Jay Bookman

By TW

September 15, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this

They’re also going to socialize the oil we drill offshore. Right? I mean, they’re not going to let big oil get it and make it part of the global market - that would only cheapen it by about three cent a gallon and we’d have to wait five years for it. Nah, they’re gonna let the government stick in a big old needle, send to to the refinery and then right to everyones house - just like water. Right? Right?

Anyone who’s ever cared for John McCain ought request he get himself a brain scan.

By CJ

September 15, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

For all the criticism that Obama has received for lacking substance, he has put out a barrage of proposals, with specifics ad nauseam, that can be found both in the issues section of his website and in the text of several speeches (also on his website) addressing various subjects (e.g. national security, education, economics, …).

On the other hand, what the hell does McCain mean when he says that “we will make businesses work for the benefit of their shareholders and employees”? How? By cutting their taxes even more, thereby putting more of the burden on the rest of us and future generations? By reducing regulations and then letting the taxpayers bail them out when they fail? Because, as far as I can tell, those are the only economic proposals that McCain has promulgated.

By Bud Wiser

September 15, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

*”In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ The Time’s Nicholos Kristof wrote, Obama recited, ‘with a first-class [Arabic] accent,’ the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. ” *

I guess McCain reforming Wall Street might be a better option than moving Wall Street to Tehran.

““If you talk to Warren [Buffet], he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said. “That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” - quote from Barak Obama

There’s your real Socialist, Jay.

Or, you can go with option B: “Barack Obama’s fierce attack on Jerome Corsi’s best-selling book, “The Obama Nation,” has backfired. He has been forced to confirm things he’d hoped would stay buried. Obama, for example, for the first time has acknowledged that the mysterious “Frank” in his 1995 autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” is in fact Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis, who during the height of the Cold War was investigated by both the FBI and Congress as a pawn of Moscow. “

Tehran, Moscow, so many choices.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By ByteMe

September 15, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

Donna M, you could have just posted the link instead of quoting the entire article.

By Tamryn

September 15, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this

BREAKING NEWS

McCain Campaign: Gov. Palin will not cooperate in “Troopergate” investigation. She will not meet with “Troopergate” investigator.

What’s dear little Sarah hiding?

By RW-(the original)

September 15, 2008 9:11 PM | Link to this

It’s statements like that from McCain that leave me without a candidate at the top of a ticket this year.

What do you think of someone who pads their resume in a very significant way, in autobiography number 1?

And this is from his supporters. Yikes!

Well, it turns out that one of his co-workers, Dan Armstrong, has in fact written about Mr. Obama during those days. And while he is an admitted fan of Obama’s, he claims that he has inflated his resume considerably.

Change you can do on a word processor!

By getalife

September 15, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

She is hiding everything like w.

Speaking of w, I remember him spewing all that reform, will work with the other side, blah, blah, blah just like McLiar.

How did that turn out?

A disaster but lets give them another try.

Insane , isn’t it?

By Morgan

September 15, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

When there was a vacancy at the top of the Alaska State Division of Agriculture, Palin appointed a high school friend, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Havemeister was one of at least five school friends Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

By RW-(the original)

September 15, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

I guess Democrats don’t change no matter where they are, all show trials all the time.

In a 13-page affidavit and an accompanying statement, Palin says she has asked the state of Alaska Personnel Board to launch an ethics investigation into her own actions in this case.

Yawn………

By Ray

September 15, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

Tamryn, It doesn’t matter whether or not Palin will meet with anyone. It does not matter whether or not she can see Russia from her house. It doesn’t matter whether or not she was for or against the Bridge to Nowhere. It doesn’t matter whether or not she knows what the “Bush Doctrine” is. It also does not matter whether or not she fired some dimwit who lased his 10yr old son. The American electorate does not care. She is solidly in the court of the GOP, the uncommitted white females (59% and rising), many of the Hillaryites and in the court of all of the NRA members and those Americans who would “not vote for a black president”. She is going to carry this election, like it or not.

