Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

October 2, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

So far, her public appearances have greatly lowered expectations, which is to her benefit.

She could deliver a debate on the scale of the Gettysburg Address, kookman will call her stupid, that’s what I’m “expecting.”

Finally, she gets to speak to us, unedited, and relight that fire.

And the libs hate it.

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Jay

I have to agree with you. Every trend is looking good for Obama and it’s all because McCain for some inexplicable reason refuses to play hardball on Obama’s true record, who he really is and what his presidency would really mean. Unfortunately, a good trend for Obama is a bad trend for this Republic.

By T

October 2, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Well, lets hope Biden doesn’t stick his foot in his mouth.

By Taxpayer

October 2, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

The Psc Corporal wants to see McCain play hardball. Well, the obvious answer to that one is Horsesh!t. Mavericks are surely full of it.

By RealityKing

October 2, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

The trend is also against any kind of a decent legacy in the face of our current economic, education, social and moral crisis’. I won’t want to be the next president…

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

I know I’m going to regret this, but:

Reality King,

What social and moral crisis are you talking about?

Jay,

I’ve been watching Real Clear Politics pretty close, and as I posted this morning, Obama is ahead for the first time in OHIO. Ohio, can you believe it?

Also, in Florida, where Obama has consistently been lagging.

And he’s gained two points in Virginia just since this past weekend.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

President Barack Obama.

President and Mrs. Barack Obama.

Vice President Joe Biden.

Vice President and Mrs. Joe Biden.

DAMN THAT FEELS GOOD!

I think I’ll do it some more, it’ll drive the wingnuts wingnuttier!

President Barack Obama

By tcoach

October 2, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Bookman if Obama does win, who are you going to blame for things that go wrong in the economy. There is no way he can implement his programs or for that matter his “tax reduction” for 95% but really only 47%. When he fails to do that are you going to call him a liar? If Obama wins you are only going to be able to blame so much on the Bush Administration. You would not allow for Clinton to be blamed for anything that ran over into Bush’s tenure. So are you going to let loose of credibility, or will you actually hold Obama’s campaign accountable, I have never seen you yet.

Since you also love to try to make yourself sound educated I will give you an opportunity.

What are three policies America should be excited about Obama’s campaign? And how does the adminstration plan on not only putting them into action but also making them work?

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

To Taxpayer

I should have been more clear. McCain was never my first choice. However, once he was nominated (and Obama) the choice for me was clear ….. if for no other reason the Supreme Court nominations the next president will get.

That said, he is still not playing hardball but Obama is. McCain’s reaching across the aisle mindset will cost him this election.

I’ll grant you that.

By E

October 2, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

I hope people are finally looking beyond the traditional Republican mantras that appeal to the emotions instead of reason.

Who in their right mind would want four more years of Republican incompetence and mismanagement?

They took credit for Clinton’s surplus after fighting him every step of the way, but when they had total control of both Houses and the White House - look at what they produced!

Only the most stupid and ignorant would stick with the Repubs after what they have done to this country.

By getalife

October 2, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

I think Palin will do good tonight. She does well in debates and have memorized the talking points by now.

Biden will let her talk and try not to be a blowhard.

It does not matter. Whoever wins will use the bipartisan argument to vote together to screw the people.

Like the bailout. Government will continue to be broken and business as usual until we collapse like the Soviet Union.

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

To Mrs. Godzilla

President Barack Obama who associates with terrorists friends.

I plan on lowering my flag to half-staff (or maybe upside down - the international sign of distress) if he is elected.

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G,

To answer your question from the last thread. I don’t personally think that full access to a politician’s medical records is all that necessary. I think those should be private, because the tiniest little infraction could get over-blown.

Say, for example, what if Obama had, as a child, visited a therapist when his mother died, or even as an adult, went to a therapist because of a personal issue he’s having, or vice versa, just think what the media would do with that, and that’s not fair to anyone.

HOWEVER, it is pretty clear to me that considering McCain’s age, and the type of cancer he had, it is very serious, and that’s why I think more people are paying attention to Palin, and his polls are dropping because people do understand the situation, and are scared that the Moose Mama is closer to the position of POTUS than Biden.

By PulSamsara

October 2, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

By Midori

October 2, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation’s capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It’s the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.

McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.

There’s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a “confession” to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn’t survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service’s highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as “one of the toughest guys I’ve ever met.”

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

“I’m going to the Middle East,” Dramesi says. “Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.”

