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DEL.ICIO.USWill ‘Country First’ extend past Nov. 4?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Robert Zoellick, a former deputy secretary of State in the Bush administration who is now president of the World Bank, makes an obvious but important point in today’s Washington Post: Our next president, whoever it is, faces so many important challenges in so many arenas that he has the potential to leave his mark as one of our greatest presidents ever, a “21st century FDR.”
Here’s a partial list of Zoellick’s to-do list:
“The new administration will need to recapitalize banks … helping homeowners manage their mortgage debts while staying in their homes … overhaul a failed financial regulatory and supervisory system … (champion) quality schools, basic health-care choices and worker assistance … immigration rules that let the United States attract talent and regenerate its spirit … reintroducing the United States to the world… modernizing multilateralism and markets … negotiate a new climate-change treaty … A successful wind-down in Iraq, a path of progress for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a push for peace and development in the Middle East … the courage to stand up to the challenges of isolationism at home…
While some might be tempted to condemn aspects of that list as liberal and activist, Zoellick is a strong McCain supporter and was slated to serve as McCain’s top domestic and foreign policy campaign adviser until taking the World Bank job. He is often mentioned as a likely secretary of State should McCain win.
That daunting list also poses an unstated challenge to many on the right. John McCain today said he guaranteed that the race would tighten and that he would emerge victorious late into Election Night. The numbers continue to say otherwise. The numbers say this race is over and the only remaining question is how large the margin will be.
McCain and his backers have run on a slogan of “Country First,” country over politics. The sincerity of that claim is now likely to be tested in ways they will not like. Will they support a President Obama and back him when they can? Given the critical challenges we face, it is essential that the next president has a successful administration.
“Country First.” Is that a heartfelt sentiment or a cynical slogan?
We shall see.
UPDATE: I should have included this in the original post — my bad: If this campaign ends as it appears it will, a little humility and magnanimity on the part of the winning side will be important as well.
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By pj
October 26, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this
We shall see is right. There are so many right wing radicals who will hope against their own countries best interest if their man doesn’t win. Whoever becomes President, for all our sakes, will need the support of all citizens as long as their policies don’t hurt Americans at large.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
McCain and O’Dell must be powering up the Diebold machines.
That’s how Chimpolini won, and that’s the only way McCain will win.
By getalife
October 26, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
They will fight his every move like they did with President Clinton.
Country first is a gop joke.
By SOUTHERN ATL
October 26, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska’s largest newspaper, has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
The newspaper said Sunday the Democrat “brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand.”
The Daily News said since the economic crisis has emerged, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has “stumbled and fumbled badly” in dealing with it.
“Of the two candidates, Sen. Obama better understands the mortgage meltdown’s root causes and has the judgment and intelligence to shape a solution, as well as the leadership to rally the country behind it,” the paper said.
The Daily News said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has shown the country why she is a success as governor. But the paper said few would argue that Palin is truly ready to step into the job of being president despite her passion, charisma and strong work ethic.
“Gov. Palin’s nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment. The election, after all is said and down, is not about Sarah Palin, and our sober view is that her running mate, Sen. John McCain, is the wrong choice for president at this critical time for our nation,” the paper said.
“Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time,” the paper concluded.
By BDAtlanta
October 26, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
The extreme wing of the Republican Party won’t lose proudly. I’m betting the worst - they will undercut him every chance they get. The wingnuts will make asses of themselves every day. That’s just their modus operandi.
By Chris Salzmann
October 26, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
“County First” is a cynical slogan. John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin is evidence of that. Also, John McCain used to be a maverick, but he changed. He changed his positions so often to conform to the Republican base, he has put himself in a real hole. I suspect that had he picked Tom Ridge, we would see a much closer election today.
No politician can win just with his/her base. McCain needed independents and peel away conservative democratic voters to win this election. He has done neither. Obama was smart to move to the center after the Democratic Primary, assuring himself a good share of the independent vote, and sliced away liberal Republicans who have watched in dismay the direction their party has taken.
