Mike Luckovich

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

Every rock overturned finds another democrat bigot:

{{{{But a number of pollsters have put out a more disturbing explanation for why they got their New Hampshire forecasts so badly wrong: the so-called “Bradley effect”, named after Tom Bradley, an African-American Democrat who lost California’s gubernatorial race in 1982 after opinion polls showed him leading by a wide margin. A number of highly respected pollsters, including Andrew Kohut, head of the Pew Research Center, believe New Hampshire’s voters, too, may have said one thing and voted another.}}}}

Or a whole bunch of bigots.

The racism is not going unnoticed:

{{{{“Those tears have to be analysed,” said Jesse Jackson Jr’s, who, like his father, has endorsed Mr Obama. “They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of hurricane Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head to South Carolina.” Few of South Carolina’s black voters will have missed the implication. Since most of Katrina’s victims were black, Mrs Clinton is therefore presumably unfeeling towards the black community.}}}}

{{{{Bill Clinton was accused last week of using racial undertones when he dismissed as a “fairy tale” Mr Obama’s claim to have spoken out consistently against the Iraq war. Mrs Clinton was also accused of insensitivity after she pointed out that Martin Luther King needed LBJ in order to get civil rights legislation enacted.}}}}

LBJ?

{{{{LBJ’s explanation of why he backed the Civil Rights Act of 1957: “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”}}}}

Some history major Ku Klux Klintoon is, it looks to me like Martin Luther King forced Johnson to pass the legislation, even though he didn’t want to.

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

{{{{Thompson is a solid, traditional, mainstream conservative. He’d be equally comfortable at an American Enterprise Institute conference, a Federalist Society luncheon or a county fair. Taken at his word, Thompson is a card-carrying Reaganite, favoring low taxes, a strong defense and a shrunken role for the federal government.}}}}

{{{{Huckabee, meanwhile, is nearly the philosophical opposite. He would even use his power as president to push for a national ban on public smoking. “I’m one of the few Republicans,” Huckabee insists, “who talk very clearly about the environment, health care, infrastructure, energy independence. I don’t cede any of those to the Democrats.”}}}}

Think before you vote.

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{{{{In a Huckabee administration, nothing is certain but hope and taxes. Did he poll-test the line? Was it originally “What I didn’t raise was tobacco”? Or did he misread the line? Did he mean to say “hogs”? Is there any correlation between taxes and hope? If you cut taxes by 20 percent, does hope nosedive off the cliff? Not for those of us who were hoping for a tax cut. And is there any evidence that he “raised hope”? Hope of what? Huck’s line is a degradation of FDR: We have nothing to hope for but hope itself.}}}}

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{{{{Listening to the Democratic contenders, for example, is like listening to a 4-year-old tell Santa what she wants for Christmas — an array of cherished desires, and no sense that someone has to pay for them. Universal health insurance! Affordable college! Grants for child care! Money for schools! Every doll ever made by American Girl!}}}}

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{{{{I think Sen. Obama will win the nomination only if Sen. Edwards drops out of the race and throws his support to Sen. Obama while he still has some support to throw. If the anti-Clinton vote is divided at all, Hillary wins.}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

January 14, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 320

The eleventh spot is reserved for our own resident troll.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

January 14, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

sad,sad,sad.I feel touched by the ignorance of many,I think I need a shower.

By IN THE NEWS

January 14, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Sensationalist Media Did Pentagon’s Bidding in Fake Naval ‘Provocation’ with Iran

By IN THE NEWS

January 14, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Matt Taibbi on Mainstream Media: “You Can Run Any Sh** Up the Flagpole and These Reporters Will Salute It” [VIDEO]

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 14, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

I do not know or understand all the financial and poltical implications of the Grady mess.

I do know that its loss would be a hardship to the “least of our brothers”.

By IN THE NEWS

January 14, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Guess who is going to help fund the Countrywide bailout? THE MIDDLE CLASS

By IN THE NEWS

January 14, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Odds are growing for economic recession

By Profit

January 14, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

If this were Israel asking for more money from the US taxpayer, the check would have already been cut and cashed. Well let me tell you this: Both major American political parties are financed, owned and operated by the Pro Israel Maffia, an ongoing criminal enterprise that has infiltrated the US government from top to bottom, including the DOJ and the White House. They are far worse than the Italian Maffia, they have stolen from each and every American via our tax money being diverted to Israel. We must find a way to destroy the Pro Israel Maffia, or America is lost as a free and independent country.

By Terrence

January 14, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

The grim reaper shows up to take a hospital run by the government.

Will your librul patrons see the red flag mike?

Not likely, they’re too stupido.

By Errorence

January 14, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

The con posters will jes step over over the bodies of the sick and dying.

They jes evilo.

