Opinion Talk

By Josh M

July 9, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

So the only way for McCain to win is embrace a liberal, government handout program?

I had no problem cashing my $600 check because it was MY money being returned to me.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 9, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Nope, won’t work.

By CommunistAJC

July 9, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Here is how Mccain wins: 1: Seal up the borders. 2: Make the Bush tax cuts permanent. 3: Drill here. 4: Go after Obama Hussien on his lack of judgment, experience or lack of. 5: Talk about how the democrat controlled congress has a NINE PERCENT approval rating. 6: Talk about winning in Iraq. 7. Talk about winning the war on islamic terrorism. 8. Pick a conservative as his running mate. 9. Call out Global Warming for what it is. A SCAM!

In other words, rail on liberals the way Reagan did. Go after Obama instead of being scared of being called a racist by his liberal pals. Take on the media as well.

That’s how he can win.

By rightytighty

July 9, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

The stimulus check is my tax money being given back to me. A post tax cut if you will… And why wouldn’t I cash a check from my own taxes?

A government giveaway program like SCHIP’s for adults, is my tax money being given to someone else. Someone who obviously didn’t plan ahead over the last 7 yrs of economic expansion. Someone who given the chance, would most likely choose to live off more of my tax money rather than educate and provide for themselves.

See the “logical” differences now??

By NascarNed

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

If you can no longer provide a positive outlook for your family then please, PLEASE, do us all a favor and put your children into a military school. It’s worked for thousands of kids, including Dale Jr..

By Josh

July 9, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

McCain 2008 baby! No monkeys allowed in the WHITE house.

By LMAO!!!

July 9, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Just what McLame needs, a bunch of hillbillies telling him what to do. Mainly, follow the hillbilly currently in office. You get the sense that the GOP is in trouble???

By Call it Like it is

July 9, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

All he needs to do is show up since his so called competition has no experience and has done nothing for his own city nor anything as a Senator except point fingers.

No problem, McCain wins hands down on election day.

By Call it Like it is

July 9, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Again, McCain wins hands down since he has an opponent that spews “I’m ashamed of America” everytime that he opens his mouth.

By EKP

July 9, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

It’s amazing how Obama’s being blamed for problems that has plagued this country for 30 years (energy cost; terrorism; taxes; healthcare). The American People already know what they face if McCain is elected…and extension of the current administration. No one wants to blame Bush (I voted for him twice) or the GOP, but let’s admit it, Obama’s comment in SF was inappropriate, but true…isn’t that what the GOP pride themselves of. McCain and the GOP constantly take away from the “have nots” and give to those who “have a lot”. I’m not for throwing $$$ down a bottomless pit either, but the “haves” get welfare checks every month, and they influence policy. Sorry regular Americans, your interest fall by the wayside, therefore, your 1st & 2nd Amendments are whispered in your ear so that your mind is not concentrating on the real issues. I’m for fairness, if the big wigs get charity, why shouldn’t the middle-class? And, for those criticizing Obama’s experience, or lack thereof. This Country’s finest Presidents were those with the least experience (George Washington; Abe Lincoln; and FDR) Also, people thought Regan was crazy too, he had big dreams like Obama. Maybe that’s what we need, someone who isn’t infected with too much experience like the ol’ fools who supposedly have it. McCain has been in the Senate for 30+ years and hasn’t done anything…except get hit by a train.” (Oh Brother Where Art Thou).

By rightytighty

July 9, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Well…, one thing is for sure. John will win Georgia. No matter how often the AJC and her drunken band of merry liberals try to smear him..

By Rusty

July 9, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

The man hasn’t finished his FIRST term in the Senate.It says alot about the “American Idol” mentality of this country. If Barak Obama looked like Gary Coleman,we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Oprah says..So must it be.

By Copyleft

July 9, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Fortunately, Georgia isn’t America.

By Fred

July 9, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it funny that the only way the AJC Opinion board can imagine McCain winning is if he comes up with bigger government handout programs than Obama does? (And tax cuts are only a ‘handout’ if you presume that all wealth belongs to the government. Pathetic.)

Obama’s big ideas are basically the same failed policies of the Carter administration. Problem is, McCain’s big ideas are, umm, well…

By rightytighty

July 9, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Fortunately, Georgia has represented America more times than not..