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this

By Bud Wiser September 15, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this *”In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ The Time’s Nicholos Kristof wrote, Obama recited, ‘with a first-class [Arabic] accent,’ the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. ” *

Are you KIDDING?

I can, in a perfect Yiddish accent recite the prayers held on Sabbath…and that makes me, WHAT precisely???

What on EARTH does this have to do with Jay’s blog????

Reaching, reaching….just say it, ‘bud wiser’- just one lame excuse not to vote for him…

GASP! he thinks the call is beautiful (for the record, so do I, he can recite a prayer!

Step away from your computer…obviously the light from the monitor has affected your brain cells!

By CJ

September 15, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

Per Bud Wiser, Obama is a Muslim and a Communist—two notions generally believed to be mutually exclusive.

Wait a minute…didn’t that Goldberg guy just write a book about Liberal Fascism? So, Obama must be a Muslim, Communist and a Fascist.

You gotta pick one Bud Wiser. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Or, are you going to tell us next that oil and water do, in fact, mix?

By Midori

September 15, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this

yeah, RW.

“yawn” when the accused is a Republican.

We know how you rabid dogs react whenever something happens involving a democrat.

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this

By Bud Wiser September 15, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this *”In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ The Time’s Nicholos Kristof wrote, Obama recited, ‘with a first-class [Arabic] accent,’ the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. ” *

Are you KIDDING?

I can, in a perfect Yiddish accent recite the prayers held on Sabbath…and that makes me, WHAT precisely???

What on EARTH does this have to do with Jay’s blog????

Reaching, reaching….just say it, ‘bud wiser’- just one lame excuse not to vote for him…

GASP! he thinks the call is beautiful (for the record, so do I, he can recite a prayer!

Step away from your computer…obviously the light from the monitor has affected your brain cells!

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this

Mr. “original”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/palin_troopergate

She IS refusing to meet with investigators…her calling her own investigation smacks of the fox guarding the henhouse using his own furry family members to make sure he isn’t stealing…

The McShame grind machine is also trying to prevent her husband’s emails to state workers regarding this mess to be released.

If it’s all above board, why the lack of transparency?

Gimme a break….

By RW-(the original)

September 15, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.

Alrighty then! The Dunce declares himself the undisputed heavyweight champion of mud slinging.

By TW

September 15, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

Just_Me - The call to prayer is how Obama describes it, I agree.

But you see, Just_Me, the sound rings out with the power of peace, a foreign concept to many on the right. It is not their fault - they just don’t have it. They never will have it and it drives them a bit batty. That is why they hate. It’s really no different than the five year old that bullies to try to fill that hole inside.

Best to just pray for them, Just_Me, and be grateful that you are of the lot that can see.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 15, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

Does this mean they have to quit giving so much to Oblahma?

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

One last goodie before my family comes home ;-)

20 minutes ago…. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/aponelpr/pushpollsjewishvoters1;ylt=AlgvTVUGljisTcM7jVGwJ6hh24cA

Seems that Jewish voters (hey! I must be one, I can speak some Yiddish in a perfect accent!) are being push polled in Florida and in PA. I actually have Jewish relatives in PA-they did get a call (hung up on ‘em, too).

Isn’t this the same sleazy crap Rove pulled on Sen. Honorable in SC?

Will this man, and his party stop at NOTHING to get elected?

By Midori

September 15, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this

Just Me,

the board overlooking this investigation is made up of 2 democrats and 3 republicans.

A REPUBLICAN gave the deciding vote on issuing a subpoena to her husband.

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Okay, TW, ya made me post one more time—but now I hear my boy home from school ;-)

Foreign doesn’t scare me-I married out of my race, religion, culture…I was raised in NYC with Muslim friends (Nirmin couldn’t eat during Ramadan, came home to hang out with me and watch ME eat!), we had Jews, Italians, Muslims, you name it, we had it…and we coexisted…respected each others’ beliefs.

