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DEL.ICIO.USThe consequences of a Dem sweep
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Linda Feldman of the Christian Science Monitor has a nice piece this morning looking at the possibilities and pitfalls of one-party rule. It also includes an interesting nugget I’d missed from the recent Washington Post poll. A few excerpts:
“Washington may well be on the verge of becoming a one-party town, with Democratic Sen. Barack Obama looking strong to capture the presidency next Tuesday and Democrats poised to expand their majorities in both houses of Congress.
The history of one-party rule in America is fraught with triumphs and peril….
For Senator Obama, should he become president, the most relevant historical example is President Franklin Roosevelt, says presidential historian Robert Dallek.
“We were in dire straits,” says Mr. Dallek. “As Roosevelt said himself in his first inaugural, ‘This country is asking for action and action now.’ That’s what he gave them. In the first 100 days, he passed 15 major pieces of legislation. He couldn’t have done it unless he had a crisis and strong party support.”
Obama, too, appears poised to push initiatives in a range of areas, including a second economic stimulus package, healthcare reform, changes to tax policy, and energy reform. He has also pledged to begin, right away, the process of withdrawing US troops from Iraq….
Still, the American public is showing unprecedented support for one-party rule in Washington, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fifty percent of likely voters say they would prefer that the same party control both the White House and Congress, a new high for that poll. Thirty percent said they wanted split-party rule.”
Comments
By spankmonkey
October 29, 2008 7:07 AM | Link to this
Oooo… me first me first….
Uhhhh… all of you who don’t think like me, and vote like me, and uhhh, dress like me, you’re all idiots…
That’s pretty much what will be said here today, so I’m just saving you the time of having to scroll down the page to read it, by putting it up top
By Paul
October 29, 2008 7:21 AM | Link to this
Good Morning, Jay
Glad to see The Christian Science Monitor referenced. It is, I think, one of the more objective newspapers available.
It will be interesting to see how Pres Obama handles his agenda - or if the Party leadership (‘the old time, we’ve been here a while and now’s our chance’ crowd) wants to trump him. We’ll see how far cooperation and compromise go - not with the opposition Party but with his own.
And all those ‘conflicts’ between the Executive and the Legislative with the current administration? I’d be willing to bet we’ll see that historical tension continued to be played out.
But I do agree - he’ll have to move, and move fast. With majorities he may get what he wants. Americans have high expectations and low patience. I once asked N-GA how long people will give Pres Obama to show results (and how long they’ll accept the excuse “well, Pres Bush took eight years to screw this up) and he replied “one term.”
I think that’s fair. But the programs need to be in place early, the natural lagging cycles need to work through and events have to break in his favor. The end of one term will be the time for evaluation, not anticipation.
We shall see.
By The Hussein Files (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 7:30 AM | Link to this
Hussein: The Story of How A Radical Marxist Attempted To Overthrow the American Government and Enslave It’s People With Communist Principles.
Spankmonkey, you’re just as big of an idiot, if not a bigger idiot, than Jay. You should already know that no one wants to think like, dress like and ESPECIALLY, vote like you. Anyways, going back to the subject that you got completely off of, Democrap domination in D.C. would be a total disaster. Sky-high taxes, protectionism, class warfare, defeatism, spiteful military cuts, the resurrection of the massive welfare state and the conditions of government dependency that breed the massive underclass that comes with it. Our economy will tank and our way of life will disappear if this radical moron is frauduently elected as an illegitimate president of a shadow welfare state, which the American People will NEVER let happen. Dream on loony left losers. Dream on. Demoncrats can’t register enough dead folks, homeless bums and welfare moms to throw this one.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 7:34 AM | Link to this
One party that hates America, hates the Constitution, hates our history.
Scary, isn’t it?
By spankmonkey
October 29, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
Unfortunately, on Nov 5 it will be time to kick off the 2012 presidential campaign season. I think the Republican ticket has already begun, at least half the ticket has…
This means that instead of fulfilling campaign promises or implementing any of the much ballyhooed tax plans or whatnot, President O or President M will need to start working on appeasing the “base” immediately.
By Keeping It Real
October 29, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
The election will be determined by the “RACE BALLOT” no matter what we think. The politicians know it and the press has to down play it for the sake of our country. Most minorities will vote for Obama. They would vote for him if he were white. The key vote will come from white people who hold no racial or religous prejuidice or do not think that they are superior in work effort and intellect. Joe the plumber has been very good for McCain because it put the face of a hard working white man in the minds of the majority voter. It sounds better to refer to Obama as a sociolist instead of an Arab, terrorist or the N word. America is what it is… Good and Bad.
By The Hussein Files (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 7:45 AM | Link to this
Defeatocrats, the Buffalo Bills of anti-American politricks. Al Bore in 2000, Yawn Scary (John Kerry) in 2004 and now BaRAT Hussein Oblahma in 2008…..Defeatocrats just can’t win the big one. But how can the party of the Donkey a•• expect to ever close the deal by running far-left, Eurosocial-marxist, anti-American candidates in a solid right-leaning patriotic nation?
By E
October 29, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this
I sure hope the moment has arrived to elect Obama/Biden along with a Congressional majority of Democrats.
Our country and the world needs their leadership.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By ByteMe
October 29, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this
AC/DC: At least it’ll be better than having the one party that hates our government running it into the ground just to prove it really sucks.
And how exactly do you think the Bush Administration treated the Constitution? Incarceration of Americans without trial. Outing a CIA operative for political purposes. All those “signing statements” where Bush basically said he wouldn’t follow the law as passed by Congress. You really think it gets more scary now, huh?
Your eyes are turning brown.
By Hussein: Traitor? (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this
“We were in dire straits.” So is that the defeatocrat strategy? Talk the economy down into a depression so that they can easily push through their marxist agenda on an American people who would be defenseless to stop it!
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 29, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this
I AM THRILLED BY THE PROSPECT OF ONE PARTY - DEMOCRATIC - RULE
I trust Barack Obama.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this
Hopefully Pelosi and Reid will be replaced.
I think we are going to be surprised and pleased by actions taken that will get the country back on track. After all, both major parties say it is needed.
By William Hussein Ayres (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this
Bite Me (how appropriate): Incarceration of enemy combatants (foreign terrorists) without a trial and it was already common knowledge that Valerie Plume was a CIA agent. Ms. Plume and her husband had already blown her clearance years before. As for the signing statements, the President doesn’t have to WAIT for the debate, indecision (see John Kerry) and approval (or lack thereof) of a slow- to-act Congress during a TIME OF WAR! Bite Me, you can do what your name says.
Nobama no way!
McCain/Palin ‘08
By Eli Jones
October 29, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Jay, you should reveal what Barack Obama plans to do should he get into office. There’s nothing as dangerous that our nation is facing as the unbalance of power that a far left Democrat monopoly on power will bring. Comrade Obama will be able to shove his Marxist schemes right down our throats with the help of the radicals of the Democratic party. The out numbered Republicans will not have much input to prevent Obama’s run away government from TAXING us to death and muzzling people that object to Obama’s stupidity. If you believe that the rich alone can fund Barack Obama’s massive Marxist TAKE FROM and REDISTRIBUTE programs, then you don’t have a very good idea of finances. There is a bottom to every well and Comrade Obama and his tax collectors will come for the middle class people’s hard earned money too. Barack Obama is currently sponsoring US Senate Bill S2433 (Obama’s first Marxist Act) and if passed (and it will be if Obama is elected), it will cost America 845 Billion in ADDITIONAL taxes. The money that is squeezed out of you and me for Obama’s S2433 will be given to the corrupt United Nations, specifically for “The UN Global Poverty Act”. Your money will then be REDISTRIBUTED to third world dictators. This can be verified, Google “Obama’s S2433”. Obama is eliminating the reduction on the death inheritance tax that President Bush implemented. Comrade Obama plans to take your inheritance and REDISTRIBUTE it. Obama has vowed to double the capital gains tax so if you have bought property as an investment, kiss your profit line goodbye. Obama will REDISTRIBUTE it. With at least 845 Billion going out of our nations coffers to be REDISTRIBUTED to third world despots, there is no way the rich can satisfy Obama’s lust for more,more,more TAX money. S2433 is only one of many Comrade Obama’s great Marxist schemes with many more to come. Without the power to filibuster Democratic abuses of power and/or a Republican President to veto the Democrat craziness, our taxes will rise beyond the moon and our right of freedom of speech will be in danger. Comrade Obama and his Marxist allies will have their way with you and me.
By GMAN
October 29, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
I didn’t want to do this but you namecalling wingnuts have given me no choice. Here goes… Nazi, skinhead, dictator, aristocrat, low-achiever, clueless, petroleum company lover, dummy, bottom of his class, ancient, warmonger, bottom of her class, gambler, daddy’s boy, mentally challenged, hillbilly, Bush’s-butt-boy, secessionist, adulterer, gigolo, ethics violater, hypocrite…
I think that just about covers it.
Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures… and losing!
By ByteMe
October 29, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell: wrong on all counts. As usual.
Jose Padilla was an AMERICAN held without trial on a Navy Brig on US soil for years.
Valerie Plame status as a CIA agent was NOT known before Rove et al released that classified information.
The president is NOT a king or dictator. He is the head of the Executive branch and is bound to enforce the laws that Congress passes as well as follow those same laws. Signing statements where he basically says “I’m not going to do this” are not constitutional, but the Congress doesn’t have enough of a spine to tell him where to shove those signing statements and bring him up on impeachment charges for any of this.
Which is the point that I brought up about shredding the constitution. Bush has spent 8 years ignoring it. How much worse can it get?
By hillbilly ragger
October 29, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
Mister Ayers @ 8.08, kindly provide a cite to support your notion that “it was already common knowledge that Valerie Plume was a CIA agent. “
Not some after-the-fact assertion by a columnist. There was a trial and everything—find me something to support your assertion.
I’ll wait.
Speaking of waiting, I spent over three hours in line to early-vote after work yesterday. And it was worth every minute to proudly cast a vote for our next President, Barack Obama.
By ByteMe
October 29, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
Eli: perhaps you forgot that only God can reveal the future? Jay is not running for that office.
By The Hussein Files (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this
“I AM THRILLED BY THE PROSPECT OF ONE PARTY-DEMOCRATIC-RULE”
“I trust Barack Obama”
-Mrs Godzilla
America gets the feeling that Mrs. Godzilla would be thrilled at the prospect of one party rule…..Communist Party rule while trusting Osama to run it, on the backs of a conservative American public!
By Copyleft
October 29, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
the President doesn’t have to WAIT for the debate, indecision and approval (or lack thereof) of a slow- to-act Congress during a TIME OF WAR
I hope you’re as happy about that statement when it’s President Obama making unilateral decisions you don’t like.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this
The Hussein Files (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 7:45 AM
Because Mr. Duhbya screwed things up so badly.
I’d sure like to turn back the clock and give Gore and Kerry a chance.
I think you’ll find the country is left-leaning, patriotic and all-American.
Patiotism is supporting the country with deeds and taxes; not waving the flag, calling names and dissing the opposition.
I’m hoping I’ll be able to fly Old Glory again with pride on November 5th instead of in defiance.
