From the audio files:
1) “…The real answer to why [Obama] is not campaigning to blacks is very simply this: he knows he doesn’t have to. He knows he’s got their vote anyway, and he takes the black vote for granted…”
2) “…We ARE listening to you now, Mr. President, and that is why the people are opposing you. You make the assumption that listening leads to acceptance…”
3) “…Let’s pretend for a moment that I’m a liberal and I’m a progressive and that I’m in this White House, and I want to do some damage control. The first thing I would do is say to Obama, ‘Don’t speak. Stop talking. Do not go on a bus tour’…”
4) “…Pay attention to a little trick [Obama] does here… Obama doesn’t answer this question [that he’s asked]. He doesn’t like the question… So his way of answering a question [is to] put forward the question he would prefer – which isn’t being asked – and then gives the answer he would prefer…”
More audio clips here.
And for those who would rather read than listen, gems-a-plenty:
1) “During the campaign, Obama told you that the way to save on gas was to make sure your tires were properly inflated. Has anyone checked his tour bus tires? And has anyone checked below the bus to see who’s been thrown under it?”
2) “Liberalism, we learn every single day, crushes the human spirit and fails everywhere it’s been tried. It is the most destructive idea ever conceived because it destroys everything from within. It is just plain evil.”
3) “Does anyone believe what this guy is saying anymore? Why would you? It’s like eating re-packaged leftovers from a fast-food restaurant garbage can at this point.”
4) “Keep your eye out for more of these sideshows. This time he’s riding a bus. What’s the next tour going to be? High speed rail? A replica of the Hindenburg?”
5) “Vilsack says that food stamps are stimulus because ‘if people can buy a little more at the grocery store, someone’s got to stock it, ship it, package it, process it – all those are jobs.’ Do they not understand that when the economy is booming and people have more money on their own without it being confiscated by others in the form of taxation, that all those things REMAIN jobs?”
6) “If Obama wanted to be accurate, he wouldn’t be talking about taxing millionaires and billionaires, he would say ‘thousandaires.’ But you and I know that if they said that, it wouldn’t work. It wouldn’t poll very well.”
7) “I don’t necessarily believe Warren Buffet has any political ideology. I don’t believe that to a shark swimming through the ocean it really matters whether he’s got a person or a surfboard or a seal or a garbage can in his sights. He’ll keep on swimming and eating. And Warren Buffett – regardless of the political environment – will keep on making money.”
8) “The progressive mind will always take the populist propagandist view that you must somehow be protected from the ‘super-rich’. Unless, of course, it’s THEIR super-rich, like George Soros.”
9) “Obama needs to boost his image, so he keeps comparing himself to other people – Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan – who’s he going to compare himself to next? Winston Churchill? Mother Teresa? The Green Lantern? Who?”
10) “What you’ve got coming from Obama and the left is this endless notion of central committee planning, and producing products that people don’t want, and products that don’t guarantee they’ll get the job done. If they have to subsidize it, begin by thinking there’s something wrong with it the minute you hear that.”
Regarding #9, I’ll go out on a limb and say Jimmy Carter. At this point, he’d be a step up.
I didn’t/don’t like Jimmy Carter, but let’s be fair. US bonds were not downgraded on his watch, and the economic growth and unemployment numbers were better. The only US president who was worse than Obama was Herbert Hoover.
It’s not that Obama wants to be a complete failure; he tries not to be less than useless, but then hits bad luck.
Hey Elle don’t be dissin hoover like that.
If you voted for obama in 2008 to prove you’re not a racist, you have to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot!
I’ve heard Doug doing the “Talking Points Memo” for O’Reilly all last week while that lazy irishman has been on vacation or something.
He’s good!
Costco is pulling their electrical plug-ins because NOBODY uses them. Shouldn’t we turn them into tire pressure regulators to make sure we are like savings gazillions of gallons of gas or something?
“…The Green Lantern? Who?”
How about Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and that Allah guy?
I vote for his next road trip to be on a replica of the Hindenburg.
“…We ARE listening to you now, Mr. President, and that is why the people are opposing you. You make the assumption that listening leads to acceptance…”
This is what happened when everyone was getting angry during those health care town hall meetings. Dems would be genuinely shocked when people were screaming – sometimes literally – that they didn’t want to listen to them talk anymore, and that it was time for them to listen to the people. They genuinely did not understand that perhaps – just maybe – the public at large actually could disagree and not want to go along out of their own educated opinions and not because of lack of understanding.
Carolyn,
That’s the thing about men of real character:
1) They don’t have to constantly remind you when they’re in charge (as this president spent two years doing, stating “I’m the president” in every speech).
and
2) They don’t whine that you’re not listening to them, because they’ve earned your respect and you want to hear what they have to say, and they respect you enough to listen to what you have to say.