I found that the sounds coming from the Seder celebration being led beneath my window from the rabbi who lived two stories down to be a wonderful sound to fall asleep to…

Tony Bourdain did a show in Polynesia…he stood there listening to the call to prayer at sunset. Absolutely gorgeous sound…and, since MOST Muslims are NOT fanatics, it was not a frightening sound-merely beautiful.

As my sons would say (and slap me for repeating it!) ‘peace out.”

PS-TW, I think i’d offer to have your love child, however, i am long past that, and still happily married! ;-)

By ByteMe

September 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

RW: In golf, LOW score wins.

Also, as to Palin asking the Personnel board to look into the allegations, let me ask you a couple of questions:

Who appointed the members of the personnel board?

When did she file this request? I’m guessing it was on or after August 29, when McCain announced she would be the VP candidate. Now why do you think she would do this at that time and what did she say about cooperating with the legislature’s investigation before August 29?

Do your homework. Let us know after that if you’re still so amazed about it.

By Just_Me

September 15, 2008 9:50 PM | Link to this

Midori, Yep, I read that as well.

So….uhm, kind of makes it hard to pull that “this is so partisan!”

Perhaps if McCain had truly vetted his token female…there had to be one out there with less baggage, NO?

Okay, my kid is home from school-gotta go for real LOL.

By "The Corporal"

September 15, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

JAY

Here’s another one …………….

Who am I?

I am under 45 years old, I love the outdoors, I hunt, I am a Republican reformer, I have taken on the Republican Party establishment, I have many children, I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor’s office.

Who am I?

Did you guess?

Scroll down……

Teddy Roosevelt

By getalife

September 15, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

Are you this guy private?

If you believe McLiar will reform anything, I have a bridge in Alaska for sale.

By RW-(the original)

September 15, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

RW: In golf, LOW score wins—ByteMe

It’s too bad some of the creative moonbats didn’t follow us over from ml’s.

Midori,

Any word from your little brother yet?

By ByteMe

September 15, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

I hear crickets chirping, RW. Must mean you either don’t want to know the truth about what you posted… or you already know and are being dishonest about it to further your own agenda. Wonder which it is.

Cheers! Off to Dreamland.

By "The Corporal"

September 15, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this

To getalife

Aw shucks, come on, have a heart, “those without sin throw the first stone”, takes on to know one, nanny nanny boo boo ………….. but I digress.

Slick liar Willy made a good president. At least you democrats say so.

Let’s give her a chance. How about it ? Pretty please with sugar on it ???

By sunshine and thunder

September 15, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

TO: JAY — EVERYONE

All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Name Office State Party Grand Total
Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,400 Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349
Kerry, John S MA D $111,000 Bennett, Robert F S UT R $107,999 $Bachus, Spencer H AL R $103,300
Blunt, Roy H MO R $96,950 Kanjorski, Paul E H PA D $96,000

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

ROTFLMAO

By Taxpayer

September 15, 2008 10:56 PM | Link to this

We have already let the big financial institutions ram their ideas of progress, via Phil Gramm’s legislation that created all these unregulated non-asset backed pieces of paper and other financial wizardry, through the back door and into law. Now these Wall Street geniuses need to pay the price for their efforts. There shouldn’t be a single Director or Executive left with anything more than stock options in their own bankrupt companies and the only thing the taxpayers need to furnish each of them is a little cell with a view. They should be keeping Skilling and others company. We need people in government with the ability to at least understand the legislation that they are handed, via lawyers from major financial institutions, to dump on an unknowing public in the form of “well-vetted” law. Phil Gramm personifies the failures of the Republican party and he was John McCain’s financial adviser. It’s time for change and John McCain is not it. The last thing this country needs is more help from the Phil Gramm’s of the Republican party .

By @@

September 15, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this

Golly Jay, it was tough being a mainframe computer manufacturer in the 1980s. It was awful to own an Internet company in 1999. And it is terrible to be in the financial industry today. But, for the democrats to paint this as the collapse of civilization is a wee bit out there.

