Rev. Pat Robertson explains

Borrowitz Report

Quote of the day

"I have a movie coming out called The Fields. I have another one coming out that I produced with my brother, called The Irishman. And we’ll be doing American Pie 4 this year and Big Lebowski 2 this year."

Tara Reid

FilmDrunk

Quote of the day

"This shouldn’t happen in this country, or anywhere else, but in a free society, we’re going to be subject to people like this. I prefer this to the alternative."

John Green, father of 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim Christina Taylor Green.

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Yearbook quote of the day: Darren Criss

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Twenty Quotes: Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco and the Joys of Smoking

TWENTY QUOTES ABOUT TOBACCO & SMOKING

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
--Sigmund Freud




Enjoy your next smoke with the following 20 quotes about smoking, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and the joys of smoking.

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It is now proven, beyond a doubt, that smoking is a leading cause of statistics.
-- Fletcher Knebel



Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
--Florence King


A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
--Max Klinger,
"Bug-Out" espisode of M*A*S*H, 1976


I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
--Michelle Pfeiffer


There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
--Katharine Whitehorn


Divine Tobacco.
--Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene, (bk. III, canto V, st. 32)


A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
--Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west,
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest;
Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides
His hours, and rivals opium and his brides;
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,
Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand:
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
--Lord Byron,
The Island


To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.
--The Smoker's Guide


Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
--Luis Buñuel


Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
--Woody Allen

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!
-- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton,
Night and Morning (bk. I, ch. VI)

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
--Mark Twain


Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
--Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook

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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
--Winston Churchill

Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress.
--D.H. Mondfleur

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
--George Burns

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
--Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.
--Turkish Proverb

Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight.
--Charles Sprague,
"To My Cigar"



by Mondo Frazier
Sources:
* Quotations about Smoking and Tobacco
* TOBACCO
* Smoking Quotes
Images:
hsart.com
Rockestone
cigaraficionado.com

Ambrose Bierce: Sixty Ambrose Bierce Quotes

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
--Ambrose Bierce

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Who doesn't like a good Ambrose Bierce quote?

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.

The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic – earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including the poet, George Sterling and the fiction writer, W. C. Morrow.

In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace.

Here's sixty of our favorites from the Bitter One.

• "Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
  
  
• "Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
  
  
• "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
  
  
• "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
  
  
• "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
  
  
• "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
  
  
• "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."
  
  
• "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
  
  
• "There are 4 kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
  
  
• "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
  
  

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  ALSO at DBKP: DBKP Library of Quotations
  

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• "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
  
  
• "Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
  
  
• "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
  
  
• "Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."
  
  
• "Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
  
  
• "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
  
  
• "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
  
  
• "Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
  
  
• "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
  
  
• "Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
  
  
  

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• "AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
  
  
• Bierce book review: "The covers of this book are too far apart."
  
  
• "An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
  
  
• "Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
  
  
• "Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
  
  
• "Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs."
  
  
• "Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
  
  
• "Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."
  
  
• "Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
  
  
• "Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
  
  
  
  

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• "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
  
  
• "Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
  
  
• "Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
  
  
• "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
  
  
• "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
  
  
• "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
  
  
• "The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
  
  
• "What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
  
  
• "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
  
  
• "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
  
  

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• "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
  
  
• "Let me tell you what a writer is. A writer takes comprehensive views, holds large convictions, makes wide generalizations. A writer's not English, Mexican, or American. A writer's not a woman nor a man. A writer's not Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim, nor snake worshipper.
  
  To local standards of right and wrong a writer's civilly indifferent. In the virtues, a writer's concerned only with general expediency. A writer doesn't waste time focusing on fixed moral principles that aren't yet before the court of conscience. Happiness discloses itself to a writer as the end and purpose of life, and art and love are the only means to a writer's happiness. A writer is free of all doctrines, theories, etiquettes, and politics. To a writer, a continent doesn't seem long, nor a century wide.
  
  And a writer has ever present consciousness that this is a world of...fools and rogues, blind with superstition, tormented with envy, consumed with vanity, selfish, false, cruel, cursed with illusions, and frothing mad."
  
  
• "As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable.
  
  The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value."
  
  
• "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  
  
• "Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
  
  
• "Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."
  
  
• "You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day."
  
  
• "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it."
  
  
• "Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being."
  
  
• "I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities."
  
  

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• "Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH."
  
  
• "Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
  
  
• "PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics."
  
  
• "I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating."
  
  
• "The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
  
  
• "Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law."
  
  
• "Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another."
  