That’s what Jesus would do.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 14, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Geez, it is just one crisis after another in Atlanta…Grady, sewers, streets, Marta, wages, pensions, crime, drought, infrastructure, etc., etc. I sure wish I had the answer, but apparently I am not the only one who doesn’t. And it is just going to get worse.

Thought provoking toon ML, what is your answer??? It is alot easier to point out the problem than it is the solution.

Perhaps Georgia should consider legalizing gambling so Atlanta could generate a revenue stream from the casinos to tackle some of their social issues. This appears to be working in Mississippi. Just a thought. The best taxes are user taxes. Of course the state probably wouldn’t want to give up their monopoly on legalized gambling with their lottery.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

By John in Tampa, FLA 9:57 AM

Good points!

Does anybody else have a problem with our governments opperating gambling schemes as a means of taking more money from the people than they could through taxes? Is that really what our goverment is for?

BTW, I don’t object to the lottery from a gambling standpoint and will throw a few dollars in now and then and dream a little, but I just don’t think our government should be in that business.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

By John in Tampa, FLA 9:57 AM

Good points!

Does anybody else have a problem with our governments opperating gambling schemes as a means of taking more money from the people than they could through taxes? Is that really what our goverment is for?

BTW, I don’t object to the lottery from a gambling standpoint and will throw a few dollars in now and then and dream a little, but I just don’t think our government should be in that business.

By The Prophet

January 14, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Eli Manning has been exemplary in the last two weeks. We could be seeing the birth of one of the greatest of all time. He’s coming along real nice. Yesterday’s 2-manning playoff action was the most enjoyable football I’ve seen in years.

Next sunday night, Favre vs Manning. If you miss that game, you’re gay. Dont even question it, just show up at the atlanta pride festival in July and wear a bustier.

By Apocalypse

January 14, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama announces plan to revitalize economy and protect American families

CHICAGO, IL – Barack Obama today unveiled a plan to revitalize the economy in the short-term with a stimulus package that will immediately inject $75 billion into the economy in the form of tax cuts and direct spending targeted to working families, seniors, homeowners and the unemployed. The plan also includes $45 billion in reserves that can be injected into the economy quickly in the future if the economy continues to deteriorate. Obama will discuss the plan later today at events in Nevada.

“The time has come to bridge the growing divide between Main Street and Wall Street,” said Barack Obama. “The American Dream is slipping out of reach for many families whose paychecks aren’t meeting the increased costs of their medical bills and tuition payments. Four months ago I said it was time to put a middle-class tax cut worth $1000 per family into the pockets of workers who deserve it. A tax cut that would eliminate income taxes for seniors who make under $50,000. We can’t wait for the next president to act. We need that middle-class tax cut now more than ever – not five months from now or five weeks from now, but now. I’m announcing a plan to jumpstart the economy by putting money in the pockets of those who need it most and will spend it quickly.”

“Strengthening our economy and creating good-paying jobs will be Barack Obama’s priority from the day he takes office,” said Governor Tim Kaine, who held a conference call with reporters to discuss the plan. “But we must act today. Barack Obama has offered a plan that will restore fairness to the economy and ensure that hard-working Americans can provide for their families and save for their future. Barack Obama offers us the best chance to revitalize our economy because he has the strength to unite Democrats, independents, and Republicans to pass reforms that will invest in all of America.”

Barack Obama’s Plan to Stimulate the Economy and Protect American Families Would:

Provide an immediate $250 tax cut for workers and their families. Provide an immediate, temporary $250 bonus to seniors in their Social Security checks. Provide an additional $250 tax cut to workers and an additional $250 to seniors if the economy continues to worsen Provide relief to homeowners hit by the housing crisis. Provide

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Shirley Franklin (D)

Bill Campbell (D)

Maynard Jackson-third term (D)

Andrew Young (D)

Maynard Jackson (D)

Nope, nothing to see here. The never ending problems with the City of Atlanta must be a vast right wing conspiracy.

How about leasing the airport to private interests and using that funding to fix things up? Although that would mean you’d have to dry up the city’s favorite source of corruption.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

duh,

Rove wrote this in the WSJ:

“His trash talking was an unattractive carryover from his days playing pickup basketball at Harvard, and capped a mediocre night.”

“He is often lazy, given to misstatements and exaggerations and, when he doesn’t know the answer, too ready to try to bluff his way through.”

The Clintons are not racists, your party is “white flour” just look at your candidates.

I am shocked, shocked you are bashing the preacher and choosing Hollywood like a lib.

Geez.

