Pawlenty at Value Voters Summit: I’m calling Obama out
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s speech to the Values Voter Summit was tipped as a pivotal moment in his appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. Pawlenty hardly missed a target, and got his biggest applause when he mocked the president for saying he’d “call out” people who misled about his health care plan.
“I accept the challenge,” said Pawlenty. “I’ll just respond by calling out the president back tonight!” Then he lit into Obama with a killer final line:
The next time you speak to a group of young people, maybe you should apologize for the crushing debt you’re pushing on their shoulders.
The packed ballroom went wild, almost everyone in the audience getting up and cheering. But that was only the most effective of a series of attacks on “appeasement” (”Appeasement didn’t stop the Nazis,” Pawlented noted), the cash for clunkers program, judges who make up laws “on the back of a napkin,” and the incompetence of liberal bureaucrats as an argument against the president’s health care plan, which “needs to get killed.”
“They can’t run the programs we have!” said Pawlenty. “Why give them another one they can run into the ground?”
Pawlenty wrapped up with a moment that took the press gallery by surprise. He recited 2 Chronicles 7:14, and much of the crowd — which hadn’t been given copies of the speech — recited the passage from memory.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Reporters lined up at the right side of the ballroom looked up and back from their laptops, wondering what exactly they were seeing. When Pawlenty wrapped, they bolted out of the room to follow him.
9 Comments
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
Whoa whoa whoa. This guy said absolutely nothing about the Bushies putting their wars on the credit card, taking a surplus and turning it into a deficit from the responsible “fiscal” hands of the GOP.
Put your money where your mouth is Timmy. Go get us refunds from Halliburton and Blackwater. Go get us refunds from the FEMA abuses in their spending, go get us refunds from the $ spent by the US Gov’t to the energy companies in subsidies. Your hypocrite,
Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 9:48 am
The man actually could stand up and decry shifting debt to future generations? That is final proof that he has no shame.
His new taste for public recitations of Scripture should lead him to meditate on Romans 2:1.
Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
Well there’s a revelation… T-paw is as religiously crazy as Michelle Bachmann. That should sew up the nomination for him.
Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
How courageous, “calling the President out”. Gee, why not challenge him to a duel? Or maybe a spelling contest?
Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 9:29 pm
Where was Pawlenty’s ire when Donald Rumsfeld quietly announced that $2.3 Trillion was “missing” from the Pentagon budget?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml
Isn’t that more than twice the 1 Trillion that republicans are whining about?
Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
Pawlenty and other christian patriots are blowing the whistle on Barack Hussein Obama’s massive expansion of government. He and the other tea party patriots are fighting for the freedom BO seeks to take from us.
Pawlenty is a true uniter. BHO is a divider, and his actions will cause violence.
Pawlenty, by the way, should demand that Obama produce his long form birth certificate.
Comment posted September 21, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
“Pawlenty is a true uniter. BHO is a divider, and his actions will cause violence.”
Lord Basil does not live in Minnesota.
Comment posted September 23, 2009 @ 10:27 am
Hey Thomas,
Lord Basil not only doesn’t live in Minnesota, he doesn’t live on this planet. He’s in his own dimension, a dimension so dense that facts and logic cannot penetrate.
Comment posted September 23, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
I put the video of Pawlenty’s speech up on youtube if anyone wants to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6wKB5uO5w
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