  
• "Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission."

compiled by Mondo Frazier
image: zenjoombla
Sources:
* Ambrose Bierce Quotes
* Ambrose Bierce
* Ambrose Bierce
* Ambrose Bierce Quotes
* Ambrose Bierce
* Ambrose Bierce
* Ambrose Bierce

Obama-Khalidi Video: $175,000 Bounty Raised on Internet for Tape

LA Times Obama-Rashid Khalidi Video:
LA Times Won't Release Video of
Obama and Wife at Jew-Bash
McCain accuses the Times of covering up the information
Blogger Doug Ross Gets Tip on Two Obama Quotes at 2003 Event




“We should know about their relationship including, apparently, information that is held by the Los Angeles Times concerning an event that Mr. Ayers attended with a PLO spokesman.”

“The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I’m not in the business about talking about media bias but what if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet, I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”
--John McCain, to WAQI, also known as Radio Mambi

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Other Obama Ties to Hamas Fund-Raiser Revealed by LGF
Bloggers Offering $175,000 For Copy of Video
McCain Campaign Calling LA Times to Release Video
An Eye-raising Guest List

DBKP reported earlier today that Doug Ross received a pair of quotes from a source who had seen the video the LA Times is holding, "Obama-Khalidi Tape: Blogger Obtains Quotes from Hidden Video UPDATED".

Ross' story "RED ALERT tip: Two Quotes from the Obama-Khalidi Videotape", cites a source "from a person who has provided useful, accurate and unique data from LA before (e.g., "All six of CNN's 'undecided voters' were Democratic operatives"). Take it for what it's worth, but I believe this person is on target.


The two quotes offered by Ross' source are certainly reason enough that the LA Times would want to suppress the video. Obama is supposedly congratulating the

"Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine."

and

"there's been "genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis."

The source said that Obama used the quotes to "rile the audience (largely pro-Palestinian) up".

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Obama Campaign Has Still Refused
To Release Medical, College and University Records



The Wall Street Journal is reporting that McCain Accuses L.A. Times of Holding Back Obama Video.

John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, today accused the Los Angeles Times of withholding a videotape of an event that he asserted was attended by both Barack Obama and 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. The campaign has repeatedly argued that Obama has not been straight about their relationship.

The videotape, described in an April L.A. Times story, was of a 2003 banquet honoring Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian activist and scholar. At the dinner, Obama spoke of their friendship and how much he had learned from him.

On Tuesday, a McCain spokesman first called on the newspaper to release the videotape, saying it would shed light on the relationship between Obama and Khalidi. Today, McCain repeated the call in an interview with a Cuban radio station, accusing the newspaper of bias and asserting that Ayers was at the event as well—a point that has not been reported anywhere. Palin made the same points from the stump.

The Times has provided four different excuses for not releasing the tape--finally settling on the latest, that "it was provided by a confidential source on condition that it not be released."

In a story published today, the newspaper said it did not publish the tape itself because it was provided by a confidential source on condition that it not be released. “The Times keeps its promises to sources,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton.

Ross responds to this latest reason for not the LA Times not publishing the news:

"How frickin' stupid do they think we are? Someone gave the Times a videotape so it wouldn't be released? And they can't publish a transcript?"

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ALSO at DBKP:
Obama's Refusal to Release Medical, Other Records

* Obama Records: Obama Medical, College, University, Other Records Still Hidden
* Obama College, Medical, Birth Records: Who is Barack Obama?
* Obama Medical Records: MSM’s Don’t Ask, Obama’s Don’t Tell Policy
* Obama Records: Obama Campaign Still Refuses to Release Medical, Other Records

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Michelle Obama "Friend" of Hamas Fund-Raiser
MO's Name Later Scrubbed from Website Page

The website, Little Green Footballs, has been reporting on the existence of the Obama-Khalidi video at the LA Times and has been keeping track of the excuses the Times has used since being called upon to release the tape. [The LA Times is Hiding an Incriminating Video of Barack Obama at a Party with Radical Palestinian Activists and Bill Ayers]

LGF today reprinted a story from April that was ignored by Big Media at the time: Another Disturbing Unreported Barack Obama Association: a Terrorist Fundraiser.

Back in April, we reported on a page at the Barack Obama website belonging to a fundraiser named Hatem Elhady, former chairman of the Hamas-linked Islamic charity “Kindhearts.” One of the friends listed on Elhady’s page was none other than Michelle Obama, and we have the screenshots to prove it. When this page was exposed at LGF, the Obama campaign first erased Michelle Obama’s name from the page, then shortly afterward, the entire page disappeared.

I’m reposting these LGF articles below, because they got virtually no attention at the time.

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Another big Barack Obama supporter: Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising: Terrorist Fundraisers for Obama.

El-Hady has now devoted himself to raising money for Barack Obama; he has a page at the official Obama campaign web site, with three “friends” listed on it: “Rick,” “Fatima from Toledo, Ohio,” and ... Michelle Obama.

