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DEL.ICIO.USSarah Palin: When worlds collide
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin plans to appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend, multiple sources told CNN Thursday.”
Well that ought to be a ratings bonanza….
Comments
By GOPs got to go
October 17, 2008 6:52 AM | Link to this
Since we are talking TV this morning
I believe I found the secret to the blind following of the GOP base. In today’s Star trek episode one planet had been attack by giant one cell organisms which control their bodies and make them do their bidding. These organism are huge brain cells from another planet, part of the whole brain living elsewhere. “They” have infected 51% of our population who’s brain cells are obviously weak and subject to take over by a large single brain cell. I know it sounds far fetched but these are enormous one cell organisms, the size of Frisbees. Spock is the only one with enough intellect to withstand the “thing”. Radiation, heat nothing works. Jim has a theory that if enough light can be shed on the creatures, bringing them out of the shadows, they will die. Quick, we need to string up as many satellites as we can to shine more light on the earth to kill the one brain cell GOP organisms before they try to force their 2 brain cell leaders on the rest of us whole brainers.
By Mike
October 17, 2008 7:23 AM | Link to this
I love how the liberal echo machine treat Tina Fey’s impersonation as some kind of news.
What’s the news? Hateful liberal in the popular culture gives hateful liberalls in the “news” media a tool by which to attack their mutual enemy.
The truth is that more Americans know that Tina Fey does an imitation of Palin than there are Americans who actually know about Palin’s accomplishments in office. That’s because the “news” media has never covered anything positive about Palin because they really don’t care about informing their readers. They just want to get a liberals elected. Hence, Americans are much more familiar with Tina Fey’s hateful attacks on Palin than they are in Palin herself.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
Should be a hoot, Jay.
Yesterday she was accusing Obama and Biden of, Gasp!, planning to raise taxes. When are they going to take their blinders off and admit the last 7 years, 8 months and 28 days have been a disaster and one of the reasons is irresponsible fiscal policy? Even with fairy tale interest rates Mr. Duhbya couldn’t keep the economy out of the ditch. Nobel Prize winner Al Gore warned us of his fuzzy math and risky schemes. Remarkably, they still deride him, even as Bush has hijacked “Gorism” and taken it to new heights with Bushisms.
By paisana
October 17, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this
As soon as Palin was named VP choice dozens of media harpies(shudder) along with Obama campaign operatives flew to Alaska to scrape up all the gossip and information,regardless of source, that they could use to try to destroy her. The blood on their claws barely dry, they have now gone after citizen Joe. In an Obama presidency, dissent, now considered patriotic, will become a ticket to camp.
By GOPs got to go
October 17, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this
Mike, Palin is a tool, albeit a cute tool.
That is the reason the GOP is hiding her from everyone.
Now go pop your viagra and put her on repeat like the rest of the AARP GOP members
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this
Palin’ around…Palin’ around…Palin’ around….
Can’t McCain teach that parrot any new phrases. She’s a broken record. Jay hit the nail on the head with the Libyan parrot thing. By the way, did anyone else catch that parroting old Newt, the Coot making the rounds this morning. He certainly is the crust of the Republican party, isn’t he.
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this
There’s a report that Palin may visit SNL. McCain sat with Letterman. Nixon started his comeback with Jack Parr.
All McCain needs is a checker’s speech.
Then King Him!
By Demand!
October 17, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this
Demand Senator McCain come clean about his involvement in having the Cindy’s theft charges dropped after she stole drugs from the charity!
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
Get ready for the real Republican party to rear its true form. Has anyone else seen that filth from the National Republican Trust PAC. Those guys are the scum of the earth with their disgusting attempt to link 9/11 to Obama. That is just typical Republican crap. Just one more reason why I will NEVER be associated with the individuals that make up that party again. They are evil incarnate.
By Eric1
October 17, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
So the media hasn’t reported on any accomplishments of Gov. Palin yet Mike knows all about them. Why don’t you give all us hateful liberals the scoop Mike? Better yet, why don’t you advise the sweet and gentle Rush Limbaugh of all those miraculous accomplishments by The Virgin Sarah and he can tell the world.
By Bud Wiser
October 17, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this
To GOPs got to go, Did that idea come from someone in your household? Also, does that someone also put on a blindfold when in the company of someone else, after taking said medication?
Just curious.
By E
October 17, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
I hope SNL really puts it to Palin.
When McStupid called Palin a “role model for women” in Wednesday night’s debate, I almost kicked my TV. He is so out of touch with women, with all of America. She is nothing but a dumb bimbo, who needs to go back to Alaska and face the music.
SNL did a skit last night of the crazy McCain rally lady. Hysterical!
At SNL, they do get it. That’s what I noticed about the old racist lady, was the hair. Just keep in mind she raised racist children, and now they have children. Might as well laugh than cry.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
Thursday night’s SNL episode skewered the final debate. Joe the Plumber as an imaginary friend. (Joe is not licensed in real life. His whole question to Obama was a “what if”. McCain didn’t check it out, and instead gambled his debate on it. Like when he reacted to the AIG bailout. Like when he politicized the Credit Bailout. Like all his decisions: Rash, foolhardy, and downright frightening. I’m a little disappointed that Obama’s people weren’t waiting with this info in the final debate. It would have been a crushing blow. “Senator McCain, Joe the Plumber is not a plumber. He has no license, in fact, he’s delinquent in his taxes, aaaaand, he may someday own his own company, and if he makes more than a quarter million dollars, then his taxes will go up, but for 96 percent of Americans, I offer a tax cut.”
McCain. Loose cannon.
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
Final Debate score: McCain wanders when he rants and he even spits a little. He quickly sounds hysterical. He repeats words and phrases when he talks to make it seem like he’s making multiple points. He opened with, “The American people are angry. Angry are the American people. They’re angry. the Americans. Angry. American. Peoples….angry….people…..american…….angry.”
Obama 7, McCain ZIP!
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
Did you see the Candidates at the Al Smith dinner last night?
Obama: Love the Waldorf Astoria hotel, you can see the Russian Tea room from there.
McCain was pretty funny too.
See it here.
By swolf4810
October 17, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
Yo Mike… The conservative media, bloggers, and radio talkists are WAAAAY more hateful than liberals by orders of magnitude!
By E
October 17, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
GOPs got to go at 6:52,
Sadly, not far fetched at all.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Dennis
October 17, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Centers for distribution of Obama-Democrat news: MSNBC, CNN, NBC-news, CBS-news, ABC-news, NYT, WaPO, AJC, Letterman, and introducing SNL. SNL the new center for Obama news.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here (Into this hell named mainstream media).
By AmVet
October 17, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
All this faux outrage over America’s reaction to Sister Sarah.
Goodness, children, tell me when did you forget that American politics is a bruising, often mean, business?
The campaign trail is littered with countless broken attempts at office. And if she could withstand the scrutiny, based on her many merits and accomplishments, it would be much of an issue.
