Interesting Obama Quotes

[saunterelle]

Oct 23, 2008 13:38:26 GMT -5 @bolverk said:

"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded." -- Barack Obama

And we all know, thanks to Joe that Obama wants to, "spread the wealth around." I never realized wealth was like peanut butter. You buy peanut butter with your hard earned wealth. You spread the peanut butter on a sandwich, you spread the wealth through spending, not taxes.

Wouldn't you agree that many rich people continue to make their money grow through smart investing? There may be hours of research involved with determining where to invest, but it's hardly comparable to hours of backbreaking toil. And, keep in mind, the hard working Joe the Plumber will get a tax CUT under Obama's plan.

[bolverk]

Oct 23, 2008 13:51:17 GMT -5 saunterelle said:

Oct 23, 2008 13:38:26 GMT -5 @bolverk said:

"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded." -- Barack Obama

And we all know, thanks to Joe that Obama wants to, "spread the wealth around." I never realized wealth was like peanut butter. You buy peanut butter with your hard earned wealth. You spread the peanut butter on a sandwich, you spread the wealth through spending, not taxes.

Wouldn't you agree that many rich people continue to make their money grow through smart investing? There may be hours of research involved with determining where to invest, but it's hardly comparable to hours of backbreaking toil. And, keep in mind, the hard working Joe the Plumber will get a tax CUT under Obama's plan.

What about Obama quotes is so hard for you to understand? Or is it that you cannot come up with any that say what you think is a positive message.

[JustMyOpinion]

Bolverk, sorry, my intention was not to drift the thread.

Here's a Obama quote:

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

[JustMyOpinion]

And another:

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

[JustMyOpinion]

And another:

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

[JustMyOpinion]

Yet another:

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

[JustMyOpinion]

Need more?

Ah heck, one more:

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

[saunterelle]

Sorry, I misunderstood the thread.

Here are a few I like:

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
Barack Obama

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
Barack Obama Sept. '08

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot 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. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Barack Obama - April '08

"We are the ones we have been waiting for."
Barack Obama - Feb '08

"We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people. Yes we can."
Barack Obama - Jan '08

"In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role."
Barack Obama - March '07

"I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein."
Barack Obama

"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."
Barack Obama

[bolverk]

One exalt for JMO, way to get back on topic.

[JustMyOpinion]

Oct 23, 2008 14:27:12 GMT -5 @bolverk said:

One exalt for JMO, way to get back on topic.

I see stars from falling and hitting my head on the floor Thank you Bolverk!

[maxsawdust]

I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.

After 20 years at said church.

[jgaffney]

Oct 23, 2008 13:10:18 GMT -5 saunterelle said:

So what? The man is entitled to his opinion. Our country is based on free speech. You don't agree with him, so what, get over it. His bombs didn't kill anybody, he was trying to put an end to the Vietnam war, which by most accounts, should have ended long before it did.

Uh, check your facts first, Saunterelle. Read this about the policeman that died in the Weatherman bombing of a San Francisco police station in 1970.