Quote of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on October 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America. Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view these 36 words, alongside the administration’s approach to fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home, are rebranding in action…
In dangerous, clangorous times, the idea of America rings like a bell (see King, M. L., Jr., and Dylan, Bob). It hits a high note and sustains it without wearing on your nerves. (If only we all could.) This was the melody line of the Marshall Plan and it’s resonating again. Why? Because the world sees that America might just hold the keys to solving the three greatest threats we face on this planet: extreme poverty, extreme ideology and extreme climate change. The world senses that America, with renewed global support, might be better placed to defeat this axis of extremism with a new model of foreign policy…
[A]n America that’s tired of being the world’s policeman, and is too pinched to be the world’s philanthropist, could still be the world’s partner. And you can’t do that without being, well, loved. Here come the letters to the editor, but let me just say it: Americans are like singers — we just a little bit, kind of like to be loved. The British want to be admired; the Russians, feared; the French, envied. (The Irish, we just want to be listened to.) But the idea of America, from the very start, was supposed to be contagious enough to sweep up and enthrall the world.
And it is. The world wants to believe in America again because the world needs to believe in America again.”
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Laura Ingram was right. “Shut up and sing!”
Star20 on October 18, 2009 at 10:03 PM
This will only be accurate if Iran doesn’t build a bomb. Which this administration will never be able to pull off.
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Bono is nothing more than a panhandler in a Bond Street suit.
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Another celebrity running off at the mouth and its not connected to his brain.
cjs1943 on October 18, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I feel no need to be loved. In fact, I could give a sh@t what the world thinks of me. I want to do what is right.
Mark1971 on October 18, 2009 at 10:08 PM
U2: Music your Dad used to like.
tetriskid on October 18, 2009 at 10:08 PM
So will NYT be running A Ted Nugent op-ed next week?
Mark1971 on October 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Don’t you just loveeeeeeeee it when a foreigner tells Americans what they want?
No Mr. Bono. From the very start, America just wanted to be left alone.
That changed on 9/11.
Texas Gal on October 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM
There’s a sense in some quarters of these not-so-United States that Norway, Europe and the World haven’t a clue about the real President Obama; instead, they fixate on a fantasy version of the president, a projection of what they hope and wish he is, and what they wish America to be.
-Bono
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Boyo,nailed that one right,haven’t a clue about the real
President,ya don’t say!!
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Bono. Blow me.
bigjack on October 18, 2009 at 10:11 PM
What the hell is 0bama doing in the photo? It looks like he’s tickling Bono’s nose.
glennbo on October 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Bono needs to just FOAD. And if he would be nice enough to take The Precedent with him, that would be great.
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
When Ireland was about to raise income tax rates, Bono moved to another country–France or Belgium, I forget which.
When he gives away all his wealth to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, I’ll take him seriously. Otherwise, he always has his hand out like a panhandler at a bus station. A Canadian PM got that last year and refused to meet him.
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Don’t ya just love Disney characters?
Rovin on October 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Go Away Bono,
I no longer want to see you licking the neither regions of Obama.
Ever again. Eurotrash rubbish. And Disco is dead you moron!
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM
We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.” -Bono
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Another grand utopian hope it changes dream,ummmm,Bono,it
ain’t gonna happen!
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
How can the world believe in America if America becomes just like the rest of the world? The shining city on a hill has to be different by definition, doesn’t it? Light in the darkness, hope in despair. That is not the America that Obama has in mind. American exceptionalism isn’t in his vocabulary. Obama doesn’t get it; Palin does. I’m with Palin.
jimmy2shoes on October 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Through the looking glass.
Weight of Glory on October 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
“Popularity” is easy. You can be the most “popular” girl in school if you’re willing to spend a lot of time on your knees. Same is true for nations.
tbrosz on October 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
If indeed the world doesn’t “believe in America” its because of the hateful venom people like Bambi Obama spewed against George Bush for 8 years. They knew full well that they more they hated on Bush, the less the world would think of him. The world’s view of America is directly tied to what it thinks of America’s president.
The lib haters got what they wanted .. Bambi for President. Pardon me if I refuse to do any of the heavy lifting.
Labamigo on October 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
ROTFLMAO!
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
LOL. That has to be one of the funniest lines, ever. “Clangorous” … ROFLMAO.
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Bono. ZZZZZZ. Another bozo “artist” who got schooled by Dambisa Moyo with her book “Dead Aid.”
cubachi on October 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Broloff: My little crap has accomplished many things. But he could never shed the fact that he was really… a number two. So he spent his life trying to be number one, in everything.
