“I think that the coverage [Barack Obama] is getting is beyond presidential. It’s papal. I mean, a president never has all three anchors on the way with him… If you needed any evidence of how much in the tank the mainstream media are, this is it.” —Charles Krauthammer
“Obama’s self-deprecation was his most charming bit, but lately he is, well, less charming. He and his wife seem more like a finger-wagging principal and teacher tag team, with Michelle Obama promising that her husband will make us work harder when he becomes president. You get the feeling that should the Obamas take over, we’ll all be staying after school. They used to call that detention.” —Kathleen Parker
“To say you’re going to get out on a certain schedule—regardless of what the Iraqis do, regardless of what our enemies do, regardless of what is happening on the ground—is the height of absurdity.” —Michael O’Hanlon, Democrat foreign policy analyst at the liberal Brookings Institute
“Barack Obama departs for Iraq… with a media entourage as large as some of his rallies. He’ll no doubt learn a lot, in addition to getting a good photo op. What we’ll be waiting to hear is whether the would-be Commander in Chief absorbs enough to admit he was wrong about the troop surge in Iraq. Mr. Obama has made a central basis of his candidacy the ‘judgment’ he showed in opposing the Iraq war in 2002, even if it was a risk-free position to take as an Illinois state senator. The claim helped him win the Democratic primaries. But the 2007 surge debate is the single most important strategic judgment he has had to make on the more serious stage as a Presidential candidate. He vocally opposed the surge, and events have since vindicated President Bush. Without the surge and a new counterinsurgency strategy, the U.S. would have suffered a humiliating defeat in Iraq. Yet Mr. Obama now wants to ignore that judgment, and [recently] his campaign erased from its Web site all traces of his surge opposition. Lest media amnesia set in, here is what the Obama site previously said: ’The problem—the Surge: The goal of the surge was to create space for Iraq’s political leaders to reach an agreement to end Iraq’s civil war. At great cost, our troops have helped reduce violence in some areas of Iraq, but even those reductions do not get us below the unsustainable levels of violence of mid-2006. Moreover, Iraq’s political leaders have made no progress in resolving the political differences at the heart of their civil war.’ Mr. Obama’s site now puts a considerably brighter gloss on the surge. Yet the candidate himself shows no signs of rethinking.” —The Wall Street Journal
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride.” —Benjamin Franklin
THE DEMO-GOGUES
From the Barackapalooza Files: “The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki… or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years.” —Barack Obama **“I don’t think Obama really thinks he’s going to be president for ten years unless he plans on getting rid of the Twenty-Second Amendment. Well, I guess if you’re The Messiah, anything is potentially possible.” —Rush Limbaugh
“There is security progress [in Iraq], but now we need a political solution.” —Barack Obama in Iraq **“[Barack Obama will] be able to have the opportunity to see the success of the surge. It is a success. This is the same strategy that he voted against, railed against… He should admit he was wrong about the surge.” —John McCain
“Barack Obama is [on] a trip to visit Iraq and several other Middle East countries. Obama says he is excited about the trip, mainly because he’s looking forward to meeting other people named Barack Obama.” —Conan O’Brien
“For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is? We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more.” —Charles Krauthammer
“Obama’s record is like floor wax: all shine and no depth.” —Cal Thomas
“The press has been endlessly dazzled with the prowess and the promise of the Barack Obama campaign. Observers of these quivering scribes have to wonder if they don’t collapse from exhaustion at the end of the day from all the involuntary spine tingling and shortness of breath over Obama’s inspirational aura.” —Brent Bozell
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recommended oil drilling in already-explored Alaska leaseholds Tuesday. She won’t yield on offshore or wildlife preserves. The Democrats are not opposed to drilling, they are just opposed to drilling in areas that have oil.” —Argus Hamilton
“Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It’s as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: ‘Just eat a little less every day.’ Great! We’ll die a little more slowly. That’s not what we call a ‘plan.’ We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death.” —Ann Coulter
Jay Leno: Barack Obama is very popular in the Middle East. I guess a lot of people over there saw the cover of The New Yorker. This is Barack’s third day in the Middle East. And President Bush said that he has no timetable for bringing him back home. … You know, sometimes when President Bush speaks, he does not use the best choice of words. You know? Like, today, he said the financial institutions are basically sound, and you can take that to the bank. … John McCain called a press conference today. Unfortunately, all the press was out of the country covering Obama. … Barack Obama is in Afghanistan. Bill Clinton went with him. At least that’s what he told Hillary. … The feds say federal institutions are in trouble for giving money to those already in debt. That’s the problem. They gave money to those already in debt. So, why are we paying taxes? Who’s more in debt than the government? What, are they $9 trillion in debt? We’re giving them more money? We’re enablers. We need to stop this.
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