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Kathy Cox does well for Georgia

By Jay Bookman | Saturday, September 6, 2008, 08:37 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Congratulations to Georgia Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox for winning a cool $1 million on Fox’s “Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?” Even better, she’s donating her winnings to Ga. schools.

Cox, a former school teacher herself, initially took some heat for appearing on the show, as if it were somehow beneath her. But good for her for not taking herself too seriously.

Yes, we do have an awful lot of work to do in Georgia schools. But it didn’t hurt for Georgia kids to watch someone win $1 million for being smart.

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By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Kudos to Kathy Cox and kudos to Jay for not just taking a partisan pot shot.

By Taxpayer

September 6, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Now this is what I call good reality TV. Can we get Karen Handel to go on the show next. Please. By the way, if going on that show was “beneath” her, would that mean that she was being “downity”. I’m just trying to get my usage of certain words straightened out in order to help me avoid any potentially embarrassing moments for my spokesperson.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Kudos indeed, but I’m afraid thee comment section will not be free of partisan rhetoric and bigoted comments.

By ByteMe

September 6, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer, would your spokesperson be paid for by … um… the Taxpayers?

Too pretty to be inside today… have a good Saturday.

By Taxpayer

September 6, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

ByteMe,

Maybe I should get me a government job and find out how that spokesperson thing works or maybe I should just get me a job as a spokesperson. Hey, if it weren’t for government jobs, there’d be hardly no jobs at all these days, right.

By the way, it is nice outside. We’ll be heading off soon to enjoy the weather and burn a little of that “cheap” gas 8>)

By Taxpayer

September 6, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Praise be to the non-partisans.
Riiiiight… No…Lefffffft… No…Independent…

By the way, how are those SAT scores coming along. Any of them getting left behind. How are those Clayton County school kids coping these days? Anyone out there willing to for vouch for all those kids when or if they try to get into college. Someone brought up an interesting take on the “No Child Left Behind” program — that it is intended to force all children to ultimately fail and pave the way for the demise of the current system. Funny how some things tend to evolve, isn’t it. It’s almost as though there were some intelligence to the design. Anyone else have a take on that thought. It sounds similar to the Bush Administration’s method for balancing the budget — eliminate his tax cuts and viola. No sleight of hand here.

By Concerned parent

September 6, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

The show was clearly as scripted as either political convention. It was embarrassing. If you want to see real contestants answer tough questions watch Jeopardy. How would Ms. Cox perform there?

Cox’s policies have made educational consultants, text book publishers and testing organizations wealthy beyond belief. Now that her policies are resulting in even more students failing (and not show advancement on nationally normed tests) the private tutoring companies are reaping the benefits.

Taxpayer: I heard that NCLB was a ploy to ultimately dismantle the public school system and use our tax dollars to send students to Christian schools. I always said that was crazy but as time goes on I am less skeptical.

By Teacher

September 6, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

I would like for all of you negative people to try teaching for a day. It’s not quite as easy as you think when the majority of kids don’t even speak English. Let’s look at the bigger problem— it’s not Cox’s policies or NCLB, it’s the parents’ fault for bringing kids into our schools that are disrespectful and unmotivated. Try being good parents and actually working with your kids at home instead of complaining about how bad the schools are and see how much our test scores improve. I cannot count the number of children I have in my class whose parents can’t work with them because they don’t speak English. As if that’s my fault. We offer classes to teach English, but do they take advantage? No.

As far as why the test scores aren’t going up, do your research. It’s because the federal government forced us to increase the difficulty of our test and to increase the score required to pass. That would be fine, except that it was in the same year that we got brand-new standards in the state, where there were a lot of gaps in what the students were learning from one grade level to the next (e.g., all of a sudden first graders need to be able to make change to $20, when those first graders came up from kindergarten where the previous year’s standard required them to know how to count money to 30 cents. That’s a HUGE leap for first graders to be required to make). As far as SAT scores go, of course our scores are higher than up north. In the northern states, the only people that are allowed to take the SAT are college bound. In Georgia, everyone is encouraged to take it, even students who really have no intention to go to college.

By @@

September 6, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Jay:

In a previous column where you mentioned Kathy Cox’s appearance on “Are you Smarter”, you ended it by saying Lighten up! I would like to file a complaint……

I find the phrase Lighten up to be racist. J/K!

Concerned parent:

Why would Kathy Cox appear on an adult game show when her target audience was children?

Personally, I worry about the intelligence of an adult such as yourself, who wastes their time viewing game shows on the boob tube.

Taxpayer:

Anyone out there willing to for vouch for all those kids when or if they try to get into college.

Sonny Perdue already has.

“Senate Bill 480 will aid Clayton County students if the school system cannot salvage its accreditation by allowing qualified students to receive the HOPE Scholarship,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “It is our hope that Clayton County students never have to take advantage of this provision, but I am signing it into law to ensure that the scholarship remains available to eligible students.”

If you visit the “Clayton Talk” site, you’ll see where the battle rages on. After five? seven? years of incompetent (Democratic) leadership on our B.O.E. whereby their actions risked our accreditation twice everyone wants the state to step in and take over…..specifically Governor Perdue (Republican).

Of course, there are those who are complaining that Sonny didn’t act fast enough. One even said that he didn’t because he was afraid of being called a racist.

You sound more and more like someone who just likes to complain, living life as though the world is out to get you.

~~~~~~~~~~~~OO~~~~~~~~~~~~

Enjoyed the column Jay. Giving credit where credit’s due isn’t always easy. In politics, it’s always been easier to place blame.

By the other Bosch

September 6, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

Teacher,

I can relate to your frustrations. I see two main causes for our apparent failing schools:

1) NCLB

2) uninvolved parents

While some blame can be placed on overwhelmed and burned out educators, the two above mentioned certainly contribute to the major dilemmas we face in our profession.

NCLB is an assessment tool (a very bad one I might add) designed to make all public school eventually become failing schools. A basic tool of assessment is to provide a valid measure - NCLB doesn’t even come close to providing that validity.

The non-English speakers that are current students in our schools is a debate about how we as a society truly feel about humanity, and considering 80% of Americans consider themselves Christian, myself included, I feel we should work to provide support for all people.

By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Remember that massive flag waving crowd that The One read his teleprompter to?

Well they gave them all those flags on the way in and apparently they couldn’t ditch them fast enough when it was over. The Boy Scouts are about to exhibit several trash bags full of flags they rescued from the grounds of Invesco Field at a McCain/Palin rally in Colorado.

By GodHatesTrash

September 6, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Maybe you neo-kkkons will take those flags to wrap up more of the monster pile of BS you’ve foisted on decent society.

By GodHatesTrash

September 6, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

The “Us’ demographic is redneck and trollop highschool dropouts and GED graduates, and Governor L-o-l-a is a hero to those folks - lots of pichers and a 7th grade vocabulary. You can’t trash Britney or Lindsay Lohan in those magazines either.

Of course some of their ‘readers’ are upset.

By AmVet

September 6, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Good one @@!

I think most would agree that it is undeniable that many people today are just too d@mned thin skinned, no matter the color of their epidermis.

Yet… Taxpayer makes a humorous albeit damning observation.

The goofball Congressman from Georgia actually referred to Obama as uppity???!!!

Wowzers. Just when you think the rank and file Moron Belt neo-con has learned how to hide their bigotry, oops! Out comes a BIG telltale sign that apparently many Republican racists are still wondering among us.

Worse the fool, pretends he doesn’t know what that word means. Gimme a break. To me, lying racists are even worse than proud racists who would use the term uppity with a pronounced smile on their faces and a veiled reference to shovels.

For gawd sakes, didn’t the bigot ever watch Blazing Saddles?

By GodHatesTrash

September 6, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Bottom line, Palin is married to secesh trash, and cheerleads for them.

Like Little Lynnie, she’s a KKKonfederate sympathizer.

By AmVet

September 6, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

No one can deny that this has been one wacky election season.

A RINO humiliates a bunch of darling, neo-con half-wits to win the GOP nomination.

And an empty suit mulatto bests the Clinton juggernaut for the Democrats.

And I am just not sure which would be more disturbing.

P Dookey and a bunch of rapping thugs at the inaugural ball.

Or knocked-up Alaska trailer trash running around the White House.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

September 6, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Congratulations to Kathy Cox. I’m proud to see her choose GA schools as the recipient of the money. There are indeed many problems in public schools. A large majority of these problems start in the home though. There isn’t a whole lot the school system can do about that. I’m a a conservative who believes in public education. Public education has been the great equalizer in this country. It’s the road out for those who are born into unfortunate circumstances. Somehow we have to figure out a way to help more of them see that. It reminds me of the controversy over remarks Bill Cosby made awhile back. I think though his remarks were aimed mainly at one group of parents it should be heeded by ALL parents.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

No recycling, environmental terrorists?

No patriotism, America haters?

Fiscally responsible, Tax and Spenders?

So much meaning in one callous act by those who care more about their own little sweet as-ses then they do the country that they live in.

Parasites.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Oh, listen to the sore losers:

But Joe and Valerie Wilson, attempting to breathe life into the Valerie Plame “scandal,” issued this statement: “We have long argued that responsible adults should take Novak’s typewriter away. The time has arrived for them to also take away the keys to his Corvette.”-Robert Novak

Thee po wittle vicious and sicko frog marchers, still raging like lonely little lunatics, wholly deserted by the kook fringe who would have made them kings, left to tend to their obscure, mindless blog.

Karma.

By AmVet

September 6, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Though I’ve seen only the tiniest bit of info on it, I actually agree with Anduhng on the “flag flap”.

Does it pale in comparison with the neo-cons having wiped their collective fat, sorry a*******es with Old Glory for decades?

Of course not.

But still not cool…

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a “hysterical psuedo-religion”.

In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it occurred naturally and was not man-made.

“Resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change, rather than King Canute-style vainly trying to stop it,” said the minister.

King freaking Kanute, I like that.

He was taking about Oblahma wasn’t he?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Palin was the draw for much of the crowd, who waved McCain-Palin campaign signs and stood on their feet for the pair as they walked onstage to the song “Eye of the Tiger.” There were 10,000 tickets handed out for the open-air rally with people still streaming in while Palin spoke and the crowd cheered her words.

Everyone from small children to veterans screamed for the candidates and waved campaign posters and small U.S. flags. While many said they were eager to hear McCain, most were excited about seeing his running mate.

Now wouldn’t ya, Barracuda?

By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

“MSNBC is dedicated to bringing its viewers the most comprehensive coverage of the Republican National Convention,” said executive producer Tammy Haddad. “We are building upon our successful DNC coverage by giving people a chance to walk up and give their opinions of events as they are happening.”

According to Doug, MS-NBC apparently took no chances on questions from the crowd. Rather than get caught with a question that might make Republicans look good, their producer pre-screened questioners, and Chris Matthews pretended it was random.

By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this

Guy who requested $740 million in earmarks on Palin: You can’t really be for change if you’re pro-earmark

Barack Obama has requested the equivalent of one million dollars in new pork barrel spending for every working day he’s been in the U.S Senate, while John McCain has never once asked for an earmark, and Governor Palin has vetoed hundreds of millions in government spending including killing the infamous “bridge to nowhere”. Just like so many other issues Barack Obama is all talk, has no record to back it up and isn’t ready to make change. — Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.

The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry out a “cheap political stunt.”

McCain supporters said the flags were discovered by a vendor at Denver’s Invesco Field after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. The vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and near garbage bins, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.

They were storing them by the garbage can, yeah, O.K.

So weak, so stupid.

By TW

September 6, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

Wish the Republicans cared for hard working Americans the way they do paper flags.

Had that been members of the middle class in those trash bags they’d still be there.

Not that it matters.

Fool us thrice?

Not.

By TW

September 6, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this

Kathy Cox? The very worst thing Kathy Cox could do for the Republican Party would be to actually educate this state. In 2004, the bottom ten states in SAT all voted for ‘w’.

Need more proof? Look whose guzzling the snake oil spewed their way by Bushgirl Wednesday night?

Got Brains?

McCain/Bushgirl is banking NO.

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

TW,

check out this video

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!! :)

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

I r o Dim: Girlfriend!

That Jon Stewart vid absolutely did it for me!

I never realized it but you guys are right, McBushie will be just like McBushie.

He’s got my vote for sure.

4 mo years!

Uh, with a vice president that we can, uh, well, you know.

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this

Andy, “boyfriend”!!

here’s another one for ya!!

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

not done yet, “boyfriend

By Bud Wiser

September 6, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

My kids went to Sandy Creek where Kathy Cox taught history. I knew her then, and didn’t like her because of her attitude that seemed to be she thought she was smarter than anyone else in the room. My kids said then, and from what I also heard from other parents, she was despised by most.

There was a ‘viewing party’ last night of the show at a restaurant/bar in Peachtree City, and about 5 supporters showed, probably family. There was only polite applause from the rest of the patrons when it showed that she won.

I guess they knew of her too.

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Andy,

[you’ll REALLY

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

Andy,

you’ll REALLY love this one!!!

boyfiend!!!!!

By TW

September 6, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this

Back at ya Midori…

Consistency much?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this

I r o Dim: Remember when the POW in Hanoi blinked at Jane Fonda and she ratted him out to the North Vietnamese?

This guy, this POW “boater,” that you have located, is blinking madly at the camera while he speaks and you idiots have no idea of it.

How much did you pay him?

My suggestion, go get Hanoi Jane and let her check it out, it’s her expertise.

Seriously, a healthy looking 70 year old who is “worried” about McCain’s age?

Hahaha.

And knocking John’s religion by saying that John wasn’t religious in his younger days, are you kidding?

When you get a chance, do check out what it means to be “saved.”

You should try it.

If you should take my advice, be advised that Oblahma will become small and silly in your eyes.

It’s just one of the Truths of life.

By Midori

September 6, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this

TW,

I posted that one the other day.

Isn’t it a HOOT???

:)

By @@

September 6, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

Good grief!!!!!! Where the heck have I been? The left’s hatred goes all the way back to Reagan?

MALKIN: Conservative female abuse CFA

San Francisco Chronicle columnist wrote of first lady Laura Bush, they must be put in their place as “docile doormats” with no brains of their own.

MSNBC hosts insulted former Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger have caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, including as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot and a Bush “House” servant armed with “hair straightener.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Republican, for applying “her makeup with a trowel.”