Stan: That’s why he’s able to do so much, try to help so many people, but still seem like such a piece of shit
TheBigOldDog on October 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM
He doesn’t know his history.
America wasn’t “believed in” by the Europeans before WWI.
And it wasn’t until WWII – when millions of American youngsters turned back the greatest evil Europe had ever seen – did America become “believed in”.
I’ll say this to Bono – you want an America that is not a world policeman? Then fine …
When the next Hitler raises his head …
Do not call us.
Do not ask that we sacrifice hundreds of thousands of our kids to bail you out of the mess you will get yourselves into.
If you can’t stand beside America after it has been attacked by Terrorists.
If you are … “upset” that we gave 25 million Iraqis a chance for freedom …
If that is indeed the way you feel about us …
You were never a friend at all.
The sad part is – I would very much now like to have my uncle back – who died in the Huertgen forrest freeing Belgium.
But I can’t.
But I will vow this … brave Bono …
You will not have my son! ;)
HondaV65 on October 18, 2009 at 10:17 PM
So will NYT be running A Ted Nugent op-ed next week?
Mark1971 on October 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Mark1971: Ya,it will be called,’Free for All’!:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Please go play your little guitar and STFU!
Like most men, I liked you better BEFORE you opened your gob!
HornetSting on October 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
So the NYT is getting writers for free now…got what they paid for.
d1carter on October 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
… with a feather, lol. i know he isn’t, but yeah, it looks that way.
Obama, tickling: “Who’s a good little rock star? Yes, you is – yes, you is!
Midas on October 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
And so we are, boyo, and so we are…partners with Chavez and Castro…Putin and the Taliban…the Mullahs in Iran and the genocidal maniacs in the Sudan…partners with the human eliminatists of the ‘Climate Change’ faction…partners with the ideals of Mao and Che Guevara and Marx. It’s a new world alright…who will save us now?
The only consolation is that the many starving and oppressed masses of the world will be joined by many more. The motto of your class is: “Gee…guess it sux being you!”
AUINSC on October 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Actually, Bono, our military has protected us (and you) from terrorists. Even the Wondrous O has droned a few of them.
Before that our military protected you from Nazis and Japanese imperialism. And why has the perpetual war in Europe finally stopped? Because we occupied and changed Germany. Because we left troops there.
Typical insulting elite op-ed.
PattyJ on October 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Very Nice my Friend!
The Nuge!
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Yes, me too. LMAO!
FOAD, you Eurotrash TOAD.
HornetSting on October 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
LOL. That has to be one of the funniest lines, ever. “Clangorous” … ROFLMAO.
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
progressoverpeace: How about,had a real Clangorus time
last night with Cankles!!hehe:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
That’s why were here to fix all your problems, Bono.
DFCtomm on October 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Bloody Hell! I’m Gobsmacked!
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:23 PM
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida baby!
CapnLarge on October 18, 2009 at 10:23 PM
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Very Nice my Friend!
The Nuge!
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Kini: Could follow it up,with a Love Grenade,hehe:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiEmQRPGwk&feature=related
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
In The Garden Of Eden…. baby had nothing to do with it.
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
“That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” This is what the libs hate and are constantly trying to suppress. Americas biggest export isn’t food or charitable acts, it’s Freedom. With real freedom The Liberal Elite Thinking Class (socialists, communists whatever you want to call the little bastards) can’t exist and that’s what really scares them.
Tommy_G on October 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
By popular demand!
South Park,Bono,The Big Crap Award!
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNgsyRST3E
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Doesn’t that dufus ever take off those ridiculous glasses?
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Bono endorsing Obama the Dithering……
… What could go wrong?
I am sure the Chinese will tell 100 million soldiers to go back to the farm, North Korea will open up it’s missile sites as tourist attractions, and Vlad Putin will give up power and start his male modeling career…
It’s obvious they, Bono and Obama, read their own press…
Seven Percent Solution on October 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
We were voted or polled to be the most popular nation on earth? Because of The One?
Cripes! ACORN has gone international!
IlikedAUH2O on October 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
No, and I hear he is impartial to bathing as well…
Seven Percent Solution on October 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Is this empty headed turkey completely delusional?
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Obama: Tickle your ass with a feather?
Bono: Huh?
Obama: Errr…Particularly nasty weather?
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Please go play your little guitar and STFU!
Like most men, I liked you better BEFORE you opened your gob!
