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DEL.ICIO.USA touching column by the NYT’s David Brooks…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
… in which a saddened Mr. Brooks slowly comes to the realization that the party he has long favored actually kind of hates his guts.
As he puts it a bit more mildly in his final paragraph:
“And so, politically, the GOP is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away.”
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By Peter
October 10, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
Either McCain makes the accusations about “terrorist” Obama early in the last debate or label him a coward. (Leaving his surrogates to make slanderous allegations without opportunity for rebuttal is outrageous.)
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
The Republicans do like to practice tolerance of some sinners though, especially when it comes to fossil fuels and pollution. Indeed, they pride themselves in being forgiving of the sins of emission. The little stinkers.
By Mr Snarky
October 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
Brooks has intellectual integrity and respect for people who hold ideas other than his own. Of course the LCD conservatives hate him.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
I read a post from a blogger on another site. He suggested that Mccain go back to Hanoi.
You’ed have thought that after what he went thru, McCain would try loving America a little more. But he prefers smarmy.
By Class of '98
October 10, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
The right is telling the educated class to go away? Wow, I thought Dems were the party for welfare queens, high school dropouts and convicted felons.
Oh wait. They still are.
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
Jay, after reading that Bobo Brooks piece, I just can’t muster the energy to mock him as I usually do.
Not after this sterling graf: The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it’s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it’s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it’s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.
Ok, I’ll admit it. This one time. He shoots… he scores! Reading that makes listening to his little cackle-y voice on PBS almost tolerable.
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
Ok, Let’s actually talk about the Brooks column :)
The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it’s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it’s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it’s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.
Talk about 40 years in the wilderness….
I’m actually saddened by this. I loved reading Buckley! He was so smart and really strove to think about things in new ways and to convey those thoughts in ways that made you think harder about your own ideas.
Most “conservative commentators” these days are just shills for the Republican Party… as though the party’s successes would mean that conservative ideas were “winning”.
Conservative ideas are still important and meaningful, but rigid ideological adherence to concepts that haven’t been re-thought in 30 years (e.g., tax cuts at all cost; favoring the fetus over the mother) is killing their credibility.
Reagan understood pragmatism.
By mike hussein smith
October 10, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Peter, accusations aren’t worth sh!t. SHOW ME THE DAMN MONEY. Before I will believe your crap, I want to see photos of Obama and Ayers stomping on a flag, or at least having drinks at a bar.
Now, back to David Brooks. I almost cried for him when I read his column yesterday, but he needs to look into the mirror. He once encouraged the same kind of gop horrors that he now decries.
By Abomi Nation
October 10, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Wow. how sad. What a disappointment Bush’s speech was.
He said…”We can solve this crisis - and we will,”
I thought great! To solve the problem Bush would then end his speech, hop on a helicopter, give one last Nixon wave good bye to all his Doombat supporters, then fly off into his self imposed 10 year exile at his ranch in Crawford Texas..
But there was no helicopter, he lied again. He’s still the President.
By Fred
October 10, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
Since I read the first piece of his the other day, I have come to like Jay Bookman. Do I agree with everything he says? of course not, I don’t agree 100% with anyone. But Mr. Bookman can get his point across without all the across the aisle hate that seems so prevalent in today’s political climate. He also show’s, as he did in this column, that he reads those who might have differing viewpoints, and as such his mind is not set in “permanently closed” mode.
Also it takes a certain humbleness to link an article such as he did today as a way of saying, “I can’t put it any better than this.” Now THAT takes character. It’s nice to find a lefty without all the wild lefty accusations and vitriol. I knew they couldn’t ALL be nutcases like Cynthia McKinney………….
By E
October 10, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
The Repubs have alienated many people. They will tolerate only those who can help them, they’ll use them, then throw them to the curb.
They need Americans to be “dumbed down” as much as possible, because that’s how they get what they want.
Sad, but true.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Former Countrywide Financial loan officer Robert Feinberg says Mr. Dodd knowingly saved thousands of dollars on his refinancing of two properties in 2003 as part of a special program the California mortgage company had for the influential. He also says he has internal company documents that prove Mr. Dodd knew he was getting preferential treatment as a friend of Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide’s then-CEO.
That a “Friends of Angelo” program existed is not in dispute. It was crucial to the boom that Countrywide enjoyed before its fortunes turned. While most of the company was aggressively lending to risky borrowers and off-loading those mortgages in bulk to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Mr. Feinberg’s department was charged with making sure those who could influence Fannie and Freddie’s appetite for risk were sufficiently buttered up. As a Banking Committee bigshot, Christopher Dodd, democrat, was perfectly placed to be buttered.-WSJ
Friends of the democrat party?
You can have them.
David Brooks can whine about “losing” them.
I would rather lose them then I would my country.
If we haven’t already.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Here is the must read article for today by Charles Krauthammer ……
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902328.html?sub=AR
P.S. Remember now folks, if you vote for Obama you can’t take it back down the road !!
By Midori
October 10, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
Corporal,
what don’t you knock it off with the stupid and equally pathetic “doom and gloom” crap.
Bold facing your immature hate mongering doesn’t make it any more palatable.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this
no can do
By Citizen of the World
October 10, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
The Republican Party may be losing professionals, not just because of their failed policies, but because of their anti-intellectualism. They have their conservative mouthpieces like Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, et. al., who appeal to the “angry white man” with the message that they are victims — of the poor, the mainstream media, our colleges and universities and, last but not least — cover your ears, children! — the LIBERAL. And, liberals are often bookish and given to gray arguments over the black/white, my-country-right-or-wrong-and-it’s-never-wrong worldview of the talk radio conservative.
So why is this anti-intellectualism frightening? One of the first things newly formed totalitarian regimes do (like Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Chairman Mao’s China) is gather up all the intellectuals and shoot them or ship them off never to be seen or heard from again. So when you hear Karl Rove wax rhapsodic about a permanent Republican majority, and you hear conservative mouthpieces rail against the liberal intellectuals, just add that up and watch smart people run for the voting booth to vote the other party!
The sad part is that those who listen to and buy into all this far right-wing rhetoric think that it can’t happen here. It can happen anywhere if people don’t know history well enough to be ever vigilant against anti-intellectual rhetoric.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this
are you a bot?
By mike hussein smith
October 10, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
Krauthammer can huff and puff with the best of them, Corporal, but that doesn’t mean his neocom thinking has any validity.
Nice post, Citizen of the World. Quite eloquent.
By Citizen of the World
October 10, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
Thanks, Mike.
By alan
October 10, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
The GOP was doing well until it started pandering to uneducated fools like Sean Hannity who absolutely lowered the political discourse to third grade levels.
Today, fools like Sean Hannity continuously advances the idea that “EDUCATION IS ELITISM.” Is it any wonder Brooks reveals that “The GOP has lost the educated class by sins of commission”?
Until, the GOP embraces policies that support the middle-class instead of ones that pander ONLY to the top top income earners, they can continue to depend on ONLY the top 1% income earners to vote for them….and of course, the grossly uneducated.
Fools!
alan
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 10, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
Greg Sargent Reports:
The fury and loathing of Obama being whipped up largely by McCain-Palin-GOP rhetoric about the Illinois Senator is now spilling into down-ticket races, specifically the battle between GOP incumbent Saxby Chambliss and his Dem challenger:
Thursday’s debate took place in front of a highly partisan crowd in the GOP stronghold of Middle Georgia. Chambliss supporters waved “Saxby” signs and offered up a sustained “boos” when Martin mentioned Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“Bomb Obama,” one woman hollered.
