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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rep. Jack Kingston, a conservative Savannah Republican, made his eighth appearance on the ultra-liberal HBO talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher” last Friday and wondered aloud whether Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, even like America.
Michelle Obama last week sparked conservative charges that she’s unpatriotic when she said she her husband’s progress as the first viable African-American presidential candidate made her proud of America for the first time in her adult life.
The rules of copyright prevent us from linking to the HBO clips posted on YouTube, but a simple search will put the video in your lap. Kingston starts in Part II, and really gets rolling in Part III.
“The thing she did not do and still has not done for three days is to explain what she meant,” Kingston said on the show. “It would have been that simple just to say, ‘You know, this is a great country and I’m just proud that people are getting involved in this election.’ That would have been the end of it.”
What made it worse, Kingston added, was the fact that Barack Obama himself also may not love the nation he wants to lead.
“When you combine [Michelle’s comment] with the fact that the guy would not say the Pledge of Allegiance and won’t put a American [flag] lapel pin on his coat, that’s things voters are watching,” Kingston said.
Maher interrupted and asked Kingston for proof that Obama won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance. Kingston said it’s contained in “the famous picture of him standing while Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton have their hands over their hearts while saying the Pledge and Obama has his hands deliberately down.
“The concern is this guy is applying for the job on the No. 1 cheerleading squad for the United States of America. Where do they stand on America?” Kingston asked.
Now, about that “famous picture,” courtesy of Time magazine, the first media outlet to run it. The political trio wasn’t saying the Pledge. They were singing the national anthem.
But the photo provoked a new, Internet-style whisper campaign alleging that Obama is an unknown who may be, as the harshest of the rumors put it, a Muslim trained in the Middle East as a “domestic insurgent.”
Lighten up, Kingston said in an interview with us later.
Maher’s show is about entertainment — though it also includes substantive debates, he said. And besides, “If you run for president you’re going to be under a microscope.”
The reason people are questioning who Obama is, Kingston said, is because the country knows so little about the man who wants to lead it.
“It hit a very tender, sensitive nerve of the Democratic left,” Kingston said. “If we know that bringing it up is a problem for them, we’re going to bring it up over and over.”
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By Colin Hicks
February 25, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
I would like to know if Rep. Kingston has ever read any of those hoax/smear emails?
Has he ever forwarded these smear emails?
If so, did he do this with his public or private email account?
By Will Jones
February 25, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
Kingston is very close to George Bush, a known homosexual draft-dodger (Viz: James Guckert/Jeff Gannon-rawstory.com) who committed 9-11 and WMD-lied us into false war for oil, heroin, the Saudis, and a corrupt faction in the State of Israel. He is, therefore, a traitor, as was his JFK-assassinating father and his Hitler-financing grandfather.
Savannah, a largely Roman Catholic city at the time of the War Between the States greeted the Roman Catholic General Sherman and his column of Irish, Italian and German Roman Catholic soldiers without firing a shot and thereby earned the moniker “W*ore of the South.”
Nowhere has Kingston been known to admonish Bush for his cowardice, perversion and treason.
Does Savannah really want a traitor’s friend to represent them in Congress? Is Bush-pal Kingston also a homosexual draft-dodger?
Is Savannah still the “W*ore of the South” dominated by Roman Catholic Fifth Column interests supporting treason? Jack Kingston, by supporting Bush and making scurrilous dishonorable claims against righteous Barack Obama, clearly supports hypocritical homosexuality, false war, and treason.
Shall the good People of the Great State of Georgia continue to tolerate false patriots, closet-queens and traitors’ “good buddies” representing them in Washington?
John Lewis is getting his retirement papers soon. Perhaps Jack Kingston should find more honest employment as well.
By Concerned American
February 25, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this
I’m not voting for any muslim sympathizer for President, especially with a wife who got to attend elite universities and now plays the race card at every opportunity.
By WaffleHouseDJ
February 25, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this
many people confuse politics with patriotism. wearing an american flag on ones lapel, covering your heart during the pledge or the national anthem and claiming to “support the troops” does not make one a patriot. these are all admirable gestures, when done with sincerity, however many politicians use them as merely ploys to deceive and manipulate the public. patriotism is manifested in one’s actions. there have been far too few patriots in our government for far too long!
“It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” - George Washington
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson
By GodHatesTrash
February 25, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this
Kingston is a sh-it smear. What a clueless, classless KKKlown.
Trash. Nothing but a chickenhawk POS.
By saint
February 25, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this
Is he a Muslim “Manchurian Candidate”? Hope we don’t find out too late.
By CR
February 25, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this
No experience in international politics. Actually, no experience in national politics worth mentioning. And, no “specifics” on how he plans to run our government. Wants to be President, yet cannot tell the people anything other than I want to change things. Change what? Change it how? What is your specific plan? Or, is it someone else’s plan? Oh, he’s got the talk, but that’s where it ends!!! Plagiarized speeches reveal the character. The most influential nation in this world run by the most inexperienced candidate. No thank you! Next applicant please. Amazing how some people are attracted by mere words or looks without doing any research. That’s how the people of Germany were fooled in WWII…public charisma.
By JW
February 25, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
I am very concerned about the apparent lack of intelligence of the American voter. We are in the greatest nation in the world, where you are allowed to voice your opinion without fear of reprisals. We have allowed our troops to be sent repeatedly into a war zone without sufficient equipment and without appropriate rest. The administration that allowed these atrocities is considered patriotic. When we place more emphasis on symbols than on facts we begin to travel down a slippery slope. We have fuel prices that rise almost daily. No one in this great nation asks why our president (a former oil company executive) has no idea how to protect this electorate from an apparent gouging of the American consumer at the hands of major oil companies. Patriotism is reflected in actions. Let’s look at what has happened in the last seven years. Please stop focusing on symbols that cannot change anything. I for one am concerned about illegal wire tapping. I am concerned about illegal renditions and detentions. I am concerned about a judicial system that will not stand up for the down-trodden. The patriotic America that I know and love has more important issues to concentrate on than whether Sen. Barack Obama placed his hand over his heart or wears an American flag on his lapel.
By Galoco_lee
February 25, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
Well, as Winston Churchill once said “the best arguement against a republic is a five minute conversation with the average voter” and doesn’t our primaries prove that! The only change I’m certain of is that that is all that will be left of my pay check after Obama increases Government spending by to $700 billion he proposes.Wake up America!
By Roberta
February 25, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this
It is very sad that the wife of a US Senator has never taken pride in that fact.
Michele attended Princeton and Harvard Law, Barak attended Columbia and Harvard Law - shame on them for discounting all of those privileges. That’s what happens when your pastor is a racist and that’s what you hear.
By Churchill
February 25, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
Blame the libs and teacher’s union for the intelligence, or lack thereof, of the American voter. After all, education policy in this country has been run by libs for the past 40 years. Anyway…
Anybody but Hillary
By ViewFromMidtown
February 25, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this
Funny, but while he was making those comments on Maher’s show, Kingston wasn’t wearing an American flag label pin. What kind of America-hating, domestic insurgent is Kingston anyway?
By john
February 25, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this
The Obama candidacy is has caused a number of people to look in the mirror and see who they really are. I have been pleasantly surprised by the positive response he has received in this country. I have felt from the begining that the country had not progressed enough to elect a woman or a Black. With McCain on the Republican ticket, a reasonable out has been provided to the democrats. As for patriotism, I’ll just say beware of the flag wavers. As for experience, Obama has as much as our current leader had AND he has the brains to learn and listen.
By d'angelo
February 25, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
I looked in the mirror I and is realize that no lib is down fo the struggle. Word.
By marko
February 25, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
It’s ok to elect politicians who think goverment does’nt work, and work tirelessly to prove there right just as long as they’re patriotic. Mrs Obama may have said something a little ill considered, but so far nobody’s died as a result, nor has a penny been wasted. Congressman Kingston why don’t you just have Obama and his wife swear a loyalty oath after all you guys are pretty good at that sort of thing.
By RJ
February 25, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
Kingston makes these outlandish comments because he thinks he can get away with it because he believes he has a backward group of inattentive south Georgia rednecks for constituents.
If the Democrats in that District can find half decent opposition he will be defeated. Kingston and his ilk simply cannot deliver under the new political landscape… their politics of division and negativism are aimed at deflecting attention away from their poor performance. The pain of the current economic conditions simply will not let that strategy work.
Moreover, why is Kingston concerned about the Democratic Party’s nominee for President at this juncture? The Republican Party has much to be concerned about especially if McCain is their nominee.
Pain of the current economic times is quite a stimilus for the average voter and the pain gets more severe everyday.
By I Hate Ignorance
February 25, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this
I have read a lot of blogs on ajc, and I feel that the comments on this one shows how ignorant people can be.
Ever since 9/11, a person’s patriotism has always been in question. I understand where Michelle Obama is coming from. From my understanding, you see, the majority does not understand the true journey of the African-American experience. Blood, sweat, and tears have been have been experienced through Slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights Movement. Yes, outstanding strides have been made for African-Americans and other minorities in the post Civil Rights Era. And what I think, now Mrs. Obama is proud of is the fact that “The Dream” is truly now possible, and America is finally coming together and embracing it.
There is a movement of change going on now. Fear and ignorance brings foolishness that makes up stories about the religious status or the moral values of the Obamas.
I can truly say that reading is fundamental. Before assuming the background of a family do the correct and credible research instead of talking to each other and coming to your own conclusions that turn into foolish and ignorant tall tales.
By warrior dowager
February 25, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
Hillary our American President
or
Obama your American Idol
By warrior dowager
February 25, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
Hillary our American President
or
Obama your American Idol
By Libreetia
February 25, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this
Fo Sheezee, d’angelo.
By Bro.Snake Mathis
February 25, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this
In the ninty’s I had a nice bank acct.Now I can’t even barrow,GW gave you your five hundred,you paid that back,you lost your credit rights thats gone, you loss your job,now you’re loosing your home…..How much more are you willing to take. Guy’s even the”KKK” know it’s time for a new direction called change. Dr. King would love to live to see this the KKK supporting a Brother. If this is a joke Sen. Clinton got lucky again……. twenty States we’ll see her in 2012.
By Keep HOPE Alive
February 25, 2008 11:52 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately we live in a time where people are willing to sell the country simply for the right to elect a president based either on their gender or race.
Obama has given NO specifics on any of his policies except that he will repeal the Bush, “Middle Class”, tax cuts.
It saddens me that many Americans are willing to elect a Socialist like Obama who is only interested in the redistribution of wealth.
By Stoned Mountain
February 26, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this
Barack Obama has written TWO books in the last year, two best-sellers, one an autobiography and an outline of his personal philosophy. Moreover there have been three other books, a collection of speeches and other biographical material published in the last 18 months.
The autobiographical book is “Dreams of My Father,” published in January of 2007, and the outline of his thinking and philosophy is, “The Audacity of Hope,” published in November.
I hope somebody can find time to read them to Jack Kingston.
By Mia
February 26, 2008 3:51 AM | Link to this
Jack Kingston represents everything wrong with this country. He manages to spew lies and race-bait at the same time. The people of Georgia should feel embarrassed that this fool represents them.
By Craig also
February 26, 2008 6:35 AM | Link to this
Here’s the thing though that idiots like Kingston don’t get. For years after 9-11, all the repubs had to do was say “Patriotism! Boo!” and the dems would quiver and cave. Obama is different. He understands that patriotism doesn’t mean wearing a pretty flag lapel. It means taking care of the troops after they get home, and providing body armor for them when they’re in danger.
Obama will swat him and his minions aside.
By GB
February 26, 2008 6:55 AM | Link to this
Actions speak louder than words!
By Mad Mary
February 26, 2008 6:58 AM | Link to this
SlickHill&Bill were a disgrace from the first night they jumped on the beds in my White House until the day they left while selling pardons and stealing furniture.
SlickHill wants her White House Experience to put her back in the White House. Let us all remember during her occupation she testified over 1000 times that she, “Did not know, did not remember, did not recall” when asked questions during various scandal investigations. Since she did not know anything that was going on when she was there why should we consider this relevant experience now? SlickHill has the White House Machine to get her carpetbagged into the Senator from my home state of New York and she has paid off everybody with jobs, perks, contracts and who knows what else, to keep it. SlickHill surrounds herself with Federal Secret Service so all of us, the unwashed masses, cannot get close to her. But in her hypocritical fashion, when the cameras are on her she is waving, throwing kisses and touching her heart while she mouths “I love you” to her campaign crowds.
