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By Sir Winston

January 17, 2009 3:52 PM | Link to this

That is it then. No more conservatives at the Urinal-Constipation. Well, maybe the ATL paper will do just as well as the other large liberal newspapers that are filing for bankruptcy and laying off people right and left. Not to overlook the hundreds of lay offs and families that have been destroyed by the Urinal-Constipation already. Good luck Jim. Hey, no more lib run meetings to be compelled to attend. Good Luck. Peace.

By #1 FAN

January 17, 2009 5:20 PM | Link to this

I love this man. His unique style was my coffee mate for years and years. He was my hero. I loved his friday pieces most of all, and looked forward to them all week.

He must have really been socking it away all these years, and I’m glad he can enjoy his future as we babyboomers all slide into our last trimester of life. Each trimester of life is thirty years. Unless you married a shrew, or smoke or drink to excess then it’s only twenty years.

Anyway, three cheers to a great guy, who ignored those who kept sending him free coupons for a new haircut at Supercuts, and those who offered him a free make over. He truly is his own man.

Goodbye, fair friend. I’ll remember you.

By gafarmer

January 17, 2009 5:26 PM | Link to this

Come on back below the gnatt line where the traffic is light, the fishing is good(we have water), we respect our elders, and the ladies are sweet and good lookin’ at all ages.

Congratulations on a job well done under what had to be trying conditions. Now I don’t have a reason to read the rag except to learn how the left is thinking today.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

January 17, 2009 5:56 PM | Link to this

Though ensconced in fire in its birth, many traditions of this region hold honor and glory; family, honor and hospitality among them. It seems that this gentleman espoused them all.

Unlike Sir Stupid.

By Sparky

January 17, 2009 6:21 PM | Link to this

The AJC got a new publisher last week. Now Wooten retires? Coincidence?

By hornet

January 17, 2009 7:19 PM | Link to this

So the Opinion Page is left to the inmates? Well turn off the lights on the way out Jim Wooten because the AJC is going the way of Air America. Or is it? America is leaning way left because it has dumbed down to a new low of intelligence and common sense. So maybe people are more interested in hollywood fluff than real journalism. As long as the AJC (and this web site) lets us know how Beyonce and Oprah are doing, they will stay afloat. Dear God… what has happened to the world? Good luck Jim.

By Because It Matters

January 17, 2009 10:23 PM | Link to this

I really do feel sorry for conservatives. This should be a chance to say nice things about Wooten, but you people never waste an opportunity to show how small you can be.

Reading through the comments it’s all about bashing people. The liberals as boogeymen, and even, surprise…racism. Was the comment about Beyonce and Oprah really relevant to this man’s retirement?

Conservatives it’s time you realize that people are really sick and tired of your relentless resentment and anger towards people who are in any way different than you.

Your time grows shorter by the day in this great state. I give you another 4-10 years before you become the minority party until you learn how to not fear and hate everyone and everything that isn’t like you.Lord help you.

By Regina

January 17, 2009 11:01 PM | Link to this

Greetings, In your retirement, perhaps you could get involved in the political scene in Cobb County. I will look forward to your weekly column and blogs. I am glad you are not going away entirely.

I have always enjoyed your columns and insight in your articles. Again, enjoy retirement and I wish you much continued success.

By JimWootensucks

January 18, 2009 6:41 AM | Link to this

Don’t let the door hit your sorry rear-end on the way out you pitiful christinazi neocon.

By GT IM78

January 18, 2009 8:42 AM | Link to this

Wooten will be missed. Before he exits I hope he can get to the bottom of the Gov. Perdoo loan. Any bank that refinances with so little equity will have to stand in the light of day and demonstrate there are no conflicts or quid pro quo. Sonny needs to prove this is above board and ethical.

By Max Tayback

January 18, 2009 8:44 AM | Link to this

Steelers 24, Ravens 13

By GT IM78

January 18, 2009 8:44 AM | Link to this

Wooten will be missed. Before he exits I hope he can get to the bottom of the Gov. Perdoo loan. Any bank that refinances with so little equity will have to stand in the light of day and demonstrate there are no conflicts or quid pro quo. Sonny needs to prove this is above board and ethical.

By Road Scholar

January 18, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this

Congratulations on your retirement. While not agreeing with most of your posts, you did your best in presenting a differing view of our world. You stayed true to your beliefs and once in a while, admitted you were wrong, or modified your view when more facts were available. It’s more than I can say for some media reps.

I was wondering what you were going to do in retirement. Perhaps it will be farming, since you are capable of spreading so much fertilizer from your column. Sorry, could not resist! Regardless, enjoy your retirement in good health.

By The Conservative

January 18, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

The Conservative

I eschew the word conservative. Einstein said that conservatism was making the same bribe over and over and expecting a different arab tribe to stand down. Webster’s Conservatism means a “ disposition to keep established ways, or resistance to change”. I speet on that definition too. Perhaps a photo of a dead beat dad walking into a gambling casino would better illustrate what conservatism has become to mean: the break up of our nookyoolar family, and the business ethics on wallstreet and in our banks, investing as blindly as a Vegas addict, which explains why nobody is talking about where the bailout money went: What happens in vegas STAYS in vegas.

Worksheet for defining conservatism:

The Reagan Conservative: small government, reduced entitlements, strong defense, and keeping the beachboys away from the fourth of july white house lawn celebration.

The Nixon Conservative: Presidential privilege extends beyond the scope of the duties inferred during the oath of office swearing-in ceremony.

The Bush Conservative: Cheney classified the definition of conservatism for the next fifty years, so none of us will ever know. We’ll just stick with “no new taxes”. That worked out great.

Purpose of The Conservative:

I hope to instruct the new conservative about who he is, where he is, and what he would do in a crisis. I am The Conservative. I like people. Inflation is the enemy.

Conservatism 101: If Taxes stifle growth, and Entitlements stifle productivity, then war should be tax-free. (The Iraq War is already tactics-free)

Conservative talking points: The new last refuge of a scoundrel is not now bipartisanship. Splittng the presidency into two parts, with the elected president handling domestic affairs and the elected Vice President being the defacto commander-in-chief (which no supreme court judge voted for) is treason. Maybe our definition of conservative should start there.

There is to be one civilian commander-in-chief. He is our defacto president because either he got the most electoral college votes or the supreme court appointed him as the defacto president. Either way works to the satisfaction of the Defacto American voter/Supreme court judge and his Defective 14 second attention span.

Please take notes. There will be an orange alert later accompanied by a quiz given by a fifth grader.

I am The Conservative.

By Credit where credit is due

January 18, 2009 2:59 PM | Link to this

His was the only voice at the AJC with the guts to say that teachers need to have the authority to remove disruptive students from class, and if necessary, school.

Now we are left with Maureen “blame teachers first” Downey, and the lie that you can have education “reform” without addressing discipline.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

January 18, 2009 3:33 PM | Link to this

Anyone who says Teachers shouldn’t be able to boot students from their class has never taught a class.

I think a good alternative to prison would be to make people teach our children in public school following all of the paper work and bureaucracy that they have to put up with.

Only the altruistic, the desperate or the stupid teach at this point.

By DaninMacon

January 18, 2009 6:55 PM | Link to this

The teachers only have their corrupt lib led union to blame. The NEA is ruining what is left of government education in this country. Unions screw up everything. Good luck on your retirement there, Sport!!!

By There ARE no unions in Georgia

January 18, 2009 7:20 PM | Link to this

There might be organizations in Georgia, but there are NO unions. Now you would think a conservative, when faced with a student who disrespects, disobeys, curses, threatens, and even physically assaults a teacher, would say it the STUDENT’S fault, or if the student is young enough, the PARENT’S fault.

But no, conservatives act exactly like bed-wetting liberals when it comes to addressing the lack of discipline in Georgia schools. It’s not the student’s resposibility, it’s not the parent’s responsibility, it’s all the fault of the “liberal teachers union.”

Trust me, that isn’t a defense of the NEA. I expect them to be bed-wetting liberals. I just didn’t expect it from Sonny and the conservatives when it came to supporting traditional values and supporting law and order in the schools.

By RobT

January 19, 2009 5:17 PM | Link to this

Too bad. With the loss of Jim Wooten the last conservative voice leaves the AJC and it completes it journey to becoming the NY Times of the south where liberal opinion on the editorial page spills over to the fron page “News” stories. By the way the NY Times is heading towards bankrupcy.

By Mr Fury

January 19, 2009 5:42 PM | Link to this

BECAUSE IT MATTERS………WHAT A JOKE…….. It is the liberal cry babies like you who show how pathetic liberalism is. As the left bashes and lies just as much as anyone and then cries all day when the truth comes home. I see your liberal President is off to a great start……. Names a Treasury Secretary, who heads the IRS, yet he evades taxes as you and your liberal press ignore it. Names a commerce Secretary who has to withdraw because of payola. Names a Secretary of State with more baggage than a Delta 747. And you all think we have to spend more on education when we waste more than most countries spend. It is the more money equals better education that shows the ignorance of the left. I wonder how George Washington Carver, Booker T Washington and so many others ever learned a darn thing. Take it to the port a potty where your dribble belongs! Jim Wooten, you SIR will be missed and Atlanta will be less without your input.

By Pierce Randall

January 24, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this

The AJC doesn’t owe you a conservative columnist. That’s just political correctness for people who drive big trucks with UGA stickers. After the last election, I get the impression that the country overall is a little tired of views like Wooten’s. Perhaps this is just the market adjusting. In any case, the internet is a big place; maybe the nut jobs on the AJC’s website can go somewhere else.

Dang.

By Chris Broe

January 24, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

U R correct, Pierce. That’s why I’m the perfect choice to replace Wooten. I love my country and I know exactly how to form the languange to build a new conservative platform of relevant issues and their possible solutions.

First it takes a total rethink of every single thread that Wooten every wove on this blog. America simply refuses to accept the conservative view about issues when it is framed in such archaic and obsolete terms. Wooten and his “Us against Them” theme infected every single narrative about every single issue he ever wrote…about. That is blatantly unamerican, and is no longer viable as a grass roots formula for political success.

I’m the clear choice for conservative writer.

By Frank Teddleson

January 24, 2009 5:25 PM | Link to this

Yes, you’re good Chris Broe, but the AJC probably has a writer already lined up. This open cattle call for penmen is most likely a publicity stunt. Besides, do you really want to be chained to a schedule with deadlines? Then, the act of writing becomes a chore, instead of a love.

Writers are rare. Yet Everybody Writes. Let some other conservative set the agenda. The writers at the AJC loathe the influx of wannabes and pretenders who flood editors and publishers with half-baked compositions. They mostly feel that even though they were given breaks by some higher up having a really weak moment, and who must be regretting it every day more and more as their own pablum piles up, that they should deny a position to original, deserving talent lest that new talent usurp their own fixations on style and content.

But know that you’re the best. Know that you are the only one dangerous enough to get banned by many of the blogs here. You take over a blog. You’re too powerful. You should start your own blog. Your own newspaper. Online. Simply monitor the police radio, intercept classified electronic signals coming out of the english language Al Jezeera, and then watch the traffic camera channel for OJ’s bronco in case he ever busts out…. you’ll scoop all the media, man.

But good luck. You’ve got my vote.