This isn’t a McCain rally, to be sure. But McCain could definitely have an impact on the overall climate if he called on the McCainiacs to calm down a notch or two and made a public gesture of some kind in order to let it be known that some behavior is simply unacceptable.
EEK!
By citizen
October 10, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
I lean more on the conversvative/moderate side and I don’t feel as if I have a political party.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
Besides which, Brooks is a Trojan Horse, he called Palin a “cancer” and he voted for Bill Clinton both times.
If this toady were concerned about the standing of the Repugs, he would be writing articles about the financial crisis pinning the blame where it belongs, squarely on the as-s of the donkey.
I thought this bail out package was supposed to prevent a meltdown?
Isn’t that what the giggling Pelosi, Reed and Oblahma told us?
All they did was lard up their buddies in the mortgage industry, buddies that Brooks whines about Republicans losing, even he knows where the criminals call home, the democrat party.
Why our columnist cannot figure out that this is not a bonus for the democrats is a question for the ages.
What we are seeing on Wall Street is a phenomena that I explained in detail over 2 months ago.
Oblahma ain’t getting my money.
And I know a lot of people that feel the same exact way.
There are plenty of safe places to put it where the socialists cannot pillage nor plunder, that, my friends, is what we have been seeing for the last few weeks.
The more it looks like Oblahma will be president, the more the economy tanks.
And you are right, where is the bottom? With Oblahma we will find out.
And it ain’t gonna be good.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
Hey Corporal:
Charles Krauthammer wrote in a February 2001 Time article (n.b. prior to 9/11): “”America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to re-shape norms, alter expectations, and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will.”“
Create new realities??? Roman Empire??? Yeah, we’re in the middle of this “new reality” that the Bush and his cohorts created. Are you feeling it yet???
Krauthammer has absolutely no credibility.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
Phil Gramm - “You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession…We have sort of become a nation of whiners…”
George W. Bush - “…we must also work together to achieve important goals for the American people here at home. This work begins with keeping our economy growing. … And I encourage you all to go shopping more.”
John McCain (9/18/08) - “…the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
When will the GOP get a clue?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
Texas Watchdog found 4,462 registered voters who appear to be deceased.
Auditors identified 49,049 registered voters state-wide who may have been ineligible to vote. Approximately 23,576 may have been deceased and another 23,114 were possible felons. And they found more than 2,359 duplicate records.-2 Houston
Yep, the democrat party, home of the common criminal.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
Management: “”The more it looks like Oblahma will be president, the more the economy tanks.”“
Wow, now here’s some economic analysis we can all admire. Are you going to have this published as a new economic theory??? You know, kind of like the Keynsian Economic Theory? Dude, I studied Maynard Keynes and him you ain’t!
Some of your musings remind me of what Samuel Clemens once stated: “”It is best to keep your mouth shut and be presumed ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt.”
For those not in the know, Samuel Clemens is better known as Mark Twain.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
Management: “”The more it looks like Oblahma will be president, the more the economy tanks.”“
Wow, now here’s some economic analysis we can all admire. Are you going to have this published as a new economic theory??? You know, kind of like the Keynsian Economic Theory? Dude, I studied Maynard Keynes and him you ain’t!
Some of your musings remind me of what Samuel Clemens once stated: “”It is best to keep your mouth shut and be presumed ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt.”
For those not in the know, Samuel Clemens is better known as Mark Twain.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
Management: “”The more it looks like Oblahma will be president, the more the economy tanks.”“
Wow, now here’s some economic analysis we can all admire. Are you going to have this published as a new economic theory??? You know, kind of like the Keynsian Economic Theory? Dude, I studied Maynard Keynes and him you ain’t!
Some of your musings remind me of what Samuel Clemens once stated: “”It is best to keep your mouth shut and be presumed ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt.”
For those not in the know, Samuel Clemens is better known as Mark Twain.
By alan
October 10, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Jay - Don’t be surprised. See who has also joined the bandwagon (SHOCKING !)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama
alan
By Paul
October 10, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Chris Saltzman 4:58
Krauthammer was writing of what was possible. The Bush Administration blew it. What is is not what was possible; therefore, it does not affect Krauthammer’s credbility.
By Chief LaughingAtU
October 10, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Andiduh made a funny. He said that he explained the wall street “phenomena” that we are seeing in detail over two months ago. Good one Andiduh. Which “phenomena” would you be referring to, Andiduh. Please, make more funny.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Paul,
I had a little wine left over from last evening, so I decided to enjoy it for TGIF happy hour: 1997 Grgich Hills Cabernet.
I hope the Texas-Oklahoma football game is as advertised!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
By Chris Salzmann October 10, 2008 5:10 PM Wow, now here’s some economic analysis we can all admire. Are you going to have this published as a new economic theory??? You know, kind of like the Keynsian Economic Theory? Dude, I studied Maynard Keynes and him you ain’t!
You only need to mash the button once, Chris.
Perhaps instead of sputtering rage you could offer your explanation as to why, despite an economic bail out package was made into law, the economy is cratering in epic proportions?
We all wait with great anticipation, genius.
~~~~~
By N-GA October 10, 2008 5:07 PM John McCain (9/18/08) - “…the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” When will the GOP get a clue?
It’s so eeeeaassyy, when nothing seems to please me.
Brokaw: Sen. Obama, time for a discussion. I’m going to begin with you. Are you saying to Mr. Clark (ph) and to the other members of the American television audience that the American economy is going to get much worse before it gets better and they ought to be prepared for that?
Obama: No, I am confident about the American economy.
bwa.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
Okay kids.
Your future is gone, sold out, no jobs.
Time to enlist so we can start another war.
I wonder if they will vote this time.
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
Chris, you must not be from the south. Down here, we all was raised on Mark Twain, Gone with the Wind, grits, and other such noteworthy things.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
N-GA
You had some left over?!!? Well, that does make a wonderful start to the weekend, doesn’t it?
Weather’s forecast for the mid 80s, slightly cloudy and breezy. OK’s favored but we’ll see how the TX backfield does. They went with a 4 up 7 back last weekend. Irony is, most of the OK team comes from Texas!
Just made an Italian sausage lasagne for tonight, in case my brother wants to relax and forgo the Euless Trinity game. Got a Boston Cream pie going (from scratch, ‘natch) ‘cause it was his birthday this week. Ribeyes for after the game.
Come on down!
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this
Andy,
What McCain said is different than what Obama said.
You flunk reading comprehension, AGAIN!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this
An article by Toni Foulkes of ACORN, “Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign,” which appeared in Social Policy magazine in 2004, Foulkes revealed ACORN noticed Obama when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project. Wrote Foulks: “He was a very good organizer. When he returned from law school, we asked him to help us with a lawsuit to challenge the state of Illinois’ refusal to abide by the National Voting Rights Act … Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar … and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5000 of them). Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office.”
Boy, that Carol Mosley Braun was a real good catch.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
For all those condemning the reasoning behind Krauthammer’s artticle:
[[ But that does not make these associations irrelevant. They tell us two important things about Obama.
First, his cynicism and ruthlessness. He found these men useful, and use them he did.]]
That, alone, may be enough to persuade some undecideds to vote for Obama. Possibly even convert some Republicans.
Of all the qualities necessary in the leader of a powerful nation, few could be added, let alone surpass, these two. When pursuing America’s vital interests, ‘persuading’ allies and gazing into the eyes of the leaders of corrupt, repressive regimes, cynicism and ruthlessness will serve us well.
Pass the bottle, please, N-GA
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
By N-GA October 10, 2008 5:35 PM Andy, What McCain said is different than what Obama said.
Oh, O.K.
