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DEL.ICIO.USWho is best for the country?
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By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
Yeah, Obama is >>Reverend<< “wrong.”
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Bruno’s corpse, risen from it’s grave, has ripped the shades off of the dimokrat national kkkommittee headquarter’s windows and is shining an eerie glow upon the previously secretive doings of thee White Powers:
{{{{Bruno’s criticism of Obama was muted during her appearance; she said she has done much better than her opponent with >>>certain key voter segments<<<<, including women, older voters and blue-collar workers.-Urinal}}}}
Well, actually, she said “white people,” but whatever.
{{{{As evidence Bruno cited an Associated Press report that, she said, “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”}}}}
{{{{Mr. Begala more or less accused the Obama people of not caring about white voters: “[If] there’s a new Democratic Party that somehow doesn’t need or want white working-class people and Latinos, well, count me out.” And: “We cannot win with eggheads and African Americans.” That, he said, was the old, losing, Dukakis coalition.}}}}
{{{{“She has unleashed the gates of hell,” a longtime party leader told me. “She’s saying, ‘He’s not one of us.’”}}}}
Bwa.
We all now know who the real bigots are.
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this
It’s mouth breathing savage versus mouth breathing savage, again:
{{{{Hezbollah takes fight to the streets- Airport virtually closed, roads blocked as Western-backed government, Shiites clash.-Urinal}}}}
If only both of them could lose.
{{{{Arab nations plan to meet to discuss crisis-Urinal}}}}
Yeah, that will help, I can just imagine the “discussion;” “Where are thee Jews at? We cannot get at them behind this big wall that they built, this is so “unjust” and “unfair.” I know, let’s kill those women and children standing over there, we’ll call them apostates, and thee AJC will blame Israel for us.”
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The underlying hate that the AJC has for the Jews is palpable:
{{{{A clash between Arab protesters and police, and a paratrooper’s crash-landing during a ceremonial jump marred Israel’s 60th independence day festivities Thursday.}}}}
{{{{The paratrooper and two bystanders were seriously hurt when he missed his target on a Tel Aviv beach and slammed into a crowd of spectators.-Urinal}}}}
“Thee paratrooper bounced off thee ground, it is a sign from thee heavens, we need to launch thee rockets at thee Jewish women and children now, blah, blah.”
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The Urinal never misses a chance to whine about Bushie:
{{{{Major foreign aid enters Myanmar: ‘It was like Katrina going into New Orleans’, blah, blah, America sucks, blah, blah-Urinal}}}}
Well, except for the hundred thousand dead in Burma.
And what an excellent opportunity this presents, aren’t you pinkos so lucky that hundreds of thousands perished for you during a stupid election season, let’s take advantage of the suffering and drag Bushie into all this.
Sick.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
This one is truly offensive. I despise Bill and Hillary Clinton. They are base, venal, greedy, taudry, lacivious and panderers, but they are not racists. Hillary was simply arguing the facts about whom she is attracting. She happens to be right. Why they are voting for her is purely a matter of speculation as exit polls are not accurate and we have a secret ballot in this country. There can be now doubt as for whom Luckovich will cast his sorry lot for president this fall: a man who has close friends who are race baiters and terrorists. Congratulations!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
UPDATE: Nuns strike back.
THEM NUNS CAN BE REAL TOUGH…. I HAVE THE KNUCKLES TO PROVE IT!
AND
The Voter ID Fraud…………No one on either side of the issue disputes that voter fraud occurs. But study after study has made clear that documented fraud is almost exclusively confined to absentee ballots. Absentee voting is one area where Republicans have traditionally out-organized Democrats; the new voter ID laws make almost no reforms to the absentee-vote system. ……………………….The obsession with voter fraud has been orchestrated by the Republican Party, with Karl Rove playing a significant role. The US Attorney firings scandal under Alberto Gonzales seems to have stemmed, in part, from Republicans’ desire to push federal prosecutors into going after voters’ rights and poor people’s groups like ACORN for their turn-out-the-vote activities
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
John McCain’s Penchant for Skirting Campaign Finance Laws The lengths to which McCain is going to get around the very rules he used to support until they applied to him and the secrecy surrounding his wife’s assets is very troubling. He’s becoming more and more McSame as Bush every day.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
ITN - The one reason that I think that the Republicans have a real argument here about voter fraud is that you Democrats are so opposed to picture IDs for voters. Somehow I think that if the fraud were not occurring you would think that this was rather silly. The fact is that picture ID is required to do almost anything of consequence in this country, so why would anyone oppose this requirement, especially since the states are providing them for free. You need to find a new rant!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this
“Despite his single-party appeal, the late Charlton Heston appears to have more support in Congress than Mommie dearest.
A resolution sponsored by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, to honor “the life, achievements, and contributions” of the actor and gun-rights advocate and send condolences to his family drew 112 co-sponsors, the vast majority of them Republicans.
Meanwhile, another House resolution by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., which would celebrate “the role of mothers in the United States and [support] the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” managed to lure only 54 co-sponsors (bipartisan though they are).
Come on, Congress! The man who gave us “Ben-Hur” and “Soylent Green” is TWICE as popular as the woman who bandaged your knee and taught you to tie your shoes?!?!
Both measures were scheduled for quick-and-easy votes on Monday night, but because a quorum was not present, action was postponed until Wednesday night. “
FROM Examiner.com
UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT VOTE
178 Republicans voted against the resolution honoring our mothers.
LISTEN UP GOP…..
YOU CAN DIS OUR CANDIDATES
BUT DON’T YOU DIS OUR MOMMAS!
By truthman
May 9, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this
Mike, I understand the sentiment, esp. after her rather dumb comments yesterday. But, I really doubt the Clintons have a racist bone in their bodies.
But, hey…that’s what makes America great - the right to disagree in a public forum.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Devil….
Nope, I’ll stay with what I think is a moral fight against what is nothing more than a poll tax.
somewhere between 13 million and 22 million Americans of voting age, most of them poor, get by without driver’s licenses, passports and other kinds of government documents bearing their pictures, perhaps because they do not have the money to drive, much less to fly.
You see, I love America and support the constitution.
I am also reasonable. I know more voters are caged each election by the GOP than ever thought about individual voter fraud.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Jon Stewart proved again last night that he is one of the best, if not the best, interviewer on television. Although the first part of the interview (not included here) was very cordial and weak, the second part heated up quickly. Stewart quizzed McCain on the Hagee endorsement, his seemingly detrimental connection to George Bush, his campaign’s disgusting implication that Hamas endorses Obama, and a few other things.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Stephen Colbert skewers the Terror Watchlist by speaking to Hasan Elahi, who remains on the Watchlist despite being cleared of all charges and who has resorted to an innovative way to respond to those federal watchdogs.
ELAHI IS A REAL AMERICAN PATRIOT!!
By @@
May 9, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Let’s get ready to rumble ml. In this “corner” it’s the Democrats’ Great “White” Hope.
In the opposite corner it’s the Democrats’ Great “Wright” Hope.
Seated as spectators is The “Right” who are wondering why both contenders keep leading with their “Left”.
What
a
bloody
mess!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this
Pastor who McCain praised said America’s historic mission was to ‘destroy’ Islam
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
ITN - Please spare us the diatribes about campaign finance laws. It seems that you libs develop 20/10 vision when it comes to Republicans on this and find all sorts of ‘violations’, but never actual law breaking, but you become completely blind when it comes to Demoncrats breaking it on a regular basis. You also seem to decry all of the money in politics and then revel in finding radical left wing moonbat kooks like George Soros to back a new Bolshevik revolution!
Also, the comparison to Bush is quite unfair. One of the things I don’t think that anyone has charged him with personally yet is trying to hide his wife’s assets.
By the way, you never complained when gigolo John Kerry made use of his wife’s assets to try to buy the White House!
