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By Jay Bookman | Saturday, August 23, 2008, 06:46 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

And as you do, watch me hit this drive.

(I’m headed for the links, trying once more to break 80).

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By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 7:01 AM | Link to this

Wow, what a choice! Joe ‘Hair Boy” Biden! There’s the change you Dimwitocrats have been praying for….a guy who has actually been in the Senate over a decade longer than McCain! Even CNN was trying to spin him up this morning, saying that he had ‘connections to Pennsylvania’, and could bring home a state the Messiah lost to Hillary.

Hee ha ha ha ha ha

God, this is too good to be true! From the swing state of Delaware (3 electoral votes), we give you Cheatin’ Joe!

From Wikipedia: “In 1987, Joe Biden ran as a Democratic presidential candidate, formally declaring his candidacy at the Wilmington train station on June 9, 1987. In his speech, he challenged Americans to step beyond the materialism of the Reagan years. When the campaign began, Biden was considered a potentially strong candidate because of his moderate image, his supposed appeal to Baby Boomers, his fundraising appeal (Biden’s $1.7 million raised in the first quarter of 1987 was more than any other candidate, including the then front-runner, Gary Hart), his high profile position as chair of the Senate Judiciary committee during the Robert Bork confirmation hearings, and, perhaps above all, his soaring oratory. Biden often seemed to try to inspire the same hope and idealism associated with 1960s liberals such as Robert Kennedy, especially as related to civil rights. He received considerable attention in the summer of 1986 when he excoriated Secretary of State George Shultz at a Senate Hearing because of the Reagan administration’s support of South Africa, which continued to support a system of Apartheid. By August 1987, however, Biden’s campaign had already begun to lag behind those of Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt.

Then in September 1987, the campaign ran into serious trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party. Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video. Within days, it was also discovered that, while a first year law student at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote. Though the then-dean of the law school, as well as Biden’s former professor, played down the incident of plagiarism, they did find that Biden drew “chunks of heavy legal prose directly from” the article in question. Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F in the course, which was subsequently dropped from his record when he retook the class. Biden also released at the same time the record of his grades as an undergraduate which were C’s and D’s with the exception of two A’s in physical education, one B in a course on English writers and an F in ROTC during his first three semesters. His grades improved later in his undergraduate career but were not exceptional.Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the “top half” of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85) that he had attended on a full scholarship, and had received three degrees. In fact he had received two majors, History and Political Science, and a single B.A., as well as a half scholarship based on financial need.

The sounds of stomping and running feet you hear is the women that supported Hillary now flocking over to the Republicans.

And I thought Bush 1 worked harder than anyone I had ever seen to not get elected? This one is going to be a rout.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 7:12 AM | Link to this

Good luck Jay, trying to break 80. Maybe if you quit after 15 holes you can do it.

Where are you playing? Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes, Bobby Jones, or the more affluent East Lake (beautiful course, I’ve gone to the Tour Championship the last 4 years, and it is gorgeous…don’t want to play it…can’t hit it straight enough), or Atlanta CC?

You selection of golf courses is a direct connection to your social status, you know. I can say that I played Stone Mountain years back with Dale Murphy and Glenn Hubbard during their playing days; friends of theirs failed to show and the starter put us together on a crowded day.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

You’ve got to be real proud of your pick to announce it at 4:00 on a Saturday morning.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Jay keep your head down.

Mr. G, breaks 80 regularly, the secret? A steak sandwich leftover from our weekly family Friday night dinner, tucked in his golf bag and eaten at the turn. (Oh, and a couple of mini coronas!)

Biden will chew McCain a new one.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this

The loquacious Delaware senator brings more than verbiage to Obama’s side. Biden is a foreign policy heavyweight with a decade longer in the Senate than the seasoned Republican presidential candidate, John McCain. That’s almost three more decades of experience than his new boss.

I’m counting 4 decades myself but whatever, do the libs not realize that they need to be pointing out what a dimwit Biden is, not how much “experience” he has, so that they don’t upstage Thee Most Magnificent One?

Who’s in charge of this mess, anyway?

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

Let’ face it - Obama doesn’t have much of a chance. There are plenty of white ‘males’ in this country that are extremely anxious and troubled about their sexuality, and they find black men threatening.

The GOP white male reaction to Obama is fear. Fear that he might take their wives, fear that their wives will compare them to Obama and be even more disappointed in their many failures, and - most important - fear of their own sexual attraction to black men.

This is the major dilemma for the GOP male voter - they find homosexuality disgusting, yet highly arousing. This is a link to a study from your own University of Georgia regarding homophobia in males - I’m positive that most of Mr. Bookman’s posters (I will refrain from identifying you personally, but I know you know who you are) will identify with this if they are willing to be honest with themselves

Obama’s selection of Biden - an older white gentleman - is his attempt to assuage the fears and anxieties of GOP males, but their attraction to Obama is too strong to remove them from the vicious cycle of attraction/fear/repulsion/rage.

