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"You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest,
the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through
the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration
has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And 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." -- Barack Obama
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re
charging a lot of money for this stuff." -- Barack Obama
"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly
because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true
patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I
decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama
"And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her
where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride
in her voice when she answers, "I am an American."
That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for." -- Barack Obama
"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had
helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..." --
Barack Obama
"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be
black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I
was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push
questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my
heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference
whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of
some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who
had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...
You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." --
Barack Obama
"...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all
about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
-- Barack Obama
"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its
repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to
ban gays and lesbians from marrying." -- Barack Obama
"I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where
more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama
"It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People
were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They
were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-
mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." -- Barack Obama
"I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no
more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman
who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything
in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on
the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that
made me cringe." -- Barack Obama
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't.
But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama
Barack's Race Baiting Spiritual Mentor & Confidant
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and
then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible
for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God
d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." -- Jeremiah Wright
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and
now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to
our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." -- Jeremiah Wright
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world." -- Jeremiah Wright
"In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the
western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the
woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring
black concerns." -- Jeremiah Wright
"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will
ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black
woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body." --
Jeremiah Wright
"Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate
disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s]
enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation
of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a
snowball in hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so
what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately,
Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement." --
Ronald Kessler, Newsmax
"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more
of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe
as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's
involved in national politics." -- Barack Obama
"We started the AIDS virus. ...We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure
that Third World people live in grinding poverty." -- Jeremiah Wright
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of
color. The government lied." -- Jeremiah Wright
The Presumptive First Lady, if ...
"(America is) just downright mean." -- Michelle Obama
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because
Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been
desperate to see our country moving in that direction." -- Michelle Obama
"...(T)he realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to
the gas station, you know." -- Michelle Obama
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education
system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can
have more." -- Michelle Obama
"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism.
That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of
your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." -- Michelle Obama
The Best Of The Rest
"So now we are in this Orwellian paradox of seeing Obama’s base turn out in record numbers
on the basis apparently of race, but on the other hand the implied warning that if anyone else
were likewise to consider that fact, then he would be racialist.
So is he an identity-politics candidate or a post racialist unifier? Or both? It all reminds me of
the perennial complaints of the National Council of La Raza (the race) lecturing insensitive
others about their unfair consideration of race in matters of illegal immigration. This is very
disappointing, because lost in Obamania is the complete repudiation of his original promise
precisely not to become a racial candidate." -- Victor Davis Hanson
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any
color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the
country is caught up in the concept." -- Geraldine Ferraro
"After his victory last week in Wisconsin and again at the Austin debate, Obama revealed
himself to be the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. He is not thrilled with building
a border fence. He wants to meet with Raul Castro. He will raise taxes and spend a boatload of
money on new programs. He will exit Iraq pronto and spend that money on domestic
programs. He opposes any restriction on partial birth abortion and thinks the District of
Columbia's total handgun ban is a "common sense" regulation." -- Jennifer Rubin
"(Obama) voted against a bill that would add penalties for crimes committed as a part of gang
activity and against a bill that would make it a criminal offense for accused gang members, free
on bond or probation, to associate with other gang members. In 1999, he was the only state
senator to oppose a bill that prohibited early prison release for criminal sexual offenders." --
Amanda Carpenter
"So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope,
and I can't wait to see what he stands for." -- Susan Sarandon
"(Obama's) big themes are Change Hope and Unity...I suspect that after he's elected, we'll
hear much less about Change and Unity and a lot more about Hope. As in, "I Hope this doesn't
end in a huge disaster. I Hope he doesn't wreck the economy. I Hope he's not too
overwhelmed by the complexity and horror of the world. I Hope I survive this administration."
-- A reader at The Corner
"I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming
a cult of personality." -- Paul Krugman
"Obama is all style. No substance. He's all 'I want to send children to the moon,' and then
when you ask how he says 'Hope.'" -- Dawn Summers
"I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain
has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a
speech he gave in 2002." -- Hillary Clinton
the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through
the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration
has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And 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." -- Barack Obama
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re
charging a lot of money for this stuff." -- Barack Obama
"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly
because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true
patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I
decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama
"And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her
where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride
in her voice when she answers, "I am an American."
