Quotations Of Tovarisch Barack Obama

This is an evolving page...he just can't keep his mouth shut!!

"From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs" -- Karl Marx

Barack on Skyrocketing Energy Prices
Barack on Bankrupting the Coal Industry
Barack on How to Choose Your Friends Barack on the U.S. and Nazi Germany
Barack on Spreading the Wealth Part 2
Barack on Fox news
Barack on Joe the Plumber& Spreading the Wealth
Barack on Pigs
Barack's Boot Camps For Radicals
Barack on Business and Infrastructure in China
Barack and McCain at Saddleback
Barack on the Russian Invasion of Georgia
Barack tells 7 year old little girl her country basically sucks
Barack on bitter gun toting Americans
Barack On War Funding
Barack On Health Care
Barack on Lifestyle Limits
Barack on Bi-linguilism
Barack's Energy Policy
Michelle Malkin's Obama Gaffe Machine

Take the Teleprompter away, hide the lofty bromide-laden scripts and Barack Houssein Obama is just another stumbling bumbling mere mortal politician. He just can't think on his feet. We live in 57, or is it 58 states. He just wants to finish his pancakes. He's aleady answered, "like, eight questions" from a reporter. What more do you want from the guy?

How about some clarity. And how about some fair coverage from the media. If Bush had said these Obama-isms it would be front page news. If McCain had flubbed his lines as often Obama does his campaign would be on life support. Such is the role of the 'in-the-tank-for Obama' media...to keep things quiet.

Barack on Skyrocketing Energy Prices

From the same January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle

The problem is not technical, uh, and the problem is not mastery of the legislative intricacies of Washington. The problem is, uh, can you get the American people to say, “This is really important,” and force their representatives to do the right thing? That requires mobilizing a citizenry. That requires them understanding what is at stake. Uh, and climate change is a great example.

You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.

They — you — you can already see what the arguments will be during the general election. People will say, “Ah, Obama and Al Gore, these folks, they’re going to destroy the economy, this is going to cost us eight trillion dollars,” or whatever their number is. Um, if you can’t persuade the American people that yes, there is going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end, but that over the long term, because of combinations of more efficient energy usage, changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliance, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, the economy would benefit.

If we can’t make that argument persuasively enough, you — you, uh, can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington. You’re not going to get that done.

Barack on Bankrupting the Coal Industry

From a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle

What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that it will bankrupt them.

Barack on How to Choose Your Friends

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days:

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia. At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."

From Dreams From My Father....sounds like a nightmare to us

Barack on the U.S. and Nazi Germany

From the same 2001 Obama interview on NPR's WBEZ:

Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to Nazi Germany:

“...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home.”

Barack on Spreading the Wealth Part 2

A 2001 Obama interview on NPR's WBEZ:

"You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that.

Then a caller asked: “The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn’t terribly radical. My question is (with economic changes)… my question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work, economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to change place?”

Obama replies: You know, I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way. [snip] You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time. You know, the court is just not very good at it, and politically, it’s just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it, legally, you know, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.”

Need we say more?...read the National Review analysis...this leftist obviously does not understand the intent of the founding fathers...for the full effect listen to the interview:

Barack on Fox News

"I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls. If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that? I guess the point I’m making, is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful."

You mean like ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The NY Times, The Washington Post and the LA Times that have been covering up for you instead of covering you objectively? Let's get out the violins and have a huge pity party.

Barack on Joe the Plumber& Spreading the Wealth

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream." "It's not that I want to punish your success," Obama responded. "I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Barack on Pigs

In an attempt to get downhome with the "just folks" crowd Obama told a joke:

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."

Though Team Obama denies it, the statement obviously harkens back to Sarah Palin's RNC lipstick joke about hockey moms and pit bulls.

But Obama wasn't through: "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it's still gonna stink after eight years." Was he referring to "Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes?"

So after a week of implying Palin is trailer trash, a whore, saying she's inexperienced, can't care properly for her special needs child because she's against embryonic stem cell research, they finally couldn't resist...they called her a pig.

