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Title: Guess who?
Post by: Gina on June 15, 2011, 12:38:06 PM
Guess who said these...

"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or providing good service. We don't want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy." on Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010

"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." “mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)

"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010

"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." “attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009

"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." ”commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009

"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009

"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)

"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008

"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified

"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008

"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008

"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers

"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference

"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

Source: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: thundley4 on June 15, 2011, 12:43:05 PM
Those comments are so stupid that it must have been President Bush that said them, right?  :whistling:
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: Gina on June 15, 2011, 12:55:22 PM
 :lmao:
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on June 15, 2011, 02:47:34 PM
Has to be that dummy Sarah Palin. Nobody but her could have said anything that stupid. Thank G** that anybody this stupid never was elected president.
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 15, 2011, 04:53:43 PM
A bunch of moonbats.
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: true_blood on June 15, 2011, 08:15:46 PM
Almost sounds like things an imposter sitting in the white mosque would say. :devious: :devious:
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: DixieBelle on June 15, 2011, 08:57:12 PM
Had to be Ann Coutler!!! :-)
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: dandi on June 20, 2011, 12:25:11 PM
Tony Wee-ner, perhaps?
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: Firechild on June 20, 2011, 09:28:08 PM
Holy!  And to think that this idiot is President.  How can so much stupidity be in America in one day?
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: dandi on June 21, 2011, 07:21:41 AM
Holy!  And to think that this idiot is President.  How can so much stupidity be in America in one day?

You know, I wonder the exact same thing at times...
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: rustybayonet on June 21, 2011, 09:12:44 AM
From an e-mail....
the next election may see new Dems on the ballot---just imagine the campaign signs of Tony Weiner and Eric Holder;


     Vote
Weiner / Holder
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: Firechild on June 21, 2011, 07:25:05 PM
From an e-mail....
the next election may see new Dems on the ballot---just imagine the campaign signs of Tony Weiner and Eric Holder;


     Vote
Weiner / Holder
LOL..very clever lol
Title: Re: Guess who?
Post by: Boudicca on June 21, 2011, 07:39:35 PM
From an e-mail....
the next election may see new Dems on the ballot---just imagine the campaign signs of Tony Weiner and Eric Holder;


     Vote
Weiner / Holder

 :rotf: :rotf:

or

Holder/Weiner