If Sarah Palin wins the Republican nomination in 2012, the result will be another landslide loss. As a Obama supporter, I would naturally encourage her to run.
Maybe I’m wrong and the Republican Party will learn from its mistakes. The Democrats certainly learned from their mistakes.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
Now, everyone repeat after me.
Today’s word is:
**FILIBUSTER !**By RW-(the original)
October 26, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Since when does the slogan “Country First” mean country over politics? It means doing what you think is in the best interest of the country and that doesn’t mean blindly going along with whatever Karl Marx wants to do.
By Torg
October 26, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
What is not on that list is the most important thing … lead this country away from its dependence on foreign oil. It is the key to the future longterm stability, peace and prosperity of this nation and the world. It is as important as was the need to win World War II. It is as important as the need to recover from the Great Depression. There is no more important and urgent issue.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
Republicans believe in scorched Earth tactics.
If nothing proves it, that 4:55 sure does.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
To Midori
And who did we learn it from ? Those Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights era !!
By Midori
October 26, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
well, Corporal — those southern Democrats became REPUBLICANS
your point?
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
Salzmann@4:48
We know you are an Obama voter. You did not have to tell us.
Democrats learned WHAT from their mistakes? I’d like to know. After eight years of hating Bush, blocking Congress and excusing Clinton, you want RepublicanS to come like lambs to the slaughter so Democrats can do anything they wish.
Of course we need Americans working together. We have needed it since eight years ago. But we did not get it.
Democrats voted for the war in Iraq and saw the same intelligence reports that Bush saw. Now some of them want Bush investigated for doing that which Congress approved.
Dems have disgraced our military by protesting against them and declaring defeat at every turn.
DEMOCRATS have fought Homeland Defense measures while enjoying freedom from terrorists.
Dems have screamed over dismissal of government lawyers by Bush when Clinton wiped out the whole cadre as soon as he got into the White House.
Now DEMS try to blame the economy down turn on this adminstration while Democratic leaders blocked efforts to slow the rise of unfit mortgages.
Democrats have been nothing more than a roadblock to every progressive move made. Now they want COOPERATION?
Republicans have not seen nor heard that word from Democrats for such a long time, I doubt if they can act on such short notice. I hope they can. But it is hard to forget the rabid attitudes extended by Democrats for almost eight years.
Saying “pretty please with sugar on it” is the best chance Democrats will have to get cooperation. It is about time they say something NICE.
By GodHatesTrash
October 26, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Corporal is too busy following other people’s stupid orders to find time to have read a history book, Midori.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
P.S.
A filibuster is nothing more than filing a habeas corpus.
It’s an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary political action.
Get over it.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
LOL, Sir Trash.
True.
so True.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
GOP May Target Use of Filibuster Senate Democrats Want To Retain the Right to Block Judicial Nominees
By Helen Dewar and Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 13, 2004; Page A01
As speculation mounts that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will step down from the Supreme Court soon because of thyroid cancer, Senate Republican leaders are preparing for a showdown to keep Democrats from blocking President Bush’s judicial nominations, including a replacement for Rehnquist.
Republicans say that Democrats have abused the filibuster by blocking 10 of the president’s 229 judicial nominees in his first term — although confirmation of Bush nominees exceeds in most cases the first-term experience of presidents dating to Ronald Reagan. Describing the filibusters as intolerable, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has hinted he may resort to an unusual parliamentary maneuver, dubbed the “nuclear option,” to thwart such filibusters.
WAR IS HELL
By Midori
October 26, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
wait — you had to go back FOUR FREAKING YEARS to prove your wrongheaded non point?
no wonder you Bozos are losing.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Corporal Klinger: LYING WARMONGERS SHOULD GO TO HELL
By AmVet
October 26, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
Conservative Leader Rips GOP Campaign Arm
For Republicans, the post election blame game is already beginning.
