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Who Said It? Chairman Mao Or President Obama

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” While some quotes are indelibly linked with certain politicians - in this case, Mao Zedong - in many other cases, what leaders say can sound the same, no matter what end of the political spectrum they sit on. WSJ Real Time China blog asks can you tell some of his other musings apart from those of U.S. President Barack Obama? Or current Chinese President Xi Jinping?

 

Green is the correct answer; the numbers are respondents guesses.

 

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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 11:54 | 5167691 JustObserving
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Does anyone care what the teleprompter says?

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:03 | 5167716 Skateboarder
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If it was Bill Clinton, the quote would have said "That's the good thing about being president. I can do whoever I want."

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:14 | 5167761 mjcOH1
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"Does anyone care what the teleprompter says?"

 

"What does it matter?"

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:25 | 5167801 remain calm
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"The sole purpose of government is to rape and pilage the citizenship"

Answer: All the motherfuckers listed as choices above

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:27 | 5167812 Bad Attitude
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Just assume everything Dear Leader says is a lie or otherwise disingenuous if you want to know the truth.

Forward (over the cliff)!

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:59 | 5167953 rehypothecator
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"Stroke of the pen, law of the land.  Kinda cool."  - Paul Begala, Clinton Presidential Aide, July, 1998. 

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:50 | 5168160 Dick Buttkiss
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Citizens don't get raped and pilaged, subjects do.  And but for a tiny few, the world consists entirely of the latter.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:15 | 5167762 SafelyGraze
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"what leaders say can sound the same, no matter what end of the political spectrum they sit on"

and yet ..

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government.

those quotes come from a funny little corner of the spectrum there

 

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:06 | 5167717 AssFire
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When more people no longer believe or listen to their "leaders" or the mainstream media we will be closer to a better nation or better yet; a group of republics.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:58 | 5167946 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Or maybe not.  When you hit the end of the chain, does your neck break first? or the shackle around your neck?  They aren't going to give up the slaves they have so easily.  TPTB would rather see you die, then escape to freedom.  They will make your life a living hell for even thinking about checking to see if the shackle around your neck will break.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:05 | 5167725 0b1knob
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< President Obama

<President Valerie Jarrett

 

Who said this?

"After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay."

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:34 | 5167844 0b1knob
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< President M. T. Chair

< Adolph Hitler

 

 

"Turns out I'm really good at killing people"

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 15:24 | 5168504 Bloppy
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Californian high school forced to eliminate "Arab" mascot:

http://tinyurl.com/mzas2ag

 

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 11:55 | 5167692 SilverIsKing
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TelePrompTer should have been included as a choice instead of Obama.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 11:59 | 5167703 Yes We Can. But...
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"I".

- Barack Obama

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 11:57 | 5167698 q99x2
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All time down arrow award for a ZH article.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:01 | 5167706 highly debtful
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I particularly liked the first quote. In what context did he ever say that?! He wasn't around any red button when he thought that one up, I hope?

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:02 | 5167710 drdolittle
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I like little girls. Sleeping with virgins keeps me young.

I like dick.

Guess who?

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:43 | 5168124 gmrpeabody
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drdolittle?

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:05 | 5167728 Ghordius
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does ever anybody ask why some polities put so much power in the hands of one single person? on the other side, some people's definition of democracy is voting all the power into one pair of hands, and cry "unelected!" at all other kinds of arrangements. a matter of... taste?

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:06 | 5167730 alexcojones
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Not what any of them say

It's what they do.

And they ALL do the bidding of the Satanist Shadows above them

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:11 | 5167741 williambanzai7
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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:12 | 5167751 williambanzai7
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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:39 | 5167880 FieldingMellish
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Looks more like a turkey to me.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:14 | 5167754 TideFighter
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Who said, "Love me some Love?"

A. Barry Soetoro

B. Barrack Hussein Obama

C. Teleprompter

D. Jean Ludwig (having the exact SSN of BHO) 

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:13 | 5167757 williambanzai7
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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:15 | 5167769 Skateboarder
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I dropped my phone in the toilet yesterday. It was most certainly a shitty situation.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:35 | 5167856 Son of Captain Nemo
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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

That was most definitely Mao... Secret chimp would never betray his hand on the "money maker" that gets all of them in Washington elected!...

