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DEL.ICIO.USObama right man for tough times
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The AJC’s endorsement of Barack Obama:
The 44th president of the United States will take office in an uncertain and dangerous time for this country. The challenges we face both overseas and here at home are complex and unfamiliar, and the road ahead is likely to be very different from the road we have traveled to get here.
Leading the country in such a time will require someone of intellect, creativity, honesty and passion for those traits that have made America great. That person is U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.
In the past eight years, the policies and ideologies that have animated the Bush administration have proved disastrous in almost every field of endeavor, from foreign policy to economics to relatively straightforward tasks such as responding to natural disasters. As a consequence, President Bush’s approval rating is as low as or lower than that of any other president in the history of polling.
Naturally, both Obama and his opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain, have promised to take the country in a new direction. Both are honorable men fully qualified and competent to be president.
McCain, however, faces a hurdle in his claim to be an agent of change because he shares a political party with Bush. To offset that fact, McCain has wisely chosen to campaign on his reputation as a maverick, a reputation that he once fully deserved.
However, in his current role as Republican nominee, McCain has yet to explain how most of his proposed policies and approaches differ from those of the current president. From deregulation of Wall Street and tax cuts that favor the richest 5 percent of Americans to a more aggressive foreign policy, McCain’s approach now reflects the same Republican orthodoxy that has governed this country since 2000. Time and again, he has been offered chances to explain how his philosophy differs from that of the current president, and he has not been able to do so.
And it’s not just a matter of policies. A third term under another Republican president would inevitably be populated by much the same cast of GOP staffers, executives and bureaucrats that has run Washington for so long and with such disastrous results. McCain’s campaign staff illustrates that problem perfectly because it is populated by many of the same people who ran previous Bush campaigns. They are also still trying to run the same basic Republican playbook that the party has used since 1980.
In fact, the competence of McCain’s campaign staff is itself cause to question the candidate’s executive abilities. To some degree, the rigors of creating and running a campaign organization can be a test of the skills needed to create and run an administration. And even many Republicans acknowledge that the McCain campaign has been poorly organized and erratic, lurching from one crisis to another without the sense of a strong hand at the tiller.
Columnist William Kristol, a longtime McCain backer, calls the McCain campaign “close to being out-and-out dysfunctional,” concluding that “its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic.”
And of course, the most unfortunate evidence of that “strategic incoherence and operational incompetence” was McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a person utterly unprepared for the high post in question.
The contrast with the campaign run by Barack Obama could not be more stark. More than a year ago, when he was still a long shot without much money, Obama somehow managed to attract a staff talented and disciplined enough to defeat Hillary Clinton and the Clinton machine in the Democratic primaries. It has since gone on to demonstrate a great deal of political discipline, skill and innovation, running a 21st century campaign that appeals to 21st century America.
Different challenges require different strengths. Obama has demonstrated a calm, thoughtful leadership style that fits this time and this challenge well. He has laid out a wiser, more measured approach toward foreign policy that elevates diplomacy and negotiation while reserving the use of force if necessary to protect this country and its allies in a dangerous world. He understands that international respect and admiration can’t be forced at gunpoint.
Economically, Obama is better equipped to deal with a rapidly changing global situation, and his policies focus directly on the problems confronting the American working and middle classes. His tax plan, for example, proposes to cut taxes on 95 percent of American households while raising taxes only on households with an income of more than $250,000. That plan may have to be adjusted in light of a harsh new fiscal reality, but it demonstrates where Obama’s instincts and values lead him.
The same is true of his health-care proposal. It requires a comprehensive approach, including financial assistance to help small businesses buy insurance for their employees. It would also require large employers that do not offer health insurance to help their workers with the cost of buying insurance on their own.
Those are new approaches, crafted by a new generation of leaders drawn to Obama by the chance to write their own chapter in the American story. Their time has come. His time has come. Obama is a leader of rare potential, and that’s precisely what the job of our 44th president demands.
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Comments
By RW-(the original)
October 18, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Columnist William Kristol, a longtime McCain backer
I guess I could go look that up, but my gut tells me “”longtime”” in this case means at best a few months.
Do all these papers think these endorsements help? Maybe they should check out their own approval ratings.
By getalife
October 18, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
He deserves it.
