By dave

July 23, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

More wishful thinking from the AJC.

By hogleg

July 23, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

in your dreams!

By BoneHead

July 23, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Who cares, they are all crooks, vote independent.

By Copyleft

July 23, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

This is an easy discussion to predict.

The diehard, brain-dead 30-percenters who still support Bush, even after all his proven failures, will continue to vote Republican for as long as they live… and they will proudly announce their slavish devotion here on this blog. “Georgia will NEVER turn blue!” they will declare, “Even if the next Republican administration burns live kittens for fuel and rapes dead goats on national TV! I’ll still vote for whoever’s got an R in his name, no matter whut damage he does!”

The rest of us will consider which type of leadership actually makes things better… for us, and for the country.

And in the long run, liberal principles will triumph, as they always have. Georgia may stay in the back of the pack, as usual, but eventually former “liberal” positions will seem obvious and correct. The backward hicks will relabel them “basic freedoms,” or even “conservative ideals,” to preserve their self-respect… but liberalism will still, inevitably, triumph.

By AH

July 23, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Why is the DNC going to let Messiah run again after he losses this year? You only get one change to lose a presidential election these days.

By Bill

July 23, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

If the news media could vote Obama would already be the president. Of course no one is allowed to discuss race, but 99.9% of blacks are going to vote for him. Gosh you would think at least one of them would have an independent thought. So just like Bush Obama has his 30% base. and as we learned with Bush, you can tell his base but you cant tell them much. When people only vote for the guy they want to have a beer with and not the on with the most experience and an actual plan to move America Forward, you get what you pay for and voting is free!

By Reality

July 23, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Nice try but just because you live in metro Atlanta and all your liberal friends and black neighbors are going to vote for Mr. Underqualified doesn’t mean he has a chance in hell of winning any rural part of Georgia. Remember Atlanta is part of Georgia, not all of it.

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

When it comes to “colors” the important thing is that the “red, white and blue” that has served our people and the world for so long is fading under a liberal political philosophy and culture that would make our founding fathers turn over in their graves. Sneer if you will but your grandchildren (and mine) will be the worse for it.

By Senator McClain

July 23, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Thanks everyone for supporting me! Especially you Corporal!

Even if I don’t win my wife is worth 6.5 billion so I will continue to live the AMERICAN DREAM.

I know I have no real creditials over the past 24 years.

I vote for the war then I needed another strategy to make the war work.

That’s o.k. I make mistakes all the time!

Hey what I said about Senator Obama causing gas prices to increase I was just kidding that is political talk!

I am senator McCLain and I approve of this message!

By ettnic

July 23, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

EMPLOYER BEWARE OF WORTHLESS EMPLOYEES As a career counseling professional. It is very importatnt that employers need to beware of employing applicants who cannot in anyway contributr to the progress of the organization regardless of the kind of business. There are many people who are gainfully employed and are totally worthless to their employer. There are those who have refused to develope themselves by furthering their education, so they can contribute to their employer expansion, but instead they are there just receiving salary and not give a hoot about their employer expansion. Also employers need to begin to redeploy their employees to areas they are qualified to perform. because there are so many people who are employed in the areas they have academic qualification and this on the long run affect the growth of the organization. In the non or not for profit, there are so many positions occupied by those who are simply not qualified to hold those positions, but instead are employed and paid salary they do not deserve, the non-profit organizations need to understand that the money been paid out are the peoples money and they need to be very much remain accounatble for how they distribute the money including the payment of salary to those unqualified employees they have hired to perform social services job to vulnerable persons with disabilities.for example a counselor or case manger needs to have the minimum education of a bachelors degree,so they are best able to be recognised as having the proper education to provide the evry best of genric case management or counseling services. When a non or not fro profit organization employ unqualified person to perform those job functions or services there would be reversed failure in the outcome of what the services provided was suppose to achieve. Best advise to non or not for profit organization. Require your appplicants or employees to possess the minimum educational requirement, and for the supervisors sit and consult with your subordinates to returnt to school or take a chance in getting reassigned to another job that fits his or her academic background. The stakeholders deserve better services that should be provided by professionals that have the academic qualifications, knowledge, abilities and skills and most importatnt the geniune personality. Not some worthless flakey personality.

By Too Late, Baby

July 23, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Is there one person in Georgia who believes that the GOP machine wont stuff this year’s ballot in November?

