Quotes of the day
posted at 10:45 pm on September 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
“It was all extremely naïve. The president did everything he could to say: ‘Can’t we all just get along?’”
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“With Bush, everyone in the world was, just a little bit beneath the surface, a freedom-loving democrat. With Obama, everyone is a peace-loving multilateralist. ‘The yearning for peace is universal,’ Obama said. Of course, so is the yearning for war, or it wouldn’t be endemic to human existence.”
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“President Obama said during his speech today: ‘For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.’
So the goodness of America is found in the Obama administration?”
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How do you translate “it’s all about me” into 150 different languages….?
Narcissism
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:47 PM
How many iPod’s with the 0ne’s latest speeches downloaded onto them were gifted out today to the Libyans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Russians, and who am I forgetting…. oh yeah, the Iranians…:?
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
That’s sad.
Free Constitution on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
This is going to be a LONG, HARD tumble into the 30% range
battleoflepanto1571 on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
This won’t stop: He’ll be doing this Crap for the next three years and four months.
Bush’s vision was flawed; Obama’s is suicidal
Janos Hunyadi on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Pure excrement.
ICBM on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
What a narcisstic nag Dear Leader has turned out to be.
nyx on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Ugh. This whole day has made me sick.
rockmom on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
LOL. Anyone else catch Hannity’s radio show today? He’s been frustrating the heck out of me lately, so I haven’t been listening as much as usual, but I’m glad I caught it today: he played a FANTASTIC soundbyte that compiled all of Obama’s references to himself in his speech. It went on for at least two or three straight minutes, tightly edited. Hilarious. I distinctly remember being taught NOT to overuse I, me, and my in persuasive speech and writing. TOO FUNNY.
Animator Girl on September 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
We’ll see what it does to his polling numbers. I can’t think the majority of U.S. citizens liked what we were called today.
a capella on September 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Can’t believe i waited all day for Quote of the day to get more Obama, i’ll try again tomorrow.
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Damn you, 52%!
1921 C DRUM on September 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
ACORN, SEIU, Axelrod, Emanuel…I can hear the heavenly choir of angels.
ddrintn on September 23, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Stinks on ice.
Hog Wild on September 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
And at least GWB had noble aspirations for freedom and liberty…
Sharr on September 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Really?
really…?
Boo this man!
boooooooooooo
ernesto on September 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
…just nine months… just NINE months!
Let’s look at all of the threats and assaults to liberty, freedom and individualism you’ve made in “just nine months.” First and foremost, you sat on your uncalloused hands while Iranians died at the hands of their own government. Moreover, you supported the thuggish actions of not one, but four Latin American and Cuban dictators–Zelaya, Chavez and the Castro Bros. You’ve moved toward socializing car companies, banks and the coup de grace’ — our health care system is in your sights.
Yeah, let’s look at your first nine months champ– that’s a pile we’re ready to take and rub your nose in.
and i failed to mention ACORN and NEA
oh yeah, Van Jones… Oh and BLAGO–Hell, I can’t even hit submit without coming up with something better for your first nine months jack.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM
This is like watching a seven year old drive a loaded semi down a mountain road.
Patrick S on September 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
The last part of the quote got caught off. I think he also added at the end there, “unless you’re an Iranian protester.”
You’re welcome.
catmman on September 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
This is a nightmare. I swear. What have we done?
ronsfi on September 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Soetoro the Storyteller … The Lying Liar Who Lies.
Ricohoc on September 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM
loaded with TNT, dynamite, nitroglycerin and the kid is smokin a joint and playing with matches…..
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
It’ll be hard; poor baby’s never had to deal with criticism before. But at the rate he’s going, the tumble won’t take long, although the stay will be.
ProfessorMiao on September 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Run off a huge cliff and hoping we’ll sprout wings before we hit bottom.
Sharr on September 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
If Obama was the antichrist, everyone would fall at his feet and become one with his narcissism, so if UN members don’t buy into him, there may still be hope for this world, I guess.
ICBMMan on September 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Trust me the only ones who felt worse today than conservatives where the so called “Blue Dog Democrats”. The Blue Dogs and the moderates of the Donk Party remind me of those Nat. GEO shows about the Wildabeast trying to cross the river with all those alligators. The ones closest to the water are trying to stop all the while being shoved closer to the edge.