By William Hussein Ayres
October 29, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
“I trust Barack Obama” -Mrs. Godzilla
Fortunately, the American public doesn’t trust BaRAT or the DemoncRAT Party as far as they throw them!
Nobama ‘08
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 29, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
OH ANDY…..You see commies under your own bed. Grow up and be a man!
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 29, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
Eli Jones @ 8:11
Are you paid to post that exact same screed on tons of websites?
Geez, you been busy. That nonsensical diatribe is on every blog from here to Mars.
OH NO, you’re probably doing it for McCain Campaign points!
How much of that s** do you have to shovel to get a free McCain golf shirt?
By The Hussein Files
October 29, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Hillbilly ragged: Kindly prove that it wasn’t common knowledge that Ms. Plume was a CIA Agent and don’t use a biased quote from a headhunting prosecutor with a blatant political agenda out to destroy our Commander-in-Chief during wartime against a savage enemy.
CopyLOONIELEFT: I’ll be very happy when President McCain is making important decisions as Commander-in-Chief during a TIME OF WAR that I will fully support!
By Bud Wiser
October 29, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
A previous writer referred to this election’s dirty little not-too-well-kept secret, and that is The Race Vote.
Its just might happen. McCain could gather enough frustrated and angry at the media votes alone to swing this election, not to mention those not in favor of one-party rule; throw in the disgusted white and blue collar Democrats that will stay at home because they cannot bring themselves to vote for this black socialist and voila, you have it!
As far as the comment about Most minorities will vote for Obama. They would vote for him if he were white., that is not quite as strong as some could have put it. After hearing the now famous Howard Stern’s reporter interviewer in Harlem of Obama supporters, and hearing their knowledge of the man and his policies (as well as his VP running mate), one could make the presumption that if McCain were to post pictures of himself, but with dark skin, outside polling places, he would take 40% or more of the black vote. Substitute a picture of Oprah for Sarah, and its a landslide, McCain.
Someone could say that, but it won’t be me.
By Republican Gloom and Doom
October 29, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell,
I sense anger in your words. There’s an indication of Gloom, Despair, and Agony about you. It’s as though you harbor Deep Dark Depression and even excesses of Misery. Not to worry. After all, it’s not as though you have No Luck At All. You know, you do still have your Bad Luck to catch you as you Fall.
Does the prospect of seeing and hearing the words President Obama at every turn for the next eight years cause you immense pain and agony. Do you anguish over the thoughts of all those Democrats all around you all the time every day of the week and every week of the year. Democrats everywhere looking at You, the Outcast, the Republican. Is that part of what Bothers you.
By Will the real Barack Obama please stand up? (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding: The country is PATRIOTIC and ALL-AMERICAN, except for the left-leaning part, of course!
By Hambone
October 29, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Eli Jones @ 8:11 - Keep up the good work son.
By Morningstar
October 29, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Good morning from Morningstar. There’s a reason for the two-party, checks and balances system, but this time around we need CHANGE. The others have had their years of catastrophe. What can the present administration, or one like it possibly accomplish in another 4 years of this mess? More of the same.
Hopefully, the D’s will gain enough seats to enable President Obama to turn the country around, and hopefully regain the respect this great nation once received from other countries.
After voting early, please remember to ask Grandma, elderly aunties and neighbors if they have a way to the polls.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 29, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Hambone/Eli …..smooth
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
Eli Jones
October 29, 2008 8:11 AM
Please, please comrade, anything but higher taxes.
How high does the national debt have to get before you folks are willing to pay for the government we have?
Cross that bridge to the 21st century with us where decisions are made based on facts instead of gut instinct.
By swolf
October 29, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
If indeed this election turns out to be a sweep of Republicans out of office, it is,after all their own fault. This last eight years has been a nightmare for the average American.
By Swami Dave
October 29, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Here’s to the hope that the American electorate choose not to elect a liberal socialist who will attempt to raises taxes on the productive members of society to fund transfer payments in the form of tax rebates to people who pay no income taxes. It will be a proud moment if Americans speak with a loud voice that recognizes it is wrong to take from one to give to another against their will without exchange of value. It is wrong whether you do it with a gun, with fraud, or with legislation.
At this time in history, our country needs to foster and support its enterprisers; not follow the marxist philosophy of confiscating their productivity as a crop harvest to buy votes.
Frankly, what individuals earn is theirs. It does not belong to Senator Obama or his supporters to confiscate and redistribute as they deem “fair” or “just”.
Hopefully, the political philosophy of theft and deceit will be defeated again. As is evidenced by recent events, there are a number of thieves already in power that should be brought to trial & justice. We certainly do not need to elect an executive & legislative collusion that would make it a cornerstone of its governance.
-Swami Dave
By lrd
October 29, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this
remember the good ole days of when the RNC had the House, Senate and the White House. See how well one party controlling everything worked out. I mean our country was on the right track then, no corruption, no lobbyist writing legislature, no secret meetings with special interest groups, no deficit that was good, torture, an occupation, and a bunch more positives.
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself” ~FDR
“We have everything and everybody to fear but ourselves” ~Today’s neo-con
Paranoid and living in constant fear, they are…
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
The Hussein Files
October 29, 2008 8:40 AM
When was war declared?
Bush doesn’t want to be tried as a war criminal and Congress doesn’t have the guts to declare war.
By SOUTHERN ATL
October 29, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
JAY…HERE I GO AGAIN…
On November 4, 2008, the Congress in Washington D.C. will come to order…
They will ask “SENATOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS” to stand…..speeches will be made…followed by applauses…and a song will be dedicated…
here is it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YSHwJ_SAA&feature=related
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
By ByteMe October 29, 2008 7:53 AM And how exactly do you think the Bush Administration treated the Constitution? Incarceration of Americans without trial.
Name one American held without trial, please.
By Paul
October 29, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this
Ird 9:04
Which is why I look forward, with no doubt, to a Pres Obama allied with a Democratic Congress, who will pass tough, loophole-free laws that will
eliminate corruption
eliminate lobbyists, their influence and any contribution to the legislative process
complete openness in all meetings
no meetings with special interest groups (or at least no secret meetings with special interest groups)
no deficits, even good ones
no torture
no more occupations - none - in the 132 countries in which we now have a military presence
And finally, after all that, I look forward to Pres Obama proposing, and Congress agreeing
that pigs will fly.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
RASMUSSEN Tight: Obama Lead Down to 3 Points… Developing…
“Developing” my as-s.
I’ve known about this for months.
bwa
By Hussein & The cRATs Can Go To Hell! (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
All of you liberal idiots deserve what you got coming to you if you cast a vote for a radical anarchist like BaRAT HUSSEIN Osama! BaRAT and the Demoncrats will completely trash and destroy what few morals and homegrown values this nation has left if given a snowball’s chance in hell! You loony leftist moonrats are always so ready to turn the USA into a USSR blood red. This time around you cowardly bleeding-heart liberal atheist morons are ready to hand our proud nation directly over to the islamofacist savages whose only aim is to destroy this country. Liberal DefeatocRAT Benedict Arnold morons are writing up their intent to surrender to Ol’ Hussein Osama and the boys as we speak! Fortunately the American people are turning out to vote in record numbers against this moral outrage! Damn you liberal traitors and every poisonous treasonous American culture-destroying fantasy you left-wieners have!
By ByteMe
October 29, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Ah, Swami, let me re-phrase:
Here’s to the hope that the American electorate choose not to elect a corporatist who wants to borrow from China and Japan to transfer payments in the form of tax breaks for big oil and other large corporations. It will be a proud moment if Americans speak with a loud voice that recognizes it is wrong to borrow from our future to give to corporations that don’t need it against our will without exchange of real value. It is wrong whether you do it with a gun, with fraud, or with legislation.
At this time in history, our country needs to foster and support its people; not follow the wrong-headed Republican philosophy of continuously borrowing against our country’s future as a crop harvest to get corporate lobbyists to fund their next election campaign.
I could go on, but you get the drift.
By hillbilly ragger
October 29, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
Hussein files @ 8.40, are you really asking me to prove a f#cking negative?
Are you that stupid?
You lose. Just like your party. Just like your ignorant Veep candidate and your befuddled Presidential candidate.
By lrd
October 29, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Honestly, I think 1 party in complete control is not a good thing due to lack of check and balances.
That being said, it would be nice for the Senate to have enough in oone party to stop filibusters. Remember back a few years when the RNC wanted to pass an anti filibuster law? And lately Mitch McConnell has turned into the Filibuster King effectively bringing the Senate to a screeching halt.
I am all for the Senate being the adult body of congress and truly debating topics/laws/treaties but there is also a time to either _ or get off the pot.
IF it does turn into the DNC having congress and the whitehouse, lets hope they work for the good of the country and not be vindictive….
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
I’m hoping I’ll be able to fly Old Glory again with pride on November 5th instead of in defiance.
What a wonderful statement, TN Gelding! Kinda makes my day.
My take on it is slightly different though. I fly The Stars & Stripes believing that this greatest of all nations will always endure. Even after abysmal administrations like the one she has just suffered through for eight long years.
Is it just me or is the rabid right exceptionally enraged this morning?
I see some meltdowns coming….
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Gun Sales On Rise In FL On Fear Of An Obama Presidency
Get them while you still can.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
NV now leaning Obama.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
Swami Dave
October 29, 2008 9:02 AM
How about a relatively safe and secure place to live in exchange for a small part of what you earn?
By Morningstar
October 29, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
By Paul October 29, 2008 9:16 AM that pigs will fly.
Pigs will fly, and drops of pearly due will fall upon the plains of Hades, when all of the above happens Paul. We must have two party system, but something’s gotta give soon.
55% of voters, according to Gallup, give the economy as their primary concern. When folks can’t ‘put food on the family,’ as someone here frequently states, recession is depression.
By Paul
October 29, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Ird 9:24
Not vindictive? I wish, too, but if the pattern of the House and Senate since the 2006 elections is any indication -
They had the chance to repudiate the DeLay model. Instead they seemed to want to one-up it.
And my earlier post - just think of all the hearings (with no follow-on legislation) over the past couple of years. It would be nice if, as you listed the items, there was action taken to address them. Rather than shifting sights to new targets.
But if they can just tackle Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, balance the budget, lay the groundwork for a strong economy, institute policies that will cause the private sector to generate jobs, resist the urge to play world policeman and initiate a general military pullback throughout the world…,
I’ll he happy.
Hey, look! Pigs are flying!!!
By The Hussein Files
October 29, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Hillbilly ragged: see, you can’t prove it! It WAS already common knowledge that Plume was CIA before 2003.
TN Gelding: McCain, Obama in virtual tie nationally according to Gallup even the left-bias, slanted and weighted polls are starting to reflect what the people already know.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Paul
October 29, 2008 9:16 AM
Pigs might not fly, but fur will.
And the deficit will be reduced, children will be better educated and cared for, health care will be more affordable, America’s standing in the world will rise, jobs will stay in this country and a host of other good things will come to pass.
Join us as we begin a new era of peace and prosperity.
By Copyleft
October 29, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
It’s cute that the far right is suddenly worried about their freedoms when President Obama takes over. They obviously think that liberals will be as small-minded, vindictive, and contemptuous of the Constitution as they’ve been.
But not to worry, right-wingers! Respect for dissent is just one of the many things that makes liberals better than you! You’ll still be allowed to mutter and grumble and spew your ignorant hatred all you like.
