You’ve gotta admit, that’d be a tempting reason to vote for the guy.

“Dear child, once upon a time you used to be able to order a steak and then smoke a cigarette without getting up. You could talk and drink and laugh with your friends and everyone had a cigarette dangling from their lips. You could go to Las Vegas and walk from the sidewalk into the casino without having to finish your cigarette first. I want to bring that America BACK.”

I’d put a sign on my lawn and I haven’t touched a cigarette since January.

I miss it, though…

this bush-league verbal diarrhea would lose a presidential election. His gun-clinging comment lost him a primary. Let’s see if this explosion of idiocy loses him the general.

I thought we were the ones who were always being accused of wanting to turn back the clock. Apparently, now that’s a good thing.

Fix it even if it ain’t broke, and even if you don’t know quite how, and even if you have to break other stuff while trying.

Obama is right. America is not what it used to be. There was a time a black man couldn’t run for president, attend Harvard or even drink from the same drinking fountain as a white person. There was a time in America where poor people went hungry. There was a time–if you can believe this– when poor people didn’t have cable TV, cars or air conditioning.

Listen, Whateverthehellyournameis:

This whole campaign is really about MY KIDS’ FUTURE. Yes, MY KIDS–you know the ones that are forced to grow up in a $1.6 million dollar home, go to private schools, and get whatever they want, anytime they want. MY KIDS ARE SUFFERING!!! I NEED TO HELP THEM!!! Now go run in the street, little whateverthehellyournameis.

What it once was? Okay, when might that have been? We can assume it wouldn’t have been before the Civil War or in the immediate period of reconstruction. Probably not before civil rights legislation was enacted and enforced, so that eliminates the 50′s and 60′s.

The 70′s? Couldn’t have been what with Vietnam. At least early in the decade. He might be referring to the penitent US under Carter from 1976-80. His economic policies are straight out of Jimmy’s playbook and he’s pining to abandon an ally to islamists…

I’ll bet he was seething when the Dems were locked out of the White House from 1980-1992. Does anyone see Obama as anything but a verbal opponent to the Reagan Revolution?

And it couldn’t have been the Clinton years or he’d have gracefully accepted the second chair, returned to the fabled days of youre, and bided his time under the tutelage of the master.

Clearly his plan is to return us to 1976. Is there a Happy Days movie in production yet? If not, I want to cast that guy from Spiderman as Richie, Kevin Spacey as Howard Cunningham, and Luke Wilson as the Fonz. See you in Hollywood suckers! Enjoy your tax hikes and gas lines!

Geesh what a dope. She propably had to have her MoM and Dad explain his explaination,but we got it loud and clear.

a racist proxy for McCAin and the KKKRepublicans.
How dare McCain set up this vile little kid to ask such a tough question of the (self)anointed one?

“Because this country isn’t what it once was” is liberal code for “Because George Bush trashed this country”. So kudos to Obama for dressing up his answer for the consumption of a 7-year-old. Besides, he can’t really tell her the truth – “Because I’m the Messiah.”

This is exactly why it’s dangerous to vote for Obama because he is just repeating what you read on all the lefty blogs. To them the 60′s and 70′s were a time of great social progress and liberation of millions…until that dottering old fool Reagan came along and halted it all. Since then we’ve been under the thumb of conservative domination,* and the time for our release has nigh arrived.

(*) Of course Bill Clinton is now lumped in with the conservatives, after it’s now okay for the left to throw him under the bus since their new savior boy has been found.

a racist proxy for McCAin and the KKKRepublicans.
How dare McCain set up this vile little kid to ask such a tough question of the (self)anointed one?

MCCAIN IS WORKING HARDER AND IS SHARPER: HE’S FITTER AND TOUGHER AND HAS A DEEP REAL COURAGE WHICH MATCHES HIS PRINCIPLES.

I guess I don’t see a problem with him saying that the U.S. isn’t perfect, regardless of whom the message is directed.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the United States is a great (and still the best) country, but let’s be honest with each other.

I have a hard time believing this site’s community approves of this nation’s growing amount of foreign ownership of corporate America.

I also don’t believe this site’s community approves our nation’s shrinking educational standards. When compared to the 60′s, the United States has fallen a long ways in terms of educational standards. We also no longer lead, or even exist in the top twenty nations, in terms of math and science.

Nor do I think this site’s community approves of the growing tide of illegal immigrants demanding rights, and the spineless politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who are deferring to them for the sake of maintaining voters for the next election cycle.

I doubt this site’s community approves of our growing national debt. While this debt won’t harm us substantially, the next couple generations will be burdened by it in more ways than one. So, while the national government continues to pay with credit (much like it’s tax paying citizens), the interest accrued continues to gobble up more of our economic production.

Finally, I have difficulty believing that this site’s community thinks the systemic devaluation of the United States middle class is a worthwhile endeavor. The backbone of this country is being outsourced, under-educated, and paid lower relative wages.

These are very serious issues that face us now, but will be much more important in the decades to come. These are not the surface issues of violence in video games, or even the ‘war on drugs’. I don’t mean to trivialize those problems, but they are minor in terms of the true issues facing this nation.

The United States isn’t perfect, and Obama told the seven year old so. I have a lot more respect for a politician who would do so, than another who would sugar-coat it.