If one looks at the underlying, often sub-conscious dynamics of the GOP white male voter’s reaction to Obama, it is no wonder they are so afraid of a man who merely asks them to be hopeful, positive, and care about other people - they see that as seduction.

Let’s put your fears in perspective, guys/ladies. Do you really think that an intelligent self-confident man is going to be sexually attracted to a whiny chickenhawk slob like you?

The real problem, of course, is your unrequited attraction for Obama, so you lash out….

As we peel away the onion and look at your twisted, mangled feelings and thoughts, I’ve offered you a glimpse into your psyches - now you need to seek professional help. Coming to grips with your true feelings may help you to give up your addictions to alcohol, meth, and CeCe’s buffet, and maybe you’ll even learn to enjoy the homosexual and deviant sex that so many of you - the Craigs, the Foleys, the Vitters, the Haggards, etc. etc. - are already having.

I expect that my remarks will stir some anger and resentment in many of you. But just take a look, my friends, before - or after - you lash out at me. I am merely the messenger, offering you the simple - but not necessarily easy - hope of “yes we can”.

Yes, you can. But it will be very hard work for some of you. You can stay mired in hate, ridicule, and fear - that comes natural to you, I see. Or you can do the hard work to begin to step around it, or over it.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden is one of the most influential foreign policy voices in Congress. An internationalist and strong supporter of the United Nations, he is a leading critic of what he sees as the vague, unilateralist approach of President Bush.

Yeah he is against “vague,” “unilateralist” American victory.

Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. Since then, he’s become a firm critic of the conflict and pushed through a resolution last year declaring that Bush’s troop increase—now considered a military success—was “not in the national interest.”

In other words, his judgment is sorely lacking.

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Jay: You could pick a day to chase thee little white ball when the wind wasn’t whipping up 35 mile an hour gusts.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

To start off this new day….

An AMerican Prayer

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this

Trash, methinks you focus a bit too often and intently on the homosexual issues. Is there something you want to share with us all?

Perhaps your self anointed blogger name is in fact representative of a subconscious regressive feeling you have toward yourself because of your proclivities.

Your almost daily reference to homosexuality in some form, whether it be Larry Craig, Barney Franks, or trying to make it a trait of Republicans, shows an inordinate amount of focus on a subject that no one but yourself seems interested in.

Are you sure you don’t have something to say to the world? It’s okay, no one will certainly think less of you than they do already…/that would be impossible.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Biden

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Duh, your description of our “victory” in Iraq as “vague” is unintentionally apt.

It is certainly logical that one can only at best expect vague victories in vague wars.

So - the vague War on Terror - have we won that yet, vaguely?

Your usual vague non sequitur comments are anticipated.

Never mind, pretend I did my own cut and paste, save the electrons.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Obama Biden 08: We will rock you!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

One House

One Spouse

Obama 08

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, good golf tip! I may have to try that one. Is it charcoal grilled steak, cold on a hard roll? That is one of my favorite sandwiches! May have to substitute beers though; I favor Dinkel Acker, a German beer I grew to like on business trips over there.

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

(It’s invariably a part of the process of analysis - the person being analyzed ‘projects’ his/her motivations back on the analyst - it’s called simply ‘projection’.)

So, my friend Bud is engaged. It takes courage to step in, let’s give Bud some acknowledgement, folks.

A first step. Could be the hardest one, Bud.

Call me God, my friend.

I know this process can be hard - but keep digging. This is about YOU and what YOU feel, YOUR perceptions, YOUR beliefs, not mine. I’m here for YOU Bud, my friend.

Did you reading that give you a little twinge in your stomach, Bud my friend? Talk to us about that little feeling.

Try not to lash out. We’re here for you, my friend.

(Those of you who want to follow in my footsteps, here is a classic case of ‘projection’, someone, here my friend Bud, is attributing their uncomfortable feelings to the therapist. Most people lack the self-awareness in the early part of therapy to see themselves doing it - this is usually the first challenge for the therapist - holding up the mirror, letting the patient see where the feelings and motivations really reside.)

Back to you my friend Bud. I have been posting at various AJC blogs for over 3 years on and off. Never once have I mentioned Barney Frank, or if I did it was years ago. Talk to us about your feelings for Mr. Frank, or something else, my friend.

Your turn.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama’s sole claim to executive experience.

Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators — participants and grantees of the CAC — were reported by outside monitors to be often “ebullient” about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.

Yeah, their little project “bombed.”

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

What’s the matter Trash, having trouble picking out your clothes this morning? Or is it that time of the month?

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Bud,

Mr. G lives by the rule “Real men use charcoal”.

A publix Chicago Hard roll would be a good choice but we usually hide away a couple of pieces of garlic bread.

