Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 6:47 AM | Link to this

Assassination plots, dead Kennedys, staged acts of racism, the reinstitution of the draft, Mad Michelle turned into Snow White, is there anything that the pinko media will not use to get their mindless moron elected?

Other than Dhimmy Carter, I should say.

By Mike

August 26, 2008 7:00 AM | Link to this

Yawn. Exactly what you would expect from a partisan.

Despite the title of “Impressions of the convention”, the bulk of the “article” is about some “whitey” tape, rumors of which are known to a tiny slice of America.

Why do partisan pundits think that we care what they think about their opposites? I care as little about what Bookman thinks about Limbaugh, as I do Limbaugh’s thoughts on Bookman.

Bookman’s tired screeds are the lowest form of partisan dreck. There are plenty of liberal pundits who are capable of writing above the level of a bitter partisan blogger. Bookman is not one of them.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 7:02 AM | Link to this

If the right wing has that “whitey” tape out there, now would be a good time to unleash it, right boys? Did you hear me, Rush? Paging Mr. Limbaugh? Hah.

Anybody who believed in that tape’s existence — well, apparently it’s a myth that turkeys are so stupid they’ll look up at the sky in a rainstorm and drown, but I still have doubts about certain elements of the human race.

It will play a lot better on October 31st.

Why, pray tell, would anyone think we would waste our time showing to the assemblage of America haters gathered in Denver?

Do you think it would even bother them to see Mad Michelle cursing her country?

Puh-leeze.

By JAY BOOKMAN

August 26, 2008 7:10 AM | Link to this

Management, if you have your own opinion, feel free to state it. But reposting extensive comments copied from other blogs is an abuse of the privilege. Two screenloads plus?

Sorry bud.

By Mike

August 26, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this

Listening to Bookman criticize anyone for being unoriginal is another laughable example of his incessant hypocrisy.

Bookman regurgitates all of the same talking points that float around the liberal echo machine and thinks he is creative. At least Management isn’t taking a paycheck for his regurgitation, unlike Bookman.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this

Boy, Andy, I don’t know what you were watching last night but it sure wasn’t the Democrocratic National Convention.

Get that flipper fixed dude! I think you were watching reruns of 24!

Assemblege of America haters? You are too funny!

By Bud Wiser

August 26, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

Yeah, they showed enough Dead Kennedy clips I gather to make you think they are almost still alive. You know, the shelf life on celluloid is only about 80-90 years…..you think they’ll still be using it in the middle to late part of this century too?

I gathered some excerpts from Michelle O’s speech:

1.) As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig. - no doubt aimed at the midnight basketball gangstas

2.) * He was raised by grandparents who were working class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did.* - his greatest constituency

3.) People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters - and sons - can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher. - what the hell does she mean by this?? I guess she forgot Geraldine Ferraro was still alive.

4.) That is why I love this country. - sorry lady, you got it right as far as you’re concerned when you made the ‘for the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country’ statement. Americans can read people pretty well by first impressions, and that’s the impression you left everyone with, and it’s not a pretty one either.

5.) That’s why he’s running - to end the war in Iraq responsibly, … - aha! The cat is out of the bag now, isn’t it? What happened to the 60 days? The real Obama revealed further, say what it takes to get the nomination from the fanatics, do something else later.

6.) He’ll achieve these goals the same way he always has - by bringing us together and reminding us how much we share and how alike we really are. - yeah, we share the same values, like religion for instance; for sure we all go to a church pastored by someone like Jeremiah Wright. If he were Baptist, it would be more believable, because a lot of folks sleep through those long, drawn out sermons. Wright’s high pitched oratory of hate speech would be too loud, if nothing else, to ignore.

You can put lipstick and a pretty dress on a pig, and it’s still a pig. You put a socialist in front of a mike, and the socialist comes through loud and clear, and yes, it’s still a socialist. I guess she wore a pretty dress, my constitution is too frail to allow me to watch garbage like the DNC party without retching violently. I gathered these excepts online this morning, so I cannot vouch for their accuracy, especially coming from ABC. Braves baseball tonight may be rained out tonight; too much rain, too cool for August…where’s the global warming???????????

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 7:27 AM | Link to this

By JAY BOOKMAN August 26, 2008 7:10 AM Management, if you have your own opinion, feel free to state it. But reposting extensive comments copied from other blogs is an abuse of the privilege. Two screenloads plus?

No one on this blog posts “extensive comments copied from other blogs” except I r o Dim and SNEWZE, everybody knows it.

Every single one of my comments are small snippets taken from various recent news sources, most of them from that day’s edition of the Urinal and in almost every case, are followed up with my own thoughts and words.

What you censored today was more than half on topic, 4 seperate comments about the dhimmi convention.

I guess hearing the sham that is liberalism being exposed must make some liberals angry, huh?

So allow me to clear the way for Polly to unload all of it’s mindless spam on the blog, complete with vulgarity directed at the Conservatives, which doesn’t seem to bother our host very much.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

Yo Bud….

Speaking of pigs…..

