Photo from the LA Times
(Guest post by Greg Forster)
A while back, a certain secretary of education compared the teachers’ unions to terrorists and got in super-major hot water. Remember?
I just wanted to put that on the table so everybody bears in mind the standard for civil discourse that was established during that episode. Of course that standard would apply equally to both parties, right?
The LA Times is reporting that at a California town hall meeting, President Obama compared AIG to a suicide bomber:
Well, OK, that all made sense, but then he compared AIG to a suicide bomber, and at that, we really perked up.
“Same thing with AIG,” Obama said. “It was the right thing to do to step in. Like they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger, you don’t want them to blow up, but you’ve got to ease them off the trigger.”
And the president held out his arm and pantomimed a hand on a trigger, and we were rapt, waiting for what would happen next.
But then he called for a final question from the crowd.
HT Campaign Spot.
When he’s off the teleprompter, he’s really off the teleprompter.
Steyn is telling Hugh Hewitt that now he’s recycling all the jokes Frank Sinatra used to do about Bob Hope’s reliance on cue cards as Obama teleprompter jokes, and they’re going over really well.
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