Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
More Quotes from Fred Barnes:
I expect to see him at the podium in just a few days, in the press room at the White House.Fred Barnes
He's a major media figure, he's someone people know all over the country.
Fred Barnes
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
Fred Barnes
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
Fred Barnes
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
Fred Barnes
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Politics Quotes, Reality Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: advocating, conflicting, make-believe, reconciling
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
Shia LaBeouf
When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
Scotty McCreery