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Monday, November 3, 2008

Quote of the Day: Explaining Obamacons

A reader at the Daily Dish has a perfect encapsulation of why I consider myself an Obamacon (well, maybe an Obamatarian):

I was with a woman this week who is in her sixties. She told me that she has voted Republican her entire life and this year she is voting for Obama. Her reason; John McCain is too erratic and too much of a hot head and Sarah Palin is completely unqualified. I think many "Obamacons" simply love this country more than they do their ideology.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Brilliant Quote of the Day

This is one of the best quotes I've read in a really long time. Read the whole article.

"Let me offer what is evidently a radical argument — identifying the candidate that best approximates your ideological beliefs is not sufficient reason to cast a presidential vote on his behalf. Yes, a conservative is naturally going to weigh a candidate’s adherence to conservatism very heavily, but not as an end in itself. The ultimate goal is to choose the candidate whose election most benefits the country, not the candidate whose beliefs most closely reflect your own." -- Conor Friedsdorf

Monday, October 27, 2008

Quote of the Day: Ungodly Hubris; The Sin of Pride

Great quote from Minister Oliver Thomas:

My father, who was a Baptist deacon as well as a World War II veteran, was such a patriot. Pop taught me that true patriotism is not a contest to see who can fly the biggest flag. True patriotism exists where citizens love their country enough to hold it accountable. That means working to make certain that the president we have elected and the government we have created live up to the words of our creeds and the dreams of our poets and prophets.

Quote of the Ages: Anti-McCarthyism

An article by Menachem Rosensaft reminded me of a quote that I heard a while ago from the sad, sad McCarthy Witchhunt(TM) days:

In her 1950 Declaration of Conscience, Margaret Chase Smith said that "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear." John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republican Party have knowingly resurrected these demons with a vengeance. We must not, we cannot let them get away with it.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Quote of the Year: Case for Obama

This is from last year but Andrew Sullivan's early case for Obama is as prescient and wise as ever:

If you believe that America’s current crisis is not a deep one ... if you believe that today’s ideological polarization is not dangerous, and that what appears dark today is an illusion fostered by the lingering trauma of the Bush presidency, then the argument for Obama is not that strong ...

But if you sense, as I do, that greater danger lies ahead, and that our divisions and recent history have combined to make the American polity and constitutional order increasingly vulnerable, then the calculus of risk changes. Sometimes, when the world is changing rapidly, the greater risk is caution. Close-up in this election campaign, Obama is unlikely. From a distance, he is necessary. At a time when America’s estrangement from the world risks tipping into dangerous imbalance, when a country at war with lethal enemies is also increasingly at war with itself, when humankind’s spiritual yearnings veer between an excess of certainty and an inability to believe anything at all, and when sectarian and racial divides seem as intractable as ever, a man who is a bridge between these worlds may be indispensable.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Schwarzenegger: Sarah Palin Isn't Qualified

In an interview with CNN's Campbell Brown, California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President... yet (?):

BROWN: Do you think [Palin is] qualified to be president?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I think that she will get to be qualified.

BROWN: She will get there? What do you mean? She's not ready yet?

SCHWARZENEGGER: By the time that she is sworn in I think she will be ready.

Quote of the Day

"New ad slogan: 'Clothes for Gov. Palin? $150,000. Time machine to go back two months to late August and ask what the Hell were Schmidt and Davis thinking when they cooked up this idea and sold it to McCain? Priceless.'" -- Republican Mike Murphy, who once ran the campaign of McCain 1.0

Monday, October 13, 2008

Quote of the Day

Christopher Hitchens on Sarah Palin:

[T]he only public events that have so far featured his absurd choice of running mate have shown her to be a deceiving and unscrupulous woman utterly unversed in any of the needful political discourses but easily trained to utter preposterous lies and to appeal to the basest element of her audience.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Quote of the Day

On the Troopergate Report:

Look at it this way: If the race was close right now, this would be a killer. As it is, it's just one more shovel blow to the back of the skull.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Quotes of the Day

Here are a few gems I came across today. In case you haven't noticed, I added a handy feature called "Today's Quotes" to the top of the left column of the blog. Enjoy!