One person? Obama will get the most votes in November in Georgia. McCain will win Georgia.

McCain will win with fewer votes. The voter ID is just a red state herring. The real culprit is as simple as peach pie. It’s in the pits, my friend, in the pits.

I dont trust any of the poll workers, volunteers, or their oversight. I personally witnessed my own vote being tampered with in ‘04. The old fat slob poll worker, who grabbed my plug-in thingie and did something to it with an electronic gizmo that he had to retrieve from under his table, was all the proof I needed. I actually felt threatened with being shot by the armed guard who suddenly appeared, and left his post at the exit, to supervise the tampering of my ballot, and to let me know to stfu about what I saw, and to just leave. As I passed this armed terrorist after I voted, I did not break eye contact, and let him know without words that I knew he was a criminal. The eyes can do amazing things.

Obama 08: He’s our next president, even though Georgia’s polls are filled with armed thugs.

By Don't Hold Your Breath

July 23, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Hold on a minute while I try to stop laughing - OK - I’m calming down a little now - here we go: “Obama would be in a strong position to carry Georgia in 2012”? WTF? Here’s a fact: Even if (and that’s a big ‘if’) Obama wins in 2008, in 2012 he won’t even carry the states that voted for him the first time, let alone win those who didn’t. He’ll be another one-term president like his mentor, Jimmah. Na-na, na-na-na-na, hey,hey,hey, good-bye! The only way Georgia will turn blue is if chokes on a peanut!

By Don't Hold Your Breath

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

To: “Too Late, Baby”: ‘Baby’ describes you well. Waaaaaahhhhh!

By Drew

July 23, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

When the Dems concede that my paycheck is mine and not theirs to buy votes with, I might consider their candidate. Just so long as he isn’t a 1/2 term Senator and former ‘community organizer’.

By CommunistAJC

July 23, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

If Georgia goes blue it will be because a lot of dead people and illegals are allowed to vote. People got sick of the Jimmy Carter types years ago. Atlanta is about the only democrat area of Georgia.

By Barbara

July 23, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

As the Obama team is compared to Camelot, just a word of caution - remember what happened to Camelot.

By Karl Rove

July 23, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Hey Drew,

Do you want to pay for the WAR under a Replublican adminstration or a democratic adminstration?

We owe China,Japan and other Asian countries almost 1 trillion dollars who do you think is going to pay for it?

The poor people of America is not so you migh want to leave America for at least 10 years because the bill is going to come due soon and taxes will go up no matter who is in office.

Remember Bush senior no new taxes!

Someone has got to pay for the war and we will continue this war because we are not close to being out of Iraq or Aftganistan.

Drew I bet you think the war is free don’t you?

You probably think Iraq is going to give us free oil don’t you?

Think again!

By MRJ

July 23, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Copy, dude you’re killing me. Liberal principles will triumph? Talk about being wayyyy out on the fringe. I know some members of academia who would blanch at your liberalism.

Yes, sign me up for moral relativity, wealth redistribution, and the abolition of personal responsibility. Those are things we can stand on! I can’t wait to institute sham “Human Rights Tribunals” so that we can restrict conservative speech. Additionally, that 2nd Amendment has got to go? Why would we need the right to keep weapons (unless a natural disaster strikes in one of the country’s most violent cities or something—-but that can’t happen anyhow).

As for GA, no, it won’t turn blue soon. If the left had any political sense and had nominated a non-radical for POTUS, maybe they’d have a solid shot at stealing 08 (would still be red long term, however). There are simply too many of us backwoods hicks who believe in redneck ideals like free enterprise and personal autonomy.

By Barbara

July 23, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

The term, “liberal principles” is an oxymoron. That is, if you consider the word, priniciples, in a positive light.

By Dan

July 23, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

I have a question:

To all the free-market Republicans? How has the last 8 years of the “trickle down theory on steriods” improved your life.

Like the rest of the nation, your wages have remained stagnant as costs have increased. If you still have your job, you’re likely in a service industry, the dollar is down, gas is over $4, and the house that you live in is not worth what it was worth a year ago?

Cultural conservitism is a entirely different conversation, but for those that believe in the current malfeasant economic policy…how does it feel?

How does it feel to know that your loyalty is betrayed to the highest 3% of the wealthy? How does it feel to know that in the next 10 years (becuase of the last 8) that the only way you will earn income from the stock market is through your pension? How does it feel to know that your president has increased the deficit by 8-10% during his presidency?

