Rick Badie / My Opinion

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Not on edge one little bit over the election. What did I say awhile back Mr. Badie, about seeing America’s first black President in your lifetime? My concern is what a President Obama will do after elected and how far too the left he will take America?

By BW

November 3, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

I just wonder how many voters have stayed or will stay away, because of the long lines?

How can Gwinnett counties total be trusted when 10,000 votes were already screwed up?

And it’s nice to have our Sec. of State, (next step, candidate for Sonny’s job), pointing her finger at everyone and not taking responsibly.

Besides that, I’m excited, like I am every Election Day. It should be returned to the status it once enjoyed as a National Holiday

By NOWICUNVME

November 3, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Well to be honest, I am on edge a little. Anxious and hoping that things will be handled fairly and just. It’s been an exciting and an epic of a campaign! Let’s all pray and hope that the best candidate for the job really wins!

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

I hope and pray America and the Americans really win. Not much opportunity of that happening with the present candidates.

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Senator Obama’s grandmother has passed away. Despite my differences with him on the issues I am saddened in his loss, as I am sure all America will share in his bereavement.

By Kneel and Bob

November 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

I on edge AND I’m taking it in stride. I’m voting my popular vote for McCain, but my electoral vote for Obama. I want low taxes and high spending, I want full employment and entitlements, I want war and I want peace. I want the priesthood and I want the gay man’s choir. I want porn and I want the congressional channel.

I want the Yellowjackets and the Bulldogs!

By woz

November 3, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

I am very aprehensive.

I see the potential for a complete change to a socialistic society, and that taxing income will not satisfy the Democratic dictatorship (with a supermajority in the senate). Next will be the taxing of assets, including retirement savings.

Sharing the wealth will be more aptly defined, and tax on home equity will be levied as well.

After granting healthcare to illegal immigrants, they will be a reliable voting bloc. Once that happens, it’s all over.

Conscription will be here by this time next year, as the military will have shrunk and will be unable to meet the needs of the Iran-Israel and North Korea-South Korean wars.

By NOWICUNVME

November 3, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Taxing of assests already exists. Retirement savings too. Illegal immigrants have been getting free healthcare for approximately the last 8 years and the military has shrunk so low that there was talk of instituting another draft. I think Americans were tired of their loved ones coming home in body bags. Sharing the wealth will hopefully bring back a middle class. Keep your head up.

By JSC

November 3, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

As I don’t have a dog in the hunt I’m not “excited”. Neither candidate is worth a damn. There is no true leader to vote for. This is the last day of America as we knew her - RIP.

Having said that, I’m looking forward to watching the chocolate messiah blow it big time over the next four years and hoping people will finally see past his skin color to the communist he is. Hopefully the GOP will run a true conservative in 2012.

(I know, let me save you non-thinking people some time here) - “THAT’S RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISSSST”.

By Rachel the Realist

November 3, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

I think Americans were tired of their loved ones coming home in body bags. The day there is no more War is the last day of your existence.

Sharing the wealth will hopefully bring back a middle class. No one is getting their hands on MY money. You want to be a part of the middle class, then get a job!

The Liberal Agenda is pathetic!

By NOWICUNVME

November 3, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Rachel the Realist Since your comments were directed directly to mine…Does your ignorance come natural or is that a learned behavior? Your comments don’t warrant a response from me other than go back and read your own comments slowly. Obviously, you’ve lost NO ONE in the Iraqi War or the Afghanistan search on a wild goose chase looking for Osama Bin Laden War. News flash for you, the government already controls your money sweetheart and all of the supposed middle class have jobs Einstein, which is exactly the point. Did you have anything to say regarding the topic of the blog to begin with? Or did you just wanna make a grand stand and make a feeble attempt to personally attack just my comments specifically? Hmmmmmm…. that’s exactly what I thought. With all due respect Ms. Realist, just post your comments and don’t worry about mine. You’re not even in the same league as me sweetie, so don’t even try to play on my team, okay? please? and thanks, appreciate ya!

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Neither the Socialists Neo-Lib or the Monopolists Neo-Con nut-job agendas of “spreading the wealth” or “pooling the wealth” will help return the once middle class of America to the Americans.

*Neither candidate is worth a damn. There is no true leader to vote for. *

For the moment, or for at least another 4 agonizing years I share your expressed opinion of these two Presidential candidates, JSC.

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

Oh and by the way Mr. Obama, America already has a legal pathway to earn U.S. Citizenship. The illegal aliens can go back home, apply for legal entry, get in the back of the line and wait like all the rest of the world, until America actually has a “real need” to supplement our citizenry with immigrants that desire a better citizenship in a better country than the one they want to leave and renounce.

They might want to pick up a laptop and a copy of Rosetta Stone, the U.S. English version, to occupy their time during that long waiting period. A copy of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and a history book on American culture would probably help just in case they do get a visa.

By NOWICUNVME

November 3, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this

“The Truest and the Most Fearless Leader of All would be none other than G. W. Bush”??? I wonder how many Americans who voted for this prime of a candidate expected such an awesome and triumphant turnout of events during the past almost decade. The smart thing to do would at least try to make the most of what you think you got, or am I wrong?

By Michael H. Smith

November 3, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

The smart thing to do would at least try to make the most of what you think you got, or am I wrong?

Yep!

That is the shame of what many people did when they voted for an unbeknown Neo-Con “Fearless Leader” in 2000.

No need to shame myself in a repeat of that same ill-fated logic to elect a known Neo-Lib “Dear Leader”.

America will decide, I’ll just have to live with it for 4 more regrettable years.

Dear Leader…. my how becoming.

By Crystal

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

Yes Rachel, I had to learn the hard way too, nowicunvme is the ONLY opinion that matters. Whatever he says is the ONLY thing that is right. He knows EVERYTHING. He even answers the questions he asks you because he even knows how you are going to answer them. I’m surprised he didn’t run for president himself.

Oh yes, I can’t wait for my “spread the wealth” check. My whopping $60 a month is going to pay for my kid’s college. OR…..it’s going to pay the taxes the businesses pass down to the consumers. The rich will always find a way to get out of paying higher taxes and if you tax big business they will increase the cost of their goods/services to recoup their higher taxes. The middle class isn’t getting ANYTHING back and isn’t going anywhere fast.

By American Mother

November 4, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this

I voted for McCain, because the O scares me!!! He needs to leave MY money alone, and MY healthcare!!!! If I want a car or a tv or anything else, I get it!!! If my neighbor needs these things, he needs to Get IT!!! I might give him a ride, but I do not feel it my duty to buy him a car or anything else, Let him work for what he has, same as me!!!

and O is just tinted black, he is as much white as he is black, but I just wonder if he is from such humble beginnings, where oh where is all “his” money coming from??? The terrorists could be flying another plane, this time FROM the White House and not to it!!!??? He just scares me!!!!! He really does!!!!!

By woodie

November 4, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this

This whole ‘share the wealth’ negative campaign ads by conservatives is getting on my nerves. Why shouldn’t somebody making $250k pay more tax than somebody make $50k? I was going to vote for McCain but now he seems tainted somehow by his greedy constituents. Why the heck should somebody making so much money bellyache about their taxes?

By John Galt Jr.

November 4, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this

Let me give you a unique concept Woodie, you hapless sap, “Why the heck should somebody making so much money bellyache about their taxes?” ITS BECAUSE THEY EARNED IT!!! And, they probably employed some loser like you to work for them along the way, delivering pizzas for THEIR company. You ever work for a POOR person Woodie? Idiot.

By Jason

November 4, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

After reading these comments, all I have to say is NOWICUNVME throws an insult like they take it up the you know what. This year I’m voting NO to cliche’d insults! Maybe simpleton Rachel will try again and you can have another go at it.

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Why shouldn’t somebody making $250k pay more tax than somebody make $50k?

They usually do pay more tax, Woodie. Mr. Obama would like to see them pay even more so he can “redistribute their wealth”. Altho I can’t say Mr. McCain doesn’t have a wealth redistribution plan of his own by continuing the Bush tax cuts that concentrate idle wealth at the top.

What Dear Leader should do is give anyone making $250k annually or more, tax credits to reduce their tax obligation if they invest their money in a targeted job/wealth creation program that employs U.S. Citizen labor in the energy sector. From day one Dear Leader should call upon Congress to issue a series of tax exempt energy bonds to fund energy independence and job/wealth creation.

Dear Leader shouldn’t insult the rich and industrious people of this country. He is going to need them to turn this economy around. Poor people can’t afford to create jobs! Rich people should be rewarded for putting their money to work in this country for this country, to employ more U.S. citizens. If you give the rich people in this country the right opportunity and rewards to invest their money in this country and the American people they will. The rich didn’t get rich by being stupid. It is time Dear Leader and his Democrat comrades wised-up to that fact and learned how to use the knowledge and money of the rich to the best advantage of this country.

Neither Republican class warfare nor Democrat class welfare is the right answer.

By LB

November 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

I am not on edge because no matter which man gets elected, the congress is the same. People really need to focus more on the local and state elections. It’s these electees who are casting their votes on behalf of the people. If these elected officials continue to vote against the people then we need to flock to the polls to get them fired. If the turn out in the local elections were as high as this election, we would not be in the mess we are in today. The turn out today reminds me of the church Christmas and Easter group, who only attend these two times each year. What about all the rest of the time. Voter support is needed at every election.

By Welfare King

November 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Woodie

Thank you for stating the obvious. Those that earn more shouldn’t complain about making more, because we’re all a bunch of welfare kings and queens. Just a couple of examples:

I don’t mind paying more taxes because I can afford it. Trust me, you aren’t going to be taking food out of my kids’ mouths. Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is pulling your leg.

By Welfare King

November 4, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Michael Smith

Be a man and take a stand. If you can’t do that, then at least have a point!

You pontificate while at the same time saying nothing.

Is it that government won’t ever change, so what’s the use?

By BW

November 4, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

I am truely surprised to see the majority commenting make over $250.000, especially by the foolish comments?

We have seen what the GOP’s or Greedy Old Pig party ‘Spend and Charge” economic policy has given us.

Tell me economic wonders, if you worry about spreading the wealth, what exactly is “The Wall Street Bail-out”? Look it up wonders, if it isn’t a perfect example of socialism, nothing is. Or McBush’s plan to have the government buy up all bad mortages, socialism.

A good laugh in the morning is a great way to start thr day, thank you for providing it.

By Welfare King

November 4, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Michael Smith

Be a man and take a stand. If you can’t do that, then at least have a point!

You pontificate while at the same time saying nothing.

Is it that government won’t ever change, so what’s the use?

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Yada, yada Welfare King. I made the point, if you can’t take it that is your aimless blathering problem. Government will not change until those in government change and these two which you demand I choose one of them to vote for, one way or the other, don’t deserve my vote and neither one will get my vote. I am sending them both and their disrespectful political parties a very clear message that neither one is worth a damn!

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Time to go vote for my write-in list of candidates and the local issues - like defeating the TAD amendment.

By BW

November 4, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

MHS, you do realize that write-in candidates are not even counted?

By Nikita

November 4, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Turnout is off the hook out here in the sticks. My polling place, where I am usually outnumbered by the poll workers, had an hour-long line this morning at 7.

I’d be on edge, but there isn’t a thing I can do about it. I’m most excited to see who wins the Chambliss-Martin race and the Saxon-Broun race, and to see if Georgia is really as red as we think it is.

By LT5000

November 4, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I thought the “Big Day” that had Blubbering Badie so excited was his birthday.

He knows he could get a free Denny’s Grandslam breakfast.

Enough to get his cholesterol clogged arteries pumping, so he can crank out another insipid article.

LT5000

By LT <3 RB

November 4, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Oh, LT, now you’re just flirting…

By jim d

November 4, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Pase lo que Pase, Rick

Leave us pray that we remain united as a people.

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

If that is the case BW then why do ballots have a place on them to write-in a candidate? Not that it really matters the message was sent that I intended to send the worthlessness in these two political parties we Americans have mis-representing us as a government, which refuses to ENFORCE OUR LAWS. If our government ever does that, we will not have crooks on Wall Street or illegal aliens from south of the border to complain about.

By the way your nonsensical whine about the Wall Street bailout was passed by a “Democrat liberal controlled Congress” and both “Dear Leader Obama and McCain” voted for that bailout after an additional $150 billion in pork barrel spending was added to the $700 billion Bush bill. Nothing but two wings on one and the same dirty bird.

Can’t believe I already voted, what a breeze. Never had a short wait like this before in a major election.

By BW

November 4, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

MHS, Bush sends the Bail-out over to congress, McBush flys back to help Fearless Leader push it, yet it’s the Democrats fault? Still wonder how it could pass the Senate with only a one vote majority when it takes sixty to make it to the floor. Do you GOPer’s ever take respsonsibility for anything?

As far as the childish write in vote, they never collected enough signatures or paid the fee to get on the ballot. The only thing it proves is how inconsiderate you are by holding up the line playing.

By Cindy

November 4, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

**By LB November 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

I am not on edge because no matter which man gets elected, the congress is the same. People really need to focus more on the local and state elections. **

I have the same thoughts LB. This morning on the radio, a girl called in and was waiting to vote. They (radio guys) asked who she was voting for and she said she didn’t disclose that information to anyone. So they asked “well then why’d ya call?” and asked if she’d tell who she was voting for in the senate/local races…she said “oh, I don’t keep up with all that!” :(

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Yeah it is the Democrats fault *who never take responsibility for anything either, they control the former Congress and now they have “Dear Leader” to help Comrades Reid and Pelosi over in the Polit Bureau to put into law that vast left-wing nut-job agenda. From the Noe-Cons to Neo-Libs just two wings on one and the same dirty bird pooping all over the American people.

Please rise my taxes “Dear Leader”. Please bankrupt coal fired power plants so my electric bill can skyrocket and don’t you dare build one nuclear power plant to replace any of those closed coal burning power plants. Close down all the coal mines in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virgina and Pennsylvania, put all the miners out of a job. Be sure to tax hell out of those mom and pop business that make over $250K so they can fire a few more employees…. and oh, Dear Leader, don’t give any of those filthy rich people like T. Boone Pickens or Warren Buffet any tax credits for creating any jobs in this country for a U.S. citizen. Don’t forget to send my spread the wealth check, “Dear Leader”.

Man are the next 4 years going to be a hoot and a howl with “Dear Leader Obama” and that old Polit Bureau in power.

After that even the GOP can probably make a comeback.

Hey, stuff your inconsiderate proof BS! LOL

I have the right to vote for anyone I choose despite your childish nonsense and the duty to vote against anything I consider bad for this country. The people who voted for “Dear Leader” and McSame held me up.

By woodie

November 4, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Well GA is a pretty solid red state so I hope everybody doesn’t get ticked off if we fall into the red column again. I think the primary is more important than the general election in GA because our red compatriots will probably do the predictable thing and throw all our electoral votes in the General Election to the red candidate. So don’t be surprised my friends.

By BW

November 4, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

“Man are the next 4 years going to be a hoot and a howl with “Dear Leader Obama” and that old Polit Bureau in power.”, after whar Fearless Leeder and six years of a pug coongress left us it will be an up hill battle, I am truely surprised you realized that, you never fail to amaze.

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Yeah and more amazing I could have even voted for Mickey Mouse as President since he is a registered ACORN voter residing in the State of Florida, born in the USA and older than 35 years of age.

Hey, don’t laugh y’all, Mickey Mouse is more believable than the other two rats, who have promised more cheese than a heard of dairy cows can deliver!

By Michael STFU

November 4, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

MS you add NOTHING. Just STFU unless you have anything useful to say.

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Take a leap creep. You STFU.

By NOWICUNVME

November 4, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

I agree. MHS just stay inside away from the rest of big bad world and the big bad government. Going down to the polls just to play on the lines?? Your rantings are quite annoying and bothersome, but most of all, hold no value whatsoever. Just a bunch of insignificant spewing off at the mouth to try and sound intelligent. So so sad, and lame. Cmon man, Mickey Mouse???

