Fun with Quotes
21 November 2007 12:25 am by Taylor Marsh
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These are just a few recent quotes that have been floating around. They offer a sense of a few of the people in the race and where we are in the campaign right now. Some have the potential of being classic when it’s all said and done.
“First she’s coming to Iowa.” – Obama about Oprah
Bill Richardson is frustrated:
“Washington television media is fixated on a three-person race, and it’s more than a three-person race.”
“Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the
fact I spent four years overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia.”
Clinton
on Obama’s experience:
“Voters will have to judge if living in a foreign country at the age
of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next
president will face.”
Biden
on Obama’s foreign policy experience:
“I think he’s right,” Biden said smiling. “That is his strongest
[foreign policy] credential.”
Obama
and Giuliani find common ground:
OBAMA…
“You know, I made some bad decisions…. You know, got into drinking
and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn’t
apply myself. It wasn’t until I got out of … high school, and
went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.“When I started college, I started noticing, why some places are poor
others rich. Why is it that we spend all this money on our military, but we
don’t spend it on our schools? Why is it that women aren’t always
treated the same as men… a lot of questions that started bubbling up
in my mind.“I realized if I had spent a little more time reading, and studying
that I could actually have some influence in the world. So I did a lot of
catching up when I got to college. By the time I was a junior and senior,
in college I got real serious. In fact, I was so serious my mother told me
to lighten up. Fortunately, over time, I got a little balance.”RUDY on Obama
“I respect his honesty in doing that,” Giuliani said of Obama
speaking about his drug use. “I think that one of the things we need
from our people who are running for office is not this pretense of perfection.
And the reality is all of us that run for public office, whether its governor,
legislator, mayor, president, we are all human beings. If we haven’t
made mistakes don’t vote for us. Cause we got some big ones that are
gonna happen in the future and we won’t know how to handle them.”
Well, Rudy’s certainly got the mistake thing down. Obama being candid and transparent
with high school kids is a terrific thing. It should happen more often.
After Clinton’s new ad, “Republican Attack Machine,” was released, Romney’s team offered this:
“Governor Romney also has a record of, and reputation for, actually getting things done. Senator Clinton has a reputation for one thing: partisanship. Extreme partisanship.”
I don’t think this is an ad Clinton should be running, frankly. There’s no evidence I’ve seen that anyone wants to talk about the VRWC all over again. She’s the first viable female candidate running for president. People want change. That’s where she should stay.
A verbal reminder
to Clinton’s rivals, Democratic or Republican, is something else:
“For 15 years I’ve been the object of the Republican attack machine
and I’m still here.”
Dodd’s camp on the new Clinton ad:
“It’s an interesting admission from Senator Clinton — that if she’s elected we’re headed for four more years of the partisan warfare, Washington dysfunction, bitter divisiveness and gridlock that have marked the last 15 years, at a time when all Americans are desperate for real solutions to real problems.”
Again, I think the ad is the wrong way to go. It’s retro. It’s one thing to illustrate toughness. It’s quite another to talk about something that brings us back to the worst days of the 1990s.
Biden
on Clinton when it comes to foreign policy:
“I admit that under our sexist society it is probably more difficult
for a woman to be able to communicate that [toughness].”
Finally, somebody said it besides me. It’s about time.
Edwards
on the ‘04 and ‘08 race:
“I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility
to point out substantive differences, to point out perspectives that are different,”
he said in an interview. “I’m totally comfortable doing it.”
Whether it will work or not the way he’s decided to do it — it’s not so far — is another matter
entirely.
Rumors have been flying (and emails) that Obama had bused in a huge crowd to
the Iowa JJ event a couple of weeks ago, including a lot of young people. However,
Charlie Cook of
the National Journal finally gave it new meaning just yesterday.
A large number of the Obama supporters at the event looked too young
to get served at a bar, even if the drinking age were 18.
