#their

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #general #happen #know

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#awful #carter #close #colorful #cool

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#adherents #any #candidates #claimed #class

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#get #i #kill #lives #morally

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#based #ethics #good #held #judged

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#come #cool #great #i #i think

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#childhood #done #had #hanging #i

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#did #distorted #fraudulent #ideology #marxists

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crawl #each #knees #make #other