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Now Krugman gets into the act:
{{{{But this week, Mr. Obama, while continuing to win huge African-American majorities, lost North Carolina whites by 23 points, Indiana whites by 22 points. >>>>Mr. Obama’s white support continues to be concentrated among the highly educated;<<<< there was little in Tuesday’s results to suggest that his problems with working-class whites have significantly diminished.-Treason Times}}}}
The “highly educated,” eh?
Those who have been through the anti American indoctrinations camps.
There is no doubt whatsoever that “higher education” in America is the refuge of the left wing bomb throwing hate America extremists, who can’t make it in the real world, so they set up their wormy little shops and go on their mission to make our future generations just as sorry as they are.
For any of you who doubt what I say, check out which institutions offer “gender studies” and honestly ask yourself why they would want to teach that, other than to pollute the minds of those earnestly and honestly trying to make their life situation better.
And now we have proof positive, thee brainwashed dimwits have formed a cult like following around a radical no better or no more experienced than Al Sharpton, and who has twenty year associations with America hating preachers and gets political support from the left’s version of Eric Rudolph.
And none of them have any problems with it at all.
Speaks volumes, don’t it?
By In the Garbage News
May 9, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Good try IN THE NEWS, They found one sermon, OMG!!! It is the same thing as preaching numerous sermons on hate and bigotry, you broke the story OMG!!! What a weak comparison, so desperate to try and find something to compare. BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
By the way, this is a true KKKlintonian Strategy at play here, this “white” card that they are playing, she knows full well that she is dead in 08 but, if Obambi loses this year, Bruno will be back with a vengeance in 2012.
This is only the beginning of the unfolding dimokrat disaster, Bruno and kkkompany will be working 24/7 to undermine his kampaign, it is the only way possible to restore the KKKlinton Legacy, which is all the klanners care about.
They will trash Obambi, they will wreck the dimokrat party and if required, they will choke America to death, just to preserve their White Power.
Seig Heil!
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Yes, the Clintons are “white” and they are also unattractive these days (to put it mildly). Obama is attracting many white voters to his campaign already… look at the enormous wins he achieved in Wisconsin, Virginia, Washington, Minnesota, and Iowa. Obama doesn’t need to play the race card like the Clintons are doing, and Obama is winning the nomination.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
Its so true though, hopefully you democrats will realize that you don’t have a chance without a white candidate. Sad but true, you’ll never get a republican to vote for a non-white person for sure.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Goldie you are right, Obama does not need to play the race card because so many are willing to do it for him: the Most Wrong Reverends Wright, Sharpton and Jackson are all willing to be race baiters. We will see if this helps or hurts the Senator from Illinois.
The biggest issue aside from the economy in this election will not be Iraq, but his radical views and his youth and inexperience. But race will come up because no white male Senator with only 4 years in the United States Senate and maybe 8-10 in a PART time state legislature would be deemed experienced enough to be president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth.
McCain may be imperfect, but he is much better prepared to be president than this greenhorn!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
TO THE NAME JACKER AT 9:30 - YOU ARE A CREEP AND A CRETIN. I NEVER HAVE SAID AND NEVER WOULD SAY SUCH A THING. PLEASE GO SOAK YOUR HEAD IN CARBOLIC ACID!
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
McBush actively sought the endorsement of Rev. Hagee, who hates Catholics and women. That should make about 28% of American voters happy:
On women: “Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist.”
Repugs— Try winning the General in November solely based on your 28% Club members!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
Also to the namejacker at 9:30 and all of the rest of you race-baiting Demoncrats, J.C. Watts, a black Republican, was elected from a district in Oklahoma which is only 7% African-American. Plenty of white folks are willing to vote for anyone, regardless of race, if that person has the right ideas. Bobby Jindahl was elected Governor of Louisiana with overwhelming white support even though he is of Asian-Indian decent.
Whoever did this is a cretin, a creep, a racist him/herself and a liar. PLEASE DO GO SOAK YOUR HEAD IN CARBOLIC ACID!
By RealityKing
May 9, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
It’s a racist cartoon!
Mike Luckovich is drawing racist cartoons for the AJC in support of Obama!!??
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
{{you’ll never get a republican to vote for a non-white person for sure.}}
The Devil keeps playing “the race card.” What he means to say is that HE will never vote for a “non-white person” and tries to speak for all Repugs. Just disgusting! True words from The Devil…
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Goldie - as stated earlier, I was namejacked at 9:30 - was that you? I am offended and really ticked off at the juvenile and purile behavior of whatever cretin did this.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Devil…
May I suggest you put on your cast iron underpants Mr. Devil because there will be diatribes, rants and howls from now until November. If you cannot take the heat…..try staying in your basement. (Ain’t that were Duh lives? Roomies are ya’?)
Your response to the FACT that McCain is playing fast and loose with campaign laws continues to be it’s ok with you because of your unsubstantiated claims that every body else does it. Well, maybe in the fifth grade that was considered a reasonable response, but adults are supposed to be better than that. Throw in some early 20th century scarey political labels and BAM! you have a no response/republican reponse.
McCain has been and continues to break campaign finance law.
If you think my comparison to Bush is unfair, you are going to be weeping and moaning within weeks. Get used to it dude.
It’s fair AND it’s fun.
How could you know what I did and did not complain about regarding John Kerry? Telepathy? Or ASSumption? Or where you here on the blog under another name during that election?
At least we knew what the couples assets were…..after first refusing Mrs. Kerry did release her tax forms.
The McCains appear to be hiding their true financial situation.
Oh, and just where are McCains medical records?
AND TO THE “RW/ANDI/REAL NAMEJACKER” at 9:10…..keep your eyes open between Hagee and Parsley there are lots more videos just now hitting you tube….
AND WE”LL HAVE FUN FUN FUN TILL OBAMA BECOMES OUR PRESIDENT!
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
{{McCain may be imperfect, but he is much better prepared to be president than this greenhorn!}}
HA HA HA! Oh, my latte is all over my keyboard now!
McBush — “I don’t know much about the economy” and 100 years in Iraq “is fine with me”… so unprepared to lead this great nation we call the USA!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war planning.
GIMME FOUR MORE YEARS OF THIS……OH PLEASE!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Cayman Islands Subsidiary Allows Pentagon Contractor Assisting War In Iraq To Avoid Millions In Taxes
THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS!
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Another thing thee dimokrats aren’t figuring, how many people, both Republican and dimokrat, “crossed over” and voted for Obambi simply because they hate the KKKlintons?
And won’t be doing so again in November.
Bwahahahahahaha, morons.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
If the current inflation rate is really 6-9 percent instead of the 2-3 percent claimed by government and most U.S. money managers, then Washington’s official estimates that the economy still grew at a rate of some 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008 become nonsense. Subtracting a 6-9 percent inflation rate from nominal GDP growth would identify an economy that was deteriorating and shrinking, not growing. Concerned foreign dollar-holders would become even more concerned.
ANOTHER FOUR YEARS WITH GOP WMD (WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION)
GOLLY I CAN’T WAIT
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Also, McBush has now confessed that the real reason America invaded Iraq was for THEIR OIL — not a winner in November, My Friends!
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
By Paul
May 9, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
ITN 8:40
I can identify with that. I’ve been on the Watch List - several times. Hope it’s the last - I sent all kinds of documents to Homeland Security and got back a “we have reviewed your case and taken appropriate action” letters.
Seems the database is lousy. If your name is Joe Bagadonuts and there’s a Joe Bagagonuts on death row in Georgia (as a TSA supervisor told me happened to him) all that keys in is the name. Period. Guess that’s why Ted Kennedy was on it, too.
So much for the gov’t all-seeing, all-knowing profiling capabilities. On the one hand, the ineptness is good news, on the other hand, it isn’t.
