Quote of the day
posted at 11:13 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Which gets us to the commander in chief, who directs the secretary of defense, who runs the Pentagon. The president, as almost all have noted—and for once, almost all are correct—has not distinguished himself in this matter. Afghanistan is a necessary war or not, we’ll see. He famously talked to Gen. McChrystal only once in the latter’s first 70 days in Afghanistan. He is meeting with advisers, considering options. Would that he’d begun earlier.
At the moment he seems a sort of anti-Lincoln. President Lincoln was early on damaged by Gen. George McClellan’s leaking to his friends in the press, but Lincoln every day was focused on one thing, the war, and took no offense. He knew what was urgent. For Mr. Obama, many things are urgent. But when many things are urgent, nothing really is urgent.”
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He wants to enslave the free?
zmdavid on October 8, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Idiot.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Too late for reading comprehension so I’ll just say….. WHATEVER.
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 11:15 PM
At the moment he seems a sort of anti-United States of America to me…
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Obama is not Lincoln. He is Buchanan
nyx on October 8, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Joke.
Weight of Glory on October 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM
.
Yeah, like “correcting” the story that he fouled his aide playing basketball and hanging a picture if his vaunted self in the WH to prove it.
KittyLowrey on October 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM
How long before White House staffers are forced to confront reality and decide to move on before the stink of Obama becomes permanently imbedded on their resumes`?
Who will be first? Orzag? Clinton? Gates?
BobMbx on October 8, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I can think of one guy from the Lincoln era…
…oh never mind.
Daggett on October 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM
the O hasn’t honored any of his campaign promises, why should we be surprised that he waffles on A-stan like Brett Farve on the subject of retirement? O reminds me of my older brother. Compulsive liar, doing what he can to make himself look good in the eyes of the ignorant public. Like my brother, every time he opens his mouth, I shudder to the depths of my soul that a man of this incredible vanity holds the most powerful post in the free world. I grew up around a compulsive liar. I KNOW’EM WHEN I SEE-EM.
viviliberoomuori on October 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Clinton, but after the 2010 elections. Don’t ask me why cause I don’t have a clue.
If she was smart, she’d run for her life out of that rats nest immediately.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Nobody, really, is certain what to do, or wherein lies wisdom. It isn’t a choice between right and wrong or “clearly smart” versus “obviously stupid” so much as a choice between two hells, or more than two.
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The next time,in an election,and Team Liberal
brags about National Security and Foreign Policy,
they should be laughed at with a continuous chorus
of, LIAR!!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I administration is proving to be a tragedy for the US. What are we going to be looking at in 3 more years.
ronsfi on October 8, 2009 at 11:22 PM
It’ll be four score and seven years before the anti-Lincoln makes a decision concerning Afghanistan.
red winger on October 8, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM
How can we count the ways zer0bama is the anti-Lincoln…
1. He would relish a civil war.
2. He doesn’t go to plays.
3. He’s not a Republican.
SouthernGent on October 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Hillary seems to have a thing for men who illtreat her so that is probably the thing that is keeping her on hold. In 2010, though, you never know.
nyx on October 8, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Obama has made his decision (surrender) on Afghanistan, all that remains is deciding how to present it to the American people without setting off another uproar from the angry mob otherwise known as the majority of Americans.
Meremortal on October 8, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Obama is Grant–nearly blind and wallowing in corruption
Obama is Andrew Johnson–totally incompetent, unprepared, and bitterly partisan
Obama is Harding–a nobody from nowhere put into office to do the bidding of powerful interests
Obama is Lyndon Johnson–an arrogant narcissist whose ego got better men killed by the thousands while he tore American society apart
Obama is Carter–stubbornly and stupidly unfit for office but unable to see his mistakes
Janos Hunyadi on October 8, 2009 at 11:27 PM
promotes bad and dismisses good….
what does it say to us that he will meet with Chavez but not the leader of Tibet. hmmm.
hawkman on October 8, 2009 at 11:27 PM
That’s a masterpiece of editorial writing.
Don’t know who authored it (specifically), but kudos.
Purple Fury on October 8, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Geez, AP, couldn’t you have found someone, anyone to quote besides that hag Peggy Noonan?
trapeze on October 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Man… sorry to hear that you have an Obama in the family. Must suck.
UltimateBob on October 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM
I do not like the Lincoln/Obama photoshop. It is very disrespectful to the legacy and family of Lincoln.
paulsur on October 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Damn the luck
thomasaur on October 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM
It’s urgent that Barry gets to talk a little more. It’s urgent that Barry looks good, gazes seriously at important people when the camera’s are rolling, and smiles a lot.
Barry idolized Lincoln. Too bad he hasn’t a clue what made Lincoln a strong and conscientious leader.
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Obama is certainly the anti-Lincoln.