The only difference is, nobody will be listening.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
We suspect what’s going on here is more than Mr. Biden’s normal gift of gaffe. As with his admission that a President Obama would quickly be tested by our enemies, the Delaware rambler was stumbling into the truth. An Obama Administration couldn’t possibly pay for a tax cut for 95% of Americans by raising taxes on a mere 5%.
Just as Bill Clinton promised a “middle-class tax cut” in 1992 only to raise taxes on the middle class in 1993, Mr. Obama will quickly find that his tax-revenue math doesn’t add up. Add in the demands on Capitol Hill to spend more and to offset the Alternative Minimum Tax, and our bet is that even $150,000 would soon prove to be a moving tax target.-WSJ
By spankmonkey
October 29, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Oh yeah, the righty rage is a flyin this AM… Andy is asking us all to stock up on weapons in case Obama wins… I said it a couple weeks ago there will be guns in the streets if Obama wins, and it ain’t gonna be the uppity types brandishing them, if you get my code word there…, Karl Rove and Ralph “body bags” Reed promised our nation of Klansmen a permanent majority, and they spect it to happin… Only thing they didn’t count on was that the public now sees the greed, coruption, and outright hipocracy of the ragin right… Jigs up losers, we’re on to you and your lies, hopefully we won’t have another 8 years like the last.
By GMAN
October 29, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Sheets with Eyeholes Sales on Rise On Fear of An Obama Presidency!!
Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures… and losing!
By AlphaDog
October 29, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
How did you get you’re job? All you ever post are other peoples quotes….
By Morningstar
October 29, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
By Paul October 29, 2008 9:40 AM But if they can just tackle Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, balance the budget, lay the groundwork for a strong economy, institute policies that will cause the private sector to generate jobs, resist the urge to play world policeman and initiate a general military pullback throughout the world…,I’ll he happy. Hey, look! Pigs are flying!!!
Yea!!!! You’re cooking on a gas stove Paul. We can forget about the plains of Hades.
By Paul
October 29, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding 9:46
Well, when one begins at the bottom, it’s difficult to move anywhere but up!
But as was noted yesterday, the helicopter pilot and pessimist knows that no matter how bad things are…
they can always get worse!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Hussein & The cRATs Can Go To Hell! (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 9:19 AM
No, we’re going to turn the country sky blue.
Blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long. Come along for the ride. We’ll forgive you for all the name-calling.
By Bud Wiser
October 29, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
I have to leave for the day after this, but I’ve always wanted to ask these questions:
What has been so hellish about the last 8 years that you left wingnuts have become screaming, foaming at the mouth, loudmouths, spewing your hate and venom?
Q: Is it because you lost?
A: Get over it, its past history. Grow up and learn from it.
Q: Is it because of Iraq?
A: From an empirical standpoint (that means based on observation or experience for you Democrats), why are the Iraqis any less deserving of individual freedoms and liberties than any other ‘citizens of the world’?
Q: Do you feel the Iraqis are less deserving?
A: Obviously yes, because your interests lie only in what something or someone can do for you.
Q: Do you feel that stealing an election through massive voter fraud is some sort of justice that is due you, similar to the blacks belief in “O.J. justice” that allowed a double murderer to go free?
A: That, too, is obvious. Yes you do.
Q: Are you proud of yourself for that; does it add to your humanity and sense of fairness, your personal ethics, to know that theft is justified?
A: If your answer is YES - you a a piece of human filth If the answer is no - well, no suggestion there. You have to live with yourself over that one.
Q: Other than the last 2 years when the economy has been a bit unstable, and job losses increasing (It has to be mere coincidence with the Dems being in control of Congress), how much worse off are you really?
A: Not much, if any. You just want more of what someone else has…. it is called class envy… and you want it given to you freely instead of having to go to all of the trouble of bettering yourself through education, or job skills training, or anything that may require you do put forth any degree of personal effort.
Q: I never understood the attraction to a socialist, so I’ll never figure your liking for Obama ….. but Joe Biden? Is there any person in the Senate more out of touch with reality, with more of a penchant for self-immolation through the use of his own tongue, with a greater case of foot in mouth disease than Biden? Good God.
A: If you have the stomach to look at botox Nancy (Pelosi) and Goofy Harry (Reid), I guess you can stomach everything.
Have a nice day, tools.
I’ll be back.
Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid
By Hussein: Traitor? (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
“Initiate a general military pullback throughout the world”.
So Paul wants our military to retreat back from position of strength against the terrorists to a fetal position of submissive weakness. That’s quite a plan for victory that you’ve got there, Paul. No wonder the American people refer to your beloved anti-American party as the “DEFEATOCRATS”
The Paul Doctrine: RETREAT into DEFEAT!
Has a nice defeatist ring to it. We hate it!
By Swami Dave
October 29, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
ByteMe:
Good attempt at deflection, but corporations do not pay taxes. Taxes like any other expense is passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices or diminished value (getting less for your money). Unless we are going to move to more of a Fair Tax model, there should be no taxation on corporate entities at all. Dividends or gains to owners / shareholders should be where they are collected as earnings to the invididuals.
And as for your mention of deficits & borrowing to cover budget shortfalls, that is why we should immediately cut spending to minimize the size and expansive nature of the federal government. The reason that our government has a deficit is that it spends too much money; specifically in areas in which it has no constitutional authority.
Tax cuts increase revenues to the Treasury as has been shown by Kennedy, Reagan, & Bush. The problems of deficit spending is that the growth of government is not controlled. It spends too much money providing goodies in the form of programs (supposedly from the Treasury, but actually funded by deficit spending).
Senator Obama would not stop this trend, but actually exacerbate it because his tax increases would not cover the cost of the -new- spending (and increased spending in other areas) that he proposes. Actually, as has been evidenced by history, tax increases decrease revenues to the Treasury, which would only make the problem worse.
And for the record as I stated previously, a tax cut is not a “gift” because it is impossible for me to -give- you something that is already yours. A transfer payment from someone else to another is a “gift” if the provider is willing. It is theft if they are not.
-Swami Dave
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Election 2008 - The Big Money Grab
Yes, the year the lazy and unproductive have enough votes to outvote those who make the nation prosper. If you think for a minute this vote is for our national interest, you’re kidding yourself. This is the year of take from the top 5% and give to the rest. I would bet you that’s the only campaign promise the average Obama supporter knows anything about. “My tax cut under Obama is more than under McCain”
Obama supporters - Hoping for Cash
By Lord Help Us
October 29, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell. Please show a tiny bit of civility.
This is America. Whichever candidate wins, it will be God’s will. And, it will be our duty as Patriotic Americans to support our President.
As long as you are not an atheist or unpatriotic, I know that your true colors will be shown next Wednesday morning and you will stand strongly behind the President Elect.
Thanks!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this
Here are some “other people’s quotes” that should interest you Godless heathen democrats:
RCP National Average Obama +5.9
Yesterday it was at 7%.
Let’s win one for the Gipper!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
The Hussein Files
October 29, 2008 9:46 AM
Electoral College map still looks good for Obama.
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Paul @9:16,
LMAO!
My liberal friends here may not be happy with this sentiment, but as for an Obama presidency my counsel is, “Prepare to be disappointed.”
For months I’ve been trying to find a single positive reason to encourage a vote for Obama. Please note my accent on the positive, since the candidate himself has couched his appeal in the context of,” Why vote for Obama, as opposed to against the Palin-Wurzelbacher ticket?”
The old “evil of two lessers” canard.
Barack Obama is VERY receptive to corporate power. Especially the more this campaign has continued. And his voting record confirms this.
I believe once elected, he’s going to Washington to pass lots of corporate-friendly legislation drawn up by the 35,000 lobbyists who work for our shadow government.
He wants to enlarge the US military by 90,000, escalate the war in Afghanistan and expand George Bush’s “War on Terror”.
He has NO program to crack down and hold responsible the corporate criminals and swindlers who are trying to bankrupt this nation.
He does not press for a real living wage.
He wants to put a band aid on the utterly dysfunctional, corrupted “health care” system in this country instead of providing a single-payer, full Medicare like program.
He he has NO program for the bottom 100 million Americans.
But if the Democrats make these forecasted gains, there will be no more excuses.
Will he and the Democratic Congress strengthen or continue to weaken consumer protection laws?
Will he/they end/drastically minimize or continue to provide corporate subsidies and welfare?
If Obama does not turn the page as he promised, and if the Congressional majority does not step up forcefully to the repudiated Republican status quo, then we may fairly conclude that the decay of democracy is deeper than we wished to believe.
Sadly, I conclude that with few exceptions, we are going to be looking at politics as usual in Washington and NOT real, fundamental change for the better…
By Yee Haw
October 29, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Reading the fear-mongering from these last-stand Republicans is entertaining. Their desperation shows more every day as the reality of their party’s absolute and utter failure crashes down around them. It’s a fitting end for the Republican party. Down the drain — flushed. RIP, Republicans.
By Tom
October 29, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
As we hopefully head into a new era and as the GOP juggernaut sputters and lurches back to the 1950s, let us be reminded that escaping the filthy Bush aftermath isn’t going to be all wine and roses. The Repugs have destroyed much of what was once “good” in America. It will take much work and many years to repair the ravages of the Bush/McCain diseases, to finally look toward the new, the positive. But the Repug virus will be with us for many years, as will a greatly dumbed-down society.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:47 AM
So what?
By GMAN
October 29, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Fair and Balanced? Are you kidding me?
Bush/McCain - Gambling with your chldren’s futures… and losing!
By Paul
October 29, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell 9:58
Please notice I said we had a military presence in 132 countries. That’s nearly all of them.
I don’t think terrorists are that far-flung. If they were, it’d be another matter. But they aren’t.
The rationale for much of our presence in these countries could be as, if not more, effectively met with aid agencies. At a much lower cost.
What we have effectively done, in these tough economic times, is to pay other countries for the privilege of protecting them. From what, we’re not all that sure.
One can even make the case that our current extension, and planned extensions by the incoming administration can have the effect of not strengthening our country.
Seems increasing the size, scope and expense of government through military spending is the only increase of government some people like.
I am not one of them.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 10:05 AM
Is that Gipper or Gypper?
Smaller government and a balanced budget?
By The Hussein Files (Mad As Zell)
October 29, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Lord help us, I would NEVER, EVER, EVER stand behind an illegitimately and frauduently elected lying SOS sociopath like Hussein for an office as critical as the presidency! A fake Oblahma Presidency would NEVER gain the full support of the American people!
By hillbilly ragger
October 29, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Hussein, if it “WAS already common knowledge that Plume was CIA before 2003.”, kindly provide a cite.
Give me someone who is on the record as having known that Plame was CIA prior to the White House illegally leaking this information to the press.
Someone. Anyone.
I’ve asked nicely before. I will ask again. And I know the answer—the answer is no, it was not “common knowledge,” the idea that it was “common knowledge” is a wingnut meme, but there is absolutely no proof to back it up. None.
Which is why I won’t let you squirm out of this. Because you are wrong, and I am right. Furthermore, a trial was held where this matter was aired and contrary to pre-trial assertions to the contrary, Libby never produced witnesses who claimed that Plame was “out.”
