he is in effect establishing a shadow government within his own administration. It would seem to me that Obama is creating a perfect storm of potential legal challenges. Obama’s activism and heavy handedness provides the fuel for legal challenges and subpoena authority granted to the legislative branch to crack open the veil of presidential perogatives and more specifically to make public the nature of discussions and advice between super aids/czars and the president.
moxie_neanderthal on April 23, 2009 at 11:33 PM
But it will never happen.
(& I love Sarah)
jgapinoy on April 23, 2009 at 11:34 PM
…she’s been Quayled.
jgapinoy on April 23, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Good to see another gamer
Nah I feel you, and I know what you’re saying.
I see these hippies at a weekly rally, and when they’re done holding their signs, they get into BMW’s and buzz off. The school teachers here get paid way too much.
blatantblue on April 23, 2009 at 11:35 PM
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