Goldie
Just a thought on Obama and “experience.” He’d never run a national campaign, but he and his advisors didn’t accept the conventional wisdom, organized past the date everyone else thought their opponent would have it sewn up, organized in states that were not considered critical by conventional wisdom, then leveraged newer technology in a new way to fund the campaign (Internet) - while their opponent went the traditional way with big-checkbook donors at in-person events.
Seems creativity and being open to new ideas trumped conventional thinking. Bodes well for him for the campaign - just another example he can use in the experience debate in the general election.
Off to spend Mother’s Day with - my mother and family.
Pleasant weekend, all -
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
The Devil You Say,
Anybody with a brain knows you were namejacked at 9:30 so that’s Goldie’s excuse, but rest assured when little newsie namejacker starts jacking you you’ve touched a nerve with him. Good job!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
RW/ANDI/DUH/ZELL/AJGMNGMT
GOOD MORNING LIAR!
A cup of coffee, a biscuit and some of RW’s lies……
The breakfast of champions
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Things not going so well for the prosecution in one of the Gitmo trials:A military judge in the trial of Canadian captive Omar Khadr threatened Thursday to suspend the terror trial unless the prison camp releases a detailed log of Khadr’s treatment in more than five years of detention as an alleged al Qaeda terrorist.
MCCAIN WILL GIVE US $ MORE YEARS OF COMPENTENCE, DECENCY, HUMANITY…..BUSH STYLE
OH YIPPEE
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Paul @ 9:54 — I believe the way a candidate runs his/her campaign is a good indicator of the type of leader he/she will be in the White House… I’m voting for the one who gets more new Americans involved in the political process and who doesn’t misuse and waste MILLIONS of $$$ in a presidential campaign!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Goldie - we can start parsing words and talk about people misspeaking when you explain how this ‘brilliant’ man, Barak H. Obama, sat in a pew in a racist, foul-mouthed, anti-American creep’s church for 20 years yet did not really ‘know’ this man even though this creep had been spewing these views all along and had baptized his children and even performed his marriage ceremony.
ITN - please name the statute or regulation under the law which McCain has broken. You stated that he was ‘skirting’ the law, which implies getting around it. The Clinton’s were famous for this tactic, as was Algore. Also, Barak H. Obama vowed to use public funds to finance his campaign and he has backed out on this.
However, as Cindy McCain’s money is NOT his, it is HER (and her family’s) decision as when and if to bare all of these financial records. This money is not his and it is their decision. Theresa Heinz Kerry did make that decision, but only after a lot of pressure. I am sure McCain’s family will come to the same conclusion.
Your hypocrisy on all of these issues of process is really quite striking!
By Paul
May 9, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Goldie 9:53
There is a difference between:
Invading a country FOR oil
and
Invading a country, getting enmeshed in follow-on combat ops, having another regional power insert itself and having that regional power (Iran) state that it wants to exert enough influence to cripple the West through oil.
But I go back to yesterday’s post - even if alternate technologies are more expensive, or marginally more polluting, it’s worth it to not have to be involved with that region for that reason.
Now I’m gone -
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
DEVIL
Presidential Matching Payment Account Act 26 U.S.C. SS 9031 et seq.
You would not recognize hypocrisy if it popped out of your pants!
You bore me.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
NYT: McCain pushed legislation that benefited top donor
HUNGRY FOR A BIG STEAMY THIRD HELPING OF BUSH?
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
little newsie namejacker,
And yet you still can’t cite a single lie I’ve ever told. Not one! Zip, zilch, nada. Why is that do you suppose?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every report I hear or read from the Obama disciples we call the mainstream media uses the excuse that Hillary can’t get the math to work to win the nomination so she should get out. Obambi can’t get the math to work to win the nomination either. By MSM “logic” they should both drop out and we can go ahead with the general election pitting McBushie against Nader for the Loon Party and CyMc for the Greenies.
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Two-faced McBush — with his flip-flops on Dubya’s tax cuts for the wealthy and voting against the ban on waterboarding — is no winner in November, My Friends!
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
Paul @ 10:03 — it’s worth it as well just to stop the funding of terrorist nations!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
RW - thanks, but that really did steam me. Also, no one ever answered my question about Republicans being willing to vote for qualified, right-thinking candidates of any race. The recent examples of Frank, Watts and Jindhal are really striking.
Goldie - yes, Obama has run a fantasitc campaign. He has had many slips, though. But fortunately he had NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR and ABC to cover for him. Poor Hillary had no one. She also has run an inept campaign with NO caucus strategy to speak of.
However, running a great campaign does not necessarily translate into a successful presidency. Let us look at the record. Warren Harding’s ‘Ohio Gang’ probably ran the best campaign of the 20th century, and look at what a disaster he was. Ditto for Jimmy Carter. Hamilton Jordan ran a masterful campaign, and he won in 1976 only to have one of the worst presidencies ever!
You HATE George W. Bush, but you have to admit that he surrounded himself with brilliant men who ran winning campaigns. They were masterful. Yet you complain about him daily. I think he has run a decent White House as far as foreign and defense policy goes, but has been much too liberal on domestic issues.
Kennedy ran a good, although dirty, campaign in 1960 and had a presidency with only quite limited successes. In fact, almost none of his program was implimented until his assassination propelled the masterful Lyndon Johnson into the presidency. Johson also ran a masterful campaign and proceeded to enmesh us in a foreign policy mess that makes Iraq look like a Sunday walk in the woods.
He might be a good candidate, but that will not translate into being a good president. He will be Jimmy Carter II. The next four years are going to be just awful, just like 1977-1981, only worse.
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
{{The next four years are going to be just awful, just like 1977-1981,}}
The Devil @ 10:23 — the next four years are going to be the BEST EVER and a 180-degree turnaround from the last 8 disastrous years!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
RW
Just because I can’t prove it…. publically….don’t mean it ain’t true.
Besides, enough of the others here have already figured out you post under multiple ID’s and it has and will continue to decrease you and Duh and Zell and RB etc’c credibility.
You are gonna have to live with it.
You created the characters, not be happy in the bed you made.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
NYT: McCain pushed legislation that benefited top donor
HUNGRY FOR A BIG STEAMY THIRD HELPING OF BUSH?
By Goldie
May 9, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Also, The Devil @ 10:23 — you’ve obviously owned up to the fact that McBush will not win in November — thank you for finally admitting one TRUTH!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
ITN - I read that section of the law and I still do not see how he has violated these specific provisions. Please inform me as to the exact violations and if any charges have been filed with the FEC or any other appropriate agency? Thank you at least for trying to step up to the plate. Most people would have just ignored it or at least ranted without trying to provide any proof.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
Cindy McCain has bankrolled her husband’s career for decades. But, she thinks she’s off limits: Now, you know, the right wing noise machine is going to be in full attack mode against Michelle Obama. They’ve already started. That’s a fight they may not want to pick. If they attack Michelle, Cindy is fair game. And, there’s a lot there.
HOME WRECKER? DRUGGIE? FIRST LADY?
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Devil
Tad Lazy are ya’?
Google the formal complaint.
You can use “the google” can’t you?
It’s this series of tubes……
By getalife
May 9, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
You meant not wright Mike?
Anyhoo,America tossed the fighter who did not have a radical, kook, spiritual adviser.
Oh well, they can’t blame the Clintons anymore for all the future disasters.
Still waiting for Obama to step up and actually do something like lead.
He can’t follow Clinton’s lead anymore and will have to actually do something.
I think he is much ado about nothing but words.
By mm
May 9, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Funny how the wingnuts buy into the Rush BS that he swayed repugs to vote for Hillary.
Funny how the wingnuts buy into the Rush BS that this is hurting the Dems chances by splitting the party.
