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DEL.ICIO.USView of GOP as buffoons a fabrication
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In retrospect, it’s hard to imagine that President Gerald R. Ford ever came to be viewed as a klutz or as a man of modest intelligence.
He was neither. As reporter Bob Dart noted in Ford’s obituary, he was probably the most accomplished athlete ever in the White House. After being named Most Valuable Player on his 1934 University of Michigan football team, he was offered professional contracts by both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.
His athletic prowess in football carried over to golf, skiing and swimming. JFK may have effected athleticism for the newsreels, but Ford was the genuine article.
And yet, it’s Ford who, in Dart’s words, “gained a comical reputation for clumsiness while in the White House.” Considerable assistance came from comedian Chevy Chase, who often portrayed Ford stumbling or falling on “Saturday Night Live.” Here’s what Chase said last week about the routine, as reported by Reuters news service:
“He had never been elected, period, so I never felt he deserved to be there to begin with. This was just the way I felt then, as a young man and as a writer and a liberal.”
While Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon for Watergate no doubt contributed significantly to his loss to Jimmy Carter, his depiction by the media and entertainment industry as a nice, well-meaning bumbler of modest intelligence conditioned the country to believe him inferior to the challenge.
But as his speechwriter, James C. Humes, wrote after his death, Ford’s “dean’s list grades at the University of Michigan were enough to earn him a scholarship to Yale Law School. In his rankings there, he topped fellow classmates Cyrus Vance and Sargent Shriver.”
Oft quoted was the LBJ crack that “Jerry Ford is a nice fellow, but he played too much football without a helmet.”
This genial dunce theme recurs in media treatment of Republican leaders, with some exceptions. Nixon was smart but evil. George H.W. Bush was genial, but intellectually inferior to Bill Clinton. Ronald Reagan was dumb and George W. Bush is too, while the Democrats they defeated — Carter, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and John Kerry — were all intellectually superior.
The basis for that misperception about most conservatives and Republicans is that by and large they come from places unfamiliar to the New York-Washington media establishment. And it is that establishment, until the rise of the blogosphere, talk radio and cable television, that owned the business of deciding what’s news. They owned, too, the franchise on determining who in the political arena has substance, who’s serious and who’s not.
Conservatives were always disadvantaged in that milieu, and still are, because their constituents by and large were made up of what Ford affectionately called “the ordinary, the straight, the square [the quality] that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation.” It is, he said, “a quality to be proud of … a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”
That’s not Washington, nor is it the pressure groups demanding more government, nor is it the political industry that defines the nation’s problems in ways that make them the solution. It is therefore alien to everyday experience in the centers of opinion and government so, well, Grand Rapids and comfortable and straight.
It’s a mind-set like that of Chevy Chase that makes those “in the know,” in politics, academia, entertainment and the media, quite comfortable in dismissing Ford, Reagan or Bush as somebody who didn’t “deserve to be there to begin with” because they were the choice of the uniformed, misguided, self-interested, complacent and those lacking in compassion and kindness — in essence, the ordinary people who lived in places like Grand Rapids.
When liberal entertainers speak today of Bush, it’s with that same smug dismissive certainty that devalues his intelligence, his moral authority or his claim to the Oval Office.
Often with conservatives, it’s because the critics can’t comprehend their ideas, values or agendas — and therefore either assume they have none or that the ones they have lack merit. But in Ford’s day, a relative few news, opinion and entertainment figures in New York, Washington and Hollywood could turn an athlete into a national klutz and a Yale Law School graduate into an intellectual dullard.
That world passed, though, before the president did.
• Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column runs Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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By Dusty
December 30, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this
Thanks, Jim
For giving us a clear analysis of how time can change the inequities of history. I like the way you described the good steady character and sensibilties of President Gerald Ford.
Not a totally original thought but I do believe the same change will happen with the history of George W. Bush. I see his good character, steadfast decisions and devotion for our country. His long range vision escapes many.
I remain optimistic but not too patient with the detractors who find nothing good in the president or, seemingly, in the country.
By TW
December 30, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this
What about the good old ‘ordinary’ folks right here in Georgia, Jim? This state could not be a more perfect representation of the GOP in 2006, yet you gave it no ink?
By Mike M.
December 30, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this
“Dismissive certainty?” Bush II, for years an alcohol and cocaine abuser, is trying to become an adult after 60 years of having real adults bail him out of failure after failure. This would be okay if he was learning how to balance his checkbook or capture an original thought or practice his diction. Unfortunately, our Chickenhawk-in-Chief is trying to run the United States and carry on the war he started to show Poppy he wasn’t the wastrel, the substance-abusing son that the family had resigned itself to endure. As this naif tries to find himself he continues to leave a trail of carnage and ruin. The good neocons around him—name three who aren’t chickenhawks—applaud this pitiful little man—a man who truly is a reflection of themselves. Bush II is thus their surrogate, living their dream, tinkering with machinery he knows nothing about, witlessly steering the U.S. while unable to see over the dashboard. Ford was a principled genius in comparison.
By ICEMAN
December 30, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten,
Although I am right wing in thought, being an African American I find myself pressured to vote democrat and hate Bush. I voted for Bush in the last election, but I now regret that decision given the results that have transpired due to the war. I can steadfastly say that even though I belong to a race of people who I feel is still mentally locked in chains, the Republican party offers what we need and the democratic party offers what we want.
By Dusty
December 30, 2006 04:01 PM | Link to this
Mike M,
You have placed before us all the fanciful fabrications distributed by liberals. We don’t even have to wait on history to correct most of those.
I don’t have time to correct your listings of rumor, insinuations and already corrected errors. Buy why should I bother with someone so dense as to believe every propaganda piece placed before him?
Jim used the word “buffoon”. It fits you perfectly, Mike M..
By On-looker
December 30, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
Comparing Bush to Ford is rather like comparing Rafael Belliard to Babe Ruth.
By whynot
December 30, 2006 04:28 PM | Link to this
Because only liberals have reduced politics to talking point and spin so nobody understands poor old Gerry Ford.
Please Jim, grow up some would you. Gerry is plenty understood by those who care so just because your audience is filled with dimwits don’t be so alarmed that his legacy is of a stumble bum.
Because Lord knows we would not want to boil politics down to something as patently absurd as say, ‘your either for us or against us’. Now that we be just plain wrong wouldn’t it Jim?
Lowering the bar for the benefit of the dullards, ladies and gentlemen I give you Jim Wooten.
By whynot
December 30, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this
Hey Jim, I noticed on your earlier butchers blog comments section you were crowing about how well the stock market is doing this year. All because of conservatism you imply. Are you so dim that you don’t realize that since Bush has taken over the DJIA is only NOW back to where it was 6 years ago? Are you aware the NAS is still in the red? Are you aware the dollar has lost 30% and sinking of it’s value? Are you aware a barrell of oil is up 300%? So since Bush has done such a great job with the market this year, I assume your willing to blame him for the previous 5 years of underperformance. Because if there is one thing you are Jim, it is consistent.