What do you call a man who suggests his wife should compete in the Miss Buffalo Chip contest?

Don’t you think that’s just a tad “oinkish”?

What do you think of a man who says to his wife, “”At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you XXXX.”

That’s a real oinker-rama.

Leave Michelle alone. She’s way out of your league.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this

Duhzilla: How’s the 2006 democrat pledge to end the Iraq war working out for you?

Do tell us about the most hard working Congress in history that worked, what, one 4 day week and has been sunning on the coast for more that 3 weeks solid while Americans face staggeringly high energy and food prices.

Have the democrats rid themselves of the lobbyists as they promised in 2006?

No, a liberal would never lie, of course not.

~~~~~

Today’s Duh Report, see for yourself the great and horrible act of blog abuse

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

How about a morning funny!

By Taxpayer

August 26, 2008 7:45 AM | Link to this

I don’t think “two” constitutes an assemblage of America haters. On the other hand, they may be representatives from such a group. They should be offered safe passage to China where they can be welcomed with open arms.

By Bud Wiser

August 26, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this

She’s the one that was on stage, Mrs G., so she’s fair game for anything she says.

Of course you had to divert to your childish and tiresome references to McCain (I gather), totally unable to refute anything I said about what she said. I might agree with you on one point - she is out of my league…my league has always been proud of America.

But that is the way you’ve been raised and nurtured from your puppet masters at the DNC, Huffington Pus/POS, Daily Kos, etc, etc. You can’t hit what you can’t see ( also a good golf tip BTW Jay, keep your head DOWN ), if you cannot converse intelligently on any given subject, become abusive and change the subject. You bovine libs are all alike, so predictable you make me laugh. Since you’re up for the day, it’s time to change the sheets on the bed (again) and be sure to put a clean plastic bed liner underneath, not on top of the sheets, so you won’t stick to them like you usually do.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

Andy, how have those obstructionist Republicans of yours done for all of the America people?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

Duhzilla: I’m probably above your pay grade here but the dhimmocrats voted in favor of funding the Iraq war both times it came before them.

Do tell us, what do the Repugs have to do with that?

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Jay, Just look at those mug shots — the faces of the Repug Party today! The only way the Repugs know how to win elections is through fear and intimidation, employing tactics just like all the other totalitarian regimes all across the world. Shame, shame, shame…

By FrankLeeDarling

August 26, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Talk about a contrast,Oama and Biden’s family looked great,soild american families.Contrast that with McCains sleazy cheating style.NO class in comparison.

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Andy DUH-Management, you obviously are too low on the “pay grade” to understand that you’re perceived here as a mentally-challenged childish idiot. Why dontcha go back to your Mom’s attic where you belong???

By Maniac is accurate

August 26, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

The suspect photos look a little like that of the blogger at the top of this page.

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

What America say last night at the Dems’ convention was a beautiful First Family, beginning in Jan. ‘09, ready to lead us out of the darkness which has been the last 8 years of Dubya, and into the light of the 21st century!

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Don’t be surprised if the description of the two wannabe-assassinators fits Andy-DUH-Management to a perfect tee!

The men may have ties to Sons of Silence, an outlaw biker group, and are believed to have connections with white supremacists. Federal sources said this incident may have had more to do with methamphetamine than with any plot to assassinate Obama, but local police did not say why they connected the men to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

No wonder Andy-DUH spends so much time here blogging his hatred for America, day after day — and who else could look as ugly as those mug shots, other than DUH???

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Goldie:

did you happen to see this?

Petraeus Disagrees With McCain, Says Success In Iraq Was Possible Without The Surge»

Oh my, McCain is wrong.

By FrankLeeDarling

August 26, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

It will be nice to have some good looking sophisticated people in the white house,instead of that fugly redneck.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08 bringing class back to the white house

By bearcasey

August 26, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC MGT: Haven’t you noticed that “W” is the least intelligent President since Warren G. Harding? No, I guess you wouldn’t. Too busy being a windbag as usual.

By Peadawg

August 26, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

So a few months ago, Michelle said “This is the only time I have liked this country” and now she says “…and This is why I love this country…” Talk about flip-flopping and doing anything you can to save your image.

McCain/TBA ‘08!!!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Peadawg

Please check your quote it is wrong.

In fact, it is very wrong.

If truth does not matter to you, you fail American citizenship.

By "The Corporal"

August 26, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

A Couple of Thoughts:

I believe the democrats have suddenly developed a keen sense of morality. John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the Democratic National Convention for having an affair and lying about it but Bill Clinton will be speaking.

2) Don’t forget that Ted Kennedy got a gold medal for swimming at the Chappaquidick Games.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

By bearcasey August 26, 2008 8:26 AM AJC/DNC MGT: Haven’t you noticed that “W” is the least intelligent President since Warren G. Harding?

Yawnnnnn:

Ms. Pelosi appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where Tom Brokaw gently pointed out that the various Democratic alternative energy ambitions are “not going to happen overnight.” Replied Ms. Pelosi: “You can have a transition with natural gas. That, that is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.” Later, she again said that “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” and that wind, solar, biofuels and “a focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.”

By Bosch

August 26, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

I thought the night went well. Ted Kennedy was very inspiring and Caroline Kennedy, well, the only word you can say about her is “pure class” - okay, that’s two. But she’s worth alot more.

I thought Michelle Obama’s speech went very well. She too, is very classy, in my opinion.

The thing that I didn’t like were the commentators who wanted blood. I thought the mostly positive air of the evening was a real break from the cut throat atmosphere we’ve seen lately.

Coming straight off the Olympics which is about fair games and world peace, it would have been horribly disappointing to have all the speakers rag on Bush and McCain, and the GOP.

And it was annoying to hear the commentators criticize them for not doing it. They need ratings and they need blood and hate to get people riled up - but that’s unfortunate that we as Americans stoop to those levels.

I noticed during the first part of the Olympics that McCain was running negative ads against Obama, but Obama wasn’t doing vice versa - McCain changed those ads after a few days and I was glad to see that. The Olympics are no place for political hate.

Hills speaks tonight - that’s where the hate will start - she is certainly filled with it. She’ll get the hate machines rolling - but Michelle Obama was a class act last night and to say any different or to mock her speech just goes to show what kind of hate filled individual one can be.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Coporal,

Have you missed out on promotion for a reason? You’ll never make General unless you do your homework better.

Assignment: Republican Sex Scandals

You perhaps should study more in that glass house of yours.

By Ray

August 26, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

We keep shooting jabs and are not focusing on the main issue that Jay posed. Many of the electorate, right or wrong, have maintained that we are not ready for a black president because of the state of race relations in this country. This seething hate that is just below the surface is real, like it or not, and from both black and white. It is the elephant in the living room and will probably decide this election. If, God forbid, something should happen to Mr. Wonderful, we are in for some rough times that would set us back for decades. Alma Powell would not even think about Colin Powell running for president because she fearing for his safety. This nation has it’s share of whackos just like the ones in the photos who would welcome the demise of someone of color. But the Demos have a perpetual circular firing squad. If the Grand One is elected, the secret service will no doubt earn their money.

By Peadawg

August 26, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla

It was something like “this is the first time i’ve ever loved this country” or something along those lines. Either way, u get my point.

By getalife "whiners"

August 26, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

They were deer hunters on meth Jay.

Ted was good the rest was weak.

I doubt the gop will spend their first night getting all emotional.

As far as the “whitety” tape. If you think it is bs, why write about it?

By hillbilly ragger

August 26, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Oooh, LuckoTrool @ 7.02—we’re all SO SCARED!

Jay, let’s cut the crap, shall we?

If Obama loses, it’ll be because the nation simply isn’t ready to elect a black president. You know it, I know it, the whole damn country knows it.

Obama is poised to lead this country where it needs to go—forward. His positions are more or less where most of the nation’s citizens are.

McCain is hopelessly tied to failed foreign policy, failed borrow-and-spend economics, and an increasingly marginalized “social-conservative” (read: scared of gays, nervous about Those People, & thinks reproductive choice = “baby-killing”) base.

It ought to be Obama’s to lose. But then there’s that whole centuries-of-being-taught-blacks-are-inferior thing for whites in America to deal with.

By Common Sense

August 26, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Good Morning fellow bloggers,

You can tell the difference between the good people with common sense and the stupid people with no sense.

The people with no sense only know how to smear, put down and denegrate someone.

AJC/BUD wiser since you both are conservatives does that mean being nasty first? Or do you any christain belief to speak kindly about someone.

I know we are blogging but to mention something nasty about someone is really low-down. Talking about someone being killed!

It makes me wonder if a lot of people feel and think like the both of you, how in the world can our country get on the right track with tracking people the right way.

See, I actually like Mr. McClain but I know he does not have what it takes to lead this country.

I can just see how Mr. McClain has ran his campaign year after year. This year he had to borrow money to compete and was very close to pulling out.

Not a smart business man!

By hillbilly ragger

August 26, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Ray @ 8.47, great minds think somewhat alike. (Perhaps?) unlike you, though, I’ve every confidence that our Secret Service is up for the task.

By "The Corporal"

August 26, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

To Ray, et al:

B.S. ! I am as conservative as I can be and would vote for Powell or any other moderate to conservative black candidate. Keep pushing the race card. It’s just not there. Obama is plain and simply not qualified to be President of the United States. He is a lightweight. I would never vote for Biden but he is immensely more qualified to be President than Obama. You guys screwed this up and now you have to live with it……………

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Peadawg,

No I don’t get your point.

Until you are a responsible enough American citizen to seek out the real quote, in context, you still fail American Citizenship.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 26, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Here’s to all of you toadies that took momentary advantage of American “weakness” in being able to deal with Russia’s aggression:

Markets do react to unpleasant facts, such as other peoples’ fear and resentment of Russian bullying. And since the invasion, markets have sent a clear signal of Nyet. Many investors – both foreign and domestic – are fleeing Russia. Its currency reserves and stock market have plunged in recent weeks. And that’s on top of the West’s warning that relations with Russia will not be “business as usual.”

We will choke them to death.

Without firing a shot:

How does one deal with a neurotic? Not by coddling him. Russia is dangerous but it’s also weak, and it would be good to find ways to remind it of that latter fact. Stinger missiles for Georgia would be a start.

Another victory for Bushie looms.

By JR

August 26, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

hillbilly Would you vote for a white person that only has the experience that Obama has? I doubt it, but I know you will NEVER admit it.

By Common Sense

August 26, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

It’s amazing to me that news media and conservatives want to create tension and hate in this campaign.

We have a lot of Americans hurting mentally,physically and financially and so-called Americans spew dislike, write hurtfully comments about someone!

We have some very cynical people out here and I know those are not real Americans.

By Bosch

August 26, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Hillbilly ragger and Ray,

I agree with you. I hate to say that, but I do, because I believe that as well.

Common Sense,

I decided today, that I was going to skip over hate blogs - if it starts out negative, I’ll skip right over -

I was inspired last night, and I want to keep that feel.

It will probably be a boring blog day for me, huh?

If only people would vote on the issues of the candidate - but that would be INCREDIBLY boring, right?

By Ray

August 26, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Corporal,

Calm down. I am also a devout conservative, and would welcome a moderate black candidate, just not this one. I am not pushing the race card, just being realistic.
When the American voter steps into that voting booth, all of this “political correctness” crap will be on the other side of that curtain. It is a very private place where we will soon find out just how “tolerant” the American public is about someone of color being president.

By "The Corporal"

August 26, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

I know Mary Jo Kopechne didn’t want to, but she gave her life for her country by preventing Ted Kennedy from ever becoming President !

By Impressions of the Convention

August 26, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

2 paragraphs on the convention.

3 paragraphs on “whitey”

Yep, that about sums it up.

By @@

August 26, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Well that’s your impression Jay — now for mine.

I was one of those who fell for the build up on Teddy. I was, however, pleased to see him looking so well. Teddy is among my least favorite democrats. Unlike the liberals who relish in the debilitating illness of conservatives (Tony Snow, Jerry Falwell, others), I am not so inclined.

When Teddy, once again, called for universal healthcare, I couldn’t help but wonder why the dems haven’t achieved it after all these decades. It’s not that I support universal healthcare, but dem voters should be able to recognize when they’ve being beat over the head with a “limp carrot” to garner votes.

Michelle’s speech, for all that could see, was a carefully orchestrated appeal for acceptance. When she said OBlahMa had never had “a father’s embrace”, I couldn’t help but ask myself if both he and she viewed his grandfather as chopped liver. Not a lot of appreciation for all the grandparents who are raising their childrens’ children out there

I’d take your concern over the possible assassins one step further. Why are they free to plot and plan when they’ve got numerous arrest warrants outstanding? Members of the outlaw biker gang “Sons of Silence”? Doesn’t Hollyweird have a fall series planned for the fall — “Sons of Anarchy”? Hollyweird stands front and center in America’s classroom and at the dem’s convention.

The most defining moment for me was when Juan Williams welled up with pride that African Americans got to see an INTACT black family on stage?

Lots of crocodile tears coming from all those dems.

Emotion appeals!!!!!!!

Gimme a break.

By Midori

August 26, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

y-d-n-A,

just like a punk. born a punk, always a punk.

especially with that “someone else did it too” excuse.

you sure that guy [on the left isn’t you?](http://elections.foxnews.com/files/2008/08/barackarrest.jpg}

By Lewis

August 26, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Looks like two less votes for McCain…unless they get turned loose.

By hillbilly ragger

August 26, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

JR, since you asked, yes, of course if I were presented with the choice of a white guy with Obama’s experience vs. McCain, I’d go with “imaginary white guy.”

(Your hypothetical presumes that all other Obama qualities remain equal too, right? Like his managerial, organizational and communication skills? Similar pre-political personal and professional background? Somewhat-similar personal background, only with an absent light-skinned dad rather than a dark-skinned one? That’s all fine by me.)

But if you want to believe that Obama is some kind of quota candidate and that all of his supporters are deluding themselves, feel free. I doubt I’ll convince you otherwise. Not here, anyway.

By Common Sense

August 26, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

To: Bosch,

I agree totally we not to drop the racial overtones and the negative comments and ask these candidates to address the issues that are facing Americans right now!

So many on this blog continues to speak about experience to become a president know one has real experience to become a president except a former president.

If we are talking experience I want Bill Clinton let’s pass a bill so that former presidents can run for office again.

If not I want a think who wants to challenge and can run and effective campaign plus hire people who are for this country and not themselves.

Regarding foreign policy if anyone thinks we can have the same foriegn policy strategy the we are in big trouble.

The world has changed and you can no longer act like we are the only people with a big stick.

