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BREAKING: Barack Obama Trashes United States to Seven Year Old Girl

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 7th, 2008 at 04:40 PM  | 

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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.

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  • Neil_Stevens
  • birdmojo

    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…

  • tvjohn2

    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.

  • CVN_76

    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.

  • mbecker908

    Dan Quayle.

  • rstreu

    well, a nancy-boy, anyway.

  • Socrates

    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.

  • Vegas_Rick

    It’s been 16 months for me.

    I still miss ‘em. :)

  • Achance

    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!

  • blooch

    “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.

  • Suzy

    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.

  • JKH1232

    I’d find a way to hammer him on the point. Maybe in the debate.

  • JKH1232

    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.

  • aaronbg

    n/t

  • jdmbamd2

    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.

  • crossbuck

    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!

  • SteveLA

    Disco Demolition Night, the day Disco Died.

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    Geesh what a dope. She propably had to have her MoM and Dad explain his explaination,but we got it loud and clear.

  • hunter

    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?

  • chemjeff2

    “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.”

  • chemjeff2

    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.

  • hunter

    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?

  • bs

    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.

  • blooch

    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/

  • ChenZhen

    MCCAIN IS WORKING HARDER AND IS SHARPER: HE’S FITTER AND TOUGHER AND HAS A DEEP REAL COURAGE WHICH MATCHES HIS PRINCIPLES.

  • jegrimm

    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.

  • Vegas_Rick

    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.

  • BrianH

    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.