 It is still hard to believe but, if Hillary Clinton's "confidantes" are to be trusted, Barack Obama is about to appoint her secretary of state and she is about to accept. This appointment represents the capstone of betrayal of Obama's promise to be the "change we can believe in." ...Apart from the breathtaking cynicism of the appointment lies the total lack of foreign-policy experience in the new partnership. Neither Clinton nor Obama has spent five minutes conducting any aspect of foreign policy in the past. Neither has ever negotiated anything or dealt with diplomatic issues. It is the blonde leading the blind.
Dick Morris
"Obama Nation" (Emphasis Added)
A power of the individuals who compose legislatures, to fish up wealth from the People, by nets of their own weaving ... will corrupt legislative, executive, and judicial public servants.
John Adams
http://www.nhreagannetwork.com/
...we've become a nation of thieves...
Walter Williams
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/wwilliams/2008/wew_11191.shtml#
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.
Barack H. Obama
http://rebirthofreason.com/Spirit/Videos/109.shtml
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, its that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Barack H. Obama
http://www.obama2008.eu/
That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist.
Paul Broun, Rep (R)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESSMAN_OBAMA_MARXIST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-11-10-18-38-54
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
Lily Tomlin
John McCain and Sarah Palin, they call this socialistic. Y'know, I don't know when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness. Y'know, the next thing I know, they're gonna find evidence of my communistic tendencies because I shared my toys in kindergarten -- cause I split my peanut butter and jelly sandwich with my friend in sixth grade.
Barack H. Obama
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/obama_a_vote_for_me_is_vote_fo.php
"Good regulations are like extraterrestrials. There's this contingent of people who swear they exist, but as of yet no evidence has surfaced to confirm it. "
John Armaos
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1317.shtml#2
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
George Will
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102202891.html
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
Charles Krauthammer
RealClearPolitics
It's not just about tolerance; acceptance of same-sex marriage is now mandatory!
Author unknown
From a California campaign add for Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Vote for Obama. McCain lacks the character and temperament to be President. And Palin is simply a disgrace. ... Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience.
Christopher Hitchens
http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/
Social Security operates on a simple principle: You give your retirement money to politicians and they squander it on something else.
Harry Browne
Fail-Safe Investing
Companies that form the foundation of our financial markets are shrinking and disappearing practically overnight. Their insatiable appetite for risk has permeated all sectors of the financial services industry, and has spread beyond our shores.
Chris Dodd, Sen (D)
http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/4572
To be successful, a rat requires cunning, not genius.
Steve Wolfer
Corporate Bailout
The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
You're right [Congressman Frank], I'm a dumb guy, and you... you are the brilliant guy that presided over the biggest financial collapse in history!
Bill O'Reilly
Fox News - O'Reilly Factor
Furthermore, the very speech we must be most careful to protect is that which is most onerous to us. Our natural inclination is to shut up the Other Side. The problem is, many days we are the other side.
Anonymous
"Editorial," The Free Lance-Star
(I)f libertarianism could account for children and foreign policy, it would be the ideal political philosophy.
Jonah Goldberg
Liberal Fascism
We could keep arguing about when America should go to war, but something happened this week. We went broke. Now, war is just one of the things we will shortly no longer be able to afford.
Steve Wolfer
Your economic security has been put at risk by the greed of Wall Street. ... My opponent's only solutions are talk and taxes. I'll reform Wall Street and fix Washington.
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
John McCain, 2008 Campaign Ad (from: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/campaign.wrap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.
Jean-François Revel
There is no advantage to putting out a mistruth.
Bob Schieffer
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/16/midmorning2/
I certainly don't fault Senator McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to.
Barack H. Obama
Obama explaining collapse of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch; in news article: "Obama says McCain is running dishonest campaign"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
Erik
Only if democracy eventually prevails in Pyongyang and Tehran can the West breathe easy.
Max Boot
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/boot.html
So Bob Barr's claim to fame now is that he barely beat an anarchist who defended the legality of child pornography. Barr may have lent the Libertarian Party his credibility, but the Libertarian Party has lent Barr its insanity.
FreeCololrado.com
http://www.freecolorado.com/2008/06/barr-beats-anarchist.html
I can just see [Ariana Huffington], face knotted up in anger and determination, busily duct-taping McCain and Bush together like some three-legged potato sack racer. "Stand still, damn it! You are staying fastened together till Obama gets a chance to win this race!" But Bush isn't running we say, and she says, "He is now! What do you think I'm doing with this tape?"