I’d guess no hearings are scheduled not because the Pentagon doesn’t want them, but because the WH and the Dems don’t want them. They have no intention of letting Gen. McChrystal get any more of the attention and ear of the public.
INC on October 8, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I do not like the Lincoln/Obama photoshop. It is very disrespectful to the legacy and family of Lincoln.
paulsur on October 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM
UltimateBob on October 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Theres an ongoing Crisis,
its 3:00AM,yesterday,now,and tomorrow!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I doubt Barry has ever idolized Lincoln. Lincoln’s name and aura have merely been used by him as a political prop to provide reflected glory for Barry.
INC on October 8, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Noonan: “What is said might box in the president, and Congress, but only because they’ve left a void.”
This is Barry. Beneath all the glowing charm, there’s almost a complete void. There’s no moral compass, no courage, no ability to make decisions. Instead, there’s the spoiled brat that needs to feed his self-indulgent, narcissistic, little boy’s ego. Then there’s the party hack goon and the left-wing pseudo-ideologue. But, that’s it. Barry is such a very, very small man.
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Some of us knew such things sooner than others…
mjbrooks3 on October 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Peggy Noonan is irrelevant as is her article. She once declared Obama to be so smart and cool under pressure and that he will have the moral clarity to govern, because he “wrote” a book.
Get lost Peggy. WSJ should dump her quick.
cubachi on October 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Obama is no Lincoln.
He is more like Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Klein, Harrison Ford, Bill Pullman, Josh Brolin and Raymond Massey.
You see, they all pretended to be president. Just like the clown we have in the White House, stroking his ego and forever admiring his own performance.
What we need is a real president.
fogw on October 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Will our country survive the worst POTUS ever?
d1carter on October 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Obama may go down in history as the one man who hurt the african american more than any other man in history.
Slavery of the body can be unbound and broken.
Slavery of the mind is a untangible chain.
Indian Outlaw on October 8, 2009 at 11:44 PM
The audacity of hope was for his campaign
Tyranny and thuggery are for his reign
His candidacy was rather like that of a Henry Houdini
His presidency is shaping up to be much more like that of a Benito Mussolini
Although he tries to slip it all in under another guise
To all his fascist action most foul we must still be wise
In spite of all the Houdini lies
Dancing in Obama’s Mussolini eyes
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 11:45 PM
America has had worse Presidents. What concerns me more is the electorate that supports these insane policies.
JohnJ on October 8, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Fitting as by that time those denominations will be as useless as the messiah.
jdkchem on October 8, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Hyperbole notwithstanding, once Obamacare kicks in, coupled with the deficit and new taxes, we’ll all be serfs of the government.
Drained Brain on October 8, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Barack Obama is more like John Wilkes Booth, trying to assassinate American Liberty as Booth assassinated American Lincoln.
Barack Obama is more like John Wilkes Booth, trying to assassinate Grandma and Grandpa as Booth assassinated Lincoln.
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I knew Abe Lincoln, and you are no Abe Lincoln!
NathanG on October 8, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Liberals think that because Obama is only a little more socialist than most, there’s no reason to complain.
JohnJ on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
I like being reminded of Lincoln. Every time I see that image, it reminds me of how great Lincoln was and still is, and how appallingly awful Obama is in comparison. And despite how shallow and selfish our contemporary culture has become that we could produce a President Obama, I still believe:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us –
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion –
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain –
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom –
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
So, regardless of what Obama and his Congress say or do, or fail to say or do, as long as I’m still alive, I shall be devoted to that cause.
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
The only thing I can see that Obama and Lincoln have in common is that Lincoln also had a crazy wife.
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Oh..Peggy’s going to get visit from Mr. Axelfraud.
Caper29 on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Allah,
How may hits do you get on a typical day and comments?
Sometimes I wonder how many of us are out there. Would be a nice post. Sure you would get hit that you are trying too brag. But honestly, I was just wondering. I rarely comment as my spelling is so bad, but I check in several times a day, and just wanted to know how many else do…
Indian Outlaw on October 8, 2009 at 11:53 PM
If you use Firefox, it has a spell checker.
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM
++++
LibTired on October 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Loxodonta, I was having similar thoughts. I went back to the Lincoln Douglas debates looking for the quote by Lincoln about “blowing out the moral lights”.
Here’s a QOD from Lincoln for Obama:
INC on October 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Obama and his gang are so over their heads…Obama is not qualified or experienced enough to be president and neither is anyone in his adminstration. Pray that we get consevatives elected in 2010 who will mitigate the damage.
CCRWM on October 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Don’t worry…
Obama is “Fired Up! Ready to Go!”
… Sleep well.
/(do I really need the sarc tag?)