The story at LGF has the page screenshots, both before and after it was laundered.

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What the LA Times will report is that Khalidi was often a spokesman for the PLO and that Khalidi and Obama, just like Bill Ayers, lived in the same neighborhood.

J-MAC ATTACK! CHARGES DAMNING BAM VID SUPRESSED:

In reporting on Obama's presence at the dinner for Khalidi, the article noted that some speakers expressed anger at Israel and at U.S. foreign policy, but that Obama in his comments called for finding common ground.

The Times reported today "Khalidi in the 1970s often spoke to reporters on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Khalidi later lived near Obama while teaching at the University of Chicago. He is now a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University in New York."

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BLOGGER BOUNTY for Khalidi VIDEO



Signs that the capitalist spirit is not dead in the Right half of the blogosphere.

From Newsbusters' PJ Gladnick: Obama/Ayers/Dohrn/Khalidi Video: $175,000 Reward/Bribe Offered to Newsmen to Report News:

This is pretty funny. A $175,000 reward/bribe is now being offered for a Los Angeles Times reporter to actually report the news, namely to release the Khalidi video that the Times refuses to let the public see. It started out with a mere $25,000 offer made by Ace of Spades (emphasis mine):

Well, I don't know if one will step forward. I can guarantee, though, that if the goods are delivered the blogosphere can contribute $20,000. In a matter of hours.

Maybe more. More would depend on the tape.

This offer includes is particularly directed towards Los Angeles Times employees. Maybe ones that just got fired. Or will get fired in the next couple of weeks.

Guaranteed.

Anonymous.

That's how we roll.

Pretty pathetic that we have to try to bribe "newsmen" to release newsworthy tapes.

If your conscience is troubled, They should have released it anyway.

Plus that $25,000. You know what helps an aching conscience? Rubbing it with crisp hundred dollar bills, that's what.

Yeah it just went up five g's. If I can get $5 grand in a donation drive, I'm pretty damn sure I can get $25,000 for the tape.

And no, not a stunt. One little blog gets $5 k in a donation drive. Something like this, with every blogger linking the donation button, would easily get in excess of $25,000.

From Dirty Harry's Place, "$150,000 Offered for Obama/Khalidi/Ayers Tape"

I’ve also received another offer from a private donor for an added $25,000 that I’m currently working to verify.



If Jerry Lewis showed up, we might get the bounty up over a quarter mil.

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THE GUESTS

Change and Experience Blog have done a lot of research and have compiled a lot of information including the guest list:(via Stop the ACLU, "$175,000 Reward Offered for Obama Khalidi Tape")

Those who attended (the guest list): 1. AAAN (Arab American Action Network) 2. Not In My Name 3. Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada, who met Obama in 2000) 4. Bernadine Dorhn and Bill Ayers 5. Barack Obama 6. Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley 7. Rashid Khalidi 8. Mona Khalidi 9. Gihad Ali, a Palestinian spoken word poet 10. NPR Worldview host Jerome McDonnell (not McDonald as written in the e-mail) 11. Camilia Odeh (director of SWYC Southwest Youth Collaborative) 12. Sanabel debka troupe (traditional Palestinian dance group) 13. Hatem Abudayyeh 14. Others - Up to 50 to 500, possibly 600 guests (based on Burbank Manor’s seating capacity capabilities)

Who knew?

Will the LA Times release its obviously newsworthy tape, in spite of the political fallout that could affect its chosen candidate?

Like the New York Times and AP, the LA Times makes more news when it suppresses the news than it does when it reports the news. This was true during the media blackout surrounding the John Edwards' scandal.

It's true in this case also.

Maybe the LA Times has hit upon a new business model. One that the editors feel will stop the layoffs, reverse the sagging ad revenues and lift circulation figures.

Or it could just be another sign of the Great American Media Putz-dom continuing--this time in the City of Angels.


by Mondo Frazier
images: dbkp file

Obama-Khalidi Tape: Blogger Obtains Quotes from Hidden Video

LA Times:
Won't Release Video of Obama-Khalidi

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"Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine."

Remember when the LA Times circulated a memo telling its reporters not to write about John Edwards being caught with his mistress--in LA? [John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child: LA Times Censors Reporters on Story]. The Times refused to inform its readers of the news until Edwards gave the struggling paper his okay by confessing on ABC's Nightline.

The LA Times is continuing its tradition of censoring news which doesn't fit its editorial room political views.

However, Doug Ross has a RED ALERT: Two Quotes from the Obama-Khalidi Video the LA Times won't release.

From a usually-reliable LA source:

Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can't release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying "Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine" plus there's been "genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis."

