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RUSH LIMBAUGH: I don’t know that you’ve heard this yet ladies and gentlemen. This happened yesterday in Elkhart, IN. It was at a campaign event. A little 7 year old girl stood up to ask a question of Barack Obama. Her name is Natalia.
She asked this question of Barack Obama, “Why did you start running for President?”
SEN. BARACK OBAMA(file): America is no longer, uh, what it could be. What it once was. And I say to myself, “I don’t want that future for my children.”
LIMBAUGH: Alright, now here’s he’s brought it home. He had trashed his country in Germany, he has seen the result of that in his plummeting poll numbers. And now he does it again in Elkhart, IN. A 7 year old little girl. You’re running for President Sen. Obama, a little girl asks you a question, “Why did you start running for President?”
It’s a 7 year old Senator. Ya tell her because you love the country. You tell her because this is the greatest place on Earth. That we’ve got challenges, but you want to help the country through it. You don’t tell a 7 year old that her country isn’t what it once was. You do not lie to 7 year olds and tell them that your country sucks. You just don’t do it Senator.
America’s no longer what it could be? What it once was? How the Hell would you know Sir? Your experience has only been in one part of America. Elite, leftist academia.
Barack Obama: You're no Ronald Reagan (nt)
Neil Stevens August 7th, 2008 at 4:43 p.m. (link)
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Nobody can claim a "free speech" right to suck the fun out of our lives. Certainly not on a private board. – Steve Jackson
Ronald Reagan? Hell, he's no
mbecker908 August 7th, 2008 at 4:55 p.m. (link)
Dan Quayle.
CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
But he -is- a nancy...
randy streu August 7th, 2008 at 5 p.m. (link)
well, a nancy-boy, anyway.
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heck he ain't even Che....{spit}.....n/t
Aaron Gardner August 7th, 2008 at 6:37 p.m. (link)
n/t
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
"I'll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust" Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah...yes I love it that much.
Maybe he's hoping to bring back smoking sections.
birdmojo August 7th, 2008 at 4:44 p.m. (link)
You've gotta admit, that'd be a tempting reason to vote for the guy.
"Dear child, once upon a time you used to be able to order a steak and then smoke a cigarette without getting up. You could talk and drink and laugh with your friends and everyone had a cigarette dangling from their lips. You could go to Las Vegas and walk from the sidewalk into the casino without having to finish your cigarette first. I want to bring that America BACK."
I'd put a sign on my lawn and I haven't touched a cigarette since January.
I miss it, though...
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
good on ya, birdmojo
Vegas_Rick August 7th, 2008 at 5:16 p.m. (link)
It's been 16 months for me.
I still miss 'em. :)
Those who control energy, control society.
Week four for me,
Achance August 7th, 2008 at 5:34 p.m. (link)
and sometimes I can go a half hour without wanting one! I've had a pretty adventurous life and, swear to God, cigarettes are the one and only bad habit that I've never been able to just walk away from. Haven't touched drugs in thirty years, keep the booze to a social moderation, leave the women to the young bucks, but, God, how I love a pack of Winstons!
In Vino Veritas
In a sane world...
tvjohn2 August 7th, 2008 at 4:46 p.m. (link)
this bush-league verbal diarrhea would lose a presidential election. His gun-clinging comment lost him a primary. Let's see if this explosion of idiocy loses him the general.
In a sane world, the leftists wouldn't dominate the media
bs August 7th, 2008 at 9:37 p.m. (link)
It's highly unlikely that this story will get much more airplay than it already has. The Obamedia has no reason to play it up. I predict we will hear virtually nothing more of it. Too bad.
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I want to see the media try to
blooch August 7th, 2008 at 11:20 p.m. (link)
play down the Obama "Sign of Progress" movement. Have you seen this???
Put your hands in front of you, as if you were choking a small dog. Your first fingers and thumbs should be forming an "O" shape. Now raise your hands over your head. Congratulations. You have successfully made the Obama "Sign of Progress". If the movement is successful you should see about 75,000 of these in Denver.