By The Prophet

January 14, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

RW playing the race card again. Is there no end to his hate? You’re an unfortunate man, RW.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Grady, I think most people can see what the problem is there, but nobody is willing to say it for fear of the PC police. It’s obvious the governing body of that hospital is made up of politically appointed friends of people in high places with more regard to their race than to their competence for running a hospital (or anything else for that matter). Generally, when a company is failing, the leadership is replaced. In this case, the leadership thinks the solution is to hire more people who will report to them and they stay in place collecting their paychecks even though they’re incompetent. They even have the nerve to complain publicly about the possibility of a white person having control of the place. Not until the people who are making decisions with race in the front of their minds are removed from the entire equation will the place have any chance of success.

By RW - not so original

January 14, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

George Bush (R)

Dick Cheney (R)

Nope, nothing to see here. The never ending problems with The USA must be a vast left wing conspiracy.

How about leasing our ports to a foreign government and using that funding to fix things up? Although that would mean you’d have to dry upt the nations favorite source of corruption.

By Profit

January 14, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

For once you clown, RB from Gwinnett, I agree with you. Now STFU

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: You’ve never played basketball?

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No matter which rock you overturn, you will find a democrat bigot underneath of it:

{{{{RASMUSSEN: Clinton leads Obama among white voters 41% to 27%…Obama leads Clinton among African-American voters 66% to 16%…}}}}

Or a bunch of bigots.

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{{{{Still, supporters of Mr. Obama said in interviews Sunday that they were concerned Mrs. Ku Klux Klintoon and her allies might be deliberately raising the issue of race at the very time that Mr. Obama had shown signs of taking off.}}}}

{{{{“I don’t want to believe that, but I’ve got to tell you I’m wondering,” said Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who is black and an Obama supporter. “I don’t want to believe it is true.”}}}}

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{{{{Ku Klux’s panderfest on yesterday’s “Meet the Press” was a chracteristically humorless retreat from what her “husband” and Bill Shaheen said. And she took the most cowardly path. When host Tim Russert pressed her repeatedly to say that Obambi wasn’t ready to be president, she would only say that it was for the voters to decide.}}}}

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Wanker @ 10:49,

Are you trying to insinuate that Cheney preceded Bush as President?

By the way, the ports deal was the British trying to sell off operational interests to Dubai. The US government doesn’t make a dime from that either way.

By The Prophet

January 14, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

RB you may apologize to humanity for your shortsightedness now. Forgive him, my fellow beings, he’s obviously one of the landed gentry and doesn’t understand the larger catastrophe of untreated masses of people amidst opportunistic viral group-think….or the even greater long term social costs of allowing large segments of our population to flounder simply because it takes longer than a couple of generations to overcome centuries of all the good things bossman done for us.

By Tired of election already

January 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

If Obama was half black/half latino instead of half black/half white, just think how many more votes he could get.

BTW, how can the blacks claim Obama if he is only 50% black. Do they figure half is better than nothing, or are they afraid a 100% black is not electable?

By Spence

January 14, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Sorry RB you are wrong. Those issues with the Grady board have been raised over and over again. No one is trying to silence you. Your persecution complex is hilarious.

The Grady Board is no different from the state transportation board. Both are corrupt and incompetent. They serve their own masters. Politics, Georgia style.

By Lackingballs

January 14, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnett: Ever see a man naked?

No Matter what rock you turn over, you will find a republican pervert.

{{{Craig’s earlier attempt to withdraw his plea was turned down by a district court judge, and the case is now before the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Besides attacking the law he was prosecuted under, Craig’s legal team argues that the hand signal allegedly used to communicate a desire to engage in sexual conduct would be constitutionally protected speech. They also say the plea is technically flawed because it lacked a judicial signature. }}}

Or a bunch of talleywhacker whackers!

{{{The mayor of one southwest Missouri town is behind bars tonight, being held on a $50,000 bond.

Collins Mayor Allen Kauffman has been arrested and charged in Newton County with four counts of Enticement of a Child.

The Diamond Police department says the 62-year-old was arrested Thursday as a result of an online, internet investigation that began back in mid-November. }}}

No child’s behind left!

{{{Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip}}}

{{{George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who was later suicided. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. Also noted by Mrs. Blount whom G.W.BUSH while campaigning for her Husband Red Blount and while G.W.BUSH was possibly A.W.O.L from the Air National Guard at age 26 he was all over their 14 year old daughter}}}

By getalife

January 14, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Here duh, you will like this:

“As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” was blaring. In it, Jay raps, “I got 99 problems, but a b*** ain’t one.”

I think she is his #1 problem and when she is done with him, he will cry on Oprah.

By Tired of dumba$$es like TIre of the election already

January 14, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Find something else to complain about loser.

By RW-not so original

January 14, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Wankette at 11:05

Are you trying to insinuate that you don’t know when you are being called a horses a$$?

By the way the ports deal puts national secuirty as risk but as long as FOB’s make money who cares.

By Apocalypse

January 14, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Please explain 11:17.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

By Spence 11:12 AM

Then why is the current board still in place? If everybody knows they’re incompetent and more concerned about the race of people running the place than getting it fixed, why are they still there? Why are they even part of the discussion at all? Who cares what they think? Nobody EVER asks an outgoing terminated CEO to “please tell us how to fix the company on your way out the door even though you were paid to do it for the last X years and have failed miserably at it”. This whole conversation going on in the media is a joke.

It won’t be fixed until fixing it is more important to people than the race of the people who fix it. Period.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

By Spence 11:12 AM

Then why is the current board still in place? If everybody knows they’re incompetent and more concerned about the race of people running the place than getting it fixed, why are they still there? Why are they even part of the discussion at all? Who cares what they think? Nobody EVER asks an outgoing terminated CEO to “please tell us how to fix the company on your way out the door even though you were paid to do it for the last X years and have failed miserably at it”. This whole conversation going on in the media is a joke.

It won’t be fixed until fixing it is more important to people than the race of the people who fix it. Period.

By The Prophet

January 14, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Gentlemen, GENTLEMEN….relax, we’re not going to decide the issue of who is the horse’s patoot here on THIS blog. That’s for the general assembly, and with all the overrides, I think we’ve got a frontrunner.

Gentlemen.

By RE

January 14, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

RB,

Please see the countrywide, bank of america merger and rethink that answer.

Countrywide’s ceo is going to pocket about 114 million from the buyout, on top of the 160 million he sold off in stock in 2007. CW was sold for 4 billion, the CEO is taking about one eighth of that as personal compensation.

By To the Blacks on this blog

January 14, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

A message concerning Barack Obama:

To all,

First of all, I would like to take this time to congratulate Barack Obama for what I believe is the beginning of history being made. I’m, however, posting this bulletin to address a potential growing issue.

Some of us ask is “America ready for a black president?” I cannot read the minds of people who may or may not support him, but I am very concerned about what I am hearing from the ones who do support him. If all you’re doing is saying things like “He’s going to get killed”, or “they’re going to shoot him”, then you are not ready for a black president. This is a time to celebrate and be excited not to predict doom and gloom. When was the last time you were able to predict tragedy anyway? Every tragedy in our lives has taken place unexpectantly so stop trying to predict the future.

Some of you may be saying “They killed Martin Luther King.” My response to that is what the hell does that have to do with today? MartinLuther King, tragically, was gunned down by a lone assasin as a part of a cover up 40 years ago in an entirely diffrent political climate. Do you think the state of Iowa would have voted for him or Obama to be president 40 years ago? Of course not! So why did they do that today? Its called change folks. And we should accept the change and change with it. Neither J.Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farrakhan, Rosa Parks, or even Malcolm X were killed under the same circumstances so why in the world would you predict that for Obama?

My point is that we should focus on the positive and not look for an excuse to be negative. Words have power! To predict his assasination is the same as wanting it.

Apocalypse

By Spence

January 14, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

RB, what the hell does your incoherent rant at 11:31 have any thing to do with the point I made?

You earlier said this …”but nobody is willing to say it for fear of the PC police”

What are you afraid to say?

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 14, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Hey you Atlanta folks. You just better hope Atlanta doesn’t institute a city income tax. When I lived in Ohio some cities had earnings taxes ranging from .25% to 1%. It was based on where you earned the wages, not where you lived. It generated quite alot of cash for the cities where the jobs were located by taxing the suburbanites who commuted in. Just think how much Atlanta, or Fulton County for that matter, could generate by taxing you people from Cobb, Gwinnett, Clayton, Henry, etc.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

By RE 11:38 AM

While I agree that is pathetic, nobody at BOA is asking him for his opinion on how to run the company going forward and at the end of the day, he’s unemployed. When the current Grady board is unemployed from Grady, then you can have some discussions about how to fix it. Pay them a severance is you must, but get them out of the picture. Talking to them is pointless. They’ve already proven beyond a shadow of doubt they don’t know how to make it work.

By Bosch

January 14, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

I would gladly be unemployed if I were given a big fat check for 114 million!

By RE

January 14, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

He is a paid consultant at 400k per year until 2011

But I get what you are saying. I never worked for the government, but my sister worked briefly for the EEOC in florida as an investigator. she left after 6 months because she could not take the politics. All decisions on weather to proceed with an investigation or not were based upon how it would effect the mayor and representitives politically. And if something embarrasing was going to come out, the investigation was derailed.

I have found in general, political appointees and elected officials are a tight clique who do not want to be interfered with or come under any scrutiny. I’m with you, send the board packing over a 6 month period transitioning in industry professionals, but keep a few political liasons to keep the hospital accountable to the community

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

114 million is an eighth of 4 billion?

No wonder you libs think the world is coming to an end.

Wanker @ 11:25,

Please try to explain how the ports deal would have compromised national security. Oh and if it’s not too much trouble stick to the actual deal that was proposed and not what you dragged out of the fever swamps, left or right.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Bush Delivers $20 Billion Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia who gave us obl and the hijackers.

Warmongering on Iran, dissing the intell community after outing a known CIA agent.

Only one more year left of this ongoing disaster.

By RE

January 14, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

got me on the math RW, it is more like one sixteenth when you think that he got 250 million over the last year.

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

RE,

You can’t count what he got last year because it isn’t a part of the 4 billion dollar deal.

By RW-not so original

January 14, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Wankeroni @ 12:18

Please try to explain why the ports deal is any good for the old US of A? How about Halliburtons move overseas too?

Do you have a ticket of your own out of the country? Are you planning to cut and run with the cash you’ve made over the last 7 years before we prosecute scum like you?

Oh, and it it’s not too much trouble try to think and blog your own words not the crapoghatti available at townhall and newsmax.

GOP Canker.

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife January 14, 2008 11:17 AM “As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” was blaring. In it, Jay raps, “I got 99 problems, but a b* ain’t one.”}}}}

Oh my, Obama the black man played a rap song at his victory party!

Oh my!

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{{{{By To the Blacks on this blog January 14, 2008 11:42 AM To predict his assasination is the same as wanting it.}}}}

I wouldn’t sweat it.

Just the fact that the libs haven’t gotten to Bushie yet shows that the Secret Service is one hell of a strong protector.

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{{{{First LBJ, the legal reformer, would have never have become the born-again civil-rights advocate (cf. his earlier career as a supporter of the Texas status quo), without the pressure from the movement inspired by King. King’s job was to move public opinion, LBJ’s to reflect —and capitalize on — those new realities.}}}}

{{{{Two, it is always a bad idea to praise LBJ at the expense of MLK. Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look back in horror at the former, and fondly at the latter. She’s riding the wrong horse, and doesn’t seem to grasp that fact.}}}}

{{{{Third, Hillary’s paradigm confirms the complaints of racial stereotyping — white pros like herself and LBJ do the “real” work of intricate legislative craftsmanship, while black “inspirational” leaders, such as Obama and MLK, with no aptitude for detail or complex law, give fiery speeches and protest about unfairness.}}}}

{{{{Fourth, it flies in the face of facts that Obama, the Harvard law graduate and senator from Illinois, can only inspire and not understand or promote law.}}}}

By Lackaballs

January 14, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

{{{Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has declared that Wang Chung’s 1986 hit single, Everybody Have Fun Tonight will be his.}}}

Play that funky music white boy!

{{{“There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

That was the money quote in Ronald Reagan’s farewell address nine days before he left the White House in January 1989. It crystallized his philosophy. I call it Reagan’s Law. This is what Reagan did best: He clarified the clash of ideas. He forced people to take sides. If you agreed with him, you were conservative. If you didn’t, you weren’t.}}}

{{{In the years since Reagan left office, I’ve become more hawkish and more libertarian. But I still can’t accept his narrow understanding of freedom. For too many Americans, captivity is the inability to pay bills, save money, or go to college. For too many, the local tyrant is a company or religious majority.}}}

Yes, this is the goofball the wacky right thinks is a saint/god!

{{{The debate was held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and as expected, the candidates had their lips so firmly glued to Reagan’s butt I’m surprised they could move their mouths to debate. CNN reported that they collectively invoked Reagan a total of 19 times during the debate — hardly a surprise. Even more hilarious, behind their heads were two visible Reagan Library logos — an attempt at subliminal messaging, perhaps?}}}

Funny cons, so stupid to think we are stupid enough to fall for this Reagan crap!

By @@

January 14, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

The loss of Grady with be traumatic.

Too bad the powers that were didn’t care enough about the people to see change their incompetent, and very likely evil ways.

It’s a shame really!

By @@

January 14, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Whoops! If the “see” between “to” and “change” made it through….omit it.

IHB

By @@

January 14, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Oh crap! Make that —->WILL<—- be traumatic, not WITH.

It goes without saying but….

I…..H…..oh nevermind.

By RW (the original)

January 14, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Nobody reads your twin-lipped groin grunts, @@, so stfu and stick your head in the toilet, moron.

What a clod. really.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Obama will play this one next

By Apocalypse

January 14, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

getalife,

do you mind explaining your 11:17 dude? Michelle is Obama’s #1 problem?

By @@

January 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

My oh my…

and here I was going to tell you how much better you’re doing today PoliFore. I was catching up over at Wooten’s and actually laughed at your humor.

Don’t let my presence here throw you into a “blockage” buddy.(namejacking)

Blog on…

By Just Curious

January 14, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

I am just curious. If Grady goes under, who is going to take up the slack? Just because Grady goes doesn’t mean the medical emergencies are also going to go.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Go wank at wooten’s.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse,

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

I can post as many racist comments as I want.