I am not a big beer drinker…my only experience with a German beer was at the Atlanta Olympics…some Warshensteinerhummer god knows what…. I could have used it to refinish a coffee table. Very bitter.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Monk fell in love last night. He was psyched out by her charm. Too bad he lost her in the end.

The Dems pulled a slick one on the Reps with their selection of Biden. Now, both parties have their respective old white men to cancel each other out. That effectively leaves Obama up against some younger less experienced person (after all, they can’t pick someone older than McCain as his running mate, can they) yet to be determined. No matter how this plays out, history will prove that this was a brilliant strategy on the part of the Dems.

Now it’s down to McCain and the Reps. What will be their counter. McCain desperately needs someone with some youth now if he expects to have a fighting chance.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Go try Dinkel Acker. You will not be disappointed, but if you are, use it on the grill as you grill the steaks, and let it boil off. Or, use it to add to batters for fried chicken, or grill it with the chicken on one of those devices.

By Charles

August 23, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Jay,

If you want to break 80 use Bill Clinton’s rules of golf:

  • You have a mulligan on each 9

  • You get a mulligan on each hole

  • If you hit a tremendously bad shot you get a mulligan

There’s one thing that I’ve learned about other people when they play golf: if they cheat on the links they’ll cheat you in real life.

by the way, I NEVER take a mulligan - and YES I am a Republican!

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, just for you…

http://www.recipezaar.com/9549

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

The only person happier about this Biden pick than McCain is Hillary. The only place Obama had a strong argument against McCain was that Washington was broken and McCain had been there all this time. Biden’s been there longer so now The Dunce is down to hope. Change has gone under the bus.

Hillary probably has already started designing the logo for her 2012 campaign.

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

I jotted down some notes before I began this morning’s group, and I predicted that my friend Bud would be one of the folks that would step forward early. Give my friend Bud a hand for his courage and his willingness to participate.

However, folks, I need to bring this to a close today.

I will be attending a wedding in western Massachusetts today - a former student of my wife is marrying her partner, and I am looking forward to a lovely trip down the Green Mountains into the beautiful Berkshires, and an afternoon with new acquaintances.

Some of you - all of you - will feel some sense of loss, abandonment knowing that I’m not online to be with you today. Notice that, think about that, and let’s talk about it when I come back, my friends, probably Monday.

It took decades of abuse - including self-abuse - to made you as sick as you are - we can’t resolve that all in a couple of morning posts.

I acknowledge you for trying, and starting the journey. It might - no it will - feel worse before it gets better, but the work is worth it. Another big hand for my friend Bud!

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Is it a double wedding with your life partner too, Trash? I know that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance will be so happy for you all.

By Ray

August 23, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Trash,

Maybe you could take advantage of this downturn in the housing market and shop for a house in the Berkshires. That part of the country could always use another big mouthed Democrat who has all the answers.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I know, RW. That is yet another aspect of the most brilliant plan. Even Karl has to be impressed at the number of angles covered with this move. The upcoming character assaults shall definitely prove to be entertaining for both sides. Us Independents will really enjoy it. I can just see the crap cannons getting bigger and bigger after each volley.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

The Biden choice is an act of desperation borne of a summer-long catastrophe. There isn’t any other reason for Obama to choose a 35-year veteran of the Senate with as long a history of gaffes and flat-out dishonesty as his second on the campaign for Hope and Change. In fact, I can’t wait for writers to twist themselves into knots to avoid the cardinal sin of writing, plagiarism, which Biden committed more than once, as Jim Geraghty recounted in 2003:

Look at these members of the vast right wing conspiracy that wrote about Biden’s plagiarism

Update: E.J. Dionne contemporaneously covered Biden’s plagiarism in college and on the 1987 campaign trail in detail for the New York Times. Note that in lifting Neil Kinnock’s speech, he attributed to his own family the humble origins of Kinnock’s — which wasn’t true.

Update II: Maureen Dowd also covered the plagiarism of Biden’s speech in 1987 for the New York Times, and contrary to what Biden claims now, he didn’t credit Kinnock in other deliveries of the speech:.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I have had some time now, watching various newscasts, to digest the Biden pick. I just can’t stop laughing enough to see how easy McCain has it from here!!

Change you can believe in? Ho ho ho hee hee ha ha ha ha ha ha! Sorry, lost control there.

How are you going to get those two egos in the Denver Center at the same time? Hee hee hee he ha ha ha ha

Since 1972 Biden has been an inside Washington fixture, and he is change? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Maybe he knows a good hairplugger, I mean, hairdresser, he can recommend to Hussein Obama. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Sorry again, I just can’t go on like this……

Mrs G, I hope you try the beered-up chicken. It is good! I am sure that many of your liberal friends may want to consider, however, drinking a case or two to try and wash away the Biden effect……ha ha ha ha ha…..sorry

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Republican John McCain’s camp Saturday said Barack Obama’s choice of veteran Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate was an admission by the Democrat that he was not ready to serve as president himself.

“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden,” McCain campaign spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.

“Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgement and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be president.”

Oh yeah, that:

On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.

“We find it a little disingenuous that Sen. Obama is hailing this as a new bold initiative when he has neglected to join his colleagues in the Senate when the opportunities have been there to redirect our forces into Afghanistan” Biden campaign manager Luis Navarro said at the time. “It’s good to see Sen. Obama has finally arrived at the right position, but this can hardly be considered bold leadership.” Ouch.

Indeed.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Really, I have to stop trying this…..I’ll leave it in the hands of others…..really…..check this out:

http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm

By bdatlanta

August 23, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Bud and Mgmt are proof that the Internet has come to Georgia’s trailer parks.

By @@

August 23, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Looks like Jay ain’t all that excited about OBlahMa Biden his time till the November elections

Went to the links in pursuit of a “mulligan”, is it? What’s that……..like a “comb-over”?

I must admit! I was a little reluctant to come here and read everyone’s response to to the announcement of OBlahMa’s VP.

I LIKE JOE! I’m not sure how to say that with an indian accent though. I now see what the conservatives are talking about. THAR JOE BLOWS.

Forgiving his gaffe, I’ll go onto other potential problems for Joe.

He was a primary advocate of the bankruptcy bill that hurt normal people. He voted against limiting the interest credit card companies can charge when they’re gouging normal people.

I actually support ^^^ that kind of legislation but I’m not so sure democrats/liberals will look fondly on Joe’s past decision during today’s difficult economy.

Anyhoo, congratulations Joe! Yours will be a hard row to hoe trying to be more articulate bro.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Bud,

The kids called it “beer butt chicken” one summer we tried everything from your name sake to dr. pepper. We don’t do much cooking in or around aluminum anymore.

If I were to use it as part of the beer batter would if have to be flat?

And yes some of us toasted this morning, but with a wee bit o’ Baileys in the java.

We like Joe Biden. He’ll do just fine.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say the bench is still jam packed with talent.

Which bodes well for staffing up the Obama administration in the months to come.

No Brownies or Goodlings. No Gonzales’ or Mukaseys. No Gramms or Grahams. No Cheneys or Rumsfelds. No Shuenamans or Fiorinas.

Obama Biden 08

Obama Biden 08

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Joe Biden, the Democrat’s Dick Cheney <————maybe that explains my feelings, although I’ve always found Dick Cheney’s delivery a little more eloquent than Biden’s. I’m sure Leahy would agree hee.

Just how well will Obama and Biden mesh? Has Biden been anybody’s No. 2, ever? He’s run for president TWICE for a reason (the first time Biden ran, Obama was just starting law school, by the way). Biden has an actual “boss” for the first time in his political career. Is he ready to ride shotgun? And is it a problem that Obama-Biden is a mirror image of Bush-Cheney from 2000? A charismatic, inexperienced nominee taps a more experienced, dare we say, arrogant No.2? In fact, there are a lot of Republicans who believe they can sell Obama-Biden as “the Audacity of Arrogance times two.”

OBlahMa’s Dick. Uh huh!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Oh, and plaudits to Caroline Kennedy.

I’d like to see more of her.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.

And he has one other weakness that hasn’t received much attention to date. One of Biden’s sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden’s family lobbying ties.

Will Biden get his own bus or does Hunter have to go under Obambi’s? By the way, it’s BS that The Dunce doesn’t take money from federal lobbyists. He just claims he’s going to return their contributions every time he gets caught.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

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I was watching CNN’s coverage this morning…you take great notes!

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Is everybody boycotting Wooten’s blog or something? What did I miss?

Regarding Biden, he deserves an enormous amount of respect (worth with me Righties). After all, he can actually go on a Sunday morning talk show hosted by the likes of George Snafulopolous and Chris Matthews (always tilted left of course) and give his opinion on issues without a script or teleprompter. The Obamania on the other hand shows his inexperience on a blind (or was that deaf??) forum and McCain gives him the beatdown. Then of course, the mindless hyperemotioned hysterical liberals that put Obamanation on the pedestal, so to speak, say that McCain cheated and listened in to the questions that were going to be asked.

Uh, no.

It’s called experience and leadership, idiots.

Joe Biden.

Hehehehe.

Thank you, Democrats.

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Mrs. G:

I was watching CNN’s coverage this morning…you take great notes!

Normally my T.V. doesn’t go on until 10 P.M. and only so I can fall asleep to the noise.

It hasn’t been on this morning at all.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

I wonder, are the same mindless hysterical moonbat liberals who call McCain an “old white haired white man with a cane” say the same about Biden? They are only six years apart ya know. Hell, Pelosi is only four years younger than McCain, and you never hear the mindless hysterics on the left scream about her age.

It doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal, does it?

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, there’s a device sold at stores with grilling supplies (Lowe’s, Home Depot come to mind) whereby the can does not have to touch the chicken. You’ll know it when you see it, I wish I could find a pic to have you Google but I cannot.

