“At some point you just have to let your parents go and make their own mistakes and just hope that you raised them right.”
Source protected to preserve the parent-child relationship.
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Pretty good line of the day
“John McCain blames his love of ABBA on being shot down in Vietnam: ‘A lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane…’ War IS Hell”
For the record, the number one hit in the U.S. on the day McCain was shot down (October 26, 1967) was “To Sir, with Love” by Lulu. “The Letter” by the Box Tops had preceded it as number one earlier in the month.
ABBA did not have a top ten hit in the U.S. until 1974.
Coffee is good for you line of the day
“[R]esearchers found that a typical serving of coffee contains more antioxidants than typical servings of grape juice, blueberries, raspberries and oranges.”
From an article in The New York Times and first posted here two years ago.
Best line of the day, so far
“Draft opinion from Federal Elections Committee says McCain did not break law. Obama lets out sigh of relief knowing he won’t have to deal with pardoning his old ass”
Best line of the day, so far
“We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt on signing the Social Security Act 73 years ago today.
Best line about elections, then and now
A supporter once called out, “Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!” And Adlai Stevenson answered, “That’s not enough. I need a majority.”
Best line of the day, so far
“McCain camp denies plagiarizing Wikipedia in Georgia remarks, claims he’s still a foreign policy expert [citation needed]”
Most ‘I don’t think so’ line of the day
McCain said he told [Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili] “that I know I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians.”
Another Olympic line of the day
“There was much talk about whether some of the pixies on the Chinese women’s gymnast team are really 16 years old (they have to be at least 16 at some point during 2008 in order to compete). There are rumors that some are only 14, or even as young as 12. But that’s nonsense. One of those girls was clearly 9.”
Best Olympics line of the day
“If I have it figured correctly, when it’s noon here, it’s 1 a.m. tomorrow at the Olympics and sometime last night on NBC.”
David Thomas of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted at Sideline Chatter.
Best line of the day, so far
“The hazards Americans treat as facts of life — the risk of losing your insurance, the risk that you won’t be able to afford necessary care, the chance that you’ll be financially ruined by medical costs — would be considered unthinkable in any other advanced nation.”
Best line of the day
“When John McCain and his surrogates call Obama a ‘celebrity,’ they’re not insulting Obama; they’re insulting Obama’s supporters.”
Adapted from something NewMexiKen saw at Crooks and Liars
Best not about the Olympics line of the day
“Washington Post has article saying Obama’s tax plan would balloon deficit. Fail to mention McCain’s plan would balloon it more. Damned liberal media”
First best line of the day
“When a Republican candidate makes a verbal gaffe, it’s a ‘misstatement’ and nothing to get upset about. When a Democratic candidate makes a verbal gaffe, it’s a ‘serious blunder that has jeopardized the campaign by alienating independents.'”
And this:
“John Edwards gets hammered for owning one expensive house and getting a $400 haircut. John McCain gets a free pass for owning eight-to-ten expensive houses and wearing $520 loafers.”
Best line of the day, so far
“His only virtue is his bipartisanship; he routinely misstates elementary facts about members of both major parties.”
The Daily Howler describing Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.
Most interesting factoid of the day, so far
“[T]he United States ranks 68th in the world in the proportion of women in national legislatures.”
Jaana Goodrich, quoted by digby.
I’ll see you at the debates, bitches
Best image of the day, so far
Most unfair to the Oakland Raiders line of the day
“But I guess it’s useful for Democrats to get a reminder that the Republican Party plays presidential politics by the same moral code that guided the bad-boy Oakland Raiders in their heyday: ‘Just win, baby.'”
Robinson continues: “The latest bit of snarling, mean-spirited nonsense to come out of the McCain camp was the accusation, leveled by campaign manager Rick Davis, that Obama had ‘played the race card.’ He did so, apparently, by being black.”
Best line summing up McCain’s week
“Courage is grace under pressure. McCain showed it when he was a prisoner of war, and on many issues–yes, even on his stubborn insistence that the surge would work–but he is not showing it now. He is showing flop sweat. It is not a quality usually associated with successful leadership.”
Joe Klein, Time, reported by TPM Election Central.
Best line of the evening
“While there’s a chance that we’ll act against global warming only to find that the danger was overstated, there’s also a chance that we’ll fail to act only to find that the results of inaction were catastrophic. Which risk would you rather run?”
Best line of the day, so far
“No milk in the house means I can’t have my usual breakfast of cereal with milk. So I’m eating marshmallows for breakfast instead. It’s just like Lucky Charms, only without the annoying cereal bits ….”
The dumbest elite
“But as we’ve told you many times: These people [the press corps] have only the dimmest sense of what a ‘fact’ (or a ‘quotation’) is. In their remarkably unimpressive minds—this may be our dumbest elite—there’s a very fuzzy line between a quotation and a paraphrase.”
That would be — for the most part — NewMexiKen’s personal experience too. While reporters don’t always get it wrong, in my experience they almost never get it right. There’s something about seeing your byline in print or your image on the screen I guess that — for many — creates a sense of knowing more than they ever do.
Best line of the day, so far
“I don’t pay attention to John McCain’s ads, although I do notice that he doesn’t seem to have anything very positive to say about himself, does he?”
Barack Obama
Best line of the day
“Who doesn’t love the Veepstakes? Not only is the whole game fun to play—Clue and CandyLand rolled into one!”