Thursday, April 24, 2008

Top 44 moments from the path to becoming #44

As promised, the following is my highly biased, incomplete, and unfair list of classic moments from the 2008 presidential primaries.

With a few exceptions, I’ve generally given just a quote with a link, but no attribution or names. If you like, you can use this as a test of your campaign knowledge by trying to identify the speaker before clicking the link!

Huge thanks to the Veracifier YouTube channel set up by Talking Points Memo, where I got a lot of these clips from.

Part of me envies those who were blogging when all this stuff was going on, but another part is glad I can just whip this together in one shot, to blatantly mix metaphors.

So, in no particular order, here they are:

1. “We even know how to talk about eating fried squirrel and stuff like that, so we’re on the same wavelength.”
[video]

2. "I'm not doing hand shows today."
[video]

3. "I'm looking forward to you advising me as well. I want to gather up talent from everywhere."
[blog + video]

4. "I was tied up at the time."
[video]

5. the Romney face scrunch
[video at 4:10]

6. "Here's the thing. After a couple minutes, I was feeling kind of fired up. And I was feeling like I was ready to go."
[video]

7. "I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's terrible!"
[video, 1:20 - 2:20] + [blog]

8. "I ... opposed Iraq from the beginning ..."
[video]

9. "I just don't want to see us fall backwards!"
[video]

10. Huckabee shows the negative ad he's not going to show
[blog]

11. Russert channels an Iraqi nationalist
[video, 3:30 - 4:45]

12. "I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother."
[video at 13:45]

13. "I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged."
[video]

14. "a noun, a verb, and 9/11"
[video, first few seconds]

15. "I am honored ... I am honored ... I am absolutely honored ..."
--> "Shame on you!"
[debate] --> [speech 2 days later]

16. “Maybe 100!”
[video]

17. “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America ... in a way that Bill Clinton did not.”
[video]

18. “He has said in the last week that he really liked the ideas of the Republicans over the last 10 to 15 years.”
[video]

19. Romney debates separation of church and state with radio host during commercial break, and eventually tells him off
[video]

20. “Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself ....”
[story]

21. "I want to make change, but I've already MADE change!!!"
(debate in between Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary)
[video at 0:35]

22. “Well, that hurts my feelings.”
[video]

23. “Who let the dogs out?!”
[video]

24. bug in hair
[video]

25. "We're going to win Florida."
[video]

26. Hillary Clinton on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants
[video]

27. "She is a monster too. That is off the record."
[article]

28. "It's not surprising that they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."
[audio clip at 0:25]

29. "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice ..."
[video]

30. "I just said some things that ... didn't jibe with what I knew to be the case."
[blog]

31. "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"
[blog]

32. "We would be able to totally obliterate them."
[video]

33. McCain says he's "pleased" to have endorsement of pastor who said Katrina was retribution for gay pride parade
[video, 3:05 - 4:45]

34. Hillary Clinton endorses McCain and herself for Commander-in-Chief
[video]

35. "It would be OK to repeal [Roe v. Wade]."
[article]

36. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad."
[article]

37. "Well, I'll talk to him later!"
[video]

38. "When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
[video]

39. "... [he] was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book ..."
[video, 1:20-2:00]

40. "He said, 'Katrina! Katrina!' So I then gave my answer on Katrina."
[video, 9:20 - 10:45]

41. "It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals."
[article]

42. Hillary Clinton refuses to state a policy on Social Security
[video, 8:15 - 9:10]

43. Edwards says Obama and Clinton have both assured him they'll carry on his fight against poverty
[video at 5:00]

44. “Sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this, a night that years from now ... you'll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.”
[video at 8:50]

6 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

Cool.

Hey, remember Fred Thompson? Haven't thought about him in ages.

John Althouse Cohen said...

And we won't have him to kick around anymore.

Ann Althouse said...

I just watched the "bug in hair" video. LOL.

John Althouse Cohen said...

Yeah, that one always makes me LOL as well. He's making this incredibly earnest statement about the death of his father, and we're just staring at his hair.

Ann Althouse said...

Maybe the bug is his father!

John Althouse Cohen said...

!!

It wouldn't be the only time in the Democratic primary debates that we were presented with evidence of unexpected visitors.