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 11:57 PM
I used it for a while but had a hard time getting the all the apps to work. I like to listen to talk radio while at work. I also use alot of design software that can’t be slowed by additional apps. But thanks MB4.
Indian Outlaw on October 8, 2009 at 11:58 PM
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
ROFLMAO!
Saltysam on October 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM
True enough. However, narcissists typically see others only as they relate to themselves. Barry idolizes Lincoln because he thinks he sees himself. He thinks he’s destined for glory. Lincoln’s glory, in his mind, is his glory. He believes he will always be lionized and celebrated because he can’t see himself or the future any other way.
anXdem on October 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM
The election of Obama proves that anyone, no matter how radical or inexperienced, can be elected President if they have wealthy enough financiers and the ability to lie with a straight face.
Wait, didn’t we already know that?
JohnJ on October 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM
The Great
EmancipatorProcrastinatorChristien on October 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Hear! Hear!
Right on , Lox.
Saltysam on October 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Obama has met with Letterman more than Gen. McChrystal…priorities matter.
lovingmyUSA on October 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM
It is sad but name one thing “0″ has done beside “beer Summit”
Indian Outlaw on October 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM
I got your drift there Snow White and I agree.
Mirimichi on October 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM
He got away with giving Hillary the bird.
Saltysam on October 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM
That kind of self-serving idolization of another does describe him.
INC on October 9, 2009 at 12:05 AM
The Great Procrastinator.
That oughta’ stick…
Saltysam on October 9, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Obama doesn’t even deserved metaphors.
He is a pathetic, incompetent, invertebrate neophyte idiot.
Endangering us all more every day.
profitsbeard on October 9, 2009 at 12:12 AM
I always enjoy reading the comments on Hot Air. The contributors here are always interesting, informed, witty…
As a fellow proud Conservative I am also alarmed by this neophyte President… his arrogance, his naivete and what I believe may be a sinister agenda. His friends on the left are dispicable.
But when I read on a good conservative blog vague references and allusions to assassination it makes me want to puke. Shame on you all who find that funny. You feed right into the left’s attempt to marginalize conservatives. Leave that garbage to the ugly left. We have truth on our side.
Pitter09 on October 9, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Thanks for that quote. Lincoln certainly had his flaws, but he was a great man who saved our country and removed the great stain that we had at our founding.
The comparison Noonan makes between Lincoln and Obama is incredibly glaring. Lincoln, the common and decent man, dedicated to his principles and his cause with great devotion, going to General McClellan’s house again and again, sometimes sitting for hours, waiting for a chance to speak with him. Barry? What is he dedicated to, other than himself?
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Did you guys notice the 2009 penny? The back is changed, I guess is Lincoln sitting on a log reading a book. That, or somebody else. At least it still says, “In God We Trust”.
ProudPalinFan on October 9, 2009 at 12:17 AM
The anti-Lincoln: enslave the people while losing the war.
Christian Conservative on October 9, 2009 at 12:22 AM
If the Republicans don’t defeat Obama in 2012 it is time for a third party
lavell12 on October 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Can’t speak for anyone else but Obama has been and remains utterly convincing to me: he’s deconstructing the United States of America with his head set on replacing it with something else entirely. He has his eyes set on a goal and that is, to eradicate the U.S.A..
The only possible comparison I could make with that and Lincoln was that just as Lincoln had his eye set on uniting a nation, Obama has his eye set on discombobulating a nation. Like, say, the “anti-Lincoln.”
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 12:29 AM
WTF? Give some quotes please!
lovingmyUSA on October 9, 2009 at 12:30 AM
O-bama! No-bama! our terror war’s not done,
The generals have a plan of attack, to see the Afghan fight is won,
The enemy is near, the bombs they hear, the troops all imploring,
But on planes you fly to cheat and steal, it’s for the war you should be caring;
But O hides! hides! hides!
Troops still bleeding drops of red,
While in foreign lands our bravest die,
Obama procrastinates instead.
red winger on October 9, 2009 at 12:34 AM
And if enough go third party in 2016, it’s Obama for four more years.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 12:34 AM
I remember seeing an editorial cartoon during the campaign that had someone asking if it was really a good idea to elect a Senator from Illinois with limited experience, and, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, the other person said, “It worked pretty well the last time.”
I also remember thinking whoever wrote that was a moron.
VanPalin on October 9, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Lincoln exclaimed, in support of a United States of America, in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:
That could easily and accurately be rewritten today as Obama’s Destruction Address:
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 12:37 AM
For the love of God, I agree. Stop the “third party vote” derailment practice.
We did not win two World Wars by seeking third routes to victory, we set about defeating the enemy in one big push by one giant might. Aim hostilities where they belong — on the Democrats, on the Left — and vote them out of office by voting for the opposition.