As for your friends and you toasting this morning, how long did the conversation go before you guys just went straight for the Bailey’s, sans the coffee?

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Following up on my Biden/Cheney comparison, here’s an interesting headline.

Obama Biden Bound as in restricted in HIS movements.

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

Maybe when I have time. I’m engaging at the moment.

Sometimes I get the impression that you’re trying to re-direct my attention.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

“Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the “top half” of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85)”

Hey Bud dude, have you EVER heard of a liberal RAT politician who wasn’t a lawyer?

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Well, I keep waiting to see who McCain’s limping mate will be. Will he (she) be able to limp along slow enough to make it look like McCain is the leader. At least Obama knew that he had to pick a running mate. McCain, on the other hand, said he was already on his second mate, why would he be looking for a third before this one has even run out of money.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Here’s the foreign policy “expert” on how we should respond to 9/11.

At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.” Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.

The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: “I think they’d send it back.” Then another aide speaks up delicately: “The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt.” Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He’s already moved on to something else.

First, Iranians aren’t Arabs. They’re Persians, as both Arabs and Iranians would quickly point out to anyone ignorant of the distinction. They have no relation linguistically or culturally, except that both are predominantly Islamic. One would expect a foreign-policy expert to know at least that much. Team Obama ridiculed John McCain when he inadvertently mixed up Sunnis and Shi’ites, but this is much more fundamental.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Rufus,

Welcome! One thing you might want to know is that Jay isn’t nearly as tolerant of colorful language exchanges over here, although he seems to be fine with a hearty debate when it’s kept reasonably clean. in a word or three, this ain’t Wooten’s.

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Obama would have been better served by emphasising his change message. He could have done this by picking a Republican like Chuck Hagel, a non-partisan figure, or another ‘new’ politician—Mark Warner who is keynoting the Democratic convention would have been a good choice. He should have sought—as Clinton did in 1992—to emphasise his message rather than trying to correct a weakness.

Perhaps, the most interesting thing about the Biden pick is the question of whether the Obama campaign is now acting out of nerves or fear—most of the political class don’t think Obama would have picked Biden if the polls weren’t so close or if national security hadn’t so dominated the debate in the past few weeks. When a campaign starts chasing its tails as the Kerry and Gore ones ended up doing, it is in big trouble.

One other thing worth noting is that Obama picking Biden, strengthens the case for McCain picking someone with executive experience—something that neither Obama nor Biden have—and someone from outside the beltway. The McCain camp will also be relieved that Biden does not make them play defence in a red state in the way that Evan Bayh or Tim Kaine would have done.

I don’t think executive experience can be found in “community organizing” or a legal practice. OBlahMa’s got a big zerO there.

As much as I like Joe, he went into public service at 29 years of age. Didn’t give him much time to get the executive experience he needed, now did it?

There’s the missing link!!! Working Americans prefer working Americans, to career politicians.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Well, there’s Iran and Iraq. There’s Syria and Turkey. No Persia. Hey, where’s Persia. McCain needs to know what it borders with. Someone needs to relay it to him with the morse code. He’s such an antique. Why, just yesterday he was pacing back and forth mumbling dih dih dit — dah dah dah — dih dih dit. He just kept saying it over and over and over.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Hmmm. Do we have a little censorship going on here? Is it link driven? Let’s see if this works:

“Previous DailyTech stories have detailed recent cooling experienced by the planet, and highlighted some of the scientists currently predicting extended global cooling. Even the UN IPCC has stated that world temperatures may continue to decline, if only briefly.”

“Now, an expert in geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico has added his voice to the fray. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Geophysics, has predicted an imminent period of cooling intense enough to be called a small ice age.”

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Keep talking RW.

I had no idea!!!!!!!

Please try and remember, I’m coming off my years of being a dumbas-s liberal. (ISH)

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Now it’s getting good. Listen to The Appointed One whine about a book’s coverage on Fox News (uhm, that’s Faux News to you mindless hysterical liberal moonbat Democrats in Virginia Highlands):

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) personally went on the attack Wednesday on a best-selling new book that falsely describes him as a closet Muslim. Talking about “The Obama Nation,” Obama said author Jerome Corsi was just making “stuff up.” “But it gets a lot of play on Fox News,” he said to loud boos.

Now that’s pretty funny. You think Dumbo would say and whine the same on the multiple simultaneous orgasmic climaxes of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MNSBC, NPR, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, the Chicago Tribune, and last but not least, the Atlanta Journal Constitution time spent on books that have been written (negatively I might add) about the Bush Administration? Or conversely to be positive, books written by Democrats like both Clintons?

Man please.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

The Dunce put out a paper to refute points in Corsi’s book. On the Muslim thing they called it a lie that Corsi said Obama was registered as a Muslim at his Indonesian school. To set the record straight they said Obama was registered as a Muslim at his Indonesian school.

