Political Quotes of the Day

[Dardedar]

"We can do this. Americans have done this before. Some of us had grandparents or parents who said maybe I can't go to college but my child can; maybe I can't have my own business but my child can. I may have to rent, but maybe my children will have a home they can call their own. I may not have a lot of money but maybe my child will run for Senate. I might live in a small village but maybe someday my son can be president of the United States of America."
--Barack, in Colorado speaking before a crowd of 100,000.



Rest of the speech here

[Guest]

Now, Obama doesn't have much of a shot to win the Natural State (despite Clinton's optimistic and Baroneian analysis that "if the 11 counties of northeast Arkansas go for Barack Obama and Joe Biden," they could pull it off).

Ok, this forced me to look up Baroneian on google. I still don't know what it means.

Michael Barone is a writer for U.S. News & World Report. Barone-ian (Baroneian) analysis would be a reference to how Mr. Barone analyzes the current polls and punditry.

Google his last name follow any links to said magazine and you can check it out for yourself.

Hope that helped.

[tmiller51]

Michael Barone is a writer for U.S. News & World Report. Barone-ian (Baroneian) analysis would be a reference to how Mr. Barone analyzes the current polls and punditry.

Google his last name follow any links to said magazine and you can check it out for yourself.

That helps, thanks. Searching on Baroneian is no help. If I accept Google's spelling suggestion you get a lot of links to an Armenian writer--just didnt' seem to fit.

Tim

[Dardedar]

"Right-wing politicians and pundits who never criticized Bush in eight years are suddenly jumping
ship like rats, while bitter-end loyalists angrily accuse them of being "pathetically opportunistic."
After months of veering from one tactic to the next, McCain has finally settled on one message
for his campaign, but it's absurd: claiming that the party whose signature is tax cuts for the rich
is really on the side of Joe the Plumber.

Meanwhile, 3.1 million real Joe the Plumbers across America are sending Obama millions of dollars,
a torrent of cash that is helping to flush the GOP down the national toilet."

SALON

[Dardedar]

[Dardedar]

"The average working family is $2,000 dollars poorer now than when George Bush took office.
When Bill Clinton was president, the average wages and incomes went up $7,500 dollars.
So I've got an economic plan that is similar to Bill Clinton's and Senator McCain's got an
economic plan similar to George Bush's. Look and see what works and what doesn't."

--Obama speaking in Sarasota Florida.

[JamesH]

All,

Sen. Obama had a rally here in Springfield today and we where lucky enough to attend. You would not have believed the turn out. We stood in a line that stretched over a mile for at least 2 hours to get into the stadium. It was great! I know that he had already been to at least 1 other rally if not two earlier today so we where the end of the line. The crowd was huge and was much larger than when "whats-her-name" (I refuse to use her name) came to town and this is a republican strong hold area. There where a few McCain supporters but they where more sad than effective.

We had planned a laid back weekend but this rally changed all of that. I even ran into some of my co-workers at the rally and two of them I knew how they stood but the other guy totally suprised me. Just goes to show you can not judge a book by it's cover.

Since I do not believe in a god of any size, shape or description I guess it is up to us to make this thing happen next Tuesday.

Vote Obama!

Thanks.

[JamesH]

All,

Just a quick note about the Obama rally that was here in Springfield last night. The estimates of the number of people at the rally was 35,000 to 40,000 people! A couple of things to remember is there was not a lot of publicity about this event, I did not even know about it until late Friday. Second this is a very strong Repuplican strong hold, we are the proud home (please note sarcasim at this point) of John Ashcroft (native) and Jerry Falwell (graduated from un-accredited BBC college). Third Springfield has a population of 150,000 people. I know that a lot of these people came from all over the region but I still think this is a great turn out and I hope that this is a true indicator of what is going to happen on Tuesday.

[Dardedar]

Former Reagan chief of staff endorses Obama

Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he'll be voting for the Democratic nominee on Tuesday. He cited Colin Powell's endorsement as one factor, saying, "Well, let's put it this way -- I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."

On MSNBC, he added a little insult to injury -- literally. Referring to John McCain's choice of running mate, Duberstein said, "What most Americans, I think, realize, is that you don't offer a job, let alone the vice presidency, to a person after one job interview. Even at McDonald's, you're interviewed three times before you're given a job."
-- Former Reagan Chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein, endorsing Obama Salon

[Dardedar]

The monster years

"Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.

