Another lie:
“Barack Obama is not a socialist — he’s not even a liberal. …[T]his country needs a left wing. It doesn’t have it, and part of the reason is the media.” –HBO’s Bill Maher
Everybody loves Obama:
“I really don’t think fear of socialism is gripping Americans by the throat. I think there’s a feeling in some ways that the government was asleep at the switch for the past eight years. I think people see steps taken by Obama as a healthy compensation for that inactivity.” –Rutgers University political scientist Ross Baker
Culture bias alert:
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that — there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.” –Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor
Serious accusation:
“I think [Dick Cheney] smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue. It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” –CIA director Leon Panetta **”I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. The important thing is whether the Obama administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the last eight years.” –former Vice President Dick Cheney
Why government should stay away:
“Everything that the White House does concerning this deep recession contains an element of gambling because no one has been here before.” –former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich