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Paul
October 29, 2008 10:17 AM
And neither am I.
We’ve got to bring the troops home to stimulate our economy. When the ship is righted we can reexamine our role in the world.
By Obambi's Wittle Infomercial
October 29, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Uh, greetings fellow dimwits.
I will not raise your taxes, heh. I will not take your guns, uh-huh. I will not send out my Gestapo to silence those who do not agree with me. I will not burn your books. I will not associate with terrorists. I will not lavish praise on terrorists like the PLO. I love, uh, Israel. I will not corrupt the voting process. I will not force mortgage lenders to give every deadbeat I like a house, even if it causes a financial disaster. I will not let Hairy Reed and Nancy Pelosi run wild at the United States Treasury. I will not let Suckie Face Waxman hold kangaroo courts over our former leaders like we are some tinpot dictatorship. I will not take away your SUV or truck and make you ride a bicycle. I will not turn off your heat in the winter. I will not put judges on the Supreme Court that make you get an abortion whether you want one or not. I will not let the perverts out of prison and a give them a nice house in your neighborhood so that they can lure your children in with Halloween candy. I will not drive American business to Europe and then cut off free trade, bwa. I will not unionize the employees of your restaurant or gas station. I will not surrender Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran. I won’t cut and run from Afghanistan. I won’t turn the best health care system in the world into something like the post office. I won’t monitor the food you eat, the drinks you drink, the water you use, I won’t watch your electrical meter spin, I won’t measure the natural gas you use for cooking, I won’t put a windmill on top of your house and I cut off service when I determined that you pigs have used to much. I won’t make America look like Zimbabwe, even though I love Zimbabwe. I won’t shrink our military into a tiny little thing with no weapons.
And most of all, morons, I will not lie to you.
Capice?
Allah Akbar!
Seig Heil!
Yes we can!
By Yee Haw
October 29, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell,
You’re funny. You will be looking at your new president and it will be President Obama. By the way, it is what the Lord intended because how could it be otherwise. Now, on with the show. This is fun reading the Republican corn pone’s posts.
By Paul
October 29, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
AmVet 10:07
Does two a choir make?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
By TN Gelding October 29, 2008 10:11 AM AJC/DNC Management October 29, 2008 9:47 AM So what?
Horsey: So what else is Oblahma lying about?
By Copyleft
October 29, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Not that Bud Wiser will actually read the real answers to his questions (which he thoughtfully answered for himself, arguing with the commie-socialist-Democratic caricature that lives in his head), but I’ll go ahead and give them:
Q: What has been so hellish about the last 8 years that you left wingnuts have become screaming, foaming at the mouth, loudmouths, spewing your hate and venom?: Is it because you lost?
A: No, it’s the fact that Bush ignored warnings of threats to our security and used the attack as an excuse to launch an unnecessary war against an unrelated target (furthering the neocon agenda) and subvert our civil liberties… all while rewarding loyalty over competence, censoring science, ignoring real problems like global warming and oil dependency (and emergency response), and generally mismanaging every aspect of domestic policy.
Q: Are the Iraqis any less deserving of individual freedoms and liberties than any other ‘citizens of the world’?
A: Obviously not. And just as obviously, if they want democracy, they can set one up. It’s up to THEM, not us. It’s interesting that BushCo decided that the Iraqis needed a new government and chose to invade and set one up, without any such declaration or inivitation from the Iraqis themselves. Wasn’t he disparaging the notion of “nation-building” just a few years earlier?
Q: Do you feel that stealing an election through massive voter fraud is some sort of justice that is due you, similar to the blacks belief in “O.J. justice” that allowed a double murderer to go free?
A: This too is obvious. Massive voter fraud is what the Diebold Republican backers offer; ACORN only handles voter registration. And no, blacks don’t believe in whatever “O.J. Justice” fantasy you’ve cooked up in your fevered imagination.
Q: Are you proud of yourself for that; does it add to your humanity and sense of fairness, your personal ethics, to know that theft is justified?
A: If I did think that theft was justified (and there are situations, such as Robin Hood’s, where it arguably could be), then yes, I would take pride in such belief. Ethics and fairness include things like caring for the poor more than the rich, healing the sick, housing the homeless, and generally putting people ahead of property… all teachings of that notorious Marxist, Jesus Christ. If you hate Christian values that much… well, you have to live with yourself, and I pity you.
Q: Other than the last 2 years when the economy has been a bit unstable, and job losses increasing (It has to be mere coincidence with the Dems being in control of Congress), how much worse off are you really?
A: Quite a bit. Our freedoms have been eroded, our privacy violated, our international standing trashed, our economy destroyed by outmoded “trickle-down” policies. You just want to make it easier for the rich to get richer on the backs of the rest of us… it is called class war. And pointing it out is only a crime if you belong to the “shoot the messenger” school of fascist media hatred.
Q: I never understood the attraction to a socialist, so I’ll never figure your liking for Obama ….. but Joe Biden? Is there any person in the Senate more out of touch with reality, with more of a penchant for self-immolation through the use of his own tongue, with a greater case of foot in mouth disease than Biden? Good God.
A: If Obama were a socialist, you still wouldn’t have an intelligent argument here. Sadly, he’s only a Democrat, but he’ll have to do for now. And Biden—-one of the most experienced members of the Senate is “out of touch with reality”? He’s not the one living in nine houses and pretending to be working-class. Good god.
Have a nice day, drone.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Obama ‘08 - Hoping for a new flat screen TV!
By Paul
October 29, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding
Ship’s taken on a lot of water. Hopefully the pumps and bailing work. Then it may right itself.
But this great, old ship does somehow manage to keep sailing, doesn’t it? No matter who has the bridge.
Out for a while -
By Mr Snarky
October 29, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Feel the hope!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:31 AM
And getting it!
And a JOB to pay for it.
By Lord Help Us
October 29, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Mad as Zell, You have no faith in America. That makes you vewwwwwy unpatriotic…
Republicans have held the Executive branch for 20 of the last 28 years, the Legislative branch for 12 of the last 14 and have nominated the majority of our Judicial Branch.
I can tell from your posts that you hate Democrats, but you must REALLY hate Republicans!
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Paul, it sure does, my friend, it sure does…
“One man with courage makes a majority” ~Andrew Jackson
The US military budget is without a doubt the most bloated and wasteful expenditure in the United States of America.
I’ve read estimates that it is about $170 BILLION annually. In waste, fraud and corruption!
And this is no accident. Ask Dick Cheney, BlackWater and Haliburton for clarification.
Earlier this year, President Bush announced a military budget of nearly $700 BILLION.
And that’s not counting the full cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The proposed military budget represents 58 cents out of every dollar spent by the U.S. government on discretionary programs - the items that Congress gets to vote up or down on an annual basis.
Yes, the blood lusting chicken hawks and ostriches do not want to know about this, but that does not change a single, solitary truth about it.
The undeniable reality is that we spend as much as England, France, Russia, China, Japan and the REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED on our military budget/”defense”.
And under the neo-cons, it is being used to fuel wasteful, reckless, destabilizing foreign interventions that violate constitutional and international law.
Though we are by far the richest nation on the planet, we remain the only democracy in the civilized world that does adequately care for a huge percentage of it’s own people.
The facts and statistics are irrefutable. And we all know, we could provide many, many, many of them to confirm this truth.
http://www.votenader.org/issues/military-budget/
By lrd
October 29, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Paul. nice points (back up a ways).
Social security should be an issue that both sides need to realistically resolve for the sake of us younger folks who very well could see a negative return on our investment.
It will be interesting that is for sure..
Polls: Too funny, first they are lying, then they are biased, and now oh my they are telling the truth again. Polls do not matter as much in an electorial college model. Yes they can point out trends and possibilities, but McCain has (as rove has stated) a steep hill to climb.
Personally I have made side bets with my GOP friends, and out of the 6 of us making gentleman bets, I am the only one betting on McCain to win… and I am voting for Obama
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
TN, Increasing the tax burden on the top 5% has never and will never create jobs.
You just keep dreaming though….
Obama ‘08 - Hoping for a new set of 26” rims!!!
By Taxpayer
October 29, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
So, our John’s home state is too close to call. Maybe you could buy it for the right price, John. This might be a good time to check your records to see if you own a home in a more pro-Republican state, John. Try looking for a state with a higher population of Joe six-guns or Joe six-packs or Joe six-shooters.
By SOUTHERN ATL
October 29, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
TAXES, TAXES, TAXES….
OBAMA/BIDEN TAX CALCULATOR
YOU DO THE MATH:
http://taxcut.barackobama.com/
By making
October 29, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
What is wrong with someone having more than one house, a jet, a boat, diamonds, furs, etc? It’s called the American Dream! People that are so jealous will never to truly happy…I will pray for you all.
By making
October 29, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
If McCain wanted to buy the election, he could but he’s got more morals, BUT look at Obama trying to buy the Presidency with spending the combine total of the last two elections…the most spent in history. Don’t you just love that sweet talker!
By Shanaynay Jenkins
October 29, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
It is time to paint the White House Black!!!!! It is time for the rich to give it up to the poor. Obama has my vote.
By Have you ever noiced
October 29, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Have you ever noticed how McCain can’t raise his arms when he walks on stage at a rally. He looks like a retarded puppet trying to wave and give the ‘ol thumbs up to his supporters. He’s a cripple senile old man (who doesn’t know how to use the internet. It’s 2008 and is it really that hard to learn? Talking about being out of touch with the American people) But when he kicks the bucket we are supposed to feel good about his 2nd in line, the creationist/weather girl/hockey mom/never done a press conference by her self/laughing stock/dingbat that believes Alaska will be a place of refuge when God smites all humans at the End Times….look it up, I couldn’t make this stuff up. Vote Obama, the better choice between the 2.
By making
October 29, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Why do the poor feel like they are entitled to things? Government assistance should be the last program on the list, if there’s funds available, then assistance will be provided. I have several siblings(3 out 9)that receive some kind of aid…it needs to stop. People need to become much more willing to take care of theirselves and family. I would give any of the 3 a job but they don’t want it. People always want the easy way out instead of learning to work hard and make something out of your life.
By making
October 29, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
He can’t raise his arms you idot because of the torture he recieved while being a prisoner of war!
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Making- I forgot to add that my list of reasons not to vote for McCain, he’s an American War herowhy? B/c he got shot down? I thought heros where the ones who don’t get shot down. What a putz
By Gail
October 29, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
I simply cannot believe the ignorance of these lefties…..I AM voting for McCain but all of you who vote for O, IF he wins, you are going to be so shocked at how fast this country goes downhill! Socialist all the way…..BUT then maybe you O people want those free handouts. GET A JOB and work…..NO SPREADING THE WEALTH!!!
By Its Gaining On You
October 29, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Bigger question is will he give up power once he gets it? Everyone is so willing to bow down to him why should he let you get up?
The Congress - the Democratic Congress will marginalized.
The Supreme Court will be loaded with more toadies.
The Constitution will be amended or simply ignored since he sees it as flawed.
Some excuse to declare martial law maybe.
We might still get to vote, but with one-party rule what will be the point?
Democratic - the party of the co-dependent. Nothing but sheep needing to be led.