Why we allow our elected officials to feed off the taxpayer trough with salaries, staff, perks, expenses, fringes and pensions while they are derelict in one position while they campaign for another is beyond me. When SlickHill loses she can keep all her remunerations from New York State and go back to a job she obviously does not want and only took in the first place to make this run.
I may not know a lot about Obama but I know enough about this Clinton Co-Presidency that I do not ever want it back in my White House.
By Mad Mary
February 26, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this
SlickHill&Bill were a disgrace from the first night they jumped on the beds in my White House until the day they left while selling pardons and stealing furniture.
SlickHill wants her White House Experience to put her back in the White House. Let us all remember during her occupation she testified over 1000 times that she, “Did not know, did not remember, did not recall” when asked questions during various scandal investigations. Since she did not know anything that was going on when she was there why should we consider this relevant experience now? SlickHill has the White House Machine to get her carpetbagged into the Senator from my home state of New York and she has paid off everybody with jobs, perks, contracts and who knows what else, to keep it. SlickHill surrounds herself with Federal Secret Service so all of us, the unwashed masses, cannot get close to her. But in her hypocritical fashion, when the cameras are on her she is waving, throwing kisses and touching her heart while she mouths “I love you” to her campaign crowds.
Why we allow our elected officials to feed off the taxpayer trough with salaries, staff, perks, expenses, fringes and pensions while they are derelict in one position while they campaign for another is beyond me. When SlickHill loses she can keep all her remunerations from New York State and go back to a job she obviously does not want and only took in the first place to make this run.
I may not know a lot about Obama but I know enough about this Clinton Co-Presidency that I do not ever want it back in my White House.
By George
February 26, 2008 7:08 AM | Link to this
I find it interesting that people will support Obama when in one of the books he wrote he admits to using crack & marijuana. But those same people think McCain is bad because of and alleged affair. Wake up people he has no experience has never said what he will change just he will change things. Yea like we will be “ONE NATION UNDER ALLAH” As a Vet I for one do not want the next president of the U.S.A to be someone who will not put is hand over his heart when the pledge of allegiance is being said. I do not want a first lady who has never been proud in her adult life to be American till now when her husband might become president. Please people don’t use the excuse that it is about time for and African American to be president. If that is really the case I sure that there are better African American Choices out there then one who is a Crack headed Muslim who really doesn’t care about this country.
By Vasily D'Efferins
February 26, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this
No liberal Democrat likes America. Obama is a liberal Democrat. Get out and vote in November if you don’t like it.
By Unaffiliated Voter
February 26, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
Would somebody PLEASE inform the world of Obakarama’s biggest accomplishments and leadership stints? WHAT has he done? WHAT CHANGE does he speak of?
Like to know more about their priveleged background and attending Ivy League screwls…Now they want to continue to ENSLAVE us all like democrackkks do…
Like Nader says, WHY dont we have better choices on the ballot??? SICK OF THEM ALL!!! NONE ARE QUALIFIED!!!
By DebbieDoRight
February 26, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this
No experience in international politics. Actually, no experience in national politics worth mentioning.
WOW for a minute there I thought this guy/girl was talking about Dumbya!!! I mean, really, what “experience” did Dumbya have before he took office? Four years as governor of Texas? Did he have any “international” experience either? Yet, amazingly, the poster doesn’t seem to remember THAT part of America’s history!!
By itsme
February 26, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Being of a particular race or gender or being a pretty public speaker are NOT qualifications to hold the nation’s highest office.
By Grampus
February 26, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Obama is the worst case scenario: idealism coupled with a complete lack of unbiased experience. His world view is that of a heavily patronized member of a minority. He can’t like or dislike America because he doesn’t really know it. How do you “change” what you don’t know?
Clinton on the other hand has the single-minded determination (not to mention the charm) of a Politburo member. America is only a means to an end for her - that of course assumes she will willingly leave office once her elected term is up.
McCain isn’t perfect, but at least he has been around the block on occasion in something that runs on more than easy listening rhetoric or an Animal Farm sense of entitlement.
By HB
February 26, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this
First of all, how long has the GOP been in power and what has it done for the country as a whole? MADE IT WORSE. This Cowboy we have in office has no clue about what’s going on. You can’t simply go to someone else’s country and try to force them to do what you want them to do…Do you want that in this country? NO. Has it worked? NO.
Secondly, George described Sen. Obama as a “a Crack headed Muslim”—huh? No one put in the forefront about Bush’s questionable miltary record nor his college escapades…STOP BEING PETTY. Everyone makes mistakes….
You talk about experience. Do you think an employer hires solely on experience?? NO. In addition to experience, they hire on TALENT, and INTELLIGENCE.
Lastly, just stop hating. McCain can’t base his whole campaign on his VA status. Other things count. If he leads this country, the deficit will get worse, minority affairs will crumble and our relationships with other countries will be rock bottom.
By JB
February 26, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
I love it when conservatives use such hyperbole to describe Democrat spending and patriotism. First, the largest entitlement program in the history of the US (senior drug plan) was put in place while Republicans dominated the executive and legislative branches. While they did cut taxes, they did it by borrowing and now we have such an enormous debt that it has weakened the dollar and left a great burden on generations to come. I seem to remember George Bush skipped out on his patriotic duty to his country. Let’s stop with the name-calling and finger-pointing. The truth is that all politicians want to spend your money, they just want to spend it on different things. But it’s also true that both Republicans and Democrats have good ideas (and bad ones). If you want to call yourself a patriot, then respect your countrymen enough to thoughtfully consider everyone’s ideas; educate yourself fully on the issues and don’t jump to conclusions based on party bias. Stop putting your party before your country.
By DebbieDoRight
February 26, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
I am very concerned about the apparent lack of intelligence of the American voter
Great Post JW!!
It is very sad that the wife of a US Senator has never taken pride in that fact. Michele attended Princeton and Harvard Law, Barak attended Columbia and Harvard Law - shame on them for discounting all of those privileges.
They earned those “priviledges” through hard work and sacrifices; they weren’t brought up with a silver spoon in their mouths, (like our current president), and was given everything to them by their daddy. Please read her WHOLE comment before commenting on it — not the Faux News soundbites that people of your ilk love to quote. Reading is Fundamental; however Comprehension is the key.
Obama is different. He understands that patriotism doesn’t mean wearing a pretty flag lapel. It means taking care of the troops after they get home, and providing body armor for them when they’re in danger.
Great post!!! Too bad some people here won’t be able to comprehend it.
I find it interesting that people will support Obama when in one of the books he wrote he admits to using crack & marijuana
George OBVIOUSLY you never read the book; listening to those Faux News soundbites again huh? Obama, just like your greatest president Dumbya, admits to doing COCAINE and smoking marijuana. However, unlike Dumbya, Obama hasn’t done drugs for years. Dumbya can’t even eat a pretzel anymore without passing out because of years of brain damage from continued hard drug use.
By DebbieDoRight
February 26, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this
I liked McCain just find, until he fell off the “honesty is the best policy” wagon and started consorting with Dumbya’s cronies like a two dollar w#hore!! McCain chose POLITICS over honesty six years ago; he can’t go back now and claim to be above the influence.
By morris hames
February 26, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
So, DebbieDoRight, assuming you are correct for the moment in saying that one term as a governor is not enough experience for the Presidency, are you also saying that Obama’s few years as a senator does qualify him? If the answer is yes, then how so?
By Peaches
February 26, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Lot’s of ignorant and loud hate from the left on this blog. Being rude is not the same as convincing. Intimidation is the tactic of a coward who can’t really take ideas into the marketplace.
Obama has a problem.
There is a perception that he and his wife, like many liberals, don’t really love the country they want to lead. Americans don’t like their commander in chief, to be ashamed of the nation he leads. If Michelle is proud of her nation for the first time, what does that say about her and about what such leadership might hold for America?
By What?!
February 26, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
I thought by clicking on the link I would see intellegent responses.
WHEN did Obama ever admit to using CRACK?!
Did he specifically say he was NOT a MUSLIM??!
If I don’t slap a pink ribbon on my car, does that mean I don’t support breast cancer??! WHO the h*ll cares if the man doesn’t wear a PIN?!
We voters have a responsibility to call our nation flawed, but we also have a responsibility to fix what’s flawed. So WHAT Michelle Obama said for the first time she was proud! For the first time in my adult life I was proud of the way people came together in NYC in 2001. I’m from NYC and any other time we act like jacka$$e$ and obnoxious jerks, but dammit… I LOVE NY!!!!
Same doggone thing. Americans are lazy, fat, elitist, and whiners, but dammit… I LOVE THE USA!! It’s the Best Damn Country on Earth Period!!
You people need to wake up and smell the Starbucks.
By songbird
February 26, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Have any of you who complain you don’t know what Obama is going to change or what he’s going to do gone to his website and read it. Apparently not.
There are two kinds of people who vote Republican, the rich and the stupid. The ones posting on this blog fall in the later category.
By DebbieDoRight
February 26, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Sigh…..like I’ve said SOOo many, many, many times: Reading is Fundamental; but Comprehension is the key!!! Case in point:
So, DebbieDoRight, assuming you are correct for the moment in saying that one term as a governor is not enough experience for the Presidency, are you also saying that Obama’s few years as a senator does qualify him?
Please go back and reread my post and cut and paste the exact comment where I said or even intimated that “one term as a governor is not enough experience for the Presidency”. I’m interested in seeing what you come up with. Sigh……..
I guess if Faux News doesn’t use a soundbite with pictures and diagrams and big letters — you can’t even read a paragraph and comprehend it.
By Vasily D'Efferins
February 26, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
Obama website contains nothing but standard issue liberal nonsense. This alone should disqualify him.
By the way, Songbird, plenty of the rich vote Democratic, as do the weak willed.
By flip wilson
February 26, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Who cares what Jack Kingston says? It’s well known that he is a closet homosexual.
By Morris Hames
February 26, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
Here you go, DebbieShortTermMemory, straight from you,
“WOW for a minute there I thought this guy/girl was talking about Dumbya!!! I mean, really, what “experience” did Dumbya have before he took office? Four years as governor of Texas? Did he have any “international” experience either? Yet, amazingly, the poster doesn’t seem to remember THAT part of America’s history!!”
What else is one to infer form this other than you believe one term as governor is not experince enough for the White House?
So now, how about answering the qustion, do you thing a few years as senator qualifies Obama?
By Copyleft
February 26, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
Which doesn’t invalidate Songbird’s point, which was about Republicans. Since the GOP only takes care of the wealthy, you have to be one of two things to vote Republican: rich, or stupid. Which is it?
By Copyleft
February 26, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Morris: Yes, it does.
By william
February 26, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
I as a lifelong Democrat am very shaken at Ms. Obama’s comments as well as the photo of Mr. Obama. I love this country, and am very proud of this country, even with a man like Mr. Bush as our President. I believe that these comments will go worldwide, especially to terrorist organizations, and will recruit more hatred towards us than the previous Presidents incurred. And yes, I’m including Clinton, (how many attacks did we have on our country during his Presidency?). These are enough to make me vote for McCain, as he is a man that wants change, too. That’s why the right wing didn’t want him in the first place. Sorry, Mr. Obama, I’m voting republican for the first time because I love and am proud of my country.
By CWest
February 26, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Anyone that thinks Obama is a muslim is totally ignorant. The right is only bringing this up because they know it will work with the evolution denying wing of their party.
By Morris Hames
February 26, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
How so, Copyleft?
By Will Jones
February 26, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
It is un-American to lie anonymously, “william.” Identify yourself honestly, then lie…like the racist, fascist follower of the Closet-Queen-in-Chief you are.
By Copyleft
February 26, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Morris: Any U.S. citizen over 35 is elilgible and qualified to run for president.
As for Obama, he’s qualified to BE president because of his legislative record, his position on the issues, and his lack of corruption and lobbyist influences.
By Bill Levinson
February 26, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Jack Kingston was admittedly mistaken. “Now, about that “famous picture,” courtesy of Time magazine, the first media outlet to run it. The political trio wasn’t saying the Pledge. They were singing the national anthem.”
You are also supposed to put your hand over your heart for the National Anthem. Obama is the only one of the four people in the picture who either didn’t know or didn’t care.