By RW-(the original)
October 18, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
I think this is not an endorsement of Obama
Seems a lot closer to the truth than what we have at the top of this page though.
By G
October 18, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
Jay, if we don’t elect Senator Obama as our President, I fear for our great nation.
There are going to be hard times ahead, and we need someone with his intellect, capability and calm manner.
There is no way on earth that McStupid and Sarah, Queen of the Incoherent, could lead us through these treacherous times that await us.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Ray
October 18, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
Interesting poll going on right now on PBS. Question….. “Do you think that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of this country”?. The results are at 49/49 right now but that is like asking the Drudge Report if they like Senator Ted Kennedy. Most of the listeners of PBS are liberal listeners except for this hopelessly addicted classical music freak and a poll like this on a public funded station is pretty far out. Do we need further evidence of the liberal media buying the presidency?
By Bruce becker
October 18, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this
What a happy moment, to see the AJC praise and support a bi-racial candidate for president.
Besides that, Obama is better. Smarter, wiser, and has better advisors.
I like that he can laugh in the midst of troubles. I like that his personal background leads him to find common ground for problems that trouble us all.
I even like that he wants to put Americans back to work, building new bridges, inventing new solutions to our energy problems and I love that he will talk to all leaders, regardless of the differences we have. I would rather see a resurgent use of diplomacy than another war. We can use the money at home.
By Midori
October 18, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this
Do we need further evidence of the liberal media buying the presidency?
why don’t you grow up?
By ed bernays
October 18, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
Honesty? I can’t imagine how one believes that’s an Obama trait. He’s had plenty of opportunities to be honest — about Wright, Ayers and Acorn, and the press has had plenty of opportunity to make him honest, yet to this day the most honest thing he ever said was “I think when you spread the wealth around, everyone wins.” I’m relatively poor (especially now,) but I still can’t accept that as an economic system codified by our government.
By Midori
October 18, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
I think Ray is onto something.
DAMN LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
just look at how they doctored this photo!!
snicker
By Mitch
October 18, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
Marxism is a coming…… 250k earners set up your offshore shell companies now.
By Steve Basile
October 18, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this
That was probably the clearest and most convincing newspaper editorial endorsement thus far. It’s time to turn the political page in America. This is not possible with another Republican who shares fundamental economic and international ideologies with President Bush. It’s time for the fresh ideas and new energy of Senator Barack Obama.
By carlo marco
October 18, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this
I am a lifetime Republican who was sitting on the fence until today. However, your extremely persuasive endorsement has done it. There is always a first time. My vote goes to Obama.
By Richard
October 18, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this
Three things sway me. Sarah Pailin does not have the experience to be president. Our economic recession will be deep,long and world-wide. John McCain has a history of metastic melanoma. I cannot chance another Republican administration. Richard
By stephen
October 18, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this
The AJC is not some eastern elite newspaper by any stretch. This endorsement will go far as will Colin Powell’s if it indeed comes tomorrow as might be expected. They endorsed him for the simple reason they stated, he has shown better leadership and decision skills than has McCain. Senator McCain is a great American, but that does not entitle him to the presidency. I pray that he is able to lead this country back together as we were in 2001 to the threats that we now face.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
Jay,
That was well said and I agree completely.
By Ray
October 18, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Wouldn’t put it past them. You can fool some of the people some of the time…….
By TW
October 18, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this
The Salt Lake Tribune, which supported George W. Bush in 2004, commented that “out of nowhere, and without proper vetting, the impetuous McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She quickly proved grievously under-equipped to step into the presidency should McCain, at 72 and with a history of health problems, die in office. More than any single factor, McCain’s bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency.”
must be a terrist rag…
By Midori
October 18, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this
Ray,
how about a little cheese with that whine?
oh, my bad!! you guys don’t like brie!!
ROFL!!!
By TW
October 18, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this
Midori - I saw a special on the guy from the Obama camp who painted all those little St. Louis faces white. lol.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this
Gee, that sure looked like a “rag John McCain” column to me and not an endorsement of Oblahma.
I guess you had to fill space with something, considering that Oblahma’s lone accomplishment has been to beat Hillary in the primaries, as though all those Republican crossovers had nothing to do with it.
Dear America: Read this column, cut it out of the litter box liner tomorrow, past it on thee wall and let it be a continual reminder to you of what a totally empty suit this Oblahma really is.