The fact remains that most Americans, even a boatload of Republicans, scratched their heads over this choice.
It has come back to haunt Sen. McCain and has as much or more than any other single move, probably cost him the White House.
I have stated before that I thought initially, she was a shrewd pick. I believe, had he picked one of the more well-known Bush boot lickers, like Flip-flopping Mitt or 9/11! Rudy, he would have instantly lost the election.
But after more than a cursory look, she is woefully unprepared and inadequate, particularly given John’s age.
She is a lovely woman.
And I believe a great American.
Nonetheless, she is generally viewed by a majority of the American public, who is especially hyper-sensitive after the debacle of the clownish George W. Bush, as a very risky, if not downright dumb selection.
Let her take care of the people of Alaska and her marginally functional family…
By E
October 17, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzilla at 8:24,
I saw that on Rachel Maddow’s show.
Barack “Steve” Obama, funny stuff!
Obama/Biden ‘08
By RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Would one of you kind liberals who keep whining about the “failed Bush economic policies” that caused the current banking/lending problem please tell me specifically what Bush created economic policy created this mess?
I’m sick of the slogans from moveon and others. Please provide FACTS. You can look that word up in Websters if it’s foreign to you as it is to most of the liberals on here.
By gadem
October 17, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Say it ain’t so Joe…He is not licensed! He is no where close to owning the business! There are only two employees in the business! JOE SAY IT AIN’T SO!!! Joe is deranged, he is mad because of what if’s…what if I bought the company…what if I made 250k per year…what if I had a brain…poor Joe…Joe sounds like some of our resident wingnuts…I bet that his tax debts will somehow magically disappear… This bum made 40K last year, and the estimated revenue for the business is 100k
But what is even funnier, when people were questioning him, a plumber, making 250k. All the wingnuts were coming out and saying they know many plumbers that make $250k/year…neocons are liars…
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
I think McCain’s campaign is more like “the Trouble with Tribbles”. GOPs multiply and end up everywhere. Beam them down, scottie.
The actess who played the little old lady from john’s townmeeting, (“..obama’s an Arab…”), is a great new talent. She usually scores big playing demented mutants.
Lorne Michaels must feel like a king maker. His aim has always been political, which sometimes blunts his comedy. He plays truth as funnier than fiction. WHen he’s right he’s hilarious. When he wrong, it stinks worse than anything I’ve ever seen or heard.
Kind of like the treasury secretary’s ad hoc attempts to fix the crunch….if at first you dont succeed with the bailout, try something else ad hoc.
We dont know what the effect of Paulson’s spells will be. He could be sending the world to it’s doom. We just dont know. Like the way Hoover made the depression worse. Then FDR tried different things over the years. They were experimenting, just like now.
It took WW2, although many say we were coming out of the depression just fine in 1941.
Does that mean that a larger world war is dead ahead?
By RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Typical liberals. They don’t like Joe’s message, so they bash the man endlessly for anything and everything. Except the truth of what the man said about Obama’s planned destruction of America’s small businesses. You can’t argue with the man’s facts, so change the subject and call him names. Same ‘ole tactics appealing to the moron masses…
By Ga_gal
October 17, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this
E:
take heart—my father is a raging racist, but neither I nor my sister turned out to be. That little old lady’s kids/grandkids probably just look at her like she’s batty and roll their eyes behind her back. The racists are so angry because they are a dying breed. Hence the foaming at the mouth rallies and “coded” language.
Looking forward to celebrating Obama’s knockout!!!
By T
October 17, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
I’m not voting for McCain/Palin.
I think it will be funny. I don’t understand why people are upset about it. It will problably help. It shows Palins sense of humor. When McCain trys to be funny people take it the wrong way.
So stop trying to blame the liberal media, children. Seems to me Palin is just having a little fun relating to the people. Maybe, even showing that she is not an uptight witch.
By Bosch
October 17, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
Hey it looks like Luckovich thought the same thing I did about McCain in the debate: that his head would explode at any minute.
I loved the “crazy McCain/Palin rally lady” last night on SNL. Kristen Wiig is so funny - I don’t know how she does what she does without bursting out laughing. But she was spot on. Ranting all that crazy crap about Obama. I’m glad they did that so that mainstream America who thinks that crap about Obama can see how stupid they look, but then again, those types were probably in bed by then, or watching the Bible Channel.
It reminded me of McCain during the 2nd debate — wondering around like a senile old fart.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this
RB From Gwinnett
Nope,
YOU TELL US ALL THE SPECIFICS ABOUT BUSH”S SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC POLICIES AND JUST EXACTLY WHO REAPED THE BENEFIT.
TRUST ME, IT WON’T TAKE YOU MUCH TIME.
Please provide facts….
By Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding,
Still not over the bitterness of Gore’s loss to W? Just remember that Al would have been President if he could have just won his OWN FREAKING STATE!
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 8:57 AM
He was a fraud and probably a plant.
Business, especially small business, will thrive, if not boom, under Obama.
By paisana
October 17, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this
to Jay Bookman I subscribe to the NYT, New Yorker, Harper’s, my “yankee” hometown newspaper, several professional journals,and of necessity AJC..I have been following your blog for a couple of weeks. Honestly, aren’t you a bit worried about the future of the country when you read the responses posted by most of your regulars?
By "The Corporal"
October 17, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
What has this country come to when with a massive illegal immigration problem, verifying the citizenship of a voter is a problem. Lord help us.
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Okay, obviously both Tina and Sara will appear together, maybe debating themselves, with the issues being viewing Russia from your porch, hunting, premarital sex, with one Palin taking a respectful conservative bent (tina), and the other palin taking the lunatic fringe GOP approach, (Palin).
They could also do a double mint twin approach, say, a speech at a rally where the two of them do a bit in tandem.
They could appear in a skeet shooting sketch where their discussion is peppered with “PULL!” whenever the other makes a good point. “PULL!” and then blam blam blam to drown out the other’s point, maybe.
Palin herself seems capable of any comic role Lorne has in store. I hope this is true.
Can you say “Game Changer”? Nixon started his comeback on Jack Parr, playing the piano, and riffing hilariously with Parr. Nixon’s grin was probably the most effective tool ever used by a politician ever. That man could grin large, and win you over.
McCain needs a checkers speech. Perhaps referring to Palin, “In spite of what the pundits may say about our chances in november, I’m going to keep the dog.”
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
I predict that Palin’s appearance on SNL will be the last gasping breath of a dying ideology. R.I.P. Repug Party.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 9:04 AM
He won his home “state” of D.C. Remember, he really wasn’t from TN.
I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have been sitting in an elementary school classroom on 9/11.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
Ms G,
If you don’t have a clue, a simple “I don’t know any facts, I just like to repeat the slogans so I don’t have to actually think” will be fine. Can you support the claims or can’t you? Bring the goods big mouth.
