Jay Bookman

By Bruce becker

November 21, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

She has taken on the most difficult job. She has the duty of helping to negotiate the peace and oil sharing in Kurdish Iraq, and deal with the Kurds in Turkey, Hamas and peace in Israel, two wars, nuclear reachings by Syria and Iran, and so much more. If she succeeds, she will deserve the Nobel Prize. I think it was a wise move on Obama’s part to pass this one to her.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

We can all let out a big sigh of relief, let out a whoop of joy to the heavens, for what we are witnessing is a blessing to the Earth and the very ground we walk on!

The end of Bruno’s political career!

Can I get a hellllll yeah!

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

By getalife November 21, 2008 1:42 PM Arguing with people who think Obama is a secret Muslim communist and the Earth is only 6000 years old is pointless. It’s like debating a small child or more accurately, a male labrador retriever. No matter what you say, he’ll continue to hump your leg, knowing with certainty that if he just humps long enough, your shoes will bear puppies. All you get is a sticky leg.”

I never knew that about a labrador retriever, or any other dog, mostly because I boot that as-s about 50 yards down range the instant they give my leg the eye.

Sounds like you let it go all the way to the climax, eh, al-Gitmo?

By the way, which political party controls Congress, hehehe.

By Dusty

November 21, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Well, I thought we had passed Halloween but I guess I was wrong. This is scary and laughable at the same time. The Return of the Clintonites, a new drama unfolding for Disney. Seems I’ve seen this show before. I hope the rerun is better than the original.

By @@

November 21, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Try to recall, jay…….the vast differences between her foreign policy stance and those of PrezE OBlahMa’s early in the campaign.

There were plenty of conservative pundits who would have preferred Hillary’s hawkish policies over those of “the dove” OBlahMa’s.

But once OBlahMa promised to immediately withdraw from Iraq, Hillary was no longer viable to your left-wing bloggers. Nosiree!!! They engaged in a vicious internet campaign to toss her. Just ask Getalife.

Guess what?

She-e-e-e-s baaaaack!!!!

and the “doves of peace” plummet into free-fall. And the change?

We’re still a’waitin.

It’ll be “Morphed” & “Trendy” in ‘09.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

Being president is about control, and tell me who ever controlled Bill or Hillary Clinton. They can’t control each other. … I think it’s because Warren Buffett and Paul Volcker and others have convinced Obama, ‘You’re going to have to focus like a laser on the economy. That’s issue Number One. And give Hillary and Bill the world.’ … I think people are fantasizing or smoking something if they think Joe Biden’s going to call Hillary Clinton up and say, ‘This is what we want you to do.’- Bob Woodward

By getalife

November 21, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Bill Clinton should get her Senate seat.

Yes he can.

By Mrs.Godzilla

November 21, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Good job so far Mr. Obama

I still like Clinton on the Supreme Court. She’ll do fine at State.

Love Tom at HHS. A smart, talented liberal. A very strong choice. Very cool.

I like Richardson, Geithner I’m still studying. Rahmbo was a brilliant choice. Kerry gets Foriegn Relations. Waxman gets Energy and Commerce.

I love the Obama A.R.T’s. Great Idea.

President Elect Barack Obama continues ti impress me.

It must be impressing the loyal opposition, there’s an awful lot of screeching going on.

I have 30 cabinet doors to paint. I’m at the point in this project I may hold myself captive with a caulk gun to my head.

By Abomi Nation

November 21, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

“I hope the rerun is better than the original.”

Me too! Wow, think of it Dusty! Budget under control, respect around the word, competence, a stock market that actually goes up.

If the rerun is better than the original, we are headed for greatness.

By Class of '98

November 21, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

As a conservative, I never hated Bill Clinton as much as others of my leaning, but let’s be honest…

between 1992 and 2000 the US economy boomed because of the dot.com bubble, not because of the President.

A trained monkey could have been the President in the 90’s and the Dow Jones still would have soared.

In fact, an argument can be made that Clinton’s policies stifled the economy during his tenure.

I believe in giving a man his due, but the economy boomed in the 90’s in spite of Slick Willy, not because of him.

By AmVet

November 21, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

I believe in giving a man his due, but the economy boomed in the 90’s in spite of Slick Willy, not because of him.

98, I believe the POTUS gets much too much credit when our smoke and mirrors economy does “well” and much too much blame when it doesn’t.

Willy with his “Clinton Republicans” was the ultimate response to Ronnie’s “Reagan Democrats”.

By Bush standards, both rabid centrists.

By Abomi Nation

November 21, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

We haven’t even had a trained monkey the last 8 years, Class of.

A chimp yes, a very stupid chimp. Not at all trained.

By Chad Harris

November 21, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Clinton is a pathetic choice for Sec State. Hopefully this will fall through. Holbrooke or Richardson and hundres of others would have been eminently more qualified than the inexperienced drama queen.

Drama Queen was on Senate Armed Forces and 3 subs and you saw how well that’s worked out. Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq are pure bred clusterf*cks.

Billruh will never vet just as Penny Pritzker refused to vet. Billruh because of his illegal donations from law breakers who smuggle and sell arms to enemies of the US and Pritzker because of her family’s $15 billion in hidden off shore tax shelters, some of which may be very illegal.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this

“The most open and honest administration in history:”

“We got the corned beef,” Obama said as he made his way around the counter at Manny’s deli. Asked by a reporter what he thought about the auto industry, he responded with a smile: “I got the corned beef.”

