Thinking Right

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Funny column, Jim. While I’d vote for a dead Lincoln over a living Kerry, a dead Kerry would have brought us only an undead Edwards, as witness the undead man walking now.

Ted’s and Caroline’s endorsement isn’t the shocker that Kerry’s was, in that (a) Ted leads the forces vying with the Clintons for control of the Party, and (b) Ted semi-publicly warned the Clintons to keep Bill in Borneo for the time being, and instead they did the opposite.

The Kennedys are doing their usual thing of letting the newsmagazines come poking around their metaphorical Hyannisports for the details. Increases attention; invents a suspenseful story line; makes them seem above it all, rather than as manipulative as they truly are.

The Clintons just got a heaping taste of their own medicine, in that they found that the Kennedys too will do whatever it takes, grandma be damned.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Jim…… you sound like a cry Baby today……the looser who knows the impendent doom!

“the only thing Obama needed to wrap it up was one more big endorsement from one of the party’s famous has-beens.”

Wow when I look at Bush and his last state of the Union speech with our country in ALL kinds of trouble after 8 year of terrible leadership.

THE true HAS BEEN is going to be BUSH and the GOP!

Odds are they loose the election, and many seats in both Congress, and the House.

Then they will fail to work with the Democrats as always.

What is going to Bush talk about what he said in 2003….???

Remember in 2003 when Bush said that his tax cuts were working and that the economy was great? That new housing was booming? 60 Minutes did a show tonight that showed the whole mortgage mess. It started in ‘03.

What a house of cards that was.

Yes Bush has been the guy leading us right down the financial toilet for 8 years

Congratulations great job by BUSH and the GOP!

“Senior administration officials say the theme of this year’s address will be “Trust and Empower” — giving the American people more say in their own lives instead of turning it over to officials in Washington.”

HA HA HA to that comment about the speech…..

King George has ruled as said, an has listened to no one but the buddies of his, whom he has helped rape the American Treasury!

Americans spoke a few years ago, stop spending so much money, and stop the MADE UP WAR !

Too bad he didn’t listen then…. the election will tell how much ALL want the GPO out of power!

We all know the State of the Union…..that would be Recession!

By Redneck Convert

January 28, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Well, its good Kennedy endorsed this Obama. Maybe he will take Obama for a ride and run off of a bridge with him. It will be one less of Those People to worry about. You get a librul Democrat and one of Those People drownded in the same person.

We don’t cotton to libruls, Mormons, Those People, and rattlesnakes down here in the South. So it don’t matter who the librul Democrats put up for president or who endorses him.

We need a God-fearing Republican White Baptist for president and that’s why I’m voting for the Rev. Huckabee. This McCain acts like he’s a conservative but we all know he voted against My President’s tax cuts and he wrote a bill to give amnesty to all the illegals. Giuliani is just a Northren librul pertending to be a conservative. I’m just suprized Sister Dusty likes him. Maybe he has his eye on her to be his fourth wife. That woman don’t hardly like nobody, even me. And Romney is a two-face and a godless Mormon to boot.

Anyhow, the Baptists sure cleaned out the bars I stock, so I got some humping to do today. I expect jbmlaw will be checking in here any minute now and giving us about ten pages of big words to try and prove he knows more than anybody else. I sure hope this Glenn and his boyfriend don’t start fussing about Gore again. They can get mighty boring. Have a good day everybody.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

And Jim, the Kennedy endorsements won’t affect the folks you’ve been hanging with and watching, but Caroline’s will affect the college towns and will influence suburban Democratic women, and Ted’s will help Obama solidify the black vote outside SC, and will give the unions pause as well.

Mostly, though, it represents the whole of the Massachusetts Dem machine being thrown behind Barak. That’s significant.

By Aquagirl

January 28, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

TubbyTeddy ran fast enough to catch up with the Obama bandwagon? You’d think he would have had a heart attack. Or stumbled off the road into a canal.

And what does Edwards mean—-“I’m for the Second Amendment”? Brilliant policy statement. Not that the paranoid gun nut questioner sounded like he was playing with a full deck. Maybe that’s why Edwards wanted him to go away quick.