“Why are you going to the Middle East?” McCain asks, dismissively.

“It’s a place we’re probably going to have some problems,” Dramesi says.

“Why? Where are you going to, John?”

“Oh, I’m going to Rio.”

“What the hell are you going to Rio for?”

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

“I got a better chance of getting laid.”

By hillbilly ragger

October 2, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I really don’t trust RCP’s polling so much after I saw this today.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Corporal

Good for you! I support your right to do as you please.

At my house though we’ll be poppin’ corks, grilling steaks and shootin’ fireworks.

Oh, and both the front and back of the house American flags will be flying just as they are today….full mast, strong and free.

And just for you - you manly army guy….

Senator John “Keating 5” McCain

Former Presidential Candidate John “wet start” McCain

Senator John “the fundementals of our economy are strong” McCain.

Failed Presidential Candidate John “knee jerk reaction” McCain

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By Dennis

October 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

I read Jay’s first paragraph and stopped. I could not keep myself from thinking back to October and early November of 2004. The polls were clear Kerry was in. But Kerry is still a kept man a senator.

Then my mind wandered back to November 2000. The networks actually declared a Gore victory. But Gore is now out there grifting money from the Carbon sniffers.

Can they be wrong a third time?

You betch’a!

By tcoach

October 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

So is an aneurysm not a medical condition, even a serious condition. I understand McCain is elderly and could become ill at any moment. Have any of you considered who becomes president in an event if Biden has health issues. That would mean Nancy Pelosi would be your next vice-president or lord help us President.

Biden’s health is much worse than McCain’s, and Obama is a high risk candidate(there have already been multiple conspiracies on his life)

By the way Jay did you take a long lunch or has you and your staff not came up with a truthful answer to my earlier post. Tough questions still need to be answered.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By Truth

October 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Godzilla… you are so full of hate. You are defiantely a Monday!

By RM

October 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Biden is a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who’s words he’s going to steal for tonight’s debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet’s strings.

By Truth

October 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Godzilla… you are so full of hate. You are definately a Monday!

By jjrestinpeace

October 2, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

AJC’s comments would be hilarious if they weren’t so pathetically partisan and so sadly misinformed. The only “filtering” that has been inflicted on Palin is by McCain himself. They have been hiding her from the media until recently, and now we know why. She may in fact be a smart, accomplished woman. She probably is as smart as I am, and I am not a dummy. But I dont WANT someone just like me to run the country. To paraphrase someone else’s comments: We insist on “elite” pilots flying our planes. We want “elite” surgeons to operate on our loved ones, and we rejoice when “elite” atheletes represent us at the Olympics. But for some inexplicable, idiotic reason, Joe Six-Pack wants a very ordinary (in every sense of the word) woman to be next in line to have her finger on the nuclear button when McCain kicks the bucket.

Palin can’t prepare or cram for the VP job or Presidency the same way she did for exams at whatever junior college she attended. Wake up, AJC, and smell the coffee. Or maybe I should go out and get some “and bring it back to ya!!”

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

Hey RM,

I laughed at that comment when you put it in the Washington Post earlier today….

Still funny though.

You get paid hourly for that? Or are you getting McCain Points?

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

hillbilly ragger,

Well, dammit. Thanks for the link.

By Taxpayer

October 2, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

I just got in from turning a big pile of composting horse poop and wood chips. All I could think about the whole time was that aging pile of horse poop, McCain. He stinks as much as the real thing. The difference is once the real horse poop is through aging, it actually has value. The Maverick, on the other hand, is just an old temperamental coot that needs retirement.

By AmVet

October 2, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

…she shot more moose than she could carry home.

Mr. Bookman, that is one of the funniest lines I have heard all year long!

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaskans’ two-year honeymoon with Gov. Sarah Palin may have ended around the time the Republican vice presidential candidate started saying that she told Congress “thanks but no thanks” on the Bridge to Nowhere.

The line brought cheers on the campaign trail but drew winces back home among those who knew Palin had supported the $400 million Ketchikan bridge and only turned against it after Washington backed off its financing.

Most people in Alaska are staunch defenders of Palin and say that she has represented the state well during a month in the national spotlight. They are proud of how she has handled herself in her rapid ascent from small-town mayor to Alaska governor to vice presidential nominee.

But they now cringe when Palin opens her mouth. Most are surprised at how their usually confident governor has foundered in interviews, giving rambling answers that, like the Bridge to Nowhere line, either go against their own recollections or end up lampooned in “Saturday Night Live” skits and by the hosts of late-night talk shows.

