Opinion Talk

By ROBBI

May 9, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

He is exactly the same and the sad part of it all is that Bush doesn’t like him.

By Chris B

May 9, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Thats the Democratic spin. He is nothing like Bush. He is saying what he have to say to get conservatives on his side. Its politics people! Im a moderate and I know McCain will be nothing like Bush.

By Believer

May 9, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Pathetic bunch of “Republicans”. I would not be surprised to find out one day that they eat their young.

By jcwhitingjr

May 9, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

He’s still a better choice than either Clinton or Obama.

By GaLiberal

May 9, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

HELL YES! He wants to continue the reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq with the objective of having a continual presence. He wants to make the tax cuts for the uberrich permanent using the twisted logic that it would be a tax increase if they expired. Both of these policies are directly responsible for the dollar tanking to third world status. He’s a typical Rethuglicon willing to deceive and lie to get votes. He continues to play his Vietnam POW experience as if it is relevant today. He’s a partisan political hack and his election will perpetuate the economic decline of the country. If you like paying $4.00+/gal for gas, increasing food prices, and having our soldiers killed or maimed then McCain is your man.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And McCain is living proof.

By tom

May 9, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Is Obama a clone of Kerry?

By Wdr

May 9, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

jcwhitingjr,

Can you do a better job at explaining yourself? What makes him better? Is it simply because “he is a White Man?” If this is the case, then, you are just wasting my and other bloggers time. Please go somewhere else. We are trying to have an intelligent conversation here.

By Ross

May 9, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

If McCain is voted into office it would be just like Bush getting elected to a third term. If you are a person that is just making ends meet, you may not want to vote republican. They do not have your best intrest at heart. Stop allowing these talk show hosts to fill your brain with all of their propaganda.They are rich and you are not. They got you to vote for Bush the first time (idiot), that’s why you are having a hard time finding a nice blue collar job. Let’s leave this voting thing to us intellectuals. We saw what happened when certain people where allowed to vote(Bush was elected)

By Call it Like it is

May 9, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Yea, u morons keep voting for the Dems (the Socialist Party).

Raise your taxes so we can continue to pander to the big Government solves all solution.

By the way, how can a rookie like Obama win or even think about running for President?

What has he ever done to reach across the isle?

Matter of fact, what has he ever done for anyone?

Democratic Party = Socialism + Higher Taxes, Weak of Defense>

No thanks,

Welcome aboard, President McCain!!

By AH

May 9, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

If you like to spend $4.00+ for gas you can thank the democratically controlled congress not the President. Before the Dem’s took over in ‘06 we were paying $2.00 a gallon now it looks like the dollar has tanked and oil has spiked out of control. I think the 535 idiots on the hill are to blame not the 1 in the white house.

By RightDawg

May 9, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Like I want to know what Arianna Huffington thinks; sheis so keen and perceptive that she can live with a gay man for 10 years and not lnow it!

By Chris B

May 9, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

If McCain is so much like Bush, why do more than half of the Republican Party HATE John McCain. They will support him against the Democrat but they are furious that he is the nominee.

By Kevin

May 9, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Anyone who has followed politics for the past few years will realize that Mr. McCain is nothing like Mr. Bush. Mr. McCain will reach across party lines to work on projects like the Group of 14. He voted against the Bush tax cuts because they were not accompanied by spending decreases.

One item for everyone to consider. With the price of oil at $123/barrel, what effect do you think our pulling out of Iraq would have on that price? I understand that it is possible that the Iraq oil reserves may be more than Saudi Arabia. That being so, instead of the US controlling that supply, how would you like Iran to control that supply?

By Thor

May 9, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

McCain’s foreign policy advisors are from the Bush team, a lot of the neo-cons which makes me very nervous.

I have to chuckle at some of these right wingers about the Dems taxing. How bout the GOP? Cut your taxes, spend like LBJ and have your children pay for it all. The GOP is bankrupt.

By tar

May 9, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Call it Like it is,

I gather when you say, “Yea, u morons” that you are talking to yourself since you are spouting the same Republican rhetoric with no basis of fact. First of all, your last two Republican presidents have raised the taxes more than the last two Democratic presidents. Also, the first Bush had a Republican lead Congress and Senate for both terms. The second Bush had a Republican lead Congress and Senate during his first term. Remember, the first Bush statement “No more Taxes”, then he turns around and raise taxes.

The military now is at it lowest point. You say that the Democrats are weak on defense. Maybe, it is weak to not to go to war over Oil. Yes, McCain let it slip, that when he is president, his energy policy would be so that the U.S. soldiers would not have to fight over oil again. Please Mr. Tell It Like It Is, McCain is content to have the U.S. military in Iraq for 100 years. Now I ask you, who is going to pay for them being in Iraq? Answer, the U.S. taxpayers. How are they going to pay? Answer, by raising your taxes and not the taxes of the wealthy and corporations. Remember, the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that McCain wants to continue. I know you do not fall in the catergory of the wealthy, so your taxes will be raised. But, I guess it is okay with you to raise your taxes as long as it is not for social programs.

By jdcw

May 9, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Look who the AJC decides to quote Arrianne Huffington. Her blog is extreme left-wing.

AJC set up the question’s answer by allowing Huff and Puff to spew her leftist hate.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Dow Jones Industrial average tripples under Clinton; Rubin as T-Sec and Greenspan = balanced budget. I miss the Dow trippling, don’t you?

By Charles

May 9, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Does anyone actually listen or read Leftwing-Nut Arianna Huffington’s blog? Well, maybe people who support the assassination of our President! If it was the Clintons they would have had these people arrested.

These two men are nothing alike other than being in the Republican Party. Maybe a few of you need to take the Bush-McCain comparison test.

By neocon3

May 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

No dumb@ss..

McCain is not even a republican. His only redeeming quality is his selfless support for freeing the oppressed.

By CopyRight

May 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Hey GaLIberal, News Flash, Nobody wants to continue the war, we just must finish what we started. To pullout now would be a disaster. The tax cuts to the superrich are a married couple making over $96,000. The dollar going in the dumper is due to the idiot democrats that have control of congress that refuse to balance the budget. Gas prices are very high because liberals have moose mating issues and people like Ted Kennedy that want to complain but do nothing, he does not want wind mills to ruin his view. If you balance the budget get rid of earmarks and useless government spending. Or you could take the easy way out, Vote Dumbacrat, they are guaranteed to raise your taxes, they have both told us that. Let’s raise the corporate taxes on the evil corporations, which will just push more jobs over seas.

By Get it Right

May 9, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

It would be better if he was a Bush clone with a spine - better to stand up to the Facist Democrats (Obama) and Socialist Democrats (Clinton) that are trying to ruin this country.

By Chris B

May 9, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

I promise everyone whoever wins will be a one-term president. It will take two years just to clean up this administration’s mess. Jimmy Carter and George Bush II are running neck and neck as worst presidents ever.

By Sergei

May 9, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

John McCain is the luckiest Presidential candidate in American history.

By AL

May 9, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

If there is anyone that could have run for the Republican nomination that is any more different from Bush , I don’t know who it could be. The fact that your sitting in the safety of your home and writing your stupid Liberal “sad life” blogs only proves Bush and the Conservative wing of the Republican party have set policy in the war against Islamist extremist that plot all day every day on a way to kill you and your family and destroy your way of life. WAKE THE F UP !!!!!!!!

By alwaysright

May 9, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

I guess the only articles written about political backgounds have to be about McCain. Miss Huffington could highlight Obama’s stellar career of fixing potholes in south Chicago or how Hillary….wait what has Hillary done?

By Yawn

May 9, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

“Electing John McCain will be like George Bush’s 3rd term.” This is the new mantra of the Democrats, and we will hear that all the way up to election day. Yes, he’s just like George Bush… that’s why John Kerry asked his to be his running mate in ‘04.

Blahblahblah. I hate politics.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

With the baby boomers retiring, wanting their money of SSI and Medicare, we are all in for a tax hike. You can’t cut the government that much.

Both McCain and Obama’s fiscal plan keeps the USA in the hole for a long time. We’re broke. Keep voting Republican - Bush has gone from $5 tillion in debt to $9 trillion. Remember when the GOP stood for fiscal conservatism? How can you people still believe this garbage from this party.

By Fulton

May 9, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Newsflash: The war is already a disaster! It’s unfortunate that so many are missing the message. Silly words like facist, dumbacrat, solialist, liberal, rethuglican, etc..are stuipd, pointless and will NOT resolve our issues. It seems like most of you only blog to spout rhetoric and namecall those with different views. How sad and childish. At the end of the day, the same issues are still left on the table, unresolved. With all of our modern advances, we are regressing as basic human beings.

By Fulton

May 9, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Personally, I don’t care who gets in office. If they can fix this mess, then more power to ‘em. Since so many here are blinded by party allegiances, I don’t think many of you can say the same. How crazy is that?

By Yep

May 9, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Guys, Guys… The real decision for our next election is that we will choose to be a free republic or turn over our government to the socialists. Obama and his entitlement parade will try to evoke any emotional response to the uneducated masses to try and mislead them into believing that they will get something “extra” after he is in office. Mcain is more like a traditional southern democrat than the new socialist party will agree. While he does not expouse a true conservative agenda, he is more of a centrist than Obama will ever be. Listen to reverend Wright for your real clues!!

By hirsutedawg

May 9, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

CopyRight You’re kidding right? If memory serves there was a budget surplus when Shrub took over. With the republicans in control of both houses on Congress from 2000-2006 we spent money like PacMan Jones at a strip club but it’s the democrats fault because the budget is not balanced. Interesting. We borrow money from China to pay for oil from the mid-east and then the prez goes to Saudia Arabia begging them to lower crude prices & boost output. Nice foreign policy. We lie to the world and start an un-necessary war against the wrong enemy and ask for for no shared sacrifice from it’s citizens, stretch our military to the breaking point,(whee!! tax cuts for everyone) but it’s the democrats who are weak on defense. Really?

By BUSHWACKER

May 9, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Hey Yep, I’m afraid me and you are the only one who knows what socialism means, the rest of these kool aid drinkers don’t have a clue. They don’t realize the govt has NO MONEY, that every penny they waste comes out of our pockets, and that the democrats consider anyone who makes over $50,000 rich. I agree that the republicans are wrong when they don’t admit the oil companies are screwing us royally and that now every other industry is taking their lead and jacking up prices just because they can.

But putting democrats in charge will only make things worse.

This country has seen its best days.

One only has to go back to fall of the Roman Empire to see we are in trouble because this country no longer believes in self responsiblity.

Oh I forgot, we don’t teach history anymore.

Good luck to all of you fools who rely on the govt for anything!!!

By BUSHWACKER

May 9, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Hufington, do most of you realize she used to be a conservative, until she came home and found her husband with another MAN, since then she has become another moronic liberal who hates this country becuase of thier own miserable existence.

By CopyRight

May 9, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Hirsutedawg are you really that dumb? What has your democratic congress done for 2 years? Let me remind you, doubled oil prices, now trying to bail out rich white collar criminals in the mortgage industry. Then they want to raise taxes to balance the budget, I have an idea if you can’t balance a budget of 49 billion dollars a day then you should not get a paycheck. And yes our government brings in between 49 and 60 billion a day.

By Copyleft

May 9, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

No, McCain isn’t exactly like Bush… but he’s almost as bad.

Fortunately, he’s a sacrificial candidate, so it doesn’t matter. The next president will be a Democrat, thanks to Bush’s disastrous performance.

By Fix-It

May 9, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Our government sets rules for private industry, like forced retirement at 65, no hiring of felons. I do believe that they should also follow the same rules. Then we would not have many of the old issues still being a problem. We can fix the congress and senate, everybody that is currently in office we vote out, lets go for true change not a fake Obama/Clinton change.

By broker627

May 9, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

The south yes Georgia included is responsible for America falling apart since these south red states put Bush in and will again put in McCain so enjoy your kids disasterous futures that you as voters created for them :)~ And when you blame some innocent Democrat that may slide back in in 5-10 years, remember to also point the finger at yourself when you see your kids struggle for answers and survival :)~ but hey just think, you’ll get to have more guns and carry them to church with you.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

The South traditionally votes on social issues: god, guns, gays, prayer in school, and my favorite “moral values”. It has been and always will be backward in thinking and intellect.

More people in the South can tell you about SEC football than they can about the state of national affiars. UGA has never produced on Nobel prize winner - ever. It sure has a good football team and party school. This is the South - this is what it produces. Wave a flag, say a prayer, talk Jesus, moral values…

By Buck Shaffer

May 9, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

What the hell is Arianna Huffington doing on the pages of any respectable newspaper? This harridan represents the worst side of journalism and has no valid claim to being a reporter of anything worthy of reading. Your paper has been shamed for allowing her by-line on what otherwise would be a legitimate opinion.

By Blind Homer

May 9, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Buck - If you don’t know the difference between reporting and an op ed piece, you shouldn’t be blogging. McCant is in favor of this horrendous war and very soft on the illegals, sounds just like Bush on at least those two important issues.

By hirsutedawg

May 9, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

CopyRight No, I’ve never considered myself to be dumb. The seeds of our current state of affairs were sown long before the current congress was voted in to try and fix the mess. Maybe Senator Obama will make a good president, maybe he won’t. The bar has now been set so low I’m betting that he will. Over the last 15 years political discourse has been reduced to blowhards like O’ Reilly, Limbaugh et al questioning my patriotism for not agreeing with the fool(s) who got us to this point. This country our country used to be great. Now, with our warmongering and our torturing we are no better than any other third world p** dictatorship. That’s what this country used to stand for. I want a better country and a better world for my children. We gotta start somehwere, sometime. The time is now. You’re not to dumb to understand that are you?

By Pay Day

May 9, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

To the idiots that keep thinking that we are fighting in Iraq to free the opressed or some humanitarian effort, you are seriously diluted. If you were occupied by a foreign land whose government always sought to steal and control your natural resources because they have none of their own, would you like it? Republicans need to wake up and stop trying to sell these lies to the American people about why we are in Iraq or anywhere else in the Middle East. If you (Republicans) feel as though people or countries of the Middle East are so bent on killing Americans, don’t you think it would be wise to get out of their country and trying to dictate their affairs. It seriously bothers me to think that so many people can be brainwashed into thinking that everyone is out to kill Americans. Face it, America has always been a “bully” in the world and now we are about to be beaten up by all of the kids on the playground whose lunch money we have taken all of these years.

By Pay Day

May 9, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

To the idiots that keep thinking that we are fighting in Iraq to free the opressed or some humanitarian effort, you are seriously diluted. If you were occupied by a foreign land whose government always sought to steal and control your natural resources because they have none of their own, would you like it? Republicans need to wake up and stop trying to sell these lies to the American people about why we are in Iraq or anywhere else in the Middle East. If you (Republicans) feel as though people or countries of the Middle East are so bent on killing Americans, don’t you think it would be wise to get out of their country and trying to dictate their affairs. It seriously bothers me to think that so many people can be brainwashed into thinking that everyone is out to kill Americans. Face it, America has always been a “bully” in the world and now we are about to be beaten up by all of the kids on the playground whose lunch money we have taken all of these years.

By RightyTighty

May 9, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Oh…..,

You mean like 7 years of continued economic GROWTH!? The 57 million people freed from tryanny and oppression who started 2 brand new democracies in the Middle East!!?? Or maybe crazy A was referring to the 7 years of no terrorist attackes??

We can only hope that one of these two losers actually has some of Bush’s qualities because we’re certainly not going to find out in one of today’s media agenda driven debates!!

By Thor

May 9, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Funny how the Republicans use to really rail against “nation building” but we’re doing it now in Iraq.

If China invaded America to get rid of our WMD’s and then I saw Chinese tanks in Atlanta, you better believe I’d be bombing them.

Have the troops reduced, pull back to their bases and leave a reserve attack force there - make sure the oil is secure. Get out of Iraq - the British learned this the hard way early in the 20th century but nobody seems to remember history.

By John Q. Public

May 9, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

IS MCCAIN A BUSH CLONE….HELLYEAH!!! He wants the Bush Tax cuts, he has the Bush rhetoric, the war, etc., etc. Doesn’t matter, it’s the old politics. Everyone sees that. To think I was Republican in the Reagan years, and after many Republican goof ups and missteps and blatant disregard to the country overall, I am now a Red Dem. McCain, although I respect his service and sacrifice to this country, will continue the Bush theme for another 4 years. In good conscience I cannot and refuse to accept that as the solution to our nation’s problems. W was a mistake 8 years ago, he was the same mistake 4 years ago, why on earth do we want the Bush mantra going forward under McCain for the next 4 years? Billary has played the race card on herself. (Like daddy said give people enough rope….). Sen Obama offers a path to unity in this country by speaking the truth. Pundits like Rush, Hannity, et’al DO NOT want this because it would be the end for them. Rush has the blind followers who are doing his bidding in the “Operation Chaos” mess. Can’t we be adult here? Hannity, who has never set foot in a black church (and by black I mean the true black church), is offering his Black Theological assessment based on a 30 second snippet loop. That is as ridiculous as it gets and I am further amazed at the simple minded idiots that suck that cup of stupidity right up. I thought we here in America were for the right to free speech, religion, and expression? Instead, the W’s, Wootens, Hannity’s, and Limbaugh’s would have you beleive that they are arguing in your favor while taking all your liberties.

By Fulton

May 9, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

hirsutedawg - your comments make too much sense. How dare you not tow the party line and think independently. Yes, this country did once stand for something (or at lease we were lead to believe) but it seems that has changed now & it’s all the Dems fault. Yep, that’s it, I’m sure of it…

By John Q. Public

May 9, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Oh and one more thing, I am a veteran of Desert Shield/Storm and Bosnia (US Army - Colonel, INF), anyone here who thinks that staying in this war is “good for the country,” is out of their frikkin’ mind. This war has had several primary objectives and the proverbial bar continues to get moved at every political whim. Gen. Patreus and his staff are to be commended for their flexibility and efforts given the hand that has been dealt to them. HOWEVER, I am certain that if the order were given to draw down and return to base with extreme caution, that would be accomplished in the finest of military fashion. The region has reduced itself to civil war. Soldiers DO NOT engage in civil matters, that is for the sovereign nation to sort out. Once we’ve left the region, then it is the responsibilty of the Iraq government to address. Diplomacy should be engaged and mediation commenced between the rival factions. If W. had a plan, this entire mess could have been averted. Instead, thousands of our nations best have been sacrificed and scarred for life. And you “Armchair Heroes” thisnk that this war should continue until its won. What exactly is considered the “win” here?

By Some Other Mike

May 9, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

It’s silly to claim McCain is a Bush clone, though I’m waiting until after the conventions to see if McCain will come clean on anything.

By hirsutedawg

May 9, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Thanks Fulton……That’s just how I roll.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

John Q., well said. I served as an officer in the USMC. I agree on your assessment of Iraq. Bush is simply keeping a lid on Iraq in order to hand it off to the next president; then the blame game will take place over who lost Iraq.

I personally get a little anoyed at those who proudly proclaim their military status and use it towards supporting Bush (as if all military supported the GOP). I have found the loudest veterans who support this war never held a front line position and were mostly administrative.

We need a draft. Every citizen should serve; it makes the people more responsible for their government’s actions.

By lucky

May 9, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

McCain shows little difference from the two Democrats - they are the three stooges. It doesn’t matter which one of those buffoons is elected, our country deserves much, much better. Bush has been a disaster, any of the three stooges will be a much bigger disaster.

I personally will be voting for Rev. Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.

By Steve

May 9, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

John Q public: Well said! And I appreciate your serving this nation.

Anyhow supporting “more of the same” policies are complete idiots and should be ashamed of themselves, for looking so stupid.

By BUSHWACKER

May 9, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

I’m glad I am not a woman living i Afghanistan or Iraq, because you liberals don’t give a damn if thee women are treated like a 2 bit w*******, and they and thousands of people like them are raped and murederd by our own govt.

You liberals say they are not worth dying for.

What if the union army said after ghettysburg where 30,000 soldiers died in 2 DAYS , said, you know the slaves worth dying for, we are going home.