With the GOP bracing to lose 20 House seats or more in the upcoming elections, conservatives are voicing anger at party leaders they say have abandoned endangered Republican lawmakers who hold positions — like opposition to abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research — that energize the party’s base.
http://newsmax.com/insidecover/conservatives_campaigns/2008/10/24/143926.html
The GOP leadership surely realizes that it MUST come back from the fringe. It’s numerous extremist planks are simply unacceptable to the vast majority of center-left to center-right Americans.
And the last eight years have been the exclamation point on the failures of swinging TOO FAR to the political periphery.
Yes the Democrats are often extremist as well. But it seems to me that there are better options for the Republicans than to become so polarized and polarizing as well.
And in a post-Bill Clinton Democratic Party, it may be possible, with some protracted, reasonable effort, to nudge the less moderate Democrats back significantly towards the center.
And there are a LOT of new up and coming, combat-tested Democrats that are perhaps the vanguards of a sane, more restrained party.
However, these misguided and misnamed conservatives, in many (most?) cases, seemingly are willing to make NO effort to do so.
And our outgoing president is the epitome of this Intractable and imperious attitude.
Consequently, the balance of political views in this country, will no longer tolerate being bludgeoned with neo-conservative/reactionary dogma and nearly complete intolerance.
And I believe this election in nine days will for the second consecutive time, confirm this sentiment…
By getalife
October 26, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
“Real Americans” will support President Obama for “country first”.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
To Midori and GodHatesTrash
As Ronald Reagan would say …….
There you go again.
Personal Vitriol vs. debate.
By G
October 26, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this
We already know that for McCain, Country First is definitely a cynical slogan because, after all, the idiot chose Bimbo Barbie for Vice President.
Barack Obama drew a crowd of over 100,000 at a rally in Denver on Sunday, the AP reports:
The Obama campaign released an initial crowd estimate of 75,000 people. That was later upgraded to “well over” 100,00 people, a tally confirmed by a Denver police spokesman.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By RB from Gwinnett
October 26, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Hey Jay, are you suggesting the R’s treat Obama if he wins in the same way YOU and the liberals have treated Bush for the last 7.75 years. Like crap.
It must take a lot of nerve to write the crap you write while ignoring the history of incredibly partisan political crap from the Democratic party and the downright pathetic treatment of Bush by the media including JAY BOOKMAN. What a hack you are, Jay. This city deserves better. Move on, Jay.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this
Corporal Klinger -
try staying in the present, huh?
Rush was using those talking points 4 years ago, much like your idiot links.
REAGAN/LIMBAUGH 2012!!!!
By Midori
October 26, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this
HEY CORPORAL!!!
FILIBUSTER THIS!!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this
Personally I will laugh as the economy collapses, NATO freaks completely out when they realize they are in total control of their own defense, Russia overruns NATO as they are freaking out, China annexes Taiwan, the Taliban annex Pakistan and assume control of their nuclear arsenal, and all of the deadbeats in America whine and moan that a $500 tax credit is not enough you racists.
And man, that very first day that the liberals realize they have no one to blame but themselves?
Bwahahahahaha.
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By AmVet October 26, 2008 5:43 PM And the last eight years have been the exclamation point on the failures of swinging TOO FAR to the political periphery.
Any Republican that thinks they are going to further their cause by reaching across the aisle and embracing the policies of the kook fringe left wing needs to take a good look at what that exact thing got McCain and Chambliss.
Liberals spewing hate/ rage at them and wishing for their flaming defeat.
Yeah, reaaaaalllll good idea that was.
Come back to the Reagen Mantra, morons.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this
Yo Corporal,
is this you wearing the sunglasses?
By getalife
October 26, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this
Attaboy Andy.
Country first.
Geez.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this
Wait until Hair Plugs runs that mouth of his at the Chinese, won’t a thermo nuclear holocaust be a welcome respite from our economic woes?
By Midori
October 26, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this
Andy only knows reacharounds.
He knows nothing about reaching across.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
You know what the biggest question is, what will kookman write about if Oblahma gets elected?
How can you blame it all on the Republicans when there are none left?