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:46 | 5167900 logicalman
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Political power is exercised out of the barrels of thousands of hired guns.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:42 | 5167886 Grimaldus
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Well, there is no question about who said all of this: Lies During the Sixth Year

“We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.”
 Poltifact.com

(IRS) “Not a even smidgen of corruption”
 Foxnews.com

“Keystone pipeline would mean maybe 2,000 jobs”
 Poltifact.com

Lies During the Fifth Year

“We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.”
Politifact.com

“If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it”
Washingtonpost.com

“The NSA is not abusing its power”
Washingtonpost.com

“I said benghazi was a terrorist attack from the beginning.”
Lubbockonline.com

“the foreign intelligence Surveillance court is transparent.”
Politifact.com

“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” said Obama. “The world set a red line.”
Weeklystandard.com
nbcnews

 

Lies During Fourth Year

“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”
Politifact.com

“Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times.”
Politifact.com

“Mitt Romney called the Arizona law a model for the nation.”
Politifact.com

“Planned Parenthood provides mammograms”
Spero News

“We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system”
cbsnews.com

Benghazi violence was caused by an internet video & demonstrations
State Department

“Mitt Romney Plans to fire Big Bird”
Politifact.com

“Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.”
politifact.com

Because of Obamacare, “over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up — it’s true — but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.”
politifact.com

“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration”
abcnews.com

Romney and Ryan will gut pell grants for low-income college students.
Factcheck.org

My budget will cut the deficit by $4 Trillion over 10 years.
Factcheck.org

 “I am told that Governor Romney’s new running mate, Paul Ryan, might be around Iowa the next few days,” he said while in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “He is one of the leaders of Congress standing in the way. So if you happen to see Congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities.”
House passed bill on August 2, 2012 (Paul Ryan voted yes)

The American automobile industry has come roaring back…So now I want to say what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America. Let’s make sure advanced, high-tech manufacturing jobs take root here, not in China. And that means supporting investment here. Governor Romney … invested in companies that were called ‘pioneers’ of outsourcing. I don’t want to outsource. I want to insource.
Forbes- Outsourcer-In-Chief: Obama Of General Motors 

“You Didn’t Build that”
A few examples

Lies During Third Year 

I will walk on that picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain.
Youtube

In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama said that American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.
www.breitbart.com

I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any President ever
Obama aided Islamic Extremists take over of Egypt/ Libya
Weapons pour into Gaza

Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week
Examiner

“Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?

Obama met highly qualified out of work teacher Robert Baroz
He wasn’t out of work and Obama never met him.

GOP Responsible for Obama Jobs Bill Not Passing
Dems Rejected Jobs Bill

You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem
Gallup Poll: Only 69%

These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills.
Looks like it’s been incurred mostly in the years of Obama

Jobs Bill Paid for
Seems not so much Paid for

Then you’ve got their(GOP)which is dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance
Barack Obama, campaiging in Asheville, NC, 10/17/11
 

I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
American.com

USA producing more oil than ever before
Petroleum Insights

Fence between US and Mexico is “Practically Complete”
Department of Homeland Security says 5%

Rich doesn’t pay their fair share.
National Taxpayers Union

Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
Cnn Interview

Lies During Second Year

Obama claimed the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.
nationalreview.com

No signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law
Obama Lies to Keep Czars

No “boots” on the ground Libya
Anyone that has worked with the AC-130 gunship can tell you, you need spotters to let aircraft know where the targets are.  Usually it is Special Forces, Rangers etc trained for this mission. It’s CIA Agents in Libya on the ground

Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
Obama Lies About Financial Reform Bill

All Americans WILL BE were, “surprised, disappointed and angry” about lockerbie bomber
Obama Memo

I will not rest until the BP Oil Spill stops
Obama’s Schedule
 

The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.
Campaign and Presidency 

If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it
TownHall

“Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2009.

ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax
Obama denies healthcare is a new tax on all Americans

We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil.
Obama’s oval office speech in June 2010

Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.
Arizona Immigration Law

Doctors choose amputation because they get better compensation. Greedy Doctors taking out tonsils for more money.
Claims never documented
 

The Health Care Package will pay for itself
Time

Republicans don’t have a single idea that’s different from George Bush’s ideas — not one.
Hmm Immigration? 

We shouldn’t Mandate the purchase of health care
Democratic Debate Lies

Obama says he’ll save average family $8,000 in gas
Video Proof

I am immediately instituting PayGo “Pay as you go”
Said during a speech immediately after the Trillion Dollar “Shovel Ready” bill.