"At the end of the debate, Brokaw asked McCain to get out of the way of his Teleprompter. He might as well have been speaking on behalf of the future: Senator McCain can you please get out of the way so we can get on with it?" -- Arianna Huffington

"You guys are nuts ... With due respect, I think tonight was a disaster for our side. I'm dumbfounded that no one else seems to think so. Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do. What am I missing?" -- conservative water carrier Andy McCarthy writing on the ultra-conservative National Review Online about McCain's debate performance.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Palin is 'Allergic to Complexity'

I am still getting through the Sunday morning talk shows but so far, I heard one of the most poignant quotes about Sarah Palin in a long time. When asked about Sarah Palin's performance at the debate, Meshell (Michele?) Norris framed it thusly:

She came across as someone who is "allergic to complexity".

So true.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Quote of the Day

Here's Fallows on the Palin-Couric ~~interview~~ fiasco:

George W. Bush is in a completely different and superior league to what we've seen from Palin. When people made fun of his inexpressiveness in the 2000 campaign (and onwards), it was because he mispronounced words or used cliches. It was nothing like the total inability to express any coherent thought on any issue outside "values politics" that Palin has revealed.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Quote of the Day III

Referring to Sarah Palin's travesty of an interview on CBS last night, conservative Daniel McCarthy has this to say:

After watching this, I think the McCain-Palin ticket is on course to disprove the old adage that no one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the American public. Even Homo boobiens has to be smarter than this.

Quote of the Day II

Well, it's a longish quote but it's worth it. Here's "Crunchy Con" Rod Dreher on Sarah Palin's trainwreck of an interview yesterday:

I remember the morning I woke up in my college dorm room and went in to take my final exam in my Formal Logic class. I knew I was unready. Massively unready. And now I was going to be put to the ultimate test. I sat down in Dr. Sarkar's class and resolved to wing it. Of course I failed the exam and failed the class, because I had no idea what I was talking about. I wasn't a bad kid, or even a stupid kid. I was just badly unprepared, and in way over my head. Seeing the Palin interview on CBS, I thought of myself in Dr. Sarkar's exam. But see, I was a college undergraduate who had the chance to take the class again, which I did, and passed (barely). I wasn't running for vice president of the United States.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Repub Platform 'We Do Not Support Bailouts'

Interesting:

"We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself." - Republican Party Platform, 2008.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Quote of the Day

Some conservatives aren't bamboozled by McCain's sophistry on the economy:

"I suppose the McCain campaign's hope is that when there's a big crisis, people will go for age and experience. The question is, who in this crisis looked more presidential, calm and un-flustered? It wasn't John McCain who, as usual, substituting vehemence for coherence, said 'let's fire somebody.' And picked one of the most experienced and conservative people in the administration, Chris Cox, and for no apparent reason... It was un-presidential behavior by a presidential candidate ... John McCain showed his personality this week and it made some of us fearful." - conservative columnist, writer and commentator George F. Will, on ABC's This Week.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quote of the Day

Here is a quote from an email sent by an unnamed Washington lawmaker talking about the legislative response to the financial crisis:

I find myself drawn to provisions that would serve no useful purpose except to insult the industry, like requiring the CEOs, CFOs and the chair of the board of any entity that sells mortgage related securities to the Treasury Department to certify that they have completed an approved course in credit counseling... I'm open to other ideas, and I am looking for volunteers who want to hold the sons of bitches so I can beat the crap out of them.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Quote of the Day

Ha!

"After initially casting Palin as a dedicated foe of earmarks, and then having it revealed that she asked for and received enormous sums of earmarked projects, the McCain campaign has fallen back to the defense that she requested fewer earmarks than other Alaska pols.

Yet this defense raises the question of why Ted Kennedy never thought to run for president on the slogan "He Never Took a Drink In His Life," and then, when challenged, point out that other members of his family are less sober than he." - Chait at TNR

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Quote of the Day

Nice:

John McCain will not only take on special interests and Washington insiders, he'll fundamentally alter human nature. And without raising taxes, either. He'll lead us to a sort of martial nirvana where all other emotions are replaced with patriotism, and turn the United States into a shining, selfless, bipartisan cross between heaven and Sparta.

Or maybe he's just a desperate shell of a man, babbling glorp.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Quote of the Day III

This pretty much sums up what McCain has ~~always been~~ become:

In running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it's clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.

Oh wait, I forgot that Obama is responsible for John McCain being a lying sack of crap because Obama refused to do town hall meetings with him. Never mind then...

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