By Midori
October 26, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
what a warm, wonderful feeling: …..no Republicans left.
ahhhhhh…………
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this
Don’t worry, i r o diM, you are going to find out how many Republicans there really are, a lot sooner than you think.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this
But there are legitimate social and economic reasons to limit foreclosures. Foreclosures not only cost families their homes, they drive down the property values of whole neighborhoods. And since sinking home prices triggered the financial crisis, the more that can be done to stop their downward spiral, the better.-WaPo
Yep, time to quit paying the mortgage.
See, I’m laughing already.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
At the U.N., Many Hope for an Obama Win- “It would be hard to find anybody, I think, at the U.N. who would not believe that Obama would be a considerable improvement over any other alternative,” said William H. Luers, executive director of the United Nations Association. “It’s been a bad eight years, and there is a lot of bad feeling over it.”-Wapo
See, I’m laughing already.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this
ECONOMICS GURU: WORST IS YET TO COME; MARKETS WILL CLOSE FOR UP TO WEEK FROM PANIC…When this man predicted a global financial crisis more than a year ago, people laughed. Not any more…
Panic?
I thought Oblahmi was going to save the world?
Or maybe he’s the worry.
See, I’m laughing already.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
Yeah Andy.
r-i-g-h-t……………
and the great majority of you hate your candidate.
who’s laughing now?
Do you keep looking over your shoulder, watching for those guys in the white uniforms with strait jackets?
By Midori
October 26, 2008 7:12 PM | Link to this
Andy,
about those countless republicans.
wonder how many of them were in this crowd?
they are not laughing at you Andy.
the are laughing with you.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this
A glimmer of hope?
A friend came up to me and stated he had voted early this week and something interesting happened. I asked what, and he replied that a black lady in front of him kept trying to get the attention of another black lady farther behind him in line. Finally, their eyes met and the first lady silently mouthed the words, “who are you voting for”? The second lady then silently mouthed back “McCain”. The first lady gave her a thumbs up.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this
In 1776 it was the Declaration of Independence but unfortunately in 2008 it has become the Declaration of Dependence.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
Opie Taylor ….. Aunt Bee would be ashamed of you.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this
Rush Limbaugh is being chastized as being a divider (as if that’s something bad) for separating the elephants from the donkeys.
He’s in pretty good company as Jesus was also a divider* since one day he will **separate the sheep from the goats.
That’s the party affiliation you should worry about!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this
i r o diM: Which musical act did the opening for Oblahma?
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
“The great majority of you hate your candidate..”
Is Midori talking about Democrats? I have never met any Republicans that hate McCain. Maybe she is talking about Obama. Maybe she is just TALKING!
Now for some remarks about a broom and a witch. She surely does get in a rut.
Anyway, did Bookman add that UPDATE later or did I miss it at first reading?
Sure, Bookman, we are all anxiously awaiting a little humility and magnanimity from the winning side (which he thinks is going to be Obama).
If Obama wins, I don’t want h and m. I want to see him make all the miracles he has promised come true. I want to see him do all the things of which I think he is neither experienced nor capable. I want him to meet Putin and not have Putin smile like a p*** cat. I want to see him make a decision without the help of his radical wife and friends. I want to see him learn how to make a military salute. I want to see the faces of Nunn, Colin Powell, Lewis. Clintons and Biden when they all get kicked to the curb. I just want to see this country SURVIVE under Obama. That will be a miracle in itself.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
I take it back Andy.
They ARE laughing at you.
And Corporal as well.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this
and Dusty?
they find you BEYOND hysterical!!!
By Patty
October 26, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this
The problem is that no matter who wins—R or D—we’re screwed as a nation. Those people in Washington don’t care about people who work hard to raise their families and put away something for retirement. Both McCain and Obama have an agenda, one that will make their heavy duty ‘donors’ happy, and guess what? It doesn’t included helping any of us.