Not one major accomplishment to stand on.
And kookman reinforces it for all to see.
By Ray
October 18, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this
Midori,
You seem to be stealing GMan’s stupid rhetoric. It gets old. Figure out some other dumb thing to say. Bottom line, the media is electing this president. There is evidence of that everywhere you look, listen and watch. Bookman, Katie, Charlie, Brian, Tucker, that moron on MSNBC with the leg thing, PBS……. we don’t want to watch or listen to much of anyone because of the bias. We can’t get a straight shot at much of anything. That makes you happy? It is evident by your posts. But is it fair? Katie and Company are appealing to a lot of that crowd that you pictured in your photo, 40% of whom could not identify the vice president of the United States. “It must true because Ophra said so”. I don’t think you are that stupid. You appear, at the risk of patronizing you, to be well informed and well read, despite being on the dark side. Do you like this crap? If the media was strongly on the right would you not be incensed and pretty upset about them selecting your president, especially appealing to an electorate who could not identify the state of Ohio on a map of the United States? They are more interested in who won American Idol than any of the candidate’s fiscal policies and we praise that? It just scares me to death and will put this country at greater risk than it has ever been. The picture is pretty impressive until you examine the people.
By Bookman A*
October 18, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this
Do you have a clue? A socialist and someone that has ZERO experience that will cause all major investors to pull out of the market. How do you get to write something so dumb?
By hillbilly ragger
October 18, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this
As much fun as it might be to take a swipe at one of the sillier posters here, I think this is the time to go on record and thank Jay and the whole AJC editorial board for working so hard to accommodate the crazy-@ssed variety of opinions that constitute Atlanta-based voters.
This is an area where something like the “Fair Tax” (for example) actually doesn’t get laughed out of town (however much it deserves to be), where you can still call a Democrat a “socialist” with a straight face and have a few “amens” from some within earshot.
This is also a place where a long-established black middle/upper class has developed into a very powerful, generally (though hardly always) progressive bloc, now being joined by a lot of transplants from the North and a boatload of immigrants from all over.
It’s, frankly, an interesting time to be here and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out.
Anyway, the regulars here all know I’m backing Obama. Whatever reservations I ever had, back in the Spring, about his toughness and readiness to carry a campaign to November and withstand the worst the Republicans might fling at him have completely evaporated. The man’s a skilled boxer and a great poker player; he seems almost always prepared for what’s coming and handles it brilliantly.
Policy wise, I’d like something a little stronger on healthcare (single-payer, sooner rather than later); I deplore the notion that a Presidential candidate has to pretend to be opposed to gay marriage (does anyone really believe he is?); I worry a bit that he’s gonna go LBJ on us in Afghanistan.
But that’s about it. Otherwise, he’s solid, and he’ll make a fine President. Maybe even a great one.
By Midori
October 18, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this
LOL,
TW @ 6:54
it’s got to be :)
By RW-(the original)
October 18, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this
Check out the third comment here from a poster named “jane”
Then look at “jeffery’s” 6:28. I guess long, unattributed cut and pastes are sanctioned once again.
By TEW
October 18, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this
What is it about the word S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M that you do not understand?
Palin? More experience than OHO!
GEEEES!
Now I remember why I stopped the AJC.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this
By stephen October 18, 2008 6:43 PM The AJC is not some eastern elite newspaper by any stretch.
Yeah, I know, they are a two bit wanna be “eastern elite “news” paper.
Anyone of these hacks that populate the pages of thee Urinal would sell their soul to Satan for a chance at their column being picked up by the Treason Times.
I guess for now, mimicking them will suffice, huh, Jay?
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Economically, Obama is better equipped to deal with a rapidly changing global situation, and his policies focus directly on the problems confronting the American working and middle classes.
Blah, blah, blah.
Anybody who listens to and believes the Oblahma kampaign, aka the Atlanta Urinal Constitution, about the “state” of the economy, needs to go over to Crumblin’ Mall right now and try to get a seat in the Cheese Cake Factory.
Or better yet, find a parking spot.
Some “recession” this is.
What a moron nation we’ve become, the blowhards in Washington have created a disaster and told us that they needed 700 billion to bail their as-ses out, and the democrats just retch it up on cue.
So now the same losers that “ruined” the economy have just expanded their power to lord over the same situation they f’ed up in the first place.