It would be really controversial if it got out. That's why they will not even let a transcript get out.

To which Ross replies: "Yep, I guess that would do it"

The LA Times can look no further than this latest episode of political censorship for reasons it's in a death spiral.

Who wants to spend hard-earned cash on a newspaper that won't print inconvenient poltical news?

At least LA sales of the National Enquirer should continue to climb at the expense of the LA Times.

by Mondo
image: dbkp file

Joe Biden: Elect Obama and Get an International Crisis

Joe Biden:
Elect Obama and
"Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis"

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"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you."
--Joe Biden at Seattle Fundraiser

A bit of Election 2008 Comic Relief:

Straight from Joe Biden's mouth (From Biden to Supporters: "Gird Your Loins", For the Next President "It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables":

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Biden also talked about his helicopter ride from Hell, but was careful to note it was due to a snowstorm--not al-Qaida.

Biden also had a "Media Clarity Moment".

After speaking for just over a quarter of an hour, Biden noticed the media presence in the back of the small ballroom.

"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?


by Mondo
hat tip: Little Green Footballs - Elect Biden and We'll Have an International Crisis
image: dbkp file

Joe Biden Quotes: Twenty-Five Joe Biden Quotes

Joe Biden's Twenty-five Greatest Verbal Hits
25 Joe Biden Quotes: What He said Then





Twenty-five Joe Biden quotes to compare and contrast with what the Delaware senator told the nation last night in the vice-presidential debate. Check back often for updates.

Did we miss any reader's favorite Joe Biden verbal moment?

If we did, readers can leave their favorites in the comments at the end of this article.

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“John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who...”
--Biden on The Daily Show - August 2 2005


“I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”
--Biden, New York Observer interview - 2007


"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking."
--Joe Biden, in an address to Indian-Americans

ALSO at DBKP:
DBKP Library of Quotes


"It's a bad idea and should be shut down and dismantled."
--Joe Biden, on the Alaskan pipeline - 1973


"A tragic mistake."
--Joe Biden, on the surge of troops in Iraq - 2006


"Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about?"
--to wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator, Charles Graham - September 9, 2008



"Folk, let me be straight with you...I have a bad habit of doing that."
--Biden in the Delaware Journal - September 2007


”I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”
--Joe Biden, on Barack Obama - 2007


“The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”
--Biden, post-debate appearance, MSNBC - October 30 2007


“Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran."
--Joe Biden, to staff three weeks after September 11, 2001




“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”
----Joe Biden, addressing the National Guard, Baltimore 9-22-08 about the time his helicopter had to make a landing due to a sudden snowstorm.


“We must be clear with the American people that we are committing to Iraq for the long haul; not just the day after, but the decade after.”
--Biden, October 2002


“I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.”
--Biden,


"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!"
--Biden, at his first campaign rally with Obama - August 2008


"I think we should divide the country into three regions, just like we did in Bosnia."
--Joe Biden, radio Interview - August 2007



“I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.”
--Biden, Meet the Press - November 27 2005


“My impression is [Obama] thinks that if we leave, somehow the Iraqis are going to have an epiphany” of peaceful coexistence among warring sects. “I’ve seen zero evidence of that.”
--Biden, on Obama’s Iraq plan - September 13 2007


“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
--Biden, New York Observer - 2007


“When this campaign is over, political slogans like ‘experience’ and ‘change’ will mean absolutely nothing. The next president has to act.”
--Biden Iowa campaign ad - December 2007


“We can call it quits and withdraw from Iraq. I think that would be a gigantic mistake. Or we can set a deadline for pulling out, which I fear will only encourage our enemies to wait us out — equally a mistake.”
--Biden at the Brookings Institution - 2005


“Sen. Obama said he would do everything possible to end the war in Iraq and emphasized the need for a political solution yet he failed to show up to vote for Sen. Biden’s critical amendment to provide a political solution in Iraq."
--Luis Navarro, Biden for President Campaign Manager - September 26, 2007


“He’s a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”
--Biden about Sadaam Hussein, Meet the Press - December 26, 2002



“Well, the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought he had them. The weapons inspectors said he had them. He cataloged — they cataloged them. This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream. This was, in fact, cataloged.”
--Biden, about Sadaam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Meet the Press - 2007


“I don’t want him [my son] going there [to Iraq]. But I tell you what, I don’t want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years and so how we leave makes a big difference. There’s no political point worth my son’s life. There’s no political point worth anybody’s life out there. None.”
--Biden on Iowa Radio about Barack Obama's votes against Iraq funding bills - August 2007


“I don’t think John Edwards knows what the heck he is talking about," [when he calls for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.] "John Edwards wants you and all the Democrats to think, ‘I want us out of there,’ but when you come back and you say, ‘O.K., John, what about the chaos that will ensue? Do we have any interest, John, left in the region?’ Well, John will have to answer yes or no. If he says yes, what are they? What are those interests, John? How do you protect those interests, John, if you are completely withdrawn? Are you withdrawn from the region, John? Are you withdrawn from Iraq, John? In what period? So all this stuff is like so much Fluffernutter out there."
--Joe Biden, Observer - February 2007


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* Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War
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Twenty-five Financial Bailout Quotes

Twenty-five Quotes about the
Financial Bailout




Twenty-five quotes about the proposed financial bailout by those involved: politicians, watchdogs, candidates and the media.