True to form, Miss Dowd was first out of the box to snicker at Gov. Palin’s beauty pageant past, ridicule her “beehive and sexy shoes” and compare her path to the vice-presidential nomination as a “hokey chick flick.” Joe Biden backhandedly praised her as “good looking.” And left-wing bloggers worked overtime on lurid Photoshops of Mrs. Palin as a bikini model and porn star. At the Democratic Underground, a highly trafficked liberal Web site raising money for Barack Obama, members held a contest to come up with nicknames and posters to slime Mrs. Palin - and then to “spread [them] all over the ‘Net.” Among the nicer entries: “Cruella,” “Gidget,” “Governor Jesus Camp,” “VPILF,” “Fertilla the Huntress,” “Iditabroad” and “KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE B… FROM HELL!!”

Bill Maher called Laura Bush “Hitler’s dog.”

A Huffington Post Web site member wrote of Nancy Reagan: “Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here’s hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub.”

The final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator”? Or when curdled NOW leader Patricia Ireland instructed Democrats to vote only for “authentic” female political candidates? Or when Al Gore’s fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being “uninflected by the experiences of the female body”?

Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Mrs. Palin’s commitment to motherhood and even challenge her prenatal care decisions in an effort to destroy her.

Do leftists carry this hate with them in all aspects of their lives?

These people aren’t mentally stable.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this

Check this out-

The liberals whine and moan about John McSame but who is it that is following the Bush playbook to a tee?

Biden: Cheney?

Swift boat: POW boat?

Tax cuts?

Iran had better “watch” it?

We really do need actual change- McCain-Cuda 08.

Change you can believe in.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 6, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

No kidding, the libs are trying so hard to be like the Repugs, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see them trot Hair Plugs out with a wig and some………….lipstick.

Hahahahahaha, losers.

By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

“Where Have You Been for 26 Years?”

This was the question asked by Barack Obama today of John McCain, directly attacking McCain’s claim to be an agent of change. I don’t really understand why he’s going down this road, since McCain can answer, quite easily, “Here’s where I have been. I changed campaign-finance law. I changed telecommunications law. I took on the tobacco companies when other Republicans wouldn’t. I took on the cable companies when they wouldn’t let people choose what channels they might want to watch. I saw a standoff in the Senate on confirming judges and I changed a standoff into a bipartisan agreement. I took on the earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere and the breaks for oil companies you, Obama, voted for in 2005. And I helped change the war in Iraq from a defeat into what appears to be a victory. Where have you been for 26 years?”

If John doesn’t understand why Obambi would ask a question with such an obvious answer maybe he doesn’t realize Barry is a dunce.

Like John I’m not really advocating those things as changes that I agree with, but for Obama to ask the question is absurd. All he’s ever done is go along with the crowd to keep from upsetting his ambitions and you have to be a dunce to shine that light on yourself, or at least arrogant.

By TW

September 6, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this

The sad part is that John has no idea where he’s been for the last 26 years. Some say he doesn’t even know where he is half the time right now. All he knows for sure is that the change he’s been demanding since Thursday night has only to do with his diaper.

McSame/Bushgirl ‘08 - FOR THE REAL WEALTHY AND THE REAL STUPID

By RW-(the original)

September 6, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

I should probably note for the dullards in here that in the editorial portions of my comments at 9:17, John is John Podhoretz, not John McCain.

By Midori

September 6, 2008 11:55 PM | Link to this

so much for Andy’s crap flag story:

McCain Plays the Cameron Card 09.06.08 — 5:11PM By Josh Marshall

According to a article just out from Huffington Post, the story about flags from the Democratic National Convention being thrown away is simply false. The story was jumped on and apparently authored by the McCain campaign. But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News’ Carl Cameron.

Longtime readers of TPM will remember that back in October 2004 this site caught Cameron publishing a series of fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry on the front page of the Fox News website.

After I placed a series of calls to Fox News inquiring about the Kerry story, the story was eventually pulled, and Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story. Fox spokesman Paul Schur told TPM: “Carl made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor.”

Why anybody would believe anything this joker says is difficult to fathom. But he’s good enough for McCain.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214283.php

By Margaret

September 7, 2008 1:19 AM | Link to this

Please, someone tell me exactly how relevant that show was to her current position as Superintendent of Schools? In my job I can use spellcheck and research history on the internet. What did she do that shows her as a competent incumbent? What she showed on TV was in no way relevant to the responsibilities of her job - stop acting as if it was in anyway meaningful.

By Dr. Craig Spinks

September 7, 2008 3:18 AM | Link to this

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What has to be done to convince our kids and our adults that issues affecting the former’s moral, ethical, academic and affective development- not who’s “dating” whom, who’s got what, and what’s the score of The Dawgs’ game- are the most important issues facing our families, our state and our nation?

By GA PARENT

September 7, 2008 5:31 AM | Link to this

Dear miss margaret, for your information,this game show,had nothing to do with her job,it was a great oppertunity,however, to earn money for some GA schools that do not get the funding they deserve. Dr spinks is absolutly correct. the rest of you NARROW MINDED morons,when you give $1millon to schools for the blind and deaf,then you have the right to speak,until then SHUT-UP!

for eveyone’s information…Jeff Foxworthy asked Kathy to be on his show,as an oportunity to earn money for GA schools…you may not care for Kathy Cox..but she has made steps to improve GA schools.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 6:46 AM | Link to this

