Ahem. The *original *George Tirebiter.
I understand that the phrase “There you go again” has been used with reasonable success in past contests.
Frankly, I’m a little ambivalent, considering its provenance.
Reagan used the phrase to denigrate something *honest and serious *being said by a more-engaged opponent, to try to restore viewer focus back to his charming grin. It was not to point to the inanity of Mondale and what he said.
If President Obama used it, he could end up owning it.
After reading this thread, I’d like to invite Rick Santorum to a dinner party. My seating plan would go: bear, Santorum, cub.
Reagan was sane next to Santorum.
Are you talking about the hairy, rotund, man-eating bear that is very protective of its cub? Or the one that lives in the forest and eats honey and berries?
I think both would make the dinner party way more interesting.
ETA: Any way to get it televised on FOX? When politicians [del]get[/del] attack[del]ed[/del]
Carter, not Mondale. (He used the line in the debate with Mondale too, but the original was in the debate against Carter.) And I don’t think it was to “restore viewer focus back to his charming grin.” It was part of an exchange where, first, Carter accused Reagan of wanting to make Social Security voluntary as part of a plan to destroy it, Reagan denying that he wanted to make Social Security voluntary and saying that Carter was taking his remarks out of context, Carter bringing up Reagan’s early opposition to Medicare, and then Reagan saying “There you go again”, in implying that was yet another thing that Carter was taking out of context. Here’s the text of the debate and exchange:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/80debates/cart4.html
Shame on you for attacking his post with . . . with . . . facts!
I haven’t been able to find links for numbers 1 (the state funding part) and 2. Do you have them?
Santorum: Separation Of Church And State ‘Makes Me Want To Throw Up’
He’s quite a delicate flower.
Santorum makes me want to throw up. The politician, that is.
After reading JFK’s So(tC)CaS speech, I’m finding it hard not to think that Santorum would be quite comfortable saying,
instead of Kennedy’s,
Somewhere, Charles O’Conor, Al Smith, and JFK are weeping.
CMC fnord!
Apparently Obama is a “snob” for trying to get more people to go to college.
Personally I hope that Santorum does get the nomination. So that way, when he inevitably gets his ass handed to him by Obama, the Republicans can’t drag out the same bullshit argument that they did in 2008 after McCain lost about how if they only had a sufficiently conservative candidate, they would have won.
Of course, they could always wind up going full batshit next time around, but the upside of that is it would put them on even speedier route to irrelevancy.
To be exact
‘‘President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob," "There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor to try to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.’’
Jeez, the man is positively medieval…This is a throwback to the time in history where your “place” in the world was determined by God and “ambition” was considered a negative and sinful thing.
He’s okay with wrath and greed though. Seems to have some problems with envy. People having sex for fun would be in big trouble.
Almost sounds like the practical application of a belief that eating apples from the tree of knowledge was where we went wrong as a species.