I want to hear about real issues, jobs creation, better eduction, rebuilding the roads and infrastruture, oil and renewable energy.

We need intelligence not someone who is pandering to us.

By @@

August 26, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Dang! I missed this yesterday!

From The AJC Metro section:

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has put his Riverdale home on the market.

Hill, who lost a bid for re-election earlier this month, is asking $295,900 for his home at ** according to the Multiple Listing Service.*

Hill purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in 2004 for $240,000

Bye Bye Victor, and good luck /sarc/ in selling YOUR home in a county which you helped destroy.

Idiot!!!!

By RealityKing

August 26, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Aren’t you in Denver Jay? All these biased attack columns have certainly earned you a prime seat along side Cynthia. And hey…, did you guys see Emil Jones call the Illinios’ Senator an Uncle Tom for HER support of Hillary!? Is it true!!??

And why isn’t it in the AJC? More liberal protectionism?? Now that’s news…

By ButtHead

August 26, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

I can’t believe how ignorant some liberals are. Where has Mrs. Obama been for the last several months thats right they told her to shut up and disappear while we write a speech that will make you look better? Then you boneheads fall for it. Losers

By Ray

August 26, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

The greatest president of the 20th century was a little frumpy guy with a frumpy wife and daughter, who worked as a mob lawyer for the Pendergast mob in Kansas City. He ran a hat shop before this but made the greatest decisions for this country and it’s future of any president before or since. His most famous quote…. “At an early age, I had to decide whether to be a piano player in a w******* or a politician. I found out as time went by that the two of them had a lot in common.” Harry Truman had little to no experience but a lot of grit and an unfailing will to do the right thing. I don’t see that in Mr. Wonderful.

By FrankLeeDarling

August 26, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

I know butthead its hard to believe some liberals are ignorant ,but with republicans it just becomes a oxymoron.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

RAY

Check your facts… Truman was not a lawyer.

By Bosch

August 26, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Ray,

Nice story. I have to say, I think there are better choices for President, like Colin Powell and Sam Nunn, but as for Obama, I like his take on the issues at hand better than McCain’s. It’s really that simple.

I try to look over the other crap. It’s hard, and I’m guilty of it sometimes, but I try - I think it just shows you have more class.

I know he doesn’t have a lot of experience on the national level, but I think he’s very smart and will make informed decisions.

I don’t think he’s that inexperienced to run this country. I don’t think being a career politician, like McCain, qualifies a person any more to be President than not.

Many good presidents from the past were not career politicians. It seems many on the right are making that a job requirement for Obama while conveniently overlooking it with some of their heroes like Bush and Reagan.

That’s one thing I’ve never liked about Bush - he surrounded himself with “yes” men who were only looking out for their own interests, or their own party’s interest, and it has seemed to me, they’ve cared little about the rest of us.

By Road Scholar

August 26, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

After so many negative comments (and with many totally unfounded on fact), I agree, we need the candidates to focus on their programs and details. Unfortunately, there is still people like Peadawg (Mrs Godzilla, keep him on his toes) and others who are selective, and ususally biased on their rememberances of the facts and quotes. Have you tried listening to what they are saying before engaging your mouth and fingers?

Bud Wiser; you may need to change your name due to copyright infringement; you may hear from Queen McCain. My suggestion would be Bud Uninformed and Hateful.

I apologize for contradicting myself in calling for less insults and name calling and more civil debate. But I’m getting tired of the lack of listening to facts (not the talk show kind) and thought put into the blogs. While some are well thought out, many do not question their sources or accuracy. The aggresion serves no purpose but to make oneself feel good about their alledged dominance.

By ghost rider

August 26, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

I see where Cindy McCain is off to meet With Saakashvili in Georgia.

Maybe the Percocet and Vicodin, are more readily available there?

What other explanation could there be..

Has she now transpired into some kind of states woman based on Big John running for president.

Help us all if McCain wins!

By Bud Wiser

August 26, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Harry Truman? The same Harry Truman that kept MacArthur from going into China during the Korean War, and sent him home in disgrace? The same Harry Truman that has been heretofore the only world leader that has unleashed atomic weapons on another nation?

My uncle always said about Truman (paraphrase here): “When the A-bombs start rainin’ in here from China, just before your light goes out, you can bend over, grab your ankles, kiss your a— goodbye, and thank Harry Truman for not letting MacArthur wipe up the Chicoms.”

By marko

August 26, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Over the next few weeks, millions will be spent to convince us that other guy is a dangerous wacko totally unfit to lead the country. Having spent the last eight years being led by a dangerous wacko totally unfit to run the country, I can assure you all that America is not the fragile little weakling many would have us believe. If we can survive W for eight years we can survive pretty much anything. While I clearly have a preference as to who gets elected, I already know that who ever wins will be a vast improvement over who we have.

By Ray

August 26, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Mrs G,

I stand corrected. He gave lots of legal advice to Pendergast, being that he was elected a county judge and later a US Senator from Missouri. But he was not a lawyer.

By @@

August 26, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Thomas Sowell’s “Random Thoughts” sums up the state of today’s politics.