That’s why I think all you guys are so funny, spouting off about how great it’s going to to when your respective parites take over. Haven’t you figured it out yet? Don’t you know that ‘We, the People’ just don’t matter in the great scheme of things when it comes to governing this country?
As for Jay’s blog entry, I read that endorsement in the AL newspaper, like I’ve kept track of that newspaper since the Repub convention. It’s more of an endorsement to keep Palin as their Governor than to endorse Obama as president. With a 72% approval rating, they obviously feel she’s doing a good job.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this
To Midori
Are you male or female? Just curious.
By getalife
October 26, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
This is not “real American” thoughts dusty.
Where is your patriotism?
He will probably clean up another bush mess like President Clinton.
Your party destroyed our economy again.
Andy,
They are closing the markets? Who wrote that?
It’s a gop depression.
By Mike
October 26, 2008 7:53 PM | Link to this
Bookman’s hypocrisy is laughable. Partisan hacks like Bookman were attacking Bush from the day he set foot in office. Now he wants to pontificate about how those who do likewise to Obama are unpatriotic.
Don’t worry, Jay. We will behave much better than you and the other partisan hacks did.
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Just whom is “they”?
By RW-(the original)
October 26, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as “serious aggression.”
A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area because Syria was out of the military’s reach
Now there’s your spirit of reaching across the aisle. Bush just gave Obama something to talk to Assad about.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 26, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Quick fact check:
Aunt Bea (Frances Bavier) was a Diva and well known for her difficult on set behavior. I don’t think Opie or Andy or Barney or Floyd or Otis or Ernest T really give a flip what Miss Bavier thought.
Kinda’ freaked me out when I read that. Who’d a thought?
On topic, I suspect Mr. McCain will put country first after the election. He’s seriously wrongheaded about most everything, but I believe he’s a real American.
Based on some of the video we’ve seen, there may be a few fringe rightie bottom dwellers who’ll say or do some stupid stuff.
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Why don’t you define “patriotism” for us while you eat your taco topped with marijuana?? Saw that written up in the news items. Knew it was you…..
By hillbilly ragger
October 26, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this
Hey Mike? Got a cite for Jay “attacking Bush from the day he set foot in office?”
If not, I’d suggest a nice hot cup of STFU.
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
Yes Mrs. Godzie,
McCain served his country in the military many years, five years as a POW and then served many many years in the USA Senate. I guess you might take a guess that he is a real American. He certainly has been successful at many things to be so…what was it you said…wrong headed??
And Obama has been so successful at …..what??? (I’m not sure but I don’t think he even has a license to practice law anymore.)
By Midori
October 26, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this
Crusty,
you have to ask Andy that.
Mrs. G — I had no idea!! Aunt Bea was a diva?
ROFL!!!
Is she any kin to you, Crusty?
Hillbilly Ragger: here’s a nice poster for you to give Mike
By TN Gelding
October 26, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
Whoever wins I don’t think they’ll be reading to an elementary school class on 09/11/2009. Hopefully they understand the many challenges they face and will be spending most of their time in the Oval Office.
Hopefully they’ll have the courage to ask us to sacrifice as well. If we do, we could be out of this mess in 8 years. If we don’t, then the next 4 years are going to be painful and demoralizing.
Reassigning AF1 to AMC should be their first official act.
Country first? I wouldn’t bet on it.
By Taxpayer
October 26, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
I think I’ll believe that McCain will put country first after I see him give Obama the same kind of hug that he gave Bush. Then again, I prefer the handshake. None of that cheek kissing stuff or careful bowing while maintaining eye contact or other foreign customs. In the US, a handshake is how you size up an opponent when first meeting and a handshake is how you part company after a victor is declared. It’s a time-honored American tradition derived from a time-honored noble tradition — unless you include secret handshakes and other such stuff.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 26, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this
Dusty
Seems he’s been successful in getting you a mite riled up!
Anything else, you probably don’t have the character to acknowledge.
I really like all these people
By alan
October 26, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
No, Jay. The McCain campaign has always been about sex first, not country first.
alan
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this
NO Mrs Godzie,
I am waiting for you to tell me all the successes for Obama. Instead of trying to run me down, why don’t you answer the question?