TN, Are you serious? You want me to go to Obama’s web site for proof his tax increases will benefit businesses? Why don’t you tell me about any time in history when increasing taxes on businesses or business owners has improved the economy vs. stagnating it? Does Obama have that on his web site too? Moron!
By Citizen of the World
October 17, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
Who now considers dissent patriotic, Paisana @7:38? The Bush administration, which only let card-carrying Republicans into their town-hall meetings? The Bush administration, which sets up “free speech zones” for protesters, blocks away from where he appeared? The Bush administration, which characterized those against the Iraq war as unpatriotic? The McCain campaign, which vilified Obama for failing to get in lockstep with a flag lapel pin? The conservative media, which calls anyone with criticism of America the “blame America first crowd”?
This country was founded through dissent, and it’s one of the few countries in the world with free speech and a free unfettered press, the same one that you blame for all our problems instead of value for its role in helping to keep us free. Liberals are more willing and able to fully examine the facts and issues than today’s conservative Republicans, with their tendency to look for media coverage that “reflects” them will ever be.
By gadem
October 17, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
RB what is Joe’s message? His message was muddled by all of his what ifs…
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
It’s a typical story about Joe the plumber— the Repugs will always create a story to fit their propaganda and ideology.
— Saddam Hussein conflated with 9/11.
— Dick Cheney citing NY Times “info” that he fed to Judith Miller as basis for his Neo-con plans to invade Iraq.
— Jessica Lynch, the lone heroine of the invasion of Iraq.
— Joe the plumber, who is not a plumber and his name is not even Joe, is revealed to really be just another Oxycontin Limbaugh ditto-head, and who is an unmarried father who is not buying any business within the next decade and who even owes back taxes.
Joe the plumber — just another impulsive, un-vetted and reckless gimmick from the McSame campaign.
John McSame — Unfit To Be POTUS.
By BDAtlanta
October 17, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Off topic but this pertains to the Chambliss/Martin race:
Jim Martin: Principle vs. cowardice
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/17/martin/
By Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding,
Nice try! I am glad Gore invented the internet, however, so I can converse with enlightened people such as yourself (and Midori, Lizard Lips, et al.).
By David
October 17, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
At last Sarah Palin is doing something right by showing her ability to laugh at herself.
SNL has lampooned every major political figure since it’s inception in the 70’s, but many conservatives only remember when their politicians were targets. Just remember, if you can’t have a sense of humor about politics and those involved, maybe you need to get out more.
Humor is what makes life bearable.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
paisana@9:09
I also worry about the country when I read the comments made by “regulars” on the Bookman blog.
But pointing out these political termites to Bookman is a futile task. He’s one of the horde himself.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 9:21 AM
Do you go to church every Sunday?
The tax increases wouldn’t apply to most small businesses, but if they did the credit for health insurance would probably more than make up for it. There are other incentives as well.
Of course who knows what the situation will be like on January 20, 2009. Plans will probably have to change.
He’s good enough for Warren Buffett. That’s good enough for me.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Small Business
My brother is a dentist. He very recently bought an old established dental practice…in fact, he bought our dad’s practice when our dad retired. Before that, for 4 years, he worked alongside our dad so that the town could see how old Doc’s son was the “new blood”.
Now, my dad and my brother were/are dentists owning a dental practice in a small town of about 4000 people. There are 6 other dentists there. The cost of living in this town is quite low. It’s not much different than when I was growing up there.
After discussions with my dad and brother I learned that the net income for my brother is about $120K, which means he can live very comfortably.
But he also won’t see his taxes raised under Obama.
I’m not talking about the gross income of the PRACTICE. The place has a 25K a month overhead (insurance, salaries, indirects, equipment).
But Obama’s tax plan taxes on the 120K, not the 300K.
This is the reality of most small businesses in this country. Most make under 250K after overhead.
And some argue that Obama’s plan would prevent businesses from bringing in more than 250K after overhead.
Consider this…my father opened that practice in 1969. In nearly 40 years he never grew it like that. It’s a small town and there was no need to bring on a bunch of dentists and form a partnership.
Most of the businesses that DO make more than 250K a year? Are usually either professional partnerships (like law firms) or businesses that employ >50 people.
Truthfully, I don’t think any of us really knows how either of these guys plans will true out.
But, we can tell where their concern lies. Obama’s lie with the middle class. McCain still buys into supply side (WTF?)/ trickle down / Reaganomics…which favors the top.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
They could appear in a skeet shooting sketch where their discussion is peppered with “PULL!”
Anal @ 9:14 — or even better, have Palin just go ahead and shoot Tina in the face while out drinking and shooting quail.
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Who wants to bet that the always distaseful, and usually disgraceful Dusty looks in real life like the magpie from John’s townmeeting who said Obama was an Arab?
WAM
By Ray
October 17, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Great article on the Wall Street Journal today about the consequences of a super majority in the Senate with the libs holding 60 seats with no filibuster power. Last time it happened was 1965 and look what we got. The origin of the welfare entitlement system shoved down the throat of American taxpayers by a bunch of do gooder, guilt ridden liberals who couldn’t see past their nose as to the ultimate result of a fiasco like this. Destroyed incentive, created dishonesty and dependence on a government who cared little about the recipients…… but it gets votes and makes politicians look like they are doing something.Congress has had a recent approval rating in the single digits. Do we really want to give our Senators and Congressmen/women that kind of power? The vast majority of Americans already do not trust them to do their job and we are giving them a blank check with no opposition to do what they will. The checks and balances are gone. This is diaster waiting to happen, no matter what your politics.
By GMAN
October 17, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Hey Mike, “Hateful liberal in the popular culture gives hateful liberalls in the “news” media a tool by which to attack their mutual enemy.”
Would you want some Abbaye de Belloc with that whine?
Bush/McCain - Gambling with our children’s futures!
By GMAN
October 17, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Hey paisana, “As soon as Palin was named VP choice dozens of media harpies(shudder) along with Obama campaign operatives flew to Alaska to scrape up all the gossip and information,regardless of source, that they could use to try to destroy her.”
Would you like some Abondance with that whine?
Bush/McCain - Gambling with our children’s futures… and losing!
By TW
October 17, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
The ‘super majority’ argument is tantamount to a white flag.
Just go home - no need to add ‘sore’ to ‘loser.’
Really - there’s no need for it. Save what little face you have left, turn the laptop off, and watch sports.
By Joey
October 17, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Paisana (9:09): Man, you are right. My guess: There are less than 50 regular characters that post on Jay’s site. (I am two of those.) Other posters play the roll of two or more characters. Some of them bait or attack or reply to themselves.
It is a laughable place that has no real meaning. But it does distract some of us from causing harm; those who vent their anger. But there are those who feed their anger here.
Unfortunately it also distracts some from doing their jobs. I am going back to mine.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
AGAIN RB….
I can look out the window of my office and see the effects of the Bush Administration.
YOU CANNOT SHOW US THE WONDERS OF BUSH ECONOMICS, BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE
You called me “Big Mouth”? That’s not very nice and not true.