I'll try to link, but I can barely master the "Sign of Progress".
http://theloyaltyinc.com/obama/
"Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks."--spam
Projection?
CVN_76 August 7th, 2008 at 4:48 p.m. (link)
I thought we were the ones who were always being accused of wanting to turn back the clock. Apparently, now that's a good thing.
Fortuna Favet Fortibus
Again, having it both ways
blooch August 7th, 2008 at 5:41 p.m. (link)
"What it once was, what it could be"
He wants to turn the clock back, no wait, he wants to turn the clock back to the future!
People are starting to notice when he says thing like that. When he was respondomg to McCain's tire gauge attack, he said the experts agreed that fluffed tires and tune-ups would "actually, probably" give us gas savings equal to OCS drilling. We are getting tired of hearing how tired he was when he says such things. How tired were you Barack? Let me whip out my gauge and check.
McCain should escalate his campaign gimmick of giving out a tire gauge for donations and include a free dipstick to really big donors, lest we all receive a large dipstick in November.
"Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks."--spam
He's tired now?
JKH1232 August 7th, 2008 at 6:12 p.m. (link)
Wait until he becomes president! He'll really get tired then- and what'll happen in a crisis? What if he misspeaks because he's tired and starts a war?
I'm not even being sarcastic- everyone who's worked a big crisis always talks about how hard it is to have good judgement- and if you demonstrate it on the campaign trail, what happens when the phone rings at 3 AM?
Dang, I wish I had a PAC right now.
Leftist mindset.
Socrates August 7th, 2008 at 5:02 p.m. (link)
Fix it even if it ain't broke, and even if you don't know quite how, and even if you have to break other stuff while trying.
-- Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
There was a time in America. . .
Suzy August 7th, 2008 at 5:55 p.m. (link)
Obama is right. America is not what it used to be. There was a time a black man couldn't run for president, attend Harvard or even drink from the same drinking fountain as a white person. There was a time in America where poor people went hungry. There was a time--if you can believe this-- when poor people didn't have cable TV, cars or air conditioning.
Well, you beat me to it.
JKH1232 August 7th, 2008 at 6:03 p.m. (link)
I'd find a way to hammer him on the point. Maybe in the debate.
Listen up!
jdmbamd2 August 7th, 2008 at 6:39 p.m. (link)
Listen, Whateverthehellyournameis:
This whole campaign is really about MY KIDS' FUTURE. Yes, MY KIDS--you know the ones that are forced to grow up in a $1.6 million dollar home, go to private schools, and get whatever they want, anytime they want. MY KIDS ARE SUFFERING!!! I NEED TO HELP THEM!!! Now go run in the street, little whateverthehellyournameis.
To when in history should we strive return?
crossbuck August 7th, 2008 at 7:46 p.m. (link)
What it once was? Okay, when might that have been? We can assume it wouldn't have been before the Civil War or in the immediate period of reconstruction. Probably not before civil rights legislation was enacted and enforced, so that eliminates the 50's and 60's.
The 70's? Couldn't have been what with Vietnam. At least early in the decade. He might be referring to the penitent US under Carter from 1976-80. His economic policies are straight out of Jimmy's playbook and he's pining to abandon an ally to islamists...
I'll bet he was seething when the Dems were locked out of the White House from 1980-1992. Does anyone see Obama as anything but a verbal opponent to the Reagan Revolution?
And it couldn't have been the Clinton years or he'd have gracefully accepted the second chair, returned to the fabled days of youre, and bided his time under the tutelage of the master.
Clearly his plan is to return us to 1976. Is there a Happy Days movie in production yet? If not, I want to cast that guy from Spiderman as Richie, Kevin Spacey as Howard Cunningham, and Luke Wilson as the Fonz. See you in Hollywood suckers! Enjoy your tax hikes and gas lines!
July 12th, 1979
SteveLA August 7th, 2008 at 8:18 p.m. (link)
Disco Demolition Night, the day Disco Died.
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NObama...no way!.....McCain '08 !