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. The silly season is upon us, one week of frivolous exchange among the candidates; who lied, who slandered whom, etc. I regard Osama/Obama’s ethics reasonably well, so I was pleased – well, actually, shocked - to see his substantial victory in SC. As to the core subject of Jim’s morning essay, we have yet to hear of the endorsements from Gary Hartpence, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and the biggest dem nonperson of all, former President Carter. (I think George McGovern did endorse Barack, didn’t he? Can anyone confirm?) Jim’s tongue-in-cheek essay notwithstanding, the smart money stays on the Hildebeest and her tag team partner, ever-truthful Bill.

The Republican primary of course attracts my attention, but mostly as an observer rather than an invested participant. I have not yet decided whether to vote early today, but I may go ahead and cast the “uncommitted” vote I suggested last week. I understand Florida is a “winner take all” primary on the Republican side, so that raises the stakes for the three viable candidates. Rudy needs it most, Mitt needs it least. I also note that next week Georgia has the third largest delegation (behind only CA and NY) up for grabs, so I suspect we may see some candidates flying through Hartsfield. Stay tuned for the soundbites.

By MELO

January 28, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Jim,u have nothing to say today.If SC was that important, Jesse Jackson would be a former president today.Why dont u talk about the ajc endorsement of the THE MORMON.Thats a real shocker and worthy of debate.U support the parceling out of virgins and one man four wives policy?U and ur fellow gops in the ajc need to explain urselves.

By Copyleft

January 28, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

JBM’s right: The silly season is indeed upon as, as the “Osama/Obama” and “Hildebeest” comments illustrate so well.

The far right is in a panic, and their desperate antics are indeed silly—and funny—to watch, as the inevitable Democratic takeover looms ever closer.

Wheee! I love being a real American, rather than a Republican.

By ron

January 28, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Jim,So what’s wrong with having the hunters and the drunks on your side?The hunter being Kerry of course,and the drunk is self explanatory.

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Dear Redneck @ 9:08, thanks for the encomium, but while my ego lacks no nourishment, and while I greatly respect the erudition of friends MidSouth, Southern Democrat, and PoFo, I would place the title “most Buckleyesque” on our well-read friend Glenn.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Peter @ 9:04,

Jim “a cry Baby today”? Today? He was a cry baby on Friday, and by the time he’d finished drafting yesterday’s Op Ed poor red-eyed Jim needed a glass of warm milk and some quality time with his blankie.

By Nicolai

January 28, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Interesting that the Republicans, facing the inevitable loss of their candidates to the Democrats, be it Barack or Hillary (Barack, most likely), figure the only way to drum up any kind of interest is to have one of their minions write a weak column like this one, using dry, brittle attempts at sarcasm and humor, by saying Kennedy's support is not valid and not needed….I can't wait until they get an endorsement from the great Dan Quayle for someone and see if we get another hard hitting essay like this one….

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

January 28, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Republicans can only laugh at this relic of the past. Ted Kennedy is a has been. He helped America abandon its traditional family values.

He is the icon of everything bad in this country. His endorsement will mean nothing to those close to God.

If Barbra Streisand endorses Obama the south will certainly be lost for the Dems.

You libs are done. Stop stalling, you’re all tapped out. Your wide stance on the issues will be your undoing. Not even a Hail Mary from Tom Brady can help your candidate.

By Joe D

January 28, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Jim, is there a person alive that could change your vote to OBama if he or she endorsed him? I didn’t think so. Put your thumb back in your mouth and keep it there unless you can come up with a column that addresses substantive reasons why we should or should not vote for the next Ronald Reagan. Your whining does get tiresome.

By Southern Democrat

January 28, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Good morning, my friends, I hope all is well with each of you.

Not too much of substance to react to today… as I’ve said before, I intend to vote for Senator Obama in the primary and would vote for him in the general election versus any current Republican candidate. I would vote for Senator McCain over the junior senator from New York, however. Further, should the junior senator from New York obtain the Democratic nomination and someone besides McCain win the Republican nomination, I intend to vote for Mayor Bloomberg, whether on the ballot or not.