I have to have my sushi rolls cut smaller than normal.
Putz.
By Analchemy
October 17, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Ray, look what we got with Conservatism, decades of it: A country teetering on the edge. You are greedy. You are corrupt. You are no longer wanted or welcome as an America
Recede, Rescind, and Recidize.
WAM
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 9:31 AM
GINGRICH: In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is—and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a “futures group”—the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen.
Have a great day!
By GMAN
October 17, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Hey RB from Gwinnett,
“Typical liberals. They don’t like Joe’s message, so they bash the man endlessly for anything and everything.”
Would you like some Acorn with that whine?
Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures… and losing!
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Citizen of the World@9:23
Dissent and lies are two different things.
Dissent is disagreement on what has actually been said, written or estalished.
Lies are simply manufactured statements that are not true or factual and are usually made to “fool the fools” and smear what is true.
Liberals excel in lies, twisted facts and insinuation. Their work is apparent here and throughout all the media..
It is the continuation of a vindictive drive started eight years ago when Democrats lost the Presidential election.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
OH NO!!
THE ATTACK OF THE SUPER MAJORITY
Heck, I willing to give that a try for 4 years…..
In fact, I find the concept verrrrrry exciting!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
I’d really like to know where John McSame’s “lifetime of experience” has gotten America today…
Was it when he reformed campaign finance laws so that 527’s can sprout up with no fundraising limits and no endorsement by their own candidate? Or was it when he chastised his Party about condoning torture, and then turned around and voted NO against the bill that would ban waterboarding for torture? Or was it when he voted against W’s multiple tax cuts because he said they only favored “the wealthiest Americans”, and then decided to endorse W’s tax cuts during his current campaign? Or was it when he claimed that he supported a kinder and gentler focus on immigration policies and now does not even want to discuss immigration?
Anyone? Where has America been the beneficiary from McSame’s “lifetime of experience”, other than being taken into bankruptcy because of his ideology and war-mongering ways?
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Analchemy @9:42
Who wants to be that you are PoFo??
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
I think it was great comic relief last night to see both Obama and McSame at that charity event, laughing at each other and themselves — that was some good comic writing from both campaigns!
By Ray
October 17, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
Jen,
Don’t know what small business you were a part of but if you are not making more than 250K in your small business, especially as a professional offering some form of medical/dental care, you are not representative of Chapter S corporations or small business partnerships in the medical field. The vast majority of dental practices in this country are in communities where the average general practitioner is pulling down far more than 120K. That might me the case in a very small town but is definitely not representative of Atlanta or any other town of any size. Look up ADA statistics and you will find that the majority of professional practices involving more than two people are in the high 6 figures, some in 7 figures or more. This type of business has a target on it so big that even the Annointed One couldn’t miss it. Your brother is fortunate to have a comfortable living in a small town. Great way to live. But in reality, a good percentage of medical/dental practices will suffer under Mr. Wonderful’s tax plan and suffer big. They will not absorb the tax increase. It will be passed on to their patients in the form of higher fees for doing the same thing.
By E
October 17, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Analchemy at 9:42,
One and the same.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Mrs Godzie,9:51
As you look out the window of your office at Dem Headquarters, too bad you don’t appreciate being safe from terrorism, a quality of life that George W. Bush brought us.
You don’t seem to see the effect of a Democratic Congress on economics either for the last two years. Maybe you should open the blinds at your office.
By AmVet
October 17, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
It appears that the BushCo “base” can sense all is probably lost in regards to keeping the Executive Branch. And certainly in avoiding suffering another humiliating blowout in Congressional elections, etc.
Now the nation will see the inevitable escalation of the enmity that is always just below the surface. (And that is of the few self-restrained neo-cons that apparently exist!)
Most of these garden variety, fake conservatives, I believe, will totally lose it in the next few weeks. And succumb to their old standby - incessant caterwauling.
Can one even imagine the pious teeth-gnashing and self-righteous tripe that will soon be spewing forth from Pretty Boy Sean, Lush Scumbaugh , mAnnish Coulter, Kneel Wartz and the mini-army of the most “faithful”?
As an indication that they have already raised the white flag, they are at this moment very busy, building to a crescendo of blaming the liberal, commie media, “those” people and the Arabs (other than the candidate himself).
By November 5th it will be positively hysterical to watch.
I recommend they get some professional help now.
If only they could lose with a tiny bit of class….
By Jen
October 17, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
*Ray, MOST small businesses in this country exist in small town like my parents and brother live in.
Sure, if his practice were in Atlanta, a major international city, he’d probably have 12 dentists in a partnership and be pulling in tons-o-money.
But he, like most people, don’t live in a big city.
I don’t have much sympathy for the big city professional partnerships. They’re not going to suffer. And someone has to pay for this credit card debt we owe China. You got any suggestions?
OK, I want to address a common theme here:
This Liberals excel in lies, twisted facts and insinuation.
and this That is just typical Republican crap. Just one more reason why I will NEVER be associated with the individuals that make up that party again. They are evil incarnate.
remind me a lot of this:
http://www.barnabasministry.com/quotes-sneeches.html
I’m really tired of it.
Yes, I am a liberal and I am glad I am a liberal because I have liberal views on social issues and centrist views on fiscal issues. It is not a curse word…like Arab apparently is. Or like gay.
You can’t categorize people in such stupid terms, Dusty and Taxpayer and the rest of you name-calling irritants. Like freaking cayenne pepper in my eye during a g******* parade….
Cut it out.
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Republican “economic” policies: Lessons in Failure (A class to be taught in Gwinnett County High Schools)
to be continued…
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Dusty,
Do you ever make a correct assumption? Because you are flat wrong again.
However, I forgive you.
I understand how hard this is for you. You have told us all repeatedly how you will support the President, no matter what, because you are so superior to us in the patriotism department.
And in a little over two weeks you are going to have to live up to your promise.
I am sure you will do so with your usual graciousness.
By E
October 17, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Ga_gal at 9:01,
Good point.
What a celebration it will be!
Obama/Biden ‘08
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:04 AM
Look for what Obama said about himself to turn up in a GOP ad.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
Liberals are blue.
Republican are red.
And that’s about as categorical as you can get.
After that we’re all people. Like Soylent Green…
By TW
October 17, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Thanks for your posts this AM, Jen.
A bit proud of being a LIBERAL myself :-)
When it was explained to me that the rightwing gets same euphoric rush from saying ‘lib’ that the nazi’s got from saying ‘Jew,’ it all made sense.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
GMAN, if Acorn were signing up phony R voters the way they’re signing up phony D votoers, I think you’d have a diifferent opinion of them. As it is, you don’t appear to have the intellectual honesty to see the difference or to even acknowledge that what they’re doing isn’t a joke. Voter fraud isn’t funny no matter which side it’s on. But you libs keep on laughing it off just like you laugh off the threat radical islam posts to our freedom. You’re a joke, GMAN, and you aren’t smart enough to know you’re being used.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
AmVet@10:08
I suspect you know all about getting professional help.