Now, uh, this would be the part where you tell us what the f you are talking about.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Paul,
Did I ever tell you I lived in Colleyville? 1987 during the last big stock market implosion. One in ten residences were “For Sale”. I lived in a subdivision built by an ex-Dallas Cowboy. Beautiful. Sold my house in less than 30 days in a horrible market. Whew! Transferred back to Atlanta.
The expression is overused, but a rivalry like Texas - Oklahoma doesn’t fit into a point spread…It’s personal!!
By Original Rick
October 10, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
I admit to a bit of cowardice:
My Obama sticker is affixed to a magnet, which I place on my car when I am driving, and which I remove when I am away from my car.
I have no doubt that my car would be vandalized otherwise.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Great timing, Paul:
Barack Obama’s newly appointed Muslim outreach adviser is coming under fire for meeting with Islamic groups with extremist views, just two months after her predecessor resigned over links to a radical cleric.
Minha Husaini met with members of several Islamic organizations in Virginia on September 15 — including some that terrorism experts say have ties to Hamas and the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Among the attendees were senior members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which was listed by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror-related trial.
Several people connected to CAIR have been convicted of felonies — including on terrorism-related charges.-Fox
Either these democrats have a serious lack of judgment or they share the same views as the terrorists do.
Nuance that.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Paul,
A nice Chianti Classico Reserva with your lasagna?
I think I will envy you the after dinner conversation. I don’t have much chance for that up here in the mountains. The solitude is wonderful, but sometimes the price is too much…
By Who is McCain?
October 10, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
McCain finally tells his kooks to show Obama some respect and calm down.
I guess the Secret Service had a talk with him.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
Paul and N-GA,
Can I get on that bottle passing too?
Paul from the earlier thread:
Yes, I would help in Darfur, “help” being the operative word.
I read that article this morning, I don’t know that much about Brooks, but it seems to me the most level headed of the true conservatives have reached the same conclusion - the GOP is on a similar turn like the Democratic party was after 2000 - they need to get their act together.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
N-GA
Ouch! That must’ve been brutal. The market here is slow, number of foreclosures, but absolutely nothing like the rest of the country. In my subdivision (130 homes) - when one comes on the market, average time to sell is 14 days at nearly full asking price. Thank heavens.
I was at a Home Depot, youngish gal at the register making conversation, asked about the weekend, said I was off to the game. She squinted at me and asked “who you for?” I said “Texas, of course.” She wasn’t smiling as she said, “Good, I thought we was gonna have to ship you back north of the border.”
Yup, that’s personal!
By Original Rick
October 10, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Everybody ready to gag???
From FirstRead on MSNBC:
*”From NBC’s Mark Murray Earlier today, Obama remarked on recent outbursts of “Traitor!” “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” at McCain campaign events. “It’s easy to rile up a crowd,” Obama said. “Nothing’s easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that’s not what we need right now in the United States.”
In response, McCain senior adviser Nicolle Wallace released this statement, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. “Barack Obama’s assault on our supporters is insulting and unsurprising. These are the same people obama called ‘bitter’ and attacked for ‘clinging to guns’ and faith. He fails to understand that people are angry at corrupt practices in Washington and Wall Street and he fails to understand that America’s working families are not ‘clinging’ to anything other than the sincere hope that Washington will be reformed from top to bottom.”
“Attacking our supporters is a new low for the campaign that’s run more millions of dollars of negative ads than any other in history.”
* UPDATE McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers adds in another statement: “Barack Obama’s attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand regular people and the issues they care about. He dismisses hardworking middle class Americans as clinging to guns and religion, while at the same time attacking average Americans at McCain rallies who are angry at Washington, Wall Street and the status quo.”
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
I hope that the Democrats under Obama will get their act together.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Whoops!
I meant get IN on the bottle passing. Sorry ‘bout that.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
Yes, me too, but it seems they are well on their way, not quite there yet, but with Obama as POTUS, the leadership across the board will be stronger.
Pelosi seems to me too, um, well, not quite sure of the word I’m looking for, but “weak” definitely comes to mind.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management?
Nuance “cynicism and ruthlessness”? Surely you jest, good sir. I’m trying to keep your spirits up, given a possible outcome a few weeks hence.
Just remember:
Link: Remember, remember
Bosch,
Yup, I’ll pull one out of the cooler. You really should be here - my brother makes the guy in the monastery seem like a nonstop talker.
One of the kids has a vacation place up in the Colorado mountains. 8000 ft altitude, breathtaking views. Spent a bit of time there. I do get your drift.
By RW-(the original)
October 10, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this
I’ve got to give you moonbat(ic)s® credit. I thought you would drop this line about how some fringe idiot yelling something tars the entire Republican Party and somehow offends you out of sheer embarrassment, but I guess it’s really true that history begins anew each morning for you. Have any of of you paid any attention to the things you yourselves have been saying for nearly eight years running?
Paul,
Another way to look at it, and one I find far more likely, is that these people that Obama seems to gravitate to find him the ultimate useful idiot. Revolution through the TelePrompter if you will.
It’s remarkable how many of these people he can end up working with and the first inclination is for him to claim ignorance. Eventually it’s hard not to take him at his word.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this
RW,
The teleprompter thing you keep bringing up is ridiculous, stale, and refuted by the evidence. He has done fine in the debates without it. In prepared speeches, he uses a teleprompter while McCain uses notes.
Try something new, for a change.
By G
October 10, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this
Good Christian folks, many of them Baptist, vote Republican, which is the party of money.
They live poor and vote rich.
Republicans got all these people under the same tent, from the traditional Republican base - wealthy Republicans, country club Republicans, corporate Republicans, and then they got the NASCAR bubbas and all those folks, and then they brought in the religious right, all these good Christian folks, they got all these people together. All of them voting for one purpose, and that’s to protect the rich people.
It has worked really, really well for the Republican party.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By TW
October 10, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
Once the bills were tallied, who ended up having done more damage to the country - Ayers or Keating?
By Paul
October 10, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
N-GA
The 6:08 was for you, not Bosch. To borrow an expression, ‘geez.”
Bosch
Darfur? You gave, a year or so back, one of the best, most realistic answers on why you’d intervene. You wrote, “because we can.”
Sometimes, especially given you’re the strongest power in the world, that’s the best answer. Especially given what’s happening in that hell hole.
I trust you know, but I should probably emphasize for others reading, that questioning a position is not opposition to that position, that challenging an assumption may be nothing more than looking for strong or weak points or looking for consistency of reasoning, that offering an alternate view may be just another step in analyzing options.
You want a bottle from me? You want the good stuff, ask N-GA. After you’ve had a few there and can’t tell the difference, then you can ask me.
Did you know the Pres used to have a yacht? One of the perks of the office. Pres Nixon used to have his steward wrap the wine bottle in a towel while serving guests. He’d have the steward pull back the towel to show the label to the guests while he was being served - but it wasn’t the same bottle under the towel the other stewards were serving the guests!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this
How did I miss this?
It took 16 years for them to be friends. But last Thursday, when Senator John McCain eulogized a former enemy, David Ifshin, who died at age 47 after a five-month battle with cancer, the two had long made their “peace together.” McCain may be our most famous prisoner of the Vietnam War; Ifshin, the most famous protester to go to Hanoi (save Jane Fonda). Ifshin’s antiwar sentiments were piped into McCain’s cell repeatedly via Radio Hanoi. McCain, who was left hanging by his broken arms for hours a day, shriveled to less than 100 lbs. during his five-year imprisonment. Both men would end up in Washington in 1984: McCain, by then a Congressman sharply critical of Ifshin’s antiwar politics; Ifshin, a lawyer working on the Mondale presidential campaign. Two years after that, Ifshin saw McCain at a Washington event and the two men made up. Over the next months, the two set up the Institute for Democracy in Vietnam.