I lay this out for several reasons, not the least of which is the following: I tend to skew left of center ideologically as each of you knows, but find my voting record to be a moderate one and have voted for many, many candidates with an “R” next to his or her name.

My concern (and forgive me if I sound like a broken record) is that there are far too many Jim Wootens on both sides of the political spectrum. Case in point, Mr. Wooten has great fun today mocking the endorsement of a fellow senator for Mr. Obama (as the ever astute Jbmlaw notes, a virtual non-story). Yet, if I recall correctly, Mr. Wooten found the endorsements of evangelical ministers for either Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani worthy of respectful, cogent analysis. First Amendment issues with the latter aside, this stark contrast represents (to me) the sad, sad fact that far too many Americans (and members of the media) are so far gone that they cannot even imagine voting for someone from the “other” party. Is that healthy? Surely not.

We have become a nation of ideologues and traded being “principled” for venomous partisanship.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Here is a current comment on the Bush policies in America…….

“The bandits, dressed all in black, wearing ski masks and carrying semi-automatic handguns, struck shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday, police said.”

Listen to Our Nation’s Police Chiefs: We Need to Get Our Gun Problem Under Control

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released recommendations on September 19th that provide important public policy guidance on the issue of gun violence.

As part of a special report resulting from a summit on gun violence, the Chiefs of Police developed nearly 40 proposals on effective strategies to reduce gun death and injury in the communities that they serve.

“It is simply unacceptable that in communities across America more than 80 people a day are dying from gun violence” said Russell Laine, Chief of the Algonquin, Illinois Police Department and IACP 2nd Vice President. “Every day, dedicated police officers put their lives on the line to protect their communities from criminals who often outgun them, but we can’t do it alone. This is why we are calling on policymakers and the public to help us combat gun violence.”

Yes Bush has done nothing to help the violence at HOME IN America.

He and the GOP congress failed to continue the BAN on automatic guns on our streets.

And you Wrongs are worried about Terrorists? There is more violence in America than any where else in this world.

How many folks get Gunned down daily In America, and who thinks with a recession, all will be getting better?

By Zeke

January 28, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Melo, I think one man 4 wives is a fine idea. When one doesn’t behave appropriately, Show favor to the others. Great negative reinforcement tactic. Works for me.

By Political Foreskin

January 28, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Downtown Dublin Restaurant: Denny’s

That one gun-control diner spoke tooth to power, he did. (his missing bridge was nowhere to be seen)

Ted Kennedy’s the man behind the real bridge to nowhere.

Osama was asked if he’ll pick Ted Kennedy as his running mate: “I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.” (old joke).

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Yikes, jbm, that estimate will require considerable dehobgoblinization.

By TW

January 28, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

‘w’ might as well let Jon Stewart write his speech tonight…could there be a greater abuse of welfare than the $400k we pay the current commander in chief?????

By @@

January 28, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Wrap it up. Ted’s in.

The carpet?

Let’s roll Jim!

You drive.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

SoDem,

It’s true that we are a nation of ideologues and partisans. But we didn’t “become” this; we always were this way. And that is one reason why the endorsement of the Kennedys (Caroline’s comes packaged with Ted’s) will make a difference to some of the too many blocs in your crypto-Green Party.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Jim,

I find it very entertaining supporting the Clintons on progressive blogs.

Check it out, they have united with the RW and corporate media to attack the Clintons.

Is that the unity Obama is talking about? Well, w spewed the same unity crap and he divided and took the easy corporate way out.

I think Obama will do the same and these progressives are getting punked like cons with w.

By Tector Mills

January 28, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

I’d be willing to go for a ban on handguns. I grew up hunting fur and now I shoot only feather. Just seems like the country’s a little long in the tooth to be shooting big game anymore. Doesn’t feel right, least not like it used to. If we need to ban concealed weapons and unlicensed automatic rifles and sawed-off shotguns and such just to make the Second Amendment work right, then maybe its time we turned in our handguns too. Let the cops use whatever they need to hunt down those with illegal pistols, especially the sellers. But let it be understood that if you have a pistol you’re a criminal unless you have something like a collectors or competitors license. The constitution is for defense of the country against foreign powers and against tyrants here. We could never get that job done with pistols anyway. Let the Second Amendment stand for shoulder weapons. That’s what the founding fathers had in mind anyway. I’ll probably lose my NRA membership for this.