While it appears that the financial industry IS in deep trouble, that doesn’t mean that the financial system is.

Capitalism solves these financial problems by annihilating weak companies and clearing space for others to grow and for new companies to emerge. It’s what’s known as “creative destruction.”

I know Jay…..I know. It’s difficult for liberals to hear the word “destruction” without cringing in fear.

Howzabout the rebirth of a nation?

Respiri Jay ……… respirano.

By RW-(the original)

September 15, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

ByteMe,

Goodnight and I already know the outcome of your latest show trial. Nada.

And what I posted took you much deeper into the real story had you chosen to follow the trail I gave you.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 5:31 AM | Link to this

The teaser on the front page of thee Urinal:

07 U.S. Crime Drop Not A Trend Locally-Urinal/DNC

Must be bad out there, eh?

Story in the Metro Section of thee Urinal:

ATLANTA: City poised for dip in violent crimes-Urinal/DNC

Two papers in one!

Er, either that or a DNC campaign flyer.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 5:38 AM | Link to this

You know, when I see a full page ad in thee Urinal that has a gigantic picture of a drill rig, the admonition to “drill here, drill now,” and pictures of Chambliss and Isakson on the bottom of it, I think to myself, why are these two dimwits fighting so hard against domestic energy production Republican success?

Maybe Georgia is in play.

Or we could make it be.

For Chambliss’s seat.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 5:43 AM | Link to this

In the face of plummeting poll numbers, thee Urinal/DNC pleads with their voters for calm:

No reason to be cynical of ‘celebrity’ -AJC/DNC

Who cares what world thinks of Sen. Obama? -Urinal/DNC

Gurgle, gurgle?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 5:53 AM | Link to this

Make no mistake. The vociferous attacks on Sarah Palin — on her views of abortion, family, work, the environment, science, the role of women and all the rest — are about much, much more than they seem. A lot of them aren’t even about Sarah Palin at all.

Their real target doesn’t even have His name on the ballot.

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 6:17 AM | Link to this

When In Trouble, Cheat

Under the current Democratic Congress, the “community organizers” at ACORN are being lavishly funded by federal dollars. Your tax money, going to support voter fraud: not exactly what the Founders had in mind.

If you think McCain “socialism” will be bad, just imagine ACORN being a cabinet post.

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 16, 2008 6:44 AM | Link to this

If McCain wants to hold someone accountable for the failure in transparency and accountability that led to the current calamity, he should turn to his good friend and adviser, Phil Gramm. As Mother Jones reported in June, eight years ago, Gramm, then a Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a 262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm’s legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists, essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any regulation.

The GOP has screwed the pooch.

By ByteMe

September 16, 2008 7:02 AM | Link to this

RW: Since you claim to already know the answers, supply them for those in the audience who don’t.

Oh, heck, ok, I’ll supply them.

The state personnel board members are appointed by the governor, per Alaska statute 39.25.060. So Palin is sending a complaint request to people beholden to her.

The legislature has been investigating this since July and Palin at that time agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The legislature originally intended to finish their investigation on Oct 31, but moved up the timeline to early October after Palin was nominated so that the facts would be out sooner.

She filed her complaint about herself to the personnel board on September 1… after she was added to the McCain ticket. The intended effect was to try to distract the legislature’s investigation and slow it down so that it wouldn’t be finished before the election. She also stated she would not cooperate with the investigation and — through an attorney hired by the McCain campaign — instructed others to keep their mouths shut, even though those same people also publicly promised to cooperate.

Basically, what you tried to bring up was a red herring, but it turns out to look awful for her. Facts are hard to dispute and everyone should learn them.

By Bud Wiser

September 16, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac survived scrutiny by manipulating, cajoling, and lobbying politicians and hiring board members who were politicos (e.g. Jamie Gorelick) rather than mortgage gurus. They hired lobbyists, gave massive donations, obtained nice tax breaks, and sailed below the regulatory radar screen.