Naming my doubts about Obama is hardly getting riled up. It is called voting for the right person to run the country. Johm McCain is experienced and capable and I will vote for him. Obama cannot better him in any way excapt speech making. Besides that he………?????
By RW-(the original)
October 26, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this
You know, Jay B, one thing we can probably all agree on is that you’re in a dying business as least as it relates to the dead tree portion of the business. You have seemingly realized that developing an online readership is a good route to survival.
Not to try to give you any advice or anything, but if I found myself in your shoes I don’t think I’d take kindly to having those people that supposedly support me, like ragger, always trying to tell my other readers to stfu and go away.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 26, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Dusty
I am weary of linking to or posting that which you will not read or accept.
And Dusty, you DO get riled up.
But it’s ok. All real American do.
By AmVet
October 26, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this
Any Republican that thinks they are going to further their cause by reaching across the aisle…
Andy, one minor change, your diatribe should read “Any very bitter, very angry old man Republican that thinks…*
To your assertion:
All it got McCain was the nomination. By beating eight neo-cons, many better funded and much better supported by the party apparatus. And much respect from a WIDE cross-section of American voters in the past eighteen months.
To your bizarre example of the disreputable Chambliss, as one who has “reached across the aisle”, though he clearly has a history of practically never doing so, is in the fight for his political life.
And he get trounced in most states now I believe. But he represents one of the few remaining states whose Republican constituents are generally very wiling to turn a blind eye to the failures he helped the Bush administration create.
You are going to see your beloved, do no wrong party lose the neo-con platform and return to actual conservatism. (you should read more about it sometime - it looks very little like what we have seen from the GOP). Or you are going to watch them spend a second forty years as the minority party in Congress…
By BDAtlanta
October 26, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
If their candidate loses, the right wing nut jobs will go back to blowing up abortion clinics and stuff.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
It was just a little hyperbole.
Don’t be so serious.
By RW-(the original)
October 26, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this
My, my. Let’s lecture the right in being civil some more.
After releasing this morning’s numbers showing McCain ahead in Ohio and Florida, the Strategic Vision polling company received several death threats through the contact e-mail on the company’s web site
One of the messages stated:
My goodness, your polls stinks. There are 3 polls that have Obama by double digits and only yours has Obama down. WOW!. How come your poll is the only one giving Palin high favor ratings? I think you nee dto be careful tonight when you get in your car and might want to check underneath your car. SCRAP YOUR IDIOTIC POLLS OR ELSE!
Another stated:
A poll that gave Sarah Palin and Barack Obama the same favorability rating is wrong off the bat. Be careful going outside tonight because you might not see tomorrow.
A third message stated:
Why would your presidential election poll results be so drastically different from every other reputable poll taken over the same time period? Are they that dumb or are you guys that smart? Smart guys wind up dead.
You guys sure are invested in your fake polls.
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original),
I am not sure an online readership for Bookman is going to be successful either. How many provocative pieces can Bookman write when elections are over?
But wait…if McCain is elected Bookman will be in business for four more years finding fault like crazy. There will be a search for McCain’s medical records every day. We will know Sarah Palin like a book— everything from what she eats for breakfsst to the brand of her new shoes.
But if Obama wins—-readers will soon tire of so much adoration.. Luckovich will be in the comic pages. Tucker will take to chewing up the governor every week. And..not to mention…all the doctors will move to a free country if there are any free countries left.
The future is certainly STRANGE!!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 26, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
Thanks, corporal, but don’t worry about me.
Any post mentioning Ernest T. Bass can’t really be considered too serious.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this
Hello again, dear reader!
It has been a busy couple of days, thee Iman called my sleeper cell in America, where we had voted for thee Oblahmi many, many times, and told us to hurry along back to thee Pakistani, where thee infidel Pakistan army was invading, uh, Pakistan.
I am so confused.
