And now a few words from our Dear Leader ….
I have added comments in italics below each quote. Enjoy .. and remember – this is our President. Scary and horribly sad.
I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
- Barack Obama
Would this be the same ACORN that perpetrates mass voter fraud? Now there’s an association to be proud of.
In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
- Barack Obama
Maybe that’s because Europe’s leadership caused two World Wars, allowed the birth and development of communism, dragged the US into Vietnam, looks the other way while Islamist Extremists take over their nations, stifles independent thought and creation, has a declining birth rate, and generally stands for nothing – looking to appease at any cost. And now we have the President of the United States looking to them for leadership.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
- Barack Obama
“Punished with a baby” – what more needs to be said about his value of human life?
Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
- Barack Obama
Well that’s for sure. Obama always looks to obfuscate the issue at hand in order to encourage greater reliance on government. Ronald Reagan said, “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
- Barack Obama
Yup that’s us. Following the examples of our Nation’s Fathers – steadfastly holding onto our Constitutional Rights (namely the first and second amendments). The arrogance of this man is perfectly crystallized in the above quote.
My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.
- Barack Obama
Incredible arrogance. He decries CEO’s as robber-barons and pits the citizenry against them, then turns to them and tells them he is their only hope. Basic thuggery.
No one is pro-abortion.
- Barack Obama
Oh, ok. I guess that’s why a SuperBowl commercial celebrating the decision of a mother to carry her baby to term was so controversial and touted as hateful? Believe it Mr O, there are a large number of people, politicians, and organizations who thrive and maintain power from the practice of abortion.
Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
- Barack Obama
This is the great intellect that is our President? Ok – yes I know he was tired when he made that comment, but even an exhausted George Bush or Dan Quayle knows there are 50 states (and you KNOW they would have been raked over the coals for a gaffe like that). Maybe that’s just what happens when you are educated in an Islamic school in Indonesia.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
- Barack Obama
What? Again, people see this man as being a gigantic intellect and a master of words? Ridiculous.
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
- Barack Obama
Let’s all remember the full statement here – no “form of tax increase” for families making less than $250k. His health care plan alone is going to smash this promise. Then the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will do it again, followed by his own forthcoming tax increases, which are going to bury these same people – especially the small business owners.
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
- Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation of emancipation after which no man might be legally maintained as a slave. Some 700,000 men lost their lives in the war which made the above proclamation law for every corner of the nation. Indeed, Lincoln gave his own life for opposing the secessionists. For Obama to not give proper honor to Lincoln is a disgrace.
I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House.
- Barack Obama
Oh reeeeeeeaaaly! Would you care to amend that statement Mr. President? Your White House has been a turnstile bed and breakfast for lobbyists and contributors.
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
- Barack Obama
I wonder when he will stop blaming Bush and take responsibility for his own actions. It is true that the deficit doubled under Bush. It is also true that Obama quadrupled it in his first year in office. Hard to blame Bush for that one. The chart below does not even count the additional stimulus being proposed, nor does it account for the massive deficit spending which will come with Obamacare, if passed. Indeed, Obama has made much of cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term – but only after he quadrupled it in the first plan – the end result is still a double deficit. And with BHO’s commitment to spending, even the conservative estimates below wont be close to the actual figures.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama
I have been reading the words of the great American leaders since the inception of this nation. A common theme is the optimism and moral certainty that we (the US) are the best hope for humankind. The left – and with it, Obama have chosen rather the negative view of America and it’s role in the world. Don’t we want and deserve a leader who is proud and positive about his nation?
I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
- Barack Obama
Good for the person who did nothing in exchange for his share of the wealth. Good for the politicians who promise and deliver free money to the lazy and uninspired. Good for the bureaucracy that implements the system and thereby has the real power. Bad for those who actually earned and created the wealth. Bad for the incentive to continue doing it.
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
- Barack Obama
We should all know by now – and maybe if the MSM would call Democrats on their lies people would – some 40% of working families don’t even pay taxes. How can you give a tax cut to someone paying zero? What he means is more distribution of wealth. Marxism plain and simple. Simple lies tied up in political rhetoric.
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 Obama
Sounds like a new American version of the Stasi. There will have to be some group keeping track of those who wont willingly go along. Then what …?
We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
- Barack Obama
Really. He said that with a straight face. Not spending money unwisely? Are you kidding me? Earmarks? Like the NINE THOUSAND in the Stimulus Bill????
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
- Barack Obama
Sure, who needs someone with a strong constitutional understanding or who understand what the framers intended? No, we need more empathy. How has this man been taken seriously?
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
- Barack Obama
No? This is where Obama’s complete lack of contact with capitalism shows itself. Most entrepreneurs do, in fact, spend a lot of time (not to mention effort, money, blood, sweat, and tears) in pursuit of excellence. It isn’t surprising that Obama has this view. Indeed the goal of the socialist is to stamp out excellence so that one is not raised above another. From schools who don’t give grades to governments ’spreading the wealth around’, excellence is punished while mediocrity and even failure is rewarded. An appalling statement from the most powerful man on Earth.
What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.
- Barack Obama
We’ll have to forgive him on this one. A Democrat only sees things in terms of spending and tax receipts. This is probably why he didn’t notice the 9,000 pork barrel earmarks in the stimulus package – to Dems, spending is spending. It all contributes to their power.
You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
- Barack Obama
Again with the taxes. Will America bounce him out of office as they did George Herbert Walker Bush? The difference here is that it was Bush’s own party who deserted him over his broken pledge. I cannot see Democrats giving up power regardless of the offense. Also the MSM battered Bush mercilessly. They will let Obama slide and doubtless blame W for everything anyway.