By Dusty
December 30, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this
Lowering the bar for the benefit of the liberals, ladies and gentlemen, I give you whynot, the wizard of woe and the knot-head of numskullery and the swell head of pomposity.
Long may he live in the land of the liberals as they continue their lengthy search for a less libelous leader for their lemmings.
By Bill
December 30, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this
I guess “whynot” forgot that 9/11 happened, and that Bush inherited a Clinton recession. The economic recovery since then has been quite amazing( fueled by tax cuts for people who actually pay taxes !)The stock market is 1,500 points higher than at any time during Slick Willy’s tenure, and is not being bolstered by day traders hoping to make it big on IPOs. Bush also had higher SAT scores than ALBORE or “Cut and Run” Kerry.
By @@
December 30, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
Jim:
Thank you for the “welcome back”.
During the mid-term elections I visited a left-wing blog. I do that too often. I can’t tell you why.
Anyway, they were discussing the declining support for LaMont. They were determined to get out and inform the voters of LaMont’s value as a representative.
To sum it up Jim. They stated that their Democrat constituency was losing site of what was important in a candidate, and would not stand idle while the voters remained “uninformed”. “Get the word out” was their call to arms.
I think they were calling their voters “stupid”. Maybe that was the word they wanted to get out, “Stoopid”.
Anyhoo Jim, is that the kind of intellectual elitism you refer to?
By jbmlaw
December 30, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
Dear Jim, well argued. I cannot wait to read the moonbats’ responses. This may be the funniest blog in the archives before it is over.
By jbmlaw
December 30, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this
Foxes and hedgehogs. Learn the difference, Deaniacs.
By whynot
December 30, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this
Hey Dusty why not have an original thought rather than using my phrases. Maybe you want to address those economic facts? I didn’t think so. That would require nuance. And as we all know, GOP’ers don’t do nuance.
Hey Bill, really? Wow your brilliant. Did you factor in the fact that inflation has dropped stock market returns to negative during the last 6 years? Probably not. Absolutists never understand such complexities.
And if W has done such a great job recovering from 42’s recession than you must think 42 is some sort of wunderkind for leading us out of 41’s morass. Is that right?
As the dollar drops down to .7200 it’s buying power will have effectively been cut in half since W took over.
Maybe you want to compare market performance under Democrat presidents to Republican presidents over the last 100 years.
By Buy Danish
December 30, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this
BH,
I missed last call at the other thread.
TfTT is NOT Andy who is not the things you claim he is. Maybe you should leave the detective work to others.
OOTMVOD Stalker Boy,
Great job demonstrating once again what a deplorable psychopath you are. You just can’t help yourself, can you punk?
By Mike M.
December 30, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this
Dusty, there’s nothing “fanciful” about the fact that by the end of January over 3,000 decent service men and women will have died because of this foolish little man’s vanity war. Were he, Karl Rove, Condi Rice, Rummy, Cheney, and all of the other chickenhawks who lied to the public to begin this war, with assuredly no risk to themselves or their families, forced to go live in the Green Zone in Baghdad, this war would be over in 48 hours.
Instead, last month the Bush twins partyied their merry ways through South America, Bush II urged us all to spend big for Christmas, and Dick Cheney went hunting with his rich friends.
While W’s daughters live it up, one set of parents have this devastating email passage from their daughter as a remembrance: “Just know that I AM with you … just close your eyes, place your hands on your heart, and you will feel me there.” [Army Sgt. First Class Linda Ann Tarango-Griess, age 33, sent this [excerpt from an] email from Iraq to her cousin on 5-14-04. Sgt. Tarango-Griess was killed near Samarra on 7-11-04 by an IED. She lived in Sutton, Nebraska, population 1,500. More than 1,000 persons attended her funeral.]
Tell us of YOUR sacrifices for this war, Dusty. Tell us, what are you denying yourself to futher the war effort?
My guess is that it won’t take you long to fashion a response.
By whynot
December 30, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this
Hey Dusty why not have an original thought rather than using my phrases. Maybe you want to address those economic facts? I didn’t think so. That would require nuance. And as we all know, nuance is only for us liberals.
Hey Bill, really? Wow your brilliant. Did you factor in the fact that inflation has dropped stock market returns to negative during the last 6 years? Absolutists never understand such complexities. I guess all those charts that show the DJIA at 11,900 seven years ago are wrong.
And if W has done such a great job recovering from 42’s recession than you must think 42 is some sort of wunderkind for leading us out of 41’s morass.
As the dollar drops down to .7200 it’s buying power will have effectively been cut in half since W took over. And as the world takes our fiat currency and first stops buying it, and then starts selling it .7200 may look like the gold old days.
Lastly, maybe you want to compare market performance under Democrat presidents to Republican presidents over the last 100 years. But probably not.
By Mid-South Philosopher
December 31, 2006 08:01 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
I want to interject one thought relative to the conversation on the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford. Much has been written about the fact that he lost the 1976 Presidential Election because of his decision to grant ex-President Richard Milhous Nixon a pardon for crimes he may have committed while in office. Doubtless, it is true that this action cost President Ford many votes; however, there was another factor at play as well.
Those of us who were around then remember that the nation’s economy was teetering precariously. We had experienced the first of the energy shortages and increased cost of gasoline under Nixon. Ford inherited this malady. Inflation was growing by leaps and bounds. Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” initiative seemed almost like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon. The country had abdicated victory in the Vietnam War. The Middle East, just as it is today, seemed poised for Armageddon. For a young couple starting out with little more than the “proverbial” pot, something had to be done. It seemed that a change was needed in the White House. Consequently, I strolled to the polls on November 2, 1976 and voted for James Earl Carter. Things got worse!
I never met President Ford, and I never got to apologize for not supporting him in 1976. I really am sorry for that.
By Bemused Humanist
December 31, 2006 08:02 AM | Link to this
RW and BD:
I assumed it was given that ml’s banned Andy was Thinking Right’s TFTT. I suppose it would be easy for the AJC to check, assuming they care enough to do so. I certainly don’t. Anyway, I apologize once more and give you my word of honor that I will never make the mistake of praising either of you again.