Listen to the libs at the Urinal tip toeing all around the fact that more people watched the Repug Convention than watched the Dim Convention:

If you count everybody who watched Barack Obama on TV at the Democratic convention and then counted everybody who watched John McCain at the Republican convention —- commercial TV networks and PBS —- you come up with an interesting number, says the AP. All told, Obama’s speech attracted 42.4 million viewers. And McCain’s speech? He drew 42.4 million viewers, too. By comparison, Reuters reported, 34.9 million watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics, and “American Idol” averaged 28.1 million viewers last season. On average, though, the Republicans drew 4 million viewers per day more than the Dems.-Urinal/DNC

Really burns your as-ses don’t it?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 7:00 AM | Link to this

Thee Urinal finds a member of the Taliban to interview and presto, anti American screed:

Afghans angry at NATO, own government-“This is our land. We are afraid to send our sons out the door for fear the American troops will pick them up,” says Mohammed, who was chosen by the others to represent them. “Daily we have headaches from the troops. We are fed up. Our government is weak and corrupt and the American soldiers have learned nothing, blah, blah, blah.”-Urinal/Jihad

Here we go with the “quagmire,” “torture,” “angry citizens,” “increased suicides,” “resurgent insurgents,” “blah,” “blah,” “blah,” and all the other al Qaeda propaganda that worked so well for you pinkos in Iraq.

Losers, all.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this

The McCain/Palin ticket wins 49.7% support, compared to 45.9% backing for the Obama/Biden ticket, this latest online survey shows. Another 4.4% either favored someone else or were unsure.

Buh bye barry.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Governor L-o-l-a overheard calling Obama Sambo

Knuckkkledragging sociopath, just like Dumbya.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

The McCain/Palin ticket wins over 92% of rural white voters receiving some form of public assistance or disability payments. Their support among whites living in manufactured homes in eastern South Carolina is 88.2%, according to a recent straw poll.

Locking down the base.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, * Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.*

According to Andy, a blogger who asked that his last name not be used, said God’s Trash was overheard making racist, bigoted comments just about every day and that for him and his fellow he/shes to be fabricating stories about racism was rather dull and queer to say the least.

And you can quote me on that.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

He couldn’t “close the sale” against Bruno and now-

“Sen. Obama needs to close the sale with voters who want a Democrat, but because of Sen. McCain’s strength at this point, they don’t want this Democrat,” Brown said in an analysis of the results. “Much of the reason for this disparity is that Sen. McCain is drawing support from voters who say they don’t want a Republican in the White House.”

I’m Obama Bin Biden and I don’t approve of this message, bwa.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

“We like this Palin woman. She’s one of us, and a fine example of the white race,”, the Stormfront spokesman said. “She’s an even better looking version of David Duke.”

L-o-l-a - shoring up McCain’s base.

By Obambi

September 7, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Uh, greetings fellow, uh, dimwits-

Uh, I know that, uh, many of you, uh, are concerned about our recent, uh, slide, uh, in thee polls, uh, but, uh, but you hacks need to remember that we also, uh, uh, came up lame against, uh, Bruno, losing everything at the, uh, end of the primaries, uh, except, uh, thee love and caring of my toady drive by media, bwa.

I’m their wittle puppet.

So be calm, you, uh, morons, we are closely looking at the, uh rules, uh in thee general election to see which state we can turn thee voters into 3/5ths of a person, uh. Plus, check this out you, uh, sullen degenerates, we may not even let the people vote on November 4th, uh, you have to call in your choice from Washington D.C area hotels, how do you like that idea?

So be calm, mouth breathers, just because everybody is, uh, uh, deserting my campaign and flocking to see the good looking woman, something they have never before witnessed in the dhimmocrat party, uh, doesn’t mean it is over.

I learned early in my career as a hack politician in the corrupt and depraved Chicago culture how to register dead people to vote, how to vote twenty or more times in a single day, dig up dirt on the women that dare to run against me and use sexism as a bludgeon against them.

You would be stupid to count my sorry as-s out.

So let’s us ride from this place together, you beady eyed bigots, we will be like one great big mass of ignorance as we lie, cheat, discriminate against and steal our way into thee Power that we so perversely desire.

And no, I won’t raise your taxes, snicker.

Yes I can!

Seig Heil!

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

As you may have noticed, this has not been the fourth estate’s finest hour. Reporters, anchors and pundits have mocked Palin and belittled her accomplishments. They’ve turned tabloid by going nuts over her pregnant teenage daughter, even demanding — according to top McCain strategist Steve Schmidt — DNA and blood tests to see if there is truth to the blogger-conceived conspiracy theory that Palin’s youngest child really belongs to her oldest daughter. Some even shamefully descended into sexism by calling her a product of political affirmative action, depicting her as a pretty face with no substance — McCain’s “trophy vice,” according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — and asking 1950s-type questions about how she expected to balance family and a new gig as vice president.

The sexism continued after Palin’s speech. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the speech “shrill and sarcastic.” That brought some members of the media back to their senses. CNN’s Campbell Brown and Gloria Borger were among the female journalists who cringed at the word “shrill” and pointed out that — while that was a term leveled at Hillary Clinton — you don’t often hear it directed at a man.

