I’m just not feeling the serious blogging today. So following on Will’s post noting the stoopid spat between Obama and various Nevada politicians I give you further variations on what I term, “I am duly offended, Mr. President…”
Obama: When times are tough, you tighten your belts… You don’t head on down to Boca Raton to shuffle board your worries away when you’re worried about your 401K.
McCain: I heard that…
Crist: I am not gay… unless that sort of thing would help me in a Democratic primary…
Grayson: Republicans want you to die!
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Obama: When times are tough, you tighten your belts… You don’t suck back a bunch of cotton candy at Disneyland before riding the Matterhorn without proper health care coverage or travel insurance.
Feinstein: I think we do go slower on the Matterhorn. People do not understand it. It is so big it is beyond their comprehension. And if you don’t understand it when somebody tells you it does this or it does that and it’s not true, you tend to believe it, even though it isn’t true. It’s hard to debunk all of the myths that are out there. In my view when people are earning, when their home is secure, when their children are going to school, and they are relatively satisfied with their life and there’s a problem like the Matterhorn – they want it solved. It doesn’t threaten them. The size of this ride threatens them. And that’s one of the problems that’s got to be straightened out.
Hunter: Yeah, that’s going to be part of this whole thing. It’s not just gays and lesbians. Its a whole gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual community. If you’re going to let anybody no matter what preference – what sexual preference they have that means the Matterhorn is going to probably let everybody in. Its going to be like civilian life and the I think that that would be detrimental for the Matterhorn.
Schwarzenegger: It’s not a tumor!
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Obama: When times are tough, you tighten your belts… You don’t go moose hunting in Juneau without your bible close at hand.
Begich: Alaska is also not just a moose freezer.
Stevens: A moose is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s, it’s a series of tubes.
Palin: Death panels! Death panels!
Sullivan: Is Trig really the offspring of a magical moose mercilessly hunted by humankind who, ironically, handed him to Sarah Palin to give him a “normal” life? We’ll never know because Palin won’t release the medical records!
Feel free to add your own variations in the comments.
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Obama: When times are tough, you tighten your belts… You don’t create a huge new entitlement promising free health care to any/everybody independent of their ability to pay or even independent of whether they’re even a citizen!
Glenn Beck: This is why you’re worse than Hitler.
Firedoglake: This is why you’re worse than Hitler.
Freddie: It’s disgusting that the Republicans hijacked his teleprompter and made him say that instead of the speech we know that he was going to give explaining how it was the Republicans and Glibertarians that kept Obama from passing healthcare.
Obama: When times are tough, you tighten your belts… You don’t head waste all of your time blogging and not really doing anything about it.
E.D. Kain: This is why I question my decision to vote for Obama on an hour-to-hour basis. From 3pm to 4pm yesterday I was firmly a conservative. Then there was 15 minutes I was on the crapper and I was considering becoming a libertarian. From 5-6pm I was thinking about becoming a paleo-Whig. Now, as I make dinner for myself I think I really might vote for Independent in the midterms. Unless I change my mind again…
Scott Payne: In Canada we have 67 political parties and 2 brands of beer. My goal is to blog about them all in 2010.
Mark Thompson: Libertarians rule!
Mike at The Big Stick: I’m trying to think of a folksy analogy which will clumsily illustrate my displeasure about the comments of the President. It will probably involve the great state of Kentucky.
Dave: Beat you to the punch ol’ Barry O!
It’s really hard to match these.
Maybe another Andrew Sullivan one:
Obama: When times are tight, you have to tighten your belts.
Sullivan: These stirring words reminded me once again what it is that Obama has meant for this time, this country, and this planet. He is the dream we’ve been waiting for!
Otherwise, I got nothing.
Know hope, Rufus. Know hope.
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