Team Obama immediately went into "what he really meant to say" damage control mode for the 1,000,000th time.

What a class act Team Obama is...For the full effect here's the video:

You can take the stealth socialist out of the South Side Chicago political swamp but you can never get the South Side Chicago political swamp out of the stealth socialist.

Barack's Boot Camps For Radicals

From Investor's Business Daily - September 04, 2008 :

Democrats' reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies.

Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."

Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of "social change."

The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn't seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year "community leadership" positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They'll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.

In exchange, they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.

"Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities," Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for "justice" and "equality" in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. "I get to practice being an activist," and get paid for it, gushed Cincinnati recruit Amy Vincent.

Public Allies promotes "diversity and inclusion," a program paper says. More than 70% of its recruits are "people of color." When they're not protesting, they're staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare.

Public Allies brags that more than 80% of graduates have continued working in nonprofit or government jobs. It's training the "next generation of nonprofit leaders" future "social entrepreneurs."

The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. "Don't go into corporate America," Michelle has exhorted youth. "Work for the community. Be social workers." Shun the "money culture," Barack added. "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation."

"If you commit to serving your community," he pledged in his Denver acceptance speech, "we will make sure you can afford a college education." So, go through government to go to college, and then go back into government.

Many of today's youth find the pitch attractive. "I may spend the rest of my life trying to create social movement," said Brian Coovert of the Cincinnati chapter. "There is always going to be work to do. Until we have a perfect country, I'll have a job."

Not all the recruits appreciate the PC indoctrination. "It was too touchy-feely," said Nelly Nieblas, 29, of the 2005 Los Angeles class. "It's a lot of talk about race, a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, talk about -isms and phobias."

One of those -isms is "heterosexism," which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of "capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege."

The government now funds about half of Public Allies' expenses through Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military, he said.

The gall of it: The Obamas want to create a boot camp for radicals who hate the military and stick American taxpayers with the bill.

Barack on Business and Infrastructure in China

"Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you're starting to think, "Beijing looks like a pretty good option."

To get the full effect watch the video:

It's amazing what you can accomplish when the government controls all the cash and the means of production, when you don't have to deal with environmental regulations, corporate lawsuits and you have an unending supply of slave labor.

Does Barack remember what happened when the earthquake hit China...everything fell down and 57,000 people were killed. So much for infrastructure.

And has anyone noticed the little glint in Barack's eye and the "giddy-up" in his step when he's trashing the United States?

Michelle Malkin said it best:

Well, as long as you forget about the oppressive Communist government and the lack of freedom and the Internet filtering and the re-education camps … China sounds really groovy.

Does Barack Obama understand the nature of the Beijing regime? The reason that the government can afford all of this spending is that they control the means of production and the wealth of the nation. They can confiscate what they want at will and spend it where they like. And in Beijing, they spent it where the cameras would be pointed.

The Chinese infrastructure that so enthralls Obama remains decades behind that of the US. What infrastructure China manages to build, however, gets its energy from oil and coal, not from wind and solar. China has become the highest emissions nation in the world and shows no sign of slowing itself down over concerns about anthropogenic climate change. In fact, the air in Beijing is so bad that outdoor Olympics events almost had to be moved.

Meanwhile, the regime where Obama thinks the world would love to do business maintains itself through brutal oppression. China blocked access to the Internet for international journalists despite promising to allow full access to reporters for the Games. They arrested reporters covering peaceful protests. And these are the actions they took while trying to make themselves look good.

If Obama wants us to build up American infrastructure, he can start by ending the flow of American wealth overseas for energy. Create hundreds of thousands of jobs by building the American energy infrastructure through drilling in the OCS, ANWR, and interior shale formations. Lower capital-gains tax rates to encourage more investment and generate more revenues (and jobs).

