The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2008  (Hat Tip Right Wing News)

40) “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.” — Obama foreign policy adviser Richard Danzig

39) “I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg.” — “Journalist” Chris Matthews

38) “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” — Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings on Sarah Palin

37) “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair and someone pointed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.” — A remark Mike Huckabee made while he was speaking at the NRA

36) “Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.” — Mark Morford

35) “The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?” — NBC correspondent Amy Robach

34) “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” — Barack Obama

33) “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.” — George Bush

32) “Could I get an apology from the commissioner, in this day and time, you don’t sit around a table where you have diversity and refer to a black hole. …You shouldn’t.” — Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price explains that black hole is a racist term.

31) “What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority.” — Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey

30) “Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.” — Matthew Yglesias

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There are 30 more and I’ve not added any myself.  Truthfully after a year of listening to Left-wing moon-bats and other assorted screwballs all the strident squawks run together in my mind until it all reminds me of ducks fighting over a crust of bread.  Enjoy.