If you can be homophobic and offend me, then get your popcorn ready baby.

You hide behind wanking, I use racism.

By @@

January 14, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I’m in agreement with Apocalypse. I’m seeing a viciousness in you that I didn’t know existed. Although I don’t support Obama due to his voting “present” 130 times in the Illinois State Senate, I see no justification for the —->personal attacks<—- being launched by you and the Clinton campaign

I must say….I’m disappointed. Hopefully you’ll find your way back.

By a

January 14, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Relax people. I am sure getalife would still dislike Obama even if he was the RIGHT color.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

You people don’t like me because I’m gay.

I think Obama is attractive, but that doesn’t mean I have to vote for him.

By W stands for worst

January 14, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Looks like Dubya has hit the bottle again, if not then this is very scary:

President Bush has apparently found a way to reconcile his bellicose views of Iran with the recent National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran shelved its nuclear weapons program four years ago.

“in private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. ‘He told the Israelis that he can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE’s] conclusions don’t reflect his own views’ about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program,

This should help Glenn who on Friday said Dubya didnt use false info to go into Iraq..

By getalife

January 14, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Obama is innocent:

“(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign came out swinging Monday against the latest complaints from her rival, with former President Clinton announcing he has “a list of 80 attacks on Hillary” by Senator Barack Obama’s campaign.”

Siding with the gay wanker @@?

Now that is disappointing.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 14, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

I don’t dislike you getalife. You have never done anything to me.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

John,

Just enjoying my freedom of speech but some take my opinion too seriously and have to gay wank my name.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,

That’s the problem.

I want to do something to you.

I want to push your sh!t back in.

Know what I mean?

By @@

January 14, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

(((Siding with the gay wanker @@?)))

Let’s be honest here Getalife. You never came to my defense when the wanker was going after me—not that I needed defending btw. Wanking is an inconvenience for all of us but it was liberals that started the silly game and they persist to this day.

My personal opinion (all I or anyone has to offer) is that you’ve become too caught up in the politics…too caught up in the politicians. I remember a time when you had no use for any of them but unfortunately we all have to pick one. Your party has come down to two candidates. Republicans are still weighing our options. The only thing that we can attack is whether a candidate is too far left for our liking.

Politicians, and the games they play are nasty endeavors. I’d like to think that, as individuals we, the people, can stay above the fray.

Whereas I support a party’s philosophy, it’s rare that you’ll find me supporting any politician. I do have to vote though so….

Rudy/Thompson or Thompson/Rudy (08).

Didn’t mean to offend you. Wankers are a pain in the butt for everyone here.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Wow @@,

Look at what you support @ 2:50.

I doubt you will find your way back.

Pathetic.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

@@,

Yes, lets be honest.

I never sided with the gay wanker like you did.

I tell the punk kid to get lost.

You encourage his gay wanking by supporting that loser.

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

{{{{By W stands for worst January 14, 2008 2:27 PM Looks like Dubya has hit the bottle again, if not then this is very scary:}}}}

Yeah, scary:

{{{{A senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was arrested and charged with aggravated drunken driving a day before the New Hampshire primary.}}}}

You gonna call Bushie a “racist” too, genius?

By Lackaballs

January 14, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

{{{On Monday, Craig quit Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, shortly after the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call revealed the plea and arrest details. “Sen. Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision,” Matt Rhoades, communications director for the Romney campaign, said. Craig has been one of Romney’s top Senate supporters, serving as a Senate liaison for the campaign since February. A former staffer called Craig’s behavior stupid and selfish.}}}

Can you believe he had this toe tapping toilet stall romeo on his campaign?

{{{South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer and rising political star, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges.

The millionaire — also the state chairman for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign — is accused of buying less than 500 grams of cocaine to share with other people in late 2005, U.S. Attorney Reggie Lloyd said. Ravenel, 44, is charged with distribution of cocaine, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.}}}

Sex AND drugs. To bad the lame liars in the GOP are to wooden to dance too.

You gonna call any of the GOP candidates worth a crap?

By @@

January 14, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

You and I need to stop talking about wanking. While I’ve heard too much wanking will make someone go blind; too much talking about wanking has made me laugh.

Apocalypse is an Obama supporter so I can only assume he’s a Democrat. He wanted to know why the attack on Michelle Obama. THAT’S what I was in agreement with, not his gay-wanking.

Admittedly, I stay confused with all the wanking that goes on in this place but I CAN STILL SEE TO READ.

I can’t tell anybody to get lost. I’ve tried to discourage PoliFore and it hasn’t done a bit of good. Face it…he’s one of yours Getalife.

I’m off to Stratfor. Turkey is offering a win-win on natural gas imports out of northern Iraq. Will the Kurds buy it? They will if they’re smart. It’ll hurt Putin. He’s taking a lot of hits lately now that Iraq is winding down. More international eyes on Putin is always a good thing.

