Amerikan president:
“Now, the public [health care] plan, I think, is an important tool to discipline insurance companies. …[I]f what the insurance companies are saying is true, that they’re doing their best to serve their customers … they should be able to compete.” –President Barack Obama
Sounds like a threat:
“Our families, our businesses and our long-term fiscal health demands that we act and act now. To those here in Washington who’ve grown accustomed to sky-is-falling prognoses and the certainties that we cannot get this done, I have to repeat and revive an old saying we had from the campaign — Yes, we can. We are going to get this done.” –Barack Obama on his socialized medicine plan
He cares, but…
“Well, uh, [the deficit] is something that keeps me awake at night. There’s no doubt that we got a serious problem in terms of our long-term deficits and debt. I make no apologizes for having acted short-term to deal with our recession.” –Barack Obama having his cake and eating it too
Poor guy:
“I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean … that’s a pretty big megaphone and you’d be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.” –Barack Obama, whining about Fox News
[But says nothing about ABC, CBS, MSN-NBC, Public Radio and TV, Most major Newspapers, etc., etc., etc.]
Quite proud of herself:
“Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?’ It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. So I’d appreciate it.” –Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to Brigadier General Michael Walsh during a Senate hearing
[Who worked hard to be where he is. “He’d been out there toiling in 104-degree heat, serving America. And responding to people who address you with a respectful ‘yes, sir’ or ‘yes, ma’am’ is exactly what you’re taught to do in military protocol. When confronted with Senator Boxer admonishing him for addressing her as ‘yes, ma’am’ and directing him to address her as ‘Senator,’ the proper response would have been ‘yes, ma’am!’”].
It would be funny if it weren’t a crying shame:
“Why bother hanging out with celebrities when I can spend time with the people who made me one? I know where my bread is buttered. … I have to admit though, it wasn’t easy coming up with fresh material for this dinner. A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning trying to figure out exactly what to say. Finally, when I couldn’t get back to sleep, I rolled over and asked Brian Williams what he thought.” –the media-made president at the Radio and TV Correspondents dinner