HornetSting on October 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Ouch. Hey Hornet that Stings.
huckelberry on October 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Look who Bono hangs with when he isn’t dodging taxes in his home country.
fred5678 on October 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
No, because he’s waiting for his Cleavland steamer, his Pasadena mudslide, his California hot plate, but like every Obama bowing idiot, just not in the face.
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
This man is mentally ill.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I want America to be love and feared.
I want us to be Frank Sinatra!
ThePrez on October 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I loved U2 before Bono got all happy. And apparently before he thought we gave a crap about his political opinions.
Shut up, sing, do your little charity work, and whatever after that.
Wasn’t this the singer who had his hat fly first class to some overseas location? Or was that an urban legend?
mjk on October 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Dylan, Bob is “Clangorous”?
Buy Danish on October 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
loved
ThePrez on October 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I just lost my dinner, canopfor.
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Someone needs to inform Bono that even his fellow countrymen, by a larger margin than Americans from the post-Nobel poll I saw, are very much over ObamaMessiah.
Marcus on October 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
… What could go wrong?
Seven Percent Solution on October 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Seven Percent Solution:
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR MONITER OR KEYBOARD
REALITY WILL RETURN IN ABOUT 3 YEARS AND 1 MONTH,
IF THERE IS A PLANET LEFT:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Bono wants us to be like dancers, really, kind of like Rahm Emanuel in his ballerina stage, before he became a decojonified bulldog (only in regards to terrorists around the world, not his compatriots).
By the time America is “rebranded” in the mold of Bono, no one will care, nor have anything to say about it any more.
The Chinese will tell him what to do…and us too.
This is a tale of when artists pretend to be Einsteins.
Schadenfreude on October 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I just lost my dinner, canopfor.
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
progressoverpeace: Oops,sorry!:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM
No, and I hear he is impartial to bathing as well…
Seven Percent Solution on October 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I’m sure it’s so he can have a truer sense of himself to love.
heshtesh on October 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
If you take away anything from this Quote of the Day let it be Ted Nugent… an American man at home with the likes of Bourdain or Beck.
mjbrooks3 on October 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Strange and yet no trolls!!
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I realized that Bono was a Lefty hypocrite when he laughed with Obama about dodging a hug from Bush when Bush did so much for Africa Bono’s supposed cause…I won’t even listen to his music because of it I just change th station…and I certainly won’t waste my time reading his stupid op ed…
CCRWM on October 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Global Warming is regarded by the mindless sheeple as true, by those who can think for themselves as false and by the power mad and money grubbers as … … useful, very useful in their pathological and totalitarian quest to filch ever more power and money unto themselves.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Trolling for trolls are we… :)
Seriously, U2 is overrated…. it’s like watching Ugly Betty.
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bvuv7P2lT3I/SXpi_GSBQ0I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/zBm7QiB8teI/s400/cookie-monster-wtf-is-this.jpg
RedNewEnglander on October 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Two shot themselves down on other threads today. We might have a troll-free evening in this.
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Maybe he has chronic pink-eye.
Which is what I’m guessing must be the reason Kevin McCulloch is wearing those ridiculous shades in the picture Ed always posts of him here.
In any event, I might be inclined to pay attention to Bono’s musings on geopolitics if he showed the slightest sign of having any hint of what “the idea of America” even was in the first place. However, there’s no such hint in evidence in that article.
Alex_SF on October 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Bill Maher has the greatest quote ever, in the headline thread about how he’s weirding out his own audience. Maher is arguing against the need for vaccinations, of any type (he thinks diet is better) and he says about vaccinations, “It’s not settled science, like global warming.”
At least these nutjobs are kind of funny. Now, if we could just get them back into their sandbox, where they can’t actually hurt anyone with their idiocy …
progressoverpeace on October 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Helen Thomas could do a better job at trying to impersonate Miss America.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
:O)
Seven Percent Solution on October 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Two shot themselves down on other threads today. We might have a troll-free evening in this.
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Liam: Ya,Afrolib decided to post racist comments,then there
was Dave WroughtWall about Rush,ugh!:)
Yes troll-free is better:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Ummmmph,
I just threw up in my mouth….
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I didn’t know that Obama semen was a diet.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Another called Rosa Parks a whiner. Been a great day! And now Bono gives us another laugh to enjoy! God bless America!
