[entropian_v2]

Post some interesting quotes and feel free to discuss, agree, or disagree with those already posted. I grabbed these from the replies to an article on Fox News titled "Why Did Obama Win?"



"There is one bright spot for the McCain/Palin ticket…..they pulled in 100% of the “banjo-pickin’ inbred” demographic. Now there’s a base that can be relied upon in 2012. Go Sarah Go!"

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"Why is everyone so agitated and constantly bringing up the anti-christ and end time scenarios. I thought that’s what you have been waiting for. As if going to heaven is going to be bad? If God is in control then you have nothing to worry about and can rejoice for your beliefs will come true. Luckily for the normal ones we can look past President Obama and begin to prepare for 2012. McCain had this race won and would have clearly made it alot closer had it not been his selection of Sarah Palin to appease the CHRISTIAN BASE.Im tired of being represented by a dumb class of people who hold stories written by jews a long time ago as the ultimate truth. No wonder you morons think having sarah palin running for president will be a good thing. All the old neo-cons have to do is piss off the christian base with the extremes of the satanic liberal’s and how its in revelations that a “black president” is somehow going to bring about the end of days.correct me if im wrong but didnt you morons think that bill clinton was the antichrist too. For once i would love to come to this site and see a christian leave a “christ-like” comment, but of course its you christians that leave the most racially narrow comments, you give sensible intelligent republicans a bad name. Im just counting down the hours till you idiots finally fly away in your fiery chariots and finally release us all of your hypocritical rhetoric.
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind”-Albert Einstein"

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"Republicans, you’ve turned us into a socialist country. You had 20 of the last 28 years to show how a country can thrive under a capitalist system.You had all the right words and all the wrong actions. Guns and Jesus to drawthe Walmart crowd and tax cuts to draw your clients. Don’t even try to blame the democrat reps and senators. You could have done it if you weren’t thinking of yourselves. Both parties can go to hell. Security? Hah. Buy weapons and learn how to hunt and fish. That’s about the only security we have left."


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"For all of you talking about the Ten Commandments; In my sermon last Sunday, I tried to make the point that we are all sinners. There are certainly some tenets of the commandments with which Obama and the Democrats do not agree, but there are no real saints among the Republicans either.
Democrats vote for sin; Republicans vote again sin, but sin privately and get caught. Which is worse? Read the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18.

There is one way to become the President of the United States, and that is to get the most votes. The American people are the jury that evaluates the progress of the country and the performance of its’ leaders. In 2004, the Republicans were where the Democrats are now, holding the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress. In four short years, the tables have turned, because of scandals among the Republicans in Congress and a failure to communicate effectively to the American People. Obama is in because he is a better communicator and ran a better campaign than McCain, than Hillary Clinton, and than everyone else whom he defeated. McCain had a chance to win; they were neck and neck in early September, but McCain could not generate the enthusiasm that Obama did. Obama was able to raise probably 10 times as much cash as McCain, and McCain is personally a lot richer than Obama. It’s not Obama’s fault that he was able to raise the most money. Yes, the media was on Obama’s side, and that is a powerful ally to have, but Reagan and Bush each overcame the media twice. It can be done.

Obama won the election the old fashioned way; he earned it. Now we are going to see if he is as adept enough at governing as he is at oratory. Obama is not the devil; he is a person. He may be a good leader or he may not, but the jury will speak again in four years. But Republicans ought not wish failure on Obama, because if he fails, we all fail.

The Republicans can’t beat the Democrats by being bitter; the Republicans have to be better. They need to find somebody really smart with really good plans, that is really a good speaker, and that can energize the Republican base and draw the undecideds and the Reagan Democrats to run in the next election. But nothing is forever. There will be another election in four years. The more things change, the more they stay the same."


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"Obama won because he is an upright person who defends the most elemental christian values:
Help the poor and the needed.
Antiwar and pro-diplomacy.
Strong family values.
Sees any other human being as his equal.
And you, so called Christians, have deviated from the Main Message and have tried to make a religion out of hate and the passage of the rich the camel and the needle.
In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty….
Get over it and think."

[thebethatesppl]

I promise I'll put some thought into this thread sometime this evening, but I have to run to school.

[thebethatesppl]

Okay well now I'm in the university library so quote time...

"Obama won on his own terms, strategically and symbolically. He rolled up a series of contested states, from Colorado to Virginia, long out of Democratic reach. And his victory reflected the accuracy of his vision of a reshaped country. Racism, much discussed, turned out to be a footnote, and African-American turnout was not unusually high. Instead, Obama drew his strength from an array of racially mixed, growing areas around cities like Orlando, Washington, Indianapolis, and Columbus on his way to at least 334 electoral votes."
-Yahoo: Why Obama won

"A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters... America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States."
-John McCain

"In his clear-cut victory, Obama became the first Democrat to win a majority of American votes since Jimmy Carter’s 1976 election. He won states just months ago thought to be impregnable to his party, places that just four years ago went for President Bush by double-digits: Virginia, Indiana, and North Carolina among them."
-Yahoo: Why Obama won


"If his was the first 21st century campaign, his victory was powered by a new face of America: comprised of all ethnicities, hailing mostly from cities and suburbs, largely under 40 years old, and among all income classes.
As they emphatically proved by obliterating the presidential color line, many of these voters are not guided by traditional cultural attachment to race, religion or region." (more Yahoo)

Who did Obama thank?
“young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled — Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America." -President (elect) Barack Obama

more lovely quotes...

"People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution."
-Frederick Douglass (1893)

"Accomplishments have no color."
-Leontyne Price

"If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out."
-Marian Wright Edelman

"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality."
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (oh how proud he must be in heaven)

Oh and just to be in the faces of all you joe six packs who like to call Obama a socialist or a communist:

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-Dom Helder Camara

[porter_]

An old one...

“..I will not make age an issue of this campaign,” “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”

- Ronald Reagan, Presidential Debate 1984.

[ali-aj2008]

I would like to present;

Where in the World is Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, is in her home state. She looks out the window and proudly proclaims; "I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE!", probably while shooting caribou out said window.

Sarah Palin is on her way to... I think it was Israel or Egypt, I can't remember, but anyway. Her plane stops in Ireland for re-fueling on the way. Though she never set foot off the plane, when asked about her foreign relationship, Palin says "I've been to Ireland!"

The plane lands in Israel or Egypt or whatever and Sarah Palin disembarks. While there, she sees the border of Iraq. When asked about her trip to the Middle East, Palin says "I WENT TO IRAQ!"

Where in the world is Sarah Palin? Apparently, more places than we think ;]

[thebethatesppl]

porter_ wrote: An old one... “..I will not make age an issue of this campaign,” “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.” - Ronald Reagan, Presidential Debate 1984.

can't say I agree with Reagan's policies... But THAT is one of the most killer lines a president ever delivered.

[toxicmeltdown]

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

"Bill clinton"

[la_senorita_azul]

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in a debate."

[thebethatesppl]

la_senorita_azul wrote: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in a debate."

reminds me of
"I will not have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."

hmm I should use that more often.

[la_senorita_azul]

XD nice. I should use that one more often too.