By TW

November 21, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

Nice to see the right squirm as they watch how it’s done.

All you had to do was care. But that meant really loving America, all of her - black, white, purple, straight, gay, whatever - and that you refused to do.

No worries - we’ll take care of you. WE know what Country First is really all about.

Your welcome :-)

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

As thee mass of ignorance gathered round to hear the latest pronouncement from their brilliant and Magnificent Leader, a mere mortal dumbstruck with awesome gifts from thee loving and sycophant media dwelling creatures, the skies parted and turned blue as the Chosen Spoke his immortal words of wisdom, to your knees morons:

“Rahm Emanuel sends his regards,” Obama told deli workers, referring to his chief of staff. “I ordered him his corned beef.”

“We got the corned beef”

Gasp, gasp, sigh, sigh, thee corn beef is among us!

Long live thee corn beef!

By Ray

November 21, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

Why not the other Clinton for SOS, let Bruno keep her Senate seat where she can have a jumping board to the presidency and America will be beset with Clinton’s again in positions of power. CHANGE…. the byword of the Annointed One and his minions. Mostly re-cycled Clinton Administration hacks with the same old liberal agenda that we had in the 90s. This is Change??

By jon

November 21, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this

Is Monica Lewinski the only member of the Clinton administration not offered a position in the BO administration of change?

By liberal lucy

November 21, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

has obama adopted the first dog yet?

is the in-law moving in as well?

geeeeez!

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

Geez, this lib hero bit the dust in an awful hurry:

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.

“Now all of a sudden there is urgency,” Guerra shouted. “Eighteen months you kept me indicted through the election.”

Say, where is super hero Cindi at nowadays?

By Chad Harris

November 21, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

Clinton on the Supreme Court from Ms. Godzilla.

Qualifications—essentially none.

Out of Yale law school>takes and flunks the D.C. Bar (one of the few on the planet)>does she go back and courageously face t again—hell no. It’s not anything she put in her campaign messages.

What about anything Hillruh has ever said makes anyone think she’s qualified to be on the S. Ct.? Clarence the Pinpoint Hick Thomas who has never asked a question at oral argument isn’t qualified by George H.W. Bush appointed him as a token and he promptly proceeded to disenfranchise African Americans, the downtroddenm, and the poor and women’s rights more than any other justice in the history of the Court.

Hillruh is equally unqualified to be Sec State or on the S. Ct.

By getalife

November 21, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this

Confidence is building. Can you feel it?

The best , the brightest, the most competent Americans are taking over.

Yes we can.

God bless the Clintons in their travels in the world.

By jon

November 21, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this

The Hildabeast confirmation hearings are going to be a hoot if some senators ask the questions the press never would.

By Chad Harris

November 21, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this

When it was leaked that Hillruh might be a stupid choice for Sec State, Billruh was behind a podium decorated with a Camel (cigarette?) taking 500 grand for an hour’s speech.

By jon

November 21, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this

Rose Law Firm billing files Travelgate Cattle Futures Whitewater Mark Richt The Puerto Rican Mafia pardons. Bill’s foreign campaign contributions Bill’s presidential library contributors.

And the she’s out of the Senate. Maybe Monica will be appointed to take her place, as she has had to do before.

By TW

November 21, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

How about tough guy Saxby punching the camera man?

Tax-cuts, make fun of Vietnam Vets, punch out camera men - makes for the perfect republican candidate. Glad to see his knee is better.

Oh, those tough republicans…

By getalife

November 21, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

“Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.”

By jon

November 21, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

TW,

A US Senator punches a camera man and it doesn’t even make the news? You DNC paid trolls are absurd.

By Head Shaker

November 21, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this

What’s REALLY funny is that Obama could nominate Jesus Christ, Ghandi and Siddhartha Gautama for cabinet posts and the rabid right-wing would instantly link them to drunken driving, pedophillia, murder, insider trading, gun running, social chaos and big, happy gay marriage/abortion parties.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

By getalife November 21, 2008 8:57 PM God bless the Clintons in their travels in the world.

Now they have State from which they will leak national security secrets, bogus national security estimates and US battle plans, just like their toadies did against Bush.

All so they can clip Wonder Boy off at the knees.

We appreciate it.

Who’d a ever thunk we’d be allies?

Karma.

By @@

November 21, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Confidence is building. Can you feel it?

Is the viagra kicking in?

By you're so vain

November 21, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this

“What’s REALLY funny is that Obama could nominate Jesus Christ, Ghandi and Siddhartha Gautama for cabinet posts and the rabid right-wing would instantly link them to drunken driving, pedophillia, murder, insider trading, gun running, social chaos and big, happy gay marriage/abortion parties.”

Welcome to MSM shake,r but you’ll be handled with baby mitts.

enjoy.

Me… I’m just gonna sit back and laugh

By AJC/DNC Management

November 21, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

It’s all good pinkos but remember-

I am number one

Deal with it.

By getalife

November 21, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

Told ya it would be fun.

Politics does not get any better than this.

Bwa.

