“Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.” WayBelieveDoeIndividualWaitingRocksBearsTaxesOvercomingCurrentsDinnerStreamsSwimmingMatesPredatorMobilitySalmonWaterfallsUpward MobilitySwimming Upstream Author:Dick Morris
“Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.” NeedsGivingDoePastOrderPresidentWorrySecurityConcernDemocraticDebtToneNational SecurityJoblessnessDeafBin LadenAssassinationOsama Bin Laden Author:Ron Fournier
“Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.” WayGivingDoeCountryAmericaBornAttitudeHavensBuiltRussiaForefathers Author:Luke Scott
“Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.” BelieveResultsSizeIndianaAmerican Leadership Author:Jeb Bush
“Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.” KindSeemsGuyBeerBurgers Author:Anna Quindlen
“Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.” HumansDreamMightPoliticalJusticeHuman BeingsPositionEmotionalConflictRelationRefuseAssertionPolitical Life Author:Simon Critchley
“Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.” MenMindSelfVirtueClearComfortableIntellectualEvidenceRegardCloudsDrivenComplexityThoughtfulConsiderationPresidencyPersonaNotableOystersKeystones Author:George Will
“Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don't you think of super patriots, don't you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That's not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.” PeopleThinkingKindCountryCommunityImagineProtectConstitutionPatriotCia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.” FatherIdentityIdeology Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.” WarBarack ObamaGeorge W BushBob WoodwardObama S Wars Author:Bob Woodward Source: Obama's Wars
“Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.” ThinkingCommunityDecisionHavensAdministrationRhetoric Author:David Rubenstein
“Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.” StatesUseUnitedUnited StatesGentlemanUsaTortureIllegalAudacityLadies And Gentlemen Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama had the media; Obama had the judiciary; Obama had all kinds of support. At an Obama press conference, typical question, "What enchants you?" I mean, Obama was never challenged seriously by the media.” KindMeanSupportMediaPressesAll KindsTypicalConferencesJudiciaryPress Conferences Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsTodayAbilityRaceEnemyRolesBreakLimitsSpeechAchievementImportanceExtraordinaryAtheistIranContinuingTopicsPublic LifeRefinedProvocativeBreak OutHamasGreatest AchievementNew WordsAbility To ChangeGridlock Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.” DemocracyCuresSunlightRejected Author:David K. Shipler
“Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing policy now, which has been going on for some time, saying that we have to reduce the human population, on this planet, from 7 billion people down to less than 1! That is her avowed policy.” PeopleHumansHas BeensPresidentPolicyPlanetsStandingEnglandPopulationBillionsQueensHuman PopulationQueen Of England Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.” IdeasSpeechTownsDependentHallsFormalJacketsMixingMixing It Up Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business. The healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses but the people.” PeopleHas BeensRunningOpinionCostAbsolutesDisasterHealthcareRoof Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.” Has BeensBitsRepublicanSillyPatriotismFlagsPins Author:Will Thomas
“Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.” Has BeensPresidentRepublicanSpeechNotesDebtExpectedBudgetsCourtesyCeilingsInsultingPartisansTrumanDebt Ceiling Author:Grover Norquist
“Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb.” YearsHas BeensSaidPlanetsMonthsCoupleThreatClimateClimate ChangeNuclearBombsSundayIranNuclear Bomb Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Has BeensPresidentModernWorstConflictPalestinianAmerican HistoryIsraeliIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Reza Aslan
“Obama has been trying or was trying to transform the country away from the way it was founded, and it is causing misery, and it is causing a lack of optimism about the future. It's resulted in massive student debt, worthless college degrees, no job opportunities. That's what the election of Trump was all about, trying to reverse this trend.” TryingCountryOpportunityStudentsCollegeOptimismElectionMiseryWorthlessCollege Degree Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.” FirstsSchoolLawBlackPresidentAbilityBuiltReputationBridgesDivisionReviewsHarvardIdeologicalLaw SchoolPublic ImageHarvard Law School Author:Mara Liasson
“Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow.” WarStatesWould BeMonthsMajorsBlowCommittedIslamicNotableIslamic State Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.” PeopleDoeHas BeensDoneLeftCitizensLet MeCarefulTrialsTortureDictatorLegislationHere And NowBeing DoneImpunity Author:Naomi Wolf
“Obama has had a really tough time, but there have been a lot of things that he's compromised on that I never would have expected. I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought he'd support. I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.” ThinkingGivingMeanActionQualitySupportToughCourageousTough Times Author:Shepard Fairey
“Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!” StillsLastsPresidentRaceSixLosingFundraiser Author:Bill Maher
“Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!” GivingTwoStatesJobsForceTermUnitedMillionsUnited StatesCuttingGiving UpAchievementLaborRageImmigrationPermanentIllegalUnemploymentCastingShortageIllegal ImmigrationPersuadingLabor Force Author:Dick Morris
“Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.” LittlesSaidRightsMovementKingsRootsCivil RightsColonialismLutherCivil Rights MovementKenya Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.” WorldMadeAmericaPowerfulKnownBrandsMost Powerful Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.” PoliticalReadyKeysSellsMissionsAccomplishedTroopsFired Up Author:David Corn
“Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.” PeopleLostSupportMajorityAgendasObamacareTrustworthiness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.” YearsMadeProblemDreamGovernmentOrderPayEconomicBecomingOne DayApproachSolutionsIncreasePaidDemocraticEightSpendingFasterAdoptedJumpingPackagesStimulusRecessionsBettingGovernment SpendingEconomic ProblemsJumping In Author:Dick Morris
“Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.” ShouldHorrorRadicalPassagesAmerican HistoryLegislationImplicationsThanking Him Author:John Podhoretz
“Obama has some manacles, and that might limit him. However, he's the first American president to raise $600 million for his campaign. That frees him from lobbyists; it frees him from special interests, and it could free him from those who would manipulate him. If he is going to solve the problem, he has to be free enough to solve the problem between the Israelis and the Palestinians.” EnoughProblemPresidentInterestSpecialPalestinianManipulateAmerican President Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Obama has wreaked a lot of damage on America already, and there will be more. There's gonna be more to come.” AmericaDamage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.” Policy Author:David Limbaugh
“Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!” PoliticsRepublicanSpotsReelection Author:Mitch McConnell
“Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.” YearsLostNumbersFourMediaRepublicanFairsStandingTricksFour YearsApprovalAttackingNot Fair Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.” JobsPlansBillsWideStimulus Author:Rich Galen
“Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.” KnowsNeedsRunningPastEnergyPresidentTalkingStupidScientistOilFuelFossilsClownHatefulFossil Fuel Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama is a human wrecking ball single-handedly destroying our economy and bankrupting the nation.” HumansNationsEconomyBallsDestroying Author:David Limbaugh
“Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.” MenFirstsCharacterClassRemainsIntellectSuspectsTemperamentFirst Class Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.” PeopleThinkingCountryStatesAmericaRealizingUnitedUnited StatesClearBecomingCeaseRadicalBarackCommunistUnited States Of AmericaOld PeopleIllinois Author:Alan Keyes