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It’s a bright early October morning on Capitol Hill. Joe Biden is bounding up the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building, wearing his trademark grin. As he makes for the door, he is met by a group of airline pilots and flight attendants looking vaguely heroic in their navy-blue uniforms and wing-shaped pins. A blandly handsome man in a pilot’s cap steps forward and asks Biden to help pass emergency benefits for laid-off airline workers. Biden nods as the men and women cluster around him with fawning smiles. Then he speaks. “I hope you will support my work on Amtrak as much as I have supported you,” he begins. (Biden rides Amtrak to work every day and is obsessed with the railroad.) “If not, I will screw you badly.”

A dozen faces fall in unison as Biden lectures on. “You’ve not been good to me. You’re also damn selfish. You better listen to me…” It goes on like this for a couple of minutes. Strangely, Biden keeps grinning—even fraternally slapping the stunned man’s shoulder a couple of times. When we finally head into the building, Biden’s communications director, Norm Kurz, turns to me. “What you just witnessed is classic Senator Biden.”

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Heeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrre’s Chuckie!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California’s attorney general is reviewing a request by former employees of IndyMac Bancorp Inc to investigate whether a New York senator triggered the bank’s collapse by releasing confidential information.

At issue is a much-publicized letter that Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, sent in June to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) questioning the company’s ability to survive.

Now let’s just sit back and watch how our “fair and balanced” main stream media (remember boys and girls, only Faux News is biased - and it’s only biased towards the Right - a liberal biased media is a neocon myth) chooses to investigate and report this.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

@@, you are not really a liberal that has converted to new age Republicanism, are you. That’s really sad. You should have gone Independent. It’s a much better life — no constraints.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I don’t know if you’re familiar with Georgia voting law, but we’re all Independents here.

By getalife

August 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Joe Biden? Joe (D-MBNA) Biden? The architect of the bankruptcy “reform?”

Unbelievable.

Change?

Please.

Clinton/Clark 12.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

”@@, you are not really a liberal that has converted to new age Republicanism, are you. That’s really sad. You should have gone Independent. It’s a much better life — no constraints.” - Taxpayer

Two points on that: 1), as real thinking people get older, they get wiser, hence Conservative leanings - and this goes towards everything from driving fast and taking risks like that idiot kite surfing in TS Fay in FL (who got body slammed across a street into a garage) to financial decisions. 2), Being an Independent with “no constraints” is the cowardly way to go through life - letting others make your decisions for you.

I pretty much know what I stand for, and it sure as heck isn’t socialist liberalism brought to us by the modern Democrat[ic] left.

What’s that old saying again? Oh yeah: those who stand in the middle of the road…

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

I’ve never been registered with any political party. The other day a pollster called me asking if blah blah blah.

I told them that I’ve voted both dem and rep — that I’m not registered as either/or. I asked them “what does that make me?”

“An independent” was their response. Voila…..I’m an independent with traditional values. So you can call me Independently Traditional.

I’ll add this…….

I see more logic in the conservatives’ way of thinking. I see a lot of pent-up emotional driving democrats. Pent-up emotion that politicians can use to their advantage, not The PentO Beanie Weenies.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

@@

Are you sure you’re not a pro?

Your post was nearly word for word what right leaning political analysts were saying at 6:30 this morning.

Amazing!

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

RW, to hear some people talk, you would think that they signed on in blood. Besides, there are restrictions on the primaries as I recall so it’s not 100% Independent. What if, for example, I have two people identified, for a position, that I prefer — one Republican and one Democrat. I vote in the Republican primary and my 1st choice loses but my 2nd choice is still in the running in a runoff in the Democrat primary. Then, I can’t vote in that primary runoff. This is an absolute outrage. Why, if I were governor, this would change. Who’s with me on this. Vote for me. Vote for change. I’ll bet that if my 2nd choice were in a Republican primary runoff, I could call up a good old boy and bend those rules or just blow those rules out of existence or even ignore those rules — those nasty rules of law.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

CNN also said this morning that they expected it to be a small gathering in Springfield maybe 200 people.

They are reporting over 10,000 now and there still arriving.

I suggest a vist to Springfield IL - the Illinois State Fair was always great. Home fries and Lemon Shake ‘em Ups!

Fired Up!

Ready to go!

Obama Biden 08

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah: those who stand in the middle of the road…

I know Rufus. I’ve been able to dodge “the recklessly driving liberals” for several years at these blogs.

My greatest fear is of a socialist government providing anything that goes above and beyond that which was promised at our founding or foundation if you will.

Have patience with me! My exposure here, to what passes as liberally progressive has me parked in the conservative lot for many elections to come.