Socialists are some sneaky mofos, aren’t they?
And now we want to give it all to them?
Suckers.
By Hillbilly Redneck
October 18, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this
Duhhhhh….the AJC endorses Obama. Damn, how surprising. I’m absolutely shocked.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
Really though, just read any Oblahma endorsement, pick any “news” paper that has one and compare it to the last two hundred and thirty some years of the American electoral process. It’s always gone something like this, “as Senator Government demonstrated with his leadership in Iraq” or “judging on the success of Senator Welfare’s signature legislation,” but no, none of that, it’s all “McBushie, blah, blah, blah, McBushie.”
They are putting pen to paper and telling us exactly how lame their candidate is.
And they don’t even realize it.
Is this who we want making decisions for us?
By hillbilly ragger
October 18, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
Poor Luckotroool.
You can fess up—what are you considering for Nov. 5? Hanging, GSW, bag-over-the-head, pills or some combo thereof?
Really, you should hang around (no pun intended) and join the rational. You’ll see, if you stick around.
I really hope you do. We need everyone. Even RW trools.
By Hillbilly F*
October 18, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this
why don’t you grow up?” *
What? You’re the only one entitled to an opinion here?
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
I liked this line: …That’s right, Missouri – John McCain is so out of touch with the struggles you are facing that he must be the first politician in history to call a tax cut for working people ‘welfare.’”… Ouch…That has got to hurt good old boy, John, Big John, Big Bad John.
By hillbilly nagger
October 18, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Wow taxpayer, love how you take rhetoric for fact. Scary idiots like you are even allowed to vote.
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
Ray
October 18, 2008 6:22 PM**
Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?
Anyone could serve as Vice President, which is the correct question being asked. I think you’d get different results about serving as president.
By hillbilly nagger
October 18, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this
“Obama right man for tough times”…..and the right man for even tougher times if you’re ignorant enough to vote for him.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this
By hillbilly ragger October 18, 2008 7:46 PM Poor Luckotroool. You can fess up—what are you considering for Nov. 5? Hanging, GSW, bag-over-the-head, pills or some combo thereof?
I win either way, bozo.
I might get an administration that has the hottest Vice President in history or I’ll get the most ruinous gang of socialists that has ever been gathered together that will cause ordinary Americans to look upon them in disgust and to vote the democrat party into oblivion at their very first chance.
Gay marriage- check.
Sex education for kindergartners- check.
Gun ownership ban- check.
“Fairness” doctrine/ censorship of rw talk radio- check.
Tax exempt status of churches abolished- check.
“Spreading the wealth around”- check.
Al Qaeda assuming control of Iraq- check.
Taliban assuming control of Afghanistan- check.
China the new lone superpower of the world- check.
Unchecked illegal immigration- check.
VA hospitals for everyone- check.
Toyota Prius, the only legal car allowed on the road- check.
8 dollar a gallon gasoline- check.
Sweaters in the winter, instead of central heating systems- check.
Hairy Reed/ Nancy Pelosi laid up in the White House while Mr. Present squeals about it- check.
I’ll just sit back and laugh.
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this
Midori
October 18, 2008 6:31 PM
We’ll match your lipsticked hockey mom and raise it 80,000!
Now if we can get them to the voting booth.
By Dusty
October 18, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
My goodness, Bookman
You had to tell us that the AJC endorses Barack Obama?
That’s like telling us “Fire is hot” and “Water is wet.” Not exactly news.
But I must watch my words! Blogger Republicans’R’Crooks over at Wooten’b blog has posted this threat to me @ 4:11.If Obama loses…..[I will] be given license to hunt down and destroy people like you and yours. NICE GUY! (Fat chance, loser, you couldn’t scare a mouse off a piece of cheese.)
Anyway, Bookman, besides deriding Bush and Palin you didn’t have much to offer. Oh yeah, Obama is GOING TO BE a great leader with marvelous undeveloped talent to lead.
But…. this is not the time to develop talent or crown the prize winner at the Amateur Hour. We need an experienced leader who has ALREADY shown strength, and intelligent decisive ability.
When the proven leader is asked to step forward and lead the country, there is only one man who can qualify. That man is John McCain.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
nag, nag, nag. Leave it to a hillbilly to spread the wealth of his partner’s mouth around. Of course, it takes a hillbilly nagger to tell us all about people that he’s obviously never known or met. Now git back up in them thar hills and git buzy makin yoreself some more of whutever it is that you makes.
By Ray
October 18, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this
Gelding,
I don’t really care if they asked people if Palin is ready to be dogcatcher. Most of the listeners, except me, who listen to PBS are the Starbucks crowd who are going to vote for the Annointed One, no matter what. It’s not a fair poll with the listener base that PBS usually has and then they can publish the results of this “poll” and say, “See there, we told you so”. Depends on who is asking the questions and to whom. It’s been that way for far too long.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this
Jay, the AJC could have saved on ink and paper by just saying that more succinctly. Something like McCain Sucks, Obama Best Choice for President.
By Mike
October 18, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this
What next? Hannity endorsing McCain?
Who gives a crap what the partisan hacks think. Bookman would no sooner endorse a Republican than Hannity would a Democrat. They are both hacks. Two sides of the same coin.
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 7:46 PM
We’re going with potential.
McCain is a known nonentity.
Bush has already adopted two of Obama’s policy changes; attacking al Qaeda in Pakistan and setting a date for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
By Frank Schuler
October 18, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
I’m going to be moving out of the country if Obama is not the next president of the United States. Don’t listen to this article. Don’t listen to the media. Do your own research. GOBAMA 2008!!!! - Frank Schuler, 58 Missouri
By "The Corporal"
October 18, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this
Jay
Sometimes it is truly hard for me to believe that someone like you and I are from the same planet. Are you sure you weren’t dropped of by an alien ship?
Obama is a lightweight, inexperienced, unknown, untested, dodge the issues (I vote present), pompous, pusillanimous, wimp.
By Hilary Smith
October 18, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this
Why is socialism ok for giant banks, but the little guy…well, he gets capitalism. Personally, I want my countrymen to fare well.
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this
“The Corporal”
October 18, 2008 8:35 PM
(W)impeach!
Anyone would be better than what we have, even the lovely Sarah.
No, Gore and Kerry were wimps. Obama is a fighter and has stood up to the GOP bullies. So far he is still standing and they’re grasping for straws and gasping for air.
I don’t normally advocate violence. But I wish when Gore got in Bush’s face during one of their debates that he would have just gone ahead and hit him.
By Vladimir Dimanshteyn
October 18, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
Jay, I’m not sure if you really beleive yourself what you are saying, but it is complete nonsense !!!! Obama has not done a thing in his life for this country, except supporting and being friends with people that hate America !!! He has not proposed a single legislation in the Senate. He has no clue what’s going on and changes what he says to whatever people whant to hear that day !!!! His numbers (taxes, social programs, …) do not add up !!!! McCain on the other hand is an honest and decent man, has trully served this country including militarily for many years. He is a true American and would be a great president. So please - stop smoking crack and try to be honest, instead of supporting that disgusting character Obama and his American Haters friends !!! You know who I’m talking about, right? Thank you !!!
By Aalaf Alot
October 18, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
Obama maybe the only chance an African American will ever nominated to be Presidential Contender from now till end of the human race. When he wins, he can not afford to screw up. Everyone from people in the United States and around the world will watching his every move. So, he going to make best decisions from people giving him the best advice. He will make those decisions as President.
If he screws up, you know there will never be another African American President nominee, another minority group or even possibly a Democrat. The Democrats will with some Republicans will ensure Obama succeed. This maybe once in live time chance in the history of the United States.
If you choose McCain, the Republicans will keep throwing same old mine frame of people every 4 hears. We had 8 years of Bush Junior Failure, lies, unethical behavior and bad judgment. We had 4 years of Bush Sr failures. We had 2 of the 8 years of Reagan failures.
Let me see, are you going to choose a new direction Obama with necessity for change making the best decisions possible or another 4 more years of same old thing with McSame. McShame most likely was influence heavily by Neo-Cons Republicans to choose Palin. The same people going to influence and push McShame into following at least 75% of same direction as Bush. If McCain dies in office, God forbid Palin ascending to power. No one can imagine how much damage she will do as President.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this
TN,
You do highlight a key difference between Obama and Gore or Kerry. Obama stands his ground and the Republicans are just plain lost when their adversary does not back down. They just turn into whiny little brats.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
By TN Gelding October 18, 2008 8:33 PM Bush has already adopted two of Obama’s policy changes; attacking al Qaeda in Pakistan and setting a date for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Horsey: Oblahma said he would invade Pakistan without their permission, I guess to bring a nuclear holocaust upon the world.