The rest here
I think I’ll get Mr. G to crack open the Jack and have a cocktail.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this
Methinks the liberals doth whine a bit too much, as always, such brave little souls:
Play Kill Bush - Free Games on Pictogame
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams apologized Thursday for saying she could kill President Bush
“Am I allowed to write that I would like to hunt down George W. Bush, the president of the United States, and kill him with my bare hands?”
High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student’s picture: “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”
As most of you probably already know, the Guardian, the leading liberal newspaper in England, today printed a call for the assassination of President Bush.
President Bush ‘assassinated’ in new TV docudrama
Gee, I wonder if their incessant whining will work with Putin?
By RW-(the original)
October 10, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
I’ll thank you not to tell me what I’m allowed to type and what I’m not.
The fact remains that when confronted with a question or situation he didn’t expect he doesn’t even match the oratorical skills of George W and his first inclination when responding to a situation is to put out some statement of moral equivalence and then wait for smarter people to sort out the answer. See Georgia/Russia.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
They may consider Obama a useful idiot, but what if Obama thinks the same of them?
Mrs. Godzilla
McCain also did some wonderful “healing” on several trips to Vietnam. McCain or Obama, there’s always something deeper than what many emphasize. That was a nice post. Thanks.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
“I am enthusiastic and encouraged by the enthusiasm and I think it’s really good,” McCain said. “We have to fight and i will fight but we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments and I want to be respectful.”
McCain waves the white flag.
Ayers is not moving the polls.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this
Paul: Really, you shouldn’t have.
No need to worry about my spirits, even I see the upsides in an Oblahma presidency.
Just think, there will be less traffic on the roads, the shopping malls will be less crowded, the airlines will actually have some empty seats thereby leg room, as the recession deepens prices will fall, perhaps we will suffer a national humiliation at the hands of some foreign dictator that Oblahma “misjudged.”
America will be a quite, humble and weak country, less hectic.
And with all of that would be a resurgent Conservative majority in 2012, bringing, once and for all, the total end of the democrat party.
This guy makes Carter look like George Washington.
By RW-(the original)
October 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this
Paul,
Wasn’t that already the flip side of your coin that I flopped?
By GodHatesTrash
October 10, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
Many of you rightwingnuts are the typical Krauthammer stooges. Some people long for fascism, and would thrive (well, not thrive, but be less miserable) under such.
But remember, you rightwingnuts, whoever gets elected November 4, you will still be a hate-filled, angry, undereducated mentally and emotionally retarded misfit, unloved by anyone except perhaps a hapless dog. Like you’ve been your whole life.
Don’t worry, nothing is going to change about that.
One People One GOP One Hensley-McCain!
And Krauthammer uber alles!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
This guy makes Carter look like George Washington.
You libs are embarking on the biggest snowjob in modern history, even bigger than Pelosi’s “qualifications.”
If this Oblahma is so smart and wonderful then why does he need the total and undying devotion of the pinko media, why does his campaign have to register dead people to vote, why does he so ferociously hide the details of his past, why is he only up 6 points against the Republican party of George Bush??
If elected, he will bring the ruination of your political party and, not surprising, you are too stupid to see it.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC
The long view. Take the long view and you can see the good! It’s all cyclical.
RW-(the original)
Now that was good!
My brother just arrived - pleasant weekend, all!
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this
Paul, Bosch…
And now for a peaceful weekend. Off to a baptism tomorrow…then college football and watching leaves fall. A bottle of wine (or two), and the company of my wife.
I’m a very lucky man.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this
N-GA
And you recognize it. That’s what counts. Enjoy.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this
They are buying stock in banks with some of that 700 billion.
We own banks now.
Fire all admins.
By Ted Striker
October 10, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this
To: AJC/DNC, The Corporal & RW — the three biggest blowhards on the entire AJC forum:
Why don’t we get together and discuss politics in real time next week. I’d like to see the faces behind your weak invective. Name your time and place for next week.
Unless of course you’re all three scared.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this
An analysis of campaign finance records by The New York Times this week found nearly 3,000 donations to Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, from more than a dozen people with apparently fictitious donor information.
al-Gitmo: Yeah but who owns us?
By Midori
October 10, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this
In Letter to ‘NYT,’ Man Who Prosecuted Weather Underground Hits Linking Ayers to Obama
NEW YORK In a surprising a letter to the editor published in The New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Underground in the 1970s expressed outrage over the linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the McCain campaign, adding, “Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.”…
The full letter follows:
As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of ‘prosecutorial misconduct.’ It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.
William C. Ibershof Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008
Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_di…
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this
By Ted Striker October 10, 2008 7:02 PM To: AJC/DNC, The Corporal & RW — the three biggest blowhards on the entire AJC forum Why don’t we get together and discuss politics in real time next week. I’d like to see the faces behind your weak invective. Name your time and place for next week. Unless of course you’re all three scared.
Your hospital room?
~~~~~
God’sTrash: I think Hairy Reed is even more f’d up than Oblahma is, just barely.
This doesn’t jive very well with the race mongering, moron.
By GodHatesTrash
October 10, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this
To the unhinged rightwingnuts:
John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence
Eat it up!
By getalife
October 10, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
Charles Keating to McCain: ‘I’m yours til death do us part.’
Don’y know Andy but Keating owned McCain.
I think it is time to legalize weed.
I am willing to trade my new banks stock for some.
By GodHatesTrash
October 10, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this
Well, Duhng, I’ve always considered you an equal opportunity misanthrope. You’ve attempted to hide your many perversions, self-delusions, and confusions behind a relentless wall and sh*tstorm of hate and contempt for pretty much everything.
(I see that you strongly identified with my last post, in which, by the way, you were not directly mentioned. While I think you are sort of a blanket misanthrope, I think you are a racist, too, but let’s just agree to disagree on that one, since you’ve taken the rest of my post to heart, since I’ve described you pretty much to a ‘t’, and you’ve chosen to respond to it)…
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
“Once the bills were tallied, who ended up having done more damage to the country - Ayers or Keating?”
Perhaps we might poll the surviving members of the elderly 20,000 who were screwed out of their life savings.
Wonder how many of them committed suicide?
By RW-(the original)
October 10, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
By Ted Striker October 10, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this To: AJC/DNC, The Corporal & RW — the three biggest blowhards on the entire AJC forum: Why don’t we get together and discuss politics in real time next week. I’d like to see the faces behind your weak invective. Name your time and place for next week. Unless of course you’re all three scared
Is that you, Blackadder? If you recall this doesn’t end well for you.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this
God’sTrash: This may be above your pay grade but I defended myself whether you were speaking of me or not.
As you yourself said before, you are white and I think you are just as much a POS as Oblahma is.
How can this make me a racist?
By Midori
October 10, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
well, if anything, it proves that birds of a feather flock together.
your friend, much like you, is a complete idiot.
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this
ByteMe
October 10, 2008 3:44 PM
If you understood Buckley you’re too sophisticated to be here. But I appreciate your musings.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this
This is why McCain did not want the media to talk his kooks
No wonder he had to wave the white flag.
A bunch of Andies.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
oh come on, Getalife — isn’t there a few Buds and Corporals in there too???
By Midori
October 10, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
breaking news out of alaska: PANEL VOTES TO MAKE PALIN TROOPERGATE REPORT PUBLIC!!!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
McCain just had to take the mike away from a lady at his rally…….
Thanks Senator McCain. You did the right thing.
