“Remember the campaign, folks, when Barack Obama’s speeches would leave people spent sweaty, and orgasmic? None of that happened today.”
“It finally hit me what I thought I was listening to when I was listening to the poem. This sounds just like the voice in my GPS system in my car.”
“I think the best analysis that I can offer you of the Obama speech today, why it didn’t work, is that he tried to marry growth and fairness.”
“This is not the death of democracy. I am the Doctor of Democracy. I will pronounce death. Don’t panic. I will let you know when it’s time for that.”
“While it tried to be uplifting and inspiring it sounded somewhat hopeless like we got big problems and it’s going to be a long time before we fix them, and I know what’s going on with that. It is the downplaying of expectations so that when the recovery does happen, and it doesn’t get as bad as everybody is telling us it’s going to get, then they can say that they arrested the recession before it got really bad and give themselves some credit for it.”
“I think what happened with Obama is he tried to say too much. He made too many references to history, too many attempts at memorable lines, and there are no memorable lines from the speech now. It was not a great speech and everybody knows it. However, that will not be the consensus opinion.”
“My theory on this is that David ‘Rodham’ Gergen was trying to improve Obama’s speech by rereading it on air. Maybe he thought that it might sound better if he read it, but I don’t think that’s possible. David ‘Rodham’ Gergen, if it weren’t for his varicose veins, he’d be a totally colorless guy.”
“Well, the era of responsibility has officially begun. It is underway. Dow Jones Industrial Average down 225. This is and has been Obama’s market.”
“I do not want a collectivist, New Deal president taking hold of this economy under the auspices of fixing it. That’s not success to me. I do not want somebody who is going to have the federal government absorb more and more of the private sector on the premise that the private sector has failed here when it’s the government that has failed!”
“One of my most fervent desires and wishes as a human being is that all this racism just be over with, all this group victimization. These are political tactics employed by the left to secure power, and they’ll never give it up. And while they’re the ones out there practicing all this racism and groupthink and victimization, they’re blaming people like me for it. And it’s just a shame.”
