Posted by
emjayne on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:47:16 PM
"Obama has benefited from a week of good images. But substantively, optimism without reality isn't eloquence. It's just Disney."
New York Times columnist David Brooks
"I go on the floor of the House every day and deal with people who don't want to give health care to poor little children in America."
Nancy Pelosi
"What is amazing this year is how many people haved bought the fundamentally childish notion that, if you don't like the way things are going, the answer is to write a blank check for generic 'change', empowering someone chosen not on the basis of any track record but on the basis of his skill with words."
Thomas Sowell
Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted 'present' nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself."
Charles Krauthamer
"Barack Obama wrote a prayer to God which he placed in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall last week. The prayer note was retrieved by a seminary student and published in an Israeli newspaper. Everybody in Israel wanted to know if it was addressed, 'Dear Dad'"
Argus Hamilton