Oh, and we’ll get to see the troopergate report.
By Bud Wiser
October 10, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this
Brooks favors Obama. Everybody in the still free (for now) world knows that, and with the drivel he writes, he worries that people don’t like him?
Any alleged journalist who writes opinions for a living and worries that some people don’t like him for it, is definitely in the wrong business.
Brooks is an idiot. But what follows, sent to me by a friend, is more worrisome than anything Brooks has to say, because I probably wouldn’t believe a word of it anyway without having to research it first myself.
It is a sad, sad day for journalism when readers feel they have to verify what they see in print, or on the internet or boob tube, simply because they have lost the faith that they are getting the real news, and not some slop spun like cotton candy to promote a political ideology.
Reprint: This election has me very worried. I started thinking ‘Where did the money come from for Obama?’ And if Obama was ‘financed’ by someone or some organization, what ‘strings’ are attached to that massive investment?? What must he do for them if he becomes president?
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he purportedly had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. Before that he went to high school at Punehoe School in Hawaii. Tuition is reportedly $30,000 annual. Where did he get that money?
‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan . During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ‘round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan, where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.
My question - Where did he get the significant amount of money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wanted everyone to call him Barack - not Barry.
Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It’s not cheap, to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York .
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo, Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the ‘Arab-American Business and Professional Association.’
About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans?
After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which was Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. Obama worked as a ‘Community Organizer’ for ACORN or off-shoots of ACORN. His job was ‘agitation’ in the poor communities.
In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price).
With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things.’ We all know what Hamas thinks of Israel.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan ? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East? We know there are phone banks operating in Gaza, dozens of people call America to raise money and elicit votes for Obama.
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘He make a mistake’. Some mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Where are Obama’s Punahoe, Occidental, and Columbia transcripts? He will not release them. Was he graduated without having completed the classes or passed the exams? Why won’t he release his transcripts?
There need to be answers, but somebody has to ask Obama the questions first, preferably John McCain, at the next, and last debate, next Wednesday.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this
al-Gitmo: I wonder why your vid didn’t show the punk as-s liberals yelling at the McCain supporters, trying to incite them?
We could hear them yelling.
Duh.
By G
October 10, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this
Report coming in from Alaska:
Gov. Palin abused her power.
Details to come.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Just_Me
October 10, 2008 8:29 PM | Link to this
Breaking News
Palin report was released. Finding #1: Palin did, in fact, abuse her power.
Spin, spin, SPIN.
from adn.com (her local paper)
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/10/10/16/Branchflowerreport.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf
have at it……
She’s….cheney’s love child? Cheney’s clone in drag?
By Midori
October 10, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this
“I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power …”
Finding #1 in the Troopergate Report!!!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this
AK:
Palin did use her power unlawfully.
Oh-Oh.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this
“The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Finding Number Two I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.
Finding Number Three Harbor Adjustment Service of Anchorage, and its owner Ms. Murleen Wilkes, handled Trooper Michael Wooten’s workers’ compensation claim properly and in the normal course of business like any other claim processed by Harbor Adjustment Service and Ms. Wilkes. Further, Trooper Wooten received all the workers’ compensation benefits to which he was entitled.
Finding Number Four The Attorney General’s office has failed to substantially comply with my August 6, 2008 written request to Governor Sarah Palin for information about the case in the form of emails.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this
OH AND BUD…..
I got that e-mail 16 months ago.
So….what’s next?
Obama gives birth to bigfoots baby?
By Mike
October 10, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this
Brooks’s commentary actually carries weight because he doesn’t hew to partisan lines like Bookman. Why can’t we have less partisan hackery from Bookman and more intellectually honest commentary from folks like Brooks?
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this
Midori
Just_Me
G
Bosch
Goldie
Is what I we are feeling the audacity of hope?
By getalife
October 10, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this
Broke State law and violated trust? Don’t they all?
Walt has a good civil lawsuit that will cost Alaska millions.
Poor SNL is going to lose their ratings star.
By G
October 10, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this
Not that it will do any good, because I believe he’s already toast, but who do y’all think McCain will choose to replace Palin?
I’m thinking Mitt Romney.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Just_Me
October 10, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this
Mrs. G,
I find McCain’s sudden defense of Obama rather disingenuous…..
Backlash, perhaps? Worry that the mainstream voters are increasingly MORE turned off by the rhetoric and ugliness he and his pretty, pretty, power-abusing princess have incited?
I somehow find it hard to believe that he was being altruistic. However, I am glad he finally did something about it.
Let’s see if Ol’ Sarah does the same in WV; I doubt it…gee, I wonder what they will do, given tonight’s news?????
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
i r o diM: Thanks for the info:
By Midori October 10, 2008 8:31 PM In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.
Moron.
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this
Bosch
October 10, 2008 6:08 PM
You’re right about Pelosi. Hopefully Cindy Sheehan will end her career. She revealed herself when she refused to appoint Jane Harman to chair the Intelligence Committee. (Apparently she is chairperson now, I missed the change.) If Pelosi returns she has to be removed as speaker.
By G
October 10, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzilla, I just recently read The Audacity Of Hope. I loved it. When I finished it, I really felt I had come to know Obama.
I wish everyone would read it.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Just_Me
October 10, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this
Mrs. G.,
…I think it just may be…
Confusing language…
while she didn’t “break the law,” she “unlawfully abused her power.”
AHA!
It’s….PALINSPEAK! IT’S CONTAGIOUS!!!
I love how some of the rabid radicals here are already doing the “she didn’t break the law, so it’s okay.”
ABUSE OF POWER IS NEVER OKAY. Even if you are a PTA mom, for chrissakes!!!
Mrs. G.?
I’m off to have one of those lovely, icy green “adult beverages” and gloat a bit…is that too ugly?
;-)
By getalife
October 10, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this
Andy,
The part about taking personal or monetary action on this issue is the problem.
She followed procedure but it was personal.
By @@
October 10, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
What the heck’s touching about that jay?
They disdained the ideas of the liberal professoriate, but they did not disdain the idea of a cultivated mind.
That’s because the liberal professoriate was busy ridiculing an America that was, more often than not, paying their salaries.
The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, oversecularized denizens of the coasts.
Here’s where the liberals (at least the ones on this board) make their mistake. They assume that Joe Sixpacks don’t have college degrees.
My husband and I frequently gather with a large group of Joe Sixpacks. They all vote conservative with the exception of one Ron Paul supporter. The group is comprised of an electrician, a couple of lawyers, UAW members, a physician, Georgia Tech professor, a firefighter, a deputy sheriff, airline workers, teachers, developers, and even a good ol’ boy millionaire who made his money marketing the idea of condiments in individual packets to fast food restaurants. An occasional judge in there too when he and his wife are so inclined.
Oh……and we used to enjoy the company of a local journalist (funny funny guy) he was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver who probably voted democrat.
There’s not a one among us who thinks of the other as better or less than. They’re people/friends first and professionals second. But each and every one is conservative to the core.
By Just_Me
October 10, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this
For Crazy Andy…
From nytimes.com
Panel Finds Palin Abused Authority in Firing State Official
By MITCHELL L. BLUMENTHAL and JACK HEALY Published: October 10, 2008
A legislative committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican vice presidential candidate, issued a report Friday night that found she unlawfully abused her authority by firing the state’s public safety commissioner.
So, I’d suggest you start your apologies to Midori for calling her a MORON……..
UNLAWFULLY abused power.
Must I really define “unlawfully” to you???