I’m Obama Bin Biden and I don’t approve of this message, bwa.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

On the eve of a planned meeting with former President Jimmy Carter, the isolated Hamas terrorist organization has expressed “hope” Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential elections and “change” America’s foreign policy.

Shoring up Obam Bin Biden’s base.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don’t like him because of something he can’t help, something that’s a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you’re not voting for him because he’s smarter than you.

In her acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of using his run for the White House as a “journey of personal discovery” — this from the lady who just spent 10 minutes of her speech introducing her family — Track, Trig, Bristol, Piper — for a minute there I thought she was calling in an airstrike.

Karl Rove described Obama as “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by.” Unlike George Bush, who’s the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous a*, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear. One of McCain’s ads casts Obama as “the one,” implying he thinks he’s the Messiah. Good, maybe he can raise McCain from the dead.

It doesn’t matter to Karl Rove that his country club characterization is fictitious, it’s the role that Obama must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy. Over and over at this convention we heard about the new put-upon victim in our society, the person in America, like Sarah Palin, who’s constantly mocked because they’re from a … small town! Governor Yup Yup’s got ‘em all riled up about being disrespected.

Barack Obama can’t help it if he’s a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you’re a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us. That’s why George Bush is president. And that’s where the McCain camp gets its campaign strategy: Paint Obama as cocky and arrogant and wait for America to vote him off, like the black guy in every reality show. A black president? Half of Pennsylvania isn’t ready for black quarterbacks. Forget Obama, they think Will Smith needs to be taken down a peg.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don’t like him because of something he can’t help, something that’s a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you’re not voting for him because he’s smarter than you.

In her acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of using his run for the White House as a “journey of personal discovery” — this from the lady who just spent 10 minutes of her speech introducing her family — Track, Trig, Bristol, Piper — for a minute there I thought she was calling in an airstrike.

Karl Rove described Obama as “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by.” Unlike George Bush, who’s the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous a*, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear. One of McCain’s ads casts Obama as “the one,” implying he thinks he’s the Messiah. Good, maybe he can raise McCain from the dead.

It doesn’t matter to Karl Rove that his country club characterization is fictitious, it’s the role that Obama must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy. Over and over at this convention we heard about the new put-upon victim in our society, the person in America, like Sarah Palin, who’s constantly mocked because they’re from a … small town! Governor Yup Yup’s got ‘em all riled up about being disrespected.

Barack Obama can’t help it if he’s a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you’re a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us. That’s why George Bush is president. And that’s where the McCain camp gets its campaign strategy: Paint Obama as cocky and arrogant and wait for America to vote him off, like the black guy in every reality show. A black president? Half of Pennsylvania isn’t ready for black quarterbacks. Forget Obama, they think Will Smith needs to be taken down a peg.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Atlanta Fans Boo Kim-Brown Decision

Dong Hyun Kim-Matt Brown was a late addition to the pay-per-view portion of UFC 88 and turned out to be a tough fight to score.

There was solid action throughout. It was an extremely tight fight highlighted by multiple submission attempts from Kim in the first round and solid knees from the clinch by Brown in the second and third rounds. Kim may have stolen the decision in the final 90 seconds when he landed two huge elbows from full guard. The second elbow ripped open a big cut under Brown’s left eye.

Kim won a split decision by gaining the nod from two of the judges 29-28; Kevin Iole, Dave Meltzer and Dave Doyle of Yahoo! Sports all had the same score. UFC color analyst Joe Rogan thought that Brown won the fight. So did the crowd. It booed lustily as Rogan interviewed Kim.

But they were also the same morons who chanted “USA” throughout the fight.

Jingoism, racism, stupidity. Par for the course for an Atlanta crowd.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

For all but two months from 1995 to 2002, the governor’s husband was registered as an Alaskan Independence Party member, according to the Alaska Division of Elections.

With McCain’s campaign emphasizing patriotism — his latest slogan is “Country First” — the Palins’ links to a party founded by the late secessionist gold miner Joe Vogler could prove awkward.

“I’m an Alaskan, not an American,” Vogler is quoted as saying elsewhere on the party’s website. “I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”

The article goes on to say:

Palin and her husband attended the party’s 1994 convention at a Best Western in Wasilla, Alaska, said former Chairman Mark Chryson, a computer repairman who is now the party’s webmaster.

A former mayor of Wasilla, Palin also spoke to the party’s convention in the same hotel in 2006 when she was running for governor, Chryson said.

Dexter Clark, an Alaskan Independence Party vice chairman, brought up Palin’s ties to the group in videotaped remarks to the second North American Secessionist Convention in October in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Traitor. Secesh.

Trash.

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