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1283.shtml#11
Watching [Sarah Palin], everyone can say to himself, somewhere in his subconscious, "The best within me is like her (even if not as successful, or powerful, or whatever) and as long as I'm being honest and standing up for my values I too am a hero (even if on a smaller scale)."
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2137_4.shtml#96
What I think is going on, at least in part, with the Palin phenomenon is that a large portion of the population is fed up to the teeth with political correctness and Nanny regulations. These go from helmet laws to trans-fat bans to global warming hysteria and spotted owl environmentalists and everything in between. So when it is said that her goal in life is to kill caribou it's a throw-it-in-your-face cry of 'enough already' to the latte-sipping solipsistic city-dwelling sissies who don't know how to do anything practical. Many of rural Americans do know how to change their own oil, shoot varmints, cook an apple pie and build a fence and they're finally having their say.
Paul Hibbert
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2137_4.shtml#95
So remember, the only way to waste your vote is to vote!
Penn Jillette
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/jillette.presidency/index.html
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign.
Sarah Palin
RNC Acceptance Speech
Without liberty, all we have are the leeches and looters fighting over the spoils that the victims are required to produce. This rotten system of redistribution must end. And it will, because victims of authoritarian rule eventually quit being victimized. War and domestic violence always complicate matters once the moral defense of individual rights is rejected.
Ron Paul
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=432
Every four years, we suddenly discover that the only people worth noticing or mentioning in the United States are those who are ill, or unemployed, or uninsured, or underpaid, or homeless, or some combination of the above. Bill and Hillary Clinton went on about these unprotected and wretched millions on two successive nights last week, apparently never reflecting that some of them at least must have been alive and suffering under the two Clinton administrations. How can a thinking person sit still and listen to such piffle, let alone get up and wave their arms about when they hear it again and again?
Christopher Hitchens
Fighting Words
For over two decades, [McCain has] subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy — give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.
Barack H. Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080830/pl_politico/12964
... the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. That's the promise we need to keep.
Barack H. Obama
Nomination Speech at the 2008 DNC
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_orwell.html
"As cruel geography and the selfish designs of the American Founding Fathers would have it, Europeans don't get to choose the US president."
Gerard Baker
London Times
Q. What do you think of the Libertarian Party? AR: I’d rather vote for Bob Hope, the Marx Brothers, or Jerry Lewis. I don’t think they’re as funny as Professor Hospers and the Libertarian Party. If, at a time like this, John Hospers takes ten votes away from Nixon (which I doubt he’ll do), it would be a moral crime. I don’t care about Nixon, and I care even less about Hospers. But this is no time to engage in publicity seeking, which all these crank political parties are doing. If you want to spread your ideas, do it through education. But don’t run for President—or even dogcatcher—if you’re going to help McGovern.
Ayn Rand
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2126_2.shtml#52
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
http://www.strike-the-root.com/
A recurring head-in-the-sandism of isolationists is the premise that every threat is best dealt with by ‘leaving it alone in its cage.’ The unstated premise is that the dog can’t or won’t get out, and the only way to get hurt is by mucking in his business. Of course, the dog can get out. The only question is: Should we let him see us picking up a big stick, or stringing up our sneakers?
Jon Letendre
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2128.shtml#12
If McCain has appeared "presidential" in this crisis, by contrast, it is because he has provided real moral leadership when no one else was doing it—and his statements of encouragement to Georgia may well have changed the course of events for the better. I am no fan of McCain, and I fought vigorously against his nomination by the Republican Party. But if anything can make me vote for the bastard, this will be it.
Robert Tracinski
TIA Daily
When Obama says he will only tax the rich, it's like saying he won't shut down the entire ship, just the engine room.
Dick Morris
foxnews.com
On everything Obama is 'unerring'...If you think he's changed his mind you're mistaken...As befits a man who's treated by the press as not presidential but papal he believes himself infallible. I wouldn't be surprised if in Berlin he holds not a rally, but a mass.
Charles Krauthammer
Special Report with Brit Hume, July 23, 2008
I wasn't born in America - but I got here as fast as I could.
Elon Musk
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=061808B
We will never be safe in this country if we continue to kill three thousand babies a day. We can never expect God's protection.
Gregg Jackson
Book TV Interview
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enought to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
Orson Scott Card
Empire
I want them to feel that they are somebody and their congressman is somebody. And when they say, 'This is nice,' it feels good.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
US News & World Report (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/05/02/out-loud-may-2-2008.html)
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