Anyway, thee Treason Times and thee Urinal/Jihad have promised us that there will be no more dreaded Predator missiles patrolling thee skies, searching under each and every rock for us, for they have whined and moaned to thee American public for us, that the Pakistanis said no more or else they’re gonna get mad!
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, KaBOOM!!
Yeah, that worked real good, didn’t it?
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, KaBOOM!!
Maybe soon we can get back to thee Baghdaddy where it is safe, no?
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, KaBOOM!!
How about registering some more Afghanis for the American election, please?
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, KaBOOM!!
Hell with it, I’m out of here.
As you can see dear reader, we are in definite need of thee “hope” and “change” that thee Oblahma will bring or soon or later thee McBushie will get us.
So get out thee vote!
Allah Akbar!
Yes we can!
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this
At the U.N., Many Hope for an Obama Win By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 26, 2008; A17
Just another reason to vote for McCain!
By Ackmed
October 26, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this
Is that better, i r o diM?
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. G.
Ah ….. you are a diva (prima donna).
By Midori
October 26, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this
lol - the National Review.
a real paragon of journalistic excellence.
ROFL!!
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
Mrs Godzi,
You never tired of posting thirty to forty times a day when you were IN THE NEWS. Now you are too tired to mention ANYTHING. I’d be tired too if I were a Democrat.
You have a candidate whose record and experience show NO capability for being President of the USA. A good speech is fine but it isn’t enough. Sorry your party loyalty has made you blind to the obvious.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
Syria: U.S. attack serious aggression
U.S. helicopters attack an area along the Iraqi border, killing eight, the Syrian government says.
Don’t worry, our new President private Obama will be there soon toapologize to you when all you were trying to do was send a few terrorists into Iraq.
By G
October 26, 2008 9:12 PM | Link to this
McCain continues to show his lack of leadership. He does not look Presidential, he actually looks petty. Each time I hear him, I become more and more convinced he is not capable of being President.
I think the media should be raising issues about McCain’s military record, his record on veterans issues and his efforts to conceal information about POW’s left behind after the Vietnam War. There is a lot that has not been discussed during this Presidential election cycle.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By AJC/DNC Management
October 26, 2008 9:14 PM | Link to this
By AmVet October 26, 2008 8:49 PM To your bizarre example of the disreputable Chambliss, as one who has “reached across the aisle”, though he clearly has a history of practically never doing so, is in the fight for his political life.
Fight for his “life” in Georgia?
Today, a new group of senators calling itself the Gang of Ten, announced that it had arrived at a compromise energy proposal meant to break the partisan logjam that exists on the issue. The group’s members are: Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
This dude helped you socialists nearly lock down energy production in the US forever.
And what did he get for his troubles?
The goon squad clamoring for his flaming defeat?
Get back to the Reagan Mantra, morons.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this
Corporal,
why are the UN’s wishes a reason to vote for McCain?
you get stupider with each post.
Andy,
you can post under any name you wish.
all your posts smell like turds, regardless.
You’re one sick puppy, you know that?
By Midori
October 26, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this
MCCAIN/PALIN
By Dusty
October 26, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this
Dear Andy Achmed,
You make me laugh every time.
I think I will stop here with a smile before libs post another one of their rediculous claims.
Here’s to a fine Monday…good night…
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this
To Midori
Have you ever been there?
I’ve spent a lot of time there and 90% of those countries would like nothing better than to see the U.S. weakened.
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this
Did you see the news where Alaska’s largest newspaper, the Anchorage Blubber, endorsed Obama?
By Dawggy Style
October 26, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
If the U.S. government sent Midori, Goldie and Ms. Lizard Lips to Afghanistan I bet they could bore the Taliban into an unconditional surrender within a week. DO AMERICA A FAVOR - IT’S THE PATRIOTIC THING TO DO!
By GodHatesTrash
October 26, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this
Pvt. Winslow, it’s a waste of time for me to debate the retarded.
Dismissed dummy.