That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for." -- Barack Obama
"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had
helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..." --
Barack Obama
"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be
black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I
was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push
questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my
heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference
whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of
some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who
had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...
You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." --
Barack Obama
"...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all
about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
-- Barack Obama
"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its
repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to
ban gays and lesbians from marrying." -- Barack Obama
"I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where
more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama
"It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People
were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They
were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-
mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." -- Barack Obama
"I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no
more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman
who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything
in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on
the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that
made me cringe." -- Barack Obama
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't.
But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama
Barack's Race Baiting Spiritual Mentor & Confidant
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and
then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible
for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God
d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." -- Jeremiah Wright
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and
now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to
our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." -- Jeremiah Wright
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world." -- Jeremiah Wright
"In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the
western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the
woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring
black concerns." -- Jeremiah Wright
"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will
ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black
woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body." --
Jeremiah Wright
"Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate
disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s]
enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation
of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a
snowball in hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so
what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately,
Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement." --
Ronald Kessler, Newsmax
"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more
of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe
as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's
involved in national politics." -- Barack Obama
"We started the AIDS virus. ...We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure
that Third World people live in grinding poverty." -- Jeremiah Wright
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of
color. The government lied." -- Jeremiah Wright
The Presumptive First Lady, if ...
"(America is) just downright mean." -- Michelle Obama
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because
Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been
desperate to see our country moving in that direction." -- Michelle Obama
"...(T)he realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to
the gas station, you know." -- Michelle Obama
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education
system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can
have more." -- Michelle Obama
"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism.
That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of
your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." -- Michelle Obama
The Best Of The Rest
"So now we are in this Orwellian paradox of seeing Obama’s base turn out in record numbers
on the basis apparently of race, but on the other hand the implied warning that if anyone else
were likewise to consider that fact, then he would be racialist.
So is he an identity-politics candidate or a post racialist unifier? Or both? It all reminds me of
the perennial complaints of the National Council of La Raza (the race) lecturing insensitive
others about their unfair consideration of race in matters of illegal immigration. This is very
disappointing, because lost in Obamania is the complete repudiation of his original promise
precisely not to become a racial candidate." -- Victor Davis Hanson
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any
color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the
country is caught up in the concept." -- Geraldine Ferraro
"After his victory last week in Wisconsin and again at the Austin debate, Obama revealed
himself to be the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. He is not thrilled with building
a border fence. He wants to meet with Raul Castro. He will raise taxes and spend a boatload of
money on new programs. He will exit Iraq pronto and spend that money on domestic
programs. He opposes any restriction on partial birth abortion and thinks the District of
Columbia's total handgun ban is a "common sense" regulation." -- Jennifer Rubin
"(Obama) voted against a bill that would add penalties for crimes committed as a part of gang
activity and against a bill that would make it a criminal offense for accused gang members, free
on bond or probation, to associate with other gang members. In 1999, he was the only state
senator to oppose a bill that prohibited early prison release for criminal sexual offenders." --
Amanda Carpenter
"So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope,
and I can't wait to see what he stands for." -- Susan Sarandon
"(Obama's) big themes are Change Hope and Unity...I suspect that after he's elected, we'll
hear much less about Change and Unity and a lot more about Hope. As in, "I Hope this doesn't
end in a huge disaster. I Hope he doesn't wreck the economy. I Hope he's not too
overwhelmed by the complexity and horror of the world. I Hope I survive this administration."
-- A reader at The Corner
"I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming
a cult of personality." -- Paul Krugman
"Obama is all style. No substance. He's all 'I want to send children to the moon,' and then
when you ask how he says 'Hope.'" -- Dawn Summers
"I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain
has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a
speech he gave in 2002." -- Hillary Clinton
Barack Hussein Obama & Other Quotes
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