::sigh:::
unlawful
dictionary results for: unlawfully Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -
un·law·ful [uhn-law-fuhl] –adjective 1. not lawful; contrary to law; illegal. 2. born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
Say g’night, Andy. There’s NO way you’ll win this round tonight…or any OTHER night.
By Peter
October 10, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this
responding to mike hussein smith - 3:47 P.M.
While Sarah and Cindy McCain condemn Barack as a terrorist; McCain refers to Obama today, “Well, I don’t want him to be president, either. I wouldn’t be running if I did. But, you don’t have to be scared to have him be President of the United States.”
So, which side of the ticket do you support … the top or the bottom?
By getalife
October 10, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this
Andy,
They showed them at the end of that video.
Midori,
True. They can’t all be Andies. Lets hope they never clone him.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this
lol, Mrs. G — as Andy would say: DUH :)
Hey Sarah - God don’t like ugly
bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
By G
October 10, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
14 person committee:
10 were REPUBLICANS
4 were DEMOCRATS
And it’s a partisan attack? ROFLMAO
What happens now? Jail?
Hey, does this mean Tina Fey will be behind bars tomorrow night on SNL?
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Just_Me
October 10, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
One last one for the evening-I had a surprise visit with son #1, who has surprised his mom by coming home for a long weekend (with a month’s worth of laundry, of course!)….
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain’s Republican ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
…..Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act…….
They did not recommend any further action at this point…however, SHE BROKE THE LAW.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this
Just Me:
thank you - I was about to slap that drunken idiot upside the head but you did a masterful job.
Andy must be on his second case of vodka by now.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HEY ANDY!!! GOT CRACK???
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this
Oh my, the New York Times!
No, they would never, ever, think of twisting the findings of a legal proceedings in favor of their suckhole candidate Oblahma, not a chance!
~~~~~
By TN Gelding October 10, 2008 8:47 PM You’re right about Pelosi. Hopefully Cindy Sheehan will end her career.
Now isn’t that scary?
I think the only credit you can give Pelosi is that she is not Cindy Sheehan.
~~~~~
al-Gitmo:
Finding Number Two I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety.
Gosh, that’s real convincing.
Coming from a guy that drooled over an October surprise back in August.
Weak.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this
@@,
You refer to your friends as Joe sixpacks?
Hope they do not read this blog.Why not use “my friends” like John?
Labels,
Geez.
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
Well, it looks like all the drunks have left but the liberal kooks remain. The everlasting debate over who can be the biggest kook continues ad nauseum.
I think the winner may be the lib who claimed he locked his car which had an Obama sticker because Republicans would vandalize it. Yes, pass him the bottle, too. Or maybe he is (as ‘tis said) not playing with a full deck.
But I admit, Mrs. Godzilla posted a nice piece and that was a pleasant change. Has she been drinking too? Oops, sorry! That really was a commendable piece.
David Brooks is the subject over whom Bookman gloats. That Brooks is a turncoat comes as no surprise. I have watched him on Lehrer News Hour every Friday night.
After he went to work for the NYT he gradually changed into a who-knows-what. His comments were left, right, middle of the road, vacillating and finally drifting left like a ship without an anchor. His tender torch song for the Republicans comes as no surprise. Did he throw his flag pin on the floor and declare himself “saved” from a bitter fate? Republicans don’t hate Brooks. They have learned to ignore lefty spouting newsies (unless they run a halfway decent blog).
Brooks ousted himself…into the regular lefty world of the news media. Sing no funeral dirge for Republicans, Brooks. Sing one for your shrinking violet personality that dissolved in a crisis.
I wonder if he got a raise from the NYT? He is now a “worthy” member.
By sunshine and thunder
October 10, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this
JAY and EVERYONE
The post at 7:12 is pure, unadulterated racism. I’m reporting abuse of posting privileges at 7:12PM. The poster should be banned.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
Panel: Palin abused power, broke no laws in trooper case ……….
Pure partisan demagoguery
What we need in Washington is more abuse of power ! The abuse of the power of the democrats!
By G
October 10, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
Did y’all see the woman in McCain’s audience today? The one who said “I don’t trust Obama, he’s, he’s, he’s a, he’s a ARAB.”
Typical “dumbed down” American. Courtesy of Republican party.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this
Just_Me
They are going to quote one sentence, over and over.
And we can attempt to explain the concept of context over and over and get nowhere.
abuse of power, but not criminal.
impeachment grounds, but no state pen.
no biggie. NOT.
today obama said we worked hard for our 401k’s and now we got 101k’s.
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this
Oh, it looks like the Republicans are angling to remove Palin from the ticket by using the timely troopergate investigation results. Now they can put someone with a brain on the ticket (excellent politician but no substance.)
It will be a good move for the Repubs if they can make the Democrats take the blame as that will fan the flames of hate. Looks like the election is a race once again.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this
Private: The libs on this blog, at the New York Times and I suspect that kookman is furiously scribbling as we speak, have over ruled the panel’s findings and have taken to their time honored moron strategy OF YELLING THEIR LIES AT EVERYBODY.
Like that’ll do any good.
~~~~~
Come on kookman, let’s do the twist, umm, bop, bop.
By G
October 10, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this
My list of crimes McCain/Palin could commit and their diehard defenders would still be worshipping at their feet:
Murder
Robbery
Molestation
Incest
Treason
Drug Smuggling
Proclaiming There Is No God
You name it.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this
TN Gelding: I also liked Buckley’s novels… up until the last couple when I thought he was slumming it.
Thanks for your thoughts. Have a good weekend.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 9:19 PM | Link to this
Starshine,
how is that any more racist than what you post?
or are you jealous?
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this
It’s funny (not really) that you hypocritical dems. said nothing when Hillary fired Billy Dale (a good personal friend of mine) from the White House travel office so she could give the contract to her cousin’s company.
*Hummmmm ……….. *
By the way, if he was improperly fired why wasn’t he reinstated? Because he served at the pleasure of the Governor. That means he can be fired if she doesn’t like his tie !
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this
Oh.. a new bone to pick over Sarah Palin. Ho hum…yes.. terrorist associate who helped write Obama’s book=OK. Twenty years of racist preaching=OK a Fharrahan admirer=OK muslin school=OK Rezko friend and supporter=OK
But the Governor of a state fires the Commissioner of Public Safety and eee.. you’d think it was the biggest thing since Monica forgot to get her dress cleaned. Go for it, Libs! Sorry your rabies shots did not work.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this
G: This horrendous abuse of power should be followed up by a grand jury indictment or perhaps just some charges, dontcha think?
Oh, wait a minute, as usual, the liberals don’t have any evidence.
What a bunch of clowns.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this
lol, Corporal.
as usual, you’re late to the party and didn’t bring any chips.
Ya dip, you!!!
ROFL!!!!!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this
O.K. let us walk this all the way through:
This cop tasered a ten year old, was drunk on duty and threatened to kill a family member, does the Governor of the state this loser works in and represents have every right in the world to have him fired?
And look at who the libs stick up for, the scumbag, of course.
What a bunch of clowns.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this
This is the perfect campaign issue, McBushie.
Tell this cops whole story in a TV ad and then show all the liberals whining and moaning about his “rough treatment.”
Hahahaha.
What a bunch of clowns.
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this
Sunshine and Thunder@9:06
GOD HATES TRASH has been banned before for a day or two. But racism is often presented on this blog. Few people pay any attention to it anymore. It is a political tool used by liberals.
Of course, you are accused of being racist right away. That is expected also.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this
somebody needs to taser you, Andy — maybe it will shock you into sobriety.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this
This is just the kind of leadership we need inside the Beltway. A leader who is not afraid to send someone packing!
I love it! This will probably get her votes !