By Sen Vitter (REPUBLICAN)

January 28, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

You are so right Sen Craig (Republican)!

Americans want CHANGE. We are tired of dirty politicians that act like big babies. They need to be wiped clean.

Needless to say I won’t be endorsing Obama like that nut Ted Kennedy. How dare him for stinking up this election!

CHANGE

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 9:45, no offense intended, I was alluding to clever writing. I am a great fan of the younger WFB, Jr. I remember a Mad Magazine definition of a liberal as “someone who secretly wishes William Buckley were a liberal, and that David Susskind was not.” I have seen a recent internet update, that “a liberal is someone who wishes William Buckley were a liberal, and so is a conservative.”

By TW

January 28, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Yes, the Ted Kennedy endorsement will do a lot for Senator Obama in the South.

Unless the Dems can figure out how to sprinkle 50 IQ points atop each southerner before November, they should forget about the south – don’t waste a dime. In 2004, the ten states with the lowest test scores ALL voted for Bush, as did nine of the ten with the highest drop out rates. Thus, we’ve now suffered through almost eight years of having a leader who’s in over his head.

Besides, win Florida and the rest of the south can go pound red clay.

By Political Foreskin

January 28, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Tector mills, you are irresponsible if you dont harvest deer. They could get so numerous, that it’s possible they’ll repeat the stampede of 1822, when they massed together and started coming on, and on and on, no matter how many they killed they kept coming until they wiped out everyone along the hollers and knolls of upper appalachia to a man woman and child. They’re still burying the victims in the spring when the snow thaws.

No, sir, you have to harvest deer. Now get to the target range and practice.

I will know how you stand on gun control, sir!

By Peter

January 28, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Well Tector Mills…..it seems the Police are not talking about hand guns, all thought I agree they should be banned……

They are talking about Automatic Weapons……basically machine guns in the hands of criminals.

Why……. BECAUSE Bush and the GOP controlled Congress failed to continue the BAN against them on our Streets!

By Shar

January 28, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Good Morning. I second everything that Southern Democrat expressed so well at 9:41, with the exception of the Bloomberg vote. The guy has done a good job in New York, but I can’t bring myself to give my vote to someone who can’t be bothered to tell me why he deserves it.

I agree that Mr. Wooten is hypocritical in his treatment of the Kennedy endorsement, but I rate it higher than a “non-story”. Kennedy fund-raising clout will help to even Senator Obama’s financial position vis a vis the Clintons, and the Kennedy family’s ability to draw a crowd - and the media - outshines even Bill Clinton’s. A Kennedy endorsement may not carry much weight in the South, but the Senator is respected in many parts of the MidWest and the West Coast, as well as in New England and Washington, and could well be influential. Finally, other Democratic politicos may think twice before announcing their support for Senator Clinton as it would mean contradicting the royalty of their party.

Mr. Wooten and others may sneer at Senator Kennedy’s endorsement (although perhaps not Caroline’s, who has earned respect across party lines), but it is interesting to contrast it with the Republican situation. Although great attention was paid to the various evangelical groups, few GOP politicians have come forward beyond mayors or governors in primary states. Endorsement from Senators who have been strong supporters of the Bush Administration could well do a candidate more harm than good, as would any support from the Administration itself (as inappropriate as that would be). Members of Congress who have been more independent of the White House, such as Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, are suspect to the GOP “base”. There is almost no one with national standing comparable to Kennedy’s whose endorsement would help a Republican candidate.

Kennedy may have driven himself and Ms. Kopeche off a bridge, but at least he didn’t take the whole country with him.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

There was once a time when I listened intently to the words of a person with a title such as Congressman, Senator, Governor, commissioner and others. That was a time when I held these people in esteem. It was almost as though these people in these “higher” offices were chosen — not simply elected.