This meeting ended bad - real bad.”
--Fox News source
On the financial bailout meeting at the White House September 25, 2008



"There are disagreements over aspects of the rescue plan," he said, "but there is no disagreement that something substantial must be done. We are going to get a package passed."
--President George W. Bush
'We are going to get a package passed': Bush, September 26 2008


"I don't think a president has been repudiated so strongly by the congressional wing of his own party in a very long time now. Maybe this isn't the last word, but that's where we are now."
--Rep. Barney Frank
'We are going to get a package passed': Bush September 26 2008


"I do not regard Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as problems. I regard them as great assets."
--Barney Frank
In response to efforts to reform Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae 2002

ALSO at DBKP: DBKP Library of Quotes OVER 30 collections of Quotes by Sarah Palin, W.F. Buckley, John Edwards Scandal, Don King, Liberals, and more.

“All of us around the table take this issue very seriously and we know we’ve got to get something done as quickly as possible."
--President Bush
Deal for Financial Bailout Disintegrates as Obama, McCain Look On



“We must protect taxpayers and limit the Treasury’s powers. We must prevent those who contributed the most to this crisis from further profiting. We must establish strong oversight with a permanent in-house watchdog and a robust external congressional monitor."
--Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
Kanjorski asks bailout that protects taxpayers, September 25, 2008


"The top five [Sen. Christopher Dodd, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Paul Kanjorski] received nearly one-half million dollars from the FMx2 [Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae]."
--"Contributions: Obama, Dodd and the Freddie Fannie Five"
DBKP, September 26, 2008


"CBS News found 21 former staffers from the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and House Financial Services Committees are now lobbyists for financial firms. Their job? To lobby those in Congress who will shape the financial bailout. The former staffers now represent hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks and the failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
--Who’s Lobbying Congress On The Bailout?
CBS News, September 26 2008



“There should be a three year cooling off period so former staffers do not have these intimate relationships that they exploit for large paychecks.”
--Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen
On former Senate staffers lobbying for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
Public Citizen has actively pushed for more lobbying transparency and accountability



"He [John McCain] hasn't been involved. He doesn't know anything about it. This is a stunt. I hope people will be able to ignore it."
--Rep. Barney Frank
US Rep Frank: House, Senate Dems agree on bailout


"I think Wall Street will get over it."
--Barney Frank
On the possible collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae April 2004


"We do not support government bailouts of private institutions."
--2008 Republican Party platform

"One of the major government privileges granted to GSEs is a line of credit with the United States Treasury. According to some estimates, the line of credit may be worth over $2 billion. This explicit promise by the Treasury to bail out GSEs in times of economic difficulty helps the GSEs attract investors who are willing to settle for lower yields than they would demand in the absence of the subsidy. Thus, the line of credit distorts the allocation of capital. More importantly, the line of credit is a promise on behalf of the government to engage in a huge unconstitutional and immoral income transfer from working Americans to holders of GSE debt."
--Rep. Ron Paul
To the House Financial Services Committee, September 10, 2003

"I don't think a single call to my office on this proposal has been positive."
--Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) at the Senate hearing, September 23 2008



"Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae's regulator reported that the company's quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were "illusions deliberately and systematically created" by the company's senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.

If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole."
--John McCain on the Regulatory Reform Act of 2005
US Senate, May 25 2006


"It [REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005] never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis."
--Democrats.org September 25 2008



“It was a photo op for John McCain. … It was a rescue plan for John McCain.”
--Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Deal for Financial Bailout Disintegrates as Obama, McCain Look On, September 25 2008

Though Sen. Chris Dodd implied that Sen. McCain sandbagged the rest of the negotiators by bringing up alternative proposals, McCain himself did not bring up those proposals, according to four independent sources briefed by four different principals inside the meeting, including two Republicans and two Democrats.

"McCain has not attacked the Paulson deal," said a third Republican who was briefed by McCain direclty. "Unlike the [Democrats] in the [White House] meeting, he didn't raise his voice or cause a ruckus. He is urging all sides to come together."
--Marc Armbinder, The Atlantic
"What Happened In The Cabinet Room...