By ML
October 10, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this
“ALASKA REPUBLICANS DECLARE OBAMA WINNER.” Palin steps down as GOP VP choice. McCain taps Idaho Senator Larry Craig as Palin replacement. Craig was contacted by McCain while “conferencing” in Greyhound bus stop bathroom stall in Boise (aka “BOY-ze”) late Friday evening.
Stand by for breaking updates.
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:40 PM | Link to this
For the Republican Party to become relevant again it’s members will have to turn off the Fixed News and realize life can’t be viewed with blinders.
They should be mad as hell at Fox and the Hannity’s and the Limbaugh’s who have sugar-coated everything for them for years as though their viewers/listeners were dumb as rocks.
Or, the intelligent ones will leave the party and it will end up a haven for religious zealots, racists, and People magazine worshippers.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:40 PM | Link to this
i r o diM: Yes, I already know that you approve of cops tasering ten year old children.
GFY.
Best of luck with it.
By Bonedaddy
October 10, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this
Hey Jay, speaking of GOP being squeezed, I just had a spiritual moment thinking of the Chosen One, squeezed and flushed one that kinda looked like your boy. Maybe I should have fished it outta the john and sold it on EBAY. Is that racist?
By getalife
October 10, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
Yeah G,
McCain finally showed some patriotism.
I think the Secret Service told him enough of the hate.
In the end, Senators always watch each other’s backs and write laws to give themselves amnesty.
By G
October 10, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this
Hey Palin,
I can see the end of your political career from my house!
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Bud Wiser
October 10, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this
OH AND BUD…..
I got that e-mail 16 months ago.
So then Mrs G, how long does it take for anything to soak into that thing upon which you place your hat?
Not a very bright admission, I’d say.
Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this
Yes corporal, being found in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain is gonna be a slam damn you betcha’ vote getter there dude.
Got 101K
By Abomi Nation
October 10, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
Some pundits are now saying if McCain is not elected there will be riots in the streets in some of our major cities.
By G
October 10, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this
Even Alaska isn’t far enough to travel to find a Repub that isn’t corrupt.
Does such a place exist?
Obama/Biden ‘08
By @@
October 10, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this
You refer to your friends as Joe sixpacks?
No, I was using the label tying it in to Brooks’ column.
There’s one I affectionately call “Edgie”, another I call “Yacky”, then there’s a “Setter”, the rest I call by their given names
You? I’d affectionately call Joe. (ISH)
By Bonedaddy
October 10, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this
Can anybody say ACORN? Talk about corruption. FBI is investigating ACORN voter fraud in at least 8 states as of today. The name ACORN does fit though, a bunch of damn nuts.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this
“He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States. If I didn’t think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn’t be running.”
Older Woman (Dusty): “I have read about him. He’s an Arab”.
“No, ma’am. No, ma’am. He’s a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
As I watched McCain surrender to the kook base, I realized who will be our next President. President Obama.
Here is to a better future for America.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 10, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
Actually Bud, I’m a quick study.
It’s you who after all this time hasn’t graduated beyond garnering geopolitcal and economic data from somebody’s cousin who really knew or was there or had a buddy who’ll swear to it.
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzie 9:47
What was the personal gain that Gov.Palin received? Removal of an official who did not follow the rules is hardly “personal gain”.
I think you may be madly celebrating a bit early.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this
@@,
You can call me Joe.
Can I call you Sarah?
By G
October 10, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this
I knew it!
McNasty’s blaming “That One”.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this
getalife, crazy ol’ Cajun kook, 9:59
Have you been vandalizing my car again?
By Chief LaughingAtU
October 10, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this
bonedaddy made a funny and then played with it.
@@ just plays with joe’s six packs or something that he affectionately calls Joe’s.
Andiduh is always a funny like when he tasers himself and bounces around on the floor.
This is a funny blog.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 10, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this
Conserva-turds: A sense of grievance spilling into rage has gripped some GOP events as McCain supporters see his presidential campaign lag against Barack Obama. They’re making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of “traitor,” “terrorist,” “treason,” “liar,” and even “off with his head” have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.
I just realized! The crowd thought they were talking about W
Boys, Daddy says your big loosers in his eyes.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this
dusty,
You are too old to drive.
Remember, they took you car when you ran over them liberals.
By sunshine and thunder
October 10, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this
MIDORI and DUSTY
Other blogs I have participated in are at least monitored to some degree.
The kind of trash I’m seeing here is beyond the pale.
Dusty, you are right. The first post to me was by Midori and she ignored the vile trash in the 7:12 post and, without citing evidence, called me a racist. LOL.
Midori: I don’t know if you’re a racist or not (in my experience the rabid left nuts are all about race and play it to the hilt) but you certainly are a liar.
I’m sorry to make your aquaintance.
I guess I should know better than to try and reason with left nut moonbats who haven’t had a rational thought in years but have an incredibly strong sense that they are saving the world.
While we’re here does anybody have any information on Obama’s connections with ACORN?
Does anyone have any information about why Obama used attorneys to get his opponents thrown off of the ballot during his state senatorial race?
Has anyone seen his thesis from school?
Does anyone know anything about his years at Columbia?
Does anyone know why he deliberately lied during the debate about how McCain’s health care plan would be funded?
Has anyone done the math on Obama’s plan to cut taxes on 95% of Americans and pay for all of his spending proposals?
Does anyone really believe that he didn’t know what kind of an advocate Jeremiah Wright was?
Do any of you left nuts deny that he is one of the most liberal senators in Washington?
Do any of you left nuts believe that he is in favor of gun rights?
Do any of you left nuts believe that he has the experience to be president?
Does anyone deny that the press is madly advocating for Obama when they sent all of the network anchors to Europe with Obama and virtually ignored McCain’s three trips overseas this year?
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 9:31 PM
And the electorate is demanding, send in the clowns!
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this
getalife you crazy ol’ cajun coot
No, baby, that was you when the police car carried you back to the “home”.
You were out on the curb with a washboard.. Said you were going to join a zydeco band….
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 10, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
Hey, sunspot & blunder: I have two nuts for your information, left and right and they both have more brain cells than you. The conserva-turds here have proven the old saying: If you can’t say anything nice, character assassinate the ones you hate.
“Mission…….acomplished…….”
By jon
October 10, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this
Well we won’t have any inquiry saying Obama fired anyone because he has never been in a position that had that responsibility.
Hey, I fired someone today for personal gain! My job rating is based on my departmental performance. A slacker was dragging my department down so I fired the loser. Hopefully as a result my department meets goals and I benefit. Suck that egg, socialists.
I’d love to see the press investigate how many Governors have fired losers. I bet they won’t all have (R) after their names.
This is will be the new world under The Savior, Obama. No loser can be fired without the executive paying a price. Get used to it people. This will be the system that provides your health care and takes care of you from cradle to grave. It will work a lot like the DMV or the Post Office. Damn I’m glad I’m old!!
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this
BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:40 PM
I thought for sure Fox’s extensive coverage of Bush’s first term would doom his reelection.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this
How about Obama’s SEDITIOUS abuse of authority in trying to secretly negotiate with Iraq’ president regarding troop reductions (in violation of the “Logan Act”) when he made his trip over there. An action at odds with and in total disregard of the Constitutional duties of the Executive Branch of our Republic and one that was far more dangerous to our “troops” than to one lone “trooper”.
The sanctimonious hypocrisy of some of you Democrats is sickening.
By jon
October 10, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
McCain / Palin should get a pair (borrow Hillary’s). Palin should face the press tomorrow and say, “I fired the b******* that wouldn’t fire the State Trooper that threatened the life of my sister. Kiss my a*!”
