Great Barack Obama Quotes
Some great Obama quotes for your enjoyment:
- "I inhaled - that was the point"
- "I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein. "
- "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. "
- "It's like I was shot out of a cannon. I'm so overexposed that I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse."
- "[The] issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
- "We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical regimes that have led to flourishing democracies; movements that continue today. This doesn’t mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it’s in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal. But even as we provide such help, we should be clear that the institutions of democracy – free markets, a free press, a strong civil society – cannot be built overnight, and they cannot be built at the end of a barrel of a gun."
- "I firmly believe ... that since 9/11, we have played fast and loose with constitutional principles in the fight against terrorism. But I acknowledge that even the wisest president and most prudent Congress would struggle to balance the critical demands of our collective security against the equally compelling need to uphold civil liberties."
26 comments:
I think obama is really bad person white people should not vote for him because he hates whites and is pretending to be Christian.
He is muslim.
oh, shut up bennie. you're an idiot.
I agree with Meghan, Bennie you are the biggest loser!
Barack has been a Christian his whole life. Not that it matters -- when did religion become a bad thing? I'm happy that a Muslim won a congressional seat in the last election and was sworn in on the Quran. That's what America is about. Islam is a religion that preaches peace and tolerance, just like Christianity and Judaism. I'm not religious personally but I could not care less what religion Barack is. Bottom line, he speaks honestly and frankly, is down to earth, and understands he owes his success not to himself, but to all of us who vote for him.
Sounds like some of the same scare tatics the Republican Party tried to use against John F. Kennedy in 1959 when they zeroed in on his Catholic faith and made it such a campaign issue. We have a "man" as President now that claims to be a Christian but has demonstrated he is an idiot when it comes to leadership. In 2004 Barack Obama had the foresight to see what Iraq would hold for us and he didn't have access to all the "Intelligence Resources"
WMD
Al-Queda
Muslim
Terrorist
Boo, are you scared yet????
Pick up a copy of Obama's book, the audacity of hope. It is a quick read. And BTW, don't be so stupid.
I know few people who are as white as the background on this page or as black as the words "Leave your comment". Bennie, there is one race the human race and people like you are why every, to use Obama's words, every "decent American" should vote for him. Then and maybe only then we can rid ourselves of the KKK. They are a terrorist group and I have seen them in their robes and read their hate literature. BTW Bennie, you are saying he hates his own mother and the grandparents that raised him? AARGH.
Bennie, he may be of muslim decent, but he does not practice that religion. He is not a terrorist. He did belive that religion for about 2 years, but he changed and became a christian for 20 years. I have been doing research on his church, and it seems that he may be racist. I am still not sure whether these are lies, are cold facts slyly hidden. We have no proof whether his church is black-only or not. I personally think it could be just someone trying to make him look bad and make people believe that is what his church is.
OK, all of you pros and cons are missing the big picture. Obama has no expereince in international affairs, is not not versed well enough in current or past public policy, has not proven himself on the senate floor,speaks around topics rather than addressing issues and is trying to please the ultra left with his speaches but has proven he has not the 'balls' to speak his mind. For are of you Obama supporters, do me a favor and go to college and study poly-sci, study history, study internatinonal affairs...........but pleae pull your head out of your ass and stop trying to sound like you know what you are talking about. A great speaker does no make a good president in the same manner that a solid political supporter does not represent an intellectual ability to reason based on foreign relations criteria. These Obama supporters, however, base their support on feelings and anti-republican ethos rather than on factual or well thought out decisions. This aint a talent show people.
Sorry for the typos....typing fast is bad for grammer
or grammar?? SEE??
I don't love "BODY ODOR"
Any man who says he is proud
of his church and pastor when
Jerimiah Wright is a "Racist"
and a "Hate Mongor" "STINKS"!
Senator Obama will win in November and this country will FINALLY be in the hands of a president who actually gives a shit. Hillary Clinton is a cold, calculating, PHONY carbon copy of past political manipulations that make me gag everytime I see her face.
Ossie
l agree with chanel Obama is the man and he will change the way things are right now theres a lot of carzy stuff thats happening and a lot of people are being stepped on that has to stop.
CNN: "I think I read in your book that you used to listen to tapes of Rev. Wright when you were at Harvard Law School?"
Obama: "I did."
CNN: “So you had no idea?”
Obama “I did not.”
JMC, I have studied international policy and affairs and deal with governments and businesses in several Asian, European, Eastern European and Middle Eastern countries, and have been a lifelong Republican, and I believe that Barack Obama has an infinitely better concept of foreign policy than McCain-Palin do, and I am confident that as President, Obama will finally restore the status of American in the World as a moral leader worthy of respect and honor.... unlike the current Administration who has in eight years, brought us to a point where even our allies do not trust us or support our policies.
From Alaska: The Palin Letter
A note to all by Anne Kilkenny
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks. :)
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
[ Note by web_admin: This was already posted on Washington Independent
comments area and was meant by the author to be read by many, but
readers need sourcing. The NY Times has talked with Anne since. ]
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's
attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are
swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.
Anne Kilkenny
I love Barack! If you do too, go to www.lovemyobama.com! You'll be glad you did, trust me.
truth is that only a single-minded zealot would make a blog named I LOVE BARACK OBAMA. that says a great lot about you people.
everybody needs to get off his nuts
you need to stop being a paranoid scared conservative right wing fag
let him govern
So guys, how's that Obama thing working out after 8 months?
Americans are quick to judge. President Obama began his term with many legacy problems, including the economy. Give him a chance! Many years of failed policies by the Republicans cannot be reversed in a few months.
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man does it matter what religion he is i love him just the way he is.
man he is a good person and a good president. Those Republican are trying to make a full out of him.
The sad part is its working.
The american people turn there backs on him.
So where's all the Love Now? I would love to have all you Obama lovers voicing your comments today! Are you working? Are you prosperous? How about a loan?
This is change we can count on!!!
BAHAHAHABAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it's so cool that (Zod) Obama wasn't vetted and was able to fool everyone, violate the Constitution and get into the White House. How funny is that, right? I think Michelle is so cool, her style is so effortless and she's so gifted, right? I like that she takes endless vacations and lives a beyond luxurious lifestyle all the while, like her husband condemning the nasty rich people and reminding us, just like Barack, that we need to sacrifice. It's wonderful to note that Barack has made good all his promises of bringing the troops home and making certain that we no longer are at war.
I think it's great that Obama is undermining the Capitalist system of "the man" and crashing the economy and moving this nation further into oblivion and becoming a Socialist state, as well, much like South Africa.
South Africa is, of course, so much better since Nelson (and Winnie) Mandela took over, after all, just look at how robust the economy is, how crime has disappeared and how much of a future South Africa and its people have.
You go Barack!
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