"People who want to be president need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time."
--Obama Sr. Advisor Brad Woodhouse
On MSNBC, September 26 2008


"[Chistopher]Dodd,[and Barack] Obama got nearly a quarter-million dollars from Freddie, Fannie"
--Contributions: Obama, Dodd and the Freddie Fannie Five
DBKP, September 26 2008


"A week ago, Senator Obama laid out his principles."
--Obama Sr. Advisor Brad Woodhouse
On MSNBC, September 26 2008


"Barack Obama was able to appear in Washington, while his principles were in Florida."
--E.K. Clark
DBKP, September 26, 2008


"Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money."
----Democrats.org September 25 2008

"Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion. ... To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection--a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end. ...It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.We must not forget that, for the last six or eight years, monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown."
--F.A. Hayek, Nobel prize winner
June 1932

"As it became clear to Paulson that Republicans weren't backing his plan, he called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urging him to bring McCain back to Washington in order to broker a deal the GOP could get behind. As a new plan was put forth Thursday, Democrats saw this as an opportunity to undermine McCain by creating the illusion he was to blame for the negotiations breaking down.

Democrat after Democrat was sent before cameras, microphones, and tape recorders to belittle the Senator from Arizona and create the appearance that the financial bailout took a wrong turn due to his appearance at the negotiating table.

Now, with the deal seemingly dead, the Democrats are saying they're behind the Paulson plan. If it succeeds, they can take all the credit; if it dies, they can blame it completely on McCain and the Republican party."
--Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters
"AP Publishes McCain-Bashing Bailout Piece Olbermann Should Love"


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Caylee Anthony: Thirty Quotes from People Involved in the Caylee Anthony Case

Quotes by
Casey Anthony, Cindy Anthony, George Anthony, Lee Anthony
Leonard Padilla, Kevin Beary, Greta Van Susteren and others
Including Protesters





"What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies."
--Casey Anthony, in a poem, July 7, 2008


Quotes from the media circus that has surrounded the disappearance of three-year-old Caylee Anthony. Caylee's mother, Casey is a "person of interest" in the case. Grandparents, George and Cindy, have had their home staked out by protesters and the drama continues.

Thirty quotes by the persons involved.


"I'm never going to forgive myself."
--Casey Anthony, to detectives about leaving her daughter, Caylee, with baby sitter Zenaida Gonazlez at the Sawgrass Apartments; July 16 2008

I have someone here that I need to have arrested in my home. There's a possible missing child. I have a three-year-old that's been missing for a month.

CINDY ANTHONY: I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can't found my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she's been trying to find her herself.

There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car.

--Cindy Anthony, mother of Casey and grandmother of Caylee Anthony, in a 911 call on July 15 2008; A Closer Look at the Caylee Anthony Disappearance Timeline







"Right now, looking at you, I know that everything that you’ve told me is a lie, including the fact that your child was last seen a month ago and that you don’t know where she is. I’m very confident that you know where she is."
--Unnamed detective questioning Casey Anthony, Newly Released Tapes Reveal Police Accusing Caylee's Mom of Lying Early in Investigation; audio tape, July 16 2008



"I have no clue where she is. If I had any sense of where she was at all, none of this would have happened."
--Casey Anthony, interview with detectives, July 16 2008



"Because I don't (expletive) know where she's at. You are kidding me?"
--Casey Anthony, to mother, Cindy in a jailhouse call, Complete Text Of Casey Anthony's Jailhouse Phone Call; July 25 2008



"Because nobody is (expletive) listening to anything that I'm saying. The media misconstrued everything that I said. The (expletive) detectives pulled (expletive) (expletive). They got all of their information from me but at the same time they are twisting stuff. They already said they are going to pin this on me if they don't find Caylee. They've already said that. They arrested me because they said..."
--Casey Anthony, to friend, Kristina Chester, in a jailhouse call, July 25, 2008







"Nobody in my own family is on my side."
--Casey Anthony, to friend, Kristina, in a jailhouse call, July 25, 2008


"She has been kidnapped by a person the local authorities said doesn't exist. There are nine people with that name in Orlando, Florida. There are four people with that name in Winter Haven, Florida and there are people with that name in Miami and four people with that name in New York City and three in the Bronx. So come on folks, someone needs to start listening to my daughter and if it is not the local authorities, will the FBI please get involved in this case and come and interview my daughter like she has been requesting?"
--Cindy Anthony, CBS The Early Show, July 26 2008

"So, I mean, that's still my, my best feeling at the moment. Again, if that changes, obviously I'm going to reach out and say something immediately, but I know Mom will understand this better than anyone that there's that type of bond that you have with your kids.

