LEAD IN

I intended this to be a lead in to the previous Blog idea.

These are pronouncements by past and present Democratic leadership; note the obvious differences.

Subject: Words of wisdom, and then just words

Great Orators of the Democratic Party

'One man with courage makes a majority.'

- Andrew Jackson

'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

'The buck stops here.'

- Harry S. Truman

'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for

your country.'

- John F. Kennedy

And for today's Democrats...

'It depends what your definition of 'IS' is?''

- Bill Clinton

'That Obama - I would like to cut his NUTS off.'

- Jesse Jackson

'Those rumors are false .... I believe in the sanctity of marriage..'

- John Edwards

'I invented the Internet.'

- Al Gore

'It doesn't matter if the planet is cooling and plants need it to live. We still have to ban carbon dioxide.'

- Henry Waxman

'The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to

shove my rosary beads up their ASS.'

- Joe Biden

' America is--is no longer, uh, what it--it, uh, could be, uh what it

was once was...uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children.'

- Barack Obama

'I have campaigned in all 57 states.

- Barack Obama

'You don't need God anymore, you have us democrats.'

- Nancy Pelosi

'Paying taxes is voluntary.'

- Harry Reid

'Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more

faithful, true, and honest than he.'

- Hillary Clinton

'The days of "traditional values" and strong foreign policy are over.'

- Chuck Schumer

'I do not regard Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as problems, I regard

them as great assets. I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. Fannie and Freddie pose no threat to the Treasury.'

- Barney Frank