I don’t see it with Republicans. Actually they are putting up a good fight.
McCain is extending a great effort as he always does and has demonstrated.
Sarah Palin is a smart, energetic and delightful woman who weathers with a smile the incessant mud thrown at her. No despair there.
Unlike what you believe, Republicans are not greatly influenced by TV & Radio commentators. They do read and hear about McCain and Palin and they believe what they see is the best there is in politics. That is integrity.
Republicans know that Dems have found the best Dem candidate available since Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton. Those two also had magic CHARISMA which seems to overpower shady backgrounds and/or lack of morals or experience.
Do your own moaning and wailing while sitting on the fence talking about Nader and knocking Chambliss for fun. Republicans are too busy to bother with nonsense.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
Analc @ 9:52 — I believe that if America had been ruled by true “conservatives” during the past 8 years, instead of by extremists of the Repug Party, we would not be dealing with such disasters as we see today. No invasion and never-ending occupation of the Middle East, no fiscally reckless tax cuts that bankrupt our country, and no budget-busting spending on those Bridges To Nowhere.
Maybe if some true “conservatives” had been in the White House, John McSame wouldn’t be such a desperate candidate trying to save the last remains of his Party… he’s really been given a thankless job by his Party.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
Ray
October 17, 2008 10:04 AM
Are there tax advantages for Chapter S corporations?
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Those two also had magic CHARISMA which seems to overpower shady backgrounds and/or lack of morals or experience.
Dusty-Brains — are you really wanting to explore John McSame’s “shady background” or “lack of morals” today?
Really???
By Jen
October 17, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Oh, and Dusty and Taxpayer you were just examples of a trend. It’s not personal towards you alone.
TW, I understand why they do it. It’s a way to dehumanize humans. We did it with slaves…counting them as less than a whole person, etc.
But, I am calling them to the carpet for it.
Stop being slave owners, all you Soylent Green wafters!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
It seems to me that if the Repugs really want to support a “conservative” this election, they all need to get out and vote for Bob Barr.
BWAAAAAA!
By T
October 17, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
I have to disagree. Now, if these phonies are voting, then we all have a problem. I hear that they are making people prove they are eligible to vote and have proper ID. I say good for them.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzie 10:20
You forgive me for what?
I do appreciate being free. Don’t you?
When the President of the USA is elected, I support the country. I exercise my “free speech” whether it be for praise or objections of the President. I don’t use lies.
I don’t think I will complain too much with President McCain. I usually like leaders who stick to truth and ethics.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
TN G. @ 10:22 — I know. And it just shows how desperate the Repugs are now to change the subject from the realities of today.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Jen,
Don’t get your panties in a wad. I have not called you names and do not deserve your diatribe. I ran a busy 4 member Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery practice for about 45 yrs before recently retiring. The majority of small business do not reside in small towns, depending on your definition of a small town. Example…. I live in Macon… my neighbor on one side has a garage door installation business and runs a small eatery along with a small electrical installation group of about 5 electricians. My neighbor on the other side runs a downtown restaurant. The neighbor across the street sells and installs x-ray equipment in medical/dental offices. Each of these people in their businesses makes well over 250K/yr. and will have their taxes go up under Mr. Wonderful. That means that the price of garage doors, x-ray equipment and dinners out will go up, the price of the tax increase passed on to the consumer. Either that or lay off some people or downsize the services you offer. Raising prices in a restaurant, charging more for garage doors or electrical services. The implications of a tax increase has a ripple effect that is not always appreciated but is there, nonetheless. Small business is the backbone of this country’s economy. Tax it to death and you destroy incentive and place inflation at the head of the line.
By AmVet
October 17, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Dusted @10:31,
Yawn…
By T
October 17, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Jen
I think you have confused Taxpayer with someone else.
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Jen,
Thank you for your concern but I think that I’ll continue to say what I want to say as long as I feel a need to say what it is that I say unless Jay says that I cannot say what I said. OK. Of course, I will also be glad to discuss real issues in a meaningful way as long as I believe that a thoughtful and civil exchange can be maintained. Otherwise, I may or may not take on a different strategy that may or may not change with respect to time. By the way, Jen, have you looked at the video that I referenced in the post of mine that you took that excerpt from. What do you think about that video? Also, have you taken the time to examine any significant quantity of my posts prior to making your “absolute” determination regarding my use of “stupid” terminology or was that just a little Freudian slip of your own. Just curious. Then again, perhaps we can agree to disagree, you and I, without being disagreeable, with each other, that is. What do you say.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:08 AM
You mean George “My Pet Goat” Bush?
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Dusty
I not only celebrate my freedom, I fight to keep it!
Obama will be good for you, don’t worry.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Jen
October 17, 2008 10:15 AM
Glad to know I’m not the only liberal not ashamed of it.
I prefer progressive, tho. Gore and Kerry should have made them eat their insults the way Obama is. What a breath of fresh air.
By GOPs got to go
October 17, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Bud
Don’t worry about my household. We give the verb cometh new meaning frequently. And our begetting has produced 2 offspring way beyond your intellectual grasp. Jen and I are more than gynecological twins. No go back to beating your wife.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Dear Goldie,10:35
It seems you have forgotten to explore John McCain’s past. Do you have no regard for an outstanding military record including years as a POW? Years as a senator of merit?
McCain is not perfect but his past is far more exemplary than those of many past Democrats and the current Dem elect. You have discredited military service and long experience. No wonder you don’t mind Obama. He has neither.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
The list of Repugs who now support Barack Obama is growing week after week:
Lincoln Chafee, Christopher Buckley, Chuck Hagel… will Colin Powell be next?
In a conference call with reporters this morning, Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island endorsed Barack Obama… —“I believe Senator Obama is the best candidate to restore American credibility, to restore our confidence to be moral and just, and to bring people together to solve the complex issues such as the economy, the environment and global stability,” he said.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
Gelding,
There tax advantages for any SubChapter S corporation. They give the small business owner some incentive to survive the risk, the hard work and the dedication that it takes to run a small business. It will not be enough, however, to offset Mr. Wonderful’s tax. Far from it. The biggest problems with raising taxes is the increased cost of services and products that the consumer must bear. Inflation goes up, interest rates rise and money becomes harder to borrow. Looked at the increased cost of food lately? My neighbor that runs the restaurant says that his food costs have risen about 60-70% in the last year, depending on the item. This raises the cost of a dinner out. As prices rise, less people go out to dinner. His business suffers, then taxes cut further into his bottom line.
More govt programs, more handouts to those unwilling to work for a living…. think that it makes my neighbor a happy camper? Not on your life.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 10:17 AM
Thanks for the crash course. Great job.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Hey, does anyone know what time Saturday Night Live starts now, I have no idea.
Is it like midnite or what?