By W stands for worst

January 14, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Luckoduh finally something you write i agree with, calling me a genius. I dont know how or why you are trying to bring race into my quotes, maybe because you have nothing notable to say…

By Midori

January 14, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

if he doesn’t call “Bushie” a racist, I will.

He’s a moron to boot.

By getalife

January 14, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

The Post article on Obama playing Jay Z is a lie.

It is fun messing with those with CDS and believe everything they read.

One day, people will stop buying into the corporate media crap but until that day comes, I will continue to punk you.

Now that is funny pf.

Bwa.

By John Edwards Alert

January 14, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Folks, we are trying to create a statement that makes it impossible for the news media to continue to ignore our candidate. We want to designate Friday Jan 17 as the day we break all records for a single day donation by raising $7,000,000 for John Edwards. Remember this amount will be matched.

I would like to suggest Friday, January 18, as the day to shatter both the record and the media’s tinted glass ceiling on coverage. This would give us all five days to publicize the effort. If successful, it should generate some press in time for the Sunday papers and news programs. Then on Monday, there is the debate in South Carolina, where Edwards could promote the results. This would then be followed by the primary on Saturday which, hopefully, would benefit from the newly enhanced press attention. [br />If we believe that the media is unfairly slanting coverage, it is up to us to do something about it. We must not let them make our decisions for us. By thrusting Edwards’ visibility forward with financial support that makes the press do a double take, we are effectively slapping the collective faces of the reporters who think they know what they’re talking about; of the pundits who think they know what’s best; of the blowhards like Bill O’Reilly who dismissively wave off our candidates as phonies and losers.

pass this on

send some cash

By Jesus

January 14, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By getalife

January 14, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Here is the lie

Now, here is the truth

Did you hear the one about the Filipino monkey?

“Those threatening messages allegedly from Iran to a US Naval ship in the Persian Gulf now appear to be the work of Filipino Monkey, a notorious ham radio heckler who has been pestering ships in the Persian Gulf for 25 years.”

That is from the Navy. How many got punked by that story?

Bwhahahaha.

Classic.

By Bosch

January 14, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

I read that story this morning. I wonder if he’s the source behind the WMD in Iraq?

By getalife

January 14, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

That would be “curveball”.

The CIA bought into his bs.

Obama just said the people are excited because his cousin, Dick Cheney is not on the ticket. Good line.

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

{{{{By W stands for worst January 14, 2008 3:36 PM I dont know how or why you are trying to bring race into my quotes, maybe because you have nothing notable to say…}}}}

Yeah, you’re right, my bad, I should have explained myself better, I forgot I was “talking” to a dimwit.

You called Bushie a “drunk” and I find that to be interesting for two reasons, one is that Bushie has not taken a drink in over twenty years and you can tell because his face is not all splotchy red with a huge nose like Bill Clinton’s is, and two, it is your kkkampaign that is getting drunk and terrorizing poor little small towns in Iowa.

Is this all to much to comprehend?

You liberals are the queens of stupidity, the undisputed mouth breathing champions of the world, and it helps explain why you like Ku Klux Klintoon so much, she is one of you.

You show what a firm “grasp” of the issues you have by answering every debate challenge with taunts about homosexual senators, as though there is something wrong with homosexuality.

And what is so amazing is that you libs are the ones lurking in the public school system, teaching small children that being a f-ag is normal, telling them to go ahead on and tap your feet in the men’s restroom, if it makes you feel good.

Are you trying to tell us that you hate gay people just as much as you libs hate those black people and that Obama guy?

A gay “conservative” is a liberal that likes doing only one of the many sick and vile things that you Code Pinkos have pushed upon our society.

Larry Craig, homosexual restroom troll, is too embarrassed to associate himself with you disgusting pervert liberals, hahaha.

Think about that for a moment, dumbas-s.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

By W stands for worst 2:27 PM

So, lets get this straight…

The intelligence community said Iraq had WMD’s from at least 1998, when Clinton commented Iraq had WMD’s, up until 2003 when Bush and most of the democratic leadership who also have access to their intel reports made a decision to disarm them of WMD’s. They believed Iran had an active nuclear program each and every year from 2003 to present, even though they now say it was stopped in 2003. So they were either wrong for the 4 years since 2003 or they’re wrong now.

And with their stellar performace over the last 10 years, the only thing they’ve said you believe is that Iran doesn’t have a nuclear program and hasn’t since 2003, while overlooking that they were wrong about that for the prior 4 years. Is it possible that just fits your agenda so you put 100% faith in it? Gives you something to bash Bush about? Makes you feel smart?

Also, if Bush was able to “influence” the intel reports in 2003 as you dimwits claim, why didn’t he do that with this Iran/nuclear report too? If you think his agenda is to attack Iran too as you constantly claim on here, why wouldn’t he just fake the intel reports again?

I think last week you said you were in intel in the 1980’s. I also think that explains a few things about the state of our intel groups…. You’re logic is quite pathetic. If our government paid you to think, we should get a refund.

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

So if Ku Klux Klintoon didn’t say anything bad about blacks then why is Billy rushing around the country kneeling before every black leader that he can find?

And the big question, is he expressing deep “sorrow” for the Pig’s words and maybe biting his lower lip?

Maybe he even……shedding a tear?

Suckers.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 14, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

Eli Manning was like a Harry Potter last night summoning up ghosts of quarterback greats like Y.A. Tittle, and Johnny Unitas. What a performance. This guy is maturing before our eyes into one of the greats. If he stays humble and healthy, then…..

By Luckoduh

January 14, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Hey, did anyone tell those British sailors that their abduction by Iran was fake and that they can quit worrying over it now?

Ahhh, yes, Iranian President Imawhackjob loves the United States very deeply and probably prays every night that no harm should ever, ever befall us.

You can tell by that little twinkle in his eye while he’s gesturing wildly and spewing specks of foam as he talks of wiping Israel off the map.

He’s just a little sweetie.

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

How many Friday’s does John Edwards think there are in a week. Maybe Friday the 17th is in one America and Friday the 18th is in the other one.

By RW (the bidet)

January 14, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Palette Cleanse

By RW (the bidet)

January 14, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Palette Cleanse

By RW (the bidet)

January 14, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Palette Cleanse

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Oh good! Do we get a fun with the vent segment now that Polly has cleansed his palette?

By Lewin

January 14, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

In the late ’80s and early ’90s I worked with spooks, both American and Soviets. Not for them; with them. We were all housed together, to prepare our respective teams for arms control negotiations. To negotiate with someone over something, both of you have to have some accurate information about what that something is, amidst all the hype and bluff. That’s why we sent our people to live and work with them, and they theirs to us. Once your G2 cleared, no big deal. Just the daily grind, with Friday lunches with the likes of Condi and Bill Perry and George Shultz and the top U.S. weapons physicists. Rest of the time, number crunching with the Russkies.

Some of those people, though, on both sides, had seen and done some amazing things, and all of them knew stuff even they weren’t supposed to know. We were all together when the Wall came down, and when students stood in front of tanks and politicians stood atop them. Two of our Soviet spooks later disappeared mysteriously. Most remained in the U.S. in the Refugee pipeline for naturalization. We all keep in touch in that greeting card, anniversay good wishes kind of way. Until something big happens. Then the Internet is put by us to the purposes for which some of us, and not our patron Senator Gore, invented it.

You should know this background because during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, when the ultimatims were flying at the UN, several of our old gang had learned from diverse sources that Saddam was smuggling his WMDs into Syria for safekeeping and Allah only knows for what sort of hellish quid pro quo. The people who told me these things had no dog in that hunt. What they did have was access to data garnered from remote-sensing satellites capable of tracking fissile material through the roof of a building or vehicle.

So as I watch some of the children here at play, I get a very unwelcome feeling that maybe ours was not the best form of government to pit against the Soviets after all, since it’s dependent upon the discretion of so many politically active voters in thrall to the figments of the imaginations of people so unworldly as to feign worldliness in ways that are dangerous without their even knowing it, or why, or how.

By Midori

January 14, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

yeah Andy — you never catch Bush “fainting” from eating pretzels, or showing up with all sorts of scratches and bruises on his face, and slurred, drunken speech, and ………..

oh, wait……………

By Lewin

January 14, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Any Marine will tell you that your back is covered by their front, whether you know it or like it or not. Their orders to protect you come straight from the President on whose shoes you try to urinate.

And I don’t know who Andy is.

By @@

January 14, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

Crickey! After reading here, I decided to visit some of assorted blogs. This Obama/Clinton thing has the dem voters imploding from within. It’s ugly out there. Then I come in to find Lewin’s thoughtful analysis.

AMEN LEWIN!!!!!!

I try….really I do.

Cyber Spook signing off…back to Stratfor for the most recent updates.

By RB from Gwinnett

January 14, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Lewin, Some of us know there are marines watching our backs and appreciate it more than they will ever know. We also know they at times do things we don’t really want to know about, and we’re ok with that. Not everything such as the waterboarding tapes needs to be shared with the mindless little minions who whine on here every day about their demize.

Don’t tell the libs here the WMD’s went out of the country, though, they still believe they never existed and that would severly damage their now going on 8 year Bush bashing arsenal and once again force them to face facts. We wouldn’t want that now would we?!!!

By RW-(the original)

January 14, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Media Matters for America…MoveOn…now the Lancet study. What anti-war outfit doesn’t Soro$ fund in one way or another.