By Midori
October 26, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this
hey Dawggy:
woof, woof
do us a favor - go outside when you do your business.
WOOF
By Midori
October 26, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
Speaking of retarded, Sir Trash - incoming @ 10:02
By lrd
October 26, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this
Better question.. will the left in congress try to dominate with only their wishes and desire and work to alienate the right?> I am liberal, and a total govt dominated by one party is scary ( ie. the first 6 yrs of bush) I am hoping the dem’s will try and do what is best for the entire country instead of their own agenda……
By "The Corporal"
October 26, 2008 11:28 PM | Link to this
To GodHatesTrash
Aye, Aye Sir
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 5:28 AM | Link to this
Smyrna preteen given up- A Smyrna mother traveled nearly 1,000 miles to abandon her 12-year-old son at a Nebraska hospital Saturday night, authorities said.-Urinal/PMS
Kinda like what you are doing for your country if you vote for Oblahma.
Dropping yourself off at the government.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 5:34 AM | Link to this
They scheme and plot:
Greenspan admits free market has foundered-kookman, Urinal
Barack Obama on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM, 2001: The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society-Drudge
Either you can get out and vote for America or you can start hoarding food in the cellar, hahaha, Oblahma 08 “We want what you got.”
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 5:44 AM | Link to this
When the drive by left wing Oblahma media was screaming at Clinton to get out of the race, because she was making their man look stupid and weak, at least they were open and honest about it:
Privately, however, in their gloomier moments, some McCain aides discuss his return to the Senate and speculate whether his running mate, Sarah Palin, will run for president in 2012.-Urinal/DNC
Now they just scream and lie at McCain.
Worried, liberals?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 5:48 AM | Link to this
The largest voter fraud in American electoral history:
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers recently sent two letters to Attorney General Michael Mukasey deploring a news leak that the FBI is investigating Acorn, and warning Justice to focus instead on “voter suppression.” Barack Obama has also joined in this political intimidation, demanding in two letters that Mr. Mukasey appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Justice staff who he claims are engaged in “unlawful coordination” with John McCain’s campaign to pursue “so-called ‘election fraud.’” There is zero evidence that such coordination exists, but it is remarkable that a Presidential nominee would dismiss election fraud as a myth.
It doesn’t help Justice’s credibility that attorneys charged with supervising voting issues are avowed Barack Obama supporters. According to Federal Election Commission data, James Walsh, an attorney in the Civil Rights Division, has donated at least $300 to Mr. Obama. His boss, Mark Kappelhoff, has given $2,250 — nearly the maximum. John Russ, also in Civil Rights, gave at least $600 to Mr. Obama.-WSJ
They are stealing your constitutional right.
By GodHatesTrash
October 27, 2008 6:02 AM | Link to this
Silly girl - you’ll be able to go the polls on November 4, vote, and have it counted.
No one is stealing your rights, you hysterical little ninny.
Even if some 6’4” black man carves a backwards B into your face with a paperclip, and makes you wear that mascara you like anyway.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 6:45 AM | Link to this
That’s not the point, nancy.
My vote is being canceled out by the fake vote of thousands of perverts, foreigners and wankers like you.
It’s like being in Iran.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 27, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
But the Democratic presidential nominee hasn’t held a full press conference — submitting himself to more than a handful of questions from his whole press corps — in more than a month, since Sept. 24, 2008, in Clearwater, Fla.
The candidate often bemoans the media asking silly and superficial questions.-ABC News
How does this dimwit think he’s advanced so far in his career?
On accomplishments?
It’s a lie anyway, ask Hair Plugs, who is still cowering under his bed from that evil anchor woman that frightened him so much.
Cowards.
By GodHatesTrash
October 27, 2008 7:10 AM | Link to this
Don’t worry, kkklown girl - if Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck show up to vote, I’m sure some will stop them.
Now stop being such a little sissy.
By swolf
October 27, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Did anyone elsde pick up that on Meet The Press yesterday, McCain thinks election day is still TWO WEEKS away? Presidential material…NOT!