Words are cheap.

                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                               
                                                Words move people to do great things.
                                                            People are not cheap.

•  tip jar n/t

  Please support Barack Obama.

  by DaveV on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:17:45 AM PDT

•  Wow!

  Put an Obama on the bottom and turn it into a campaign poster.  I'd like to buy several! Danny

  by doberg on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:20:38 AM PDT

•  Yes we can!

  Lies are cheap.  The truth, when spoken, is powerful.

  by Fools on the Hill on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:24:04 AM PDT

•  Good one!

  I hope these get picked up and thrown right back at Sen. Clinton's negative campaign.

  by GW Chimpzilla on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:25:24 AM PDT

  •  Words

    Words are the toolbox of politics and the substance of law.

    by GW Chimpzilla on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:26:19 AM PDT

•  Hillary's campaign has had some

  really odd moments but suggesting that speeches and words dont matter is really one of the weirdest things yet.  the irony of her saying talk is cheap is too much for me to handle.

  by ratador on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:40:27 AM PDT

•  Before the comment

  I supported Barack because I believed in him and what he can do for the country, not because I was against Clinton. Now, since that comment, I actually do not want her to be elected.

  by happy in MA on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:46:03 AM PDT

  •  I thought Karl Rove had retired.

    Too bad his playbook wasn't retired with him.

    by pamelabrown on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:48:07 AM PDT

•  These words are cheap.

  I prefer Hillary's edible words. Yummy.

  by Oothoon on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:53:07 AM PDT

•  cheap is a word.

  But is that word cheap?

  by bubbanomics on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:57:08 AM PDT

•  Bush's "Bring it ON" has been very EXPENSIVE.

   Our troops are paying with their lives for words.

  ".......with Liberty and Justice for ALL"

  must stop being JUST WORDS.

  by Neon Mama on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 09:59:30 AM PDT

•  Straw man

  You can have both words and action, but you can also have empty words and no action.  

  I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with Clinton's statement.  

  I'm pointing out you are using empty rhetoric and accomplishments that do not belong to Obama to "prove" she is wrong about Obama.

  An equally false rhetorical device would be to list empty and broken promises from other people as "proof" that Obama is all talk.

  The logical and convincing argument should be to list Obama's accomplishments.  

  I am sure you are capable of singing his praises.  I am inviting you to do so now.

  by math monkey on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 10:06:53 AM PDT

•  sources

  Cool quotes, I didn't reckognize a couple of them and for a few more I didn't know the source, so I looked 'em up (I missed 5 of the 16):

  "Give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
  We mutually pledge to each other our Lives  - Declaration of Independence
  We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire - Churchhill
  If you want to make peace ... - Moshe Dayan
  Blessed are the peacemakers Jesus, Matthew 5:9
  An eye for an eye... Ghandi
  I have a dream - Martin Luther King, Jr
  We hold these truths ... Declaration of Independence
  There is no such thing as part freedom - Nelson Mandela
  Justice delayed, is justice denied. William Gladstone

  The only thing we have to fear is fear itself Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address
  We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty Edward Murrow
  "At at long last, have you left no sense of decency? Joseph Welch to Joseph McCarthy
  What the people want is very simple ... Barbara Jordan
  Ask not what your country can do for you John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
  We the People US Constitution

  by entropiccanuck on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 10:09:49 PM PDT

  •  or

    "We hold these truths to be self evident" was quoted by Lincoln.

    by entropiccanuck on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 10:12:58 PM PDT

    •  all men _and women_ are created equal...

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

      Really cool what you did above!  Sorry, just checking the diary now.  

      Cheers!

      Dave

      Please support Barack Obama.

      by DaveV on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:07:51 AM PDT

      •  Justice delayed is _democracy denied_

        was RFK's spin on Gladstone's words!

        Cheers!

        Dave

        Please support Barack Obama.

        by DaveV on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:08:42 AM PDT