I Didn't Say It ....

Michelle Obama, at the DNC:

"Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have the same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we’re from, or what we look like, or who we love....For Barack, success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the differences you make in people’s lives.”

Kinda makes me wish for a Clinton/Obama all-female ticket in 2016.

I just love her.

Frank Bruni, on the GOP and their silence regarding the LGBT community:

"Silence does nothing for gay and lesbian teenagers racked with self-doubt and anxiety about what the world has in store. Or for committed same-sex couples who lack the legal protections that their straight counterparts have. Silence is a stalling tactic, and silence is a cop-out....On the convention stage in Tampa, where estrogen was platinum and melanin was gold, Republicans spoke eloquently about a country that valued every person’s worth and was poised to reward each person’s dreams. Those words would have carried much more weight if coupled with even a glancing recognition of gay and lesbian Americans. Instead speakers tacitly let the party’s platform do the talking. It calls for the kind of constitutional amendment that Romney now supports."

Silence is death.

Silence isn’t freedom.

Silence doesn’t work.

Hank Williams, Jr., moron and country singer, at a concert last week:

"We’ve got a Muslim for a President who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!"

No, Hank, that’s just you and your illiterate teabaggin’ fans.

You know, people who buy the lies those has-been singers shout from the stage in a probably drunken stupor.

MGB®, whining because no one wants to listen to her any more, not even Fox "News":

"I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot."

Show of hands: who thinks MGB® is whining because she couldn’t go on Fox and rave about McCain and who thinks she’s whining because she couldn’t get her fugly mug on TV?

I mean, four years ago she was the GOP darling and now she’s, well, nothing.

Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston, responding to a couple of Boston Herald reporters who offered him a Chick-fil-A-hole sandwich at the DNC:

"No Chick-fil-A for me. You want to make fun of the issue of division? I'm not there."

Word.

If you don’t wish to fund homophobia, don’t eat at places that fund it. Don’t shop at places that fund it.

Save the kiss-ins and the graffiti for another time, and a less important cause.

Speak your mind.

Michele Bachmann, on how people shouldn't trust Obama because he's wealthy:

"President Obama is extremely wealthy. He and his wife have been wealthy for a number of years, and so I think that's really the issue. President Obama is wealthy, what do, or--what does he understand about the common man right now? And I think what people care about is not hating someone for what their assets are--the American people don't hate President Obama because he's a very wealthy individual. What they care about is how their lives are, would their lives be better? And I think it's very clear under the Romney-Ryan ticket the average Americans' lives will be much better, they'll have a lot more money to spend in the way that they want, and they'll also have a much more secure future for their children. That's what the American people want, and that's what we'll offer with this new Romney-Ryan ticket."

Lordy, when do her delusions stop.

Obama is very wealthy, but, um, Michele, what about Romney then? I mean, he could buy and sell the Obama’s just by liquidating a Cayman Islands bank account, and yet you have no problem with him.

A man who said $375,000 a year wasn’t a lot of money, you don’t have a problem with? Really, Romney-Ryan is a better fit for the Middle Class?

Why don’t you shut up, stay home, and you and Marcusss can do each other’s hair and nails.

Gina Rinehart, Australian mining millionaire, on Australia doing away with the minimum wage:

"There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others."

Wow, I guess if you aren’t a millionaire it’s because you drink and smoke and socialize.

This from a woman who didn’t work to make her fortune, her father gave it to her.

Jim Wallace, of the Australian Christian Lobby, on being gay versus smoking:

"I think we're going to owe smokers a big apology when the homosexual community's own statistics for its health - which it presents when it wants more money for health - are that is has higher rates of drug-taking, of suicide, it has the life of a male reduced by up to 20 years. The life of smokers is reduced by something like seven to 10 years and yet we tell all our kids at school they shouldn't smoke. But what I'm saying is we need to be aware that the homosexual lifestyle carries these problems and ... normalising the lifestyle by the attribution of marriage, for instance, has to be considered in what it does encouraging people into it."

Um, Jim, you demented fool. Smoking is a choice; sexual orientation is not.

And it’s not a lifestyle, it’s a life.

If you keep repeating these outdated adages from eras gone by I may begin to question your health.

Your mental health.

Bill Clinton, at the DNC:
“The most important question is, what kind of country do you want to live in?  If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility — a we're-all-in-this-together society — you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden....I proudly nominate him to be the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party."

Tis true, Bill, we have a choice of choosing an America of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%.
I vote Obama.