By Morris Hames
February 26, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
No one mentioned eligilibity qualifictions needed to run for president, but now that you have brought it up, being over 35 does not make “..any U.S. citizen..” elgible. You also have to be born a U.S citizen. Just ask the governor of California.
Obama’s lack of corruption and lobbyist influences remain to be seen, but based on his limited legislative record and garden variety liberal positions on the issues I have to say he is pretty much what has come to be expected from a Democratic candidate. Same can be said of Clinton(s) - excepting the lack of corruption and lobbyist influences of course.
By Morris Hames
February 26, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
I stand corrected regarding Obama’s exposure to corruption and lobbyists being unknown at this time. Seems there is the matter of an Iraqi-British billionaire and a housein Chicago purchased by Obama. Remember - it is the appearance of corruption that matters; not whether anything can be proved.
By @o@
February 26, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
Nothing’s gonna stick to Obama, folks.
Maher’s guest has nothing that hasn’t been trailer-parked B4.
Wive’s tales, farmer’s myths, and poppycock, that’s all the detractors have and those dogs wont hunt.
Nothing can stop Obamamania.
By Atlliberal
February 26, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
“It hit a very tender, sensitive nerve of the Democratic left,” Kingston said. “If we know that bringing it up is a problem for them, we’re going to bring it up over and over.”
They will bring it up, over and over,even though they know it’s a lie. Which party is the party of “Moral Values”?
By RJ
February 26, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
A change is indeed afront in America because comments like these are being rebuked and punctured as soon as they hit the light of day.
The voters who buy into comments like these from Kingston and his ilk are not likely to vote Democrat. So, don’t waste your energy trying to convince them otherwise. I am just thankful they are smaller in number this election than what they were in 2006.
By Copyleft
February 26, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Morris: Thank you for agreeing that Obama is qualified to run for, and hold, office… since he already DOES.
The only question, then, is what you think of his platform and plans for America. Personally, I like them a lot. Moving leftward is the best thing possible for America.
By MrLiberty
February 26, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
I don’t pledge allegiance to a piece of fabric either. Why should anyone. The pledge was written by a socialist to foster nationalism in this country.
I want a president that will pledge allegiance to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Unfortunately in this country all we have are politicians who will pledge allegiance to a damn flag while using the constitution and the bill of Rights to wipe the crap off their butts. Well, except for Ron Paul.
By Bill Gillespie
February 27, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
My name is Bill Gillespie, and I’m Jack Kingston’s election opponent in 2008. Here Jack goes again, seeking the spotlight and spending the taxpayers time politiking instead of serving the people of District 1. Jack is in Congress for one purpose: to represent the people of South Georgia, fighting for what’s best for our region and America. He is not there to campaign for President. Partisan publicity stunts like this interview only waste taxpayers’ money and make South Georgia look bad. This is no surprise though. For several years now Jack has put his political party and special interest friends ahead of the people he represents. As Congressman, all my energy will be focused on serving South Georgia and putting the people first. Visit my website to find out more: www.billforgeorgia.com
By Will Jones
February 27, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this
Does South Georgia want to re-elect Jack Kingston, who calls himself an Episcopalian(as did papal knight and Hitler financier Prescott Bush) and openly serves the Roman Catholic Fifth Column, or elect a Maryland Roman Catholic who, curiously, nowhere appears to endorse Barack Obama, and seems unable to make even a subtle allusion to that which we all know: that homosexual draft-dodger George Bush, whose father killed John Kennedy to put us in Rome’s latifundial estate of Vietnam, committed 9-11 to put us in Iraq and Afghanistan to steal oil, import heroin, protect the Saudi “royal family,” and conspire with a corrupt faction in the State of Israel?
Is he timid? A racist? Not bright?
It is a “frying pan and fire” situation.
Georgia and America need righteous leadership.
Now “on the long green,” can a retired Army supply officer, who spent a career obeying corrupt generals promoted by perverts in Congress, now summon the vision we need to free ourselves of the Anti-Christ? Slight corrections to the course treason has put us on is not the answer. Public trials, righteous convictions, and the gallows or Leavenworth for Bush, Cheney and their accomplices, is the destination required. Does Col. Gillespie have any ideas on that road?
The People require Justice and Truth.
When the same corrupt Anti-Christ faction controls both sides of the political “argument” the People and Georgia continue to lose.