Bush is working with the Pakistan Government. They are giving him target information.
Oblahma will withdraw from Iraq on a set timetable, 16 months, which is telling al Qaeda in a nutshell to take a break for 16 months. After that, it is all yours.
Bush has said that he will withdraw based on conditions on the ground, for example, lots of dead al Qaeda.
So you are pro terrorist like Oblahma?
By Aalaf Alot
October 18, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this
Every President since George Washington has gotten advise from others on running a country.
Obama is no difference. McCain is no different. Only difference is McCain will receive advice from mostly the same people giving advice to George W Bush. McCain will get advice from the same people or their lieutenants. McCain may use some sound judgment but Palin will follow everything advice of the Neo-Cons, ultra Right Wing Conservatives, Kato Institute, Milton Friedman Economics, and few others ultra Conservative Think Tanks. Those are the same people giving both the Bush advice and even some case pushing Clinton into following it.
Lastly, there has been past President with as much experience as Obama. Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy and some of our Founding Fathers to name a few. At least Obama went to two Ivy League University, Taught Constitution Law and travel the world.
One more thing, George W Bush has team of advisers with years and years of experience. Some with over 20+, 30+ years. Look, where all that experience has gotten us?
McCain, Palin and even some cases Biden see the world in pretty much the same way. At least, Obama can see the world outside the box more often than the other 3 and definitely any Republicans.
By @@
October 18, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this
Well I saw the [birth announcement online] (http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/10/19/prezed_1019.html?imw=Y) jay.
You and Cynthia Tucker got together and brought forth your messiah beneath the shining star of the ajc.
So tell me, I don’t know how these editorial boards work…..was there others present during the immaculate conception, or was it one of those benevolent dictatorship thingies you’re inclined to favor?
Taxpayer:
Once again, from downstairs. I’d type it slower if that were possible. It’s not. When working with the kids I use rote techniques. I shouldn’t have to do that with you unless………?
I will need local confirmation that the flyers do exist.
I will need to know who placed them in the mailbox before I’m able to determine whether the threat is real or imagined.
If it’s determined that they were placed there by some white supremacist idiots, my concern for the Senator is limited. I have every confidence in those who will investigate and those who will protect if need be.
Now, it’s time you answer my question, don’tcha think?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:40 PM | Link to this
I wonder what world it is that Queen Pinko lives in:
Fake voters are a myth, a convenient cover for those who really don’t believe in the universal franchise. (ACORN has been accused of fraudulent registrations; for actual voter fraud to occur, persons with those fake names would have to show up to cast ballots.) There is no evidence of people coming to the polls using false names and fraudulent IDs.
When you get a chance, look up Harold Washington, Chicago, google search “voter fraud” and “disastrous, failed administration” to see where this country is headed.
And just look at who is cheering it on.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
Kookman: Do we really need 9:37?
By GodHatesTrash
October 18, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
O’Bama!!!
By "The Corporal"
October 18, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this
To TN Gelding
1) You have the right to your opinion.
2) Sorry, but Gore and Kerry (politics aside) were in a different league tha Barry Obama.
3) A word of caution: be very careful about even insinuating in a post that someone assault the President. The Secret Service gets very uptight about such things. Trust me.
By Ray
October 18, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this
Tucker is living an another world, certainly not this one. The very idea of an organization that receives 40% of it’s funding from tax payer dollars seeming to have a right to skew voter election results and having no contrition about doing so. The height of arrogance and deceit. And she says that it makes no difference. I have always thought that she was a really dumb sh** but this proves it beyond a doubt. She sits behind a desk and writes this trash with no chance for the general public to rebut. No one says that an editor of a major news rag like this can’t have an opinion but this is really over the top. She must think that all of us are like the Mr. Wonderful clones and Ophra look alikes who walk in lock step behind the all knowing Cynthia. Nothing could be further from the truth.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 18, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this
Glad to see the AJC endorse Obama.
BUT
I’m still dancing about over the Chicago Tribune endorsing Obama. Never, NEVER in its 161 years has the Trib endorsed a Democrat. That’s a big damn deal.
IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY…
Please vote early.