I’m forced to vote Democrat down here in Clayton County. Even if we did have the opportunity to vote for a Republican I’d have to look really close to make sure I wasn’t being hoodwinked. It’s a give and take down my way.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m back from the beach and lotsa fun going on here.(The beach was a real blow out!! No power on the island when we left.) Obama,man of inexperience, decides on the “man of age and faulty experience” to stand beside him.

The Obama “camp” claims that the man of EXPERIENCE McCain can’t govern because he is too old. But older Biden is “fit” to be vice president?? Do libs ever say one thing and mean it?

We do not need a “President in training” such as Obama. Nor do we need a man behind him who has more smudges and flipflops in his experience than the”president in training”Obama (and more showing up every day now.) Thanks, RW.

This autumn is bound to be muddier than a country pigpen. I wish it were not that way. Politics seem to take the low road instead of heading for higher ground. Nothing new about that though. Unfortunately!!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

Look at instant run off voting.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

I wonder who the Obamaniac Brainiac was that came up with the 3am announcement thing? Of course, 3am here is somewhere around noon in Indonesia, one of the most heavily Muslim populated countries in the world. Just in time for Al Jazeera afternoon paper.

3am here is also 3pm in Beijing, just in time for the Commie News Network evening news broadcast. The timing works well for most of Europe too. Seems the Messiah wants everyone else to know first, America last. At least we know where we are in His pecking order.

Maybe somebody will relay it camelback to his destitute half brother in Africa. Might hear about it next month there. Of course, the news travels faster than the money Obama sends to keep his half brother from starving to death. Oh wait. That’s right. He doesn’t send any. He claims to be more sensitive to the needs of the poor and homeless here, than his own family there. Okay, now they know where they stand in His pecking order.

Maybe Hairless Joe will have the ‘foreign policy experience’ to sort things out for the Messiah. He’ll try to make Hussein proud, for sure. And speaking of proud, I wonder how proud Michelle O is now of hubby ignoring his family in Africa? I know this pride thing, at least pride in her country, has only come since her hubby got the bid, so maybe she’s having a hard time adjusting. But one thing for sure, Michelle now knows where Barry Hussein puts his family in the pecking order, so she better start working on her own finances. She can call Hillary for help on that, how to turn 10,000 into 100,000 overnight. White Water. You know.

Hairless Joe has all the answers that aren’t on the teleprompter. Just ask him. Give him a few hours though to spin up all the crap and diss he put on Obama in the early primaries, before he got, you know, dumped again. I keep hearing Hank Williams in the background singing “Your Cheatin’ Heart’……….I don’t know why.

I wish I had the alcohol concession outside the DNC convention next week, with these tow losers. For sure I wouldn’t stick my nose inside, couldn’t stand the smell. Besides, the DNC already trashed all Southerners when they proudly declared they were not going to serve any fried foods whatsoever at their party. That’s going to make a certain contingent of Democrats very unhappy for sure.

I feel sorry for you libs now, I really do. You know, and I know, that all John McCain has to do now is bring along someone, anyone, for the ride, and it’s off to the White House next January! Your party has destroyed your hopes again. When are you going to wise up and at least go Independent if Republican is not to your liking? The elite ultra-left has commandeered your party, and it’s become their own little private toy now, general public not admitted (except for your lockstep, non-thinking votes).

I will close this out for the weekend from me, to you, a little song Hussein Obama sings to his kids every night (rumored):

“Upwards on the horizon rises the Eastern Sun,

The sight of the true Religion,

Bahman - the brilliance of our Faith.

Your message, O Imam, of independence and freedom, Is imprinted on our souls.

O Martyrs! The time of your cries of pain rings in our ears, Enduring, continuing, eternal,

The Islamic Republic of Iran.

By Mr. Godrilla

August 23, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G - stop drinking your lunch (or better yet, your MoveOn.org KoolAid) and make me some dinner!

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

@@, Your post (below) had me concerned. I’m glad to hear that you stopped in the middle of the road as well.

“By @@ August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this Keep talking RW. I had no idea!!!!!!! Please try and remember, I’m coming off my years of being a dumbas-s liberal. (ISH)”

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G:

The italicized text in my 11:13 was from the L.A.Times.

I get tired of following the linking format over here. I have to squeeze in a —->)<—- at the end. The cursor has to be placed just right, then hit the enter to proceed. It’s a big pain in the back end of formatting.

I would have thought the italics would clearly indicate they weren’t my words.

I will try and remember to attribute in the future.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Is it true that Mrs. Godzie does nothing but read and copy liberal political news wll day while EATING? She used to be IN THE NEWS but now she tries to “outdo” Paula Dean.

Meanwhile poor Mr. Godzie eats cold leftover sandwiches on the golf course. It’s a hard life but somebody’s got to do it.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I think you’d have way too much hanky panky if you allowed party crossing for a runoff by people that had selected a ballot in the general. Frankly you should be able to foresee that scenario and choose accordingly. You can also select an issues only ballot for the primary and then if there is a runoff that interests you can take either party.