America needs a President who can see past the facades. Obama has given every indication of gullibility, first with his pledge to conduct presidential-level diplomacy without preconditions with regimes like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, and now in declaring China the place to do business. Obama isn't at all ready to lead this nation; he's not even ready to run a business, with thinking like this.

Barack and McCain at Saddleback

McCain kicked Obama Booty at the Saddleback Megachurch showdown. Herewith: some of the highlights...

On when life begins:

Pastor Warren brought up the abortion issue, and then asked Obama, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?" Obama then replied, "Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue..."

One hour later, with John McCain in the chair, Warren asked virtually the same question: "At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?"

McCain did not hesitate. He replied: "At the moment of conception."

On Abortion

Warren: "Have you ever voted to limit or reduce abortions?"

Obama: "I am in favor, for example, of limits on late-term abortions if there is an exception for the mother's health. Now, from the perspective of those who, you know, are pro-life, I think they would consider that inadequate. And I respect their views. I mean, one of the things that I've always said is that on this particular issue..." And off he went on another extended ramble, which failed to mask the fact that he never answered the question, never cited any past votes to reduce abortions.

On the Question of Evil

Warren: "Does evil exist, and if it does, do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it, or do we defeat it?"

Obama: "Evil does exist. I mean, we see evil all the time. We see evil in Darfur. We see evil in parents have viciously abused their children and I think it has to be confronted. It has to be confronted squarely and one of the things that I strongly believe is that, you know, we are not going to, as individuals, be able to erase evil from the world...Now, the one thing that I think is very important for us is to have humility in how we approach the issue of confronting evil, but, you know, a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we were trying to confront evil...And I think one thing that's very important is having some humility in recognizing that, you know, just because we think our intentions are good doesn't always mean that we're going to be doing good..."

One hour later, Warren asked McCain the same question about evil and what we should do about it.

McCain's response began this way: "Defeat it."

So Obama would rather confront evil than defeat it. What's he gonna do...have a conversation with evil without pre-conditions? Could there be a more stark contrast between these two. Combine these remarks with his recent less than stirring response to the Russian invasion of Georgia and you have a guy who seems like a deer caught in the headlights. Not a clue.

Like most liberals Obama manages to take either no side or all sides on an issue because he's just so nuanced and such a complicated guy. Actually he is so busy pandering to all those liberal constiuencies that he simply cannot afford to take a stand on anything.

Like we've always said...a liberal is someone who won't take his own side in an argument.

By the way, The Obamaconartists said McCain cheated because he heard the questions rpior to the big show. It was repeated by NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Her comments in full:

Mitchell: "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 8/17/08)

So if you lose a debate claim the other side cheated...if you lose an election claim the election was stolen and sue.

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Barack on the Russian Invasion of Georgia

From his vacation in Hawaii:

"I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected. All sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Georgia, and the United States, the United Nations Security Council, and the international community should fully support a peaceful resolution to this crisis."

Time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint...that's like saying the girl deserved to be raped. No mention that Russia actually invaded Georgia.

Two days later Barack really got tough with Putin:

"The United States, Europe and all other concerned countries must stand united in condemning this aggression, and seeking a peaceful resolution to this crisis. We should continue to push for a United Nations Security Council Resolution calling for an immediate end to the violence. This is a clear violation of the sovereignty and internationally recognized borders of Georgia -- the U.N. must stand up for the sovereignty of its members, and peace in the world."

Like they stood up in Darfur, Rawanda and Lebanon? Has the U.N. ever been effective enforcing security? Does Barack even realize the Russians are a permanent of the U.N. Security Council and have a veto over any resolution the U.N. might come up with?

Obama tells 7 year old little girl her country basically sucks.
August 7, 2008 Excerpted from World Net Daily:

It's the question every presidential candidate must be prepared to answer, but when it was posed to Barack Obama by a 7-year-old yesterday, the Democratic senator seemed at a loss for words.

Appearing before a packed high school gym in Elkhart, Ind., the young girl asked Obama why he is running for the White House.

