Liberals:
President Jimmy Carter concerning our troops in Afghanistan): “I don’t think we have the capability or the will to actually prevail militarily over the Taliban. That seems to me to be an almost hopeless case.”
More brilliance from Jimmy Carter: “The richer people in America are getting richer and richer. The poorer people in America are getting poorer and poorer. And that is a case in almost every country on Earth. And it’s also the issue between rich countries and poor countries. The rich countries are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.” This is, by the way, an ideological position not based in truth. The poor in America have improved their lot as have the poor in the world.
President Obama speaking to news reporters: “This is a big, diverse country. Not everybody agrees with us.” [Emphasis mine]
President Obama, who seems to love analogies, no matter how weird: “I’ve said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts. I think it’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. Then people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case, the hostage was the American people, and I was not willing to see them get harmed.”
Naomi Wolf: “This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in acts of serious aggression against their own constituents, and the American people in general. They both invoked the 1917 Espionage Act and urged its use in going after Julian Assange. ”
Frank Rich: “Obama is suffering Stockholm Syndrome” (which is the gist of his 12/4/2010 column).
Unknown Democrat: “F___ the president.”
While Joy Behar was discussing what Sarah Palin reads with Barbara Walters, Palin had answered that she reads C.S. Lewis for “divine inspiration,” Behar then asked “Aren’t those children’s books?” C.S. Lewis wrote both theological and children’s books.
Chris Matthews on Chris Christie: “I saw him the other day and I was amazed by it, he must be 300 plus, and that’s something he’s just gotta deal with because you’re not going to say, `I’m going to cut the budget,’ well, how about starting with supper?”
Van Jones, former green jobs czar: “We can’t just leave the federal government in the hands of our enemies and expect to go make a lot of progress. So, even if we can’t get everything done that we want to get done out of D.C., we certainly can’t let other people have the level of control in D.C. But also, you can see right now, .D.C. can’t do much by itself. You ought to have that bottom-up movement. And that’s what’s been missing is that bottom-up sense of movement to get the best out of D.C. And what’s stopping that is the inside-out piece…So I would argue that it’s the inside-out transformation that will ignite the bottom-up transformation that will make the top-down transformation work.”
Obama’s FCC Commissioner Mignon Cliburn: “I can’t think of a more significant overarching civil rights issue than this..that every nappy headed child have the ability to connect [to the internet] worldwide”
After banning any new South L.A. fast food places, council member Jan Perry explains: “This is not an attempt to control people as to what they can put into their mouths. This is an attempt to diversify their food options.”
Janeane Garofalo, from May 27, 2009: “The British empire is the original douchebag empire, where sh*tty Americans and sh*tty Australians come from. . .What politics does shine a big light on is human frailty. And I think what conservatism has shined a light on also is human frailty. What does it mean to be a conservative or a Republican anymore? I’m not quite sure, but it clearly shows you’ve got a lot of frailty – you’ve got a lot of flaw. That you’re arrogant as f**k about that and you’re belligerent and you have very little self-awareness. But what does it mean to be the type of journalist who kowtows to a conservative? . . . To be a modern-day Republican or conservative, to be a George Bush type of Republican or conservative, to be a Hannity type – it’s a character flaw. It’s a character flaw or it also could be neurological. . . .I’m not joking at all. Limbic brain – seat of your emotions – something’s not working, whether it’s your private life or your literal neural anatomy, something is not working. . . . It is, I think, a neurological issue. It is also the party now . . . for racists, for sexists, for homophobes, for closet queens. Whatever, again, is wrong with you, because a tent full of hate has elastic walls.”
Claire McCaskill walks back her pitchfork quote from last week (“I don’t know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. If they think it’s OK to raise taxes for the embattled middle class because . . . (Democrats) don’t give more money to millionaires, it really is time for people in America to take up pitchforks.”): “Ah, it’s just a Missouri term. There really isn’t a pitchfork army.”
MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe (formerly of Newsweek): “For two years, the Republicans have said this guy [Obama] is a socialist, he’s unacceptable, he’s a freak. And now it’s very hard for them to go back and do that because they are in bed with him – not literally – but they’re in bed with him and they’ve made the deal, and he’s now acceptable. He’s acceptable to polite company and Republicans.”