The beginning:

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.

The End:

At one time, it was said “The truth will make you free.” Today, there seem to be those who think that rhetoric and hype will make you free. It might even be called the audacity of hype.

I dang well know I’m free, and am determined to resist any further government control of my life.

By SaveOurRepublic

August 26, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

These party conventions are totally staged, scripted, propaganda ploys by the two “divisions” of the same/one/single Globalist Elite controlled political party of puppets. The DNC masquerades as one side, while the GOP pretends to still be “conservative”. Both parties are almost totally bought/paid for by the Elite (save for rare patriots like Ron Paul). The Demoncraps trot out the Marxist-shell/Globalist core mouthpieces to spew the socialist rhetoric & the Republicruds bring forth the Necon phoney “conservative” shell/Globalist shill core puppets who give lip service to the largely deceived GOP base. It’s all a huge dog & pony show meant to further dupe the sheeple into thinking they have a real choice. My fellow Americans…please stop buying into the “lesser of two evils” routine & fradulant “Left vs. Right” paradigm and vote 3rd party! The GOP & DNC are 2 sides of the same coin!!!

P.S. - While Barr is fairly solid, Constitution Party candidate Dr.Chuck Baldwin is a true patriot!

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By Bud Wiser

August 26, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

KMA, Road Toad.

I call it as it is. None of you intellectual snots from the left have yet to date refuted with fact any thing I may have said, or any claims I may have made, not only today, but any day.

It is always the socialist leftist that first resorts to insults, snobbery and name calling, and that is because their positions are so vapid. Mrs G is a mindless tool that reposts the garbage from left wing sources…nothing she can say is ever original. Midori is the prototypical ‘mad black woman’, enough said.

Bloggers like these post their leftists crap first, name call people who contradict second, then resort to stupidity and mindless insinuations third.

Their biggest problem is that they would not know a fact if it hit them in their bovine butts, and live in this little dream cloud of socialistic eden. Ask the blacks what trillions of dollars the last 50+ years has done for them, or better still, look what it has done. Gangs, drugs, hip hop, rap, untold violence, 71% out of wedlock birthrate, a wrecked subculture looking for a leader and not being able to come up with anything more than Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, is what you have. Fact. Period.

So Toad, maybe you should consider studying up a little bit about copyright infringement before you try to do verbal battle with a superior intellect. Sometimes you make some sense, so I feel there is hope for you yet.

By Bosch

August 26, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Ray and Mrs. G. -

He was a haberdasher! That’s way cooler than being a lawyer.

You know, mobsters at that time needed cool hats.

By Shawny

August 26, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

The Inconvenient Obama. No, not Barry or Michelle, but brother George Hussein Onyango Obama. Interesting.

By Eric1

August 26, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

I’d like to compare the success stories of Barack and Michelle Obama and Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter with the likes of miss management. My guess is there is no comparison. One thing she is prolific at is spewing garbage. Thanks for the multiple doses of garbage, miss management. I found the Michelle Obama oration to be be thouhtful and inspiring. I was very impressed. It’s obvious why the likes of miss management are intimidated.

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Obama is plain and simply not qualified to be President of the United States. He is a lightweight.

To the Neo-Corporal and other trolls: please list what makes McBush qualified to be POTUS — is it 30 years of arguing in the US Senate for awful legislation and kissing Dubya’s patooty? How exactly does that make him better qualified to be anything other than a very incompetent incumbent legislator? What legislation was McBush responsible for passing that makes you so proud — is it the McBush-Feingold law, or the soft-on-immigrants legislation???

By Eric1

August 26, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I’d like to compare the success stories of Barack and Michelle Obama and Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter with the likes of miss management. My guess is there is no comparison. One thing she is prolific at is spewing garbage. Thanks for the multiple doses of garbage, miss management. I found the Michelle Obama oration to be be thouhtful and inspiring. I was very impressed. It’s obvious why the likes of miss management are intimidated.

By ByteMe

August 26, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Yes, Bud, you are an all-knowing God and the rest of us ignorant masses bow down to you.

Heh. Right. In your wet dreams. Grow a pair that work, ok?

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

None of you intellectual snots from the left have yet to date refuted with fact

It is always the socialist leftist that first resorts to insults, snobbery and name calling

Non-Wiser @ 10:42 — so why exactly do you come to this blog day after day, along with Andy-DUH and the other hateful trolls, other than to insult, be a SNOB, and resort to name calling against 75% of America? Why do you hate America so much???

By Midori

August 26, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Midori is the prototypical ‘mad black woman

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

To the Bat Signal!!!!!!

By Joe

August 26, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

After the first night of the dem convention I am even more convinced that I don’t have a place within the dem party. How could they act as if Ted Kennedy was some sort of hero? This is a man that left a woman to die in a submerged car. The funny part was with Howard dean and Nancy Pelosi making fools of themselves by spewing more lib talking points while no one on the floor even paid attention. It was like they were all alone. To top it off was Michele Obama’s teleprompter speech that told us nothing new. Just trying to look normal even though informed people realizes she’s not. To sum it up it just seemed like the largest gathering of incompetence that I’ve ever seen.