I remember listening to President Kennedy during the missile crisis and I was “stricken” by the confidence and power of his words as well as his voice. Reagan was the 20th-century GOP’s great orator but even he (in my humble opinion) did not command the same respect as JFK. Now the democratic party has a new presidential candidate that comes closer than any to garnering the attention of as many Americans as did Kennedy or Reagan. I find myself being repeatedly drawn away from the “words” of the Republican party and toward those of Mr. Obama. I still strongly believe in a conservative approach to government at all levels. Unfortunately, I also find myself disappointed with more and more people in government — at all levels — who merely proclaim themselves to be conservative or compassionate (to name but a few descriptors) without actually providing physical evidence. I also find myself regularly unmoved (or else moved in an unpleasant way) by those in private industry whom we would necessarily rely on to provide the services that many would have government provide. An underlying problem with our system, as it stands, is not necessarily with the basic construct. One problem, as I see it with my astigmatism, is one that is founded on faith — trust. More precisely, one problem is the lack of trust in those whom we have elected as the defenders of the faith — faith in the belief that a minimal (conservative) government will ultimately serve “we the people” better than any contrivance of greater magnitude that may be thrust upon us. But this faith — this trust — alone is not enough. We must also trust in each other. Yet, when we try to trust each other, we are all too often met with disappointment. All too often, our trust in abused and mis-used as a means to an end. Usually a greed-driven end. I for one don’t even have to look any farther than the politicians at the county and state level to see this first-hand. Perhaps that is all the reason one needs to vote for change.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

jbm,

That’s a suitably witty definition of a liberal, vis-a-vis WFBjr. I even like the man’s Chestertonian flights and his mastery of sailing lore and method, but I never could get into his Opus Dei-esque spy fiction. It now seems odd that such a person as he should have existed here. I see that he’s still writing, in his idiosyncratic blend of breezy-journalistic cum Oxonian. His analysis of Yale culture is still in print and is looking increasingly prophetic. A late historian of higher education, Lawrence R. Veysey, attended Yale two classes ahead of WFB and despised the young man, who, he said, was constantly trying to climb onto the McCarthy bandwagon. He’s getting very quirky and inconsistent in old age, as Goldwater did, as Strauss has done. But what a career! What a life! To think that the American press once could produce a Bill Buckley and a Thomas Paine and an Upton Sinclair and a Hellen Keller and a Tom Wolfe—-not to mention Twain, Bierce, Mencken, Fisher, Eisley, McPhee, and the list unspools—-well it just really shows why some of us conclude that this will have been the year we’ll soon look back upon as the year in which journalism vanished in the U.S.

“Dehobgoblinization”, by the way, is one of WFB’s several coinages.

By Political Foreskin

January 28, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Squirting Ted: Wooten drenched his piece in sarcasm today as he hosed Ted Kennedy mercilessly. Ted got so wet he was tempted to wait 12 hours before he called the water police.

Will Ted Kennedy’s political career survive the dunking he just got from wooten? We know Ted can swim. I think Ted is safe, but his endorsement in in ruins.

Is there no one that can withstand a Wooten spritzkrieg?

By Still hoping for reason

January 28, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

It looks to me like the Republicans and their corporate media enablers really want Obama to be the nominee. Watch Fox “News,” CNN, or MSNBC for ten minutes, and they’re all “Hillary is devisive; the Clintonistas are playing the race card!” and “Obama’s talking about hope. Why are the Clintons being so mean?” Uh-huh. Does anyone believe they’re going to be coddling him this summer if he gets the nomination? I hope he learns how to fight, because when the Clinton haters turn on Obama (and they will), he’s going to wish he was still duking it out with Clintons.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Ted is writing a new bill:

No Obama left behind.

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

This election is getting to be a farce with fancy. There is not a single candidate who doesn’t bring peals of laughter with a few dirty words from someone. And the “endorsees” are even more the sad comedians.

Kerry & Kennedy and boom de da da! I guess PoFo will tell us next (with great importance) whom he supports if he hasn’t already. In the meantime, let us hope for a Pygmalion who will transform our clunker candidates into jewels of jurisprudence and governance after election. We can dream, can’t we?