Dire Straits on September 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I kid you not, these speech stenographers sit down with a singular thought—”What the heck can we say just to piss off over half the country today….?”
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Apparently. I would have thought a better example would have been around 1776, 1866 and 1945. Silly you. Silly me.
MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM
So you find a lot to cheer?
ddrintn on September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Wow, if he has righted all the wrongs of this miserable nation in a short nine months, just imagine what he can do in the next three years and 119 days. Not that I am counting.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I thought you said your prez was an atheist AP.
That doesn’t sound like an atheist. Not really.
We? He got a mouse in his pocket?
Stephen M on September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Someone has to say it.
What a maroon!
Dhuka on September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Dr. K and Steve on the Fox panel said that Obama’s speech was the most dangerous one he’s ever given.
Knucklehead on September 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM
apparently, the antichrist is supposedly so good that even Christians and believers are going to be deceived by him. Obama sure can talk real nice, but he sure ain’t convincing—if he’s the antichrist, then this end of the world thing ain’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. As long as the locusts don’t plunder the popcorn fields and beer stores, we’ll pull through this just fine.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I kid you not, these speech stenographers sit down with a singular thought—”What the heck can we say just to piss off over half the country today….?”
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Well apparently someones doing thier job properly.
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Just when I think I can’t get any more disgusted by the Narcissist in Chief he goes and gives one of his “Apologize for American” speeches and adds how great it is that he was elected to save America and the world. Can he really be this bad? How can we endure this for 3+ more years?
capitalistdoc on September 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Its nice to know American history didn’t begin until last November…
Sharr on September 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
and one of the worst parts is the smug, self-righteous, press that adores him.
r keller on September 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I can’t wait till one of them becomes disenfranchised and spends too much time under the bus—then comes on out and spills all the details…
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Gives new meaning to King Obama.
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM
It’s too bad we can’t tell the UN to keep him.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Wow, if he has righted all the wrongs of this miserable nation in a short nine months, just imagine what he can do in the next three years and 119 days. Not that I am counting.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Not to be critical but you forgot the minutes and seconds.
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM
For Old Times Sake from the Archives: “Don’t Worry People , The Adults are in charge”
Getalife
Dire Straits on September 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
It wasn’t on the clock I found, darn it.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
fify
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
He’s a jackass.
LASue on September 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I can’t wait till one of them becomes disenfranchised and spends too much time under the bus—then comes on out and spills all the details…
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM
A thought i’ll comfort and nurture till bedtime.
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Good question. Better question is how do we fix this mess?
Knucklehead on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Anders on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
President Freak!
Firebird on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
We should probably call this year 1 OB, instead of 2009 AD.
MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Lady Liberty shed a tear today….
Tomorrow, she reaches into her cloak—and pulls out the hammer of freedom.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Someone really needs to schedule a competency hearing with mental health, and we really need to address the constitutional issues of a president who is clearly no longer meeting the standards commonly associated with ‘sane’
Skandia Recluse on September 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
At the risk of repeating others, What a piece of unadulterated crap!
InTheBellyoftheBeast on September 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
We should probably call this year 1
OBBO, instead of 2009 AD.MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Again, just because i needle conservative arguments doesn’t mean Obama’s given me anything to cheer about. Though the FCC’s finally making net neutrality moves…thats not bad.
ernesto on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
He’s got one massive Messianic complex going on. I hope he has a good shrink on staff.
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Can we call him a Muslim yet?
fogw on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Don’t forget all the torpedoes Osama Obama has fired into the economy, rushing us headlong into a depression that bids fair to make the 1930s look like a time of prosperity;
Don’t forget his turning the Justice Department over to a selectively-prosecuting incompetent;
Don’t forget his thuggish reaction to anyone who dares disagree with the stone tablets he has brought down from the mountain. Humana is only one example;
Don’t forget….
Yeah, the Chicago Jesus has done a lot in nine months. Another year, and the destruction of the nation, its laws and Constitution will be complete.
MrScribbler on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
I quote the late great H.L. Mencken in summarizing B.O.’s joke of a U.N. speech today. Nothing could say it better than this:
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
pilamaye on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Step away from the mirror.
conservative pilgrim on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Obama has no clue as to the propaganda gold mine he has just given to the despots of the world…
… If you were one of the millions who protested in Iran, or others around the world fighting for the freedom that Obama wants to take away, and were sitting in a jail getting ready for your daily rape session, and Obama’s speech was piped in for your entertainment,
you probably would write on your cell wall,
Seven Percent Solution on September 23, 2009 at 11:09 PM
BO and AB?