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

CUNV Brucie that agrees with Brucie go play with this. You BW have brought nothing to anything but your usual wack-job liberal whiny moronic crap. Dear Leader Obama is not going to change much of anything for the good with his socialist elitist agenda you so admire and McSame was defeated by George Bush NOT your promise everything to everybody Democrats who have done nothing but pork it up conducting business as usual in Congress for the last two years. Get off your little ego trip. The sad awaking is coming when Dear Leader actually has to lead this country which he cannot unite from his far left positions. Good thing he has that big O jet, after 4 years he might travel close enough towards the right to at least see the political center. By then maybe your failed “race rants” will give way to the sobriety that it took a great number of whites voting to elect Dear Leader for him to become President.

Anyone who truly thinks Obama is the next political messiah was playing around at the polls and should have voted for Mickey Mouse - thanks to ACORN they probably could have and it would have counted. LOL

If Obama has one bit more sense than you CUNV-BW, which I sincerely hope he does, he knows he will have to move to the right without alienating you Neo-Lib kooks. He will have to get real honest with the folks and tell them the truth, in that he will not be able to focus on anything but the economy. If he wises up he will realize rising taxes in any way shape or form in a bad economy is the worse thing he can do. If he keeps as much wealth as he can in our country and rewards that wealth to create more wealth for U.S. citizens then possibly he will at least be measured as successful. Otherwise in 4 years Dear Leader is a goner.

Oh, what ever happened to your New York Senator did she take a detour or did I get it right?

Told you so.

I’ll give the Dems’ a tip of the old hat they at least figured out how to win, now lets see if they can actually figure out how to unite a center-right country and lead.

Now CUNV-Brucie-STFU what have you to bring back another childish attack or another complaint about voting irregularities or just the regular run of the mill drab boring claptrap?

By Michael H. Smith

November 4, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

On a better note, I’m excited to see voter apathy is remarkably down. Guess that old voter photo ID really didn’t discourage voter participation as falsely claimed. :)

By BW

November 4, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this

Oh, oh, Micky went off the deep end again, give him some more gin and he’ll be fine.

By BW

November 4, 2008 11:37 PM | Link to this

“Happy Days Are Here Again”

So long sad times, go long bad times, we are rid of you at last. Howdy gay times, cloudy gray times, you are now a thing of the past. Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again, so let’s sing a song of cheer again, happy days are here again. Altogether shout it now, there’s no one who can doubt it now, so let’s tell the world about it now, happy days are here again. Your cares and troubles are gone, there’ll be no more from now on, from now on… Happy days are here again. The skies above are clear again, so, Let’s sing a song of cheer again. Happy times, happy nights, happy days… are here again!”.

By Michael H. Smith

November 5, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Not in the deep BW, back when you were telling me about a New York Senator going to the White House I was telling you no way. I was right and you were in the deep end. Hold on to your happy days again slogan too. Altho now that a long awaited event has happened and celebration is truly in order rough days are ahead.

A page in history if not a volume has been written. Watching Roland Martin last night on CNN, well, his comments probably said it all… No longer when a black child says I want to become President will a black father say… Son, you might want to consider doing something else with your life.

Awesome statement.

I can’t remember anytime in my life ever becoming joyfully tearful (literally) over an election of anyone, especially where the winner’s political views are so different from my own. It is hard to not support someone and support someone at the same time. Such was the case, such is the case now, as I like so many other citizens have a new President elect. Along with his extending to all those who did not support him an olive branch came a commitment from him to earn our support: To listen to us “especially when we disagree” and a very unprecidented humble request from a Presidential victor.

Our President elect asked for our help.

He obviously knows difficult days lie ahead, days that require a very different approach. His tenor set that very tone last night or early this morning when he addressed the nation in what can only be seen as a mountain top speech. Or, perhaps better yet as a sacred charge to a people before entering the promised land.

If Martin Luther King was, as many view him, a type of Moses in our time; then may they take heed of Joshua in our midst and the new dawn in America.

To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

That’s the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we’ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Words, just words?

I doubt it. :)

By BW

November 5, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Excellent MHS.