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Empty Catch-phrases used Politicians

aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
edited August 2010 in A Moving Train
Post the ones you are most passionate about...Mine is

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“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
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  • Electric_DeltaElectric_Delta Posts: 977
    "That depends on what your definition of IS is."
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,165
    "Drill baby, drill!"

    I don’t know if it “empty” because Obama actually expanding offshore drilling rights. But in hindsight, it was / is a very foolish slogan.
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    Electric_Delta wrote:
    "That depends on what your definition of IS is."
    :lol:
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,165
    "You can take that to the bank!"

    - Senator Vernon Trent
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    "Real Americans"... really makes me sick.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • Electric_DeltaElectric_Delta Posts: 977
    "I will end these wars. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Electric_Delta wrote:
    "I will end these wars. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
    ...
    You must be an Obama Supporter.
    ...
    "American troop levels in Iraq will drop from about 80,000 to 50,000 by the end of August in accordance with an agreement between the US and Iraqi governments. The remaining troops will carry out support functions for the Iraqi military and US diplomats. The US has agreed to remove all troops from the country by the end of 2011."

    Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2 ... -like-Bush
    ...
    U.S. Troop levels in Iraq in 2008 was about 145,000.
    By the end of 2009... about 90,000.
    145,000 to 90,000 to 80,000 to 50,000... sounds kind of like a reduction in force, doncha think?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Electric_Delta wrote:
    "That depends on what your definition of IS is."


    How about "It is what it is" wtf kind of explaintion is that?
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    economic development...which means we give rich people a bunch of money so that they will create low-wage jobs.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    The funniest thing is when you hear politicians say, 'Politicians just don't get it'.
    Then say, 'The American people get it'.
    ...
    And... the American people eat it up... but, don't figure out that the "IT", they are talking about?
    Means, "Getting screwed in the ass".
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    It's all nonsense. It's all empty lies spoken to get elected(or re-elected), maintain power and the status quo.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • arqarq Posts: 8,049
    I don't know if this counts but this is pretty empty in my book

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aglp3jqKNZg
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    arq wrote:
    I don't know if this counts but this is pretty empty in my book

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aglp3jqKNZg


    I'm moving to Tennesee!!
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    "NAFTA was a horrible mistake"

    "and that is why any health care reform passed MUST have a public option!"

    "no more secrecy!!!!"

    "if anyone in my administration meets with a lobbyist or executive the meeting will be posted on the internet for everyone to see!" yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah, yet we can't know what his administration discusses with the coal industry over their regulations because of 'national security' :roll:

    -barack obama

    "i'm a uniter, not a divider"

    "the united states military should not be used for nation building"

    -dubya

    "it's been pretty well confirmed...."

    -dickhead cheney
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,309
    "the buck stops here"

    truman

    "i am not a crook"

    nixon


    "read my lips...no new taxes.."

    bush the first

    "and so my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

    jfk....i wish we had a chance to see if that would have been an empty slogan after 8 years instead of the 3 that we had...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    arq wrote:
    I don't know if this counts but this is pretty empty in my book

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aglp3jqKNZg
    *barf*
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    "Read my lips: no more taxes"
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    "I'm working very hard."

    telling me how hard you think you're working means you aren't doing a goddamn thing

    and what did you expect dickweed...you weren't elected grand marshall of the rose parade
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    The other thing I like... how the term, 'Patriotism' is bantied about by politicians and pundits.
    From 2001 to 2008, it was Patriotic to stand with the President during wartime... and unpatriotic to voice dissent.
    From 2009, Dissent is Patriotic.
    What has changed?
    Someone needs to expalin this to me and how it works... because I don't understand the difference.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,309
    Cosmo wrote:
    The other thing I like... how the term, 'Patriotism' is bantied about by politicians and pundits.
    From 2001 to 2008, it was Patriotic to stand with the President during wartime... and unpatriotic to voice dissent.
    From 2009, Dissent is Patriotic.
    What has changed?
    Someone needs to expalin this to me and how it works... because I don't understand the difference.
    nowadays the term "patriotism" could easily be changed to "hatriotism"....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Cosmo wrote:
    The other thing I like... how the term, 'Patriotism' is bantied about by politicians and pundits.
    From 2001 to 2008, it was Patriotic to stand with the President during wartime... and unpatriotic to voice dissent.
    From 2009, Dissent is Patriotic.
    What has changed?
    Someone needs to expalin this to me and how it works... because I don't understand the difference.


    only 'real americans' with 'family values' can tell ya
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:
    The other thing I like... how the term, 'Patriotism' is bantied about by politicians and pundits.
    From 2001 to 2008, it was Patriotic to stand with the President during wartime... and unpatriotic to voice dissent.
    From 2009, Dissent is Patriotic.
    What has changed?
    Someone needs to expalin this to me and how it works... because I don't understand the difference.
    nowadays the term "patriotism" could easily be changed to "hatriotism"....
    Didn't we used to call it jingoism? ;)
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    "NAFTA was a horrible mistake"

    "and that is why any health care reform passed MUST have a public option!"

    "no more secrecy!!!!"

    "if anyone in my administration meets with a lobbyist or executive the meeting will be posted on the internet for everyone to see!" yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah, yet we can't know what his administration discusses with the coal industry over their regulations because of 'national security' :roll:

    -barack obama

    "i'm a uniter, not a divider"

    "the united states military should not be used for nation building"

    -dubya

    "it's been pretty well confirmed...."

    -dickhead cheney
    :clap:
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    "the buck stops here"

    truman

    "i am not a crook"

    nixon


    "read my lips...no new taxes.."

    bush the first

    "and so my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

    jfk....i wish we had a chance to see if that would have been an empty slogan after 8 years instead of the 3 that we had...
    :clap:
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    wall street/main street

    "Joe ______" (like in joe the plumber, joe six pack, joe everyman... lame attempts at making us feel like they care about everyday people)

    family values

    smaller government (have we seen any elected official ever shrink the government?)

    socialism
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    we need comprehensive immigration reform( I think I started hearing this in about 2005/2006 I think it was).
    undocumented worker
    Yes we can - Obama
    My friends - McCain
    Change - Obama
    Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream - not really a catch phrase, but still funny, Bush
    drain the swamp - Pelosi
    bipartisanship - everyone
    your a great American - every caller on Hannity
    Climate Change
    the children
    momma grizzly
    going green
    jobs
    refudiate - i think this one will catch on
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

    www.seanbrady.net
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    yoke wrote:
    we need comprehensive immigration reform( I think I started hearing this in about 2005/2006 I think it was).

    now everything is "comprehensive ________"... comprehensive health care reform, comprehensive climate bill, comprehensive jobs legislation.... kinda ridiculous....
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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