Opponent Quote by John Dickerson

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

— Julianne Malveaux

We've got to stop this making fun of guys. I think part of it's to protect [Barack] Obama, because he's the one that's well…

— Rush Limbaugh

Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a…

— Ben Zimmer

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

— George W. Bush

You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: ‘When [Obama's]…

— Ronald Kessler

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not…

— Jesse Jackson

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial…

— Robert Dallek

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

— Jonathan Turley

Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound…

— Conan O'Brien

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson