Obamaism in a nutshell:
“I don’t think that, left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: If you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody’s got to look over the shoulder of that child.” –PBS’s Tavis Smiley [Oh brother . . .]
More taxes, please:
“If the gas tax reduces dependence on foreign oil and changes the foreign political dependency immediately, why not be for it, right now?” –ABC’s Diane Sawyer
Cheney bashing continues:
“Well some say [Dick] Cheney’s refusal to move on reminds them of ‘Groundhog Day’ but you could also say it’s like that more frighteningly relentless Glenn Close in ‘Fatal Attraction.’ Like Cheney, she was not gonna be ignored.” –MSNBC’s Chris Matthews
++ “Cheney has replaced Sarah Palin as Rogue Diva. Just as Jeb Bush and other Republicans are trying to get kinder and gentler, Cheney has popped out of his dungeon, scary organ music blaring, to carry on his nasty campaign of fear and loathing.” –New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
Belly laugh of the week:
“[A] stupid, silly, one-line aside. I think it’s an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests. I don’t think it’s my job to disparage, or encourage, which oddly other networks seemed to be doing. Protest is the great right of all Americans, and it’s not my job in any way to make fun of people or disparage what they’re doing. If people took offense to that and felt that I was disparaging their legitimate right to protest, and what they were doing, then that is something I truly regret, because I don’t believe in doing that.” –CNN’s Anderson Cooper claiming to regret — but not actually apologizing for his vile comments last month about the participants of the Tea Parties