By Head Shaker

November 21, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this

Gosh, “You’re so vain”…is an intelligible paragraph so much to ask? If you’re going to sit back and laugh, at least you should be able to express what you find so funny.

Get back to me when you have a grade-school understanding of written debate.

KKTHNXSBYE

By obama's media team

November 21, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this

[supa man] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUT9KQ-LuaU)

By obama's media team

November 21, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

bink

By Dogs Against Management

November 22, 2008 1:27 AM | Link to this

Arf! Grrrrr! Ick!!!

By Policy Wonk

November 22, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

I think Senator Clinton lacks credibility on the world stage. The reports from the presidential campaign of her coming under sniper fire that were later debunked do not help bolster her image.

Also, some of the developing countries she could potentially deal with may see her as a representative of her husband, for better or worse. There are places where he is loved (Ghana, Rwanda and, of course China), and places where he is hated (Sudan, for example). If she were starting from a neutral position, it could be easier.

In some ways, it is a disadvantage to the nation that this is a political position, rather than one that is filled by career diplomats from Foggy Bottom.

By Dennis C. Brown

November 22, 2008 6:41 AM | Link to this

Hillary an Obama Cabinet Member - What a Surprise?

Interesting that in the last couple of weeks since the Obama transition team let loose the trial balloon about Hillary’s “invitation” by President-elect Obama to be his Secretary of State, no one has mentioned a tie of that key cabinet position to the sudden and surprising exit she made at the Democratic National Convention in September paving the way for an easy nomination of Obama as the party’s presidential standard bearer. Guess we now know why. Either Obama, or the powers-to-be of the Democratic party, cut a deal with her. Go quietly, let Obama gain the nomination without opposition, support his candidacy, and we’ll give you whatever you want in the new administration.

Truth be told that even as a staunch supporter of the Republican party philosophy, I hope Obama truly is successful. Heaven only knows we need a rebound from the poor choices that Bush made in his advisory team and his often-blind following of the advice they gave him over the post- 9/11 years. If Hillary is as good at international relations as our liberal media leads us to believe. and if her husband, ex-President Bill can truly be muzzled and will keep a low profile during these next four years, Hillary as a cabinet member will possibly prove to have been a good choice. I sure hope those two “ifs’” prove to be the case - and the appointment not simply the result of a “deal” cut during the Democratic National Convention.

By Gerald West

November 22, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Obama is choosing the brightest and the best for the federal cabinet. Bush chose those who were “loyal” to him rather than loyal to America and competent for the job.

Now, let’s work together to repair the incalculable damage done by 8 years of Reagan and 12 years of Bushes, and their legions of incompetent Republican boot lickers.

By Bud Wiser

November 22, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this

By Gerald West

November 22, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Obama is choosing the brightest and the best for the federal cabinet. Bush chose those who were “loyal” to him rather than loyal to America and competent for the job.

Now, let’s work together to repair the incalculable damage done by 8 years of Reagan and 12 years of Bushes, and their legions of incompetent Republican boot lickers.

Yeah, replace them with the incompetent Clinton and BO suck-uppers, borderline criminals (in charge of the JD, for instance, the pardon-master brainchild of Mark Rich, etc.), and boot-lickers named so far by The Token One, topped off by Vince Foster and Markie Post’s former best friend, Hillary Clinton.

Wow, this is some change for sure!!! Why oh why didn’t I vote Obama, and believe his message of “Change” and “Yes We Can”? Apparently my inner perceptions once more were totally on the mark, spotting The Token One as the sham artist that he is, saying what it takes to get elected, doing what you want afterward.

He would have made a good Republican in that regard.

By Bud Wiser

November 22, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this

Obama Change:

Change Hillary from Senator into a Secretary of State;

Change Eric Holder into Number 1 slot at Justice Department. He held the No. 2 slot in President Bill Clinton’s administration. Maybe there were other criminal elements other than Mark Rich that were overlooked the first time and need to be ‘cleaned up’ now;

Other Cabinet selections so far include former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota as secretary of health and human services; wow, more change. Just like Gore losing his home state of Tennessee in the 2000 election, and thus the presidency, ‘local knowledge’ by his home state voters got this loser tossed from the Senate for being too liberal . Nice choice there.

Officials said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson had emerged as a likely pick as commerce secretary. Wow, the change picks here just keep stacking up!

Economic posts also seemed likely for Obama’s top two economic advisers during his campaign, Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman.

Goolsbee, among other things which at face value seem harmless enough, is otherwise known for advocating an automated tax system, in which the I.R.S. sends taxpayers a document informing them how much they owe rather than a blank tax form. Now this in the hands of a Democratic Congress represents apparently the ultimate blank check, ‘just gimme your wallet’, or, ‘how much do you have -total- yes, that is your bill.’ Now I must say that this is a change you can be afraid of.

Furman, In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard, was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve for a one-year stint as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. CHANGE, MORE CHANGE!!!!!

While speculation has been rampant about most top-level appointments, there has been relatively little about Obama’s choice for defense secretary. His aides encouraged speculation before the election that Robert Gates, who now holds the position, would remain in office for an interim period. - Rumor mill has William Ayers as an insider darkhorse.

Here you go lefty wingnuts, your fevered list of changlings so far. Suck on it.

By catlady

November 22, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

On the possible “disenfranchisement” reported in the AJC today of some who applied for absentee ballots with the form sent by the RNC: It’s bad when your ignorance shows, isn’t it? Read the directions so you will see where to sign. Wipe the foam out of your eyes. Your IQ is showing.

People who actually THINK about issues: get out the vote and get rid of Saxby Chambliss, the lazy, prevaricating, special interest serving draft-dodger!

Those who want to vote for Saxby based on his ads: there is s special ed class waiting for you. People, DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON SAXBY’S RECORD AND ON HIS CLAIMS ABOUT JIM MARTIN! There are lies, damned lies, and statistics! Saxby employs all three.

BTW, I loved using the RNC form to get an absentee ballot. It felt sort of subversive and naughty. Got it very quickly by using it. Of course, I actually READ the directions.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 22, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

New York —- Wall Street put a stop to a terrifying decline and stormed higher Friday as President-elect Barack Obama prepared to tap Timothy Geithner, the chief of the New York Federal Reserve, as the next Treasury secretary.-Urinal/DNC

I thought Oblahmi “wasn’t in office” yet?

Hmmmmm.

And, if the stock market should continue it’s bottomless nosedive next week, will the Urinal scold Wonder Boy for his tax and spend socialism?

By "The Corporal"

November 22, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

The Corporal on Hillary:

A demagogue is defined as “someone who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions and prejudices of the people”.

I already have a multitude of reasons why I would never support Hillary Clinton for anything including her stance on the rights of unborn children, her disdain for the U.S. military and her socialist touch on every program or policy she proposes. However, if for no other reason, her unbridled demogoguery at the end of the 2000 Presidential election showed me just how far she would go in a disingenuous and even dangerous effort to gain popular support.

President Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote and thus the election; the U.S. Supreme Court solidifying his victory with a narrow 5 to 4 ruling. Then Mrs. Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate who knew better, angrily insinuated to the American masses that Vice President Gore had been robbed of the election since he won the popular vote. She even stated that one of her first acts as a U.S. Senator would be to propose legislation eliminating the electoral college (she thankfully failed in that attempt). I guess she felt she possessed more wisdom than James Madison and our other founding fathers.

Unfortunately, the great majority of American voters are totally ignorant of the purpose of the electoral college and the incredible history of how this country was founded. Hillary used this sad ignorance to appeal to the public’s fears and to incite them during a time of Constitutional crisis when Florida’s electoral votes were still in doubt and the rule of law and calm needed to be promoted. She knew full well the electoral college was instituted to protect the influence of the smaller states, that those states would never have signed the Constitution without it and that it prevents one region of the country from dominating others in being able to choose a President. It forces a Presidential candidate to appeal to the nation as a whole as opposed to just densely populated areas. In effect, it attempts to bring us together as a nation rather than dividing us as a direct popular vote would.

This is the United STATES of America not the United PEOPLE of America; it is thankfully a constitutional republic and not a pure reactionary democracy and there’s a big difference. Our present “electoral system” allowing the States to have a proper and constitutional role in electing a President mitigates demagoguery. Hillary’s desire for a “popular vote” system would allow demagoguery to thrive.

She showed me her true colors back then in her blatant effort to do anything in a quest for power and that reveals the naked soul of a dangerous demagoguerette.

By Whit

November 22, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Hillary at State - this is the candidate who told of “taking direct fire” on a trip to Eastern Europe, which proved to be a fabrication at best. Does not appear that her “street cred” will loom large on the world’s stage. Bad choice.

By fearless fosdik

November 22, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Oh, woe is me…all those recycled Clinton appointments!

How soon does the right wing forget Bush’s appointments…..

Let me count. How many past administrations did the self-appointed one (CHENEY) serve? Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Elliot Abrams (convicted felon), John Poindexter (convicted felon), John Negroponte, Richard Armitage, Mitch Daniels, Otto Reich etal.

Notice that there are two convicted FELONS .. and, a few that would be considered very shady…

Quit crying. You lost America won!

By thogwummpy

November 22, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Y’know, it would be interesting to see how Obama’s pathetically naive “we can just talk to people and it will solve all problems” theory would work on the Somali pirates (they’ve had 92 hijacking incidents this year alone). You appeasers that think America should be weak as a kitten…are a dangerous joke! Moreover, why isn’t HILLARY being blasted (like Palin) over her vast absence of foreign policy experience…expecially given that’s what the Secretary of State is all about? HYPOCRITES! Furthermore, Obama pledged to create “a truely bi-partisan cabinet”—-so…where’s all the Republican appointments? Nope, he’s going as deep Left as possible. You new GOD hasn’t even taken office; and he seems to already be breaking his word. Hey, maybe the AJC will enact a “Fairness” policy and only let Lefties post comments (Hell, the Vent is almost like that as it is). ONE MORE THING: Bank this one—-when Obama cleans house and fires a legion of federal judges and attorneys, do you think for a nano-second Bookman and you Neo-Comms (new communists) are going call for criminal investigations like you’ve done against Bush? No way, you enjoy your double-standard far too much!

By Dr. R

November 22, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

The pendulum doth tilt the other way again. Look at it this way, GOPers: In eight years, everyone will be sick of this bunch and it’ll lurch back to the right again. I still say that the future is non-ideological, that we need a president focused on problem-solving and not filling political slots. Obama is making noise about being that guy, especially with his national security picks, but I dunno if the Dems in Congress will play along. The guy who best fits the postpartisan mantle is Mike Bloomberg. But I can’t figure out which party would want to embrace him as a candidate down the road. But the politics of the future may be less about defining oneself as conservative or liberal and more about filling the potholes and making the trains run on time.

By Call It LIke It Is

November 22, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Horray!

Robin Hood and his Merry People of Socialist Change!

I think I’ll go Puke!

Enough Said.

By cochise

November 22, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Jay you are right, If anyone can help oblama run this nation into the ground Billery can.

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 7:37 PM | Link to this

The Best and The Brightest

getalife - you have it correct

“Confidence is building. Can you feel it?

The best , the brightest, the most competent Americans are taking over.”

For people who waste their time throwing rocks, it is difficult to see beyond repeating an empty ranting of treason by Limbaugh and his lemmings.

For others, who understand the tremendous value of an elite (which is a good thing) education and world exposure (even better) they can counter with reasoned analysis and ideas that have substance.

The United States is desperate for ideas to solve a myriad of issues.

It’s good to be smart

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this

This Is So Typical of The Under Educated

Notice the total lack of substance. Nothing but an insult hurled with a label learned second-hand from a pundit or elementary school level commentary. Socialism! Socialism!

Someting to be scared of - or something that one could not explain the history of in more than one sentance?

By Call It LIke It Is

Horray!

Robin Hood and his Merry People of Socialist Change!

I think I’ll go Puke!

Enough Said.”

Enough said indeed. Especially since absolutely nothing was said.

By Call It LIke It Is

November 22, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

FU Mister Earl:

U probably did not even vote in the last election like most of the nontax paying voters that Obama got so it that enough substance for ya?

Secondly, the Racist people that he has affiliation with is sicking enough.

The NONEXPERIENCED ROOKIE LEFT WINGED HACK that all of these liberals seem to cling to is only an empty suit or image. Again, no substance.

The tax raiser, point finger wagging, no support for the military is going to save AMERICA!

Give me a break!

Now,

Enough Said.

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this

Enough Said

The Sky Is Falling!

Your writing/ranting is a perfect demonstration of why the education system in the state of Georgia desperately needs help.

Afraid are you?

Since you want to compare and contrast the incoming President and his superior intelligence, let us try this on for size:

“The president of the nation’s largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be “to leave wreckage behind.”

“It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure,” said J James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “You’d just like to think people have more respect for the institution of government than to leave wreckage behind with these appointments.”

• Washington Post

Sound familiar? Think FEMA.

On the other hand - Smart people hire smart people

As much as you would love Obama to fail, and no matter how much you resent the will of the American voter - you are now in the uncomfortable position of watching Obama’s analytical and capable appointments do their jobs after Janauary 20.

Watch and Learn

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

Enough Said

Please read this carefully, that is, if you can read….and in your best usage, please share what this exerpt means to you:

“President-elect Barack Obama’s picks thus far are experienced, capable, smart and pragmatic.

Those adjectives apply to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (State Department), Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (Homeland Security), former deputy attorney general Eric Holder (Justice), former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (Health and Human Services) and — the most recent leakees —

Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Treasury), and retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones (national security adviser).

The assemblage so far also is diverse, and in the most gratifying way, which is to say, in a way that seems naturally occurring: No one can look at any of these selections and think that gender or race was the driving factor in the selection.

A common thread among most of these selections is a deep understanding of the legislative process and congressional players.”

• washington post

Now how you like them apples?

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

Yes He Can

“President-elect Barack Obama’s picks thus far are experienced, capable, smart and pragmatic.”

By Call It LIke It Is

November 23, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Obama = The New Robin Hood uhg Socialist Party.

Yea, I’m afraid that my taxes will contiune to go up so I can support lazy government dependent people like you, and our military will contiuned to be BASHED by this new change that these people speak of. Let’s see the last two years Congress was controlled by the Democrats and have done nothing for anyone. Now, these idoits are in office!

As far as education, I believe that I got you on that one since I was not stupid enough to vote for a NONEXPERINCED LEFT WINGED HACK that socializes with Racist, and known Terrorists!

Done!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

“I was not stupid enough to vote for a NONEXPERINCED LEFT WINGED HACK that socializes with Racist, and known Terrorists!”

Call It Like It Is - are you any kin to Sarah Palin?

It certainly sounds like the same aimless and baseless rhetoric that lost the election for the Wordsmith Of Wasilla and her crew who can see Russia from their back doors.

While you are railing with the same ignorance, Obama is composing a brilliant assemblage of experts to tackle the issues that challege The United States Of America.

And all you have is “NONEXPERINCED LEFT WINGED HACK”?

One more thing. Just in case you were wondering, “NONEXPERINCED” is not a word. (Another point for the Georgia education system)

Perhaps you could spend more time witih educating yourself than labelling Obama a “hack”.

Don’t you just hate smart people?

By Call It LIke It Is

November 23, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

No, I do not hate anyone, even you.

Now, your lack of education is open for all to see.

By the way, you can not name one thing that Obama has done for you, his previous district in Chicago, or anyone else for that matter.

As far as labeling, his lack of a record speaks for himself along with his ASSOCIATIONS, (Wright, Ayers, Farrakahan)!

I’ll sit back like all of the others and we shall see America sink even lower once his precious four years are up!

By vuduchld

November 23, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Call it like it is sounds like the extinct Dodo bird I have referenced many times in these posts. If you thought these past eight years have been so brilliant I suggest you go back in a time machine and live them. In fact, take AJC/DNC, Dusty and all the other buffons on here with you!

Obama’s cabinet picks have so far been right on the money. In fact, there is talk about him delaying the repeal of the “tax cuts for the rich” because of the economy. This doesn’t sound like a “tax and spend liberal” to me. He is making sound, pragmatic decisons based on where America presently stands fiscally. Counter that with Dubya, who has all but thrown his hands in the air like chicken little, not having a clue as what to do.

He has also laid out a jobs program, putting it on a fast track to get our nation moving again. Doesn’t sound like someone giving out free money to people on the goverment dole to me.

What you idiots need to realize is that this is a new day, our state BETTER come to the reality that this is a new day and if monkeys like you and the others mentioned don’t get on board, you and this state will be swept away like trailer trash hillbillies in a tornado!!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Call It Like It Is

ASSOCIATIONS?

While you pull yourself from from Fox News. Here are Obama’s “Associations” as you call them. Deal with the truth and not the panic.

On January 20 Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly.

Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, Yale Law), Jim Steinberg (Harvard, Yale Law) and Susan Rice (Stanford, Oxford D. Phil.).

The domestic policy team will be there, too, including Jason Furman (Harvard, Harvard Ph.D.), Austan Goolsbee (Yale, M.I.T. Ph.D.), Blair Levin (Yale, Yale Law), Peter Orszag (Princeton, London School of Economics Ph.D.) and, of course, the White House Counsel Greg Craig (Harvard, Yale Law).

Already the culture of the Obama administration is coming into focus.

As much as you resent these overeducated people, you may find yourself impressed by the Obama transition.

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Call It Like It Is

Other OBAMA ASSOCIATIONS including (but not limited to) Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Dwight Howard, Bill Richardson, Andrew Young, Bruce Springsteen, Julius Erving, Muhammad Ali, Sarah Silverman, John Legend, ME and about 4 million other proud Americans will be looking on as well from The National Mall.

Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh, and his myopic minions, will be somewhere turning beet red in the face as his neck tightens into a knot.

Associations?

You funny.

USA… USA… USA!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

ASSOCIATIONS (The Final Word)

Tell It Like It Is

If you pay any attention to the news, you would note that President-Elect Barack Obama has hired open-minded individuals who are persuadable by evidence, not political motive.

There are many people on the Obama team with practical creativity. Any think tanker can come up with broad doctrines, but it is rare to find people who can give the president a list of concrete steps he can do day by day to advance American interests.

Dennis Ross and Rahm Emanuel have this capacity, as does legislative liaison Phil Schiliro.

Call It Like It Is - simply invoking the name of Reverend Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers to scare people is so last month. What’s next - the brothers at his Chicago barbershop?

That scare tactic didn’t work to win the election - and it won’t work to distract anyone with a brain from the work ahead to repair the economy

By Call It LIke It Is

November 23, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

You still have not answered my question earlier about your savor, MORON!

We still do not know who the real Obama is.

Yes, his associations.

He sat in a Racist church for over twenty years and claims that he did not know that Rev Wright is A HATE & BLAME AMERICA & A RACIST?

That sounds like the liar Clinton telling America that he did not have sexual relations with the Monica L.

Give me a break, and yet, there was no out cry from America to kick this bum out of office. However, we can compare Bush to Hitler, bash Palin and her family, and the Dems seem to all get a pass!

Next, Obama has ties to Bill Ayers & Farrahakan, and the media does not press him on these associations or dig up the actual truth on this guy. Instead, they just take his word on it like Clinton’s.

Moreover, Obama has no real experience on making hard decisions as far as the total impact on people, the military, and foreign relations. Instead, he disrespected the office of the current administration by going around the world trying to be an apeaser.

I’m not scared, just ashamed that a lot of the American public actually bought into this image & a empty suit.

Finally, this last idea of creating 2.5M jobs to build bridges and improve Hwys, who do you think is going to pay for all of this?

ALL OF US WHO ACTUALLY PAY TAXES!

I’m not trying to change your way of thinking, just trying to educate you. Anytime a person comes out and indicates that the solution to America’s problems today is to RAISE TAXES, is not what I nor most want to hear or have as our leader of the nation! Robin Hood’s ideas or better yet Marxism or Socialist ways of thinking does not appeal to me. This class envy crap as got to stop! Most of the tax burden is paid by the rich. The problem is the government dependent do not pay taxes, but yet, will go to the polls to vote for skin color rather that substance.

Finally, FOX News is the only news media that will actually report the facts, unlike most of the liberal biased media.

Again, most that voted for this guy did not vote on his ideas or issues, but simply they voted on race and an image thanks to the Bias Media like the AJC and most major networks.

As far as failing, they (Media) will not allow Obama to fall on his face. They will contiune to prop him up just like they did with Clinton.

You can blame Wall Street’s problems and trace this mortage crisis right back to the Democractic Party during the Clinton years.

I’m done with you.

Enough Said!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

MAD MAGAZINE and Fox News Are Bout Equal

Absolutely all that needs to be said by Call It Like It Is:

“Finally, FOX News is the only news media that will actually report the facts, unlike most of the liberal biased media”

That about sums it up. Anyone who forwards Fox News as the only legitimate source of news deserves to be put on a pedestal with Alfred E Neuman and The Wasilla Board of Regents.

Did you REALLY say Liberal biased media?

You just made my day! Thank you so much for the great laugh. I actually thought I was engaged in a conversation with someone who graduated past fourth grade. I apologize.

Sean Hannity for the Pulitzer Prize!

Bwaahahaha!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Take a look at the SCOREBOARD

Call It Like It Is

What you are missing about how information is disseminated and shared is that the “liberal biased media” (what ever netwroks that includes) was not the major player in the 2008 presidential election.

Based on the research, the internet IS mainstream media and the extent the Obama campaign actiivated new media - determined how information was checked and cross referenced. Precisely why Wright and Ayers were non-issues to people concerned about issues.

The attempts to paint Obama into a corner with any questionable people failed because intelligent people did the homework and decided for themselves.

They were NOT led by the nose by ANY network or talk show host or so-called expert.

Rush Limbaugh pied pipered himself into an irrelevance that will only shrink as younger, more educated (and optimistic) voting-age citizens throw off the bias of their parents.

Our sons and daughters will not have the negative, hate laced, juvenile conversation that you seem intent on preserving. Isn’t that great?

Whether you kick and scream to the tantrums of Limbaugh and Hannity it will not matter in 2009 and beyond because the next generation will only gain more voice as older heads pass on. The diversity of the country will dramatically outnumber those who fear change.

Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life as a US citizen.

Enjoy The Inaugural Parade on January 20.

I certainly will

By Brin

November 23, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

mister.earl you have just got to be kidding - You are not serious ! The main stream media was and is in the Tank for Obama, they elected him. He is there President of choice. Time will tell but I can assure you there will be no retractions aired or printed. If the results are not good the media will run and hide as usual. The media will if fact bring Obama down at the first sign of his imminent failure and they will do this to cover their failure. I hope he is successful for all our sakes but again, the media in large part won the election for him.

By Razmus

November 23, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Well, well; during the campaign Obama sang the praises of the public school system but now here he has gone and put his little princesses in a fancy private school that none of you supporters could ever afford. I hope all of you Obamanists are out there seeing this. What’s good for him and his children is not good for you and yours! I have to give it to him; he, or more likely his advisors, are the slickest of the political slick. Enjoy the ride, zombies!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Cool. Now Back It Up Wiith Facts

Brin - can you please define exactly who the “mainstream media” are?

Unless you have affadavits to show their collective numbers outweigh the users of the internet - your passionate claim of the “mainstream media” (and its bias) is baseless.

By vuduchld

November 23, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

For anyone out there with live brain cells, Fox News had the LOWEST veiwership out of all the other networks on election night. They got their clock cleaned by CNN and others. Right now, the Cartoon Network has more credability than Fox News.

I’m sorry if reality bites for you conservatives then I’m so truly sorry(lol), but if you idiots don’t get with the program then you’ll be flushed down the toilet.

No one is paying you, Hannity or the prima donna meth user Rush Limbaugh any attention so do yourselves a favor and hitch a ride on the O-train!!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

FAMILY MATTERS

Razmus - the Obama family prime concern is protect his daughters from idiots who would do them harm. As a non-parent, that may be something you cannot understand. If you are a parent, your kids have my sympathy.

Like all diplomats living in Washington DC, security can be managed much more effectively in a private school environment accustomed to the heightened security.

This is a family matter.

Nice try.

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

OBAMA

“A great judgment has to be made now as to just how big and bad the situation is,” says Jeffrey Garten, the Yale School of Management professor of international finance. “This is a crucial judgment. Do we think that a couple of hundred billion more and couple of bad quarters will take care of this problem, or do we think that despite everything that we have done so far — despite the $700 billion fund to rescue banks, the lowering of interest rates and the way the Fed has stepped in directly to shore up certain markets — the bottom is nowhere in sight and we are staring at a deep hole that the entire world could fall into?”

If it’s the latter, then we need a huge catalyst of confidence and capital to turn this thing around. Only the new president and his team, synchronizing with the world’s other big economies, can provide it.

“The biggest mistake Obama could make,” added Garten, “is thinking this problem is smaller than it is. On the other hand, there is far less danger in overestimating what will be necessary to solve it.”

Conventional wisdom says it’s good for a new president to start at the bottom. The only way to go is up. That’s true — unless the bottom falls out before he starts.

• Friedman NYTimes (mainstream media)

By SOUTHERN ATL

November 23, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

I like that choice!!!!…. Now we have a REAL VOICE from a Woman’s point-of-view!!

