Ten Things Better Left Unsaid
#10 "That's history, that's the past. That's talking about what happened before. What we should be talking about is what we're going to do now. And what we're going to do now is continue this strategy which is succeeding in Iraq…." -- John McCain, trying to link Barack Obama's criticism of the Iraq War to the policies and judgments of the past.
#9 "Lets just get everyone together. Lets get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect." -- Hillary Clinton, clearly trying out for a spoken word Grammy
#8 "For Hillary to stress her political experience is about as reckless as it was for the last Democratic presidential candidate to stress his war record…Candidate Jean-Francois Kerry fallaciously charged his comrades with committing atrocities and three decades later expected to be elected president. Regarding Hillary's experience, I suspect that the electorate is well aware of its luridities." -- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on StopHerNow.com
#7 "I have no shame or no problem with people looking at Barack Obama in his native clothing, in the clothing of his country… we can not attribute [the release of the photograph] to anyone in our campaign but the Clinton campaign does not condone the conduct and we would hope that America is going to have its opportunity or begin to see if we supporting a woman or an African American for president we oughtta be able to be able to wear the clothing of their nation." -- Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Clinton supporter, in a magnanimous tone, implying that Obama considers himself something other than American.
#6 "I think that there are just questions the American people want to know about. I mean you listen to why he doest wear an American flag button, it's a very convoluted answer… and its curious that suddenly there's a guy who doesn't wanna do it and if you put that with the wife's comment, the first time in her adult life she's proud of America… I just think these questions aren't off limits." -- Rep. Jack Kingston (lapel pin-less) on how the lack of a flag lapel pin on Barack Obama's jacket should throw his patriotism into question.
#5 "Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles, is prohibited by the Constitution? Because smacking someone in the face would violate the Eighth Amendment in a prison context…. you can't go around smacking people about. Is it obvious that what can't be done for punishment can't be done to exact information that is crucial to the society? I think it is not at all an easy question, to tell you the truth. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the BBC's Radio 4, also quote of the week on conservative talk show host Laura Ingram's site
#4 "Obama worked with terrorist: Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence." "Obama's 'Yes We Can!' taken from Russian leader?" -- Headlines from WorldNetDaily. While the first quote needs no explanation to dispute its claims, "Yes, We Can." Is a phrase that has been heralded as emblematic of the American experience and was purportedly first used by Andrew Jackson in a sentiment that dates back to the accomplishments of Benjamin Franklyn in the early colonial days.
#3 "I am running for President." - Ralph Nader, Sunday on meet the press. Thursday Mr. Nader announced his choice for running mate: Matt Gonzalez, former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
#2 "The Democratic Party is the architect of modern day racism… Now they are fanning the flames of racism in order to keep blacks in economic poverty."-- Frances Rice, of newsmax.com
#1 "You cannot expect phone companies to participate if they feel like they are gonna be sued. I mean it it is, these people are responsible for shareholders, they're private companies. The government said to those who have alleged to have help us that it is in our national interests and its legal…. It was legal and now all of a sudden plaintiffs attorneys, class action plaintiffs attorneys, ya know, I I I don't wanna try and get inside their head, I suspect they see a financial gravy train are tying to sue these companies. It is unfair, it is patently unfair. And secondly these lawsuits create doubt among those whose help we need. I guess you could be relaxed about this if you didn't thing that there was a true threat to the country. I now there's a threat to the country….This is an important issue for the American people to understand and its important for them to understand that no renewal of the Patriot Act, I mean the Protect America Act is dangerous for the security of the country. Just dangerous…and so I will keep, um talking 'bout the issue, keep talking 'bout the issue." -- President George W. Bush on why protecting telecommunications companies from lawsuits and the wrath of their shareholders are in the security interest of the American people.
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