I did one time [speak with daughter, Caylee], yes, and that was actually the day that Mom had called the police[July 15]."

--Casey Anthony, in a jailhouse call to brother, Lee, Lee Anthony's Jailhouse Call With Casey; released July 28 2008



"Um, I most definitely did [speak with the babysitter, Zenaidia Fernandez Gonzalez]. God, a lot of the times, it was through text messages, so the number would show up even on that. She has also called me from a 407 number, from a 321 number -- there's been different numbers, different times. Not necessarily on different days, but it just depended on the number that she had at the time. The last number that she had called me from that wasn't, uh, the private listing, or that didn't show up "private cell" or "private call," was 954."
--Casey Anthony, in a jailhouse call to brother, Lee, Lee Anthony's Jailhouse Call With Casey; released July 28 2008

"The strain of the current situation will wear on those around her and pressure her [Casey Anthony] to explain her behavior. Because she cannot explain her lies, she will blame everyone else. She will want to flee. She may even reach for religion as a means to cope, and depression is likely to follow. Then police will be able to talk with her to find out what she really knows. Detectives will be able to get information from her. The key for officers is to know her patterns and approach her the right way. If they key in on her personality, they will be able to get her to tell what really happened."

--Criminal profiler, Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, President of the Violent Crimes Institute, LLC, in an interview with the Criminal Report Daily; August 3 2008


"On June 24, Casey was back at her parents' house, and her father wanted to get something out of the trunk of her car that he was going to use to do some work on another car.

According to George, the father of Casey, Casey showed some resistance to having him go into the trunk of her car. He was rather persistent and finally was able to open the trunk of her car.

And lo and behold, what does he find in the trunk of her car? He finds some gas cans, some gas cans that he had previously reported stolen from the shed in the backyard. Now, he had no idea that Casey had taken the gas cans, and he was surprised to find the gas cans in the back of her car."
--Greta Van Susteren, A Closer Look at the Caylee Anthony Disappearance Timeline; August 11 2008

"All right, here's what happened. 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, brings the car home, pizza smell in the back trunk. No evidence of Caylee, no evidence of Casey.

I didn't have any issues, did I? What time did I make the 911 call? Ok? I found a pair of pants in the back seat. And, by the way, the two pair of shoes were left in the back seat.

I took the pants out, threw them in the wash with other wash that I had that day, not knowing that that might become evidence.

And that night when the police arrived at my house, the first thing I said "I took a pair of pants out of the car and I washed them." Do you think that they cared? No, they didn't care."

--Cindy Anthony, Aug. 11 interview


"Shut Up! Leave us alone!"
--George Anthony, to unnamed reporter, as he was visiting the jail where daughter, Casey Anthony was held, Grandfather of Caylee Anthony has words with Reporter; August 14 2008

"I think what she was trying to do was break away from her parents' home. She's not concerned. You've seen her. Her demeanor is that of a parent who knows her child is safe."

--Sacramento bounty hunter, Leonard Padilla, August 25 2008 Caylee Anthony Mom Casey Arrested Again? Source: "Any Moment"


"I think something accidentally happened … Casey freaked out. I don't know how she solved that problem. But then created this story in her head."
--Amy Huizinga, friend of Casey Anthony, in court documents released August 28 2008.

"FBI lab tests "along with additional evidence that has not been made public, leads investigators to the belief there is a strong probability that Caylee [Anthony] is deceased."

--Orange Co (FL) Sheriff's Department statement, September 1 2008


"We clearly have evidence that indicates there was a dead body in the trunk of Casey [Anthony's] car, and that body was Caylee [Anthony]."
--Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. John Allen, September 2 2008

"We need to try to find some closure on this case. Regardless, whether she's alive or passed away, we need to find Caylee."

--Orange County Sheriff, Kevin Beary; September 4 2008


"Are you really smiling? Your granddaughter's dead."
--protester, to Cindy Anthony, outside the Anthony's home, Protester/Victim of Casey Anthony's Dad - Part 2; September 7 2008


"Tell the truth. Tell the truth."
--Unidentified protester outside the Anthony's home, September 8 2008



"Hold the sermon."
--Grace, in response to George and Cindy Anthony's attorney, Mark Nejame's call to end the media circus, How did Mark NeJame do on Nancy Grace's show?; September 10 2008

"Look for her [Casey Anthony] to turn to religion and either attempt to or speak of fleeing. When she gets to that point, she is most likely to talk about what really happened."