And there's no Santa Claus either.
Maggie_in_Indiana August 7th, 2008 at 8:37 p.m. (link)
Geesh what a dope. She propably had to have her MoM and Dad explain his explaination,but we got it loud and clear.
Maggie in Indiana
This kid is obviously
hunter August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 p.m. (link)
a racist proxy for McCAin and the KKKRepublicans. How dare McCain set up this vile little kid to ask such a tough question of the (self)anointed one?
Deciphering Obama's liberal code
chemjeff2 August 7th, 2008 at 9:01 p.m. (link)
"Because this country isn't what it once was" is liberal code for "Because George Bush trashed this country". So kudos to Obama for dressing up his answer for the consumption of a 7-year-old. Besides, he can't really tell her the truth - "Because I'm the Messiah."
But more seriously
chemjeff2 August 7th, 2008 at 9:05 p.m. (link)
This is exactly why it's dangerous to vote for Obama because he is just repeating what you read on all the lefty blogs. To them the 60's and 70's were a time of great social progress and liberation of millions...until that dottering old fool Reagan came along and halted it all. Since then we've been under the thumb of conservative domination,* and the time for our release has nigh arrived.
(*) Of course Bill Clinton is now lumped in with the conservatives, after it's now okay for the left to throw him under the bus since their new savior boy has been found.
This kid is obviously
hunter August 7th, 2008 at 9:24 p.m. (link)
a racist proxy for McCAin and the KKKRepublicans. How dare McCain set up this vile little kid to ask such a tough question of the (self)anointed one?
Go Rush!
ChenZhen August 8th, 2008 at 12:11 a.m. (link)
MCCAIN IS WORKING HARDER AND IS SHARPER: HE'S FITTER AND TOUGHER AND HAS A DEEP REAL COURAGE WHICH MATCHES HIS PRINCIPLES.
The United States Isn't Perfect...
jegrimm August 8th, 2008 at 4 p.m. (link)
I guess I don't see a problem with him saying that the U.S. isn't perfect, regardless of whom the message is directed.
Don't get me wrong, I think the United States is a great (and still the best) country, but let's be honest with each other.
I have a hard time believing this site's community approves of this nation's growing amount of foreign ownership of corporate America.
I also don't believe this site's community approves our nation's shrinking educational standards. When compared to the 60's, the United States has fallen a long ways in terms of educational standards. We also no longer lead, or even exist in the top twenty nations, in terms of math and science.
Nor do I think this site's community approves of the growing tide of illegal immigrants demanding rights, and the spineless politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who are deferring to them for the sake of maintaining voters for the next election cycle.
I doubt this site's community approves of our growing national debt. While this debt won't harm us substantially, the next couple generations will be burdened by it in more ways than one. So, while the national government continues to pay with credit (much like it's tax paying citizens), the interest accrued continues to gobble up more of our economic production.
Finally, I have difficulty believing that this site's community thinks the systemic devaluation of the United States middle class is a worthwhile endeavor. The backbone of this country is being outsourced, under-educated, and paid lower relative wages.
These are very serious issues that face us now, but will be much more important in the decades to come. These are not the surface issues of violence in video games, or even the 'war on drugs'. I don't mean to trivialize those problems, but they are minor in terms of the true issues facing this nation.
The United States isn't perfect, and Obama told the seven year old so. I have a lot more respect for a politician who would do so, than another who would sugar-coat it.
Yeah, and most of the "problems" you list
Vegas_Rick August 8th, 2008 at 4:08 p.m. (link)
are not for government to solve. They are for individual states, communities and citizens to solve.
When will you learn, less government is the solution.
Those who control energy, control society.
OK, you have a long list of things that "need fixing".
Brian Hibbert August 8th, 2008 at 4:10 p.m. (link)
What are your solutions to those problems?
More important, what are your guy's solutions to those problem?
I suppose all of them lead to more government involvement in our lives? If your guy is Obama, the solution is always the government.
Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering). Proud member of the V.R.W.C.