On the eve of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, they wondered whether the former beauty pageant contestant will once more look like she’s in over her head or if she can acquit herself against one of the most proficient debaters in the Senate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

“I’m very hopeful that she doesn’t embarrass us worse than she already has,” said Mark Barnhill, a 53-year-old building inspector from Anchorage. “A lot of the mistakes she’s made are plain old rookie mistakes and I don’t expect to see much from her other than more of that.”

Palin’s approval rating in Alaska have been astronomical since she took office in December 2006. But three weeks after she joined the GOP ticket, her approval rating dropped from 82 percent to 68 percent, according to surveys taken by Moore for several Alaska news organizations.

http://newsmax.com/politics/palinthecringe_factor/2008/10/02/136579.html

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

To Mrs. Godzilla

I’ll take all of those names you gave me for McCain (and any more you can come up with) over friends with a terrorist. You should be ashamed but I know you aren’t. That’s the real scary part.

P.S. Marine Corps

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Corporal,

McCain is friends with a terrorist: he’s friends with Bush.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Truth

Sorry dude, don’t do hate.

Righteous Anger or contempt…you betcha!

Corporal

OH MY PARDON ME MR MANLY MARINE GUY!

Speaking of friends with a terrorist… did I see you blogging here like a madman when Bush was flying bin Ladens family out of the country after 9/11?

That was you?

Really?

I sir, have nothing to be ashamed of! (Ok, I don’t like Norwegians, I need to work on that)

Do I scare you more than some of that manly marine stuff you have seen?

Sorry corporal, I don’t think too much of you or your ideas.

By Ted Striker

October 2, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Corporal -

Hang your flag at half mast, hang it upside down, hang it sideways, whatever.

Your neighbors are probably accustomed to your antics. “Look, Marge, there’s that crazy ‘the Corporal’ guy again. He thinks he’s Col. Nathan Jessup.”

By obamafan

October 2, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

3 policies you should be excited about in an Obama administration: 1. Net Nuetrality: McCain doesn’t even know what it is, and if you don’t either, you should learn now. the only reason the Web has continued to innovate and develop new content is because of net nuetrality and Obama will preserve it for good, thus preserving the economic base of the 21st century economy right here in America. Cost: $0 2. Phased transition out of Iraq: removing combat brigades and transferring expense of war (which is currently topping $10 billion a month) to Iraq. Savings: $120 billion by 2010. 3. Reinvesting in America: Obama’s platform includes increased funding for service related professions, infrastructure development (rebuilding bridges and roads that are crumbling), education spending to stay competitive, and green technology tax breaks to lead us into the 21st century economy. Cost: less than 10% of what we’re spending in Iraq

We have been stifled under the Bush republican neocon ideology for 8 years and it is a FAILURE. You may not agree with everything he says, but Obama is by far the best option we have. We, the younger generation, are ready and willing to take on the challenge of fixing the nightmare we’re inheriting, but we can’t do it without our collective ideology being represented on the national stage. We are not fighting the same battles that the baby boomers have been fighting for the last 35 years. A candidate’s position on an issue like net nuetrality is significantly more important to us than that candidate’s position on guns or abortion, because it’s a REAL issue with REAL implications in our daily lives. If we can’t pay the mortgage, find a job or get health care, then WE DON’T GIVE TWO HOOTS WHO’S WEARING THE FLAG PIN. Pro-life vs. pro-choice is over, Vietnam is over, the long-hair vs. crew cut is over, liberal vs. conservative is over, television news is over, red vs. blue is over, the me generation is over. The best efforts of the baby-boomers have gotten us here, and it is time to say thank you very much, there’s the door, now let us get to work actually fixing real problems instead of fighting over created problems designed only to divide and subjugate while the 1% corporate fat cats get rich off the spoils. This is not an election about race or gender or age. It is a race about the future and the past.
No one can stop an idea whose time has come. No one can save an idea whose time has passed. PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN VOTE OBAMA.

By Gabriel

October 2, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

The thing that worries me is that this just too good to be true. Has the GOP pre-rigged the voting process so much that they can’t be bothered to try?

By Left Nuts

October 2, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

obamafan, oh to be young and ignorant, or as the old saying goes, ignorance is bliss.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 2, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

The teachers union has been handing out thousands of Barack Obama campaign buttons to its members, sparking a clampdown by education brass.- NY Post

Perhaps the biggest failure in America, most of our high school graduates cannot even read their diplomas, guess which side the teachers are on?