How does it feel to know that when Phil Gramm dismisses the concerns of working Americans, he was speaking about you?

By Dan

July 23, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Honestly,

If you removed your ideological intent and apply these fiscal policy to your daily lives….you’d be as PO’d as the “liberals” that you rant against.

Bush doesn’t care about your concerns, he never has!

By Dan

July 23, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Honestly,

If you removed your ideological intent and apply these fiscal policy to your daily lives….you’d be as PO’d as the “liberals” that you rant against.

Bush doesn’t care about your concerns, he never has!

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Georgia will eventually change its hue from “red” to “blue” not because of political progress but because “whites” have less babies, “blacks” have more babies and “browns” are very adept at illegal immigration - and none of this bodes well for the future of our Republic.

By grelican

July 23, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Whether GA is turning blue is a lot less important than whether the US is. If we get a solid democratic majority in the senate, house and the white house, you’ll see a lot of federal intervention here regardless of what the good ‘ol boys want to do with the place.

You’ll see transportation dollars pour in earmarked for trains instead of making the connector double-decker or some sill idea like that.

You’ll see a reorganization of health care so most, or everyone is covered, reducing unnecessary ER visits and people showing up on death’s door, which costs all of us.

You’ll see campaign finance and election oversight here, changing how races are won.

You’ll see money to hire thousands of new cops along with social programs to keep kids from ending up gangbangers, as Clinton did and Bush cut.

You’ll see programs to get kids into college and technical schools so they can come up with the new ideas that have always powered our economy.

You’ll see jobs created via federal contracts and incentives to find viable, scaleable energy alternatives to oil, which, after all is really just burning dirt.

You’ll see all of that paid for by rolling back Bush’s tax cuts on the wealthiest 2% (who are doing just fine), and by scaling back involvement in Iraq for some military engagements that can be financed in part by NATO and our allies. That frees up about $300 million a day, if the war stopped cold, and say, $150 million if we put some of those efforts into Afghanistan. This means billions of our hard-earned tax dollars coming back into our communities, instead of getting pocketed by defense contractors in the name of national security.

The investment in our labor force will raise people’s incomes, bringing in more money for our households and other investments.

You’ll see an especially bitter GA GOP circling their wagons to avoid any federal involvement or intervention, no matter how good an idea it may be. And you’ll see voters slowly get chipped away from the outmoded, cynical and nasty point of view that those guys offer with smiles on their faces and firm handshakes.

Whether GA likes it or not, these things are coming. The GOP and its followers have underestimated the strength of this backlash and misunderstood what the new progressive vision looks like. They only listen to each other’s views that these ideas are nothing but the fantasies of treehuggers and crypto-commies. They’ve stopped paying attention to anyone beyond their gated communities, even if they donate to charity. It’s most of the working public who wants these things.

The new progressive wave will take some up-front tax money. It will also be capitalist as hell but with a long-term vision…

and it’s going to steamroll the good ‘ol boys who after all have nothing to offer but check cashing , payday lending and rent-to-own serfdom.

It’s our turn.

By Whatever

July 23, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Wooten is off today. He’s turning into a crazy man because the Dems will carry Georgia this year, and needed a few days off.

By Blind Homer

July 23, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Who cares? They’re all the same.

By Hear the Herd

July 23, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

If one more person uses the acronym POTUS for president of the united states I will go insane.

Just because all y’all thought it was so cool when the TV show West Wing’s pilot episode surprised and delighted you with it, you think-tank overachievers have tortured me with it ad nauseum for years and years.

It’s like the Walton’s holding hands during grace. My parents started doing that after they saw it on the Waltons TV show..

I hate holding hands during grace. I hate it! The nuns dont even do it. The pope wont do it. So why should I have to because John Boy does it? My mom and dad actually disciplined me in my forties over it. We were at a restaurant, and I realized they were positioning themselves to say grace and hold hands in front of everyone there, and I begged them. No, please not this time, just this once, people are staring, dont do it. “In the name of the Father, (dont, dad, no, NO), and the son, and the holy ghost, bless us oh lord and these thy gifts which we about to receive from thy bounty through christ our lord amen” They said it all the louder cause they knew I was embarrassed. I hate, I hate, I hate hate hate.

It’s a little thing, right? I shouldn’t be so upset about this, right? (Lets say the rosary during desert, dad).