I’m not a fool here, I realize many Leftwingers infiltrate the GOP as candidates and party-handlers for purposes of “you get a Leftwinger regardless of who you vote for” method, but everyone, please keep your eyes on the goal: defeat the Left in 2010 and 2012.
We will continue to flush the Leftwingers out of the GOP but we first need to regain Congress and the White House. We won’t do it by “voting third party.”
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 12:42 AM
I’d also like to remind everyone that Abraham Lincoln, even AFTER he was the President of the United States, rode his own horse by himself to and from his own meetings that he managed himself.
The contrasts with Barack Obama could not get any greater, even all “modernity changes” aside.
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM
As near as I can tell, Pitter09 has all of 6 posts since June 28, 2007, unless they’ve been in headlines. There seems nothing in Pitter09′s previous comments or any comments by other posters that I’ve read that would warrant this accusation. I know that if I did read allusions to assassination, I would push back and report them to ED and AP. So, perhaps Pitter09 is having a bad day.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Pat?
VoyskaPVO on October 9, 2009 at 12:51 AM
’0′ is a total zero, no clue, no idea, no ideal, no honor, no principle, no integrity. And he doesn’t care.
TinMan13 on October 9, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Speakup on October 9, 2009 at 12:57 AM
ROFLMAO!!
That was good! Lord help us if this one is as crazy as that one!
Texas Gal on October 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Present!
jukin on October 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Guess this is an example of why Time had to give Obama an A minus.
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 1:02 AM
I’m sick of the Obama-Lincoln crap. Who brought all that media hype and campaign marketing?
I’m starting to have anxiety about what is clearly a man-child trying to play war and we have American Heroes in harms way.
Thank God for McCrystal, Petraeus and Gates.
Please don’t abandon us during the battle!
Pray for our troops.
Texas Gal on October 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Incontrovertible evidence of moby-ism.
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Or he’s/she’s on assignment from Holder.
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 1:07 AM
DING, DING, DING: WE HAVE A WINNER!
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 1:11 AM
There was one abstruse and coy allusion, above, to Obama not liking the theater as Lincoln did.
Pitter09 need better Patter.
profitsbeard on October 9, 2009 at 1:13 AM
As I would not be a slave, I decided to become the master. — Barack Anti-Abe Obama
I am a success today because I had many friends who believed in me and I threw them under the bus as soon as it became convenient –Barack Anti-Abe Obama
Better to keep talking incessantly to remove any doubt of my intellect, then to remain silent and think that others may think that I think that they think I am a fool. –Barack Anti-Abe Obama
I will weaken the strong to strengthen me. –Barack Anti-Abe Obama
Those who deny freedom to others deserve a place in my administration. –Barack Anti-Abe Obama
18-1 on October 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Read no sign of that in any previous post from Pitter09, and I’m very reluctant to label someone a troll without a lot of evidence. But I admit it’s possible, except that there’s this that I missed previously.
Thanks. I missed that comment. I believe it was intended as humor and not to be taken seriously. But any joke like that can easily be interpreted otherwise. So, even with my sometimes whacky sense of humor, I never go there.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Please do not disfigure Abe Lincoln
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Peggy Noonan has driven me up the wall many times. However, she was a great writer for Reagan and she can still weave a wonderful story. As a Big Tent Reagan Republican, I’d be very happy to have Peggy back in our tent, sometimes infuriating me, but mostly writing wonderfully on our behalf. I hope she continues to see what a disappointment Obama has turned out to be for her, and continues to write great editorials expressing her disappointment in Barry.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 1:43 AM
I was referring to the very real and present problem to the American public and our discourse as to a HIRED GROUP OF BLOGGERS (so-called) who Holder has engaged to sit at publicly-funded terminals and write comments on blogs/sites that carry opinions that Holder/Obama don’t “like”.
They’re hired to pose as commenters and then to question and raise doubt about the opinions that aren’t gungho on Obama and his Administration’s doings.
Which is an abuse of power and public ofice by Holder as it is also by Obama, but don’t let such a thing get in their way of attempting to further corrupt the public discourse.
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Reference…
The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team
I’m not “calling” anyone “a troll” I’m just pointing out the behavior that’s now identified, in general, which is also known to drop serious accusations…
Effort at undermining credibility of sites and others on those sites, that don’t meet with what Obama wants people to think and express.
Lourdes on October 9, 2009 at 1:53 AM
+1000
A true historian.
unclesmrgol on October 9, 2009 at 1:59 AM
Oh, yes.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 2:00 AM
could he be referring to:
?
IowaWoman on October 9, 2009 at 2:13 AM
“I knew Abe Lincoln, I posed questions to Abe Lincoln and Mr. Obama, you are no Abe Lincoln.” – Helen Thomas
Left Coast Right Mind on October 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM
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