The Great Dimming of the United States, brought to you by your neighborhood socialist.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

McCain is pulling out of Michigan

That’s mighty trendy dontcha think guys and gals!

By AmVet

October 2, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Today’s topic: Faketriotism.

Even before I received my honorable discharge in 1976, I saw something starting to happen that very much troubled me in this country.

I used to call it “Wearing your patriotism on your sleeve”.

You know the type. The ones that scream what good patriots that are by word and by symbol, as if that is what really defined it.

The type that called everybody else who they didn’t approve of, commies, cowards and unAmerican.

The Dusty type. The America - Love It (In their terms) or Leave It type. The lip service to “supporting the troops” and little if anything else type. The modern day chicken hawk type.

The faketriot.

I have always chosen to honor my country quietly. I have one small US flag flying on my porch and one magnetic US Flag decal on my car.

Nothing else.

I enlisted in a time of war. And so has my son.

It is no big deal really.

It is what we Americans do.

To each his own, but all of this chest pounding and grand standing in the name of the republic is to me, not impressive.

By Wooten's Conscience

October 2, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Who among us is not entertained by the prospects of an abrasive Veep Polemic fraught with gaffes and goofs?

By AmVet

October 2, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

The Dow is down another 333 points today.

Proof positive that there is no global warming!

(Just kidding. Doing my “conservative” imitation…)

By AJC/DNC Management

October 2, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Here are more signs Sarah Palin could face an uphill battle with PBS host Gwen Ifill. Professor *Sherrilyn Ifill of the University of Maryland Law School, whom Gwen Ifill has lauded as “my brilliant baby cousin,” has written that black women are not buying Sarah Palin’s “false claims to feminism” and is portrayed as too perfect: “when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.”-NewsBusters

Nah, that’s not too racist.

By GodHatesTrash

October 2, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Did you know that Bea Arthur, Captain Kangaroo and the original Bozo were all Marines?

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

OH NO THE MODERATORS COUSIN HAS RADICAL VIEWS!

ITS HER COUSIN!

OH MY GOD!

Off to gitmo….

Yes, their cousins

identical cousins

they laugh alike

they walk alike

at times they even talk alike

what a crazy pair!

when cousins

are two of a kind!

By Dusty

October 2, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Well I was going to stick around and share the fun but I don’t like the company here…

bosch just called President Bush a terrorist..

Mrs. Godzie is dumping on our Marines and flying high with propaganda about Bush and Saudis.

Call it the “attack of the ugly Americans”. Yep, they strike out at our president and our military. SICK!!

By AmVet

October 2, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

The economic meltdown? Global warming? OBL still not brought to justice?

All chickenfeed compared to this!

Some women could be damaging their breasts without realizing it, according to the breast biomechanics research team at the University of Portsmouth.

As well as discovering that some women’s breasts could be damaged and fragile ligaments irreparably stretched by wearing the wrong bras, scientists in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science have also found that women could be damaging their breasts through ignorance or embarrassment.

This has simply got to stop.

By hillbilly ragger

October 2, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G…I believe the line was:

“You can lose your mind! / when cousins are two of a kind!”

Oh, and thanks for the frickin’ earworm.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

DUSTY

Don’t LIE!

I’m not dumping on Marines, I am wagging a finger at one marine.

And it’s also a LIE to call the fact that Bush did fly bin Ladens family out of the US immediately after 9/11 - while no other planes were allowed in the air.

You don’t do your credibility any good when you LIE, Dusty.

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G,

My cousin’s a meth head - and guess what, I’m not. Weird.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Sorry about your cousin, but don’t tell Duh or he’ll put YOU in rehab!

By Dusty

October 2, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Dear AmVet,

You are right and wrong.

I enlisted in a time of war. So has my son. That’s what Americans do. That’s RIGHT.

*It is no big deal really.” WRONG.

It IS a big deal. Putting your life on the line for your country is a famously good deed/deal. I would not belittle the thousands who have lost their lives doing it.

Sorry you don’t like my kind of patriotism which is very common among most Americans. I appreciate my father, husband and son serving our country in the military. I also appreciate the military fathers, husbands and sons of other people.

I don’t skulk around about patriotism or shout it from the rooftops. But I do object when people act like they live in the worst country in the world and there’s no good in it. I DISAGREE.

If that is burdensome patriotism, then you’ve got me. Go ahead. Call me patriotic. I DON’T MIND!