--Criminal profiler, Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, President of the Violent Crimes Institute, LLC, in an interview with the Criminal Report Daily; September 11 2008


"We are holding on to that little bit of hope that Caylee is still alive. But if not, it's important that her little body is found."
--Tim Miller, EquuSearch, Casey Anthony to leave jail again; September 12 2008

"It is evident his [Tim Miller's] motives were to obtain publicity for his organization [EquuSearch] at the expense of exploiting my granddaughters disappearance. Although I feel his organization has a purpose, his misrepresentation has tainted the efforts of so many people with good intentions. I would have expected Tim Miller to speak with me one on one, rather than me hearing him on Nancy Grace."

--Cindy Anthony, in a release sent by family representative Larry Garrison; September 12 2008




"I wouldn't let my dog go missing for 1 month without looking!"
--Reported sign of protester, Liz Pounders, outside George and Cindy Anthony's house, Recordings of Casey Anthony interviews released; September 12 2008


"This is insane. This is [expletive] insane."
--Cindy Anthony in response to protesters in front of her home


"You can't come out of the house. You're a joke."
--Protester David Marzullo, 27, of Bradenton, shouting at Cindy Anthony

"I do see how the family is breaking down because of the protesters, and if they're broken down enough, I feel like they'll give up and tell the truth."

--Protester Jennifer Tuck, outside the Anthony's home, 'Monsters,' Disruptive Protesters Outside Anthony Home Prompt Suit ; September 12 2008




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Rudy Giuliani Quotes: Ten Zingers from Giuliani's RNC Speech

Rudy Giuliani's RNC Speech
Republican National Convention
St. Paul, MN - September 3, 2008

"Tough times require strong leadership, and this is no time for on-the-job training."





"And he will keep us on offense against terrorism at home and abroad. For four days in Denver and for the past 18 months, Democrats have been afraid to use the words "Islamic terrorism." During their convention, the Democrats rarely mentioned the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. They are in a state of denial about the threat that faces us now and in the future."

"...you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer and immersed himself in Chicago machine politics. Then he ran for the state Legislature — where nearly 130 times he was unable to make a decision yes or no. He simply voted "present."

As mayor of New York City, I never got a chance to vote "present." And you know, when you're president of the United States, you can't just vote "present." You must make decisions."

"Almost exactly one year ago during a Republican presidential debate in Durham, N.H., I said that if I weren't running for president myself, I'd be supporting John McCain. Well, I'm not, and I do."


"We the people" — the citizens of the United States — get to decide our next president, not the media, not Hollywood celebrities, not anyone else.

"...he ran for the U.S. Senate. He won and has spent most of his time as a "celebrity senator." No leadership or major legislation to speak of. His rise is remarkable in its own right — it's the kind of thing that could happen only in America. But he's never run a city, never run a state, never run a business.

He's never had to lead people in crisis. This is not a personal attack ... it's a statement of fact — Barack Obama has never led anything.

Nothing. Nada."

"So, our opponents want to reframe the debate. They would have you believe that this election is about "change versus more of the same." But that's really a false choice. Because "change" is not a destination, just as "hope" is not a strategy."

"In the single biggest policy decision of this election, John McCain got it right and Barack Obama got it wrong. If Barack Obama had been president, there would have been no troop surge and our troops would have been withdrawn in defeat.

Sen. McCain was the candidate most associated with the surge. And it was unpopular.

What do you think most other candidates would have done in that situation? They would have acted in their own self-interest by changing their position. How many times have we seen Barack Obama do that?

Obama was going to take public financing for his campaign, until he didn't. Obama was against wiretapping before he voted for it. When speaking to a pro-Israel group, Obama favored an undivided Jerusalem, until the very next day when he changed his mind.

I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."

"And as a former U.S. attorney, I am impressed by her success in combating corruption — when she found unethical and illegal behavior among the power brokers of her own party, she did not hesitate — she acted courageously and independently. That's the kind of reformer we need — she shook up Alaska. She'll shake up Washington."

When Russia rolled over Georgia, John McCain knew exactly how to respond.

Having been to that part of the world many times and having developed a clear worldview over many years, John knew where he stood. Within hours, he established a very strong, informed position that let the world know exactly how he'll respond as president. At exactly the right time, John McCain said, "We're all Georgians."

Obama's first instinct was to create a moral equivalency — that "both sides" should "show restraint." The same moral equivalency that he has displayed in discussing the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel.

Later, after discussing it with his 300 foreign policy advisers, he changed his position and suggested that the "the U.N. Security Council" could find a solution. Apparently, none of his 300 advisers told him that Russia has a veto on any U.N. action. Finally Obama put out a statement that looked ... well, it looked a lot like John McCain's.

Here's some free advice: Sen. Obama, next time just call John McCain.

compiled by Mondoreb
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Source: Giuliani speaks at Republican National Convention