Barack Obama In Quotes: Version 2.0

"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."

and Oliver Twist, "Please, sir, I want some more."

I think that commercials featuring an Oliver Twist character telling a cruel master that he would like some more heat/cooling/food for himself and his family would be devastating for the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, pro-America Democratic Party).

I knew that I was not likely the first to match the connection between Oliver Twist and Obama's "the world looks askance at our consumption" but I was surprised to see that a blogger noticed it before Obama just flat stated his contempt for Americans.

Obviously in Obama's world we Americans are the world's odious orphans who must be curbed for the good of mankind.

That quote is incorrect and some people who have been told so keep repeating it;

Actual quote from “The Audacity of Hope” [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/02/i-will-stand-wi.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_obama_say_in_his_book_Audacity_of_hope_I_will_stand_with_the_muslims

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