Jbmlaw:
How ironic that given that in the brief time I have frequented this blog you have taken the position that Clarence Thomas’ status as the Supreme Court justice who most frequently overturns duly enacted statutes is not judicial activism because it is not “legislating from the bench” (ridiculous); that you’ve described persons supporting judicial decisions enforcing the separation of Church and State as “evil” (stupid and offensive); that you constantly re-write history in appallingly ignorant ways (e.g., we would have actually won the Vietnam War if only the Democrats had sent more money to Thieu while the ARVN was completely disintegrating in 1975); that you sing the praises of a Reagan-era crone, Jean Kirkpatrick, who embraced the torturer and murderer Agusto Pinochet, and whose central idea that communist governments are inherently and implacably resistant to change has been completely disproved by the collapse of the Soviet Union; and that you not only support but promote unhinged, unabashed racists like TFTT — all, by the way, in prose as dull, leaden, and colorless as a tire iron — I’d say that you’ve fallen far short of even minimal intellectual, ethical, judgmental, and stylistic competencies requisite to having a legitimate opinion as to the depth and quality of my wit and intelligence. Q.E.D.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this
“There is no soviet dominance over Eastern Europe.” (Gerald Ford 1976).
“Are you okay, sir?” (Gerald Ford’s aides 1974-1976.)
By Fall Line
December 31, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this
I pray for those locked in chains who don’t realize they hold the keys to their freedom in their own hands.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this
Dead Presidents
If Gerald Ford coulda played pro football then Bush’s new Iraq War slogan should be: “Lets win one for the Tripper”.
(sorry)
Castro is not a dead president, but his health is such that he can only “help govern” cuba now. A power struggle that must be playing out in Cuba now….I wonder if we have any maids with poison cigars in the wings….WWJfkD?
Ford held many contra-indicated views which completely neutralizes his position on the Warren Commission. How can we trust the Warren Commission when we know that Gerald Ford didn’t tell it like it was about Iraq?
Spin is how the holocaust happened. We just go along, despite our conscience. If you opposed abortion, then you might as well scream it out your window. Let people know who you are. the data is priceless. trust me.
By Arnold
December 31, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this
I was the exception to the rule. The media adored me. They played right along with my indestructible macho movie star persona. I was the Govinator.
Then I went skiing and broke my leg. I feel like a big girly-man.
It hurts so bad. I cried. A lot.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 31, 2006 08:40 AM | Link to this
You know, if one were to honestly rank all the Republican presidents, Ford would be number 4, behind only Lincoln, TR, and Ike.
How sad for our country that one of the two major parties keeps selecting such mediocrities and downright incompetents for the highest office in the land…
By LuckoDull
December 31, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this
Jim: I can’t recall anything the liberals have told the truth about in the last 50 years; it took this to get you to notice?
As an example, printed in the pages of your own newspaper and I use the term “news” loosely:
“Saddam was executed for killing 148 people … while Bush is responsible for the killing of about 600,000 since the March 2003 invasion.”- FAUZAN AL ANSHORI of the militant group of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia
Bush killed 600,000?
Would you like to back that statement with some facts or perhaps put your word as associate editor behind it?
What a completely irresponsible thing to give legitimacy to, an ignorant act of enemy propaganda.
Which pretty much defines the standard operating procedure of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, irresponsible enemy propaganda.
Even more so considering that the vast majority of your readership is composed of dullards who have never formed a thought of their own and would believe anything they hear as long as it sounds good to them.
But no, the AJC takes full advantage of these dunces, printing the most extreme, hate filled, decisive rhetoric that you think you can get away with, all in advance of your agenda.
And counting on these liberal dolts to spread your lies, not the facts, about a war we are all engaged in, some who are risking their lives to protect ALL of us.
And here, safely hiding behind their sacrifice, we have the Atlanta Journal Constitution inciting their enemies, further endangering their lives, all for stupid, pointless political advantage.
How sickening.
And dull.
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By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 31, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this
Ford’s problem wasn’t his brains, it was his Babbittry. King/Ford grew up in a bubble of middle-class smalltown whiteness, captain of his high school football team, and then an All-American at University of Michigan.
Small-minded smalltown values were what shaped Ford, and the GOP of his youth - hand-wringing about FDR’s New Deal, isolationism, xenophobia. Unlike the southrons of the day, however, Midwesterners valued education and hard work, and Ford’s life is a testament to both.
The small-town Midwest used to be the bedrock of the GOP before Goldwater and Nixon decided that white racists in the South were easier pickings.
Gerry Ford probably wanted all the hippies to get a haircut and a job, and he was happy to get to replace William O. Douglas on the Supreme Court - with John Paul Stevens, a fellow midwesterner, now considered one of the court’s more liberal vocies.
Unlike southrons though, midwesterners value the Constitutional protections afforded to individual rights, and Ford was smart enough to realize the hippies and civil rights activists and peace movement of his day were also his fellow Americans. He was also an intelligent man (the Pope has always voted for the most intelligent candidate, and Wooten’s UGA degree makes him realize it takes a whole lot of brains to do Yale Law (rednecks - it ain’t UGA)) who was smart enough to realize that although he might have wished there were more people like him, it wasn’t his job to make people that way.
Goldwater and Nixon played the race card for the GOP in the South. Ford played the Babbitt card in the midwest, but he would not stoop to conquer by trying to appeal to vicious stupid southern rednecks.
He was the last GOP candidate to refuse to do so, the last of the party of Lincoln.
Since then, the Jeff Davis/Spiro Agnew wing of the party has dominated. These people are not stupid either, they only appear that way to have a stronger appeal to the redneck morons and poltroons that make up an ever-increasing portion of the electorate. They say stupid things so that the Woo-ten Klanners will like them and vote for them.
By I Voted for the War Even Though I'm a Coward
December 31, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this
I could go fight in Iraq, but I am way too scared.
But not too scared to boringly repetetively blog about it.
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By Rev Haggard
December 31, 2006 09:19 AM | Link to this
Great article Mr Wooten.
The exact same thing has happened to us evangelical leaders. According to the media we are nothing but a bunch of wacked out freaks.
Look what they have done to Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Jimmy Swaggert, James Dobson, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, and of course me.
Us evangelicals are even more persecuted than the Republican leaders. Its a tragedy. We are obviously the most persecuted people in the US right now. ITS A TOTAL FABRICATION. I hate the media.
God Bless.
By jbmlaw
December 31, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this
Dear Whynot at various times, I think you have a deficit in your economics training. You imagine that economy reacts instantly to events. While the economy may anticipate some events - a large swing the Congress or a particularly poorly-conceived program - government politicies generally influence only with a lag, I think 18 months or so, although I think I remember that my hero Friedman said 24 months. I think if you evaluate the economics of the current president under such a measure, you may have to revise your opinion substantially.
Dear Bemused @ 8:02, I have long suspected that drugs adversely affected your memory of the events of the fall of Saigon. For the longest time you argued that the defunding was bipartisan, rather than typical moonbat “cut and run.” I suspect you read the WSJ link I posted earlier this week that disproved your long-time position, thus your carefully-phrased retreat today. For those who missed it, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009447
I certainly stand by and encourage the efforts of my friend TFTT. When the Portugese pretender started slinging epithets Thursday, TFTT certainly destroyed her, did he not. (In all fairness, in her dealings with me she was merely guilty of intellectual disingenuity, much like your long-term arguments on the abandonment of South Vietnam to the Communist north.) I am grateful that we have strong intellects who will dish it back to the wacko leftists, even if I lack that competence myself.
