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By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:13 PM | Link to this

This is ridiculous!!! They might as well say we won’t take money from a black president. Bush wasted TRILLIONS of dollars and NOONE protested about it

By dave

February 27, 2009 4:19 PM | Link to this

ameer,

you are an idiot!!

By David C

February 27, 2009 4:20 PM | Link to this

No one protested Ameer? Race baiter. What rock have you been under the last 8 years.

By Mucha

February 27, 2009 4:20 PM | Link to this

Everything negative about Obama has nothing to do with him being black, he is a liberal socialist that believes in Marxist government. This country was not founded on communism, and with the trillions he is going to spend on social programs, which already have failed more business will either shutdown or move overseas.

This guy has not ever made a budget for anything except now. Oh his home fiscal budget.

By AtlantaBry

February 27, 2009 4:20 PM | Link to this

I am white and I have seen more positive action from Obama than I did from Bush in 8 years. I wish people would give him a chance.

By Chanel

February 27, 2009 4:21 PM | Link to this

I agree, where was the tea party when the Bush Admin gave hand outs to his wealthy friends on wall street! This is just like the ol’ south. No need to say more!I support our President!

By Karl Marx

February 27, 2009 4:21 PM | Link to this

we are not heading toward socialism. we’ve been there for years. of greater concern should be the realization that the free market/capitlism experiment has failed. the Constitution has been hijacked by special interests via the politicians they buy. silly pep rallies and the ranting and name-calling of talk-radio entertainers do not address the true essence of problem. of course Obama is a socialist… so was George W. Bush. until Americans hold elected officials accountable (as the lobbyists and ownership class do) taxpayers in ALL income brackets will pick up the tab.

By 1911A1

February 27, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

Ameer, you stupid, pathetic, brain-dead idiot.

“Take money from a black president”? What alien species exiled you to planet Earth?

It’s the scoundrels Nancy “Hack in the Box” Pelosi and Harry “Land Baron” Reid that are taking trillions from US and using it to enlarge their own federal empire.

There’s a clue store just around the corner. I suggest you go there and buy one.

By Jadis

February 27, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

I’m so tired of people trying to make current political issues about race. The race of the president has nothing to do with my opinion about his plans. This is about socialism vs. capitalism, not black vs. white.

By LT5000

February 27, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

Has the Obama buyer’s remorse set in yet?

$25000 per taxpayer and growinig.

LT5000

By mamiefone

February 27, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

Ameer, you stupid. has nothing to do with that.

By kegger

February 27, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

Actually Ameer, that was Congress (Democratic as I’m sure your aware)… Bush just had to hold his nose and sign it, not that he’s completely innocent.

By Ryan

February 27, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this

I love it!!! Its about time people stood up against government taking control of our rights and moving further and further towards socialism.

By Sad Brother

February 27, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this

I wish I knew about it. This Democratic Party should be named the “Socialist Party”. I am SICK of Pelosi!

By dondee

February 27, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this

Did Bush “waste” trillions of dollars in his first month of office? Think not…..The libs are giddy with power in the amount of money they are spending……….Obviously the protesters are emulating the Boston Tea Party and taxation without representation, which is about what we have..I would have loved to been there!

By Free Market Capitalist

February 27, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

AMEN, Lets make sure European socialism doesnt rear it’s nast head in the United States. The best solution for a recession is TAX CUTS NOT GOVERMENT SPENDING. The only sector that created jobs and performed well in the final quarter last year was the small business sector.

America is the land of oppurtunity not the land of big government and welfare. “free” healthcare run by the same people that have ruined stocks is not a smart idea. The quality of care will take a nose dive and waiting time will go sky high.

My grandfather fought for this country in WWII, my dad did the same in Vietnam, and I’m in my final year at N-Ga military college. After I complete my degree I will serve to pay for my school and I pray that this socialism is not what I will fight for. Our previous generations didnt fight for this and they and we deserve better.

By JP

February 27, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

Ameer - Get that chip off of your shoulder. This protest was aimed at the Democrats in Congress just as much as it was at Obama.

By ha

February 27, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

i love how santelli (a former derivatives trader) rants about government spending to bail out bad decisions to the cheers of stock brokers who have already been bailed out due to bad decisions. hilarious.

and ameer, the repubs only seem to care about government spending when its democrats doing it, and it when it doesnt involve blowing sh!t up.

By The Todd

February 27, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

Hey Ameer - Way to play the race card… Once again… this isn’t about the color of the President’s skin. This is about a 1,300 page 787 Billion dollar piece of legislation that was signed into and, but wasn’t read by a single member of Congress or the President himself.

Go home… look in the mirror… and then slap yourself in the face for posting a STUPID comment on this board.

By John

February 27, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this

Someone needs to teabag Ameer

By ANGIE

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT. I SEE THE CITIZENS OF GEORGIA SUFFERING;LOSING THEIR JOBS,HOMES,VECHILES AND SOME HAVE EVEN COMMITTED SUICIDE OVER THIS GREAT NATIONAL TRAGEDY. I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU COULD TAKE 2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME AND GO TO NELP.ORG DATE OF 02/23/2009 I THINK THAT ALL CITIZENS OF GEORGIA WOULD RATHER CHANGE A FEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS THAN SEE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE THROWN TO THE STREETS FROM HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY. I AM GLAD THAT YOU HAVE OBTAINED A SECURE JOB AND MOST EVERYONE IN YOUR IMMEDIATE DAY TO DAY ROUTINE DOES ALSO. BUT FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY AND THE SAKE OF THE INCREASED GEORGIA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS MEANS TO A JOB. SURE IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN YOU CAN GET A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY EACH MONTH FROM TANF AND FOOD STAMPS AND MEDICAL. BUT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN YOU WONT EVEN GET THAT. THAT WONT KEEP A ROOF OVER THAT FAMILIES HEAD OR EVEN PAY UTILITIES. AS A VOTER AND AS A GEORGIAN I ASK YOU TO RECONSIDER ANY REJECTION OF THIS MONEY. FOR WHAT EVER DECISION IS MADE GOOD OR BAD THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE GOIG TO BE EFFECTED. I SURE WOULD NOT WANT TRAGEDY OR HARM TO ANYONES LIFE. THANK YOU

By ab

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

Where does color come into this protest? That is ridiculous Ameer!

By Jean Layfette

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

viva la revolution!!! ;)

By pat

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

AMEER-stop talking like a racist. this has nothing to do with black or white.

By Kim

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

I’m not in this tax bracket, but find it troubling. In addition to raising taxes on people who make more than $200,000/year, Obama is making it impossible for them to write off taxable donations. This will undoubtedly cut down on direct donations to charity from wealthy people. Obama’s budget guy said that they would make it up by giving to chairites from government money. So you are no longer allowed to pick which charities you support, or don’t support, the government will now do that for you. That rubs me the wrong way.

By toptencane

February 27, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

You love playing the race card don’t you AMEER. This stimulus is not designed to help the economy it’s for more gov. control leading to obama’s plan of socialists control. wise up !

By Jim

February 27, 2009 4:28 PM | Link to this

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” ~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005 ~~~~~

By AM

February 27, 2009 4:28 PM | Link to this

Ameer, that is the dumbest comment I’ve ever heard in my life. Is this going to happen for the next 4 years? Everytime we don’t agree with something President Obama does we are racist? You’re just plain ignorant!

By Amen

February 27, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

Amen to Ameer. Where were these protests with the initial TARP plan that Bush laid out?

By Oh Pluheez.

February 27, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

Those protesters looked liked str8 fools today.

I was waiting for elephants to march down the street because all I saw were clowns!

Do these foolish protesters suggest that we just sit by and let the economy get worst??

Did they protest when George Bush sent everyone $$500.00 checks??? Of course not, they went to the Piggly Wiggley and Kohl’s department stores.

The Ugly Guys and their clowns need to get real. They need to return to their jobs at McDonald’s.

By Kennesaw Dave

February 27, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this

Here we go with the race-baiting again. Bush spent BILLIONS not TRILLIONS and people didn’t kick up a fuss becuause most of it went to defending against terrorism. Or did you forget that we don’t have twin towers in NYC anymore Ameer? I got news for you pal it takes money to defend a country this size. Or any country for that matter. And maybe you’d be OK with loosing most of your freedoms that soldiers live and die to protect but I’m not. Obama and the Congress are rapidly pushing Socialism down everyone’s throat and I for one don’t want any part of it. But hey, if it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to have the president sign into law excessive spending bills that your children and possibly your grandchildren are going to be paying for down the road. by all means promote your point of view. But don’t give me this “won’t take money from a black president crap!”

By Juan Hung Ghai

February 27, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

I gotta find the office that renews race card. Ameer, can you tell me the location, or at least post a link of the “Web Address Number”…

By The Truth Comes Out

February 27, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Bush doubled the deficit in eight years and Obama doubled it in 4 weeks after he vowed to cut spending and said “not one earmak will cross my desk as president”. Well I guess in a way he told the truth it wasnt one it was over NINE THOUSAND! and that was his first idiotic SPENDING bill not stimulus package. The people who voted for him have been lied to just like the rest of us. I am proud to say that I wasnt one of the voters he fooled. After 6 weeks of total screw ups though I guess these tea party organizers and participants have no reason to be upset though because Obama is the second coming huh? LOL! Wake up people you are being led down the primrose path to socialism by someone who wants to govern close to the same way as Castro or Chavez!

By Jim

February 27, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Just another bunch of ignorant Georgia rednecks. I wonder what these morons would think if the stimulus bill hadn’t been passed and they were living on the streets in a year.

By MARK

February 27, 2009 4:34 PM | Link to this

AMEER - ISN’T IT ALWAYS THE RACIST THAT ALWAYS PLAYS THE RACE CARD?! GO BACK TO WATCHING ANOTHER EPISODE OF AMERICAN IDOL - THAT’S HOW THIS BUFOON GOT ELECTED ANYWAY - HE SPOKE AND PHOTOGRAPHED VERY WELL AND MCCAIN HAD A BAD COMPLEXION - END OF STORY. GIVE OBAMA A CHANCE? TO WHAT? TAKE MORE MONEY FROM THE PRODUCERS IN SOCIETY AND SHOVEL IT IN BUCKETFULS TO THE POOR (I.E LAZY????)? GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK…

By thinker

February 27, 2009 4:34 PM | Link to this

Karl, you have the smartest comment on here.

By Rob

February 27, 2009 4:34 PM | Link to this

Only a couple of hundred people showed up huh? That tells me something!

By ANGIE

February 27, 2009 4:34 PM | Link to this

YOU ARE COMPLETLY RIGHT. HE SITS HIMSELF BESIDE US AS AN AMERICAN NOT ABOVE US. I WOULD ASSUME MOST OF THE ONES AT THE CAPITAL RUNNING THEIR MOUTHS ABOUT SOMETHING THEY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT (LIKE EFFECTING MILLIONS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE)BELONG TO A RACES GROUP..

By Appalled

February 27, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

All the moves Obama, Reid and Pelosi are making are to put America in the ruins. Obama is working for the radical muslims, who have vowed to destroy America and he is taking the quickest route possible to do that.

Where do you think his 1 billion in campaign money came from?

It is so obvious, but we must stand up and fight to save America from distruction before it’s too late. Rock on protesters! “Don’t Tread On Me” is the perfect way to put it!

By ab

February 27, 2009 4:37 PM | Link to this

“President Obama does not like black people”, there how does that feel, loser

By PeachMan

February 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

Ironic that Allen LaBerteaux — a State Employee that works for Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine and made more than $42,500 off the government last year — went to protest government spending on a workday…I wonder how many other republican hinchman that get paid by the government were also at the “protest.”

Its almost like King George joining the Boston Tea Party.

Weird.

By concerned

February 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

Hey Ameer - sorry buddy but no one is* taking* money from Obama-its not his personal checkbook-its our taxes!

By exgop

February 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

The difference between the spending that Obama is doing vs the spending that Bush has done was that Obama’s spending is helping you and me. Bush’s spending only helped big oil, Iraq, and pharmaceuticals. So when these folks go out protesting like idiots, i’m sure they will be the first to jump on the jobs wagon when they can be gainfully employed a direct result of the stimulus deal. I know a bunch of hillbillies who voted for mccain, but are trying hard to get a job and cannot wait for the OBAMA stimulus plan to kick start. Why don’t these morons protest BP, Shell, Phizer, GE and other companies who got the most corporate welfare over the past 8 years? Oh, they create jobs I see. Our economy has posted a net job loss over the past 8 years. yes, companies got tax breaks and continued to send jobs to China and India. Protest that!

By Jimmy Harrison

February 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

What idots! I just had a good friend loose his job after 23 years of work and being 55 years old with two mouths to feed. He is thankful to have the additional money for unemployment under this stimulus package to keep his family goind and his kids feed. Thank God for President Obama!

By Cloud_21

February 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

AMERICA IS ON A PATH OF SELF DESTRUCTION, ITS NOT OBAMAS FAULT BUT JUST THE DESTINY OF AMERICA… PEOPLE IT WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GET BETTER..SO PROTEST ALL YOU WANT.. CUZ IT WONT CHANGE A THING WHAT YOU PEOPLE NEED, IS GOD

By piggly wiggly

February 27, 2009 4:39 PM | Link to this

Who shops at the piggly wiggly, and yes, you all who voted for Obama drank the Kool-Aid. And now we all suffer for your idiocy. Thanks…

By Free Market Capitalist

February 27, 2009 4:40 PM | Link to this

It’s called inflation guys… Obama thinks everyone making over 250 is SOOO RICH. But if he takes the current level of 34% (still too high) and raises it to 39-41% you can kiss a good portion of small businesses good bye and the jobs they supplied as well. My dad is a dentist and he is in this “rich category making right at or slightly above that magic number. What some people don’t consider is my dad pays malpractice insurance (very high) , regular insurance, office supplies, medical supplies, employee healthcare, utilities on the office, PAYROLL for the employees, and several other fun charges like advertising, and the office note… So when you consider all of those charges he isn’t so rich anymore and he still has to support a family and pay his own bills. If he is forced to pay even more than he already is he will have to cut 1-3 jobs and raise his prices to stay above the water. This means even if you aren’t “rich” everything you buy from a business will be more expensive and inflation will be at levels never before seen.

Lower taxes not government spending is the answer. How come I’m in college and I have this figured out but half of the country is asleep at the weel?

And Bush did not spend this kind of money in his first term with his Republican house and senate. Most of the hikes in spending came post 911 when we started fighting the war on terror and rebounding from attacks that affected the economy as well. Bush did let DC get to him I think in his second term however and did make some unnecessary spending. But WOW Obama makes Bush look like a stingy kid with his allowance. This is a sad day for America and I hope and pray we make it to 2010 when the fiscal conservatives will make a comeback and restore free market capitalism.

P.S. You noticed what the stock market does every time Obama announces more bailouts or spending? They know what he is doing and that’s why the stocks are tanking. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax which means after you already pay your tax the rate you pay again will go up on your stock meaning NO ONE will invest because the profit margin will tank. I guess we are socialist now

By Robert

February 27, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this

I’m mad as hell at the government…how do I get involved???

By Tell It Like it is

February 27, 2009 4:42 PM | Link to this

AMEN!!!!!! To HELL with Pelosi, Reid, Obama and ALL the Socialist that want to PENALIZE the ACHIEVERS and job CREATORS in this country!! All they want to do is REDISTRIBUTE the wealth, and reward the leeches of the Government!!!

By Eric

February 27, 2009 4:42 PM | Link to this

To everyone, it’s just as alarming to see the GA state legislature approve a the taxpayer “pay-in-advance” support (welfare) of GA Power’s nuke program!! Why look to Washington when we’re being fleeced in our back yard!! Where are the protests of this?

By ga_tech_92

February 27, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

People who comment on “color” are simply avoiding the conversation in the most classic way, with an illogical emotional response. That sort of response doesn’t address the specific topic in ANY way. IE…your f-ing too stupid to see past your own racism. Yes…YOU are the racist Ameer.

By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

kill, kill, kill the white man.

By Kennesaw Dave

February 27, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

Jim:

Hello! they’re going to be on the streets anyway because the person that owns the company the provides them a job will be letting people go to keep their business afloat because they’re getting taxed out the ying yang by Obama’s soon to be new tax policies! People who make 250K or more didn’t have all that money dropped in their lap by some magic. They worked and got an education or a skill that allowed them to have a business and provide jobs to rednecks!

By Kyle

February 27, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

Glad to see someone holding a protest over something that has some meaning to it rather than these anti-American fools wanting something for nothing or upset over a cartoon.

By Artie

February 27, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Bush was a TURD!!!

By Leigh

February 27, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Fellow Americans- Lets Take Back Our Country For everyone fed up, let’s do something about it. What should we do? Well, this is what I did:

1.) Signed up on resistnet.com- the Patriotic Resistanance to the Obama administration (a peaceful group that openly rejects the plans of his administration) Remember STRENGTH IS IN NUMBERS….screw if you are a democrat or a republican. Let’s fix this great nation.

2.) Credit lending is not a problem. I work for a builder and I see plenty of mortgage applications still being approved. We DO need regulation on unworthy borrowers.

3.) We need to buy products made in the USA. We need to DEMAND govt quits spending but regulates our to make sure we are creating jobs in the US with manufacturing again

4.) Listen, if it’s broke, fix it. Again, whether they are republican or democrat- if they are in office and have been they are either a part of the problem or not strong enought to fix it. We need to replace the current elected officials.

Listen, the government is FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE.

Seriously, we need to stand up for the constitution and our God given rights and liberties. Come on Americans- let’s do this! Let’s get our nation back on track for our children and their children. Please act now before it’s too late.

By Gary

February 27, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Ha “i love how santelli (a former derivatives trader) rants about government spending to bail out bad decisions to the cheers of stock brokers who have already been bailed out due to bad decisions. hilarious.

and ameer, the repubs only seem to care about government spending when its democrats doing it, and it when it doesnt involve blowing sh!t up.”

How right you are! Let’s also remember that no one dared protest anything while BUSH was in office. As we all know protesters, especially anti war, were constantly arrested and put in jail when trying to excersize their right of Free Speech! The only reason Republicans are p** off is that that the money will actually go to where it’s supposed to instead of someones secret off shore bank accounts. I’ll bet any money Santelli makes above $250,000 a year and gee what do ya know his taxes will be increased a bit! Yeah it’s time for the gluttonous rich asses to suck it up a bit!

By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

we be black in the house. finally the black man will make whitey his slaves.

By S

February 27, 2009 4:46 PM | Link to this

I find it very interesting that no one can see that our economy is almost at a standstill. Do they propose that we do nothing and just let the country fall into chaos. I don’t like spending but I also don’t like tax cuts/credits for big companies that just turn around and layoff employees. Even small companies feel the pain, example just this morning, a major craft basket maker in Ohio said it was laying off 500 employees. Thats a lot of families hurting in that one community..should they hold a tea party.

What people don’t understand is that the Federal government is made for this very need - the spender/buyer of last resort. The Feds are the only ones that can break the cycle of people not buying because they got laid off from the company who could not get enough customers to make a profit/pay staff.

You can have your tea parties and say the word socialism as much you like but I bet you if one of these individuals lose their family’s only source of income or savings they will be the first ones asking the Feds to please help them.

FACT: Past political policies have put this 30 day old President in the bad position of having to fix this mess with more spending…if you did not protest the former President/Repubs + some Dems who drove us into this hole..dont protest the one person who is trying to help pull us out..no matter the size of the tow truck.

By exgop

February 27, 2009 4:47 PM | Link to this

Conservatives call it redistribution when it’s money going down, but not when it’s money going up. Like when the big corporations got the tax breaks under your old president bush..The ones you so vehemently supported. He took your money and basically allowed the big companies to keep their money only to redistribute it to china and India in forms of investment. Oh, and how about he took your tax dollars and send it to Iraq? Ever think about that? That is redistribution. Also, I am a successful business owner. I don’t mind paying a higher tax rate to be in America. I know only in America I have the opportunity to be as successful. I know I couldn’t have amassed this fortune in Poland or Russia. I owe it to my country to pay my fair share in order to allow others the opportunity to do the same.

By Jasmine

February 27, 2009 4:48 PM | Link to this

Did anyone who disagree with obama’s politics stand up when they disagreed with Bush’s politics? I partially agree with Ameer . This nation is not against pulling the race card and anyone who disagrees is in denial. Bush’s approval rate dropped to one of the lowest that any president has ever seen and not as many people protested when he kept taking money from health care and other things that were more important then that war. I guess those who disagree with Ameer have’t read the news lately about all the death threats Obama received. You can’t speak for anyone but yourself…no one else! So let his opinion be his opinion and you have your opinions, but don’t shoot someone down because you may PERSONALLY disagree! Act your age people! You don’t know what any of those protester’s were thinking when they wen’t down there!

By TERRI

February 27, 2009 4:48 PM | Link to this

You people just don’t get it!! It isn’t about blame, it is about all the waste by our government as a whole. Republicans and Democrats. Wake up people, we and our future generations will bear the burden of all this spending. All the tax increases will be passed on to us one way or another. How can you not see this coming??

By Jdawg

February 27, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this

Yeah I cant wait to get a $13 tax credit in my paychecks. People blame BUSH for our country’s problem. Well hate to tell you under President Bush we had a Democratic Party that basically put us where we are at today. People just want to blame BUSH cause he was the president at the time. I wonder if the Democratic Party didnt do this on purpose so we could get a Socialist President in power. I just want this nightmare over and get Michael Steele as president next election.

By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:50 PM | Link to this

Hey gatech92

But I’ll have all your money and a big family cookout with chicken, waffles, watermelon, colt45 and some b***/hos all paid by you.

By mike

February 27, 2009 4:51 PM | Link to this

Sometimes our freedom cause more hurt and division than anything…the more we are split apart in this country the further we fall into trouble…I see how super powers fall apart…if we can not come to an agreement on the Congress level there is know hope for the rest of us…after all they are our leader right.

By Oh Pluheez

February 27, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

Those protesters looked liked str8 fools today.

I was waiting for elephants to march down the street because all I saw were clowns!

Do these foolish protesters suggest that we just sit by and let the economy get worst??

Did they protest when George Bush sent everyone $$500.00 checks??? Of course not, they went in droves to the Piggly Wiggly, Big LOTS and Kohl’s department stores.

The Ugly Guys and their clowns need to get real. They need to return to their stock jobs at Save-Rite.

By liz

February 27, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

backwards South rises again

By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:53 PM | Link to this

Ameer outy I got some white b*** to ho. word up homies, one love, be black, salam ma lekem, other black slang!!!

By Terrified

February 27, 2009 4:53 PM | Link to this

Barak Obama is a supreme narcissist. Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late.

The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.

If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The “present” vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him.

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only an idiot does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple.

Obama will set the clock back decades… The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

By Ameer

February 27, 2009 4:53 PM | Link to this

Ameer outy I got some white b*** to ho. word up homies, one love, be black, salam ma lekem, other black slang and hip hop lingo!!!

By KnotLisa

February 27, 2009 4:54 PM | Link to this

I wish I’d known about this, I would’ve been there! I’d never cared much for politics and government my whole life, but the last couple of years I have been shaken to the core. I’ve done massive amounts of research and what I know now is that we AMERICANS, black, white or purple striped, Democrat or Republican,…have been asleep at the wheel and have allowed this corrupt system to take control. It is quite rotten from the ground level to the top. Gov’t expansion is NOT the answer. Dont believe me, go do your homework and discover the answers in the history books. Hey, you’re online now killing time, start googling to learn how the Great Depression happened. Then get back up and fight for your rights back!

By cbgb

February 27, 2009 4:54 PM | Link to this

About damn time. I hope this is just the beginning of a grass roots movement culminating in a massed march on Washington to forcibly remove these rotten, no-good, sorry b*******. Enough!

By The Trurth Comes out

February 27, 2009 4:55 PM | Link to this

We despise him because he is an inexperienced uninitiated socialist that has no clue how to govern. Not because he is half black.

By liz

February 27, 2009 4:55 PM | Link to this

Ameer is wrong with the race baiting but right on premise. Georgians didn’t protest Bush’s off the handle spending that even Jindal said was irresponsible. For the genius that said they didn’t protest because it went to fight terrorist as a result of 9/11, You were lied to! Bush admitted he lied to us! He fought Iraq because he felt like it, we ll know good and well Iraq and 9/11 are not connected.

By TG

February 27, 2009 4:56 PM | Link to this

I know that many are hurting right now. Many, if not most, who read this have no real stake in the game. You have no savings, are under or unemployed, have perilous levels of consumer debt, and might be looking at a forclosure. But this craziness from Obama is not the answer. Doing away with the mortgage interest deduction and the deduction for charitable contributions for the “rich” will just give way to doing away with it for everyone. Obama is enacting some very scary things, and do not discount his two lunatic sidekicks (Pelosi and Reid) This is not a race issue at all. Colin Powell and JC Watts have been popular figures in government (mostly with whites). I understand that these are tough times calling for tough measures, but destroying our nation and the opportunities that it was intended to provide is not the answer. I hope that this is not the end of the United States of America as we know it and as it was meant to be. Frightfully though, I believe it just may be. May God Bless Us All!!!

By TG

February 27, 2009 4:57 PM | Link to this

I know that many are hurting right now. Many, if not most, who read this have no real stake in the game. You have no savings, are under or unemployed, have perilous levels of consumer debt, and might be looking at a forclosure. But this craziness from Obama is not the answer. Doing away with the mortgage interest deduction and the deduction for charitable contributions for the “rich” will just give way to doing away with it for everyone. Obama is enacting some very scary things, and do not discount his two lunatic sidekicks (Pelosi and Reid) This is not a race issue at all. Colin Powell and JC Watts have been popular figures in government (mostly with whites). I understand that these are tough times calling for tough measures, but destroying our nation and the opportunities that it was intended to provide is not the answer. I hope that this is not the end of the United States of America as we know it and as it was meant to be. Frightfully though, I believe it just may be. May God Bless Us All!!!

By KPH

February 27, 2009 4:57 PM | Link to this

This is just the first of many protest’s against this governement. If you dont like it all I can say is brace yourself!

By Tell It Like it is

February 27, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this

All of you Obama-nuts———you want a job? Go find you a POOR person!!! You bunch of fools!

By Mata

February 27, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this

Big whoop…which does these people want us take back - Real America or Fake America? Feel disenfranchised you must, protesters, but don’t pretend that the stimulus is socialism. I’m starting to line my cat’s liter-box with your conservative talking-point mailings. What about all that greedy de-regulation that helped send our jobs overseas in the years leading up to the stimulus? Give the President a chance before harkening back to the American Revolution. Sure they paid high taxes back then, but early Americans sure did have free slave labor and little to no government services. They SHOULD have been mad. But today, now that we expect the government to do so much with so little, how else do you propose we pay to fix our problems?

By south is a hell hole

February 27, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this

Funny, Bush runs up a 1.75 trillion budget deficit, Obama is trying to fix Bush’s mess and now you dumb s** want to protest. But yeah go ahead and tell me Bush spent it fighting terrorism and the misguided Iraq war where kids are dying for no damn reason. Go ahead and ignore the billions in tax breaks to his boys at Exxon. What a dumb state.

By yankee

February 27, 2009 5:01 PM | Link to this

Give me a break, this ia Georgia and everything is dominated by race. By both sides.

By Yevette

February 27, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding!!!! I thought we elected a new president in in November? We now have a president who is giving us the full picture and not hiding spending, torturing POW’s (yes the people held at Guantonamo Bay are POW’s just like John McCain), bringing the government into the 21st century with the rest of us and creating jobs that people can pay their bills with and not just say they “have” a job and have to leave that one and go to another on to make ends meet. Before he can een begin to really build he has to clean up the HUGE mess that built up during the last administration. Go home and sit down….you and your followers will benefit from what is being put in place. If you want to march, go to Charlotte and find out why the Bank of America chairman is still riding on a private jet at $5000 a pop but not working with individuals who are in or may be going into forclosure.

By Free Market Capitalist

February 27, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this

It’s called inflation guys… Obama thinks everyone making over 250 is SOOO RICH. But if he takes the current level of 34% (still too high) and raises it to 39-41% you can kiss a good portion of small businesses good bye and the jobs they supplied as well. My dad is a dentist and he is in this “rich category making right at or slightly above that magic number. What some people don’t consider is my dad pays malpractice insurance (very high) , regular insurance, office supplies, medical supplies, employee healthcare, utilities on the office, PAYROLL for the employees, and several other fun charges like advertising, and the office note… So when you consider all of those charges he isn’t so rich anymore and he still has to support a family and pay his own bills. If he is forced to pay even more than he already is he will have to cut 1-3 jobs and raise his prices to stay above the water. This means even if you aren’t “rich” everything you buy from a business will be more expensive and inflation will be at levels never before seen.

Lower taxes not government spending is the answer.

And Bush did not spend this kind of money in his first term with his Republican house and senate. Most of the hikes in spending came post 911 when we started fighting the war on terror and rebounding from attacks that affected the economy as well. Bush did let DC get to him I think in his second term however and did make some unnecessary spending. But WOW Obama makes Bush look like a stingy kid with his allowance. This is a sad day for America and I hope and pray we make it to 2010 when the fiscal conservatives will make a comeback and restore free market capitalism.

P.S. You noticed what the stock market does every time Obama announces more bailouts or spending? They know what he is doing and that’s why the stocks are tanking. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax which means after you already pay your tax the rate you pay again will go up on your stock meaning NO ONE will invest because the profit margin will tank. I guess we are socialist now

By terrified the inbred

February 27, 2009 5:04 PM | Link to this

@terrified - what inbred mother spawned you? You are a disgrace to white people everywhere. Please do not breed.

By Yevette

February 27, 2009 5:09 PM | Link to this

dondee, Bush didn’t have a plan when he entered office. He helped his buddies get rich…I am curious to know how many of the people who are so against helping other people and calling President Obama’s plans as socialist make over $250K per year? Are you ok with paying off the idots on Wall Street but not help the people have worked hard and now don’t have jobs because of the problems that have come from the Bush Administration.

By im4ball

February 27, 2009 5:11 PM | Link to this

Most independent economists do not support a stimulus package like the one just passed. They know that this “package” is going to have a greater adverse affect on the future than if the economy were left to repair itself.

The fact is that when an average person makes a mistake in their finances, they pay for it directly and hopefully learn not make the same mistakes. This is called having “consequences” for your actions. Where are the conseuences when someone bails you out? How do you learn from your mistakes if there are no consequences?

I am fully aware of the ripple effect when large corporations have problems but didnt they all bring this on themselves and by bailing them out arent we just prolonging the problem? Take GM for instance. They have not had an original idea for a vehicle in decades. They produce poorly made automobiles. They let the UAW push them around. They make bad investments. They over-pay their employees and managment. Now they are burning through government cash (your and my money) at a record rate without fixing anything and they have the balls to ask for more. Well wouldn’t you if someone were foolish enough to give it?

I say let GM file bankruptcy just like any citizen who get’s themselves in trouble. Let GM fix their own problems or let them go under. We live in a free enterprise system (at least for a little while longer) where companies survive by having a quality product to sell. Let GM downsize and let GM design a quality product that people want to buy at a price they can afford and let GM tell the UAW to take a hike…this will solve their problems better throwing money at them.

And then use this model on all the other companies with their hands out..this is the real and right way to stimulate the economy.

By ROFL

February 27, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this

It boils down to this - 1.)Race will always be an issue in America because neither side will let it go. 2.)Everyone that is bashing Obama - You’ll scream Socialist and how unjust you feel your tax dollars are being wasted, until you lose your job. You don’t want to be part of the stimulus then do not file unemployment. Easy as that. 3.) Stop Hiding behind Bush “defending” our country. Killing Bin Laden would have shown the world to not mess with us. Invading Iraq just showed the world we serve our own interests. Bin Laden = Hitler - once the person responsible for pulling strings was gone things changed (See WWII) Terrorism = Communism - See how well the “War” on Communism went in Vietnam? History has shown that wars on Ideas never end and usually are lost causes (See Vietnam or for you ultra conservatives see the Crusades) Imagine if FDR had to put up with todays America - with all of the bickering, name calling, and general BS that we have today - would we have ever got out of the Great Depression?

EVERYONE! JUST STFU AND GIVE THIS A CHANCE!

OH WAIT! Lets declare a WAR on this recession! Maybe then you guys will at least give it a chance before crying about it!

By change

February 27, 2009 5:40 PM | Link to this

From the NEW DEAL

Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, angry at the Keynesian spenders, confided to his diary May 1939: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot.”

Many economists, including Nobel Laureates, argue that neither the war nor New Deal policies ended the Great Depression. Rather, a return to normality after the war, as the government relaxed wage controls, price controls, capital controls, reduced tariffs and other trade barriers, and eliminated the rationing of goods and the relaxing of Federal control over American industries, ended it.

So spending didn’t work?

By Tim

March 2, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

Politicians have pushed us to the brink of destruction. The achievers in this country need to stand up and let it be known that we’ve been pushed too far. Term limits for congressmen and senators would be a good start

By Cindy

March 2, 2009 3:00 PM | Link to this

You can tell the young age of some of the commentors on here. The would rather agitate than fix the problem. Woe to our future. These young people and the “never voted before” blacks that voted in Obama, will wake up and realize one day what they did to our nation. I hope it is not too late. He is inexperienced and follows Pelosi and Reid and does their bidding.

You know we are heading for bad socialism when Putin says: the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

By rod

March 3, 2009 1:16 PM | Link to this

What about the 700 billion bailout that Bush pushed through prior to his dismissal from office. Wouldn’t you guys consider this a waste also?

By Jan

March 4, 2009 1:58 PM | Link to this

Are you serious? I’m so sick of people saying “backwards South” “rednecks” “whitey” and all the other crap. This protest was one of many - NOT just in Georgia. And YES we DID protest BUSH on the last bailout. I work for a “Wall Street” company and have been against EVERY bailout because it’s wrong! I didn’t vote for Obama, I didn’t vote for McCain - but as an American I hope and pray that Obama will do what is needed for this country. So far, I have been disappointed. The bail-outs, the time limit on the vote, the excess spending, the tax hikes - these are not signs of a “transparent” government who has the American people in mind. Something needs to be done, yes - but we HAVE to make sure that we are doing the RIGHT thing and that takes time. We HAVE to succeed - otherwise I hate to see what will happen to us all. Poor & rich. And the last time I checked this was America. Land of opportunity. I’m not in the high tax bracket - but isn’t punishing people who obtain that destroying our freedom to explore our opportunities? That’s not the America I want. Americans can’t sleep anymore - we have to wake up & take back our country and our freedom!

By lol at rofl

March 4, 2009 3:20 PM | Link to this

GIVE THIS A CHANCE! — rofl

Why? So you can have my money? No thank you. I choose to keep money I earned. Argument over.

By Reader

March 6, 2009 12:39 PM | Link to this

haha no one like ameer cause hes stupid aha