Of the 354 lawmakers who received money from Freddie and Fannie between 1989 and 2008, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.,received the most. But next was … drum roll please … Barack Obama. Yup. And he was only there for three years . Not too much went to John McCain, about a sixth of what Obama received.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

Then there’s Congress, led by Democrats in the last two years which mandated substandard lending to low-income groups. And as the high-risk loans mounted, this very same Congress — under the gun of political contributions — continued to promote the excesses of lenders, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

ByteMe,

And at the end of the day all you have is an executive that fired someone that served at her pleasure and the firing may have partially been as a result of that employees failure to fire a state trooper that exhibited the great judgment of tasering a ten year old.

Good luck with that!

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

Richard Cohen stakes what little is left of his reputation on Taliban propaganda:

At a forum last week at Columbia University, McCain said, “But right now we have to restore trust and confidence in government.” This was always the promise of John McCain, the single best reason to vote for him. America has been cheated on too many times — the lies of Vietnam and Watergate and Iraq. So many lies. Who believes that in Afghanistan last month only five civilians were killed by the American military, instead of the approximately 90 claimed by the Afghan government? Not me. I first gave up on the military during Vietnam and then again when it covered up the death of Pat Tillman, the Army Ranger and former NFL player who was killed in 2004 by friendly fire.

What a kook, all these libs are losing it.

By JAY BOOKMAN

September 16, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

One last time, Management. Do NOT repost commentary from elsewhere repetitively here. Do NOT.

If YOU have an opinion, state it. But simply reposting stale, unattributed statements by others will not be tolerated further.

By Copyleft

September 16, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

You’ve convinced me, Mgmt. Phil Gramm, the guy who pushed for the deregulation of the mortgage industry and the reckless speculation that produced the bubble… the guy who called us a “nation of whiners”…

is DEFINITELY the best economic advisor for McSame.

Gonna be a pretty smooth cruise into office for President Obama, don’tcha think? (snicker)

By ByteMe

September 16, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

RW: as people here have pointed out time and again, it’s never the action and always the cover-up that makes the episode interesting.

And what was Todd Palin doing in the middle of all this anyway? Since when does he get to be a significant part of state government personnel issues?

Personally, I don’t really care about the episode, but you brought it up for some reason with only a half-truth to support your position. So I wanted to make sure the full story was getting told.

By Bud Wiser

September 16, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

For all of you apologist idiots that kneel before the robe of your Messiah Obama, my 809p post in this column was designed to do two things, and I think it did it quite well.

1) It exposes ties to Islam and potentially to communism (although his gushing over the preparations China made for the Olympics in Beijing with the no-doubt slave labor might remove the P word) that Obama has repeatedly denied, denied in the face of facts otherwise. You lib tools jumped all over that one, and I LMAO at your infantile, sputtering responses, much like your Messiah does when he is questioned off-teleprompter.

2 More importantly, it exposes his profound believe in income redistribution through taxation (socialism), another stance he has repeatedly denied in sputtering ‘qualifications’.

None of you morons had one single response, denial, or refutation to that, therefore it can only be believed that you as well believe in income redistribution (socialism), like your master, making you then socialists as well.

Just_Me at 950p wrote:”…Perhaps if McCain had truly vetted his token female…”.

Perhaps if the Democrats had fully vetted their token black, then you buffoons wouldn’t be watching your ticket sinking in the polls like the Titanic, with even one of your own candidates (Biden) saying that there were better choices out there (Hillary).

I laugh at your stupidity for continually showing yourselves as the rats that are going down with the ship.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid……. and a socialist

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 16, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

McCain/Palin 08

Tax cuts for 5% DEPRESSION for the other 95%

It’s the Republican economy Stupid!

By T

September 16, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

I do not have any faith in this guy. If just yesterday the market was fundamentaly sound, why the sudden need to reform the market?