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Making - So now you’re saying we should take pitty on the less fortunate John McCain, but that goes against the theme of your previous post about not being compassionate to those in need. Which is it?sounds very hypocritical
By Mike
October 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
We have a problem: -When Congress is divided and balanced, we have gridlock. - When we have “one party rule” we fear fiat. So, what are we to do?
By Mike
October 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
We have a problem: -When Congress is divided and balanced, we have gridlock. - When we have “one party rule” we fear fiat. So, what are we to do?
By Mike
October 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
We have a problem: -When Congress is divided and balanced, we have gridlock. - When we have “one party rule” we fear fiat. So, what are we to do?
By Mike
October 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
We have a problem: -When Congress is divided and balanced, we have gridlock. - When we have “one party rule” we fear fiat. So, what are we to do?
By making
October 29, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
Obama will wished that he had picked Hillary on next Wednesday…major mistake!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:57 AM
The top 5% have more money than they or their heirs will ever be able to spend, barring a complete collapse of our economy and republic.
That said, I’m for letting them keep it. The proposed tax increase is small and they won’t miss it. They’ll reap the benefits of the investments made in this country with it along with the rest of us.
We need an across the board tax increase, tho, to get the budget back in balance. Short term pain for long term gain.
OBAMA HAS INDICATED HE IS WILLING TO MAKE SPENDING CUTS. HOPEFULLY, WE’LL SEE.
By Ed
October 29, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
I am a Republican and I can’t wait to see Bush ride off into the sunset. He has been a one trick pony president, a very bad one for this country. However, I sure as hell don’t think for one minute the answer to 8 bad years of Bush is a country and congress controlled by Obama, Reid and Pelosi. You’ve got to be insane to think your taxes won’t go up. How can they pay for all they’ve promised. Will they cut the military budget by 25%? Probably so. No, we don’t need a military now do we. Afterall aren’t we so chummy with Russia, Korea, Syria and Iran that we’ll all be holding hands and singing around the campfires together soon. Are you all so naive to think these same countries won’t go after us just as hard with Obama in charge? Do you think Obama will bring the whole world together. How do you idiots find your way to work each day? There’s a whole slew of folks who have never contributed anything to this country and for the first time in their lives they’ll be voting Obama. They think they’re going to be handed something for free. How well has socialism worked in the past. Name me one prospering country whose economy is predicated on socialistic values? Obama has now become a fashion statement for those who perceive themselves to be hip and above the crowd. Your hate for Bush is so misplaced you’ll cut off your noses to spite your faces. Never before has the media elected a president until now. We have to change the way we vote in this country. No more one man one vote. If you don’t have a vested financial interest in this country you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. If you’ve lived in poverty for generation after gneration, don’t work or own a home, you shouldn’t be able to vote. Years of stupidity and laziness rendered you in the situation you’re in today and you’re too stupid to have the right to vote. All you’ll do is screw up the country just like you screwed up your lives with bad decision making.
By reebok
October 29, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
The right-wing whack jobs can’t even decide on a line of attack and stick with it on Senator Obama. He’s a terrorist! No, he’s a latte-sipping elitist! He’s an Arab! No, he’s a Muslim ! (they aren’t the same thing, Brainiacs.) He’s a Socialist! He’s a Marxist! (also not the same thing, geniuses.) Senator Obama is about hope and possibility. Senator McCain and Caribou Barbie are about fear and hatred. It’s no contest. Do you really think the tidal wave of newly-registered voters and the unprecedented levels of early voting are about installing the same old tired crap for another 4 years? Obama and Biden are going to win in a blowout.
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
I thought all of you McCain fans were busy getting your weak minds injected with Rush/Fox news/Hannity this time of day. Talk about sheep…..
By fearless fosdik
October 29, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
By Gail
October 29, 2008 12:41 PM
Gail..How much further can the country descend?
Bush the moron has taken this country so low it might take 5 to 6 years to dig out of the morass this fool created.
As for JOBS, I guess you don’t read much!
Companies are laying people off in droves based on their dismal bottom lines.
And a little bit more bad news for you and your bretheran.
Weekly Reader Poll Has Predicted 12 of Last 13 Elections and This Year Obama Wins in Electoral Landslide.
Too bad. So sad!
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
Well said reebok!!!
By making
October 29, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
And yes he’s making the best of his handicap…he’s a true American that loves his country…the next 8 years he will correct ALL the crap that W screwed up…America once again will be able to hold her head high!
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
ED- toanswer your question, how are gonna pay for all the proposed new spending. leaglizing drugs would be a good start. The war on drugs is a loosing cause, we pour billions into more lawyers,courts,judges,jails,DEA,police for a loosing cause. That money could be used elsewhere. Why do you think illegal drug sales are so popular to criminals, b/c they are illeagal and are forced into the black market where they become expensive and profiable for them. Read your history of the prohibition of alcohol, it did the same thing, but at least we had the b*s to admit we were wrong then. I will never vote for a party that tries to legislate morality.
By ESR
October 29, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
Hey to Have You Noticed: have you noticed how many Obama supporters will ax you something yet not ask you something. Have you noticed how many Obama supporters use the word be as if it’s an active verb? Hey Have You Noticed have you noticed how many Obama voters are dead and homeless? Just curious as to if you’ve noted these things in all your infinite wisdom you inbred. I am curious, were you born after Roe v Wade was legal? If you answer yes, thank your lucky stars, most moms would pull the plug on something as stupid as you.
By have you ever noticed
October 29, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
McCain loves his country so much that he would choose as his next in line Caribou Barbie? Does he love his country or is he desperate to get elected? He choice of Palin probably cost him the elction, what a fool.
By making
October 29, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
Couldn’t of said it any better…lol
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this
ESR-Enjoy the next four years of bitterness. See how many gramattical errors you can find in this post b/c I usually take the time to triple spell and grammer check all of my posts b/c that’s really important to the discussion………..sore looser…sour grapes…get a life
By making
October 29, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
He selected Barbie to infuse the GOP with NEW Younger blood to follow his leadership. The Demos need to take his lead and get rid of Nancy and Harry…
By JR
October 29, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
What is a “loosing cause”? Is that a get out of jail free card?
By DaninNacon
October 29, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Have you ever noticed, sir, you are a world class douche bag. McCain cannot raise his arms because he was a POW and went through abuses your tiny lib mind can not imagine. Maybe you should research the fact that Obama had a crack cocaine induced gay sex affair with a limo driver, in Chicago, in 1999. Look that up you smug panty-waste.
Better yet go park your, no doubt, considerable rear on your mom’s couch and get ready for Obama’s infomercial. By the way, if Obama is the one and everyone loves him why is he having to re-re-re-re-re- introduce himself to the country tonight? I thought he had this in the bag. The whole infomercial thing smacks of desperation to me.
By making
October 29, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Now if IL will only get rid of Howdy Dowdy!
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
making-hows that injection of new blod(sounds kinda vampireish) working for the McCain ticket, aren’t leader form his own party jumping ship on him? Here’s to old righ wing idiots making the election easy for Obama supporters, yeah!!!
By Joe "Poverty"
October 29, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Republican Lemmings Hear Me! We cannot endure your presence in American politics any longer. After 8 years of failed leadership, we must bid you farewell.
By We are all clueless
October 29, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
After thinking about all the ramblings in the blogs I read, including my own, I have come to the conclusion that everyone, including myself, is pretty much clueless. They like to think they have all the correct answers. They are entertaining though, but I don’t think they sway anyone reading this section, as it is pretty much people who have decide one way or the other and are pretty stuck to their opinion/bias. The important thing for all of you to remember is I’m correct.
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Dan-Obama has raised so much moneyhe might as well spend it, won’t do much good AFTER the elcetion there slick. You say desperation? Isn’t he predicted to win and win big. The winner can’t be the desperate one, the looser by definition is hte desperate one. i.e. Palin nomination. Please can any one of you McCain supporters really put up a good argument for Palin??? it’s impossible without bringing up gay crack, jerry springer, blah, blah, blah. All that hate will give you a heart attack, lifes too short to be that bitter DaninMacon or whatever your name is
By Sam1234
October 29, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Obama is a sleeper Muslim. The man is a liar and a lefty. He hates this country and will try to turn in into a quasi-socialist state with him and his terrorist buddies at the top. No thanks!!!!! Obama should move to Russia and take on someone more like him. Obama has even requested that his birth certificated be sealed? Why? I think he is not even an American Citizen. Which would explain a lot.
By CommunistAJC
October 29, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Expect the Worst From an Obama Administration.
By: John LeBoutillier
If Barack Obama wins this election, what will the next four years be like in this country?
Obama and the Democratic supermajority in the Congress, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, will certainly move to the extreme left.
There will be no one to check their most liberal instincts, and that will be reflected in the types of new programs we will see.
They will try to move the nation to Western European-style socialism. Hillary would have done this, too, had she won. Each had dozens of new FDR-style spending programs they featured during their campaigns.
This means heavier federal involvement in healthcare; perhaps the federal government will eventually take this over and nationalize it.
All aspects of our lives will be affected by federal programs � from schools to energy subsidies to doctors� salaries to regulation of hospital costs to corporate governance to federal mandates on states and municipalities to a federal takeover of many pension funds.
Yes, these unrestrained liberals, drunk with power, will impose the incorrectly named Fairness Doctrine to nail Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and their local acolytes. The left sees talk radio as the one bastion of the media they can�t penetrate, so they�ll simply neutralize it with this doctrine.
They will cut defense spending � perhaps by up to 25 percent � as a quick way to move money into social programs.
They will create massive new government spending programs, supposedly to rebuild our �crumbling infrastructure,� but as a payoff to their labor pals.
Whenever someone in the media dares to question what they are up to, they will say, Look what Bush and the Republicans did? Socialism? It was the Republicans who took over the banks and pored over one trillion dollars into bailouts!
They will go after corporate pay and try to legislate limits on CEO salaries. For the first year or two, the so-called mainstream media will remain totally in Obama’s pocket, shilling for this leftist agenda. Some writer will coin a phrase, i.e. the “Square Deal,” the “Real Deal,” or the “Great Society,” which will describe what Obama is trying to do.
The idea of sending U.S. troops to hot spots such as Darfur and Kenya will come up soon after the inauguration.
Michelle Obama will quickly become the most unpopular first lady ever. Some people will almost miss the days of Hillary Clinton. Stories will abound about how she is hurting her husband�s political standing. His staff will try to muzzle her, and stories will then surface that there is a war between the Obamas inside the White House.
Pakistan will deteriorate and almost fracture, and Obama will be more aggressive toward al-Qaida and the Taliban than Bush.
Obama will tilt pro-Palestinian, and his relations with Israel will deteriorate. No American president will have had such bad relations with our staunchest ally.
By the Fall of 2009, Obama�s approval rating will be down to 42 percent; his disapproval rating will be 45; the nation will � again � be divided.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will not be frequent visitors to the Obama White House; the savvy Obama staff will try not to allow the Obama administration to be tainted by the two.
Teddy Kennedy will die, and the funeral will be a “Who�s Who” of the left. His funeral will be on national TV, and his �accomplishments� will be touted for weeks, while the death of Mary Jo Kopechne will be a small footnote. The media will fawn all over the Kennedys again.
Iran will smell weakness in Obama and make a move of some sort, perhaps in Lebanon. Or, possibly, Tehran and Obama will make peace first and have a summit, and then Iran will take advantage of a weak Obama.