Oh, and send Obama 25 bucks.
I AM PROUD TO HAVE CAST MY VOTE FOR BARACK OABAMA
By Midori
October 18, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this
Shiiiii, Wright on bookman. Yaaasaa, shout out to da messiah. Da Lordy baraaack he get mo moolah from da evel whitey man fo slabery. Although whitey today aint haben no responsibility fo slabery you have to let da bruda and sista get theirs. A bruda can buy his pooky a bigger rock with da messiah sendin bigger welfare checks. We wont hab to work so hard on da corner.Mo affirmative axin so my cussin wid a GED can git in uni ov Goja. No mo dixscrimination in fava of some hard workin whitey man. Go on bookman, obama and shout out to my rad sista cynthia.
LOL - Chris Rock’s career is secure.
Do you know how completely stupid you sound?
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this
“The Corporal” October 18, 2008 9:53 PM
At that time he wasn’t president.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
@@, I’m not the bad person that you try to make me out to be and to help prove it I am going to type slowly, just for you — this time. I invite you to read this and remember that you have associated yourself with the Republican party and that Mr. Richardson is a Republican, OK. Afterward, you have a nice nightmare about all of those abortions and their links to the Republican party.
By John
October 18, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this
This paper wouldn’t post my comments, because they were truthful, and too revealing about the REAL MAN OBAMA. Proves one thing - propaganda! They might put this one up, though, because it does NOT reveal all of the facts of my first post.
By RW-(the original)
October 18, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this
Midori,
This is one of those rare moments when you, Andy and I all come together in agreement of how stupid and out of place that 9:37is.
Hopefully Bookman will agree when he gets back from his 18th screening of W.
By haywood
October 18, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this
According to this opinionated article, we are going to let Obama and his lack of experinence, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid lead this country?? I am so scared to death for this country! I really am if it happens. Do your research Bookman, this country is at its best with DIVIDED government!!
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:07 PM
Wrong.
Timeline for withdrawal?
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:07 PM
Wrong.
Bush working with Pakistan?
By glasswhitemi
October 18, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this
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By Jack Morrison
October 18, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this
Even if we assumed that both candidates matureness and knowledge were equal consider this. One is an energetic young man who could put in a 60 hour week and is in excellent health. The other candidate is 72 years old, probaly couldn’t work effectively for more than 40 hours a week if that many. Also consider this: if Mc Cain had to resign for health reasons Palin would be president. This is no joke. It’s our country. Let’s protect it.
By "The Corporal"
October 18, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this
To TN Gelding
Doesn’t matter. As a presidential candidate it’s just a different code section. Same violation.
By "The Corporal"
October 18, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this
Trouble in Paradise?
Saturday, October 18, 2008 Associated Press
HONOLULU — Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.
“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.”
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 18, 2008 9:07 PM
And wrong.
Invade Pakistan?
Actually, I’m pro-American. We need to stop meddling in the rest of the world and get our own house in order.
By @@
October 18, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
Well Taxpayer, it should be obvious that I am one of those who would ask for an explanation from Richardson as well.
But since I have you right here, it’s your explanation I want.
Why is it that you support candidate OBlahMa when he supports Planned Parenthood’s racial genocide?
OBlahMa receives a 100% approval rating from that despicable organization.
By @@
October 18, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this
Holy smoke! I googled Harold Washington, Chicago.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: 100,000 Stolen Votes in Chicago
It looks like OBlahMa learned from the worst. There are those in Illinois who say the Senator knows a lot about ballot rigging.
By TN Gelding
October 18, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this
“The Corporal”
October 18, 2008 10:42 PM
You don’t think our government would be monitoring this do you?
I know they are! That’s part of the problem. They have more information than they can possibly decipher.
By @@
October 18, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this
Taxpayer:
A little info about my candidate and Planned Parenthood.
Regardless of where the issue rates in his priority list, Planned Parenthood has already taken aim at McCain, and they will continue to do so; its political-action committee is planning to spend some $10 million this cycle. Barack Obama is their dream candidate — he is the most radically pro-abortion candidate ever to run for the Oval Office; Obama even has opposed prohibiting clear-cut infanticide, because, in his mind, a just-born child should not be afforded the same rights as a nine-month old.