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Well, there goes my supper…
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I love how Maher calls himself a libertarian. What a tard. Let’s see: He’s for, assumably, cap and trade and other global warming hysteria tripe, and for universal healthcare. Just because you are for the legalization of prostitution and drugs, Bill, doesn’t mean that you are a libertarian. MORON! :)
NathanG on October 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Nothing worth noting has come out of Bono’s pie hole since the “Joshua Tree” album.
flipflop on October 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
When hussein’s America is realized, there will be no more Bonos.
When the money dries up, and eventually it will, where will the Bonos of the world go to leech?
nondhimmie on October 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Seriously, U2 is overrated…. it’s like watching Ugly Betty.
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Kini: Ugly Betty,or Janeane Garofal!!hehe:)
I remember trolling,on the lake with my grandfather
and the old reliable Evinrude 2 cylinder,3 hp out
board:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Bono is only good at masturbation. Everything else… he sucks at. The band only has four songs and they just keep rehashing and changing up the lyrics. Over and over again. Beating himself off is the extent of his glorious achievements and talent.
Griz on October 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Kini on October 18, 2009 at 10:56 PM
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Another called Rosa Parks a whiner. Been a great day! And now Bono gives us another laugh to enjoy! God bless America!
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Liam: Yes,Glod Bless America,and its great to have the best
nieghbour in the world,and I really mean that!!:)
canopfor on October 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM
My bad. Since it was about Global Warming I should have said, “I didn’t know that Al Gore semen was a diet”.
Whoops, there goes the rest of your dinner.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Bono looked better with Bush….he didn’t look as pale.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Things being thrown at me
Hey, what did I say?!
thebrokenrattle on October 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Yes, plus my dessert that time. You’re on a roll tonight, aren’t you? *LOL*
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Same here!
Liam on October 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I am trying to keep everyone’s spirits up, including my own, while Obama and his band of morons and psychopaths are burning down the house.
MB4 on October 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM
To quote Mr. B. Bunny, Esq. “What a maroon!”
Buford Gooch on October 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM
What American’s want, is foreigners to stay out of our business and our wallets. Find a country the rest of the world loves to pay for all your charities.
See if we care. Moron.
Hog Wild on October 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Oh hey look…it’s a Hot Air Celebrity Bashing!
He’s trying to make a difference with his wealth and fame. U2 Rocks.
tlynch001 on October 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Or perhaps that was Mr. D. Duck.
Buford Gooch on October 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Regarding the issue of poverty, I came across an interesting quote today:
“The world is not here for a few people, and an order based eternally on the distinction between the haves and the have-nots does not exist any more because the have-nots have determined to lay claims to their portion of God’s earth.”
– Adolf Hitler, predicting British defeat in the spring of 1940, after invading Europe. From “Onward We Charge”, a biography of William Darby, by Paul Jeffers.
Sounds like a clip from today’s newspaper. Or blog site.
Pazman on October 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I believe in America… never stopped… and all those American dollars haven’t hurt you much.
mankai on October 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
When? When? When the heck has “The World” had this love affair with America?
Pre-WWI they barely thought about us at all.
Between WWI and II half of Europe and all of the U.S.S.R. would have gladly seen us absorbed into their empires.
Post-WWII the countries that we defended/freed loved us…for a while…as long as we hadn’t sold them out to the Soviets. The countries that we had defeated still hated us.
In the ’50s? Did the world love us for a half-hour in the ’50s?
In the ’60s we were hated because of Vietnam. In the ’70s we were joke and in the ’80s the same people who hate us now (supposedly) for all of Bush’s “sins” hated us because Reagan stood up to the Soviets.
When is this time that the Left repeatedly hearkens back too? When, especially has the Left ever loved America?
Individuals suffering from the freedom and prosperity destroying policies of their own countries love America and leave those countries to come here, but that didn’t stop during the Bush Administration. Heck, it didn’t even slow down.
29Victor on October 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Culture causes poverty. “Rebranding” America as equal to the inferior cultures of the world will not raise them out of poverty, it will only drag us down.
mankai on October 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Yes, you gotta give him that. Most of his comrades just look to the government to do all the work. Heck, Huffy just wet herself because she was able to raise a few grand for some poor mother through her website. I wonder if she matched the contributions…
MeatHeadinCA on October 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Jonah Goldberg was laughing over at “The Corner” about having the iconic photo of Guevera wearing an Obama tee shirt with The One’s logo on it. Someone with the talent, please photoshop this quickly. It will make a mint.
onlineanalyst on October 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Bono has made using a lot of words to say nothing into an art form. I just don’t get why people think he is so deep.
Ampersand on October 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
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