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Sorry Hillbilly Ragger…..

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

My God, if I’d know all it took to get Dusty off the blog was to call Bush a terrorist, I’d have done that LONG time ago. I think I’ll post that every day now - it’s like Dusty-repellent.

hillbilly rager and Mrs. G.,

Huh? What song are you singing?

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G.,

Don’t feel sorry for my cousin, he’s an a*****. But yeah, what you said about Andy putting me in rehab, isn’t that like Bush invading the wrong country?

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

HOW COOL!

Bea Arthur really was a marine!

Thanks Godhatestrash.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

The theme song from the old patty duke show…..about cousins!

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G.,

Oh. Got cha.

By Eddy

October 2, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

In an interview the Democratic strategist says that “when Obama holds a rally, 20-30,000 people show up and when McCain holds a rally only 10-15,000 people show up. Why is that?”

Republican strategist says “the majority of the McCain supporters are at work!” Selah

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

To Mrs. Godzilla

Unfortunately, the feeling has become mutual.

I have tried to focus on Obama and the issues but you (like most liberals I debate with) try to focus on putdowns regarding me. Name calling, shrillness, and even volume (if we were in person) does not substiute for civil debate.

I wish you well.

Adieu

By Midori

October 2, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Bosch, Mrs. G, Hillbilly Ragger - make sure you read the story I posted @ 1:32.

It’s 18 pages long, but worth each and every one.

By AmVet

October 2, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

I would not belittle the thousands who have lost their lives doing it.

Perhaps not, but you belittle those of us veterans still living. Regularly.

But I do object when people act like they live in the worst country in the world and there’s no good in it.

And that is exactly where IMHO you go so horribly wrong.

In all of my more than a half century living in this country, I have never, ever once met someone like you describe.

Not one.

Anywhere.

Not in Kansas. Not in California. Not in Texas, Not in Illinois. Not in New Jersey. Not in Georgia.

Pick a state. I haven’t found one yet.

Perhaps you hang out in radically different circles than I. And I’m not saying there aren’t some really lousy people in this country who merit watching. But in spite of your caterwauling, they are outnumbered by a thousand, maybe ten thousand to one, by good, decent, hard working, caring Americans.

The Americans I know, without exception, LOVE this country. I wont speak for them but why wouldn’t they? It has given me everything I have, including my very life.

I believe you simply make these demons up to feel better about yourself.

And if you don’t change your twisted outlook you are going to die with nightmares of these traitorous hordes that don’t exist.

So if you want me to call you a patriot to make you feel better about yourself, OK, I will.

You’re a true American patriot Dusty…

By Dusty

October 2, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

bosch,

I’M STILL HERE but not for long. When you get your own blog I won’t post. But that’s impossible. You don’t have enough brains for that. Maybe your children could help you.

You are a disgrace to our country. What country is so lucky to have the other half of your citizenship (which YOU told us about)?

Mrs. Godzie, I don’t lie.

Do you hate ALL Saudis? Bush could not have been sure who was in the planes of 9/11 at the time. But he did send Saudi dignataries back to Arabia for their own safety. What did you want him to do? Put them in chains? Your Bush hate is out of control.

Stop calling Marines bad names for your silly fun.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Yes Dusty you do LIE.

LOOK you also speak Palinese

“Bush could not have been sure who was in the planes of 9/11 at the time.”

In the days immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, while the airways were still closed to all other flights, Americans couldn’t fly into the country but relatives of bin Laden were able to fly out. The Justice Department and the FBI inspector general should investigate why these obvious “persons of interest” were permitted to leave the country without being seriously interrogated. Why should the American people trust the Bush administration with greater police powers when it refuses to answer questions about the bin Laden family’s escape?

Throw in some stuff about job creation and seeing a foriegn country from you deck…..

By Bosch

October 2, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Bush is a terrorist. God, I hope it works this time.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

WHY CORPORAL YOU POMPOUS WINDBAG!

You sure can dish it out…..put you definitely can’t take it.

How un-manly un-marine like!

But, I wish you well also.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 2, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Bush is a REAL BIG terrorist.

(Has it worked yet?)

By Dusty

October 2, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

AmVet.4:31

Read bosch and call that patriotism.

Read Mrs. Godzie and call that patriotism. I don’t read liberal propaganda news for facts. She does.

Read your own version of patriotism, AmVet. Scary. Too bad you lost it. You must have had it at one time. I don’t belittle veterans. I belittle antiAmericanism. GOT It? No…you wouldn’t understand. You, like many libs, have soaked up too much hate.

