Gee, I swear that sounds like someone else. Hmmm, he was probably just some America hater too.

It bears repeating: He said this to a 7-year old.

God knows what he tells his own children.

Another one! The gall of those fellas, eh? Didn't they know America was already great? What a couple of messiah-complex traitors.

Oh, and here's a juicy quote from some America-hating jerk's speech at his party's convention:

For those who have abandoned hope, we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!

Hope! What an egomaniac celebrity!

Gee, I swear that sounds like someone else. Hmmm, he was probably just some America hater too.

The stumbling, halting and confused nonsense muttered by Obama sounded nothing like what a confident Reagan said or stood for when he spoke of America.

All evidence to the contrary. Nice try, chuckles.

ANY candidate should be able to answer the question this way:

Little girl: Senator Obama, why do you want to be President?

Obama: Because I love my country and I want to serve it in the greatest way possible, sweetheart.

That took me all of 2 seconds to figure out.
And I'm not even running for office (thankfully).

All evidence to the contrary. Nice try, chuckles.

Au contraire, mon ami. Your evidence is from speeches and election paraphernalia and, yes, it that way, the two share a similar message. However, we're not talking about speeches and buttons, now are we? Nope, that's not the issue. The issue is an off-the-cuff, scatterbrained response to a little girl about how America is "no longer...uh, what it, it could be".

Again, it's a simple question and he FUBAR'ed it.

"It's because he is supposed to be your hope. He is supposed to be your savior. You aren't supposed to look around at your country and feel pride; you're supposed to feel shame and despair so that you can follow Obama to the promised land."

This is his entire campaign in a nutshell. Well put.

Is there any article at Wizbang that can be discussed civilly by Lefties in the comments section, or do they all have to keep changing the subject?
Look over there! Something shiny!

I just want you to know that your country sucks but I'm gonna fix it honey. However if I lose there is no hope for America. Barack Obama.

http://www.thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/

The difference is what is meant by 'great'. Something tells me its not the same thing.

It would be nice if Obama quit stealing from recent campaigns. He's lifted heavily from the Clintons, a lot. Everything from 'I feel your pain' to the $1000 "elect me" bribe.

Now he's stealing Reagan's renewal theme.

How can something be no longer what it could be? To say something could be means it is yet to be attained. To no longer be something that has not yet been attained is comming from a man who was educated at the best colleges that country has to offer. I would like to think a "law professor" would be capable of more better language. Kind of like B. Hussein hisself. He is no longer what he could be.

Funny, haven't the leftoids spent the last 7 years railing against the same type of bumbling answers given by Bush?

Right mantis?

Gee, I swear that sounds like someone else.

I agree mantis. This was Obama's Roger Mudd Moment and he fumbled it just like Kennedy did. But Mudd was a seasoned broadcaster and Kennedy had no chance, right? Obama and a seven year old.....?

"Obama: America sucks, unless you elect me President"

You got that right, ObamaMessiah. That's why I'm out of here if the Democrats get Diebolded again. Toronto, you lovely city, I may be seeing you soon!!!

I think I know why Obama is in politics. With statements such as that one, his career as an attorney would not be very lucrative. To say the nation is not what it once was is a no brainer. We used to have slave states and free states. That change to what is it today is a good thing. America used to be a place where most of what you earned, you got to keep. Obama just does not make sense for America. Where is it in the world Obama wants his kinds to grow up. Kenya?

That's why I'm out of here if the Democrats get Diebolded again.

Another empty Democratic promise.

That's why I'm out of here if the Democrats get Diebolded again.

I'll pay for the cab to the bus station Herman. Plus tip.

He couldn't say one friggin' good thing about the country he wants to be president of? Or, maybe that teleprompter wasn't working again... He can't be that lost without a prearranged question agenda. (Yes! He can!)

The narrator said he wanted to talk about the oil crisis and all it takes is a small child to throw him a curveball. Someone said this earlier, only paraphrased: I hopey he changey! Quick!

I do believe I've heard about all of this "America sucks" shit that I care to.

This country is the STANDARD--the rest of the world can only seek to emulate us. It's sickening that the purported route to political power is to denigrate the very coubtry you live in. I believe in this country, and it's innate goodness-seen it first hand.
For those who can't see it's worth,or refuse to, I suggest that you find another locale to vent your disillusionment in.I'm tired of listening to your drivel, and I'll gladly donate the first $20 for an appropriate exit strategy.