Leftists of all stripes will emerge as new “stars” in the Obama era. They will be products of today�s “progressive,” race and gender-based education system, and they will flaunt their arrogance.
All sorts of crazy ideas will surface, from nationalizing certain companies and industries to God knows what.
Capitalism will be seen as an evil; the anti-capitalistic nonsense taught in our colleges and universities will rear its ugly head in statements, confirmation hearings, and interviews with new administration figures.
The Congress will try to free hundreds of thousands of prison inmates who are serving time for drug and non-violent offenses; and then they�ll try to register them to vote for the Democrats in the 2010 mid-term elections.
Most of G.W. Bush�s executive orders regarding family planning, stem-cell research, and foreign aid, coupled with family planning, will be reversed.
Obama and the Democrats will grant amnesty to the 12 million to 30 million illegals already here, and the border fence will never be completed. Millions of new illegals will continue to stream into our nation, and the Democrats will try to register these new voters as Democrats, of course, and that will alter all our politics for years to come.
The Obama-Democratic congressional axis will nominate and confirm the most left-leaning federal judges in our history as payback for what G.W. Bush and the GOP did in 2001-2007. Watch out � some real whackos are coming onto the bench.
The Obama years will be the culmination of the last 40 years of horrendously biased education coupled with a climate of liberal guilt and political correctness.
Here’s a quote from the Oct. 14 British Spectator that sums it up perfectly: “You have to pinch yourself � a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.”
By making
October 29, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
Say farewell to W and hello to John!
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Sam1234- you bring up a good point, I can’r believe it took this long for a McCain supporter to actuall propose that Obama is relaly a sleeper Muslim. DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK HE’S GONNA PULL OUT A MACHINE GUN ON THE SENATE FLOOR AND START DOING HIS BEST RAMBO IMPERSONATION WHILE MAKING THAT HIGH PITCHED JIHADIST NOISE WITH HIS TOUGE B/C HE’S A SLEEPER MUSLIM? Your racially motivated fear has melted your brain……my friend. And peole say Obama supporters are the stupid ones?
By dirty harry
October 29, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Palin runs on the platform of ethics, transparency and anti-corruption. And, yet another complaint against Governor Palin, which alleges Misuse of Official Position:
She did in fact use her official position for personal gain by securing unwarranted benefits for her daughters.
Palin’s daughters, accrued $32,629 in travel expenses while Palin’s husband Todd raked up $22,174 - all billed to the state for a total of $54,803.00.
So much for ethics, transparency and anti-corruption.
By Copyleft
October 29, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
Commie: You have to pinch yourself � a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.
No, not impolite—just stupid, since that garbage is 100% FALSE and has been patiently proven wrong over and over again.
But if the dittoheads were capable of basic logic and reason, they wouldn’t be dittoheads. The rest of the country (and the world) is leaving them behind.
By Midori
October 29, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
In roughly an hour I will be at my local polling place, eagerly and enthusiastically casting my ballot for Obama.
And after reading all the wingnut whining, b*tching and moaning, with much glee and satisfaction I might add.
By making
October 29, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Take a book to read and a chair…I heard most lines now are averaging 3 hour wait. Come on people go vote so I won’t have a line Tuesday!!!
By by have you noticed rebuttal
October 29, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
By have you noticed October 29, 2008 1:43 PM
No that would be to blatant. He would do it quietly through executive orders and new congressional measures. Giving more aid to countries with Islam ideology. I’m not saying he will, i’m just saying that is how it could be done. By the way, Obama grew up in a highly Muslim country in his formative early years. So to say it is beyond the realm of possibility is putting your head in the sand. The probability I couldn’t guess. And just because he say he is a Christian and therefore not Muslim. That doesn’t mean he is or isn’t. He is a politician. They b.s. all the time. I am lead to another point, don’t the real ultra liberals kinda dislike organized religion and think it is only for the weak and uneducated. So I would think Mr. Obama has a huge inner conflict going on within himself. Neither you nor I really know Obama and can say anything with absolute certainty. So we will both send off our blogs and won’t be experts on Obama.
By EnoughAlready!!!
October 29, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
You people should be ashamed of yourselves, each and every one of you! Our mutual enemies are watching us tear each other apart and laughing all the while.
Why aren’t we looking for common ground instead, to work together to resolve our great nations’ problems?
I imnplore all of you, red or blue, to stop spouting venom and look for the things that bind us together. Deep down, we all want essentially the same things, don’t we? How does heaping all of this hatred on one another helpful?
Please, stop, take a deep breath and look inside yourself. Ask yourself what kind of country we want to bequeath to your children, your grandchildren or even your neighbor’s children.
By Fly_on_the_Wall
October 29, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
CommieAJC,
Man you need a chill pill. Did you type all that yourself or just cut-n-paste like AJCManglement?
By Copyleft rebuttal
October 29, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
How has it been proven wrong? Because you said it is FALSE and therefore it has to be false? Or because Obama/Biden have said it is FALSE, or just laughed without saying anything, it has to be false. They are politicians. They will say anything to b.s. people to give them a vote.
By making
October 29, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
Gore, Kerry and now Obama…how do they do that???
By Midori rebuttal
October 29, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
Midori,
My Story: The other day I excitedly and with much glee went to cast my ballot, even though it was cold outside. But I was warm in my heart, because the messiah was coming to office soon as the media foretold. I kept trying to excitely cast my ballot to Obama/Biden, but the computer kept coming back “poor choice - please try again”. Well I did this over and over because the media said Obama/Biden is the way to go. But it kept coming back “poor choice - please try again”. So finally I thought, “hey it’s a computer, it’s gotta know better”. So I then cast my ballot for McCain/Palin and it said “not the greatest choice, but much better than Obama/Biden and socialism”. So I happily clicked my heels together and went home. THIS IS HUMOR PEOPLE!!! But I did vote for McCain/Palin.
By fearless fosdik
October 29, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
By Flyonthe_Wall
FLY…He copied it from this webpage.
http://www.newsmax.com/LeBoutillier/
By Republicans R Crooks
October 29, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
If McCain is elected president, regardless of the outcome in Congressional races, expect the worst. The senile, bad tempered, poor decision making McCain WILL start a nuclear exchange with the Russians….Remember, as one ages, the oldest memories persist the longest. McCain’s oldest memories are of the Russians as a Primary Enemy….Hence, when the foreign test of the new president comes, John will launch first, secure in the knowledge that he and his family and friends will be safe in Federal Government underground shelters. The rest of us will be like the 29 fellow sailors on the Forrestal that John McCain burned to death attempting to duplicate an old nave prank….the wet start of a jet engine…What the poor decision making fool failed to take into account was that all the jets on the flight deck were armed with live bombs, at least one of which exploded. McCain does not deny this act, but has moved on to greater things, like complete control of the American nuclear arsenal…..IF YOU WANT YOUR FAMILY TO SURVIVE THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, DO NOT VOTE FOR CRAZY JOHN, THE POOR DECISION MAKER….HE KILLED MORE AMERICAN SAILORS IN VIETNAM THAN ANY SINGLE NORTH VIETNAMESE, VIET CONG, OR RUSSIAN SOLDIER, SAILOR, OR AIRMAN…..
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
my rebuter - So let me get this striahgt, Obama (the in the closet Al-Quida one man sleeper cell terrorist) might go Rambo on the Senate floor or he might go for a more subtle aproach by doing quiet executive orders(I’m sure nobody will notice!?!) that support Bin Laden and all those dad gum funny talkin’ terrorists like some kind of double agent in a Tom Clancy novel? Real cloak and dager type stuff right? Maybe he’s really the anti-christ, you ever think of that? maybe he was made in a labratory in Kenya or whatever voo-doo country he’s really from , and he’s secretly programmed by aliens to spend his adult life pursuing the white house so he can secretly push the buttom and blow up all of mankind, or maybe…….do you see how dumb that sounds? Can you find anyone with at least avergae intellegence who also supports this? He’s basically a good guy, has some new ideas, and is a whole lot better than McSenile and Caribou Barbie.
By gadem
October 29, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
I’ve got it!!! I’ve got it…Obama is a wizard like Harry Potter…he has mesmerized all of us fake christians and fake americans into believing his lies…he is one shrewd dude…I am so glad the Real Christians and Real Americans are here to show me the error of my ways…I should have gone to Sarah Pailin’s church to talk to the witch doctor…stupid me!!!!!!!!
By CommunistAJC
October 29, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this
Copyleft, I live in Chicago and it is pretty well known around the around here that Obama Hussein studied under and was mentored by Marxists professors. There is too much that we don’t know about him. I think it strange that the media has to cover up for Obama yet they go digging through the trash of Palin and Joe the plumber to find info. The Chicago Public Library and the University of Chicago has hidden info on Mr. Hussein. By the way, who proved all of that article wrong? Last time I checked, the MSM was covering for Obama. The LA Times will not release a video tape of Obama Hussein toasting a PLO terrorist. Do you find it funny that most all of Obama Husseins friends are either current terrorists, racists or former terrorists?
Flyonthe_Wall, I cut and pasted it. Too much to type. So what? Mrs. Godzilla cuts and pastes articles all the time. I believe Jay Bookman does the same. Again, so what? What is your point?
By making
October 29, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Gore, Kerry and now Obama.
By zeke
October 29, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Three times in the 20th century this occurred! FDR, LBJ and JEC! Not sure about the congress under LBJ! It got us the new deal- the beginning of turning the USA into a socialist crap state! The great society- furthering the headlong rush into that socialist crap state! And the Carter fiasco-arguably the worst administration in history!
DO WE REALLY WANT THOSE AGAIN? GOD I HOPE NOT!
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
Lets make a compromise.
All to the rightwing Christofascists move to Alaska and secede (with rallys chanting “Heil Palin!” You get to keep all of your money, drill oil, do whatever you want.
The rest of the sane people can have our Constitution back.
By making
October 29, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
But Oprah said he’s the one…
By fearless fosdik
October 29, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
By zeke @ 2:37 PM
ZEKE, I think you LEFT out the one administration that without doubt will be dubbed the worst administration of all time.
Take a wild guess which one that will be!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
making
October 29, 2008 12:34 PM
Is it because of the torture or because of the injuries he received when ejected from his flying contraption after failing to take evasive maneuvers before being shot down?
By rebutt the rebutt
October 29, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
By have you notice,
Rebuttal of the rebuttal,
That was great. I was LOL. I don’t know if Obama is good or bad. But you KNOW he is a good guy??? When is the last time you hung out with him, had a beer with him, vacationed with his family, or actually met and spoke real conversation with him? I’LL BET NEVER!!! He might be a great guy, but you and I don’t know that for fact or fiction. My point was too many bloggers, both sides, think they KNOW Obama when they don’t. They just think what they want to think.
By making
October 29, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Hopefully the demos will learn from their mistakes with this election and do a little better on the next. If it wasn’t for blogs and Obama tv then we wouldn’t have much to laugh about…well little for w mixed with crying.