I would go to instant runoffs where you pick your second choice when you first vote in the primary which would make actual runoff voting rare.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

“I’m forced to vote Democrat down here in Clayton County.”

@@, you have my condolences. I just hope you don’t have any kids or grandkids going to a public school there.

In the old days, circa 1800s, people would move to areas that provide better opportunities for themselves. But, today, thinking like that is being selfish. We are all supposed to be a part of some “village” like herded sheep according to Shrillary.

You are still the bomb on these blogs, however - and take comfort in knowing that you rile up liberals like nobody’s business.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

We got a funny kid here today.

If you are going to play with the name do it right…..it’s God-zee-ra!

Ever bother to read the ingredients in Kool Aid? I wouldn’t serve it to a blog troll!

Make your own damn dinner, dust those ceiling fans, shovel Joe poop and then go sit quietly watching ESPN.

Tomorrow, do something about the garage and get the oil changed.

Good Boy!

John McCain remains wedded to the Bush Administration’s myopic view of a world defined by terrorism. … He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority. It is time for a total change in Washington’s world view

Fired Up!

Ready to Go!

Obama Biden 08!

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Sorta off topic, but not really when dealing with liberals and telling us, no, using government to tell us how to live our lives:

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama, pushed to second in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.

The state has given its 37,527 employees a year to start getting fit — or they’ll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is free. Alabama will be the first state to charge overweight state workers who don’t work on slimming down, while a handful of other states reward employees who adopt healthy behaviors.

How long before that liberal hack institution known as the ACLU goes down there to claim discrimination against the gravity challenged? (Remember, in the twinkletoed world of liberalism, everyone has a challenge of some sort… except straight white Conservative Christian males).

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

Tell me something…….what have you done to extricate MoveOn.org from the dem party? My gawd, Howard Dean is your party chairman and Nancy Pelosi is your Speaker of the House. The recently elected Blue Dogs are suffering from a chronic case of blue balls.

My conversion back will be a long time in coming if ever.

My husband is as far to the right as they come. My voting age daughter resists his views but welcomes mine. She votes conservative. I make her comfortable in doing so. I have successfully flipped a couple of die-hard Democrats as has my husband and daughter.

It’s all in the approach — mine and my daughters is a little more on the subtle side. My husband has been working on a couple who are die-hard dems at church. They’ve come to accept his views but are too proud to admit it. I asked them if they were enjoying the campaign, the candidates? She told me that this will be the first time they’ve ever voted Republican. The clincher?

OBlahMa’s BAIPA vote in the Illinois State Senate.

Neither of them had any idea what late-term abortions were until I explained it to them.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Can somebody help me out here, please? My weather station is showing 79.7 degrees. Now one of two things must be wrong here: my monitoring station is in the wrong location or this is not really August - in the South - in Georgia - at 1:45PM.

Now, we are supposed to enslave this economy (not that it needs any help) with draconian Algore-inspired legislation because Mrs. Smith’s SUV and my back yard Green Egg are causing polar bears to be stranded on ice burgs? Yeah ok, whatever.

Like I said, it doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Dusty!

As always, all sweetness and light.

I wouldn’t think of letting Mr. G eat that nonsense that poses as food at the snack shop. (nuked hot dogs, cardboard nachos,Ick.)

Now the egg salad at Augusta is a different matter. That’s tradition.

By Mr. Godrilla

August 23, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Damn, Mrs. G! I told you to stop watchin’ the Clinton News Network! It’s poisoning your mind, woman!

And git off your fat behind! If you spent more time cleanin’ the house instead of beating that keyboard we might be able to sell this old trailer and git us the double-wide you been wanting!

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

But, today, thinking like that is being selfish.

Really? And to think, my dream has always been to buy a helicopter, get a license to fly it, allowing me to live at the bottom of the Grandest of Canyons.

Dang! I am selfish….

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

You are right.

It doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal.

It’s easy.

Like breathing. Eating. It’s natural. It’s normal.

It comes from a concern for others above self.

For good folks, that ain’t hard!

Fired up!

Ready to go!

Obama Biden 08

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.

Students for a Free Tibet earlier said authorities detained five self-styled “citizen journalists” who were in Beijing to promote Tibetan freedom on Tuesday. The New York-based group said activist-artist James Powderly had also been nabbed.

Now why, praytell, have we not heard more about this while watching Olympic coverage in our “fair and balanced” mainstream media? Another thing: why do generation after generation of liberal “activists” and “students” feel that they are going to change the “world” that they truly do not own nor control?

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Rufas,

When the effects of Biden’s two 5 SUV motorcades, his private jet dash off to Illinois to meet up with Obambi’s two 10 SUV motorcades are felt you might get to 79.71, but once that gasbag VP nominee talks for a few hours you should be nearing 85.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Damn 1:48

Enjoying your satire.

Especially as it reminds of how nice the real Mr. G is.

Thanks, dude.