Obama Takes First Steps To Unify Dems
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
{{{{{Just because I can’t prove it…. publically….don’t mean it ain’t true.}}}}}
So by implication that means you CAN prove it privately. I’ll take that bet.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
Another key element of what we call the Myth of McCain — the idea that, nearly alone among politicians, McCain makes decisions based solely on principle, without political considerations playing a part — has also remained in force. So when McCain has flip-flopped for plainly political reasons, many in the news media have shaken their heads and denied the evidence before them.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
McCain campaign more than a little touchy about the age issue
DOES THE STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS LEAVE IT’s TURN SIGNAL ON FOR MILES AND MILES AND MILES……
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
getalife - it is over and you folks have settled on a nominee with less political experience than any president of the 20th century except Jimmy Carter, but he at least had much more administrative experience and experience in running a business. Obama has neither, and it will show. McCain has no administrative experience either, except as an admiral. That is why we so seldom elect members of Congress to the presidency. This will only be the fourth time in US history.
And for those who like little tidbits about American history - all of the previous, Garfield, Harding and Kennedy died in office. However, I am not superstitious. Coincidences are almost always amusing, but seldom are they portents of the future.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
About that record of ‘working across party lines’…
WOW FOUR MORE YEARS OF REPUBLICAN BIPARTISANSHIP (TEE HEE)
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
I guess this one turned Billy Jeff down
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
Cotton Hill and John McCain: Separated at Birth!?!?
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
ABC: Obama Overtakes Hillary Among Super-Delegates
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
From Project Vote Smart Political Experience
George W Bush
Governor of Texas, 1994-2000
Barack Obama
Senator, Illinois State Senate, 1996-2004.
Senator, United States Senate, 2005-present
JUST AN FYI……
By mm
May 9, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
Well, well. Someone finally opened up the McCain closet and the first skeleton fell out.
McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Good morning, all.
This is the craziest election ever, isn’t it?
First, this administration is such an historic and abysmal failure and the VP so reviled by such a huge percentage of the nation, that there is simply no way in hades he could run, without it being an enormous embarrassment to the GOP.
Speaking of embarrassments, in usual fashion they trotted out seven or eight of the more entrenched knuckle draggers and odd jobs imaginable.
In very short order, they ALL were summarily “voted off the island” by an electorate who no longer sees their fake conservatism as having any value.
It was crystal clear from the beginning that even life-long Republicans could no longer allow this Bush train wreck to continue on for four more years.
Instead, the nation made a choice that a moderate Republican maverick, called a RINO by some, a liberal by others, was MUCH more appealing than any of the Bush Lights, who would not only justify the worst administration in American history, they would try to continue it!!!
And the faithful lame brains in the Republican “base” as well as the Rove slime machine are furious.
Yet they still don’t seem to understand that their time has come and gone. And they WILL be further marginalized by a republic who no longer finds their twisted, reactionary, neo-con ideas so quaint.
It is likely they never will.
Now, while the reviled white woman and the mulatto trade heavy weight punches, Sen. McCain sits on the sidelines and gets a pass. For now.
But once the Dems select a nominee, his free ride comes to a sudden halt. And a battle royal ensues.
But no matter the outcome in November, it spells the almost certain demise of this awful and self-serving Republican agenda based on short sightedness, faux religiosity, amazing hubris and utter ineptitude.
Oh, and I did mention deadly mismanagement?
This neo-con GOP WILL lose more seats in the US Congress. And more governorships.
And the ballerinas here will parse the meaning of that and look desperately for some tiny meaningless “win”.
But if there is a silver lining to this neo-con madness, it is that the party may FINALLY be forced to move away from it’s insane 30 year lurch to the far right and return to some sort of conservative, as in actually conservative, rational thinking.
By Mimi
May 9, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Race is a reality and it will be a factor in some people’s voting behaviour.
If we allow that it’s alright for 95% of blacks to choose to vote for Obama, then it follows it must be OK for some percentage of whites to choose to vote for Hilary or the white candidate who in the general election will be McCain, if Obama gets the nomination. If Hilary gets the nomination then there is a different dynamics set up and the consideration of other, different issues will come to the fore for all the voters.
The question Democratic delegates must answer is if it’s more important to make a point on the wrongness of voting along racial lines (keeping in mind it can’t be right for one racial group and wrong for another to do so) than to win the presidency.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
ITN - I did say 20th century, not 21st century. However, G.W. Bush had a lifetime of political experience before entering politics and had run one of the most political of all businesses, a professional sports team. Like it or not, most people in the baseball world thought that he did a pretty good job.
People called Kennedy inexperienced because he only had fourteen years in the Congress and had never run anything. The fact is that we are electing someone who doesn’t know the ropes.
By the way, even though I despise the Clintons, I am not about to discount her experience as first ‘lady’ during the b*stard administration. She was quite active. All total, she has sixteen years experience.
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
ITN,
This election has turned “conventional thinking” on its ear in numerous respects.
I beleive one is the experience factor.
I remember in 2000 when the now considered worst president in American history was touting his resumé, he used that “argument” as well as the old stand by - we need somebody from outside the beltway.
Sadly we got someone who was from outside of the Milky Way!
The reality now, is tht governors have proven over and over and opver again tht they do not a good president make.
Reagan, Carter, Clinton and now ESPECIALLY Bush have demonstrated to one extent or another that they were fatally flawed.
Another of this election’s ironies is that we are probably looking at the next CIC being relatively “ancient” or relatively “youthful”.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
AmVet - please tell me how Reagan was ‘fatally flawed’? Care to make any more stupid statements while you are at it. Certainly we all have flaws, least of all you, but I have yet to hear that Reagan’s were ‘fatal’.
By Heeso
May 9, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
I’m voting for the one who<<<< gets more new Americans involved in the political process and who >>>>doesn’t misuse<<<< and waste MILLIONS of $$$ in a presidential campaign!
Obama=$695,000 paid out to superdelegates
Clinton=$195,000 paid out to superdelegates
Too bad the voters aren’t loaded or they could buy themselves a democrat nominee.
Oh the democracy!
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Sure Satan.
Sorry to impugn your Most Revered Ronnie, but your partisan blindness will not help you when I explain his numerous enormous shortcomings.
So in the sake of justifying “stupid statements” (or should I say dummest?!) please note that I’ll accommodate your rudeness when you get around to answering two questions I previously directed at you, that you courageously but conveniently “avoided”.
First your assertion that President Carter is an anti-Semite?
Secondly, the “unusual” claim that Senator Hagel a liberal?
Good luck, you’re going to need it…
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
AmVet - Again, you make an ignorant statement. Let’s go through the very good and GREAT presidents we have had who were governors. I will do it in chronological order so it will be easier for the more facile among us to verify the research: Jefferson, Monroe, Polk, Hayes, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
The others who were governors were:
Jackson, Van Buren, W.H. Harrison, Tyler, Taft, Coolidge, Carter and Clinton. Jackson, Harrison and Taft were all territorial governors.
The three who came straight out of Congress with little or no administrative experience were mediocre at best, although none of the three served long enough really to prove anything, unfortunately.
By truthman
May 9, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
As an extremely intelligent, erudite, urbane and sophisticated bed-wetting, panty-waist liberal, I am completely tired of the STUPID, WHITE CRACKERS ON THIS BLOG!
But, they are allowd to have their hateful “chicken-little” thoughts posted here as well as inspiring commentary from me and AmVet and Bosch and Goldie.
Thank goodness for us!!
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
truthman,
You forgot, witty, handsome and charming! (And humble!)
Satan,
Regarding those two retorts, I’m still waaaaaaaiting…
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
HEESO @ 11:58
SOURCE?
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
From Paul Krugman:McCain offers the most responsible fiscal policies? Notice that this wasn’t about who you think will be most economically sound in general, or who you think would be better at fiscal management in practice — although even there, nothing in the Republican party’s past 30 years offers any reason to believe that it would be responsible in any way shape or form. But this question was about what the candidate is offering — and McCain’s proposals are, demonstrably, wildly irresponsible.
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
truth?man,
What you actually forgot was FOS. Have you had your meds adjusted recently? If so I’d go back and make sure they gave you the right ones.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Devil You Say,
What it boils down to is Reagan put an end to the dream of worldwide communist domination and blowhard has had his panties in a twist ever since.
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Brilliant {{{ballerina}}}!
I KNEW I could count on you for adding nothing of substance…
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
little newsie namejacker,
I second your question to heeso. That sounds WAY too low for both of them, especially when you consider one Democrat(ic) in California is holding out until one of them will give him twenty million.
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
blowhard,
Substance is in the eyes of the beerholder and if it got you squirming like it so obviously did then I’ve done my job. In fact it’s turning into a nice day for a round of golf. I hope that doesn’t get goat boy all worked up.
Later Tweedle Dumba$$!
By truthman
May 9, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Thanks, RW, I knew you were a closet liberal! I try to “Focus On Subject” in all my writings.
Now, why does McCain lie to Bill-O about voting for the Chimperor in 2000? Many media sources know he DID NOT VOTE FOR BUSH IN 2000, BUT WHY DOES HE LIE TO BILL-O ABOUT IT?
I guess lying it the Republican way!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/09/ny-times-washington-postn100955.html
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Here’s some info…..
Superdelegates Took Campaign Cash from Hillary and Obama…..the Center for Responsive Politics has found that campaign contributions have been a generally reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take. In cases where superdelegates had received contributions from both Clinton and Obama, all seven elected officials who received more money from Clinton have committed to her. Thirty-four of the 43 superdelegates who received more money from Obama, or 79 percent, are backing him. In every case the Center found in which superdelegates received money from one candidate but not the other, the superdelegate is backing the candidate who gave them money. Four superdelegates who have already pledged received the same amount of contributions from both Clinton and Obama — and all committed to Clinton………. Though it might seem undemocratic to allow elected officials who have received money from the candidates to have such power in picking their party’s nominee, the process was not meant to be democratic, Arizona State’s Herrera said. “If anything, it was meant to take it out of the democratic process. In 1982 [the party] said they needed to have some professionals making decisions here to blunt the potential effects of what they perceived as amateur delegates making decisions — those who vote with their heart and not their head.”
MAKES ME GO Hmmmmmmm…..
Nope, I don’t like it. It’s legal. But I don’t like it.
HOWEVER,
I don’t like McSame more.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
[Digging a little deeper into McCain ethical lapses] (http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15481.html)
OH JOY OH BLISS ANOTHER TERM OF ETHICAL LAPSES
By truthman
May 9, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
ANYBODY WHO THINKS “WORLDWIDE COMM-U-NIST DOMINATION” WAS EVER POSSIBLE HAS NO CLUE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!
My European Communism prof at UGA in 1980 predicted communism would fail within 40-50 years because regular folks just wouldn’t put up with the censorship and muzzling of public opinion. Ronnie Raygun had nothing to do with the down fall of Socialist Totaliterianism. It fell from within.
Raygun just made greed and racism fashionable again for the ruling class in America.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
Why McCain will never surrender!
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
truthman,
the {{{ballerina}}} has at long last even given up the appearance of being rational.
I suppose that MANY here realized after the “holes in the fossil record” episode his attempts at appearing able to intelligently support a position were futile.
There is no doubt that his blogging game has gotten much, much worse.
And I can’t even imagine having him join me and a couple of pals on the links. Talk about a good walk truly spoiled!
Satan, I’m still waaaaiting…
By Bill
May 9, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
C’mon, let’s focus on something serious! Big doin’s in Crawford this weekend. The Village Idiot has returned for the occasion. Even God himself will be thar! One of the Daughters of Darkness will be wed. YIPPIE YI YAY CAYO!!!
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Ahhh, yes, “global warming:”
{{{{The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April in 114 years.-National Climatic Data Center}}}}
Anybody else notice how I’m on a roll this year, other than Fred Thompson of course, I was right about Basra, right about Bruno, right about the absolute unfounded silliness of “evolution” and now to add to the streak, I was right about “global warming” being junk science.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something else I was right about, there’s been so much, but what ever.
I am the man.
By Tony
May 9, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
RW (12:34): Raygun did whaaaat? Listening to you and your likes is kinda like watching a pig, staring at a wristwatch.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner’s introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday: the word “Iran,” or any form of it. It was especially striking as Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman here, announced the extraordinary list of weapons and munitions that have been uncovered in recent weeks since fighting erupted between Iraqi and U.S. security forces and Shiite militiamen. ………….They say the majority of rockets being fired at U.S. bases, including Baghdad’s Green Zone, are launched by militiamen receiving training, arms and other aid from Iran………….. A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.
WHAT?
WHAT?
LIED TO ABOUT WEAPONS?
Let’s have more more years of that shall we?
By @@
May 9, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
I’ve come to know that the leftists here are rabidly partisan, but you should be ashamed of yourselves. Cindy McCain is an exceptional individual. You guys have been telling tales out of school.
According to IRS reports, McCain and her husband give roughly $200,000 a year to a range of causes, from their children’s schools to AIDS research, as well as research on heart disease, Parkinson’s disease and Down syndrome.
McCain sits on the boards of HALO, which is based in Scotland; Operation Smile, which arranges for plastic surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects in children; and CARE, which fights global poverty. All three programs receive financial support from the McCain family trust.
“I mean, I’m not the Ford Foundation, but I do what I can, and I’m intent on doing it,” she said.
She’s a Special Ed Teacher? I’ll bet her ruptured discs resulted from her job. I’m only speculating, but it IS physically grueling - take it from someone who knows.
Somehow this makes voting for McCain all the more meaningful. She’ll make a great first lady. I’m voting Cindy!!!
Cool.
By truthman
May 9, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
@@…if she’s so great, why won’t she release her tax returns as has every other candidate and spouse?
The neo-cons howled and howled in 2004 when Terry Heinz, John Kerry’s wife and heir to the Heinz fortune, wouldn’t release her tax returns. After repeated attacks, she released her returns.
Cindy McCain is not above any law or requirement. She must release her tax returns. According to the neo-conmen and women, we don’t have different classes in America. The way she is acting, she considers herself above the average American…AN ELITIST!!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Yep, I read lately that John calls Cindy an exceptional individual! (or something close to that)
Glad she got him away from that first wife of his. I wonder what kind of a first lady she would have been.
Also glad to see she’s over her little prescription drug problem and was never prosecuted for their theft from one of her own charities.
Impressive. A real fine example of GOP womanhood!
By truthman
May 9, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
I understand John calls Cindy a C**T!
By @@
May 9, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
Wellllll truthman and IN THE NEWS. You guys are willing to take Obama on face value. I’ll take Cindy based on her charitable works alone.
The IRS tracked their charitable giving to organizations other than what all of you have indicated here.
To be fair, I’ll check out Michelle and Barack’s charitable giving. If you guys can save me the effort in research, feel free to do so.
I’m eager to learn.
By @@
May 9, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
truthman:
Midori, a leftist blogger, called several of the female conservatives here a C**T!
What say you about THAT?
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
AmVet - Old Dummy Carter is MOST CERTAINLY AN ANTI-SEMITE! He last book was one long screed against the Jews and the state of Israel. He is a filthy pig and frankly anyone who goes around defending that fool has mush for brains. His assertion that Israel is treating the Palestinians in the same manner that the Nazis treated them is really over the top. He meets with enemies of the Jewish state at every turn and then LIES and states that these enemies want peace! His actions and words both prove his anti-Semitism. Have you not read his latest writings?
JIMMY CARTER IS A WHITE TRASH FOOL WITH MONEY WHO NEEDS TO CRAWL BACK INTO HIS HOLE.
By @@
May 9, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Oh, and IN THE NEWS….
Obama has admitted to snorting cocaine. How can we be certain he’s not still enjoying a little blow?
Well, he is enjoying what he blows up your backside, but I’m talking about “snow”. Oops wait a second “snowjob”.
Let’s make it “the white stuff”.
Off to Aldi’s (sp?) for milk. It’s $2.69 a gallon there (all types) for those who are frettin’ over the price of milk.
By Glenn
May 9, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Mister Devil. What are some of the circumstances that took place in your childhood that contributed so to rendering you into a lifetime filled with hatred and anger, “despising” this and that, following such a narrow, dismal trail of dogma? In that you obviously never sought treatment for your varied conditions, why not share with us some of those early horrors and weaknesses?
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
ITN - before you start casting aspersions at Cindy McCain for a drug problem, let’s not forget every liberal celebrity in Hollywood as well as your drunken hero Ted Kennedy. Let us not also forget the rumors about poor, addle-pated Tipp(l)er Gore and the anti-depressants and alcohol.
Find something else to attack. Please attack on substance, not on personal matters. Don’t attack a man’s family. I have certainly never attacked Theresa Heinz personally or any other political spouse unless it went to the heart of an issue. Hillary always put herself out there as part of the team. Cindy McCain has not asserted even once that she would be interested in being co-president.
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
Sadly, American politics is in many cases one step removed (above?) what I refer to as, tard TV and radio.
There are two major reasons for this.
I used to blame Hollywood and the TV industry until I realized as early as the mid seventies, that the mindless and worthless garbage that passes for entertainment is so popular because the American people like it and want it!
It simply would not sell otherwise.
And now that the media, particularly TV and radio, dominates coverage of the political scene, what do you expect?
More of the same garbage.
Those same vacuous cretins who support and enable non-political TV stupidity do much the same for political coverage.
And the networks know it.
Secondly, with the rise of the extremely polished Gingrich neo-con slime machine of the early 90’s, political discourse sank to new lows. And the most awful aspects of politics came to the ugly fore. And, the ever leadership-challenged Dems all too gladly followed right along.
This, of course, played right into the soap opera mentality of the electronic media’s coverage.
Thus we have slightly glorified Britney/Jessica “news” vis a vis the candidates wives and most other aspects of these men.
How else can one explain the enormous popularity of Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, and the dozens of other rabid, inane talking heads?
Or for that matter, how we ended up with this abysmal poser in the White House…
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Glenn - I had quite a happy childhood. I think that studies show that conservatives tend to be happier than liberals and have better outlooks. I do not HATE anyone. I might hate their actions. I do despise the Clintons because of their actions and their venality. I also feel sorry for them because they really will never know any happiness because of their insatiable thirst for power.
Jimmy Carter is just a figure for contempt. He was a dismal failure as governor and then as president. He is an anti-semite and a fool who would destroy this country because of some crazy misplaced sense that only he can bring peace to the world. He is the worst kind of appeaser.
By Midori
May 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
{{{{Midori, a leftist blogger, called several of the female conservatives here a C**T!}}}}}
@@,
Altho I can’t recall doing that, I can’t think of a better term to describe you.
John McCain doesn’t have exclusive rights to the term, does he?
By Daniel
May 9, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
RW:
The Soviet Union came apart under Bush 1.
Its’ collapse followed 45 years of a consistent American Foreign Policy under nine presidents. The policy of containment of Communism began under Harry Truman.
By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!
May 9, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
-=-
At least Jimmy Carter is trying diplomacy to create peace in the middle east rather than teh Neo-Nazi’s who only want death - and destruction…
But Hey maybe Bush is right — I mean when the world blows up it will be peaceful then…..
Bush’s diplomacy as he tells Americs - “The God’s honest Truth!”
-=-
Ahh and in case you haven’t heard McLames greatest hits!
Here’s :”bomb bomb Iran”…
What a future for Amerika’….
Straight from the: “Straight (to hell) (all) Talk Express..”
Cheers’
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
DEVIL and @@
It’s open season on McCain’s dude. Deal with it.
Are the liberal celebrities or Ted K on the ballot? Or drug addled Rush for that matter?
Yep, Obama admitted using cocaine.
Cindy and John have admitted adultery and her drug use and theft.
Those are facts not rumors.
We all have to deal with the truth.
The good and the bad about our candidates, their families and their associates have and will continue to be scrutinized.
I’m thrilled at how noble you are never to attack on anything but substantive issues….I’ve saved that comment from you - just to remind you of that - if needs be.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
AmVet - how can we explain why so many people watch Brian Williams every night? How can we explain the popularity of such a liberal show as The West Wing? How about MAS*H? There are plenty of ‘liberal’ shows out there with left-wing sychophant stars like Alan Alda and even Roseanne Barr!!!
By the way, you folks have thrown around the term neo-con so much that you don’t even know what it means. Newt Gingrich has never been a ‘neo-con’, and certainly Hannity and Limbaugh do not fit that model. Limbaugh has always professed to be a disciple of Reagan and Reagan came of political age under the auspices of Goldwater and Buckley. He certainly is not a classic neo-conservative in the model of Bill Kristol.
I think that the reason you scream neo-con so much is that if you hurl an insult enough, or what you perceive to be one, that you think that somehow it will stick. It is the ‘big lie’ principle. If you tell a really outrageous lie often enough, people will believe it. Little lies will trip folks up. But the big lie is dangerous. This is straight from the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. A person who took the ‘big lie’ principle to heart was Adolph Hitler.
By Daniel
May 9, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
All:
Can we elevate the discussion? Most of America doesn't care about past drug use or adultery. We have all p**ped in our pants at one time.By AmVet
May 9, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
Glenn, you had to ask…
Calling him tendentious is like calling the Great Lakes a little watering hole.
And though this insignificant blog on a middling newspaper’s web site hardly portends the fate of this fraudulent Republican conservatism, it is both illustrative and enjoyable to watch the ongoing implosion, no?
Daniel,
In spite of the teeth gnashing, the fact remains that RR was a very mixed bag. Much good and MUCH bad. But to the most implacable and irrational he was as inerrant as a political savior-worshiper could ever want.
And to those unreasoned and unreasonable extremists he is almost exclusively responsible for the demise of the Red Menace!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Here’s a big lie.
Weapons of mass destruction.
OOPS here’s another one…
greeted as liberators
and another
their oil will pay for reconstruction
and another
we do not torture
don’t forget
6 days, 6 weeks….
and now the new generation of big lies……
Of course I voted for George Bush in 2000
By Glenn
May 9, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
Devil: Oh, I see. You term your displays here, “happiness”?? Thus were Hitler and Dahmer and Ruby and Bundy and Stalin and Oswald and Rasputin, et al, most happy fellows! You pull your statistics from the same location you retrieve your personality and mindset. Thanks for the intellectual explanation of your considerable dysfunctions. Have a typically delightful and “happy” Repug weekend. Don’t forget to sleep with your ballcap and flip-flops on!
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
ITN - I could have attacked Michelle Obama. She has said some outrageous things. However, she is not running. She has not put herself out there like Hillary Clinton did in 1992, at least not yet. If she does, then it is open season.
However, Cindy McCain has stayed pretty much in the background and she should be off limits.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Daniel - thanks for bringing up that last point. Certainly the libs said that Bill Clinton’s peccdillos were of no consequence, even though they were current. With McCain too much has been made up by the NY Times and that which might or might not be true took place thirty years ago.
By Daniel
May 9, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
AmVet: And, it gets worse over time. I thought Reagan was a nice man. He, of course prsided over the S&L Scandal and [to then] the greatest deficits ever. He was, in charge, however and surrounded himself with some very capable people.
By truthman
May 9, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
@@, is Midori running for president?
Does Midori have known anger issues?
Does someone with extreme anger issues give others caution when he has his finger on the “Nu-cu-ler” button?
Answers: No! Don’t care! Yes!
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
Devil….
Can you use your mystic power to prevent other of your political persuasion from attacking Michele Obama?
Most likely not.
Sweetie this is now the GE.
As I said, best get you some cast iron drawers.
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Satan, your problems with comprehending standard written English aside, when did I assert that any of the tard TV was not liberal?
MAS*H was perhaps the last great American TV programs Extremely well written and enormously entertaining without pandering to the lowest common denominators.
I suspect your problem with it is that it was marginally anti-war and that just infuriates you chest-pounders.
Your inability to differentiate between junk like the West Wing and MAS*H is, it would appear, simply because in your irrational mind EVERYTHING liberal is VERY, VERY bad and ALL THINGS “conservative” are VERY, VERY good.
Wake up, man. The real world does not work that way.
You are fighting a losing battle. And the remaining neo-cons who think like you are going to be further and further marginalized and discounted.
In case you haveN’T noticed, look around you, it is already in full swing. All over this great nation.
As I asserted earlier you “conservatives” have had your chance and botched it nearly every step of the way.
And this Republic is no longer laughing nor tolerant of your insanely misguided agenda.
BTW that “explanation” about Carter’s alleged anti-Semiticism was ridiculous.
Steeerike one.
Howz bout Hagel being a liberal?
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Glenn - we are talking politics here. I am speaking of views. I have not compared you with Lenin, Stalin, Castro or Lizzy Borden. I am a perfectly happy and well-adjusted individual. I have not spent days here ranting about how Bush was the lowest form of life and calling McCain and any other Republican childish names such as fascists and neo-nazis.
You don’t know me, and I think that you would be quite surprised by me if we were to meet face to face. You, on the other hand, would not surprise me. You would still be bitter and narrow-minded, convinced that anyone who does not hold the same views as you and your little clique. You don’t read journals of opinion in which people hold a contrary opinion. You only watch CNN and listen to NPR. You rail against people like Limbaugh and Hannity, but I doubt that you have listened to either one for more than a few minutes.
I listen to NPR for one hour every afternoon and I read The New Republic every week. I even lower myself to watch a half an hour or so of CNN a few times a week. I don’t watch Bill O’Reilly or listen to Rush Limbaugh. O’Reilly is a pompus arse and I already know what Limbaugh is going to say, just as I already know what Chris Matthews or Barak Obama are going to say.
I hope you do well and may God Bless you and yours as you go through life. Maybe even he will show you the errors of your ways.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
Always, always, always with the neo-con remarks, You liberals just HATE George W. Bush. You focus so much of you hate on him that you’ve just ignored his strongly played political moves and domestic agenda, let just see if the dems can muster anything close to a majority with an appeaser like clinton… and like the focus of the cartoon, we know there isn’t a chance with out her as the candidate. What middle of the road average joe will go with B. Hussein Obama anyways?
By Daniel
May 9, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
What is a liberal?
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Be Ready - A Tidal Wave Of Liberals Is Coming
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
AmVet - once again you are assuming facts not in evidence. I do not watch series television. I do watch baseball. I limit my viewing mostly to History Channel and the Science Channel. I do watch some programs on FOX, but I get most of my news from the internet and CSPAN, as I like to get it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
However, last I checked, Hollywood is a bastion of liberalism, so for the life of me, I don’t know why you love it so.
As far as liberals vs. conservatism goes, all I have to say is that Americans have to be reminded how bad it is to live with people wanting to confiscate our paychecks and nationalize anything bigger than a corner store.
The tide has surely turned against the left. The Labour Party has just suffered its worst defeat EVER in local elections. They even lost the city of London! Conservatives just won BIG in Italy and even took control of the city of Rome for the first time since World War II. Conservatives are in control in France and Germany. The left-wingers are not doing so well in Scandinavia either.
Conservatives came back in Canada and are now in control of the government there.
Yes, John Howard did lose in Australia, but the Liberal-National coalition will be back. Elections are in under three years.
You are deluding yourself because you talk to a bunch of liberals every day who just nod and agree with you and you all think that you are soooo smart because you are liberals. You vehemently deny you are socialists, although that is what you are, because you are at least smart enough to figure out that socialism is a dirty political word in this country because the average fellow figured out a long time ago that socialism does not work.
I just finished watching ‘Animal Farm’ again. You need to watch it and THINK when you do. Come back over to the Good Side of the Force, Darth, it is not too late.
By @@
May 9, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this
(((@@, is Midori running for president?)))
No, but you were the one bringing up trivial matters and I immediately thought of Midori.
(((Does Midori have known anger issues?)))
I’ll let that one pass with a girlish giggle.
Midori:
Howzit going? Long time no surface malingerer.
That reminds me….
Didn’t Obama’s campaign staff put out the call to arms, rallying his supporters to call in sick so they could campaign for the cause.
Let’s see now, I’ve got one more week before school’s out. I’ll call in sick claiming Obama’s Cause. The kids can do without. Priorities are priorities.
Out to buy flowers for my pots but not the skunk buds that Getalife loves.
By The Devil You Say
May 9, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
I was namejacked again at 3:13. Please grow up you little cretin. It must be hard to be so bitter and petty all of the time, mustn’t it. Have a nice day. I’m outta here.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
Devil
RE: Namejacking
I recommend contacting the AJC.
When I was being namejacked and also accused of it, they were really quite helpful.
I may have a major distaste for your point of view - but if you only have one ID here…..it should be yours alone.
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
New CBO Report Proves McCain Is ‘Full Of It’ In His Opposition To Webb-Hagel GI Bill
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Churches to put their tax status on the line for the GOP?
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Cotton Hill and John McCain: Separated at Birth!?!?
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Satan, are you seriously going to make me preface every post with, “…your problems with comprehending standard written English aside,…”???
I presume your “challenges” with cogent discourse are not unintentional.
Can you show me exactly where I premised that you watch series television?
That you speak with such certainty regarding things you know little, if anything about, is another far-right wing neo-con trait.
Go ahead, ignore reality. Close your eyes to what is going on in this wonderful land. Admittedly for you, it ain’t pretty but the truth shall set you free.
And justify all of your hallucinations with shrill screams of socialists hiding in the bushes and their plans for world domination and income redistribution.
It is beyond passé and meaningless, and everyone knows it.
I couldn’t care less. In fact it is rather humorous to watch you self-righteous phonies and ostriches get what you have worked so very hard to earn.
Pretend that Italy and the UK have didly squat to do with the demise of far right wing political abominations that are soon to be melba toast, if it makes you feel better.
It is utterly irrelevant and you should know that.
If in your neo-con mind you actually believe that European conservatism is still not to the left of American liberalism you need a 12 step program.
You are grasping at an ever dwindling number of fake conservative straws and soon, VERY soon, you will understand why caricatures like you will be as valuable as Confederate dollars…
BTW, hours later and I’m still waiting for the nonsense asserting Chuck Hagel is a liberal…
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
Satan, are you seriously going to make me preface every post with, “…your problems with comprehending standard written English aside,…”???
I presume your “challenges” with cogent discourse are not unintentional.
Can you show me exactly where I premised that you watch series television?
That you speak with such certainty regarding things you know little, if anything about, is another far-right wing neo-con trait.
Go ahead, ignore reality. Close your eyes to what is going on in this wonderful land. Admittedly for you, it ain’t pretty but the truth shall set you free.
And justify all of your hallucinations with shrill screams of socialists hiding in the bushes and their plans for world domination and income redistribution.
It is beyond passé and meaningless, and everyone knows it.
I couldn’t care less. In fact it is rather humorous to watch you self-righteous phonies and ostriches get what you have worked so very hard to earn.
Pretend that Italy and the UK have didly squat to do with the demise of far right wing political abominations that are soon to be melba toast, if it makes you feel better.
It is utterly irrelevant and you should know that.
If in your neo-con mind you actually believe that European conservatism is still not to the left of American liberalism you need a 12 step program.
You are grasping at an ever dwindling number of fake conservative straws and soon, VERY soon, you will understand why caricatures like you will be as valuable as Confederate dollars…
BTW, hours later and I’m still waiting for the nonsense asserting Chuck Hagel is a liberal…
By truthman
May 9, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
ITN:
To take away church’s tax-exempt status would be one of the better days in recent American history.
Religion is the opiate of the masses!
By AmVet
May 9, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Gadzooks!
The always dreaded RB double post!
By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!
May 9, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
-=-
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - (Adolph Hitler)
“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” - (George W. Bush)
-=-
So McCain’s view on torture — I was tortured — so it’s fine for us to torture…
and —
“Anything we do to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture.” - (George W. Bush)
((Bush’s comments come days after it was disclosed that the CIA is running a network of prisons in eastern Europe and Asia, where it holds suspects.))
{{ No We “the United States” do not torture - We contract out the torture! }}
Blackwater is a threat to the core underpinnings of our democracy. Who is this private army loyal to? Because they aren’t ours. They don’t wear our flags on their clothing — they wear the symbol of Blackwater.
Think about it!….
Cheers’
By IN THE NEWS
May 9, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
Truthman
I’m with you!
By Jackie
May 9, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
Hillary’s pretty hot. I’d like to go out with her and Martha Stewart at the same time.
By Daniel
May 9, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
RWR can be remembered for the restraint exercised after 243 marines were killed in Beirut in 1983.By FUNNIEST JOKE EVER
May 9, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
The seven dwarves go out one morning to do their daily mining work. Snow White is left at home to do the chores. As noon approaches Snow White begins to make lunch for them. As she’s walking to the mine to give them their lunch, she hears a loud CRASH! The mine collapses!
She gets to the mine and yells, “Can anyone hear me?!”, to no reply.
She tries again. “Can anyone hear me?!” Again, no reply.
Just when she is about to give up hope she hears, off in the distance, a very faint voice saying, “Vote for McCain… Vote for McCain…”
Snow White let’s out a sigh of relief and says, “Oh thank God. At least Dopey is still alive!”
By AJC Management
May 9, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
{{{{Tom Wolfe and America? He loves the place, a position that puts him at odds with much of the charming aristocracy. He’s also an optimist about America — and American greatness. “The biggest problem,” says Wolfe, “is all the people who see a problem.”}}}}
You reckon?
{{{{Tom Wolfe: I believe we’re on the edge of about 800 more years of American centuries.}}}}
Bad news for you kandy as-ses, I’m sure you’d love to see America die tomorrow.
Too freaking bad, ain’t it?
By By Love
May 9, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
He’ll huff, and he’ll puff; but, when you’re headed for a cliff you change course, or die.
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
@@,
This whole story about McCain calling Cindy Midori’s favorite word just seems to be another made up story by the “progressives.”
The other day two HuffPo “reporters” went to a McCain event and had one of them ask him if he called her that and then the other one interviewed the questioner afterward. It’s a double whammy for them. They can get the phony message out there to make people lose respect for him and then start questioning him in hopes that he’ll go off on the questioner so they can say he’s out of control.
By GMAN
May 9, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this
Old swollen jaw adulterer flip flop McBush… Truely a model for the presidency. Let’s all just set the bar just a little bit lower. THE CRACKER FACTOR IS ALIVE AND WELL!
By Dimokrat National KKKommittee
May 9, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
Greetings fellow goons and klanners:
I am deeply saddened to call this special meeting; for what I am about to tell you dimwits will cause you much grief. I am talking about an moment in our Blessed history so sad and so heart wrenching that even clinging to you guns and other shiny objects will not help to lessen you sorrow.
We have been kicked out of thee halls of thee White Power.
Please, you idiots, do not trample each other, I am not talking about you, Thee Great And Bountiful Giver Of Government Benefits is thee One that has been asked to leave.
Sit thee hell back down.
Let us remember our Exalted Bruno for a moment and her Goony and Marauding Bigot of a “Husband,” thee first black man to ever lead the Klan, Billy Klux.
Do not think for a second that thee Exalted Ones gave up with out thee struggle, Bruno schemed and plotted up to thee last minute, telling thee Party that without her, they will not get thee votes of you stupid, slobbering morons and thee assorted white trash, you great unwashed masses of ignorance gathered before me.
Thee party answered her by saying “good.”
And as a token of appreciation of your undying and disgusting devotion to thee White Power Party, thee Black Crack Dealing Muslim Terrorist wishes to invite you to join his spiritual adviser for a “prayer” as a sign of “unity.”
I give you thee reverend Wrong.
“Before I give thee invocation for today’s blessed coming together of thee dimokrat party, let us turn to page 441 of the Trinity Church hymnal and sing together this lovely and beautiful hymn of thee church.”
“Cop killer, better you than me.”
“I’m a Cop killer, f**k police brutality!”
“Cop killer, I know your family’s grievin’”
“(f**k ‘em)”
“Cop killer, but tonight we get even.”
“Ahh, yes, that beautiful hymn of thee church always warms my heart.”
“Bow your heads an join me in prayer.”
Continued-
By Midori
May 9, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
there you morons go projecting again.
just because @@ has a filthy mind, that does not transfer onto me — try as you will.
just because @@ imagines, asserts, etc., that I called her that, that does not transfer onto me — try as you will.
I did, however, agree with her that the name suits her quite well - a la her hero McCain.
Is that what McCain is trying to tell us, @@? that you and his wife are of the same family?
Rather than worry and obsess about the Democrats, I would think that you “people” would try to police your own.
Oh yeah, that’s right: Bush is the best thing since sliced bread. It follows that McCain is like butter.
No wonder you belong to the party of complete and utter failures.
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
Blowhard,
Repeat after me….there are no holes in the fossil record. The FACT is there is NO fossil record ever showing one species becoming a different one. None, zero, zip, zilch, nada. NONE!
Geez you’re a slow one.
By the way, we play a serious brand of golf for some even more serious jack. I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb when I say both are HUGELY out of your league.
By Dimokrat National KKKommittee (Under New Management, hahaha)
May 9, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this
Continued-
“Oh great homey in the sky, promise that you will fulfill our wishes and much desired prayers that you will soon rain fire and sickness from thee heavens down onto this awful, evil place called America. Grind it under your heel Master. Punish it unmercifully for what ever lie I make up about it and makes my anti American congregation all hard and excited.”
“Just don’t hit thee new mansion in the white community of Tinley Park, Il if you don’t mind. Take everything else the F out.”
Thank you reverend for that heartfelt and sincere blessing for thee new party on this new day.
Now see, you mindless little toadies, Those People aren’t that bad, they hate America just like Bruno does.
Surely we can all get along, can’t we?
So hop up on your horsie, you stupid slobbering morons, put your little pointy cap up on top of your empty heads, and ride, oh, what’s the use.
Seig Heil!
By @@
May 9, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
Noooo RW, they wouldn’t lie now would they?
When you think about it, they’re accustomed to digging in their cracks and coming up with…….????
They do belong to a party plagued with fissures at its’ very foundation. They created their own misery, they wanna share it with everyone.
Oops! I typed all ^^^ that before I realized I’m not talking to you anymore. (ISH)
By @@
May 9, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this
(((just because @@ has a filthy mind, that does not transfer onto me)))
Who are you trying to fool fool?
I’ve never used the word “fool” before, I think I like it.
I could probably make it easy on myself and pull one of your mindless rants from RW’s archives. Heck, I think you used the “C” word over there.
Dang! I don’t believe I’ve ever used the word “mindless” either. I’ll go with “fool” when referring to Midori. It suits her.
Fools, court jesters, are always good for a laugh or two or three or four.
By RW-(the original)
May 9, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this
@@,
I think a week of not speaking to me is more than enough. Are you at least talking to Semper again? (ISH)
Look! It’s Hillary Clinton starring in Sunset Boulevard.
By Cheney
May 9, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this
Wish my daughter’d get married.
By Glenn
May 12, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this
Brilliant cartoon.
By america1590
May 14, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
Hill-arious!