I hate tv. TV has ruined nearly all of my enjoyment. Remember when “Isn’t that special” was big? It’s all I heard. People are parrots. We are all just so clever to mimic television. Is this planet worth saving? God doesn’t think so, he’s planning to end the world.

I love god for that one attribute alone.

In the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, (if god wants to be three persons in one being, who am I to criticize?), Bless us oh lord and hurry up with judgement day thank you. I cant wait to see what happens to Wooten and Bookman.

Especially Wooten.

By td

July 23, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Georgia was blue for 130 something years. It has only been, so called, red for 6 years and that is because the blue politicians could see that the national democratic party had moved so far to the left that it had left the normal people of the state behind. If you look back at our politicians in the state house, you will find that a large part of them that claim to be red now were blue only a few years ago.

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

To Bookman:

I’m waiting ………… the silence is deafening.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Will+There+Be+Riots+if+Obama+is+Not+Elected%3F

By RealityKing

July 23, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

When professors lose their objectivity, diverse thought in their class room is replaced by ideological propaganda.

Obviously.., Emory has a propagandist posing as a professor of political science.

By MRJ

July 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Dan,

Therein lies the difference. I believe in economic freedom regardless of whether I currently see tangible benefits of it. I do think it far surpasses the alternative with regard to creating wealth, but that isn’t the primary reason that I’m a staunch supporter of free enterprise.

Rather, it is because it is the fairer system. I believe in government regulation which ensures adequate transparency and prevents fraud (which prevents the efficient functioning of free markets). I believe in personal responsibility, and capitalism is the only economic system which rewards it. American business and the American people have made terrible economic decisions over the past decade, and now we’re all suffering. I don’t believe the purpose of government is to shield us from our mistakes (or those of business—I oppose most bailouts too).

By Disgusted

July 23, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Can someone, anyone…please tell Obama and NBC News that Obama is not the president. I watched him on TV and the guy looked like a (bad) actor playing being president. One more time: OBAMA YOU ARE NOT PRESIDENT SO PLEASE STOP ACTING LIKE ONE. However, you are a senator and you should act like one.

By Republicans will lose

July 23, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Republicans (especially on this blog) are left with nothing more than namecalling as a stance to vote for them this year. I love it.

By Drew

July 23, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

So you’re saying I should prefer being raped by Democrats because they’re honest and up-front about it? Damn. The greatest failure of the Bush administration will be the unchecked spending of the last eight years… if the Dems offered an alternative to that, it might be worth considering… but that ain’t gonna happen.

The only real hope we have for fiscal restraint is the gridlock of a GOP president (one who’ll actually use his veto power once in awhile) and a Dem congress.

By GaVoter

July 23, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Georgians didn’t leave the democratic party. Califorina’s progressives took it over and drove it into the ground..

By Drew

July 23, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Oh, and Obama is promising to raise my taxes (how very Mondale of him) and McCain says he’ll keep mine where they are now. That trumps BO’s platitudes and charisma in my book.

By Hear the Herd

July 23, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

If one more person uses the acronym POTUS for president of the united states I will go insane.

Just because all y’all thought it was so cool when the TV show West Wing’s pilot episode surprised and delighted you with it, you think-tank overachievers have tortured me with it ad nauseum for years and years.

It’s like the Walton’s holding hands during grace. My parents started doing that after they saw it on the Waltons TV show..

I hate holding hands during grace. I hate it! The nuns dont even do it. The pope wont do it. So why should I have to because John Boy does it? My mom and dad actually disciplined me in my forties over it. We were at a restaurant, and I realized they were positioning themselves to say grace and hold hands in front of everyone there, and I begged them. No, please not this time, just this once, people are staring, dont do it. “In the name of the Father, (dont, dad, no, NO), and the son, and the holy ghost, bless us oh lord and these thy gifts which we about to receive from thy bounty through christ our lord amen” They said it all the louder cause they knew I was embarrassed. I hate, I hate, I hate hate hate.

It’s a little thing, right? I shouldn’t be so upset about this, right? (Lets say the rosary during desert, dad).

I hate tv. TV has ruined nearly all of my enjoyment. Remember when “Isn’t that special” was big? It’s all I heard. People are parrots. We are all just so clever to mimic television. Is this planet worth saving? God doesn’t think so, he’s planning to end the world.

I love god for that one attribute alone.