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

and thank Harry Truman for not letting MacArthur wipe up the Chicoms.”

Just one of the reasons that America is so tired of the Repugs’ war-mongering into infinity — in your playbook, there’s absolutely no problem to be solved without never-ending war, correct? How else would you war-mongers ever make a financial killing without your WARS???

By Clash

August 26, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Did anyone notice how broad Michelle Osama’s shoulders are? I thought she was a man. Was she born a man? Her real name was Michael and later changed it to Michelle.

By RW-(the original)

August 26, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Good grief, Bookman.

A liberal Hillary Clinton supporter puts out a rumor that Republican talkers might have a “whitey tape” and that rumor comes out at a time when the only person that could be helped by it was Hillary herself.

Let’s see if Jay can show us where Rush is the one that said this “whitey” tape is out there waiting to be played. You hear me Jay? Paging Mr. Bookman!!!

Then again you can just censor this like you apparently did Andy.

Pathetic

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Ask the blacks what trillions of dollars the last 50+ years has done for them, or better still, look what it has done.

And look at what your SNOB education has done for you, Non-Wiser — did your Daddy pay for your racist education himself or did you have to get student loans to go to your private, racist school??? Just curious how some Americans can be so hateful and ugly toward fellow human beings… or is it your brand of Christian religion that teaches you to hate so much on other people??

By Midori

August 26, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Joe,

why not start your own party?

I think we’re just fine without you. As a matter of fact, I know we are.

Are you as “outraged” about a teenaged Laura Bush killing her boyfriend?

By Ray

August 26, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

In a period of less than 7 years…..saving probably 1M American lives by dropping bombs in the right places,. brokering the end of WWII, the establishment of NATO, implementation of the Marshall Plan and the rebuilding of Europe and Japan, establishment of the Truman Doctrine, saving So Korea’s posterior, firing McArthur for being a pompous a*, and being the USSR’s equal in the Cold War. Can’t think of another president who had less experience at being a president and accomplishing more. Vision, humility (turned down the Congressional Medal of Freedom at age 87….. said he didn’t deserve it), grit, putting the office before the man…. his retirement pension was $13,702.50/year. Where are you, Harry, we need you more today than ever.

By Goldie

August 26, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

To sum it up it just seemed like the largest gathering of incompetence that I’ve ever seen.

Joe @ 10:59— Get your popcorn ready for the true “gathering of incompetence” next week — it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so Gawd-awful what your Party has done to America these days… and your Party will pay a big price for its incompetence for the next decade or more, by being cast out into the political hinterlands.

By T

August 26, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser

• Ask the blacks what trillions of dollars the last 50+ years has done for them, or better still, look what it has done. Gangs, drugs, hip hop, rap, untold violence, 71% out of wedlock birthrate, a wrecked subculture looking for a leader and not being able to come up with anything more than Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, is what you have. Fact. Period.*

What has it done for me? Well sweetie, two of my sisters are doctors, one in Art school. I am currently in school now. Yes, I thank you for your tax dollars for making that possible via Montgomery GI bill.

Since when, do all these things rest soley on one race? I thought it was up to Americans as a country to see how these negatives affect us as a whole and do what we can to change it. Or is that the seperate but equal BS.

If you were as smart as you proclaim, you would understand that these are issues that are embedded in poverty, not race.

If you really think that all black people look up to those you have listed, you might try getting out a little more.

Then again thanks for sharing your feelings that we are inferior. Be careful getting your freshly starched hood from the cleaners. It’s raining and might get wrinkled.

By GOPs got to go

August 26, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Well all I am a little over half way through “Truman” by McCullough. Truman and his old army buddy, Jacobson, opened a Men’s apparel shop which Harry referred to as “the shirt store”. It failed during the depression and Harry was left with a lot of debt. He actually failed at every business he started until he became a Jackson County Judge, not a lawyer, and entered politics. He did his best work fixing all the roads in Jackson County. He did not have any formal education past High School.

I have also read MacArthur’s biography and he was a real prima donna. China is just too big and populous for us to invade, even in 1950. Just goes to show us Bud’s Uncle was no more astute than Bud.

Unfortunately I have to arise very early in the morning for work and fell asleep last night. I did see Ted and was impressed by how good he looks. I see cancer patients on a daily basis and he looks good.

I enjoyed the speech by Obama’s half sister. I missed Michelle’s speech. Darn that time change thing! I will try to make it through Hillary’s speech tonight.

Loved the link to those two would be assassins. I now have a face and name to go with Budweiser and Management.

By Th

August 26, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

My understanding is that the “whitey” tape does exist, but Michelle Obama is clearly not saying “whitey” but “why did he?” That is why you will never hear the tape except in heavily edited versions that remove context and try to trick you into actually thinking she said “whitey.” Before she began asking “why did he” (referring to Bush) she spent several minutes talking about Bush and his policy failures. The tape was a dud so only the rumor survives.

The Republicans seem awfully disappointed they are not going to be running against Clinton.

By ghost rider

