TOP 10s
TOP 10s

Renegade
President Barack Obama

Lancer
President John F. Kennedy

Searchlight
President Richard Nixon

Deacon
President Jimmy Carter

Sunburn
Presidential candidate Ted Kennedy

Rawhide
President Ronald Reagan

Halo
Pope John Paul II

Smurfette
Karenna Gore, daughter of vice-president Al

Angler
Vice-President Dick Cheney

Parasol
Cindy McCain

According to Time…

What is your Top 10?
  1. The latest one takes the biscuit. Barack Obama jokes about the disabled on the Jay Leno show. Afterwards, he calls the head of the Special Olympics to apologise.
  2. Joe Biden tells a former Senate colleague who addresses him as “Mr Vice-President” to “give me a f—ing break.”
  3. Gordon Brown presents the new President with: a pen holder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannett, a sister ship of HMS Resolute; the commissioning certificate of HMS Resolute; and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In return, the Prime minister gets 25 DVDS, which don’t work in Britain.
  4. Joe Biden tells his wife that he had the choice of being either Secretary of State or vice-president - an offer that was news to Obama aides and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when Jill Biden spilled the beans on Oprah.
  5. A Marine One double. First, on his maiden Marine One trip Obama breaches protocol and makes life uncomfortable for an enlisted marine by shaking the the serviceman’s hand as he’s saluting his commander-in-chief.  Then - Gerald Ford, eat your heart out. Barack Obama bangs his head as he boards his helicopter.
  6. Joe Biden jokes about Chief Justice John Roberts fluffing the inauguration oath. The president is visibly annoyed with his veep and Biden later apologises.
  7. Barack Obama mixes up the windows and doors at his new home.
  8. Joe Biden forgets the “website number” for the White House internet site designed to show how TARP money is being spent.
  9. Barack Obama jokes about Nancy Reagan having séances in the White House. He later called her to apologise after the AP noted that although she had consulted astrologers, “she did not hold conversations with the dead.”
  10. Just after he’s been sworn in by him, the newly-minted Vice President Joe Biden gets the name of Justice John Paul Stephens, “one of the great justices” of the Supreme Court, calling him “Justice Stewart.”

According to Toby Harnden of The Telegraph…

What is your Top 10?
  1. Bernard Madoff
  2. The bailout trio
  3. Alan Greenspan
  4. Angelo Mozilo
  5. Robert Rubin
  6. Richard Fuld
  7. Barney Frank
  8. John McCain
  9. Barack Obama
  10. Big Three CEOs and unions

According to James Pethokoukis…

What is your Top 10?
  1. “Change”
  2. “Bailout”
  3. “Hockey mom”
  4. Fist bump
  5. “Nuke the fridge” - to exhaust a Hollywood franchise with disappointing sequels. Coined after the latest Indiana Jones sequel.
  6. “Staycation”
  7. “Rickrolled”
  8. “PUMA” - Party unity, my ass
  9. “Tweet”
  10. “Topless meeting” - gatherings where mobile devices and laptops are banned

According to Time…

What is your Top 10?

1. “I can see Russia from my house!” — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast Sept. 13.

2. “All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.” — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

3. “We have sort of become a nation of whiners.” — former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10.

4. “It’s not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number.” — a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23.

5. “The fundamentals of America’s economy are strong.” — McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17.

6. “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.” — the Treasury Department’s proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, September 2008.

7. “Maybe 100.” — McCain, discussing in a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3.

8. “I’ll see you at the debates, b——.” — Paris Hilton in a video responding to a McCain television campaign ad, August 2008.

9. “Barack, he’s talking down to black people. … I want to cut his … off.” — Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone before a Fox News interview, July 6.

10. (tie) “Cash for trash.” — Paul Krugman discussing the financial bailout, New York Times, Sept. 22.

10. (tie) “There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.” — Krugman, in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time,” broadcast Sept. 19.

10. (tie) “Anyone who says we’re in a recession, or heading into one — especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his own private definition of “`recession.’” — commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14.

According to the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations…

What is your Top 10?
  1. Rod Blagojevich
  2. Larry Craig
  3. Eliot Spitzer
  4. Sean Hannity
  5. John McCain
  6. That Guy Who Claimed Obama Is a Foreign National
  7. The Economy
  8. Oil
  9. Rudy Giuliani
  10. Joe the Plumber

According to David Bourgeois of The Huffington Post…

What is your Top 10?
  1. “If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. … Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.” —William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006
  2. “Peter writes: ‘Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there?’ No! No! No! Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out. … Bear Stearns is not in trouble. I mean, if anything they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear! That’s just being silly! Don’t be silly!” —Jim Cramer, responding to a viewer’s e-mail on CNBC’s Mad Money, March 11, 2008
  3. “[In] reality the risks to maritime flows of oil are far smaller than is commonly assumed. First, tankers are much less vulnerable than conventional wisdom holds. Second, limited regional conflicts would be unlikely to seriously upset traffic, and terrorist attacks against shipping would have even less of an economic effect. Third, only a naval power of the United States’ strength could seriously disrupt oil shipments.” —Dennis Blair and Kenneth Lieberthal, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007
  4. “[A]nyone who says we’re in a recession, or heading into one—especially the worst one since the Great Depression—is making up his own private definition of ‘recession.’” —Donald Luskin, The Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2008
  5. “For all its flaws, an example to others.” —The Economist on Kenya’s presidential election, Dec. 19, 2007
  6. “New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will enter the Presidential race in February, after it becomes clear which nominees will get the nod from the major parties. His multiple billions and organization will impress voters—and stun rivals. He’ll look like the most viable third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt. But Bloomberg will come up short, as he comes in for withering attacks from both Democrats and Republicans. He and Clinton will split more than 50% of the votes, but Arizona’s maverick senator, John McCain, will end up the country’s next President.” –BusinessWeek, Jan. 2, 2008
  7. “There is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet.” —Walter Wagner, LHCDefense.org
  8. “The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely over the next six-24 months.” —Arjun Murti, Goldman Sachs oil analyst, in a May 5, 2008, report
  9. “It starts with the taking over of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which has already happened. It goes on to the destruction of the Georgian armed forces, which is now happening. The third [development] will probably be the replacement of the elected government, which is pro-Western, with a puppet government, which will probably follow in a week or two.” —Charles Krauthammer, Fox News, Aug. 11, 2008
  10. “I believe the banking system has been stabilized. No one is asking themselves anymore, is there some major institution that might fail and that we would not be able to do anything about it.” —Henry Paulson on National Public Radio, Nov. 13, 2008

According to Foreign Policy.com…

What is your Top 10?
1. Barack Obama, Democratic nominee2. Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

3. Michael Phelps, Olympic champion

4. Robert Downey Jr., screen actor

5. Stephen Colbert, political commentator

6. Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef and star of Kitchen Nightmares

7. Christian Bale, actor

8. Rob Kay, Rock Band lead designer

9. Cristiano Ronaldo, soccer phenomenon

10. John McCain, Republican nominee

According to AskMen.com…

What is your Top 10?
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