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Don’t look now but the topic posted up ^^^ there is nothing but the words of someone else with little or no commentary.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What do you think of having someone run the country that’s so radical that he’s the only member of the US Senate that has voted for a bill that would have assured that Gianna Jesson never lived to tell her story?

Maybe the “socialist” is a little less risky.

By hillbilly ragger

September 16, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

“It isn’t socialism when we do it!” —Palin/McCain 2008

By AJC/DNC Management

September 16, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

By JAY BOOKMAN September 16, 2008 8:00 AM One last time, Management. Do NOT repost commentary from elsewhere repetitively here. Do NOT. If YOU have an opinion, state it. But simply reposting stale, unattributed statements by others will not be tolerated further.

Yep-

By Morgan September 15, 2008 9:18 PM When there was a vacancy at the top of the Alaska State Division of Agriculture, Palin appointed a high school friend, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency. Havemeister was one of at least five school friends Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

ByteMe,

I linked to her affidavit as a response to the 9:03 post. If you chose not to read it then so be it, but the very least you could do when you chose to butt in is keep up with the flow of the blog.

By T

September 16, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Well, now days there isn’t any Govmit cheese to pass out on wall street. Today, they will be enjoying welfare from our new parent, China. So, ooodles of noodles for everyone. Wish I would have listened to Obama. Does anyone know how to read ##//{}##/-? I don’t know what those symbols mean.

By Taxpayer

September 16, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

I’m simply amazed at the number of Republicans out there that can even conceive of voting for McCain given his selection of his close personal friend and “implementer” of all economically non-viable financial things that currently ail the stock market, the US economy, the taxpayer, the taxpayer’s children, the taxpayer’s grandchildren, etc., Phil Gramm. All hail the one Republican that truly stands out above all other Republicans, except for Bush and his wars, McCain’s economic adviser, Phil Gramm. Now, there’s a name that should go down in infamy.

By ByteMe

September 16, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

There’s a flow here??

By Donovan

September 16, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Is that the best you can come up with for your example of Socialism? I have no problem with CEO’s getting spanked for their undeserved greediness. Wall Street sometimes gets a little greedy at times, but it is the nature of the beast when making money. Your choice for president and his ideas for socialized medicine and income redistribution makes you look like a fool again. You are a poor teacher of liberalism. The Founding Fathers had it right from the inception of this country’s governing principles and we like it just the way it is. Your CHANGE policy is not appreciated.

By marko

September 16, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

I would’nt worry too much about John’s Wall street melt down comments, He’s like the weather if you don’t like what he says just wait a minute. Once he stated that he had no problem with gay marriage only to be violently opposed to it eleven minutes later.That’s got to be a record even for a politician. Before he and the fundalmentalist feel in love with one another he considered them agents of intolerance. He opposed Bush’s tax cuts before he became their tireless champion. Where he once opposed artic drilling he’s now a staunch supporter of it. I think you can see where I’m going with this. we should’nt worry about anything John pontificates. Clearly he does’nt believe a word he says.

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Obambi might want to consider firing his spokesman right about now. Bill Burton just defended Obama using his teleprompter at a rodeo yesterday by saying that sometimes you just want to make sure you got your message out clearly and when it was mentioned that Burton wasn’t using a teleprompter he pointed to his head and said that’s because he had all the information right “up here.”

What’s he saying about the boss?

By Paul

September 16, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser 8:59 pm

Did your post have Obama quoting Warren Buffet – let the market work then tax at the end – or was that Obama saying what he wanted to do with Buffet’s market approach? Glad he didn’t say ‘free’ market – the only place the market is ‘free’ is in the economics textbooks descriptions.

The Muslim call to prayer thing – I think that’s another example of if something isn’t labeled the reaction is quite different. Like a teenager who hears his mom humming a tune and he says that’s a song from his favorite group. The mom immediately stops because that group is a @@$#!! Devilworshipsubversiveimmoral bunch of ##%$!!@. So if someone hears the call to prayer and isn’t aware of what it represents, they may actually think it’s a nice sound. And to meet a nonMuslim who can actually recite part of it – that’s amazing.