Funny isn't it? How it always seems to be children who expose the fraud? Often without even being concious of doing so. This was an emporer has no clothes moment if ever I saw one. Or perhaps a clothes has no emporer moment, seeing as the big o is such an empty suit?

Any chance that 7-year-old can get the nomination? She's quicker on the fly, and I'd feel better. Oh, damn that constitutional 35-year-old requirement. Oh well.

Is there any article at Wizbang that can be discussed civilly by Lefties in the comments section, or do they all have to keep changing the subject?

The subject was changed in the very title of this post. Nowhere in Obama's quote does he suggest that "America sucks", nor that he sees "something so bleak" in America, nor that he is "preaching a message of despair".

It's you who are projecting your disdain onto his words.

mantis, remember who Reagan was running against: the utter failure, Jimmy Carter. And it was Carter who went all negative while he was President, and taking the country down the toilet. Reagan was making positive responses to Carter's negative portrayal of the country he was supposed to be leading.

Reagan was making positive responses to Carter's negative portrayal of the country he was supposed to be leading.

The way to make a "positive response" to someone who is portraying something as negative that you believe is not negative is to say "no it isn't". Not "we can make it positive again".

Brian, you dolt, explain what America is no longer what it could be, or once was. What the f**k does that mean? How can something be what it no longer could be. If it never was, because it could be than its still not. What America is, is a free society, not a socialist state which is what Obama would like. If someone breaks into your house to steal your money to buy food for his family, it is a crime. Please explain why it is ok for the Government to do the same thing.

The way to make a "positive response" to someone who is portraying something as negative that you believe is not negative is to say "no it isn't". Not "we can make it positive again".

Can you diagram that sentence for me?

Brian, you dolt, explain what America is no longer what it could be, or once was. What the f**k does that mean?

It's pretty simple English. Let's say you used to be fastest runner in your therapy group, and then you gained 20 lbs. and slowed down. Then you are no longer what you could be (if you lost the weight again), or once were.

Or as another example, if in 1999 70% of the people thought the country was going in the right direction, and today only 18% do... well, you figure it out.

Herman, you can sleep on my couch for a couple of days, and I'll show you where to get cheap a) hummus, b) sunglasses, c) pot, and d) sweaters. That's pretty much the entire naturalization process.

Can you diagram that sentence for me?

Sure.

'For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of this shitty little country that obviously has been waiting to vote for me.
Of course, if it doesn't; then it's just a shitty little racist country. And not the good Get-Whitey-Amerikkka kind of racism, I mean the bad kind of racism.
I get a shiver up my leg just thinking of what a swell guy I am for deigning to save you bitter bible & boomstick clingers. '

-Brocko

"That's why I'm out of here if the Democrats get Diebolded again. Toronto, you lovely city, I may be seeing you soon!!!"

Herman, you forgot to take your pills again. You know you start hallucinating when you've forgotten them. It'll be OK, just relax. Just don't forget your drool cup on your way to Toronto, buddy. ;-)

Herman, you can sleep on my couch for a couple of days, and I'll show you where to get cheap a) hummus, b) sunglasses, c) pot, and d) sweaters. That's pretty much the entire naturalization process.

Sounds like a date...not that there's anything wrong with that.

"Or as another example, if in 1999 70% of the people thought the country was going in the right direction, and today only 18% do... well, you figure it out."

OK. Approval ratings for the Democrat-led Congress are worse than the President's. Gee. I wonder who the country is more disappointed with...?

"Herman, you can sleep on my couch for a couple of days, and I'll show you where to get cheap a) hummus, b) sunglasses, c) pot, and d) sweaters. That's pretty much the entire naturalization process."

LOL! That was a funny comment; and option c) explains exactly why you were so confused about economics and socialists in the other thread. ;-)

The diagram looks more like this, brian;

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

Humpty Obamadumpty falling off the wall in slow motion. And there is nothing the MSM's horses and men can do about it, particularly when he can't articulate a canned campaign response in the presence of a seven year old without a teleprompter. As I said earlier, it was a Mudd moment and he will wear it through November.