Barack Quote by James Wolcott

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad…

— Martha MacCallum

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

— David Letterman

“While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.”

— Charles P. Pierce

Barack Obama got ten million more votes than John McCain. I'd like to believe that none of the millions of people laid off during…

— Rush Limbaugh

In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the…

— George Will

As you know, John McCain is an older, white-haired man who has been in the Senate for over twenty years, voted for the Iraq…

— Jay Leno

The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita.…

— David Letterman

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

— Maureen Dowd

John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.

— Michael Tomasky

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack…

— Joe Scarborough

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

— Noam Chomsky

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

— Rick Wilson