BO borrows a page from MO

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on August 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm

In response to a 7 year-old girl’s question at a campaign stop earlier this week asking why he was running for president, here was Obama’s response:

“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”

Here’s the video:

Sound familiar? Indeed, it does.

Ed Morrissey has a partial transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s reaction to Obama’s answer, which pretty much says it all:

Alright, now here’s he’s brought it home. He had trashed his country in Germany, he has seen the result of that in his plummeting poll numbers. And now he does it again in Elkhart, IN. A 7 year old little girl. You’re running for President Sen. Obama, a little girl asks you a question, “Why did you start running for President?”

It’s a 7 year old Senator. Ya tell her because you love the country. You tell her because this is the greatest place on Earth. That we’ve got challenges, but you want to help the country through it. You don’t tell a 7 year old that her country isn’t what it once was. You do not lie to 7 year olds and tell them that your country sucks. You just don’t do it Senator.

America’s no longer what it could be? What it once was? How the Hell would you know Sir? Your experience has only been in one part of America. Elite, leftist academia.

The final word from Jennifer Rubin:

But really, it is not just a matter of an off-the-cuff remark. (By the way can you imagine that if Joe Biden is selected as VP he might actually be the less gaffe-prone of the two?) That gloomy assessment and glum world outlook is essential to his message. Remember: if the country is not in dire straits then no ordinary, experienced politician will do. We have to throw away the playbook, take a leap of faith and elect the One Who Is Like No Other. So of course everything must be worse than before — why else would we need Him?

Simply blasphemous!

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8 Responses to “BO borrows a page from MO”

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  1. Lorica says:

    If you don’t agree with BO that America is the worst country in the history of the world, You….Might be a racist. =))

    I tell ya, you can’t make this stuff up. How is this man still considered presidential material?? Why not just bang your shoe on the podium Senator and yell at that little girl that “We will bury you”. I have been telling all my friends for the last couple of months there is just no way that Hillary isn’t going to be the nominee. BO’s constant buffoonary and horrible attitude towards this country is only proving what I firmly believe. Who would nominate this man?? I wouldn’t have voted for him even when I was a Dem. – Lorica

  2. Weakest candidate since Dukakis, I’m tellin’ ya! ;))

  3. Jo Graham says:

    I totally agree with that assessment of the candidate! He is beyond belief. =))

  4. Steve Skubinna says:

    It’s always important for the party out of power to claim that those in power have screwed things up. Happens every election.

    The difference that I see, is that when the Republicans are trying to get in, their message is usually “The Dems are on the wrong track, join us in getting this great country back on course.”

    The Dems, on the other hand, run around with their hair on fire shrieking hysterically that the Republicans have murdered all the babies and burned down the forests and poisoned all of the water and beat up all the old ladies and as a result the entire nation is sliding down the abyss. Things have never been as bad as they are now, in act they’re even worse than that!

    I think many Americans are beginning to sense the disconnect here. They may be asking themselves if it’s really as bad as the Dems tell us.

    There’s a word for people like that, and we all know it: racists.

  5. Tom TB says:

    Whaaaat? “America is no longer what it once was, and I don’t want that future for my children”. Could someone please tell me what golden age he is refering to, and what perils await his daughters that only he can avert if only we elect him?

  6. Foxx says:

    BarakoBarakoBarakObama!
    BarakoBarakoBarakObama!
    BarakoBarakoBarakObama!

    Score another stunning victory for the chosen one! Put that seven year old in her place! Suffer not the little children and send their parents to Plan(t your children in the ground) Parenthood.

  7. Don L says:

    I have to agree with Obama that America is no longer what it once was. What he fails to say is that has happened because of liberal “change” – the change that altered our direction in the revvolutionary sixties when all authority – secular and religious, was overthrown as antiquated. God and traditional western institutions such as marriage, religion, family, discipline, etc. became subjegated to the cult of selfish hedonistic socialism. Government,the courts,education, the media, have now became the tools by which western civilization decays.

    Obama merely wishes to accelerate the process and bury permenantly what the Godless left has attacked thus far.

    The mere fact that so many desire what he offers is testimony to our descent.

    The fact that the GOP has now tossed social conservatives under the McCain bus is but evidence as to the decay on the right as well. Those on the right who enable ‘big tent” RINos like to pretend they are different – but they’re not.

  8. stoo says:

    America isn’t what it once was — what era does he propose we return to? The time of learning the meaning of is? The salad days of Carter’s malaise?

    Further back, perhaps? He can’t mean a time with a Republican in charge, can he?

    And how is it progressive to go back?