By gadem
October 29, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
CommunistsAJC, thank you so much for proving my point that Obama is a wizard…by your own admittance, it is a well know fact that Obama studied under Marxist, terrorist, and Socialist…and the reason this has not come out is that he has mesmerized the media into submission…man you need to do an expose…on all of this..OBAMA IS A WIZARD!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
By Captain
October 29, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
It is a truly scary situation Democrats in TOTAL control. It isn’t so much Obama, but rather the looney tunes in the Congress who will pass legislation and send to him to sign into law. I am confident that his first instincts are for big and bigger government, and socialism. Barney Frank has already gone on the record that the Pentagon will be cut 25%, taxes raised, and another stimulus bill passed. Ted Kennedy is working feverishly on a Health Care Reform package which will “nationalize” the Health Care business in this country making it a huge new Government Entitlement and Bureacracy. Health care is between 12-15% of the GNP, the Dems will take that over. Charlie Rangle is busy working on Tax revisions which will raise individual rates, reduce deductions (the mortgage interest deduction will be gone) in order to expose more income to taxation, and eliminate the ceiling on Soc Sec taxes. Sen Charles Schumer’s dream has always been to enact gun control, he’s been a staunch supporter of Federal gun control. The Second Amendment be damned. Schumer has his opportunity to ban guns, watch for it to take place as as part of some Crime Bill. Jim McDermott and George Miller are crafting legislation to Federalize all pension plans, 401k and IRA plans in the name of ‘saving our citizens savings from the volatile stock market’ and to eliminate the tax deduction we receive for investing in those plans. Maxine Waters is formenting legislation to ‘right the wrongs’ of the past, a politically correct way of calling for “reparations”. All the while Bill Clinton, along with Bill Campbell, await their pardons and Hillary looks forward to her appointment to the Supreme Court. Oh Happy Days.
By the way, I wouldn’t expect the Dems to investigate Franklin Raines and his $90 million golden parachute for running Fannie Mae into bankruptcy, nor his CFO who cooked the books, nor Sen Chris Dodd’s illegal loans from Countrywide, they will be far too busy pursuing perjury charges against Roger Clemens. If they can charge Clemens with perjury there’s a chance the country will survive, investigating the mortgage mess and the crooks like Raines and Dodd and prosecuting them be damned, we must send Roger to prison.
Obama comes across as intelligent, but he is vastly overmatched against our enemies. He is an empty suit in world affairs. His willingness to depend upon the United Nations is laughable. The UN is controlled by the Russians, Chinese and radical governments, who doesn’t know that? Barack Obama? We can anticipate the U N standing behind us with the same authority and force a 6 yr old would bring to playing linebacker for the Falcons.
The first 100 days will be interesting. I fully expect Joe Biden’s prediction to come to fruition. The very best those of us with common sense, reason, and who have worked our entire lives to achieve success can count on is that the Dems implode. One thing of which we can be certain….. the Democrats are coming for two things, 1)our money and financial savings and 2) our guns. Mark it down, Captain told you so on October 29, 2008, and please, you blind followers, you sheep who are being herded by the Democrats with their constant lies, know that you will regret your vote sooner rather than later. A Dictatorship is never a good thing.
By Andrew rebuttal
October 29, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Andrew,
When in the past 8 years has your rights under the Constitution been limited or neglected? They haven’t. You have done whatever you have wanted. Folks that practice religious beliefs, which you obviously despise (no wait liberals are incapable of dislike or dare I speak it, prejudice) have NOT limited your rights in any way, shape, or form. Were your rights more or better under the Clinton admin than Bush admin. NO!!! Under McCain/Palin you will retain your same rights as the Clinton years and the Bush years. Now under the Obama regime you must be hoping to have more rights than you enjoy right now. I would say you would even like to reduce the rights of individuals that disagree with you.
By No Freedom
October 29, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Too bad that, no matter what Obama does in his first 100 days in office, the rabid right wing will have already called for his head.
This isn’t about what’s best for America. It’s always about what’s best for the Republican Party.
I pledge to support President McCain, if it comes down to that, in the unlikely event he is anointed our new leader. I challenge any of you…ANY OF YOU…to make such a pledge right here, right now.
And stick with it.
By The Oddball
October 29, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Well, Spankmonkey, looks like your first post pretty well said it all …
By gadem
October 29, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this
To be honest they will not…my biggest fear is that these nut jobs will try their best to kill Obama when he is elected President…you already have people saying that he is going to take away their guns, take away their rights, all kinds of foolishness. Then you have the real rocket scientist as evidenced in online videos that “coloreds” are going to take over…this has been a test for America, and America failed badly…I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW!! 40 years after the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr….and we are no better now than we were then…at this rate, there will never be an Asian-American President, Hispanic-American President… NEWS FLASH all Presidents don’t have to be white!
By fearless fosdik
October 29, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Beyond the world of absurdity…Joe the Plumber now is on the campaign trail with …you guessed it John McCain!
Joe who’s name is not Joe, and one who does not pay his taxes or traffic tickets .
One who is not a licensed plumber. Is now offering his opinion on Israel..
If McCain wins maybe JOE won’t have to worry about the plumbing business…perhaps secretary of defense, secretary of state is in his future!
By hhhhmmmm
October 29, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
I can make that pledge - I plan to support our new president, Dem or Rep. I’d like McCain to win, but I’ll support Obama. I doubt I support every bill or idea Obama comes up with, but he’ll be the US President and I’ll support him. I hope I don’t denigrate him personally if I do disagree with him. And I’ll feel comfortable knowing that, in 4 years, if he doesn’t do a good job, someone else can and may be voted in.
Can you say the same thing for your behavior over the last 8 years? If not, don’t wear your “holier than thou” attitude so proudly.
I hope we all realize that it’s time to be a little more respectful in our disagreements.
By Say What?
October 29, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
How about that.
Year after year of economic prosperity under Clinton, and the Republicans point to a Republican Congress and claim full credit.
A downward spiraling economy under George W. Bush, and the Republicans point to Clinton and Pelosi and put the blame foursquare on them.
Sorry, Republifolks, but I ain’t buyin’ what you’re sellin’.
And neither is the rest of America. Go take your tired and failed ideas and come back when you get a clue.
By Bill
October 29, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
All: I fully expect that if Obama is elected, we will at best have rediscovered a certain Georgia Governor by the name of Jimmy Carter! I actually voted for him! Maybe many of you are to young to remember his reign. I’d list him as the least effective President of all times. I remember Stopping in a rest area in south Georgia and seeing a billboard that said “We the farmers of Georgia, apologize to the citizens of the USA for helping elect Jimmy Carter to the presidency of our country!”. The sad thing is, that is actually the very best we can hope for! Additionally, do you really want Nancy Pelosi along with Harry Reed in charge of our country? I think not! Bill
By have you noticed
October 29, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
Just a few observations…..one has to have a beer and/or vacation with a man’s family before you can make an informed voting decision…..in that case there would be very few voters on either side.
Second, the politics of fear really are working well for the republicans, they got all you MCcain/Palin fans all scared to death of all sorts of things…..and ya’ll have dipped back into your PolySci text books for big words like Maxism and Socialism, very impressive. Did you come up with that yourself or did all the stump speeches and Rush blathering influence ysa a little bit.
Third,let’s talk foreign policy. I think it was admirable when Obama probably relized his short commings on world affairs so he picked Biden for help, it was a good move to strengthen the ticket. McSenile picked a good looking hockey mom to shore up his shortcomings with …….good looking hockey moms I guess.
Fourth,nobody has mentioned what a tremendously positive thing it would be for young minorities in this country to turn on the news and see a minority (actually half white/half black) holding the highest job in the land. That has to bring hope and encouragement to millions of americans who might oherwise continue to aspire to be pro athletes or hip hop artisits (nothing wrong withthose professions and not all minorities aspire this way but a lot do, but you get my point). I am a white, former republican who finally realized there’s not much difference between the 2 parties, but we definitley need a change and shift to the left in this country. it would do us all some good.
By making
October 29, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
I agree Bill on all accounts. Carter is an excellent former prez than being in office and yes I too voted for him. Fool me once…won’t fool me twice!
By Jake
October 29, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this
I’m voting for Barr, but if Obamza brings home the troops and enacts his wonderful tax plan, he’ll get my vote in 2012.
By Road Scholar
October 29, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Enough Already: I agree 100% with your post. All these “experts” are enough to make you sick. if they know so much and can predict the future, I want 6 good numbers for the lottery!
If Obama is a Muslim then McCain is the McManchurian candidate. If Obama is lying then so is McCain.Yadda yadda yadda!
We need to come to a common agenda that stresses financial conservatism, develop respect for each other, addresses the issues aof real and core problems, and supporting the outcome. Phil Gramm was right, we have all become a bunch of whiners- conservatives and liberals alike.
By A Citizen
October 29, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
Pardon me for calling attention to the obvious, but all of this Marxist and socialist talk is just plain gibberish. There was a politician awhile back named Joe McCarthy who pulled the exact same stunt in order to get re-elected. The result was a congressional witch hunt that decimated the entertainment industry and destroyed many political careers. The Republican party is continuing to try and promote their politics of fear campaign, but the American public isn’t buying it this time.
In reference to having Washington controlled by one party, that doesn’t bother me because I know that whomever is elected president will need to make some very bold moves very quickly in order to try and salvage the nation’s economy. It will be easier if that person has a majority in both houses.
Finally, I would like to ask whomever says that, if elected, Senator Obama will take your money and your guns where they have been for the last 8 years. The current administration has not only taken MY money, but my children’s, grandchildren’s, and great grandchildren’s money and shipped if off to the Middle East and to Wall Street. Let redistribution begin and let it begin with Wall Street redistributing some of that money back to the American taxpayer.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 29, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
Senator Stephens is turning states evidence against Saxby!
By making
October 29, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
Don’t you just love the Martin/Saxby ads…what a laugh…Go Saxby!
By inquiring minds
October 29, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
He has also pledged to begin, right away, the process of withdrawing US troops from Iraq….
He also pledged to accept only public campaign financing, then went back on that promise when he found he could raise much more on his own. McCain on the other hand stuck to his promise of public financing only.
Strangely (not), the media has shown very little interest in where all that money is coming from.
By Grumpy
October 29, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Ain’t it funny that when Republicans controlled the Whitehouse, and both chambers of Congress, none of them thought there was peril in one-party rule. Suddenly, they see their party getting its collective butt kicked and they’re whining like little girlie-men about Obama-Pelosi-Reid controlling the executive and legislative branches of government. Back in 1994 the American electorate was brilliant for having voted in the so-called “Republican revolution,” but now the same electorate are implicitly a bunch of idiots because they might elect a Black Democrat as their next President and get super-nmajority control of the U.S. House and Senate.
And when a candidate for the presidency makes it abundantly clear that he’s going to tax those who’ve gotten rich over the course the last 8 to 12 years at the expense of the middle- and lower-middle class, they’re just having hissy fits. It’s okay to redistribute the wealth to benefiot the rich as long as it’s at the expense of the poor and the middle-class.
It’s about time that the rich “suffer” the inconvenience of another 6% to 9% increase over what they currently pay.
BIG, FAT DEAL !!!
By making
October 29, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Why they let uneducated people out on the roads, I’ll never know.
By Karl Marx
October 29, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this
The days of capitalism, ill-gotten wealth and disparity are over !
Redistribute all property and wealth !
Equality for all !
Healthcare for all !
Viva, Che Guevara !
Viva, Barack Obama !
Viva, Change !
By LOLO
October 29, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
Hey people, Valerie Plame was a CIA Officer not an CIA Agent. An agent of the CIA is generally a foreign national working in collaboration with the CIA.
By justmyopinion
October 29, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
Hey Have you noticed…you my friend are truly an Idiot (with a capital I). In reading your initial posts I thought this guy/gal just can’t type but as I kept reading more and more and more of your Idiotic ideas I noticed that you can’t spell either. You are the typical Idiot Obama voter.
By KBONOW
October 29, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
I think the first thing McCain should do when taking office is have Obama kicked out of the senate. Obama is a disgrace to this nation and all its followers should be ashamed of themselves. Obama is the worst thing that could ever happen to this nation and the way he ran his presidential campaign is disrespectful, full of lies, and continued poor judgment. McCain should also put sanctions against all the media outlets such as NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and any other of the far left criminals. After they convict Osama, he should be sent back to where he came from…HELL!
By making
October 29, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
I agree about the network, especially NBC…ABC is the better but not much.
By Fly_on_the_Wall
October 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
CommieAJC,
My point was that you couldn’t have come up with all that ‘great’ news on your own so I just wanted to check. I know that many people cut-n-paste but I wanted to check to see how much original thought you had over some of the others you mentioned and you answered it. Not much.
By tardis
October 29, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
Bookmeat is now telling us that one party rule will be a good thing. Did it work with the Republicans? Will it work with the Dimacrats? Pelosy says they will “Rule”. Not govern but “RULE”. Does the word “dictator” and “Regime” come to anyone’s mind in this country when they hear words like this? Obama has the media. Hitler had the media. The media are supposed to be the watchdogs. Now they are the lapdogs. Obama has desperate, uneducated and unmotivated people and all the ingredients for setting up his empire. Next term limits for incumbent politicians, including the presidency, will be done away with and then out goes the constitution. Then, there will only be revolution to resort to. It is coming. Faster than I thought it ever would. Prepare people.
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
If you’re going to make a rebuttal at least be man enough to post with your name.
I don’t hate religion at all. I do hate religious extremists, be they muslim, christian, whatever.
The religious right in this country is a threat to our constitution. They want to control who you can marry, what god you can believe in, and what you can do with your own body.
Get your head out of your a$$ (or your bible) and open your mind.
By making
October 29, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this
The demos think that Obama is “the one” and that we walks on water…go figure…and he better make a miracle if he’s to be President.
By atlsitcom
October 29, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
Suck it Obama!
McCain/Palin 08
By making
October 29, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Obama’s lead DOWN to 5 - 8 %…what can it be so? The one might not be the one!
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
More like you can suck it. Just can’t stand to have a black man in a position of power higher than you.
By making
October 29, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
We all have a little black in each of us! God Bless.
By atlsitcom
October 29, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Andrew, Jesus can SUCK IT black people too just SUCK IT
By Change
October 29, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
The only change we can believe in is what the “middle class” will be left with in their pockets after Obama’s definition of “middle class” is lowered to $100K and Obama’s wealth re-distribution!!!!
In addition, PC will freeze any chance of anyone questionning anything Obama does!!! Of course one won’t be able to say anything negative as big brother Obama will be watching!!!
By Response
October 29, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Andrew —- and those in Atlanta government (or school boards) have done so well……
By Response
October 29, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Andrew —- and those in Atlanta government (or school boards) have done so well……
Forgot to add Chicago, DC, etc……
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
That’s if Bush doesn’t have him renditioned off to Romania or elsewhere first. I happen to like Jesus, just not the crazy followers who distort his message of peace, love and tolerance for ALL people.
By Response2
October 29, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
Response at 6:01 - you forgot everyone’s favorite Mayor of New Orleans, aka Chocolate City….
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
“Most of the American laws defining race are not to be compared with those once enforced by Nazi Germany, the latter being relatively more liberal. In the view of the Nazis, persons having less than one fourth Jewish blood could qualify as Aryans, whereas many of the American laws specify that persons having one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or any ascertainable” Negro blood are Negroes in the eyes of the law and subject to all restrictions governing the conduct of Negroes.”
Jim Crow Guide: The Way it Was, Ch.4 - Who is Colored Where , 1955
By CommunistAJC
October 29, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this
Flyonthe_Wall, Define original thought? If you are an intellect, which I highly doubt, then plus “re-educate” me. I can form my own opinions and from studying history for 3 years I can confidently tell you that Hussein Obama is a Socialist. I mean, living in France for four years has tough me a little bit more about Socialism. It ain’t pretty my misguided friend. Socialist countries can not provide for their people, can not protect them with a military, and it can not provide adequate health care. If you care to argue I will simply ask you if you have ever lived in a Socialist country. Because if you have, then you will know that it is no where near as great as liberals like Jay will tell you they are. By the way, Sarkozy thinks Hussein Obama is immature and lacks common sense. Sarkozy is more Pro-American than a lot of Americans. He’s more American than most liberals. He would fight for America than against it like the likes of most liberals.
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
“Most of the American laws defining race are not to be compared with those once enforced by Nazi Germany, the latter being relatively more liberal. In the view of the Nazis, persons having less than one fourth Jewish blood could qualify as Aryans, whereas many of the American laws specify that persons having one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or any ascertainable” Negro blood are Negroes in the eyes of the law and subject to all restrictions governing the conduct of Negroes.”
Jim Crow Guide: The Way it Was, Ch.4 - Who is Colored Where , 1955
By Andrew Jr.
October 29, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this
Andrew,
You were so man enough to put your first name. I sarcastically applaud you, you are so putting yourself out there.
Do you abhor liberal extremists that hate religion, such that their religion is the removal of all religion or possibly a specific religion, as much as you hate religious extremists.
I would call myself a moderate conservative in that I really don’t care if you marry a woman, man, or dog if you would like to do so. PETA might care, so you better not. But I should be able to have an opinion on that matter and be able to voice it, just like you can voice your being for whatever. I do NOT think I should force my opinion on you such that you must live by it. Not that you would anyhow.
Again, if you want to believe in whatever god or no god, have at it. But I can do the same.
Regarding your own body. If you like men or women, go ahead. But in regards to the unborn, I differ from you in that you are forgetting the human beings that happen to be inside the mother are alive and human beings. To me, abortion is murder, plain and simple. To you it must not be. Most people have the ability to stop conception from occuring in the first place, so do it that way instead. You still retain the right to your own body without restriction.
You say you don’t hate religion and but if I read the Bible, which is the main instructions of my religion, then I need to remove my head from my $ss. Sounds like you’re full of hotair.
Lastly, the liberal left is well documented in their desire to take away some Constitutional rights. See removal of right to bear arms. Massachusetts a wonderful example of leftists taking away Constitutional rights. Their agenda is to do it everywhere.
By beki
October 29, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
I believe in free speech but-for God’s sake - I have never heard so much right-wing paranoiac screed about an Obama presidency. What might happen in his presidency may never happen as events might determine what he can or cannot do. Nothing is certain in spite of what your bias decrees to be so. Who can say that a McCain presidency would have you think that he would be the reincarnation of Reagan? What makes you think that a one - party in power is bad if that party is the Dems? After all, Rove admitted to trying to cleve our Union into two opposing camps in the hope of establishing a permanent Republican majority? Is that why you’re scared of Dems taking over? The truth is simple: at many times in our 250 some odd years of democracy, we have had one- party rule. So get over your “gloom and doom” scenario,as I will mine,and stop the demonizing! It only demans yourself!
By Andrew
October 29, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this
I’d love to see how long some of you tough guy racists could handle yourselves in south Atlanta spewing your hate.
Yes, I do abhor anyone that would force their beliefs on anyone else, something the far right has been trying to do for sometime.
Is this the same Massachusetts where the 8 yr old blew his head off with a fully automatic UZI? I’m a gun owner, all for responsible gun ownership and gun control.
When does life begin? Technically it doesn’t begin anywhere. Are we going to consider it murder for every time an individual cell is destroyed? I personally do not like or would ever have an abortion in that situation, but I wouldn’t tell you you couldn’t have one if you wanted or needed it.
I’m a moderate Democrat. Nice try.
By Bill
October 29, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
All: I fully expect that if Obama is elected, we will at best have rediscovered a certain Georgia Governor who became president by the name of Jimmy Carter! I actually voted for him! Maybe many of you are to young to remember his reign. I’d list him as the least effective President of all times. I remember Stopping in a rest area in south Georgia and seeing a billboard that said “We the farmers of Georgia, apologize to the citizens of the USA for helping elect Jimmy Carter to the presidency of our country!”. The sad thing is, that is actually the very best we can hope for! Additionally, do you really want Nancy Pelosi along with Harry Reed in charge of our country? I think not! Bill
By CommunistAJC
October 29, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this
Andrew, Hi race baiter. Nice try. I hate to burst your bubble my misguided friend bit Jim Crow was a DEMOCRAT. As was George Wallace and Bull Connor. Playing the race card doesn’t fit well with people anymore. I for one don’t vote for socialist or people who befriend racist pastors and terrorist like Obama Hussein does. Go sell stupid somewhere else.
By HerbC
October 29, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this
Differences? Nope, same trash as we have now. Congress & senate, like our state & local governments are now nothing more than revenue collectors. They serve no functional purpose, nor should they have jobs. The quicker we can take out the ‘trash’ and get rid of the deadbeats in government, which is about 98% of them, including judges, the better off we all are. All of the so-called ‘public servants’ can be replaced with people who will take the job at a lesser amount of pay, while they spend the 15-30 minutes learning their respective positions and then will be instructed BY THE TAXPAYERS how to perform the job & on the job. Meanwhile, the deadbeats we have now can be shipped to, oh say, China?
By Humpty Dumpty
October 29, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this
I don’t consider myself a Democrat or a Republican…I consider myself an American. I’ve voted Democrat as often as Republican and have been embarrassed by both parties (Carter being one of those and Bush being another).
What really drives me crazy is that there are people on this post and around this country that are so caught up in the media hype and spin that they can’t see past the end of their own nose.
I would vote for anyone regardless of party, color, religion, etc. if I thought they would actually deliver something other than rhetoric and more of the same ole same ole.
Don’t hold your breath on either McCain or Obama to change anything for the better…neither party has gotten the real message yet. We’ve been headed down this road for a long time and the Dems and Repubs got us here.
Big government needs to go, spreading the wealth at the expense of middle America is not the answer….Hope is not a strategy and at this rate change is all we’ll have left in our pockets.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 29, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this
Andrew Jr. is just another Republinazi seeking to use the Bible as a weapon. Junebug, I don’t care what it says. Roe V. Wade says a woman may decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term and that’s the law of the land. You are entitled to your Nazi belief and I support allowing you to believe as you want. You’re not in control though and you’re not going to be!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
Ed
October 29, 2008 12:53 PM
Pinch yourself and return to the real world.
Yes, taxes will go up. Duh, have you heard of the soon to be $11 trillion debt your man is leaving us?
Any veteran will tell you the military can be cut. Even Newt wanted to turn the Pentagon into a triangle.
And you’re right, something finally has to be done to break the cycle of poverty.
Please don’t denigrate our hard work and meager accomplishments. We don’t all start out at the same point in life.