Andy Williams: Obama Wants The Country To Fail

Old pop crooner Andy Williams, whose hits include 'Moon River,' has some choice words for "Marxist" President Obama.

Williams, 81, has always been a Republican (Ronald Reagan once declared his voice "an American treasure") but in the past has held more moderate views. He claims good friendship with the Kennedy family and thought that Bobby would have made a great president had he lived.

No such goodwill towards the current president, the Telegraph reports:

"Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.

"Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail."

You can read the entire Telegraph story here.

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[MikeCanada]

People who say things like this are just ridiculous.

[runforfun54]

oh ... has this generation even HEARD of Andy Williams? Who cares what this washed up has been thinks?

[Zeroes]

Truth has a certain clarity about it.

[dac253]

How would you know?

[Tugar]

I AM INDEED SURPRISED AND HORRIFIED AT THESE STATEMENTS FROM ANDY WILLIAMS.....

But I suppose old age is taking its toll on the Old Swooner ! I suppose he's forgotten how so many "Liberal minds" stood with him during his ex's trials !

[PWM]

Where was Andy's concern when Reagan and the two Bushes ran up the National Debt?

National Debt increase by president in constant dollars.
Under Carter: 42%
Under Reagan: 189%
Bush Act 1: 55.6%
Clinton: 36%
Bush Act 2: 89%
http://www.skymachines.com/US-National-Debt-Per-Capita-Percent-of-GDP-and-by-Presidental-Term.htm

[Zeroes]

Obama 5,000%

[commarcos]

Really? Thats your intelligent response to someone with statistics? Do you wonder why people laugh at you. Oh and please subtract the TARP that Bush signed into law during the 2009 fiscal year. Also it takes money to peel back all the do nothing expensive Bush policies. I will say that Obama is not doing enough to get away from the failed Regan economic policies that have done nothing but put us right where we are today and where we will continue to go ever 5 years.

[helipilot]

"Obama 5,000%"

... and counting ...

He's just gotten started. Now, THAT'S scary.

[Stephen Grayce]

For all practical purposes Andy Williams died in the early 70s. Who cares what he thinks?

[DesertRatzoRizzo]

Andy Williams has stayed too long at the fair. I guess those hillbillies, rednecks and Confederates in Branson, Missouri he hangs out with have finally worked their mischief on his aging brain. Give it up, Andy! Give it up!

[thisisntme]

Andy Who?

[strangelet]

Great pipes. Sorry the brain cells are going. Evidently, he can no longer comprehend that both Bobby and Teddy were far more liberal (or, I suppose, Marxist) than President Obama is.

And on this "Marxist" thing. What is up with the alleged "journalists" doing interviews these days? If somebody says "X is a Marxist", or "X is a fascist", you should at least insist that they define what a "Marxist" or "fascist" is. Otherwise (and this is specifically aimed at you, interviewer for the Telegraph), you are aiding the deterioration of serious political discourse.

[BigSlick674]

I want Andy Williams to fail.

[snesich]

He did that a long time ago.

[BamBam2012]

Is he even a real human?

I've always thought he had some sort of Stepfordesque aura about him....

[dac253]

So much for growing old gracefully...

What was that quote about 'it's better to be thought a fool'?

[mykebee]

I did LSD in the hospital, never on my own. I did it in a controlled environment to try to find things out about myself. A psychiatrist told me I should take some LSD trips. - Andy Williams

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/andywillia395564.html

[Zen0469]

So, you and Timothy dropped a little acid in controlled environements, Andy?

[KennedyLiberal]

Where's Claudine Longet when you need her?

[mykebee]

Claudine has been laying low since she got out of the pen.

[Tugar]

My thoughts exactly !....... But apparently Old Andy thinks that everyone has forgotten his past problems, which were the kind that most conservatives would have WALKED-AWAY FROM HIM FOR.... Moon River swoooooooooning or not ! Now he can stand up telling the little people of American who he thinks is "A SOCIALIST !" Did anyone call Claudine nasty names Andy ?

[Waitaminute]

Him and Pat Boone. He was not a bad singer and i liked his christmas special. I hope its old age talking. Oh, i never liked Pat Boone and his white shoes.

[Zen0469]

A pair of bookend twinkies?