By OneForTheRoad

January 28, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

There’s nothing like a twist of fate to wring out the worst in some.

Anyway, that’s what I alway say.

By Joe D

January 28, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

After the last seven years, our hopes for a Pygmalion have been all but obliterated.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Whoa, Hoss, them’s some pretty hefty political inaccuracies you’re kickin around there, GaEducated. Kennedy found out the hard way that oratory doesn’t count as much as action does. The Missile Crisis was his doing, a direct result of his first meeting with Krushchev and his performance during the failed invasion of Cuba, after which twin events the Kremlin decided that the stylish and well spoken man was a Daddy’s Boy and a pipsqueak, and that he could be taken.

So, unparallel to Reagan. Also, while Reagan united the country to an intimidating extent (see Tip O’Neill’s memoir), Kennedy was a controversial incumbent who, having come into the Presidency with somewhat less than half the vote, failed to win over a significant number of former opponents in his lifetime.

That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with your placement of trust, and it looks to me as though several others here, from both sides of the aisle, would too.

By OneForTheRoad

January 28, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

I liken modern politicians more to pygmies. Not to defile the good name of little people — I was thinking more along the lines of little-minded.

By Redneck Convert

January 28, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Well, I see some of the libruls won’t be satisfied till they take my two machine guns and my anti-tank weapon from me. Then I’ll be stuck without anything to go hunting with or perteck myself except for maybe one of the missus’s frying pans.

I won’t vote for nobody that don’t perteck my 2nd Amendment rights. My President helped give me the right to my machine guns and anti-tank weapon, and too many people want to vote for canadates that would take them all away.

That’s my opinion and its very true.

By Mary

January 28, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Completely off-topic.

JBMLAW, I think I’ve figured out who you are. Do you work with a Chris, Ashley and Amanda?

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Oh, and what’s with our “intellectuals” this morning. Southern Democrat of the not so hateful party is reminding us of our “venemous partisanship”. As if it didn’t start when Gore lost to George W. Bush.

And Shar delicately suggests that Kennedy drove off the bridge (he missed the bridge) and only one sank helplessly into the sea, not the whole country. Indeed, Shar forgets that George W. Bush is saving all of us from drowning in terrorism. A small point that she and other liberals totally ignore.

GaEducated reminds us that we must trust each other. That’s right! But GaEd says we must do that with CHANGE (Obama’s motto for those of you who are still asleep). Oh the subtlety!!

Next, we will have Camus, the babysitter, and getalife the nonintellect to tell us how far we are into the abyss.

It is always a challenge to read the words of those whose “intellect” overpowers their reason. It is never surprising that they turn out to be blindsided liberals.

By Shar

January 28, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Redneck Convert @ 11:27: Fear not. Your wit will vanquish all. Remember, the pen is mightier than the sword, or even the anti-tank gun on your beer truck.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Glenn,

I hope my words did not come across, to all who read them, in such light as you cast. I said his words commanded respect and I believe people trusted him based on his words — even more than people trusted Reagan. So, my point that I hoped to make from that intro was that those days are gone with the possible exception of Mr. Obama. He seems to be able to bring out that “trust” with just his “words” — no assembly required (i.e., it looks like there’s not as much focus on putting together the pieces from his past in order to form an opinion).

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Nah, Still hopin’ @ 10:59, they just really want Hillary and Bill to lose, as slowly and painfully as possible.

Dusty,

A couple of us replied this morning to your thoughtful remarks of last evening.

By We'll develop Switchgrass fuel!

January 28, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

George W. Bush is saving all of us from drowning in terrorism.

HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHA! HAHAHA!

Switchgrass, y’all. Seriously. Hahaha!

By Peter

January 28, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Wow we are again over powered by the true thoughts of Dusty……..

“It is always a challenge to read the words of those whose “intellect” overpowers their reason. It is never surprising that they turn out to be blindsided liberals.”

Makes me wonder who’s time she is wasting while at WORK……

Talk about being blind…

Dusty tell us something GOOD Bush has done for America ?

We are in the 8th year of his term, please tell us the Good we have to look forward too, now that he will be leaving office soon!

