The Washington Post ran this side-by-side of Rick Perry and Obama:
and dismissed its very obvious point by saying that’s it’s not fair, because ANYBODY would look cool standing next to an Air Force jet plane.
Well, I suppose every rule has an exception:
But honestly, Obama even gets beat by Mitt Romney in a completely fair fight:
I’m just not buying the WaPo’s argument.
From the audio files, I’m gonna start you out with what is quite possibly the best metaphor for Obama that I’ve heard:
1) Obama is like bad laundry soap (just listen to the clip, it’ll make sense)
2) “…Do you find yourself believing that Barack Obama believes in the inherent goodness of our nation? I see no evidence of that. Occasional lip-service, but he clearly detests much about our nation…”
3)“…Balance [in news reporting] itself is part of the problem for [liberals]. So when balance is presented, they go bonkers as if it’s far right or extreme… but it’s just balanced. So when they are confronted with it, it seems to them freakish…”
4) “…[Obama] began by creating uncertainty in the tax code. Now there is certainty there – which is he’s going to do the wrong thing…”
More audio clips here.
And for those who would rather read than listen, gems-a-plenty:
1) “I realize perqs come with the job, don’t get me wrong, but Michelle’s attitude seems to be ‘the heck with the common people.’ She is America’s Imelda Marcos.”
2) “I think Obama hates Texas. Have you noticed how they keep trying to talk about Texas like it’s not part of the United States? It’s this theme in the media, they want you to think that Texas is somehow another planet like Mars, and you shouldn’t embrace Texas values.”
3) “Our creditors are done with us. They don’t trust our government’s spending addiction any more than you trust a crack addict to hold your paycheck.”
4) “Conservatives want things better. Liberals want things equal. You can’t have both, and equal is not better.”
5) “The United States government is a machine at which you throw a dollar, and ten cents comes back to you.”
6) “Climate change? Yes. The climate is changing every second the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun.”
7) “Obama is the real beneficiary of the DC earthquake, because pushed off the front pages of the news are stories about him taking his ritzy vacation with the very same people who he feels don’t pay enough taxes.”
8) “Anyone who, like Jon Huntsman, is committed to this idea of man-made climate change actually has less credibility with me than members of the Flat Earth Society.”
9) “One day Maxine Waters is saying she’s ready to let Obama go, and a few days later she’s telling the Tea Party to go to hell. So I’m wondering what happened in those days in between, and was the head of a horse involved?”
10) “If you’re a conservative, liberals feel a need to be in your face in a way that they would never do if you were black or gay or a member of any other minority victim group. There is a very comfortable level of bigotry there.”
BONUS: Let’s get this rumor started:
“People are out there whispering that Jon Huntsman is the guy who may replace Joe Biden on the bottom half of the Obama ticket. Have you heard this? No? Ok, it’s just me doing the whispering, but it’s really too juicy of a rumor not to start.”
