Political Quotes of the Day

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Wow. Watch this rightwing talkie get his ass handed to him on a plate in this 5 minute clip from the Chris Matthews "Hardball" show:
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During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman:

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

Clip
HERE.

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What is the matter with these people?

Huckabee has since apologized for the insane comment.

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Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, head of the committee tasked with helping elect Republicans to Congress, said Tuesday’s defeat in Mississippi — after losing GOP seats in other special elections in Illinois and Louisiana — was evidence that “a large section of the American people doesn’t have confidence in the Republican Party.” Quote:
“When you lose three of these in a row, you have to get beyond campaign tactics and take a long hard look: Is there something wrong with your product?”
USA Today

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Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, writing in her new memoir about the couple's reaction to the 2000 election of George W. Bush as President:

"It's fair to say that our hearts sank when the result was finally ratified."

--TIME, 5/26/08, pg. 18

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"It’s like the stupid “Gasoline Tax Holiday” ideas being floated here in the States. The most direct measure we have of scarcity is cost, and cost needs to accurately reflect scarcity or people will forget it is “scarce”. Dropping the tax will increase consumption, and then when the poop really hits the propeller, things will be even worse." Link

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"The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has consulted on this topic, has written that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "like Hitler … a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism." For this staggering proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.

Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"

Hysteria Over Iran, Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

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"The issue at hand for the Democratic Party for winning in ‘08 is not losing to McCain but losing to a divided Democratic party. The first thing Obama should do if nominated is put Hillary on the ticket. Will the Republicans have a field day with her on the ticket? Yes! Is their some bad blood in the water due to some negative campaign strategies on the part of the Clintons? Probably. Can Hillary be a tough fighter able to play tough allowing Obama to stay higher above the fray? Yes!

Howard Dean said a few months ago that the loser will be the most important person in the Democratic presidential run this year. Hillary's legacy in this 08 election could place her as the healer and bring together a united Democratic party. As a winning ticket they also move this country closer to healing the racial and misogynist undertones that still have roots.

Can you picture Denver with Hillary's delegates close to half of all delegates demanding that she be included on the ticket? To some it's a crusade. If Hillary was the one out ahead - by just a little over half - wouldn't Obama supporters want the same?

Obama's offer and Hillary's acceptance of an Obama/Clinton ticket hold the healing and the power to move this country in the direction of the real change in Washington that Obama talks about. First he must bring the Democrats back together again.

Obama - ask Hillary first. And if she should say no, the offer would still have a unifying affect."

--Thom Hartmann, Air America radio personality

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News bit and quote from Lwood:

NYT Magazine interview with former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias:

NYT: Do you think Karl Rove mentions you in his prayers?

DI: My understanding is that he is agnostic. I didn't find that out until a couple of months ago. The irony is you have this agnostic using the religious beliefs of evangelical Christians for political purposes.

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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." --Seneca

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"The White House says Bush is going to Europe. Bush says he's really excited to go to Europe, because he's never seen a kangaroo." -- Conan


"I don't have a college degree and I'm one of the most brilliant people in the country." --Limbaugh, on why students should quit school

"I think Hillary has lost.
So this election will be a vote on how racist America actually is,
instead of how much the press hates the Clintons. I am not optimistic." --anon

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Olbermann: “Were the critics in the media largely right”

McClellan: “In terms of Iraq they were largely right”

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Getting ready for the chest bump:



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[JamesH]

The above picture should be enough proof that we evolved from primates or in this case directly from a monkey! Maybe the sad part is that some of us have just evolved a little further than others!

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H. Candace Gorman, writing for In These Times:

"Every time I visit, Al-Ghizzawi asks me, 'What happened to America?' I try to explain the unexplainable. I tell him that the American government now believes that torture is permissible; that we can hold people forever without charge; keep people in isolation for years; bar communications with family members; force-feed those who want to die and refuse to provide medical treatment for those who want to live. I explain that the American people, whose nation once stood as a beacon of human rights, neither care about this nor want to hear about it."
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"'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say.
'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not.
We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'"

"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply
not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine?
It didn't make a lot of sense."
-- Scotty McClelland, ratting out his lying former employer, Link

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"If gay or lesbian couples want to get married, one of you just say you are a man,
and the other just say you're a woman. You won't have to change your name, or the
way you dress. We'll take your word for it. No one will ask you to drop trou and
whip it out, okay? That's illegal. I know that for a fact."
-- Stephen Colbert

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DAVID BROOKS, “NEW YORK TIMES:

"Obama‘s problem is he doesn‘t seem like a guy who can go into an Applebee‘s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. He has to change to be more like that Applebee‘s guy and as he‘s done that he‘s become much more transactional. Much more, I‘m going to deliver this and this and this to you on policy."

Note: Applebee's doesn't have a salad bar.

"Just goes to show how much these people who make these comments have no idea how “regular people” live their lives." --Link

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From a long list of McCain errors regarding Iraq:

On the Safe Streets of Baghdad

“[There] there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.” John McCain, after touring a Baghdad market wearing a bulletproof vest and guarded by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead, (April 1, 2007.)

“There’s problems in America with safe neighborhoods as we well know.” (John McCain, March 8, 2008.)

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Belongs in the breathtaking hypocrisy section:

Cheney Called Clinton-Era Sanctions Against Iran Bad for Halliburton



By Jason Leopold
The Public Record
Monday, June 02, 2008

When Dick Cheney was chief executive of Halliburton in the 1990s, he urged Congress to ease sanctions against Iran and enter into diplomatic discussions with the country’s leaders so the oil-field services company could legally do business there.

"Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian situation but a number of others as well," Cheney said at the time. "I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes...There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what's best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like."

In March 1995, Clinton signed an executive order that prohibited "new investments [in Iran] by U.S. persons, including commitment of funds or other assets." It also restricts U.S. companies from performing services "that would benefit the Iranian oil industry. Violation of the order can result in fines of as much as $500,000 for companies and up to 10 years in jail for individuals."

Cheney was highly critical of the Clinton administration’s policy toward Iran.

"I think we'd be better off if we, in fact, backed off those sanctions [on Iran], didn't try to impose secondary boycotts on companies ... trying to do business over there ... and instead started to rebuild those relationships," Cheney said during a 1998 business trip to Sydney, Australia, reported by Australia's Illawarra Mercury newspaper."

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Cheney Called Clinton-Era Sanctions Against Iran Bad for Halliburton

As if we needed further proof that the only thing this guy cares about is money...

[Betsy]

"[In the Democratic campaign] We will not use religion as a wedge, we will not use patriotism as a bludgeon."

-Barack Obama, in his speech on Tuesday, June 2.