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:09 PM
MrScribbler on September 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
you’re absolutely right, I only have 8K RAM brain… none of that had downloaded before i sent.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Should we start packing for FEMA camp yet/??
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Truly, the start of a dark age
nyx on September 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Very true. Again, another reason for me to have more hope than I did at the beginning of this idiotic presidency!
ICBMMan on September 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
You are very generous. I’m not about to give him the benefit of that doubt. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing.
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Another Hopey/Changey Campaign Speech!!
Again,and
Again,and,
Again,and
Again,into Ad Nausem infinity… ….
canopfor on September 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
I wonder how this was received by Netanyahu?
flyfisher on September 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Herr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the ever more emerging misanthropic, pyromaniac (reference note #1) Herr Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is, or was, both an apparently good and an ever more emerging evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. In mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who’s words are vastly different in moral character from his actions.
Reference note #1: 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 situation 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.
Sigmund on September 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
I saw sven earlier any other of the missing expected to return?
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Thank God I am not living in the USA.
Dire Straits on September 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
http://www.puma08.com/2009/09/23/red-chinese-flag-is-flown-in-washington-dc-right-next-to-the-white-house/
did y’all see this from the trackbacks above?
yeppers, chicomm flag flying near the White House….. probably flying above the US flag.
First, the bow to the saudi…
Now this flag thing.
I remember a day when the USA was a free and sovereign nation
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
By the end of his term, the media will be stuck with finding Sasquatch to get a positive quote about Obama.
Dusty on September 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM
It’s not that complicated.
He’s a commie and a traitor.
fogw on September 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Should we start packing for FEMA camp yet/??
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
We can all go together,dont forget your gun.
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM
So in short, he’s driven to destroy?
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Barack Obama is so brillig with his slithy toves
He does gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy are his borogoves
And his mome raths do certainly outgrabe
Cheshire Cat on September 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Haven’t heard a word, but Upstater is on my facebook page and said he’d sent an e-mail to Ed or AP a couple days ago. My facebook page is Knucklehead Parker if you’re looking for me.
Knucklehead on September 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
So what, WW1 and 2 never happened? The Korean War was a weird dream? Defending Europe from Soviet expansion and helping to free eastern Europe was fiction?
ThePrez on September 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
be my ammo bearer…
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Cliff’s notes on Obama’s and Palin’s speeches:
Obama at the UN: “I”
Palin in HK: “We”
nuff said.
Caper29 on September 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
He’s engaging in revisionist history.
We need a concerted defense or counter attacking strategy on revisionist historians.
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
….says a lot.
misslizzi on September 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I lol’d at that
nyx on September 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I left Canada to move to the States because i hate socialism, now what the hell do i do?
heshtesh on September 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
How many references to liberty, freedom in Obama’s speech?
*cricket,,,*cricket*
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM
So its not perfect enough yet!!
The Student,the Voter,the Innocent,the Oppressed!!!
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Running his speech,through the Liberal De-Speak-A-Lator,
Obama is campaigning at the UN,talk about gall,he’s pitch
ing towards the children,er students,the ObamaVoterBots,
and all the illegal aliens running amuck across the
United States of America!!
And,I think,once Obama creates his America,then and only
then,it just might be PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on September 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Yup. He owns it and we are the surfs working his will upon the lands.
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
this guy pride’s himself on being so “consistent”, that i’m surprised he didn’t say, “George Bush’s nation…”
ted c on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
I now know why Dear Leader will not release his Columbia records…he failed miserably at history.
d1carter on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
So far I have avoided facebook, HA is already more then I can handle.
Cindy Munford on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
All those boys at Normandy: they don’t say anything about our character, according to our President?
GaltBlvnAtty on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Honduras?
ICBM on September 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM
I know. You toil all day at work for the benefit of Obama’s redistributive slackards and you see this. AP, how ’bout a quote from Mr. Ed or Wilbur every now and then to throw some levity into this nightmare that began on 1/20/09.
TxAnn56 on September 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I just threw up in my mouth (re: Obama’s comment).
haikusrock on September 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH crap,forgot the innocents,d*mmit it!!
That would be the innocent thugs who are in jails,who
can,er could vote Liberal!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on September 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
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