By Lord Help Us
December 31, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
Andrew, the quote that has your panties all wadded up is just that…a quote.
It is one of six or seven that show the the reaction of both supporters and those who are against the war in Iraq to Husseins hanging.
I suppose your preference would be to only show quotes from supporters of Bush and the war in Iraq????
If you only want to read the opinions of those with whom you agree, stay away from legitimate news organizations and stick with the right-wing echo chamber (Fox, Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.)
By Jim's a Cherry Picker
December 31, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this
You really are an idiot.
There has been nothing but steady praise for Ford over the past week, but you dredge up one comment from a second rate comedian and hold it out as a rote mindset of an entire group of people.
And besides, if George hadn’t got himself into an ill-advised war in the middle east, he wouldn’t be subject to the criticisms that he is. Have you thought of that?
What lofty values is he holding out that allows him to kill innocent men and women, allows him to put incompetent politicial appointiees in charge of large government agencies? What values are you referring to.
Dumb-arse.
By jbmlaw
December 31, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this
Good morning PoFo @ 8:08, I had forgotten, but I think you correctly cite the reason the good Mr. Ford lost 1976 to the inexperienced Mr. Carter. President Ford did not lose any votes over the pardon - those votes would have gone to any chimpanzee running on the democrat ticket - but he almost certainly lost some dispirited potential GOP voters when he prematurely freed the people of Poland.
On our way to church shortly, have a great day all.
By I Voted for the War and I'm a Great Cheerleader
December 31, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this
No fighting for this girl, though - it’s scary!
But all you folks - all you have to do is believe, and we’ll win that war…
Team Spirit!
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By LuckoDull
December 31, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this
It is one of six or seven that show the the reaction of both supporters and those who are against the war in Iraq to Husseins hanging.
See what I mean about the dullards and their excitement and joy to be reading enemy propaganda? Would anybody like to tell me what purpose printing this crap serves, other then the delight of American perverts and the further incitement of violence against our soldiers?
Not to mention it’s a bald faced lie with no basis in fact, some standards the AJC has set for itself.
Let’s see how one of the dunce’s favorite hero’s thought of this idea:
In creating the Office of Censorship, President Roosevelt conferred upon its director the power to censor international communications in “his absolute discretion.” This individual was to be given absolute control over cable traffic, the mail, broadcasting, and the press.
Remember how the libs like to say Bush restricts their freedoms? Kind of cute, isn’t it?
Bush doesn’t censor because he and his fellow Americans expect a little responsibility, maybe even a little pride in the country (hahahaha, yeah right,) from those who form public opinion.
Especially and most of all not having them jump slam a$$ into the enemy’s camp.
Like you dullards have.
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By Pimp's Hacks - LibeRACISTals Al Qaeda's Concubine I
December 31, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
I agitate America’s enemies to kill more of our soldiers. From within the safety of America!
And I’m proud of myself.
By Seriously
December 31, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this
President Ford of course saw his SNL portrayal a little different than Jim.
President Ford made an appearance on SNL from the Oval Office. His press sec also appeared on the show. Ford also made an appearance with Chase at a political dinner.
Ford did not whine about it. He did not cry “Liberal Media, Liberal Media.” He used it to his advantage. He had a great sense of humor.
I gotta go now. I’m off to watch a replay of Stephen Colbert’s roast of Pres Bush at the Correspondents Dinner.
Great comedy!
By KA
December 31, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this
Jim, Why do you allow the posting of Pimp’s hacks who advocates killing soldiers? Please remove that post. It is a call to arms.
By Lord Help Us
December 31, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this
Andrew, you are hopelessly narrow-minded or retarded…
Reporting various quotes from both supporters and from those who are against the war to an event as salient as the hanging of Saddam Hussein does not constitute ‘excitement and joy to be reading enemy propaganda.’
And, are you really so desperate that you need to conjure up some nonsense from the Roosevelt Administration to prove a point (if there was a point…)?
Apparently, your hero, W, and your ideology are so empty and inept that all you have left are pathetic acts of desperation…
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this
Snitches. They’re real. Why do we rat each other out? I bought some cherry liquour for a drive in date when I was 19 once, and my sister snitched and my mother made me pour it down the sink. How rotten is that?
I hate snitches. Jail house snitches gotta be real careful. They can only rat out each other if the warden protects them. We only get to see cell mates who snitch in courtrooms. The snitching cell mate, then, can only be viewed on the witness stand, (kind of a nice cage).
I gotta real problem with snitches. I wonder who snitched on Bush? Who let it leak that he lied about the WMDs? How did America find out that he was shocked by 911, stupified actually, into making a hasty choice to invade Iraq? “Okay, the towers are down, that’s it, Hussein is going down for what he almost did to my pa.”
Anyone notice the grim acceptance on Rice’s and Gate’s face? We surge. Bush is being goaded into standing fast on surge-and-purge. (we’ll have the dirge later).
Pray4peace.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 31, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this
Good point Seriously.
You need to remember though that the American redneck - species rednekkkus dumbfawkkkus - has a very primitive sense of humor - tending towards physical comedy and ridicule of others, and an inability to laugh at itself. While most of them are lazy and shiftless, they often whine about honor - but yet most of them have nary an ounce.
Irony and sarcasm and an ability to laugh at one’s self indicates a much higher intellectual and emotional capability than the typical redneck posesses.
Ford very graciously dealt with his wife’s dependency problems and breast cancer, and allowed her to be a public figure in her own right, Betty’s pro-choice stance as a for instance. Ranking first ladies, we’d have to put Betty at the very top, outranked only by Eleanor. Certainly way above the doormat Laura and the bitter Babs. This is not redneck behavior either - this is a committed family man in action.
No, Gerry Ford was not a redneck. And he was not paranoid or mentally ill like Nixon and the current WH occupant.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this
. . . .Bush’s new Iraq War Slogan”LETS WIN ONE FOR THE TRIPPER!”
By FB-bill
December 31, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this
Jim, President Ford won his place in history for the selfless sacrifice of the pardon of his friend. It was a pity that having lived in Georgia since 1973 that my first vote for president in 1976 was like peeing into Lake Lanier. Being open minded I was able to vote for a Republican Senator in cleaning out the closet. I now am caught in the reverse situation; to have any say in local government I must vote in the Republican Primaries. Gerald Ford will go down in history as the indispensable man of the moment; Jimmy Carter the accidental byproduct of evil; Ronald Reagan luck of the economic cycle; George HW Bush un-luck of the economic cycle; and Bill Clinton first baby boomer-in-chief to prove not fully capable of the enormous responsibility that comes with the office. That has led us to President George W Bush who despite all the advantages privilege, education, timing, and treasure has failed our country tenfold. Please do not soil President Ford’s memory by tying him to the current office holder.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 31, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this
Yes, Andi, I do agitate America’s enemies - the enemies within, worthless whining hate-filled trash - like you.
By TommyT
December 31, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this
Some people understand:
One difference between the Ethiopians in Somalia and the Americans in Iraq is that the former aren’t fighting with one hand behind their back just in case some EU ally or humanitarian lobby group or fictitious Associated Press source leaks some “war crime” or other to the media. In fact, the Ethiopians have the advantage of more or less total lack of interest from the Western media. So they’re just getting on with it. And, given the potential for Islamist destabilization of their own country, they were wise to do so. The “international community” has reacted in the usual ways: calls for immediate cease-fires so that an ineffectual U.N. force of peacekeepers can go in and enjoy their customary child sex with the locals while propping up the Islamists. The Ethiopians can’t be blamed for not taking the U.N. seriously.
By getalife
December 31, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this
No, buffoons are a pretty good decription but I prefer wingnuts.
Last night, blogging at the HP, there was a new wingnut spewing and he posted his blog.
This wingnut was a gay porn star involved with Clay Aiken
A Gay porn star wingnut bashing liberals was the funniest thing I have ever read in the blogoshere.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, he is one of yours.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this
Cartoon Idea: Show W (with really big ears this time), giving his new Iraq War slogan to the press at Ford’s Funeral: “Let’s win one for the Tripper!”
Then show Patricia Nixon and Betty Ford conspiring to throw a rotten tomatoe at bush from the first row of mourners.
Then show homeland-security water boarding the poor women to find out who sent them.
By On-looker
December 31, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten:
You have several very thoughtful and thought-provoking posts this morning. Although it would seem that you deem it appropriate to include Bush in the same ranks as Ford, most of your second opinion givers disagree. I beg your leave, sir, to be included in that group who believe the comparison unfair to Mr. Ford. Do I also denote in your discussion a certain disdain for the so-called “liberal” in “politics, academia, entertainment and the media” (to use your terms)?
That sounds rather like a restaging of some of the verbal battles of the 1970’s and seems somewhat archaic in the face of the brutal word twisting and distorting the Republican conservatives have given to political terminology since then. It amuses me how much the poor term “liberal” has suffered at their hands these past years, so it’s almost pleasant to hear that anachronistic phrase once again.
The best to you and yours, Mr. Wooten, as you go forth into the New Year.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this
Gerald Ford was a great swimmer? That explains all the side-kicks. (bob hope golfing buddies et al).
By Pimp's Hacks - LibeRACISTals Al Qaeda's Concubine I
December 31, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka’s Al Qaeda I December 31, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this Yes, Andi, I do agitate America’s enemies - the enemies within, worthless whining hate-filled trash - like you.
Hahahahaha.
Look at the name this bozo chooses to parade around the blog with, a virtual pointy hat and white robe, fashioning itself as the Imperial Wizard of the Wooten Blog, with the nerve to call other bloggers “hate-filled.”
The audacity.
This excrement hates on rednecks because it’s safe to hate on rednecks. It hates on Jews because it’s in vogue with the pervert left. It hates on Christians because they won’t saw his head off like the Islamics will, ever heard him badmouth allah?
And it’s a guarantee that if it were safe to hate on blacks, this bottom dweller would be the first one to light a cross or to mount his horsey like an idiot to ride into the night.
Prove me wrong; show me one post from this pestilence that can be consider constructive.
Show me just one post that didn’t hate on one group or another.
You can’t, can you?
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this
Okay, time’s up. Nobody spotted the incomplete sentence in Wooten’s blog today?
Try the second to last paragraph, “Often with conservatives”.
This is new territory, because Wooten didn’t even use a gerund. Instead he used a gerald. Perhaps someone needs to introduce Wooten to a gerbil? I’m just saying…..
(Wow, for a while there I was the rodent whisperer, eh?)
By RW-(the original)
December 31, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this
You’ve got to love the “intellectual” acumen of the left. John Edwards was just babbling on the Snuffalufagus hour about how a troop surge in Iraq would be a mistake and if was elected President he wouldn’t let that happen.
Note to mill worker boy: The surge will be early in 2007, the next President takes office in 2009. Thanks for proving once again who the true mental lightweights are.
Good Morning Dio! How’s Lucy?
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this
Cartoon idea: show an american telling W, (the american also as the really big ears 2 this time), “Put your ear to the ground, the reality on the ground, in Iraq, Mr. Bush!!!”
Cartoon Headline: Baby Boomer admits he wouldn’t actually ever fly to the moon for a Lorna Doone. The claim was exagerated, he claims. “..they phonied up some slogans in a sound studio”.
No moon landing for a lorna doone. Cant believe it.
By On-looker
December 31, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
Your comment: “Conservatives were always disadvantaged in that milieu, and still are, because their constituents by and large were made up of what Ford affectionately called “the ordinary, the straight, the square [the quality] that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation.” It is, he said, “a quality to be proud of … a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”
That is extremely perceptive, and that is at the heart of much that ails our country. Flamboyance and the capacity to shock have replaced the “ordinary,” even in the CEO’s office. Conservative politicians at their best do nothing to call attention to themselves or their actions. We see, therefore, some real political aberrancies as individuals struggle to assure election or reelection, not on the strength of their record, but upon the vivacity of the voter’s recollection. What is needed are more quiet, thoughtful conservatives like you and as I strive to be in my voting.
My congratulations, Mr. Wooten, on an astute observation.
By Right Thinking Conservative
December 31, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this
How true “Thinking Right”, Conservatives are often misunderstood, criticized harshly, considered intellectually challenged and characterized inferior by liberal norms as something sub-human. While diehard Republican hacks do often suffer offense from these rancorous liberal railings against the Bush values, ideas and agenda; Conservatives remain relatively calm (after a brief ’06 political sabbatical) with good reason on “the way forward” to ‘08.
You see Mr. Wooten, George W. Bush is no Conservative. These liberals are simply feeding upon the lame remains of one of their own.
Six months of grace Democrats and you will inherit Iraq. It will become your war then liberals. The deficits that belong to the pork earmark “borrow and spend” George Bush Republican Congress will become once again your “tax and spend” national debt. In this “era of corruption” where bribery in it’s many forms seen and unseen has become politically in bipartisan vogue, creating the Bush “illegal pathway to citizenship” will smell of another K-street lobbyist’s payola deal, bartered for the business round table and the U.S. Camber of Commerce cheap labor interests, and accepted by a liberal Democrat controlled Congress in betrayal of America’s middle class. Amnesty is the immoral Bush low ground upon which your permanent detour will be paved away from the White House in ’08 liberals.
