Monday, April 12, 2010

Quotable Quotes and Random Gaffes from 2009


--Rep. Charlie Rangel chides a reporter who asks about his alleged ethics violations: "I know it's your job, and I don't blame you, but it's really rude"...
--California's First Lady, Maria Shriver, is busted twice in one week for talking on her cell phone while driving-a practice her husband, the governor, made illegal.
--In New Orleans, on Hurricane Katrina's lingering effects. "I wish I could just write a check...There's this whole thing about the Constitution." -Barack Obama
--"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing races that way." -Justice of the Peace, Keith Bardwell, on denying an interracial couple a marriage license in Louisiana.
--"The Internet has been around for a while now." -RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, in a blog post introducing the newly redesigned GOP.com

...And now my personal favorite of '09
"I stand here today...knowing that my piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me." --Michelle Obama, in her Democratic Convention Speech

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