I would like to congratulate Bookman for hs O’Reilled up blog topic. His topic shut the blog down. Some people can’t stand Cynthia and some people can’t stand O’Reilled up. Put those two together and you have for some very interesting reading. Anyway, moving forward…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto’s widower swept Pakistan’s presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants. …Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was looking forward to working with Zardari. “I’ve been impressed by some of the things he has said about the challenges that Pakistan faces, about the centrality of fighting terrorism, about the fact that the terrorism fight is Pakistan’s fight and also his very strong words of friendship and alliance with the United States,”

Uhm, yeah. Ours is an important election not only for America, but for the globe. I’ll trust McCain to choose his people wisely. This is not the time to put a bunch of liberal Carter incompetent pansies in office.

This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

So much for being “green” let alone honoring the American flag. Left wing slime. Liberals have been known for abusing the flag since the 1960But it didn’t take long for the DNC hypocritical hacks to crank up the hamster spin machine:

American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. John McCain should applaud that, but instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play out a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism.

Uh huh. Picking up flags discarded from patriotic Americans at the DNC that would have otherwise gone to the garbage was “wrongfully taken.” Idiots.

The DNC and the AJC have a lot in common. Oh wait, duh, someone here points that out daily. Silly me.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party — a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years — once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed the American flag as a “damn flag.”

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that’s now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

To borrow a phrase from the leading lady of Mr. Bookman’s blog: OMG.

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Time for a Daily Kook moment. Enjoy since the liberal kowards there yanked the blog topic after being called out:

Here we go again at Daily Kos, with another disgusting, transparently false smear against Sarah Palin: Daily Kos: ‘So Sambo Beat The B***’ - Sarah Palin…

Progressives! Is there any depth to which they will not dive?

Here’s the article they’re linking to, at “LA Progressive:” Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean.”

The charge that Palin has racist attitudes toward Eskimos is based on the word of an anonymous waitress at an unnamed restaurant. Another word for this kind of smear is “lying.” It’s not even worth debunking, but I’ll just point out that Palin’s husband is of Eskimo descent.

What absolute liberal scum.

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

I see that the Wilson sisters of Heart are none too happy about their song being used at the RNC convention and have ordered a “cease and desist” from further usage of their song Barracuda for any Republican shindig.

Here’s a thought: did Brooks & Dunn, you know, two of those redneck country hicks that liberals hate so much, whose song “Only In America” was played at the DNC, whine and wet themselves?

I didn’t think so.

Grow up you bedwetting liberal skirts.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

The Neo-kkkon Argument for L-o-l-a

Sarah Palin (sp?) has ignited the presidential race and fired up the GOP — as evidenced by three women at the RNC who took the time to print the words “We,” “Love,” and “Sarah” on pieces of paper and tape them to the backs of their t-shirts. Clearly, the liberal left realizes that it can’t match this kind of unbridled enthusiasm for its candidate. So what are they doing? Attacking her character. Questioning her qualifications. Imagine a political group attacking an opponent because it can’t win on the issues or the record. It’s disgusting.

So let’s set the record straight. Sarah Pahlen (sp?) is not only more qualified for the Oval Office than Barack Obama — she might just be the most qualified political candidate in our nation’s history:

1. Putting Country First - Her membership in the Alaska Independence Party proves that she’s exactly the kind of leader America needs: the kind that will always put country first — even if that country happens to be The Republic of Alaska. Obama claims he loves America — but has he ever loved it enough to favor seceding from it? It’s called tough love, Senator. Look into it.

2. Independence - Sarah hates indicted Senator Ted Stevens, but raised money for him. She hates the “bridge to nowhere,” but supported it. She wants to shatter Hillary’s glass ceiling, but wears t-shirts touting the size of her boobs. We’re dealing with an innovative politician; one who refuses to be categorized. Obama may call himself the candidate of “change,” but Sarah Pailen’s (sp?) entire political life has been about saying one thing, and then doing another. Now that’s “change we can believe in.”

3. Family Values - This is someone who’s not afraid to preach abstinence for your daughter, even though her own unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. This is someone who’s not afraid to hop on a plane from Texas to Alaska while she’s in premature labor. This is someone who’s not afraid to hit the campaign trail with a 5-month-old special needs baby. That’s what I call dedication to family. Obama, on the other hand? A Muslim.

4. Intellect - Yes, Sarah recently admitted that she didn’t know exactly what it was the Vice President did. Yes, she wants creationism taught in public schools. Yes, she doesn’t believe global warming is manmade. But I’d like to point out the fact that she wears glasses — and that’s not something dumb people generally do. Obama? No glasses.

5. Military Affairs - As Governor, Pollen (sp?) is authorized to deploy Alaska’s National Guard in times of emergency. And while the Guard’s Adjunct General admits that she plays no role in national defense, and isn’t briefed on military exercises, the fact is — she’s been photographed holding a machine gun, while Obama has yet to wield so much as a .38 for the cameras. When it comes to keeping me safe, that’s all I need to know.