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this
sunshine and thunder,10:19
You will never get any answers to your questions. Liberals will also NOT answer why Obama also associates with former home terrorist Weatherman Bill Ayers who participated in bombing the NYC Police Headquarters, the Capitol building and the Pentagon.
It is now rumored that Ayers even helped complete Obama’s book when Obama had stalled.
Obama’s life is full of shadows, smoke and mirrors. Democrats are too afraid of what they will find. That is why they holler so loud about Palin and insult McCain. They don’t want ANYBODY to hear more about Obama’s questionable “experience”.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 10, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this
The sanctimonious hypocrisy of some of you Democrats is sickening.
Pot calling kettle black again….
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this
Bonedaddy
October 10, 2008 9:42 PM
It’s certainly disgusting. Puhleeze!
By G
October 10, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this
Seems like Palin’s attacks on Obama ‘s character, trust and honesty have come home to roost.
I don’t think this will end up being a really big deal in the campaign, but it should at least give pause to her mouthing off like she is the model honorable person.
An ethics violation is an ethics violation - now she and McCain (Keating 5) both have their little ethics stories to tell.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:50 PM | Link to this
Well jon,
She had plenty of opportunities to say that but changed her story too many times.
Her 15 minutes are up.
BTW, we are all socialists now and own stock in banks.
By Midori
October 10, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
the reason Dusty isn’t answering any questions is because she’s getting her broom tuned up.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this
dusty,
Is that the patriotism we will see from you when Obama is elected?
How very unpatriotic of you.
By sunshine and thunder
October 10, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this
*AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy *
I see you’ve stolen others’ screen names. Where’d you learn that little trick? ACORN?
You aren’t worth the grains under my fingernail. Please don’t post to me unless you want to address the questions. Otherwise I’ll ignore your ignorant spewing. Oh, and please don’t drool. It’s very unbecoming.
I assume you can read and interpret. Maybe I’m assuming too much?
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 10, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
“I fired the b* that wouldn’t fire the State Trooper that threatened the life of my sister. Kiss my a*!”
Our Dear Sarah is toast, but hey! I see where Heff is looking for a new GF!
By Midori
October 10, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this
no, Corporal - what’s sickening is every single one of your useless crap posts, laden with bold as if the bolding adds some sort of credibility to your b.s.
by the way —I didn’t know you lived in Wisconsin
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this
Ah well, I’mm off to enjoy the evening.
I thought I would leave here before Bookman gets going with a sanctimonious piece about Sarah Palin, his Nemesis. His concentration wanders and wanders and always comes back to Palin, the most entrancing Republican he ever tried to smear.
Good night…
By Dusty
October 10, 2008 11:05 PM | Link to this
getalife, 10:55
There won’t be any “patriotism” around if Obama is elected. Such “things” are not encouraged by socialists or communists.
G’nite
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 10, 2008 11:07 PM | Link to this
But I’m their Daddy!! And you know it. Maybe I’m not under your fingernail but definitely under your skin. Sorry to dissapoint you but I feel someone should make it a point to waste as much time and bandwidth as you and my boys. Why should I answer any questions when the conserva-turds never listen to facts and continue to push the fear factor? Don’t you know the answers or do you just like seeing yourself in print?
By G
October 10, 2008 11:07 PM | Link to this
And away she flies….into the night….on her broom made of straw. Eating crow.
Obama/Biden “08
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 11:13 PM | Link to this
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 1:46 PM
McCain is drawing about $2k per month in SS benefits, plus nearly $5k in military disabilty retirement pay.
Disability earned by years as POW.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 11:15 PM | Link to this
Again, we are all socialists now. It happened under a gop president. It will be written in the history books. You own bank stock so you might trade in the old broom and get a new one.
When he is elected, I want to see that patriotism dusty.
By GodHatesTrash
October 10, 2008 11:18 PM | Link to this
I post the terrible truth about Republicans, and they crawl out from under their rocks to whine and moan.
Believe me, there is a special place in Hell for you idiots.
There is but one God, and GodHatesTrash is His prophet.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this
Here’s the bottom line libs.:
Integrity is everything. I did my best to practice it during my 37 years with the government but being human I’m sure I failed from time to time. By the book she should probably step down. However, if she asked my opinion I would say stay. Why?
Very simple. Because no Democrat has or would ever step down even for something far more serious. It’s sad it’s come to this in our two party system but that’s the way it is.
So save your sanctimony for someone else.
By farrakhan's company
October 10, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this
obama isn’t the one i used to know!
“Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories.
Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said “truly epitomized greatness.”
That man is Louis Farrakhan.
By Ear Muffs for Liberals
October 10, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this
wow, ght thinks she’s obama’s cod piece
woooooooooo
By @@
October 10, 2008 11:38 PM | Link to this
Can I call you Sarah?
Sure Getalife!
What’s in a name? Right.
Goodnight Joe.
By Amelia
October 10, 2008 11:55 PM | Link to this
Everybody’s talking at me. Can’t hear a word they’re saying.
You know what’s ironic? All these right wingers can’t tear themselves away from you Jay. They love you, or they love to hate you. Yet, Jim Wooten’s blog has zero posts. I really feel bad for the guy. By the way, please don’t tell anyone I looked at a Jim Wooten blog. I think all you conservatives should go tell it to the choir because you know liberals just don’t listen. By y’all.
By peanutbutters and jelly fishes
October 11, 2008 12:05 AM | Link to this
good post, good post
By "The Corporal"
October 11, 2008 12:12 AM | Link to this
To Amelia
Honey, we stay over here on Jay’s blog for the simple reason I still buy the paper AJC. It’s an intelligence document…..also known as know your enemy.
If you had been in the military you would know that you must constantly monitor the enemy’s frequencies to set up a good ambush.
Alas, you civilians are really not that much fun.
Time for taps.
See you after reveille.
By Bud Wiser
October 11, 2008 6:13 AM | Link to this
Well Mrs G if what you say is true, then I am astounded that it took that long. 16 months is a fast learner for a Democrat!
Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to admit in public how stupid you are, and be proud of it as well!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 11, 2008 6:26 AM | Link to this
BUD WISER
Glad to see you admit I’m right - AGAIN!
By Bud Wiser
October 11, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this
So really now, how long do you intend to not answer any character or moral credibility questions about your candidate, or, like Bill Clinton, does character not really count?
The complete and total state of denial you people are in about Obama absolutely astounds any rational being.
Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be more incredibly stupid that previously thought possible
By TN Gelding
October 11, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
Bud Wiser
October 11, 2008 7:20 AM
Certainly Clinton was flawed, as we all are, but other than being accused of “wagging the dog” when he approved missile attacks against suspected al Qaeda targets, I can’t remember one instance in which he was accused of misconduct in performing his official duties. He worked as hard at his job as any president in our history and we reaped the benefits. That’s what counts to us. Now the same folks that ridiculed him when he tried to retaliate against the evil-doers say he didn’t do enough.
Obama wasn’t my first choice, but he is clearly the best remaining candidate and should be able to put together a competent cabinet.
By Jack Hussein Smith
October 11, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Watching Limbaugh/Hannity republicans self- destruct : PRICELESS
You trash cans are relegated to the scrap heap of history… No soup for you… NEXT!!!
By Rocco Pedestrian
October 11, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this
I empathize with Brooks. I never thought I’d say it but, as an American devoted to productive political discourse, I miss William F Buckley.
Patrician, arrogant, heartless, maybe, but he made an intellectual case for conservative republicans with credibility and style. I disagreed with him but I respected him. I cannot say the same for talk radio neo-cons like Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter.