favorite quote from this election season

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favorite quote from this election season
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Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:20pm

saw this clip yesterday and it made me laugh--I think it illustrates the utter silliness of the socialist accusations against Obama.


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/obama_i_shared_my_peanut_butte.php


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Registered: 03-23-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:30pm
I also loved this line! It was so good.

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:40pm

I made that same remark about kindergarten to my husband a while ago and I just had to smile when I heard Obama say it on The Daily Show last night. :-)



ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN


(a guide for Global Leadership)


All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:

  • Share everything.
  • Play fair.
  • Don't hit people.
  • Put things back where you found them.
  • Clean up your own mess.
  • Don't take things that aren't yours.
  • Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
  • Wash your hands before you eat.
  • Flush.
  • Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
  • Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
  • Take a nap every afternoon.
  • When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
  • Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
  • Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
  • And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.


Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.


And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.



Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
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Registered: 03-23-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:56pm
Unfortunately, you know that many Republicans would just read "Don't take things that don't belong to you" and use that as a decree against socialism, despite the other tenets. Oh well, you can't please everyone all the time.

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Registered: 04-17-2003
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 11:00pm

My favorite quote, isn't a funny one at all but I think it really turned this election around: "The Fundamentals of our economy are strong"

What I always wanted to ask him: Did you say that because you meant it, or did you say it because it was on a talking point card?

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Registered: 03-23-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 11:11pm
I think he said it because he was honestly that out of touch. That quote definitely was a turning point. : )

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Registered: 03-03-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 11:25pm

I can't get the whole idea of lipstick on a pig out of my head.

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Registered: 09-14-1997
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 6:01am

Not quotes, but for the past few weeks my students and I have scoured the internet for ridiculous accusations. These are the two favorites:


John McCain may have been involved in a motor vehicle accident in which there may have been a fatality (in 1964);


Barack Obama has gained followers by hypnotizing them.

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Registered: 11-11-2005
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 10:44am

According to McCain's speechwriters, that line was an improv made by John.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 10:57am

Personally, my favorite is Obama's:


"It's wonderful to be back in Oregon.

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 11:36am
It seems like Obama does not understand socialism. This would be an example of socialism if the teacher FORCED him to share his peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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