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
By the way, Jen, you do realize that Soylent Green was about a future earth where people ate people. Such cannibals we are destined to become if that is the future you happen to subscribe to — a future uncovered in the movie by a gun-toting, Republican party supporting, former NRA spokesman. Not that there’s anything wrong with guns, mind you, in the right hands. I find them to be quite effective as a means of hunting for non-human-based food. Didn’t you just love those scenes where Heston saw the bodies being thrown in garbage trucks and hauled off for processing. I wonder if they used Yellow #2 and Blue #3 to get that perfect balance.
By AmVet
October 17, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
Glenn Beck Leaving CNN for Fox News
WHAT A SHOCKER!!!
I have previously confessed that I was completely wrong about this guy.
When he first came on the air, I thought, “Poor CNN, how stupid can you be getting into the lunatic fringe market so late in the game.”
But apparently the thirst by the 19% club is unslakeable.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
A couple of my favorite quotes from Obama at last night’s Al Smith charity dinner:
— “I got my name Barack from my father…. it’s actually Swahali for “That one.”
— “On the Waldorf Astoria: They tell me, from the doorstep, you can see all the way to the Russian Tea Room.”
— and not an exact quote here, but when referring to Al Smith and John McSame’s old friendship and how it must have been some good times “during the pre-Prohibition days.”
Bada boom.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding 10:46
Whatsa matter? You don’t like children? Bush was simply encouraging early education for children. He was not reading Shakespeare to preschool kiddies. He happened to be reading “My Pet Goat”.
Maybe Bush would have picked a better book, such as “War and Peace”, if he had known when 9/11 was scheduled by terrorists.
What nonsense. Also..did you expect Bush to jump and scream “Head for the hills, children. We are being attacked!”??
No, Bush gathered his thoughts and left quietly with the Secret Service directing him to a protective place after a surprise attack. That is policy for Presidents.
By Citizen of the World
October 17, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
I, like Jen, wish the name-calling would stop. On both sides. It’s tiresome. And it undermines the views of the poster, who probably would not resort to such low blows if it weren’t for the anonymity provided by this blog.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Dusty
October 17, 2008 10:55 AM
Outstanding military record?
Certainly we owe him our gratitude for his service and our respect for the courage he reportedly displayed while being held as a POW.
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
AmVet 10:42
All those meds make you sleepy? Nappy time?
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Dusty-Brains @ 10:55 — I find it amusing that you continue to denigrate any military hero who does not adhere to your very narrow ideology — you can overlook John McSame’s faults because of his heroism and at the same time you slam President Kennedy for his perceived “lack of morals.”
SHAME, Dusty-Brains, SHAME ON YOU.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
By Mrs. Duhzilla October 17, 2008 9:04 AM YOU TELL US ALL THE SPECIFICS ABOUT BUSH”S SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC POLICIES AND JUST EXACTLY WHO REAPED THE BENEFIT.
My goodness, these liberals are so freaking dull-
Obama yearly earnings:
2000- $240,000
2005- $1,655,000
2006- $983,000
2007- $4,200,000
Hahahahahahaha, morons.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 17, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
T, kinds supports the voter ID laws doesn’t it? Which party keeps having a cow over the voter ID laws? You know, the ones that make you show a photo ID showing you are who you say you are.
So why all the whining about it?
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
Ray
October 17, 2008 10:58 AM
Thanks. Maybe with gas prices coming down the inflation will ease off a bit.*
From e-mail archives:
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 11:29 PM
Hope everything is OK in your world. At least gas prices are coming down. I look for it to be around $2 per gallon by Thanksgiving.
Should be $2.39 or lower next week unless something major happens.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Goldie,
Lack of morals? That’s a big laugh. Or do you consider some good old f****** in the Oval Office sort of lacking in moral fiber? Kerry ought to be in jail. Edwards just couldn’t help himself…. at least he could have waited until his cancer stricken wife was dead before dipping his wick and fathering yet another child.
Oh, BTW, has Jamal come by yet for his 12 pack money today? He gets pretty upset when is kept waiting.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
Let’s all look at the liberals squirm:
Hey, Joe! My checking account leaks like a sieve, my health insurance has been watered down and my retirement is down the toilet. No offense, but I’m not really sorry if your business opportunity may spring a small leak.-Urinal Vent
Is it just me, or is Joe the Plumber getting way too much attention for a business he doesn’t even own yet?-Urinal Vent
Joe the Plumber is not your Average Joe if his income is $250,000 per year, which is Obama’s cutoff point for tax relief. Your Average Joe would love to be making that much.-Urinal Vent
Just got a bill from my plumber. I think he will be adversely affected by Obama’s plan to raise taxes for those making more than $250,000 per year.-Urinal Vent
Struck a nerve, didn’t we?
Like I said before and I’ll say again, who cares about Joe, except for the vicious liberals, wasn’t “we’re gonna spread the wealth around” just a tad more important?
All this moron had to do was shut up for the next couple weeks and the socialists could have went to work ruining America, but no, they started drooling at the very thought of it all.
Now We The People knows what the real deal is.
And they don’t care for it much, do they?
By AmVet
October 17, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Citizen of the World, yes, tis true that the level of discourse here is generally very sophomoric and juvenile.
In point of fact, fact primarily due to an infamous once-banned blogger here, it was MUCH, MUCH worse.
So progress, though slow, is possible.
The best you can hope for is yet another adolescent back and forth about who first “started” it.
But then the political heroes of most here do the very same thing, so in that regard, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree…
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
AP/YAHOO POLL: OBAMA 44, MCCAIN 42
AP/YAHOO Poll of 873 Democrats; 650 Republicans shows OBAMA 44%, MCCAIN 42%…
Buh bye barry!!
Hello America!
By Dusty
October 17, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
Goldie Goofoff @11:14
I cried when Kennedy was assassinated. He was a charismatic president that Americans enjoyed.
Unfortunately, history has given us a view of his unfaithfulness and repeated use of women as a pleasurable pursuit. It was one I hoped would not be repeated. Than came Clinton.
McCain has suggested that his personal life is not perfect. (Who’s is?) His long marriage to the beautiful Cindy seems fairly smooth. His political life is braced with strength and conviction.
He will make a fine President.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
Look upon stupidity and viciousness at it’s most disgusting:
7th grader called racist for wearing Palin t-shirt…foxorlando
Sick.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 17, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
Hey Duh that 11:17 was quite clever! Good job!
You get 10 points and a shot at the bonus round!
I figured you’d list Dick Cheney’s annual income for last 8 years….
By getalife
October 17, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
In times like these, we need good comedy and both candidates gave it to us at the dinner in NY. Clinton was LOL.
Too bad his campaign is still slinging hate and mud but think Biden is right.
