Deep Thoughts -by Barack Obama

"We've got to be non-ideological about our approach to [economic policy]. We've gotta make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning. So we can't be demonizing, uh, every bank out there. We've got to be the party of business, small business and large business, because they produce jobs." Well, his approach is ideological, and his system isn't working, and will never work. Didn't work in the Soviet Union, China, and doesn't work in Cuba or Venezuela.

"This is a democracy. Look, I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, you know, academically approved approach to health care [that] didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it. And just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people. Many of whom have their constituents' best interests at heart." Translation: Damn those stupid voters anyway! They should be bowing down to me like I bow down to dictators and mayors.

"It may be that ... if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not. And that's how democracy works. There will be elections coming up, and they'll be able to make a determination and register their concerns." I can't wait to register my concerns!

"Just in case there's any confusion out there, I'm not going to walk away from health care." I'm not confused, and 60% of the citizens aren't confused and have made it clear they don't want their health insurance and healthcare run by Democrats and their mindless mediocre bureaucrats.

"I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is we're not handling any of these [terrorist] cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11." Let's see, Bush wanted to close Gitmo, give constitutional rights to foreign terrorists that US citizens have, and not interrogate battlefield combatants before they're read their Miranda rights? Who knew?