August 26, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

By Clash

CLASH…you’re worried about how wide Mrs Obama’s shoulders are?

Jeez .. Get a life! Or for that matter a clue.

Did you notice her brother stands 6’6” tall and has very wide shoulders.

He was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton University, graduating in 1983 with an AB in Sociology. He is the fourth highest scorer in school history. He earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1992.

The Robinson and Obama families are an American success story…Live with it!

By RW-(the original)

August 26, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

The Robinson and Obama families are an American success story…Live with it!

You know, that’s a sentiment I can agree with and it’s also why statements from Michelle just a few short months ago that for the first time in her adult life she’s proud of her country and that America is a downright mean country resonate in complete contrast to that BS speech she read last night.

AJC/DNC-M,

Is that 7:38 link really what Jay censored here?

It sure looked easy to scroll by if one wasn’t interested.

By ghost rider

August 26, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

By RW-(the original)

I take your point but what you say she said is not what she said.

Here is the exact verbage of her comment ” “People in this country are ready for change and hungry for a different kind of politics and … for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

That quote is from FOX NEWS!

Quite a bit of difference from what you said she said to what she actually said… YA THINK?

By Randall

August 26, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

“The Corporal”: Obama is not qualified? Huh? Bush is a “C” student, draft dogger; never bothered to show up for National Guard duty; used cocaine and alcohol like water AND McCain graduated at the bottom of his class (864 out of 869 or something to that affect); he cheated on his crippled first wife with Cindy and wants to taut “American” values. The guy has stated HE KNOWS NOTHING about economics. Anerica’s #1 issue is the econony. I could give a rat’s a* about gay marriage, abortion, or offshore drilling when I’m about to lose my job and house. Americans are tired of the BS and want real change.

By Randall

August 26, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

“The Corporal”: Obama is not qualified? Huh? Bush is a “C” student, draft dogger; never bothered to show up for National Guard duty; used cocaine and alcohol like water AND McCain graduated at the bottom of his class (864 out of 869 or something to that affect); he cheated on his crippled first wife with Cindy and wants to taut “American” values. The guy has stated HE KNOWS NOTHING about economics. Anerica’s #1 issue is the econony. I could give a rat’s a* about gay marriage, abortion, or offshore drilling when I’m about to lose my job and house. Americans are tired of the BS and want real change.

By ByteMe

August 26, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

RW: Nah, it was another of the long, boring cut-and-paste jobs that went on and on and… Of course with no attribution, so his claim of “news sources” is unsubstantiated.

He really does need to just get his own blog for that stuff and post a link to it if anyone cares to read his stuff.

By Pat

August 26, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

It’s not the fact that Obama is black (well, half black) that he won’t get elected. It’s that he wants to turn the USA into socialist Europe. There’s a reason people turn to the U.S. in times of trouble, and it’s the fact we can protect ourselves and others around the world who choose not to or are unable to. If the U.S. gets more socialist, who will stand up to rogue nations? One need not look farther than Russia invading Georgia to see what troubles lurk in the near future. I sure hope Obama has a portable TelePrompTer for those meetings with foreign leaders.

http://www.cafepress.com/nobamarx http://www.cafepress.com/DefiningChange

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 26, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Pat

Please explain how Obama is want to turn America into a socialist nation.

I’m curious as to how you figure that one.

By Common Sense

August 26, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Can anyone explain why Cindy McClain is going to Georgia. C’mon Mr. McClain why the pandering?

To be honest I am so sick and tired of American politics that sway with the wind.

No energy policy now let’s drill. When gas prices were over $3 dollars I did not hear let’s drill.

To: Bud wiser,

I did not know that you or the government gave all African Americans 50 billions to improve their lives.

Correct me if I am wrong that African Americans are 2nd class citzens and needed a hand-out to work, go to college, raise their families, make inventions that are the cornerstone of the United States.

By RW-(the original)

August 26, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

ghost rider,

You just typed the same thing I did and said it was different. Would you care to explain?

Adding a qualifier for why she’s proud of her country for the first time in her adult life doesn’t change the fact that she’s proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.

By Bosch

August 26, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

I don’t mean this as an insult, but is it just me, or does Cindy McCain have some wicked eyes or what?

By Midori

August 26, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

*it was another of the long, boring cut-and-paste jobs that went on and on and… *

like 90 percent of the crap that idiot posts.

and to think he/it stays up half the night just so he can be the first to post that nonsense speaks volumes about him/it, no?

By ghost rider

August 26, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

PAT…understand this, the world is a very complicated place nowadays!

Russia invaded Georgia because Georgia invaded South Ossetia. South Ossetia then accused Georgia of hiring the Chechen mercenaries to carry out terrorist attacks in the region.

Russia has previously accused Georgia of harbouring Chechen separatists in the gorge.

That’s why people like Joe Biden are so critical in this election..He gets it!

Bush, Cheney, McCain..Well hey! Let’s just bomb anyone nearby! Send in the troops!

By Midori

August 26, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Bosch, Goldie and Mrs. G: want to see something completely hilarious?

By ghost rider

August 26, 2008 12:37 PM |