Ethics

Dumbass Quote of the Week 3

By Ed Brayton

From Lou Dobbs, speaking about Obama (and every other president in our entire history, though he seems to think this fact is notable anyway):

DOBBS: Next year, 2010, which is, obviously, going to be a signature year because it will establish, first of all, the power of this presidency and this president, all that he is embraced by at least the national media, he still didn't receive a majority of the votes in this country, just those cast.

No president ever receives a majority of the votes in this country, they only receive a majority of the votes cast on election day (and sometimes not even that, as in 2000). If Dobbs attaches some significance to that mundane fact, he's quite delusional.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).