John is a better man than his failed campaign.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Obama Organizer Targets the Big House- Barack Obama’s campaign prides itself on grassroots organizing, with thousands of staff members targeting numerous subsets of the population for voter registration and persuasion. One even sought to register inmates.-WSJ
The liberals know were their strength lies, criminals and perverts.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Ray— you seem just like another foul-mouthed, disgusting right-wingnut extremist… are you? Did you have to pay for your bigoted education yourself or did your extrmemist parents have pony-up those $$ for your bigoted education?
Ray, Tell us all again like you did a few days ago, about how you knew just riding by some poor people’s homes on your way to work that they were “freeloaders”? As well as being a so-called man of medicine, are you also possessed with powers of clairvoyancy so that you know just by looking at people who they are and what they think???
Small-minded bigot.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
Spread the wealth…… that comment just dissed his whole 19 mos of campaigning. The polls will tighten as we close on Nov 4th and then the Annointed One will just have had 19 mos of fame. More than the average guy. He still has not proven beyond any doubt, that he is a natural born American citizen. When is he going to show us his birth certificate from Hawaii?
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Dusty
October 17, 2008 11:08 AM
I like children, but that was a task for the first lady.
With less than 8 months on the job, he should have been in the Oval Office.
Thoughts? He was dumbstruck. If he had a thought it was probably ‘I was forewarned and did nothing.’
Sorry, I know I’m beating a dead horse.
Have a nice day.
By Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding,
Just so you know I’m doing my own research:
Gelding - 1: a castrated animal; specif: a castrated male horse 2: Eunuch
Eunuch - 1: a castrated man placed in charge of a harem or employed as a chamberlain in a palace 2: a man or boy deprived of the testes or external genitals.
Now I at least understand your chronic irritability and aversion to Bush, both W and otherwise!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
getalife @ 11:31 — I also liked when Obama was talking about someone at one of his rallies who yelled out “Nobama”… “I really wish Joe Biden hadn’t done that.”
Bada boom.
By E
October 17, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
And then there’s this from washington post.com: Palin’s staffers keeping her away from the news so she won’t get depressed.
Tiny violin time for Caribou Barbie.
She’s all tuned into what is going on in America. People are losing their homes, their lives, their jobs, their futures and their dreams. And Geezer’s Gidget is worried about getting depressed.
She should get EXpressed right back to Alaska, where I hope she will drown in the rapidly melting ice cap that, of course, is not caused by global warming.
Just ask her.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Ray
October 17, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Goldie,
Do you think that the able bodied should have a job or do you think that we should reward their laziness with handouts? Don’t you think that self reliance, honesty and civic responsibility are traits that we need to have to be good citizens? I am not speaking to the less fortunate who cannot work and need assistance. Far from it. If I had dollar for every service I have provided for the less fortunate over the last 45 yrs, I would be a rich man. Jamal represents a segment of society that everyone should be upset about, especially you. He is making you and all of the other hard working people in the black commuinity look pretty bad. You and John Lewis don’t seem too upset about that. And all you can do is call me a bigot.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 11:41 AM
Great stuff. But with your monicker, do you really want to go there?
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Do you think that the able bodied should have a job or do you think that we should reward their laziness with handouts?
Ray — yes, I believe all able-bodied Americans should have a job and that’s a big reason why I support Barack Obama today. Thanks for asking.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Jamal represents a segment of society that everyone should be upset about, especially you. He is making you and all of the other hard working people in the black commuinity look pretty bad.
Ray — also please explain your comment when you say, “especially you” and “all of the other hard working working people in the black community”… why do you assume that I’m a member of the black community? Just another sign of your clairvoyancy???
By Citizen of the World
October 17, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
I just don’t see anything wrong with wanting to spread the wealth. Although I think a better way of putting it might have been “spread the tax burden.”
People who make more can afford to pay a bigger share of their income in taxes without it affecting their quality of life. Nobody likes it, but how else are we going to support the necessary role that government plays in our lives?
Our government has amassed a huge debt. We’re all going to have to pony up the tax dollars if we don’t want to leave this legacy of irresponsibility to our children. The notion that those who have more should pay more has traditionally been known as noblesse oblige, but the “Country First” crowd wants to recharacterize that as socialism so they can keep more of the “hard-earned money” that they make, never mind that it’s made on the backs of labor and out of the pockets of consumers. God forbid that any of the working poor or middle class who struggle to make ends meet should get a break in the form of tax relief.
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
Goldie,
You’ve got your work cut out for you if you intend to get through to Dusty. I do truly commend you and others for your valiant efforts to establish contact with a member of her faith. Many a brave soul has tried but none outside her own cult have managed to establish so much as a mission in that wilderness known as Republican land, except for the temporary successes of a select few that managed to infiltrate their ranks through the clever use of custom labels and other subversive techniques but that’s a different story. Back to Dusty…She broadcasts only — like Dish Network. A two-way exchange of information is beyond her programming since such an exchange would imply a true form of communication and we have long since established that her model vintage lacks both storage capacity and processor speed, as examples. Dusty is more of a modern-day Tokyo Rose — all propaganda, no substance, over and over and over.
By the way, Jen, I like carpets.
By Dawggy Style
October 17, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
TN Gelding,
I already did! Consider it a public service to toughen you up before you swoop into the White House. I do reserve the right to bust you out after the election if we find out the polls have lied yet again. Have a safe weekend!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Taxpayer @ 12:03 — I know. That’s just the flaming liberal in me, I guess… always believing that more education and exchanging viewpoints will bring about a better understanding in the long run. You’re correct — it’s a long, hard and unforgiving slog.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Ray, telling me not to get my panties in a wedge is extremely rude AND was ORIGINALLY misdirected since I singled out Dusty and Taxpayer. But I supposed it’s no longer misdirected as I see you’ve devolved into the same sort of nanny-nanny-boo-boo. The more I read your posts the more I have diffuculty believing you owned or managed a business for 45 years, much less a fancy dental clinic. You can’t be that old and speak that way. Else I am completely disenchanted.
Taxpayer, so, it’s okay for you to act like a child until an authority figure makes you stop? How very Francis Ford Coppola of you. Please take it upon yourself to maintain your credibility by refraining from the Mosh Pit. And yes, I’ve read the content of your post and often agree with your overarching sentiment.
I can’t watch the video clip because i am work so I cannot comment.
Oh, and RAY, Obama’s not a natural born citizen? Really? Unless you can prove his mother is not an American citizen you have no argument. In this country your citizenship is your birthright. If one of your parents is an American citizen then so are you…not matter WHERE your birth takes place. This is how children born to Americans overseas gain their citizenship…and often the citizenship of the country their born into…dual citizenships.
So, Obama is an American unless you can prove his mother was not.
I am very tired of that very ridiculous argument.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Citizen @ 12:03 — I like your choice of words: “spread the tax burden.” It’s the truth that the middle class of America gets slammed the hardest with paying the most… costs keep going up and everyone in the middle don’t have wage adjustments to compensate for the extra money needed just to survive. Look at the current gas price situation: does anyone believe that John McSame or Barack Obama feel the pinch at the pump and in the grocery stores the way that I do every week?