It seems as if President-Elect Obama is playing a game of POKER and holding his hand close to his chest!!!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

President Elect Obama Cannot Get Started Soon Enough

The world is ready for change to something more intelligent

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper cautioned Obama against plans to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would worsen a global financial crisis.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said he hoped Obama would recognize the importance of U.S.-China ties while treading carefully on the thorny issue of Taiwan.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, warned delegates at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, “The next U.S. administration must assume leadership in a very firm manner—not just for Americans but for the whole world,”

By Jake

November 23, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

YOU voted for change and all you got was bottom dwelling scum. Some difference. What praise is being heaped on this bunch of retard retreads. What a joke was pulled on the American people by the 97 percent of the blacks who voted blindly for a man without executive experience and any real business skill and whose votes consisted mostly of “PRESENT”, thats all just present. Even now he can’t speak up. When asked what he recommended for the auto industry, he replied “I am having corned beef”. Stupidity by the press in that if our President Bush had uttered those inane words the liberal press including bookman, tucker and lucovich would have having an orgasm tantrum slandering our President.

By vuduchld

November 23, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this

Ah Jake,

Duh!! Obama is the PRESIDENT ELECT, he’s does not take over until Jan 20 so do yourself a favor, direct your stupid rant at the current commander in thief, Dubya. He is still running away, oops, running the show. Funny, isn’t he a businessman? Everything he has touched turns into a disaster. Give me a no experience, no count leader any day instead of the current idiot stinking up the joint!!

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this

Jake

Obama is President Elect of The United States

Bottom dwelling scum?

Retard retreads?

Are you absolutely certain those are the best words you can string together to validate your point of view?

If that is the best you can do, the fact that just forcing your vile mouth to say President-Elect Obama makes your skin crawl is a good thing.

Rush Limbaugh referred to President-Elect Barack Obama as a thug.

You two belong together.

Traitors

By mister.earl

November 23, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

January 20

“There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making,” Mr. Obama said Saturday. “And it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.

“But January 20th is our chance to begin anew, with a new direction, new ideas and new reforms that will create jobs and fuel long-term economic growth.”

Jake

It is evident that Obama makes people with small brains very angry. They, like you, have a difficult time wrapping their minds around something so improbable that it invokes images of the sky falling, dogs sleeping with cats - and their narrow-minded world coming to an abrupt end.

Get over it.

Obama won.

By mister.earl

November 24, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Everyday People

Funny that many people perceived only Sarah Palin as “one of us”

“Until recently, Obama and his wife were accustomed to pumping their own gas, shopping at a nearby food co-op, riding bikes along Lake Michigan and attending neighborhood barbecues.”

Counter to the idiots who tried to paint him as too “exotic” or just too different, Barack Obama will be like having a friend in The White House

Just a man who loves his family and digs playing basketball with the fellas

By yankee

November 24, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

The Bush years or the Clinton years. Can you believe some choose Bush? I can’t, and I voted for him. Please forgive me.

By mister.earl

November 24, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Yankee - you are forgiven. See you at The Inaugural Parade

Lets Go Mets

By mister.earl

November 24, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Regular Guy

“This appointment sends a strong message that the Obamas want to use the White House strategically, to maximize its use in a way that is consistent with their philosophy — [to] open it to a broader range of people, ” said Valerie Jarrett, an Obama intimate and friend of Rogers’s who also will work in the White House.

Most important, the Obamas and (Desiree) Rogers will develop creative ways to bring a broad spectrum of people through the White House, “so it’s the people’s house again,” Jarrett said. “This campaign engaged a lot of people in ways they had not engaged before. This is about continuing to capture that excitement.”

Good Morning to America

By Suffering Cats

November 24, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Looks like Obama is nothing more than the Clinton third term. No wonder he has been able to put his team together so fast.

Let’s hope a Newt II comes to the rescue with he mid-term elections.

By mister.earl

November 24, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Suffering Cats

Rather than looking too far ahead in the future, perhaps President Barack Obama can take the first phone call in his new Pennsylvania Avenue office on Janauary 20 before you are ready to push him out the door.

Remember one fact, lost on the Republicans who could not advance a single (just one) coherant new idea.

It’s good to be smart.

By SOUTHERN ATL

November 24, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

There comes a time when the people of this “GREAT STATE” will say ‘ENOUGH ALREADY”!!

We are speaking loud and clear at the polls and on the AJC blogs….No matter how many Republicans stump for SAXBY, he is not OUR CHOICE Jim Martin is!!!

Rudy Giuliani, Sara Palin, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee you are invited to join Congress on December 2, 2008 in Washington D.C………….

The congress 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

Thanks to all of you for a hard fought race!!!

By Redneck

November 24, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

New cabinet members? Looks like a rehash of the clinton years.

For those of you who brag about Bills success in the 90’s remember that it was the Republicans who drug billy towards fiscal sanity and the balanced budget(on paper). It was also billyboy who was asleep at the wheel, or getting serviced by monica, while 2 embassies, one barrack, and a war ship almost sunk. He also refused to allow our special ops people to take out OBL three times and refused to take him when offer twice!!!

Nope, ain’t going to be a rerun of the 90’s. BHO is a nothing but a fancy slogan and a empty suit!!!

By making

November 24, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Yeap…Obama’s change…looks like the same players in past adminstration…NO CHANGE…where’s the token GOP secretary that he promised! Obama…good talker, NO results.

By ufdg

November 24, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

IS BIDEN STILL AROUND?

By making

November 24, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

He’s measuring for drapes in the White House!