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Shar,@11:37

That isn’t an anti-tank gun on redneck’s truck. That’s his wife riding “shotgun”.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Funny how the Dems admit they were punked by Saddam and his WMD’s but the gop can’t admit they were punked.

Hell, McInsane is running on getting punked.

Hilarious!

By Kate

January 28, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

@ Peter at 9:43 AM, Gun control isn’t the issue. Crime is the issue. The economy is the issue. Health care is the issue. NOT guns.

Even if guns were “controlled”, criminals would still find a way to get their job done. Knives, bombs, noose or rope… if somebody wants to commit a crime, they will. Leave the guns alone.

Yes, I’m a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. The common-sense notion that the plain language of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” — means what it says!

If you’d like to read another article about a famous ‘Ted’ - check out this one: http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/Article.aspx?id=199

This Ted would get my vote before Ted Kennedy.

By John Q.

January 28, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Yikes. ‘Conservatives’ are a scary bunch of creatures.

By Kate

January 28, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

@ Peter at 9:43 AM, Gun control isn’t the issue. Crime is the issue. The economy is the issue. Health care is the issue. NOT guns.

Even if guns were “controlled”, criminals would still find a way to get their job done. Knives, bombs, noose or rope… if somebody wants to commit a crime, they will. Leave the guns alone.

Yes, I’m a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. The common-sense notion that the plain language of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” — means what it says!

If you’d like to read another article about a famous ‘Ted’ - check out this one: http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/Article.aspx?id=199

This Ted would get my vote before Ted Kennedy.

By Amazing

January 28, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Being educated in GA or GaEducated sure leaves one naive if not outright dumb.

I find myself being repeatedly drawn away from the “words” of the Republican party and toward those of Mr. Obama. WTF? “WORDS”?

*Unfortunately, I also find myself disappointed with more and more people in government — at all levels — who merely proclaim themselves to be conservative or compassionate (to name but a few descriptors) without actually providing physical evidence.

Please show the physical evidence Obama has provided.

I’ve got a nose for a rose, and this Obama guy reeks of politician.

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

Thanks for your reply. We do not agree on the intent of Wooten. Giving up? No way.

Peter,

Unlike you, I do not “blog” at work.

I won’t waste words on you. Go get youself an office in the twin towers in NYC. I think there is something there you haven’t noticed.

Switchgrass,

We can tell what “grass” you are using for fuel. We know. It is all medicinal.

By Crusty

January 28, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Jim, why so bitter?!

By Kate

January 28, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

@ Peter at 9:43 AM, Gun control isn’t the issue. Crime is the issue. The economy is the issue. Health care is the issue. NOT guns.

Even if guns were “controlled”, criminals would still find a way to get their job done. Knives, bombs, noose or rope… if somebody wants to commit a crime, they will. Leave the guns alone.

Yes, I’m a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. The common-sense notion that the plain language of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” — means what it says!

If you’d like to read another article about a famous ‘Ted’ - check out this one: http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/Article.aspx?id=199

This Ted would get my vote before Ted Kennedy.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Kate…….I do not agree with you……we have the worst crime, of all the non 3rd world nations.

Hand guns, and Machine guns are not allowed to be sold, or on the streets of so many nations, we have become a laughing stock.

We don’t hunt birds, deer, boar with pistols, or machine guns.

The criminals Hunt Humans with those guns!

Again, it is in the NEWS the POLICE are speaking out about the fact they feel they are OUT GUNNED, and they are afraid.

This is not good for a nation that the Police feel afraid!

I do agree with you that as long as inflation is rising, and recession is peaking, housing is going to heck……..there will be even MORE Violence!

Dusty can say all she wants about Bush and Terrorism, which is total bunk…….

Heck Bush told us the WAR in Iraq was WON in 2003……..5 more AMERICAN soldiers died TODAY !

By ckt

January 28, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

I look forward to Southern Democrats insightful ponderings more than the crap that Wooten has to spew. Thanks SD for providing this blog with a semblance of respectability.