By JVS

October 2, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Debate is a setup. The person chosen to moderate the debate between Palin and Biden is Gwen Ifill.

So what you say?

Ifill has a book set to be published in January entitled, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”

Oh, I am sure the debate will be fair… It is only a matter of the “moderator” forgetting about the substantial financial interest she has in a win for Obama.

By MorningStar

October 2, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

By getalife October 2, 2008 1:26 P Government will continue to be broken and business as usual until we collapse like the Soviet Union

Couldn’t agree with you more Getalife. I support a strong military as much as the next (reasonable) person; however, one only has to look at how Russia’s big military overspending caused them go collape. They were on the way out well before the Reagun presidency.

October 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this To Mrs. Godzilla President Barack Obama who associates with terrorists friends.

Perhaps I missed something, but I interpreted Obama’s comments to mean he was willing to communicate with other countries. I didn’t know they were all his friends, and that he associated with terrorists. Silly me. I tend to agree with the character in the movie Godfather, “Keep Your Friends Close, and Your Enemies Closer.”

By Abomi Nation

October 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

JVS, the other side of the coin………

…in one of the dumbest moves in US political history a candidate for President has chosen a person who has written a flattering book about his opponent to moderate a debate between the two!

By Taxpayer

October 2, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Palinese! Good one Mrs. Godzilla.

Dusty, can you say President Obama. Does it hurt you little head. Repeat after me, Dusty. McCain is a loser. Obama is a winner. Biden mops the floor with Palin.

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 2, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

Here all…read this and decide if it’s patriotism.

Every July 4th, we make an American Birthday Cake. It’s a highlight of the family day. It’s usually funny looking, but always gets eaten with gusto after the fireworks in town. We gather and give thanks together for having had the privilege to have been born here and pray that the best ideals of our founding fathers and mothers (read Cokie Roberts’ book on them) continue to guide our nation in the right and true direction.

We honor all servicemembers (even the ones I think are pompous windbags) not just on holidays, but in airports, restaurants, on buses and sadly also in cemeteries.

I especially honor my dad, H.W., WWII fighter pilot, who served in the South Pacific theater and of course dearest Mr. G, who jumped out of choppers one special Christmas in Southeast Asia.

I also honor the warriors here at home. Volunteers, community organizers, scout leaders, Pastors, Neighborhood Watch groups, little old lady sewing circles handmaking layettes for newborns who wouldn’t have one otherwise.

I honor all American heroes.

I believe in being a member of an informed electorate. I read and study every day, I don’t see much teevee - what’s the deal with “reality” series?, I do read opposing views - but I do oppose those views.

I believe that our vote is not our only voice. This silly blog is one option. Our dinner table has been pounded on more than once. We speak up when we think that the greatest nation in the world is doing something stupid. That’s my job as a citizen.

Dusty, et al the tired tactic of questioning the patriotism of your idealogical opponents has become a red flag for bull puckey. Y’all probably out to retire it.

My favorite part of America - I adore the Great Smokey Mountains and fudge.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 2, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Hey JVS….AND RM

I keep finding your posts all over the internet. Wild, dudes.

Are you sitting in a campaign office somewhere?

Is this for cash or McCain Campaign points?

Corporal

“I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for ‘tis only to them that they are blessings.”

Did you know Lady Mary’s best work was on Muslims? I didn’t, but I googled her.

She also hung out with feminists in the 1700’s.

Thanks dude.

By D C

October 2, 2008 7:37 PM | Link to this

Headlines November 4, 2008. “COMMUNITY ORGANIZER BECOMES PRESIDENT – DEATH OF A NATION”. But wait a minute, stop the presses, this thing may not be over yet. There is a little variable called “The Clinton Machine” that may just have something to say about this. Everyone and I mean everyone that can read and write knows that the Clintons do not like Obama and definitely do not want him to win. If he wins Hillary cannot run for eight years. On the other hand if he looses then she can run in four years and be the hero of the Democratic Party. Old Bill has already been helping McCain by some of the remarks he has made in the past couple of weeks. However the Clintons could fail and the above headlines could come true. If so Obama would save Jimmy Carter from having the worst presidency in the history of this country. Stay tune.

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain

By "The Corporal"

October 2, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

True patriotism is voting for a candidate who is best for the country when it may hurt you personally or financially. “The Corporal”

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 2, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this

corporal

without googling it… that 8:03 is spot on.

good work!