American Taliban? (Barf)

University of California ^ | contemporary | Various faculty and students

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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)(President of the United States) "For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."

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It's funny that New Orleans will get a hurricane. That's funny because it is due to hit when President Bush is scheduled to speak. Isn't that cool?"

-- Don Fowler, former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and husband to Carol Fowler (above), overheard (and recorded) speaking to South Carolina Congressman John Spratt (D - South Carolina) on a plane after the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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"You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."

-- Pete Stark (D-CA)

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“Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than al Qaeda -- worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.” -- MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, in (of course) Playboy, October 2007 (sour grapes???)

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"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

"God bless the America we are trying to create."

--Senator Hillary Clinton

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“Clothing is wonderful but let them run around naked.”

From the ultra rich Theresa Heinz Kerry commenting to volunteers preparing relief-aid packages for hurricane victims in the Carribeans.

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"You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives."

--Democratic National Committee Chairman, Gov. Howard Dean (D - New Hampshire)

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Thanks for the correction. I thought I had a vague memory of O’Rourke saying something like that, but I guess I must have seen it in NR.

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“I hope you go out of business.” -Senator Harry Reid

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"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” -- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas

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"Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.” -- Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s “The View,” Sept. 12, 2006.

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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" -Senator Al Gore

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"The Arabs do not invade other countries. The Israelis do. I am sick of Israel and I am sick of Zionists. They are propped up by evangelical Christians who cannot wait for the Arabs to kill them so that their genocidal war god whom they misname Jesus can come back." -Roseann Barr

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Those are some funny pics and quotes!

Thanks.

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“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…. I’m not joking.” –Joe Biden, in an address to Indian-Americans

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"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that."

- Al Franken

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"The Ghoul of Calcutta". -Title of Christopher Hitchens' article on Mother Teresa in The Nation

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Democrat anti-war rally.

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A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,"

-Janet Napolitano Secretary of Department of Homeland Security -

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"Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English."
-Michael Moore

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."
-Michael Moore

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."
-Michael Moore

"White people scare the crap out of me."
-Michael Moore

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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
Malcolm X