"America is, is no longer, uh, what it could be, what it, it once was," Obama said haltingly. "And I say to myself, I don't want that future for my children."

Neville's Note

It is now very clear that Obama and his wife are truly products of that radical South Chicago cesspool of the William Ayres/Reverend Wright Hate America School of politics.

The words rolled out of his America-hating sewer as easily as if they had been programmed in him from birth. As revealing as his bitter Americans remark several months ago, this is a man who's first instinct is to trash his country. He may be from the United States but he is obviously not "of" this country. He doesn't "get" this country. We got a glimps of this during his rediculous "Citizen of the World" speech in Berlin. One has to wonder exactly which America he longs for:

the America where it was inconceivable that a black man could get this far running for president
the America that saved the free world during World War II and the Cold War
the America that ended slavery
the America that embraces free-market capitalism
the America that is on the scene wherever there is a major natural disaster (assuming the country "hosting" that disaster will let us in)
the America that embraces minority quotas as is if it was written in the Bible

This man is an absolute disgrace. Pathetic!!

Recently Michelle Malkin listed some of the biggest Obama gaffes in a recent column.

Obama's Gaffe Machine
By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
May 21, 2008

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of "potatoe." The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy's a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12.

*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: "Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I've been in Iowa for too long. I'm sorry."

*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

"There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole."

*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: "We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it's harder for us to use them in Afghanistan." The real reason it's "harder for us to use them" in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:

"Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know exactly what's going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport."

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he's voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear waste site. *Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama's "Dreams from My Father:"

"Then, there's the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don't exist, say the magazine's own historians."

* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us"-cluelessly arguing that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets can't do us harm- and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

Barack Obama-promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah-is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

Neville's Note: As long as the press, epecially NBC, is in the tank for this political lightwieght, none of this will affect him too badly.

Click here for a website devoted to the lies Obama has told going back to his State Senate days in Chicago.

Obama on bitter gun toting Americans:

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Here are a couple of the latest Obama gaffes at a town hall meeting:

Barack On War Funding

Barack On Health Care

Barack on Bi-linguilism:

“You know, I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, ‘We need to have English- only.’ They want to pass a law, ‘We want English-only,’” Obama said. “Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But understand this. Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about, how can your child become bilingual? We should have every child speaking more than one language.

“You know, it’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say [is], ‘Merci beaucoup.’ Right? (Laughter) You know, no, I’m serious about this. We should understand that our young people, if you have a foreign language, that is a powerful tool to get a job. You are so much more employable. You can be part of international business. So we should be emphasizing foreign languages in our schools from an early age, because children will actually learn a foreign language easier when they’re 5, or 6, or 7 than when they’re 46, like me.”

And here's Obama in Oregon lecturing us on how limited and mediocre we need to be:

Emphasizing his environmental policies, because Oregonian voters are particularly green-friendly Obama said, “We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen”

It’s always a tad chilling to hear a politician talk about what “we” can’t do. Politicians have a nasty habit of forcing private citizens and businesses to comply with their notions of proper behavior. Based on this off the cuff remark, Obama seems to think that Americans shouldn’t be driving certain cars, or setting their thermostats at certain levels, or eating certain hearty meals.

Of course, most Americans don’t drive SUVs. As for the thermostat, most Americans choose their temperature based primarily on personal comfort, but energy prices undoubtedly have an effect. And obviously, most Americans don’t make decisions on which car they purchase, or what thermostat setting they prefer, or how much they eat, based on what other countries might think.

Obama said that America should lead by example with our energy policies, but the simple fact is he can’t force other countries to comply. There’s going to be a lot of new car owners in China and India over the coming decades, and there’s nothing that America can do about it. Obama is kidding himself (as are most environmentalists) if he thinks that leading by example will have any tangible benefit.

Barack's Energy Policy

Barack Obama, who recently stated that he had no problem with high gas prices, except that they rose too fast, offered this pathetic solution for energy self-sufficiency:

There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling - if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You'd actually save just as much!

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