Prez: "When you want to go forward in a car, what do you do? You put it in “D.”

[bigtree]

August 10, 2010

Excerpt from remarks by the President at a DSCC Finance Event in Dallas, Texas

___ You know, I’ve been using the analogy of the folks who drove the car into the ditch. And so we decided, you know what, we’re going to do the responsible thing. We put on our boots, we got into the mud, we got into the ditch. We pushed, we shoved, we’re sweating. They’re standing on the sidelines sipping a Slurpee -- sort of watching us, saying, “Well, you’re not pushing hard enough,” or “Your shoulder is not positioned the right way,” giving us a whole bunch of advice on how to push -- not lifting a finger to help.

And finally we get this car up back on the road again, and finally we’re ready to move forward again. And these guys turn around and say, “Give us the keys.” Well, no, you can’t have the keys back -- you don’t know how to drive. You don’t know how to drive.

They don’t know how to drive. And I also want to point out, by the way, when you want to go forward in a car, what do you do? You put it in “D.” When you want to go backwards, you put it in “R.” We cannot go backwards -- we’ve got to move forwards. That’s what we’re fighting for in this election -- moving forwards . . .


read more: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/10/remarks-president-a-dscc-finance-event-dallas-texas


President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

[FSogol]

1. Obama should go to South Dakota where they are unpaving roads and

replacing them with gravel roads to make this point. The Repubs are dragging this country backwards with their 18th century ideas and simpleton reasoning. This country will turn into Sudan with another half century of Republican rule.

[FirstLight]

2. I love this analogy!

It should be part of every Dems ad campaign!

D means DRIVE...

(the only thing is that I'd personally like to see a LOT more drive (read: Chutzpah, effort, etc) as far as the dems are concerned...leave the rethugs in the dust, and MOVE FORWARD!!!!!)

[malaise]

5. It's that simple

D = forward

[meegbear]

3. You put it in “D.” Oh SNAP!

[woodsprite]

6. I got a button at the Constitution Center that says that.

I think I'll start wearing it again.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Excellent line (Apparently started with Tom Harkin back in the day)

[jaksavage]

7. How cool

I used this D and R analogy in the local paper LTTE recently.
Now the pres repeats it...perfect.
I also call him commander and chief as often as possible.
That title seems to really grate on the pukes.

[Travis_0004]

8. I put my car in First. There is no D on my car.

[unblock]

9. does that mean manual transmissions have a republican bias?

or at least, an anti-democratic one?

[Travis_0004]

10. I have an R, but no D. You might be on to something.

[bigtree]

11. .