The middle class is what has made America the best democracy in the world and we need to keep it that way!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Jen @ 12:16 — and I do believe that John McSame was also born overseas? On some naval base? I forget which country right now, but I remember reading about that awhile back… it just shows how desperate the right-wingnuts are to make ANY accusation about Obama that might stick in some ignorant voters’ minds.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Goldie,
We are not talking about Mr. Wonderful, Goldie, we are talking about Jamal. You take great liberty in calling me a bigot because I insist on good citizenry, responsibility and self reliance as cornerstones of our country, regardless of whether you are black, white or have polka dots. I don’t know or care what race you are but your defense of Jamal’s behavior and calling me names certainly place you in a category of citizen that condones this type of behavior. While Jamal is out sperminating every teenager on the block, contributing to the entitlement population and never looking back, he is also depending on the American taxpayer to support him and pay his bills. When responsible citizens call him on his behavior, we are bigots, non-caring, insensitive and most certainly a racist. We can’t possibly understand his plight in life because we are not the right race. What a bunch of crap. Lewis should show up in his district on a street corner at 2:00 AM with all of the hookers, gang members and crack dealers that reside there. He probably doesn’t go because he is afraid of getting shot. But he, like you, ignores this whole thing like it wasn’t happening and when someone makes the slightest reference to this kind of behavior, we are called names. This says a lot about you, Goldie, no matter what color you are.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Citizen - that is exactly my sentiment in my original post to 8Ray*.
We have a giant credit card debt with China as The Collector. We’ve got to pay it off somehow. All these anti-tax people have YET to give solutions on how we’re do that.
I suppose we could privatize so that we can be USA (made in China).
It IS share the tax burden, not share the wealth.
For the record I speak as someone who, in combination with her husband, fit in the >250K bracket (mostly due to real estate investment, not our salaries).
I am aware that not all of my income will be taxed higher. Only the portion ABOVE 250K will be. And even then, it’s aprogressive stratification so that smaller and smaller portions get taxed at higher rates.
In all, it just won’t feel like much of a pinch.
I have a young son. I don’t want HIM to have to worry about paying off my generations credit card debt.
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
I don’t know or care what race you are but your defense of Jamal’s behavior and calling me names certainly place you in a category of citizen that condones this type of behavior.
Ray @ 12:29 — please provide some proof of where I have shown any “defense of Jamal’s behavior”… I really don’t even know who you are posting about.
I believe you’ve really gone off the deep end today, Ray.
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Jen
October 17, 2008 12:29 PM
Worry! There’ll be plenty left for him, and his son, and his son, and his son..
And the tragedy is it was all so unnecessary.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
TN Gelding, first, do you own a Tennessee Walking Horse that is gelded?
Second, yes, I know…this massive debt we’ve accumulated in such a short time will be with us for a while.
But that’s no reason to pretend it’s not there and not start working on the problem!
I think the only way we can pay it off is to increase taxes.
Do people really think China will forgive that debt????
And is that the right thing to do anyway in the name of fiscal responsibility?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 17, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
Since you libs are to dull to realize there is another topic posted, I’ll leave this down here with you:
Bangor: Sarah Palin, Resplendent In Red, Excites Audience About Exploring Alternative Energy
By Taxpayer
October 17, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
Jen,
First of all, welcome, and I do hope we can keep this discourse civil. Aside from that, let us commence with the activities. That said, let me start with a comment on authority figures…Like most things of any true worth, it’s an earned label. There. Now, on to Jay and his occupation of the throne at blog central. He has absolute control over his blog and I will not dispute that. Some have tried and each has failed — miserably. Next, by all means try to watch the referenced video when you get a chance. I do apologize for not realizing that you might not be in a position to view it yet —it’s just one of my many shortcomings that I have likely derived from my many years as a retiree with no set schedule, no authority figures (other than my wife and daughter), etc. Hey, what else can I say about that one.
By Ray
October 17, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Goldie,
Tell me that you do not condone Jamal’s behavior. Tell me that the Jamals out there are creating very large problems for the American taxpayer and the electorate and we are turning our heads and ignoring it. Goldie, the black community is killing off some of their best and brightest along with innocent bystanders in their drug and turf wars. The leading cause of death in black males between the ages of 18 and 35 is violent homicide. Some of these kids could turn out to be good people with the right leadership, both in Washington and in the black community. But the only people who are making any noise about the problem are called Uncle Toms and “not black enough”. And if they are white like me, called a bigot or “over the edge”. Half of the male prison population in this country is black representing just 6% of the citizenry. Doesn’t this disturb you? Are you so focused on a liberal agenda that you cannot see this huge donkey in the living room?
By Zach
October 17, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
Dusty said, “I also worry about the country when I read the comments made by “regulars” on the Bookman blog. But pointing out these political termites to Bookman is a futile task. He’s one of the horde himself.”
So what’s your excuse, termite?
By TN Gelding
October 17, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
Jen
October 17, 2008 12:46 PM
I’m with you on deficit reduction and eventually paying down the debt.
Bringing the troops home, health care reform and lower oil prices should help get the spending under control.
I wanted to use Tennessee Stud, but that would have been inappropriate. Don’t worry, my condition is only psychological.
By Jen
October 17, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
Everyone, it’s been lively…I’ve got to get something done today before I leave. So I won’t be back until sometime next week.
Try to have a good weekend!
And come to the L5P Halloween parade tomorrow at 4pm, if you can. It’s a blast!
By Goldie
October 17, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
I agree — the L5P Halloween parade is not to be missed! Have a great weekend, Jen…
By "The Corporal"
October 17, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
TIME TO SPREAD THE WEALTH !
By mm
October 17, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
A bottle of Prozac - $100
A lobotomy - $15,000
A post from Dusty - Priceless
By spankmonkey
October 18, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this
How many of you d******* actually own a small business? Not work out of a “home office” but pay rent for a brick and mortar building, and have a business license, and phone lines, and internet access, etc..?
I’m going into my 6th year, and I’m thinking about calling Joe to see if he’d rather buy my business, because if all it takes to make 250k a year is to be an unlicensed plumber, then I’ve been doing it all wrong… all wrong… And I do work for Coca Cola, GP, the Ga Aquarium, Delta, etc…
All this time I’ve been working with large corporate entities and made squat, when all I had to do was buy a van and put lettering on the side that says “PLUMBER” and I can make 250k… DOH!
All you need to know to be a plumber is sht rolls downhill, I guess when it comes to the GOP, we’re all plumbers then aren’t we? They sht and it rolls down to us, it’s called the trickle down effect…
By catlady
October 18, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
The truth is that more Americans know that Tina Fey does an imitation of Palin than there are Americans who actually know about Palin’s accomplishments in office.
Whew, that’s an easy one. The 3 SNL segments are actually LONGER than the list of Palin’s “accomplishments”, even reading them S-L-O-W-L-Y.