In the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, (if god wants to be three persons in one being, who am I to criticize?), Bless us oh lord and hurry up with judgement day thank you. I cant wait to see what happens to Wooten and Bookman.

Especially Wooten.

By Dan

July 23, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

MRJ

Allow me to pose this as the key component in the “free enterprise” system of capitalism: greed.

Greed has been an ingrained human response since the beginning of time, and in the free market system greed is as tantamount as capital. So there will be fraud whether intentional or unintentional, it’s the nature of that enterprise.

I agree with you on transparency, it is sorely needed, but if you can’t see that it is greed that keeps the “free market” from being truly free and open to all, then I have no words.

But thank you for the informed and venom free answer..

By Red Foreman

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

The only thing that will be turning blue in Georgia is all the AJC Liberals holding their breath after they pitch a temper tantrum because O’Bama/Oh’Crap loses…

By Mark

July 23, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

you can vote for your favorite candidate at http://www.voteobamaormccain.com/

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

July 23, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Will Georgia Turn Blue. Only if the staunch GOP’ers who live here hold their collective breaths while they watch Sen. Obama win in a landslide in the other states. Maybe a few will pass out, maybe a few will see the light in their lightheadedness. The writing is on the wall. After Dubya, the GOP is over as it has been known. Conservatism is an acronym for “Old Boys Club.” Or loosely translated, a place for rich, old, out of touch white men, who have a hatred for anything or anyone not like them and stands in the way of them making more money, while screwing the general populace of every hard earned penney sweated or bled for in the name of family. If this is the end of that thinking, then die already. I quit the Republican Party in ‘04. I was struggling then as I’m struggling now. But I have H-O-P-E, that a new set of ideas can right the country that I fought for while watching my fellow brothers and sisters in arms fall. Mccain, ex POW and all, if you’re still for war then you are a madman and the citizens of this country recognize it.

By Glenn

July 23, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

What we need is a strong dictator! Enough with these bafoons we call our “leaders”!

By Sister Rosetta Stone

July 23, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

I hear you, Herd.

By Dusty

July 23, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Now… let all the Libs sing together with Billie Holiday…

Am I blue

Am I blue

Aint these tears, in these eyes telling you

How cam you ask me am I blue

Why, wouldn’t you be too

If each plan

With your man

Done fell through

Well, too bad. She fell for Obama..but Georgia didn’t.

By Mark

July 23, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

we can vote in our favorite candidate at http://www.voteobamaormccain.com/

By Chris B

July 23, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

i agree with earlier bloggers. What would be the difference. The two party system is so outdated its not even funny. There is an ol boy system (which includes women) that exists in Washington.

By Mad As Zell

July 23, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

“Will Georgia turn blue?”

OVER MY DEAD BODY!

No way in hell or on God’s green earth that Georgia, a state where MOST of the people are God-fearing, RED-blooded, God-loving Christian American Patriots, will go for a muslim black supremist Marxist Stalinist Pinko backstabbing traitor black panther like BaRAT Hussein Osama (Lil’ Osama) in ANY election for ANY office, local, statewide or national!

So all the crossdressing, crybaby, panty-wetting Yankee libs can pull down their skirts and run along back up to above the Mason-Dixon line with their “FAIRY”tales of tricking Southerners into voting for a catastrophic Bin Laden-type fraud in the form of Barack “Lil’ Osama” Obama.

On Nov. 5, remember that a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama!

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

To “Fluffy” the Airborne Soldier:

“When civilized man can no longer stand the horror of war and refuses to fight, then he will surely be killed or enslaved by the uncivilized who can.” Author Unknown

By RJ

July 23, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Chris B, The two party system is not the problem, civic illiteracy and blind party loyalty are the problem. Republicans claim an employer orientation, yet they re-elect non or poor performing candidates. How can a voter effectively judge talent for elective offices if the do not know their duties and responsibilities? It takes more than faith to lead or manage an elective office.

It is most unfortunate that blind party loyalty trumps loyalty to the nation. That kind of thinking is running our great nation in the ground. How can a company survive with non or poor performing employees?

By mark

July 23, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

we can vote at http://www.voteobamaormccain.com/ to select our favorite candidate

By Dave

July 23, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Get used to it. Georgia politics won’t matter in the Presidential election. Obama Salama Mamma will be the next Pres because the liberals have registered more voters in the primaries this year. And they will turn out to vote. Hey, let’s all vote for Cynthia McKinney instead. She’s sharp and has lots of experience. (Help us all …)

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

July 23, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Corporal, you’re still an idiot. You can’t handle change, guess that’s why you didn’t advance beyond CPL. Ever wonder why you were expendable? Check your IQ. Maggot.

By Chris B

July 23, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

That is true RJ but come on. The Democrats in 2006 ran on cleaning up wasteful spending and ending the war in Iraq. For you Dems, if you think obama will pull the troups out within 2 years you are in fantasy land. Spending has increased and the war in Iraq is still going strong. In 1994, the Republicans made all these claims of what they would do once in Washington, they ended up being corrupted by Washington. Individuals of either party who tries to fight the power structure will be destroyed.

By Dan

July 23, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

I won’t even dignify the comment comparing Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden…I’m impressed that that person has a computer..given the knuckle-dragging speil in that response.

Voting on ideological reasons is what has ruined the two party system. Men and women in little rooms spend months figuring out how to emflame the passions of the electorate, for no other reason than to “win” an election. No politician, including Barack, has your or my daily concern at heart.

What I would like to propose here is that the GA Democratic and Republican party open Georgia to allow Independent to be a party affiliation. That way we can truly vote our concerns, as the 2 big parties would have to listen to a 3rd alternative.

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

To Fluffy, The Airborne Soldier:

Oooooooo …… looks like I hit a nerve. Time to use your Army bootcamp “time-out” card.

Actually I advanced to GM-14 with Uncle Sam. Not too bad but I digress ………

Do you want to debate the points of open “gayness” in the military and all the ensuing problems it will bring or not? Once it is “out in the open” is only the beginning. Then comes hand holding, etc. while in uniform, which uniform (pants or dress), I didn’t get promoted because I’m gay, I don’t want to fix my bayonet because I’m gay, I want separate showers because I’m gay, or I’m not sure which I am, etc., etc., etc.

Serving in the U.S. Military is a PRIVILEGE not a right ……………

P.S. Are you sure you didn’t land on your head once ?

By Blind Homer

July 23, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

RJ - Read the Apples to Oranges piece on the New American. We may have slight differences in how fast we pull out of Iraq, whether we send 2 or 3 battalions to Afghanistan, or how rapidly we build new nuclear plants, but fundamental America wil remain the same. Neither candidate will address the illegal alien problem, do away with social security, or stop us from being the policemen of the world. Capitalism will thrive with or without a windfall profits tax, the gap between rich and poor will continue to increase, and we won’t do away with the Fed or balance the Federal budget. Consequently, most American’s lives will not be significantly different no matter who gets elected.

By Hear the Herd

July 23, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Glenn is the most easily dismissed troll on the AJC blogwash.

By Michael

July 23, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

AJC rooting for the Democrats? Big Surprise!

By "The Corporal"

July 23, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

To Blind Homer:

I agree with you in part but here is what’s crucial - it’s who gets to pick the next set of Supreme Court Justices.

Do you want an originalist interpretation of the Constitution as a “written contract” between the American people and their government ?

OR

Do you want a revisionist court that interprets our Constitution based on international precedent?

Neither candidate is up to par but it’s still an easy choice for me………..

By BoredByRightWing

July 23, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Why would anyone even want to engage the bible thumping liars out to screw the rest of us out of anything and everything we work hard to achieve. The right wing republican nuts are the cult of hate and lies.

By West Cobb Dad

July 23, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

I am really tired of all this Blue State / Red State garbage. We should run the presidential election like it was originally devised. By electoral votes with each electoral vote representing a congressional district. Get rid of this winner take all garbage. What happens with this is that one or two populous counties can determine the entire state. Plus, it will put every state on the election tour. Not just Ohio, California, or Florida.

By ron

July 23, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

georgia could easily go democratic in november.considering the state of the nation and the world i don’t understand how someone can proudly boast of georgia staying in the red.race is going to play a significant factor in georgia and the rest of the states.if senator obama was a white male he would hold a 70-30% advantage over mccain.

By BoneHead

July 23, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Grelican, you have had your turn for the last 2 years, and what have you done? Double the price of gas, and go through the longest period in history without passing a single bill, good record! DIMACRATS.. LOL

By MV7

July 23, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Maybe if i vote for Obama he will let me get back to dog fighting and playing football. I blame Bush and the republicans for all my problems.