RW-(the original) 9:11

LOL! I read the column and thought “that’s one reason RW’s not going to vote for McCain–

Morgan 9:18 pm

[[Palin appointed a high school friend,]]

Nothing unusual there. Just go back to then-Governor Clinton’s race for Pres. Heck, go to his first race for governor, that’s more applicable. Ever look at his staff, advisors, etc? He didn’t meet them all the day he decided to run. When you’re first getting started you go with the people you know -

Midori 9:42 pm

[[A REPUBLICAN gave the deciding vote on issuing a subpoena to her (Palin’s) husband.]]

Sound the trumpets! Ring the bell! We’ve seen history made! Ta-da! Midori gives a compliment (albeit inferred) to a Republican!

Seriously, any word from you brother? My sister had to travel quite a ways to use a land line. Cell towers down or overloaded, lots of land lines not working. She saw one gas station opened at a Sam’s and the line stretched for hundreds of yards. I believe I told you she travels nearly an hour each way to teach at a disadvantaged school – (pupil classification for all you literalists). So if they reopen Thurs she has two or three trips then can’t get to work. Brilliant reopening strategy – but Fed funds depend on such things…

@@ & RW-(the original) 11pm

Don’t you ever sleep? I already know Management’s needs only 2 hours a night.

RW-6:17 if it really is Democrats and voter fraud, have no fear. Mrs. Godzilla will expose those lawbreaking reprobates.

But onto today’s column: those very statements are what angered so many core Republicans and power brokers and why they wrote off McCain. But McCain has shown a remarkable ability to zig zag, reverse course, adapt when little has changed that would prompt a major reversal, and then, as he did this morning, go back to the McCain of two years ago with talk of ‘’business has a social contract with America and they broke it and we need to see if we can confiscate their bonuses.”

I’ve always kinda like the guys who tick off the greatest number of people. By that measure, cons and libs can both find something to hate about McCain. Then again, the ex-Hillary supporters aren’t all that enamored of Obama, so maybe by that standard it’s nearly a tie.

It’ll be fun to watch if McCain makes it – Limbaugh used to mock him mercilessly, now I heard from a Limbaugh listener he loves him. McCain the populist gets in, Limbaugh’ll hate him again. Golly, Jay, you and Limbaugh. Who’da thunk?

By Liar-loan McCain

September 16, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

We wont respond to comments we dont read, moron.

Coddling trolls is the #1 reason blogs fail, Nookwood.

What R the futures doing this morning? This is the question that answers itself by tuning into the various media tickers available to the average uninformed investor/gambler/idiot. The real cause of the financial market correction is the QVCing of Wallstreet, where stocks became a product that pretty faces sell like costume jewelry. That caused a bauble-bubble in and of itself.

McCain is selling Palin as a bauble too. I’m buying, man oh man, am I buying. Think of this: Millions of woman in this country sorta look like Palin. Like Elvis, cottage impersonaters should spring up at open mics across this country. Go and watch, and get these women/men drunk. you could get lucky and do a future president. “President Palin? Yeah, I did her.” (no you didn’t grandpa that was a female impersonator, you got arrested that night, and you’re still paying for it, eat your oatmeal, grandpaw)

Now, the fed is providing more liquity today. R they getting the money from China? What is China buying now? Bank of America bought Merril Lynch. Too big? Is BOA taking advantage here? Is China?

Is this the largest transfer of wealth in history that keeps getting mentioned? Is the transfer actually from the US to CHina? Are we debtor nation squatters and tenant citizens?

Can china put on a Snidely Whiplash moustache and demand the rent or else? Will we lose our country to foreign landlords?

Needs explaining: Oil, at $150 caused $4 gasoline. Oil at $90 should cause $3 gasoline. Why didn’t it? The short term hurricane effect should be a dime over $3 at best.

We are being played. There’s not one satisfactory explaination about the price of gasoline.