Optimistically speaking though, Happy New Year to all but pardon me now, my Chinese language and culture classes are beginning. Wouldn’t want to disappoint our new owners of the Bush free-trade “Ownership Society”?
By getalife
December 31, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this
You know when gay porn stars are part of your party, maybe you wingnuts should rethink your party and your values. Hagel is leaving and true men and women of character should do the same. If you take a serious, unbiased, reality check of your party and what it has done to our country, you would leave too.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
Test your Foreign Policy Expertise here:
What is the proper liberal compromise for the following wars: What is the actual liberal response slogan?
Invasion of Grenada? Thank you sir, can we have another?
Invasion of Panama? Thank you, sir, can we have another?
Desert Storm 1? Thank you, sir, can we have another?
Iraq War: I’m definitely going to have to work on my game.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this
Gerald Ford was the first president not to have served during Vietnam. He’s just like Bush and Clinton that way. And those other guys. He was the first of our presidential material who never had account for his time in Cambodia. That made it a breeze, and he rolled for two years. He probably would have been a great second termer.
This just in: Bob Woodward has revealed that Gerald Ford was Deepthroat.
By getalife
December 31, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
There were more people at James Brown’s memorial than Ford’s. cheney praised Ford for pardoning Nixon and a Congressman fell out.
Rethink your party buffoons.
By This Just In
December 31, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this
Getalife is a no class scumbag.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this
Saddam’s execution brought song lyrics from Wooten yesterday. And rhythmic chants from Shia Radicals. They just had to sing out.
Neo-newts dont even know what just happened. A ritual sacrifice of passage for revolution has been performed. This is the new era of the Shia Superstate.
I suppose they’ll all attack when the drums stop beating.
And our media is in lock step.
Pray4peace.
James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein are the story of the our country for 200 years. Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein are lawyers, and James Brown is the artist-american about to sign their contract.
By Huge
December 31, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this
The other night on Faux News, I saw an interview with that paragon of civility, Newt Gingrich, speaking about the class and decency of former president Ford.
It was one of the most nauseating things I have ever witnessed. I had a hard time imagining anything more disgusting.
I was wrong.
Listening to the VP do his imitation, was incredibly, even more puke provoking.
Will somebody please tell the neo-cons to cease and desist! It is ironic - and damn near intolerable - that some of the greatest dividers (not deciders!) in this great nation’s history would attempt to praise a man who was the diametric opposite of them. And not just politically.
This may truly be the heights of hypocrisy from men with no shame.
But perhaps this is as good as it gets with this new gop’s compassionate “conservatism”.
By Markus
December 31, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this
Hey Small-
What the hell are you doing watching FoxNews? Do you good little neoMarxists hate the fact there is a news outlet out there that actually exposes the horseassness of your beloved demoncrat party? Do you sewer RATs hate the fact that there is a blog here that is Conservative leaning and you wish it would be shut down? Oh yeah, and one other thing: “neocon” is a phrase concocted by you neoCommie liberals which means someone who used to be a liberal socialist who woke the hell up and turned conservative, like David Horowitz. Most of the “neocons” you mental midgets on the left refer to were never liberal socialist neocommie pigs to begin with. But as usual, facts never let the truth get in the way of you beady-eyed jackal shady used car sales weasel demoncrat liberal neoMarxists.
By Midori
December 31, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this
TommyT and RW,
I saw where you two crept out of your coffins right before the Luckovich’s blog closed on Friday to attack me.
I really, really wish you would get some new material. That “parrot” crap wasn’t funny when you posted if first, and it hasn’t gotten funny after your 3000th attempt.
Are you trying to rival the number of dead from both 9/11 and Chimpolini’s hard on disguised as a war?
Just like your Chimperor, you both are nothing but p*ssies.
By Midori
December 31, 2006 02:32 PM | Link to this
Is it me, or do neo nuts have serious attitude/anger management problems?
er, Markus?
By Dusty
December 31, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this
For heaven’s sake,
Most of what we have here today is leering liberals sneering at President Bush. That and PoFo trying to do comedy and politics every other post. Even some demented creature encouraging our enemies to kill more of our soldiers.(9:51)
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS:
No more knocking the president. (We KNOW you don’t like him even though you voted for him.)
Never “knock” the troops.
Never wave a white flag, only the red, white and blue.
No more knocking the South. You didn’t come here by invitation so don’t wear out your welcome with stupidity.
Never post like a long winded judge. We are not on trial here. No more bad jokes either. Thank you.
Never use the ID of another. That’s cheating big time.
I’ll try if you will. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
By getalife
December 31, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this
Wingnuts, the gay porn star amongst you is blogging at the HP
If I had class, I would be a teacher and not ruler of Wooten and his blog.
By Markus
December 31, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this
The drop of a lifetime on video! Hey Saddam, I hope your 17 gold-plated palaces while starving and killing your people and invading Kuwait was worth it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521
By getalife
December 31, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this
Yes macaca, we hit 3000 today so you could get off with the Shiites on watching Saddam hang
GFYPOS!
By RW-(the original)
December 31, 2006 02:55 PM | Link to this
Midori @ 2:31 Just like your Chimperor, you both are nothing but pssies.*
Midori @ 2:32 Is it me, or do neo nuts have serious attitude/anger management problems?
Tell me that isn’t the squawking of a clueless parrot.
By Huge
December 31, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,
Obviously, you’re a gigantic Newt fan. And from your diatribe, it sounds like those hemmorhoids are really bothering you today. Such a shame, as that may prove to be problematic at your neo-con parties tonight.
Shut this insane asylum down? Little old me? No. Trying to silence opinions they don’t agree with is a peculiarly neo-con trait.
Democrat? You stupidly and typically assume much and look utterly foolish in the process. But I’ve seen other dorks make the same mistakes before. They too never grew up much and although old enough to know better, never learned that their infantile and hate filled name-calling, in lieu of intelligent, cogent arguments, don’t hack it unless you’re debating other like minded children.
We’re your mommy and daddy this angry too?
So, in spite of your infatuation with the label “conservative”, there is NOTHING conservative about today’s hate-filled (see the post at 2:21 for evidence) neo-cons.
So enlighten us, Oh brilliant one, by defining the term conservative and explaining how you, of all people, are one. You would be the first. So don’t let the pressure get to you.
This should be interesting…
By Dubya Rules
December 31, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this
Markus has some new porn - better than bumfighters, huh?
Lots of sick puppies all over the South playing with their new-found stiffies today… the clown in the WH too - probably invited Jeff Gannon over for a special celebration.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 31, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this
Markanus’s favorite conservative is Benito Mussolini, that’s why I like to call her La Douche, Huge.
By Dusty
December 31, 2006 03:22 PM | Link to this
Huge,
Your 2:59 post is hate filled and hate inspiring. You are no different from any of the other “haters” here.
By RW-(the original)
December 31, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this
Hugo,
See if you can find your idiot clone Oot and explain this science to us
The last I heard from you morons, scientists and their lab work was sacrosanct, so keep that in mind when you answer. Feel free to get the third stooge, rushncap, involved if you need to.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 03:41 PM | Link to this
I saw the Saddam video. It looks like one of his lawyers threw a red challenge flag right before they could get a snap off, (neck, snap off that is)……….ew.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this
Saddam Hussein’s ritual sacrifice proves that vengence is a sacrament for some shia islamists.
We have no idea what we’ve set in motion now. Once Montezuma died, there was much ritual blood sacrifices among the Aztecs and it stopped being fun and easy for the Spaniards.
By Dave
December 31, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this
Amazingly, your piece conveniently implies that Clinton (a product of Arkansas) was afforded universal carte blanche by the NY/DC media, while poor Ford and Bush got smeared by the liberal media. Wow. Thanks for confirming the clueless, revisionist mindset that the GOP used to such incredible advantage in the Nov elections. Yep, no absense of reality in your thought process!!
Keep it up! Nov ‘08 grows closer with each moronic statement from the Right!
By Huge
December 31, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
From out of left field, and for no reason, other than his obvious disagreement with my position, and the apparently urgent need for anger management, Markus calls me a sewer rat, among other things. And just like the little neo-con pack-dog that you are, you love it. And then upbraid me.
Oh, the irony!
I think it’s rather funny, and pathetic, that someone can work themselves into such a lather over a difference of opinion with someone they have never even interacted with before. Go ahead and deny it, if you’ve the guts.
But make no mistake about it, your tacitly endorsing his hate-mongering, doesn’t go unnoticed.
So Dusty, from your experience, is intenese hostility and an inability to intelligently posit an opinion, permanent symptons of neo-conitis?
Don’t answer. It’s a rhetorical question…
By clueless Dave
December 31, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this
Imagine for a moment if Bush had been the one who got caught cheating with Gennifer Flowers…..
By bon scott
December 31, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this
RW, it stretches my skull that you would even imply that the world should “breed” gay humans into oblivion. Just a tad too Hitleresque for me, personally.
Despite the drum banging and cymbal clashing by the wingnuts who think everything is spiffy under Bush the buffoon and Wall Street is glad to join the parade, things aint what they seem. Far from it.
Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007
But at least most of is can agree that Ford was a better than average experience. And qith apolohgies to Chevy Chase, he was no klutz and no dummy. Far from it.
How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship
That is a GOOD read. And Happy 2007 to all. And let us all pray for drunken Andy, whose stent in rehab could take months. Poor sot.
By Buy Danish
December 31, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this
B.H.,
Apology accepted. However, I would be remiss not to point out that the fact that you are calling “Andy” from MLs a “racist” when you clearly don’t know the first thing about him does not give me confidence in your “Humanism” or “ethics”.
TfTT is nothing like Andy - neither in style or substance, which you would know if you drew your own conclusions yourself instead of relying on what I presume are rumors perpetrated by the parrot-fevered Leftists who frantically squawk away here and at MLs whenever their belief system is challenged.
If you don’t believe me, just look at Bon Scott’s hallucinatory 4:09 post^^upstairs, who accuses RW of “wanting to breed gay humans into oblivion”, when he has done nothing of the sort.
By He said all that needs to be said
December 31, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this
“And qith apolohgies to Chevy Chase”
“And let us all pray for drunken Andy, whose stent in rehab could take months.”
I can see his rehab didn’t go so well…..
By Buy Danish
December 31, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this
Sybil Bon Scott,
Thanks for the good wishes! My New Year’s wish for you is that you learn not to shoot the messenger.
And the next time you accuse someone else of being a drunk, perhaps you should avoid writing gibberish like this - …And qith apolohgies to Chevy Chase and …Andy, whose stent in rehab could take months.
Cheers finch! You are nothing if not entertaining.
By JK
December 31, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this
Most important NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION for the United States of America:
Stop sending and leaving Americans to die in Iraq for no good g-dd-mn reason.
Tonight, I’ll drink to the dead and maimed, and those who are yet to die. I’ll ask God to forgive those of you who cheer it on and make excuses, that we may move forward next year, out of this darkness and into the light.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
Now the Falcons get a touchdown.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
Bush’s new Iraq War slogan: “lets win one for the tripper”.
By RW-(the original)
December 31, 2006 04:56 PM | Link to this
finch,
I linked to an article you ignorant fool. What do you think of those scientists? Personally I think it’s eugenics and shouldn’t continue.
By I'm in the majority!
December 31, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this
Seventy-two percent of Americans feel good about what 2007 will bring for the country, and an even larger 89 percent are optimistic about the new year for themselves and their families, according to the poll.
By Dusty
December 31, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this
Huge,
I had some New Year calls from old friends and didn’t get to answer your lengthy billet doux right away.
I don’t expect any thing better from you but you are still hate filled. It shows all the time. That’s my opinion from reading your posts. This is an opinion blog and I will give mine whenever I feel like it. You are not the monitor.
You like to dump on everybody and then goad them to return it. I think you like the attention. But it is hate for hate, so don’t get upset when someone calls you on it.
By Buy Danish
December 31, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this
JK,
Here is a thorough obituary/biography of Saddam Hussein which I wish you and others would take the time to read.
Unlike you, I will not presumptuously “pray that God forgive you” for taking what I sincerely believe is the wrong side in this debate, as I don’t believe that either you or I are qualified to speak for God in this conflict.
I will pray for our soldiers, their families, and our Commander in Chief.
By Political Foreskin
December 31, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
Resolutions 4W
Hug a Mullah today.
Laura Bush? hug Mullah today?
Bush can still save the war and his presidency with diplomacy on the home front. We need more speeches about how peaceloving and beautiful Islam really is. We need to see Bush hugging mullah after mullah on TV. We need to show we revere our fellow american muslims and all peaceloving muslims abroad.
I dont understand why Bush doesn’t demand the surrender of Osama Bin Laden. What deal was made with Pakistan and Afghanistan via those double agent warlords at Tora Bora when OBL slipped clean away? Remember Desert Storm 1? Schwartzkopf actually made diplomatic civilian decisions concerning caviats to the No Fly Zone. Maybe it did take a hero. How did that happen? How did the representatives that Saddam had managed 2scrape together get away with attack helicopters immediately after the surrender?
By Huge
December 31, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
Spin, spin, spin like a whirling dervish, little Dusty. But explain this, if you can, Clarence Darrow.
How is my referring to Newt and the Veep as hypocrits “dumping on everybody”? And that childish and false assertion aside, how is that “goading them to return it”?
Everyone reading this knows your lying is not a euphemism for the word “opinion”.
But even more alarming than your lack of clarity is your absence of morality on the issue of not calling the original name-caller out for his hate speech and PERSONAL ATTACKS.
And why? ONLY because you agree politically. That is an example of the worst kind of American, in my OPINION.
Many also know that you have a long and sordid history of demonstrating this very behavior.
And of picking the oddest bed fellows and the most derelict heroes. But then that’s your problem and your’s alone…
By Dusty
December 31, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Well said at 5:31. My feelings are the same.
By RW-(the original)
December 31, 2006 06:43 PM | Link to this
Huge Idiot,
It’s not like we don’t have a history to fall back on with you. You’re nothing but an ignorant boor and your 1:57 got just the response it begged for. Perhaps Dusty was giving you a lifetime achievement award and you should just accept it, you’ve damn sure earned it, ingrate.
By LuckoDull
January 1, 2007 08:05 AM | Link to this
The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Yesterday’s “news” with an anti American twist.
AJC- Americans pessimistic about 2007
You reckon that could be because the democrats are in charge of Congress now?
Hell of a wake up call for the nation that was, huh?
Or maybe it’s cause you dullards are sad about Saddam and can’t think clearly right now?:
Video raises suspicions execution was for revenge!
I’m trying to well up a tear with y’all but it just ain’t workin.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
January 1, 2007 08:49 AM | Link to this
One of my New Year’s resolutions starts when I hit the post button below. I spent far too much time - actually 2 minutes is too much time - on this blog last year, and this will be my last post. I need to spend the next few months finishing my book and getting it published for the next election season. I’ll let Mr. Wooten know when it’s coming out.
Anyhow.
Woo-ten Klanners - tftt/tommy, jbm, Realisp, Markanus, Dusty, etc. - I bid you good riddance - if there has ever been a group more smug and arrogant about their uselessness, I’ve never seen it.
Except for the Luckovich Losers. Andi, the dull C(h)url. Bi Danish. The monotonous repetitive totally unoriginal RW. The Three Chickenhawk Stooges of neo-kkkon stupidity, a never-ending circle jerk of whininess, hate, paranoia, cowardice, and just plain bullsheet.
To the good guys and gals on this blog - get, curious, huge, et. al., I’ve enjoyed many of your posts, and oftimes have even been informed by them.
To the good people here, I hope 2007 is a fine and prosperous year. To the rest of you, may your life’s circumstances slam you to your knees, and beat the hate and arrogance and smugness - and fear, you cowards - out of your souls and hearts, before it is too late for you and our country and our planet.
Lord, we pray for peace and the swift terrible sword of justice for all tyrants, foreign and domestic. Soften the hearts of the hard-hearted, humble the arrogant, enlighten the stupid and willfuly ignorant amongst us, and give the warmongering cowards courage. In Your Son the Prince of Peace’s Name we ask You this. Amen.
God’s humble servant,
Pope rednecks Amerikkka’s Al Qaeda I
By STANLEY KELLEY
January 1, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
Gerald Ford launched the careers of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. This is enough to question his judgment.
By Tarheel
January 1, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this
Jim, Please…please…spare me the magnanimous thoughts about Ford being such a visionary for pardoning Nixon. Our present situation would have been infinitely better had we seen back then the evil crook-Nixon being tarred and feathered…drug through hours of demeaning and belittling testimony in front of millions of Americans. Maybe…just maybe…our current incompetent president would have seen how a president who tramples on the constitution…cast doubts on congressional investigations…creates division within the people is brought to justice…maybe we wouldn’t be in the quagmire we’re in now. Don
By John
January 1, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this
You repukes are just plain stupid. first the market is only 900 points higher than when Clinton was in office not 1500 points. even then if Clinton was still in office the market would be at 17500 and 911 wouldnt have happened.
By Chuck
January 1, 2007 02:55 PM | Link to this
The basis for that misperception about most conservatives and Republicans is that by and large they come from places unfamiliar to the New York-Washington media establishment.
Carter was a southern governor back before Atlanta was a big city. Clinton came from Arkansas, hardly the center of the “New York-Washington media establishment.” LBJ came from Texas, the same state that supposedly produced the Bush family. Few recent national Dems have come from the states you dscribe as elite.
I think it’s also a bit dubious to imply that people who are from those “elite” places are less representative of the “real” America than the exurbans who supposedly support Republicans.
Chuck
By Bill
January 1, 2007 03:36 PM | Link to this
John,
Bill Clinton( your HERO) had at least three opportunities to capture or kill Bin Laden but did nothing, probably because he took a poll that said his popularity would drop if he acted aggressively. What a gutless wimp of a president ! Clinton not taking Osama when he was offered by the Sudanese on a silver platter is why 9/11 happened, not to mention the firewall put up by Jamie Gorelick that prevented the sharing of information between intelligence agencies.
By Stanley Jacobs
January 1, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this
President Bush took us to war in Iraq without providing our military the means to complete their work. Within a few months of the fall of Bagdad, he knew or should have known that we did not have enough troops to suppress the insurrection, and he should have moved heaven and earth to provide them. Instead, he pretended that everything was going well for political gain. He is either wicked or stupid, and the same goes for his supporters in Congress and in the press. If Jim Wooten can’t see this, he’s hopeless.
By Ed Johns
January 1, 2007 05:57 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten is correct when he says that Bush’s intelligence is underestimated, but he is wrong in blaming that underestimation completely on the cultural arrogance of blue-state America. Bush clearly has cultivated his image to appear more “folksy”. His incompetence would be more forgiveable if it were due to a lack of intelligence instead of an overabundance of arrogance. What could have led him to believe that he a better grasp of reality than almost everybody else in the country and the world?
Sorry, Jim, but Republicans are in trouble now not because their intelligence is under appreciated, but because their values and policies do not lead to competent government.
By Tom McIntire
January 4, 2007 04:07 PM | Link to this
Jim…
Maybe it was a bad idea for Ford to Pardon Nixon. If enough of the leftwing wackos had seen Nixon dragged through countless hours of probing interviews, pointless interrogations, and the typical leftwing media feeding frenzies over the crime of singing too loud in Church on Sunday. Maybe, just maybe, Bill Clinton would have been savvy enough to not allow Monica the opportunity to play with his manhood. Which would have spared all American’s the embarrassing reproach Clinton brought upon this Great Nation. Well, at least we now get Pelosi who will confirm to all Americans just how great George “W” Bush has been, in light of her embarrassing leftwing wacko agenda that will become apparent to all American’s who haven’t been duped by the the leftwing deceit, lies and hate.
By Tom McIntire
January 4, 2007 04:11 PM | Link to this
By the way… where is the public outcry and the liberal whinning over the arrest of Morehouse’s fired President? You know the liberal who ripped off Morehouse while the college was going through financial troubles? Hmmmm…. I didn’t even see and article in the AJC about it… Huh? It wouldn’t be because the AJC is LIBERAL would it? Naaaaaaw!
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