What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.

And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were, in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”

Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate American politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least, they’ve been banished to the wilderness." --Paul Krugman

[Dardedar]

[Dardedar]

"As this is being written, Republicans seem to have lost a total of 55 House and 11 Senate seats in the past two elections. These are the worst Republican results in consecutive elections since the Depression-era elections of 1930 and 1932 (153 and 22), which presaged exile from the presidency until 1953. If, as seems likely at this writing, in January congressional Republicans have 177 representatives and 44 senators, they will be weaker than at any time since after the 1976 elections, when they were outnumbered in the House 292 to 143 and the Senate 61 to 38." --George Will

"How BIG was Obama's victory? As it now stands, with North Carolina upping his total to 364, he could've spotted McCain New York and California and still won with 8 to spare. Let that sink in for a minute; a suntanned big city liberal Democrat named Barack Hussein Obama has won the presidency and did not need the New York and California electoral votes to do it.
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[Dardedar]

"Make no mistake, conservative values and ideologies are embraced by Americans. The polls all indicate Americans are fed up with the Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, and do not support more government programs and control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing." --Ted Nugent, Link

[Guest]

"Obama held his first news conference as
president-elect. Reporters were confused
because he didn't make up any words and
everything he said made sense."
-- Jimmy Kimmel

"Who wouldn’t want the story of the Titanic from the skipper?"
-- book agent Ronald Goldfarb on a Bush book deal

[Dardedar]

"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has,
which means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he
resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
-- CNN Polling Director Keating Holland

"After nearly eight years of a president who could barely form a coherent sentence,
much less a strategic thought...what Obama's election means is that brains are back.
Sense and pragmatism and the idea of considering-all-the-options are back. Studying
one's enemies and thinking through strategic problems are back. Cultural understanding
is back. Yahooism and jingoism and junk science about global warming and shabby legal
reasoning about torture are out. The national culture of flag-pin shallowness that guided
our foreign policy is gone with the wind. And for this reason as much as any, perhaps
I can renew my pride in being an American."
-- Michael Hirsh

[Dardedar]

[Dardedar]

A Brit's Commentary on Our Election (late October)

By Max Hastings in the Daily Mail (British newspaper)

"To put it bluntly, the Republicans have become the party of America's
stupid people. That is not abusive, but a statement of fact. Most of
the whites who will vote for McCain next week are demographically among
the nation's least-educated: rednecks; drivers of big, tough pick-up
trucks with flags on the hoods; Johnny Cash fans; and deer hunters.



Sure, in upmarket city suburbs there are still some McCain/Palin boards
up, among people who simply vote with their wallets. In the Bush years,
the Republicans have justified their reputation as the party which
looks after rich people.

But a shrewd political reporter said to me: 'The real fault line in
America is no longer geographical, between north and south, the middle
and the coasts; it's educational.'

Lawyers now back the Democrats by 4 to 1; with doctors, it is 2-1;
investment bankers, 2-1; executives in high tech businesses, 5-1.

The blunt, happy truth is that today there are not enough dumb people
in the United States to elect John McCain and his hockey mom Veep.

A formidable majority of Americans perceive that George W. Bush's
pretty brutish presidency has been a disaster. They are painfully
conscious that he has made America more widely disliked in the world
than at any time since Vietnam."

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[L.Wood]

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a little history from my favorite history teacher, Cato, of Mena, AR



"And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents
and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam allegedly gassed a
few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a
war criminal or commiting crimes against humanity is the same old thing - liberal hate speech.
And speaking of poision gas, I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them."

-- Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988

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[Dardedar]

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a little history from my favorite history teacher, Cato, of Mena, AR

"And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan....

DAR
I saw that one on Bartcop yesterday and wasn't quite buying it. He didn't provide a source and if it was real I think we would have seen it pop up some time ago. It's bogus. Snopes has the debunk here. Tell your favorite history teacher.

D.

[Doug]

DAR
I saw that one on Bartcop yesterday and wasn't quite buying it. He didn't provide a source and if it was real I think we would have seen it pop up some time ago. It's bogus. Snopes has the debunk here. Tell your favorite history teacher.
D.

DOUG
That one got me. I sent it out to a couple of NWACC faculty, and one sent back the Snopes link debunking it. I hadn't fallen for one of those for a long time. Darn!

I sent Bartcop the debunking info. I hope he puts a correction up.