John McCain has an opportunity to legitimately use his record to differentiate between himself and Senator Obama in a way that will both help social and fiscal conservatives support him. Opposing Planned Parenthood funding meshes with McCain’s contention that abortion is a human-rights issue and his continuing campaign against wasteful government spending. Planned Parenthood doesn’t need or deserve federal funding. As Planned Parenthood continues to make news for lax practices harming children while raking in huge revenues, now is way past time to cut it off. John McCain has opposed taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
And for the record Taxpayer, I never said you were a horrible person, just weak on principles.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this
@@,
I know you think that you are an intelligent person and I also know that it is likely a misconception that you have developed as a result of your limited exposure to persons of average or greater intellect. That said, don’t try to deflect your own shortcomings by trying to avoid the very issue that you raised — guilt by association. Clean up your own back yard (here’s another one of those prime opportunities for me to pick from any number of appropriate labels for you, and I choose this time the word most appropriate for you, the self-righteous pro-life Republican), hypocrite. Now, have a good nightmare, that is if you REALLY do care about all those abortions in those poor neighborhoods right here in Georgia in your own back yard or maybe you are not being as truthful and honest with us as you should be. Maybe there’s more to you than meets the eye. After all, you didn’t even display any convincing alarm whatsoever to see that the Republican speaker of the house of the great state of Georgia is so pro-abortion. You didn’t know about it and you didn’t show any outrage at such despicable behavior and you didn’t say anything about writing him or your Republican party leaders or voting against any of them. All you profess to care about are the words of one anonymous blogger with the least possible amount of “power” to effect meaningful change, outside of my one vote that has to cover so much more than abortion especially at a national level. Further, since you claim to have already voted, I can see no need to try to convince you of the errors of your ways — not that anything short of a lobotomy would likely help you anyway. But, don’t you worry for I will vote against Glenn Richardson and the rest of the Georgia Republicans every chance I get and when people ask me why I’ll mention, just for you, that it’s partially for Glenn’s stance on abortion here in Georgia, OK. Now that’s what I’m willing to do to further support the cause of reducing abortions and I have you to thank for that so be proud of your efforts, @@ — they paid off.
By Taxpayer
October 18, 2008 11:48 PM | Link to this
By the way, good night @@ and pleasant nightmares. I cannot think of anyone more deserving than you — the supporter of the Republican baby killer.
By @@
October 19, 2008 1:13 AM | Link to this
Taxpayer, as your luck would have it, I stayed up (for the first time in ions) to watch SNL. What kind of people waste their time watching that show? It’s like 75% commercials. Never again! They obviously know they appeal to the suggestible mind.
Anyhoo…….
Further, since you claim to have already voted, I can see no need to try to convince you of the errors of your ways
But, don’t you worry for I will vote against Glenn Richardson
I didn’t vote for Glenn Richardson. He wasn’t on the ballot. (snicker)
Besides ^^^ that, Jim Wooten has convinced me he’s an azz. Won’t vote for him on a future ballot.
Goodnight to you too Taxed, Enjoy watching the demons that dance in your head both in daylight and the dead of night.
Still haven’t answered my question.
Not surprising.
By Abbott
October 19, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
“It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got the chance at success too … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Barak Obama to Joe the Plumber
“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.” Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
Scary quotes at Halloween..this unsurprising endorsement makes me wonder how close to Marxist philosophy the AJC really is.
By @@
October 19, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
Noah:
Your boat’s leakin’ dude/dudette.
Bail!!!!!
By dw
October 20, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
What has Obama actually done in Congress to make you think he will actually cut taxes and magically still increase spending on some programs? How has he helped boast the economy while he has been in Congress? Again, what has he actually done? How has he actually cut spending? How has he demonstrated his political integrity to be above other politicians. He hasn’t! He has played to his buddies and brought “pork” to them. Same thing, just different individuals. In my opinion, the middle class is still going to pay the check. Just that even more middle class taxed moneys may be “re”distributed. Because you know if you have a h.s. diploma and work at an unskilled job you obviously deserve (by divine Obamanomics rights) the same everything as a highly education/highly skilled person. I do think everyone should make a livable wage and have benefits, such as health insurance, but not necessarily all the same. In my opinion, Obama talks a good game (he is so eloquent and he has the all important “presidential” look and strolling ability; like that should really matter) but hasn’t done jack regarding the economy during his time in Congress and he will change his tune once in office … but he walks really well.