6. Foreign Affairs - While Obama likes to take Middle East tours, meet with Europe’s leaders, and brag about his running mate being the foreign policy voice of the Senate, he can’t hold a candle to Palenn’s (sp?) understanding of today’s complex, dangerous world. Yes, Sarah admitted that she hadn’t paid much attention to the war in Iraq, but she knew enough to rightly call it a “task from God.” Yes, she’s only left North America once in her life, but her experience as a local sportscaster gave her the ability to follow events as they unfold at lightning speed. And as Cindy McCain pointed out, while Barack Obama was sipping lattes in Cambridge Square, Sarah Pinkston (sp?) was staring down the barrel of Putin’s Kalashnikov — a one woman wall keeping America safe from invasion.

7. Restoring America’s Image - Who better than a former beauty queen to add some new luster to America’s battered image? Paylen (sp?) will take a proverbial can of Aqua Net to our nation’s unruly hair, and apply liberal (no pun intended) amounts of blush to Lady Liberty’s cheekbones. In a word, she’ll dazzle the world with her charm and style. Even the most anti-Western extremists will melt when they see the People and Vanity Fair spreads of Sarah warming her fur-lined extremities over burning science textbooks. And how would Obama restore our leadership in the world? The question we should be asking is: why does he only have two children, while Sarah has at least twice that number? What does Senator Obama have against America’s children?

8. Her Soul - In one 15-minute meeting, and one follow-up phone call, John McCain was able to determine that Sarah was more than his running mate — she was his “soul mate.” Not only that, but that she was more qualified to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office than any Republican on earth. Yes, this is a testament to the power and quickness of McCain’s decision making. But it’s also a testament to the power of Sarah Payton’s (sp?) soul. As a Muslim, it’s not even clear that Obama has a soul.

So is Sarah Pillston (sp?) qualified to be Vice President? To be one bad biopsy away from being the most powerful human being on earth? To lead America back to prominence and prosperity, while keeping us safe from a world of ever-changing threats?

In her own words: “Yup…yup.”

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Haha. Our resident liberal blog trash reads the Huff & Puff which is coughing up a 25 year old picture of a young woman (our future Vice President) who’s wearing a t-shirt that many college aged kids wore. You diseases on the left are real desperate, aren’t you? What’s next you mindless hysterics, are you going to go after her diary? Hahaha.

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Oh yeah, and since WHEN did you liberals suddenly become so worried about and interested in “family values” anyway? You mindless hysterics have been slamming the “traditional” American family and “family values” since the 1960s.

In short, you incompetent hypocrites on the left aren’t worth listening to on the subject. Thanks.

By GodHatesTrash

September 7, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Back to the original subject:

Kathy Cox gets some street cred by whuppin up on some smart elementary school kids - only in Georgia.

Kathy Cox and Little Lynnie Westmoreland - who finally used a three syllable word in a conversation - thank yew Georgia for your fine contributions to the intellectual life of the nation…

Time for brunch. Ciao!

By bush go away

September 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Acutally Rufus it’s those who support McCain who are hypocrites, as McCain supporters are saying that the attacks on Palin’s daughter are proof of Obama’s character, yet staying totally silent on the fact A) Obama has not engaged in those attacks and B) their own candidate, McCain himself, did it when he attacked Chelsea Clinton.

If attacking a political opponent’s young children is proof that a candidate lacks character, this case is a slam dunk

Obama has NOT engaged in the behavior, McCain HAS engaged in the behavior.

Hope that clears up any confusion for you Rufus.

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

WASILLA, Alaska - The mother kneels in the snow, cheerfully posing beside her bundled up daughter, behind the bloody, dead caribou the mom just shot. Maybe not your typical family photo. But that’s Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the disarming mom who’s not afraid to carry arms or use them. -AP

Gee, an action and arms just like this nation was founded upon, and the mindless liberals at the AP are labeling it as some sort of murder (speaking of which, I guess Him The Chosen One hasn’t done much for Chicago’s murder rate). But in any event, she has the mindless liberal hysterical skirts running scared. The liberal Dimocrat reaction both in Washington and in the media elite to Palin reminds me of the little yippy ankle biting rug rat terrier.

Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

A) Obama has not engaged in those attacks

Away, you show me ONE POST here or elsewhere where that accusation has been made. I already know you can’t, because last week I already commended Him The Chosen One for telling everyone to back off Palin’s family matters.

B) their own candidate, McCain himself, did it when he attacked Chelsea Clinton.

What was that “attack” on Chelsea anyway? Enlighten me what the liberal definition of an “attack” is. For the record, and I have stated it before, children of candidates should be OFF LIMITS.

Hope that clears up any confusion for you Rufus.

There was never anything unclear other than a liberal definition of “attack” that needs some clarification.

I’m sure your liberal mind is going to “help” me out here like you liberals like to “help” so many people out.

I’ll be waiting…

By Rufus

September 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Finally, I don’t recall any “neocons” going after Algore’s idiot son who thought he was Mario Andretti driving a little greenick Prius on drugs.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/05/local/me-gore5

Call me stupid, but I think I know who was the greater threat to humanity here compared to Palin’s daughter.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 7, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Quite interesting to see all the new librarians in the congregation at thee church, hair all bundled up tight and sporting their new bookkeeper glasses.

There is magic in the air, America.

Brought to you by Christianity and Conservatism.

We’re baaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk.

And so are you America.

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