I got the Message from Massachusetts
Daily Bail

Lies During First Year

We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” – caught cooking the books and now changed to ‘jobs supported’ versus ‘created/saved’
AP fact Checker

Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me.” – Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited.Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.
AP fact Checker

Collective salvation
Obama calls himself a Christian

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Obama Inauguration. 20 Jan 2009

Cut Deficit in Half by end of first term
Associated Press Video

Health Care deals will be covered on C-span
Obama Lies

As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide
ABC

Recovery Act will save or create jobs
ABC News

Unemployment rate will be 8.5% without stimulus.
Obama Lies

No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus
CNN

I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan
Specator.Org

We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages.
Obama Lies

I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.
NPR

Guantanamo bay to be closed within a year
Council on Foreign Relations.

Won’t Raise taxes on those making less than 250,000 per year.
Businessweek: Obama Agnostic on taxes

List of Tax Promise Violations

2008 Campaign Lies

Bypassing congress unconstitutional; I intend to reverse when I am president
Vimeo

I will walk the picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain
Youtube

No more wiretapping of citizens
Youtube

Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
News Busters

I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Obama campaign would accept public funding
ABC

Minimum Wage will increase to $9.50/hr
A Socialist

Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995 fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Mounting Heath Care Lies

Didn’t know Jeremiah Wright was Radical
Dreams of My Father – A radical Socialist.

Would have the most transparent administration in History
Cato Institute

We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.
Boston Globe

I have visited all 57 states.
Snopes

I’ll get rid of earmarks
Source: Any bill passed during presidency

When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it.
Campaign Speech

My father served in World War II.
The Videos and the Facts

Have troops out of Iraq by March 31, 2009
News Video

Seniors Making less than 50,000 will not have to pay taxes
YouTube

Would not vote for any bill supporting troop funding without a firm withdrawal commitment from the Bush Administration.
He has done nothing but continue the Bush admins strategy and to explain how the “surges total failure” has now become his greatest achievement.

Present Votes Are Common In Illinois
NPR

I Won Michigan
Huffington Post

I won Nevada
The Nation

I don’t Have Lobbyists
US News

My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad
Crooks and Liars

I Have Always Been Against Iraq
Washington Post

My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country
CNN

Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Obama Campaign Video

I Barely Know Rezko
Sun Times

My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church
ABC News

 

http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies

We are waaaay past impeachment, it is time for arrest of this criminal.

Grimaldus

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 19:06 | 5169212 drendebe10
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Incompetent corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological lying fudge packer.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:57 | 5167945 himaroid
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HellifIknow, but I say that a pile of dove grow out of the barrel of this Ithaca 20 gauge.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:13 | 5167993 william114085
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"me so hooney, me love you long time"

 

A. the Asian bimbo hooker from Full Metal Jacket

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:26 | 5168044 Salzburg1756
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"I'll go through him like a knife through hot butter."

Mike Tyson about an upcoming opponent.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 14:07 | 5168211 Ex Cathedra
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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 14:07 | 5168212 Ex Cathedra
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"I can see Russia from my porch."

"You can trust Wall Street."

"The markets are fair and present a level playing field for all participants."

"Cutting taxes on the rich helps the middle class."

"Getting back on the gold standard would help the economy."

"Obama was born in Kenya."

Vote for the most assinine of these statements.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 16:21 | 5168682 insanelysane
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I guess you're for trickle down economics as long as the money comes from the FED directly to the rich.  Warren Buffet is still paying less in taxes than his secretary and is profiting by BK going to Canada.  So what's your point???  Rallying around either political party is a fool's errand.  Good job fool, the Democrat Corporation appreciates your support.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 19:29 | 5169259 d edwards
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FYI-Sarah Palin never said the first quote-Tina Fey did in a skit mocking Palin.

 

 

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 21:35 | 5169614 MrSteve
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Similarly, Will Ferrel mocking Bush used the term "misunderestimated" and it has ever since been attributed to GWB.

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 20:33 | 5169439 Grimaldus
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"we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" = most criminal. Asinine is not a crime.

Grimaldus

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 15:04 | 5168439 surf0766
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Fuck the marxist

Mon, 09/01/2014 - 19:30 | 5169268 d edwards
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They left out:

 

Never let a crisis go to waste. Hmmmm...seems that we are up to our eyeballs in crisis of various sorts.

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