By Nobama

July 9, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Where did we get the idea that George Washington was inexperienced? A lifetime military man, General in two wars, a successful farmer and distiller… a long resume of executive and entrepreneurial leadership.

Obama was a ‘community leader’ (whatever that is), had 4 years in the Illinois House (where he was mostly voted ‘present’) and basically began running for President after a few months in the US Senate. He has no resume. Don’t even mention them in the same breath.

By RealityKing

July 9, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

During the revolutionary war, George Washington order rebellion leaders from his own army, unhappy about not being paid by the then worthless Congress, shot in public by their own men.

And at no time did he ever say that a more “aggressive diplomacy” style was the answer to British terrorism or oppression.

So now…, which candidate is more ready to fullfill these giant foot prints??

By CommunistAJC

July 9, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

EKP, So Obama is in the same company as Washington and Lincoln? Wow, that’s news to me. Washington was a general leading AN ENTIRE COUNTRY TO WAR. I really hope your high school teachers hold you back this year.

By Sam

July 9, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

McCain 08: He so loves his country he renamed his French Fries. Then he pierced his McNuggets, another fast food staple, with a flag lapel pin. That’s voodoo Patriotism, and his three wives can be proud, for they pierced something too, but they cant show anybody.

By Rusty

July 9, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Nobama, a “community leader” would be the equivalent of say our notables such as Derrek Boazman,Markel Hutchins or Vincent Forte and those guys that are always on TV but don’t seem to have real jobs.

By Sam

July 9, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

McCain 08: He so loves his country he renamed his French Fries. Then he pierced his McNuggets, (another fast food staple), with a flag lapel pin. That’s voodoo Patriotism, and his three wives can be proud, for they pierced something too, but they cant show anybody.

By DaveD

July 9, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

McLame can’t win because he’s a republican. Republcans now hang their head in shame for ruining this country and for spreading evil, torture and destuction around the world.

McLame is more likely to win the powerball lottery. That’s about what his odds are just be being a republican on this ticket…

By Rusty

July 9, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

McDaveD, you do know that your guy is a 2/3 of a first term Senator with a blank resume don’t you? All the McSame,McBush,McLames lil names yall cleverly come up with ain’t gonna change that.

By DaveD

July 9, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

GA: last in education and damn proud of it! Your comments tell the truth.

Read books, learn and listen. Shut off Faux news and turn off boortz, rush, and hannity. Your brains are barely that…something that one can call a brain.

Only GA would allow people to water their lawns for ANY reason during a historic drought. Must be those GA born and raised political hacks you voted for. See…it shows what I said up above…GA: last in education, and always ready to show it! ;-)

By Copyleft

July 9, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

You guys are just ticked because there’s a new Reagan in the race… and this time he’s on the Democratic side.

Obama’s got the smarts, the charisma, and the plans to set a new course for America—and the neanderthals and bigots just can’t take it.

It’s a good day to be a REAL American, and not a fascist-loser Republican.

By Rusty

July 9, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Sorry I’ve missed something. Obama (blank resume) is Reagan (governed the 7th largest economy in the world)? Oprah tell you to say that? And let me guess McDave, you were educated somewhere else and came to Georgia just to tell us how stupid we are? All together now! Yes we can!Change,change,change!

By EKP

July 9, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

People, there is only one way to have Presidential experience…be the President. George Washington was a soldier, not a politician, but he surrounded himself with savvy politicians; Lincoln served one term in the House…like Obama. Obama could be a great President, he may be horrible. But, when we base presidential effectiveness on military experience and tax cuts…you’re crazy. Hell, I was in the Marines, educated, and I’m not a liberal; do I qualify to run the country…oh, I’m not 35…maybe in about 4 years I’ll run.

People overlook what he’s done, but usually how people run their campaign is how they run the country…he’s been successful. McCain wants to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, but he won’t extend their GI Bill for Veterans and voted against Military Personnel raises…Reagan gave U.S. Military high raises because he valued their service. McCain wants to keep them broke and uneducated so he can use them. Yet, he wants to make find every reason to keep the super rich happy. If you look at his track record, all of his policies are to take benefits from the poor and middle-class and give them to the super rich…yet he tell you how much he care for the “American People”. Not everyone has a hot wife worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I bet he won’t oppose any alcoholic beverage policies. And, I am not opposed to flip-flopping if you realize that your way is not in the best interest of the country. That’s what got us in this mess in the first place…refusal to flip-flop; that and arrogance. The GOP use the war to scare citizens into thinking that only they can get us out of this mess because they put us in it. I rather have new ideas than the same ones that don’t work.

By Kyle

July 9, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

My god, Reagan must be spinning in his grave to hear that a marxist populist whose wife has evidently had very few times in her adult life to be proud to be an American is being compared to him.

Here’s the thing. I don’t think McCain is necessarily the answer, but how can punishing those who sacrifice everything in their lives to build a company that gets to a point where it can employ and provide for the livlihoods of others while rewarding those who simply want to suck the teat of government pillage makes absolutely no sense.

If, and its a might big if, Obama is elected, I will probably scale back, reduce my income for a few years and not take on any major expansion efforts. I will therfore probably have to lay of the bottom 10 - 25% of my workforce to cut costs, and wait it out.

I don’t really worry about it because I know how to crank it back up again when the economy starts moving under more friendly leadership. The only people who get screwed are the ones with the employee mentality - and they are the first ones that will come back begging for a new J O B when I put out the (virtual) help wanted sign.

The people you think are going to get their just desserts aren’t - they will sit on the sidelines, not invest, not take risks, and not expand businesses to add jobs until it makes good economic sense not to.

Windfall profits tax for big oil? Who gets punished? The retirement funds for the big unions, that’s who - they own tons of big oil stocks - it’s not going to be the CEO who make 10 million a year -he will simply go to another company that needs visionary leadership.

Be careful of those who recommend you cut off your nose to spite your face, and be leery of millionaires who pose as being “just like you” - they think you are weak, stupid, and will vote for them no matter what they do - so long as they convince you all of your problems are someone elses fault.

I can almost assure you that if you are not doing as well in any area of your life, it is becuase of your own decisions, not due to some boogey-man hiding in the closet.

Obama will lose becuase his closet has yet to be emptied - it will be, at a time of the RNC’s choosing, and it will come so fast and so furious that he won’t be able to respond or recover.

By Rusty

July 9, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Kyle, you are the man! Kyle in “12”! Yes we Kyle! Bam!

By Mike

July 9, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC,

You’re living in a dream world if you think “drill here” is going to make a dent in gas prices. The fact is, there isn’t enough oil in the U.S. to have a significant impact on the world price. And states like Florida have banned offshore drilling not because of any liberal do-gooder environmentalist attitude, but because an oil spill could in the wrong place could decimate tourist revenues.

By Jeff

July 9, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Copyleft:

The only political party whose ideals the Founding Fathers would recognize as their own is the LIBERTARIAN Party.

The only political party that the soldiers of the Revolutionary War would recognize as their own is the LIBERTARIAN Party.

Don’t tell me a pseudo-Communist, pro-terrorism, pro-government enslavement liberal is a REAL American, because I GARAUNTEE you that the REAL Americans - those of the Revolutionary Generation - would not recognize them.

By Nobama

July 9, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

EKP, by your standard, no one has any experience, and no one is qualified to be president. In the real world, we look for people who have executive experience, have made accomplishments, and stuck their neck out when they needed to. Obama meets none of those measures.

And Mike, it’s basic economics; the only way to lower oil prices is to find more. And there hasn’t been an oil platform spill in more than 30 years, so Florida needs to adjust their sun-baked attitudes too.

By Derrick

July 9, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

To Mike and all the folks who think ‘we can’t drill our way out of this’, all I can say is…

“YES WE CAN!”

Thank you.

By STOIC POET

July 9, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

STAY THE COURSE TO RACK AND RUIN. SHOCK AND AWE, WHILE THE COUNTRY BURNS. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, TRILLIONS SPENT. GAS PRICES THROUGH THE ROOF, AND OUR STOCKS ARE’NT WORTH ONE RED CENT.

By DaveD

July 9, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

Josh, That $600 you claim that was YOUR money the government gave back to you…it was NOT yours dummy (you MUST be a republican)… it was money we borrowed…most of it from CHINA and it only added to our record deficit.

That $600…well it was not free…somebody has to pay it back…gues who that is Josh?…YOU! Only with interest it’s gonna cost you several times that.

Watch much Fox news? You know the “fair and balanced propaganda channel brught to you live from Dick Cheney’s office)>! ;-)

By DumbAmericans

July 9, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

You Dumb silly Americans are at it again.

Expecting your sworn enemies, politicians,bto do something for you.

When will you clowns ever learn that politicians are your #1 problem?

These clowns are in the pockets of the bankers who stole your freedom and sovereignty back in 1913.

Now you clowns are slaves of the U.S. corporation and do not even know it.

You have been lied to all your life. What you learned about government and history in school was all a big fat lie.

Your country has been in a state of ememrgency since 1933 and your constitution has been suspended.

You gave up your sovereignty to become subjects/slaves and U.S. citizens.

No government is bigger than any human being in a rebulic.

You have no rights whatsoever and are the property of the U.S. corporation aka the UN/IMF.

This is why the state can take your kids away from you.

Unfortunately whenever you apply for a birth certififcate and social security for a child you are merely enslaving your offspring to become property of the U.S. corporation.

Barak and John didn’t tell you this little secret did they? no

Your taxes go to the United Nations/IMF which owns the IRS.

The republic must be restored.

Do not count on any politician to do anything for you.

Your forefathers provided everything you need.

A few crazed, free masons, and bankers managed to corrupt your congress to dupe you.

Wake Up people. There was a reason why slaves were prevented from being literate.

The same thing is going on today. The truth is never in the mainstream media. The mainstream media is simply designed to distract you from engaging in critical thinking

Every president since FDR, when your country was stolen has been a member of the CFR except for JFK.

We all know what happened to JFK.

He got his effing brains blown out for not carrying out his orders.

Now do you really want to waste your time voting for Obama or Mccain?

By jhavard

July 9, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

Why dont the states pick up temporarily uninsured workers with the states Medicaid program. Unemployed workers can draw unemployment checks for up to a year. The workers are the ones that pay state taxes so programs like Medicaid can exist. Let us have Medicaid up to a year like unemployment compensation. Boy would that be too easy, WOW.

By Charles Barkley

July 9, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this

Poor people been voting for Democrats in this country for 60 years and their still broke as Hell!

Giving everybody welfare healthcare won’t work any better than government cheese. When will we learn. Welfare has distroyed this country.

By Charles Barkley

July 9, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this

Poor people been voting for Democrats in this country for 60 years and their still broke as Hell!

Giving everybody welfare healthcare won’t work any better than government cheese. When will we learn. Welfare has destroyed this country.

By zeke

July 9, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this

To Communistajc: Right on! McCain should do all you presented! The hell with all socialist liberals!

By STOIC POET

July 9, 2008 11:49 PM | Link to this

How wealthy have you become by voting Republican Charles Barkley? I can see that you haven’t gleaned much of an education, government cheese could’ve possibly provided you some nutrients necessary for proper brain development.

By Juan

July 10, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this

Obama does not have a lot of experience but there is no direct correlation between the amount of experience someone has and how well their will be at being president. Being a good president is mostly intangibles.

Nixon has the finest political resume of anyone elected president. He was never considered a great president. After Watergate he was considered pretty bad because of character flaws.

The president with the least amount of political experience, not including Military/Generals, is considered one of the GREATS. Even Obama has more experience than this president. That president is Abe Lincoln. Lincoln served 1 term in the US House and decided to not run again because he was going to lose. He was against a war that was popular in his district. Lincoln became politically famous several years later, when he ran for a US Senate seat, with the Lincoln vs. Douglas debates. The debate dealt with slavery but Lincoln lost the US Senate run. Two years later he ran for president and won ;).

Basically Lincoln was a speech giver without the political history to back up his words. He was lucky to beat a more powerful senator, William H. Seward from NY, for the 1860 party nomination. In 1859 Seward was seen as a lock for the party nomination. Sounds very familiar ;).

In the fall election things fell Lincolns’s way.

Juan

By Juan

July 10, 2008 2:08 AM | Link to this

Obama does not have a lot of experience but there is no direct correlation between the amount of experience someone has and how well their will be at being president. Being a good president is mostly intangibles.

Nixon has the finest political resume of anyone elected president. He was never considered a great president. After Watergate he was considered pretty bad because of character flaws.

The president with the least amount of political experience, not including Military/Generals, is considered one of the GREATS. Even Obama has more experience than this president. That president is Abe Lincoln. Lincoln served 1 term in the US House and decided to not run again because he was going to lose. He was against a war that was popular in his district. Lincoln became politically famous several years later, when he ran for a US Senate seat, with the Lincoln vs. Douglas debates. The debate dealt with slavery but Lincoln lost the US Senate run. Two years later he ran for president and won ;).

Basically Lincoln was a speech giver without the political history to back up his words. He was lucky to beat a more powerful senator, William H. Seward from NY, for the 1860 party nomination. In 1859 Seward was seen as a lock for the party nomination. Sounds very familiar ;)

Note: Seward was famous for the Purchase of Alaska.

By Juan

July 10, 2008 2:40 AM | Link to this

Nobama,

Actually Obama had 8 years, 1997 - 2004, in the IL Senate and not 4 years in the House. It was Lincoln that servered in the IL House. Don’t mix up your IL presidents ;).

McCain has a lot of experience, 30+ years, but most people can’t list what he has accomplished outside of the finance reform.

That is why senators are rarely elected to be president. They don’t individually do much :).

Juan

Juan

By Juan

July 10, 2008 3:28 AM | Link to this

Rusty,

I don’t think it has anything to do with “American Idol”. It may just be generational. The next Generation is ready to pick “their” president. That is what helped President Kennedy win. Nixon had a much better resume but just didn’t have “it”.

Obama acknowledged his youthful image, saying in an October 2007 campaign speech, “I wouldn’t be here if, time and again, the torch had not been passed to a new generation.”

Obama does extreme well in the under 40 ago range and holds his own in the 40 - 55 range. The 18 - 40 years range has the largest amount of registered non-voters. Metro ATL is importing these this age range every year. It may be a gold mine waiting to be tapped.

Americans always take a candidates Military service with a grain of salt. It didn’t help McCain against Bush in 2000. It didn’t help Bob Dole against Clinton. It didn’t help Kerry against Bush in 2004.

Candidates benefit from military service when it has been relatively recent. The fact that Bob Dole served in WWII didn’t mean as much in 1996. You respected what he had did but that was it. McCain may have the same issues since probably half the country was born after the Vietnam War ended or have no memory of it. You would have to be almost 50 to have a “real” memory of it. The next generation remembers the 1st Desert Storm as their first war.

Juan

By Redneck Soup

July 10, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

McCain can only win in blackface. That works because he’s already got a vaudeville act.

No, I remember the first time any of us heard the name Obama. 2004 Democratic Convention. The speech. Remember the buzz? A new and rising superstar politician? Every bit of data that our six senses received about Obama were positive and enthusiastic. As we watched this man, we realized he was more than advertised, and we tucked away our approval for some future caucus.

Then, out of the pack like a screaming mimi, he burst through the nomination process. This was Grassroots Movement 101.

Now we are in the final turn. A black man will be our next president, and our founding vision will have come to fruition: Justice for all.

By Copyleft

July 10, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

So in Jeff’s eyes, the only good American is a dead American. Got it.

(snicker) This is gonna be sooooo easy….

By Jim Sweet

July 10, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

To Nobama, who said:

“And Mike, it’s basic economics; the only way to lower oil prices is to find more. “

Is there a Republican in the entire country who understands even the smallest bit about Economics 101? Have any of you ever heard of supply and DEMAND? When bringing up all of the wonderful drilling opportunities to create more supply, no right wing talking head ever mentions lowering the demand curve. I wonder why?

By Copyleft

July 10, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Because conservation is anti-conservative, of course!

Oh, the irony.

By The good side

July 10, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

It’s amazing with some of these comments I think a lot of you right wingers are major propoganda agents!

Talking about reducing your income because someone raised your taxes, I would not want to work for someone who does not find a solution.

To ELK: CEO of the oil majors are visionary, you must be kidding!

Here is a knowledge drop they care so much about America that the oil majors have been selling half of the oil that already comes out of Alaska to Asia.

Verified by Rudy G on Fox news last night. Rudy G answer was this is a free economy and the oil companies can sell to the highest bidder.

This is not about the love for America so many of our company don’t give a rat _ _ _ about America you better only hope Mr. Obama can get in an change some of the behavior of these companies who apparently only pretend to LOVE AMERICA!

Also CEO who get paid millions and the company goes in the tank, Should they get paid becuase most workers don’t! We give way to much credit to individual in this country!