Greenspan said Sunday that short selling is vital to reveal the true value of securities. That’s the only path to stable markets: clarified valuations

Now what do you think he meant by that? I dont know. Cause all I know’d is what I know’d, and I dont know’d dat!

I said all I know’d is what I know’d, and I dont know’d DAT!

By RW-(the original)

September 16, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Are you sure that’s not a friend of a friend of a Limbaugh listener? That’s not exactly how I would classify his feelings toward McCain, Palin maybe, but not McCain.

By Jeff

September 16, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

You libs out there can keep pointing your fingers at the Bush administration but in truth the democrats under Bill Clinton got us into this financial mess almost 12 years ago. They pushed legislation to basically force lending companies to provide loans for low income bad credit individuals(democratic voters). Now it is coming back to bite us. It is not this country’s nor my responsibility to take care of those that made poor choices in their lives. Doing so will ultimately weaken us to the point where we no longer exist.

By Jeff

September 16, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

The current gas prices will remain high and our democratic congress will do nothing about it…in fact they want it high so they can push their “green” programs down our throats. Bush isnt the enemy here folks…Nancy Palousy and her comrades are.

By Copyleft

September 16, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

You’ve got to admire the right wing’s sheer determination. If the only way to get McCain elected is to completely ignore everything he says and does, then by golly, that’s what they’ll do!

The man’s a bit-part player in his own campaign, hoping to sneak into office by default. This is pathetic.

By cc

September 16, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Once again Mz. Godzilla knows nothing and showing everyone what an idiot she is. 95% of people don’t pay taxes you idiot. So Obama is going to give tax cuts to those people. Which in reality is a tax credit for the lazy a* people who don’t pay into the system. That’s why Obama is going to rob me and others for him lame projects and welfare programs for those too lazy and unwilling to change their lives. That’s Socialism you fool and I want no parts of it. If he is elected I will empty my bank accounts, sell my homes, and move from this Socialist country because I refuse to give one red cent of my hard earned money to low lifes including you Mz. Godzilla.

By cc

September 16, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Once again Mz. Godzilla knows nothing and showing everyone what an idiot she is. 95% of people don’t pay taxes you idiot. So Obama is going to give tax cuts to those people. Which in reality is a tax credit for the lazy a* people who don’t pay into the system. That’s why Obama is going to rob me and others for him lame projects and welfare programs for those too lazy and unwilling to change their lives. That’s Socialism you fool and I want no parts of it. If he is elected I will empty my bank accounts, sell my homes, and move from this Socialist country because I refuse to give one red cent of my hard earned money to low lifes including you Mz. Godzilla.

By cc

September 16, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Once again Mz. Godzilla knows nothing and showing everyone what an idiot she is. 95% of people don’t pay taxes you idiot. So Obama is going to give tax cuts to those people. Which in reality is a tax credit for the lazy a* people who don’t pay into the system. That’s why Obama is going to rob me and others for him lame projects and welfare programs for those too lazy and unwilling to change their lives. That’s Socialism you fool and I want no parts of it. If he is elected I will empty my bank accounts, sell my homes, and move from this Socialist country because I refuse to give one red cent of my hard earned money to low lifes including you Mz. Godzilla.

By hillbilly ragger

September 16, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

cc….”95% of people don’t pay taxes you idiot.”

Um, sure. Don’t you have a nice little rubber room you can play in?

By cc

September 16, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Once again Mz. Godzilla knows nothing and showing everyone what an idiot she is. 95% of people don’t pay taxes you idiot. So Obama is going to give tax cuts to those people. Which in reality is a tax credit for the lazy a* people who don’t pay into the system. That’s why Obama is going to rob me and others for him lame projects and welfare programs for those too lazy and unwilling to change their lives. That’s Socialism you fool and I want no parts of it. If he is elected I will empty my bank accounts, sell my homes, and move from this Socialist country because I refuse to give one red cent of my hard earned money to low lifes including you Mz. Godzilla.