plat·i·tude {plat-i-tood] – noun
--- a flat, dull, or trite remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound, significant and original.
Michelle Malkin's latest syndicated column quoting Barack Obama’s recommendations for how to stop jihad in a local Chicago newspaper op-ed he had published eight days after the 9/11:
"... It’s a self-parody of blind, deaf, and dumb Kumbaya liberalism:
“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”
Ask your liberal sister-in-law if this is the man she's really going to choose to protect her children.
BTW: all references to ridiculing "The Surge" have mysteriously disappeared from Obama's website. And from the LA
Rag Times, no less:
A funny thing happened over on the Barack Obama campaign website in the last few days.
The parts that stressed his opposition to the 2007 troop surge and his statement that more troops would make no difference in a civil war have somehow disappeared. John McCain and Obama have been going at it heavily in recent days over the benefits of the surge.
And tell her her vote won't just get one Obama, she'll get TWO!!
The Amazon recently complained the Bush administration’s $600 economic stimulus check was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings”; she made these remarks at a “working women’s" round-table discussion:
“You're getting $600 - what can you do with that?” Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week. “Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."
Please pass the arugula.
"We can't drill ourselves out of this." -- "Dingy" Harry Reid
GW Bush mentioned the word "drill" the other day and the price of oil immediately dropped $9/barrel.
"The Democrat congressional ban on offshore drilling expires exactly 36 days before the election."
This is a no-brainer... they'll simply stop their 27-year long opposition to offshore drilling and claim "they were for it before they were against it."
The demo party provides not end of amusing entertainment for those with an IQ above room temp.
$600 earrings probably sounds like nothing to someone in her tax bracket. But if a rich conservative said that, it'd be repeated endlessly by the drive-by media to show how she was "out of touch" with the common people.
This also illustrates a lack of personal responsibility. Whatever the reason you are finacially distressed, would it really be responsible to blow a $600 windfall on jewelry, rather than rent, food or utilities?
Her remark reminds me of "Let them eat cake!"
Posted by: Fire@Will | July 17, 2008 at 09:03 AM