Crosstalk:
From the Ed Schultz program, which is promoted as”Where America Comes to Talk.”
CALLER: Couple points I’d like to make, I have to disagree with you on a couple things. First thing is, you said that conservative Republicans are trying to destroy the country, which I think is totally absurd. And the second thing is, you said that tax cuts won’t create jobs and there’s two points I’d like to make on that. And the first thing is, raising taxes definitely won’t create jobs. And in the past, other presidents have cut taxes and created jobs, the most recently was George Bush (who) created, you know, 24 straight quarters of positive job growth after he cut taxes.
SCHULTZ: Wrong. See ya, Darren. I can’t reason with you folks. Kevin in Asheville, you’re on the Ed Schultz radio show, thanks for calling …
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Craig Ferguson: You’re a Democrat, aren’t you?
Richard Wolffe: I am a journalist.
Ferguson: A journalist? Much the same thing, isn’t it?
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From Huffington Post:
Berlusca
“Hi. I’m Barack Obama. I’m not the real President but I play one on tv.”
Insightful
Our best hope turned out to be totally ignorant regarding the history of certain facts and it doesn’t seem possible he actually had a top notch education. There appears to be a grave concern at this point that he actually might have a serious brain disorder.
MichaelC
Exactly right, and exceedingly strange when you consider the fact that President Obama considers himself a scholar. The conclusion is that he has to believe what he’s saying is true, which suggests more about his mindset than his ignorance of history.
TexasTreader
We all thought Obama was supposed to be so much smarter than Sarah Palin but there’s just no evidence to support that.
mary896
I’m a progressive democrat who is disgusted and dejected. The president can begin the lashings now because I’m not shutting up.
Peter Combs
as time goes on he gets more like Biden. gaff after gaff
Kitten Kramer
Mr. President you are losing it. Time to regroup and be quiet for a long time.
NOBSJUSTFACTS
He either needs Seroquel or a freaking vacation in A SPA FOR A MONTH. He seems to becoming unhinged – heck who wouldn’t but still, you signed up for the job, show some back bone man good god.
JoeMomma
He’s a sellout. And to this day he doesn’t get it. I suppose when he leaves office in 2 years he still won’t get it. Believe in something Barack. Anything. And then fight for it. Chicago politics is overrated.
BocaMom
This is why we Democrats can’t keep the White House, let alone Congress in 2012.
Jerry Lammers
This President is so lost, its hardly worth the effort to criticize his policies and pronouncements.
picaman
Watching this administration celebrate its Pyhrric victories just saddens me. We could do so much better than this. This is not the guy I voted for.
PedroGonzalez
Lets admit it to ourselves. If Bush set the house on fire Obama has poured gasoline on it.
lillibette
We lost our home and all our retirement savings in this recession. My husband found a job, out of our home state, making 1/2 of the income he made before. NO THANK YOU, we’ve already given our votes to you Barack, we have no more to give.
PedroGonzalez
.a genius in all 57 states.
Taken from:
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/12/more-huffpo-bas.html
Conservatives:
Dana Perino on Obama’s hostage speech: “What he looked like was a sore loser.”
Newt Gingrich: “You have a private first class who downloads a quarter million documents, and the system doesn’t say, `Oh, you may be over extended?’ I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order. This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.”
Future Speaker of the House John Boehner: “I’m going to cut my budget, my leadership budget five percent. I’m going to cut all the leadership budgets by five percent. I’m going to cut every committee’s budget by five percent. And every member is going to see a five percent reduction in their allowance. All together that’s $25-$30 million and it likely would be one of the first votes we cast.”
Frank Luntz: “In all of my time doing focus groups, this year has been the most contentious, the loudest, and this [particular group] may be the worst yet. I just hope that this isn’t a sign of things to come.”
Charles Krauthammer: “When you get praise from President Clinton and you are from my side of the aisle that means that my career is done, I mean, I’m toast. Maybe NPR will take me”
From:
http://kukis.org/blog/ConservativeReview156.htm
http://kukis.org/blog/ConservativeReview156.pdf
A retired math teacher who spends most of his time exegeting the Old Testament and, once a week, puts out an ezeen.