By Cry Baby Wooten

January 28, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Apparently Mr. Wooten believes that just because he holds an opinion it is more valid than anyone else’s. Never mind that Senator Kennedy is actually well-respected across the nation. If Bubba Wooten doesn’t think he’s important then it ain’t so. I mean, Teddy has only been served in the U.S. Senate for over forty years. While Mr. Wooten has managed to ascend the lofty role of blogster on a crappy newspaper.

By Joe D

January 28, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

The Gore-Bush election was not the start of vicious partisanship in this country. Newt Gingrich holds the honor of being the architect of that movement. His back bench comments way back in the ‘80’s are at the root of this situation.

It’s funny to see Dusty attacking the qualifications of the 2008 candidates while blithely whistling down the garden path about the “greatness” of our current denizen of the White House. Doesn’t give her comments much credibility.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Hey Kate, I just read the Ted Nugent article.

He talks about “Ethics” in hunting….he also states he is also a BOW Hunter.

I agree with his article, I may not hunt, but I believe he is correct, and I agree to the second Amendment.

BUT there is no way I am going to agree to rapid fire or machine gun weapons, are belonging on the streets of America.

Pistols are only weapons of protection, or assault, and not a hunting weapon.

As Ted points out there are lots of hunting shows on TV, and not a single one has shown a hunter with an automatic weapon, or a hand gun gong after game in a sporting manner.

By JR

January 28, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Redneck Pervert, One truth in your ramblings. You and your beloved Clintons do think of African American as “Those People”. That might end up taking a bite out of your liberal rear end!

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Amazing! I thought I was speaking clearly. Alas, not clearly enough. For I have now brought down upon myself the wrath. The wrath of those that would resort to the ever popular past-time — The Calling of the Names. I say unto thee Name Callers: Do not judge lest thee be judged.

Or! You could read my reply to Glenn at 11:39 and see if that makes you feel any better.

Go ahead if you must and call me naive for I’m sure I am in many respects. But Dumb? Even outright dumb! I almost feel a failure to communicate has fallen upon us all. And, I hardly even know you.

By RealRep

January 28, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Mike salutes all that have fought for this country, Senator McCain included.

Perhaps Mr. Romney should do the same, rather than belittling their efforts.

A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.

Huckabee ‘08

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

@jbmlaw,

On Saturday, you alluded to the fact that you “knew what was wrong with me.” Could you please articulate your diagnosis?

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

GaEducated,

Now it makes complete sense. And for what it’s worth, I agree. The argument’s been made, even by a prominent atheist, that Billy Graham is the last in the line of the great American oratorical tradition. But if Obama works for folks, great. As long as their careful of the Svengali aspect of oratory—-and, incidentally, I think our Peeps have become so. They’re tired of all the tinny, unearned cynicism. Another reason to join in your choice of where to bet our chips: “It’s the People, Stupid!” The system works in spite of the pols.

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 10:52, if I cared about my reputation I should deny that I thoroughly enjoyed at least a half-dozen of the Blackford Oakes books – I think now the sly humor and pointed anti-leftism therein seized my attention.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Dangit…

“…they’re careful.” As long as “they’re” careful.

By Frank

January 28, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Here’s what we get with the leading Republican candidates:

McCain - God help us, more war.

Romney - God help us more jobs going to China.

Huckabee - God help us!

Here’s what we get with Barack Obama - More hope for our and our children’s future.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Please don’t think I’m saying that Jim’s giving up. I’m saying that the weekend’s Op-Ed, as well as other recent writings, show that he thinks the smart money’s on giving in. He very clearly proposes a course for the GOP going forward. That course of action is liberal, whether he realizes it or not. He means to triangulate, in a sense, toward the long-term resurgence of the GOP. That’s giving in. I don’t, I won’t have it.

The heavy lifting here is in understanding why it’s giving in to liberalism, and why it therefore represents a kind of criminal negligence in benign disguise.

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Dear all, are you reading PoFo’s one-liners today? He’s on.

Dear Mary @ 11:29, perhaps – the company I work for has 3000 employees worldwide – but none of those names are in my office. Peculiar coincidence, those are all names of lovely young women my older son has dated. (If it really matters to you, just get a copy of the Georgia Bar Journal. I am listed under “total jerks.”)

Dear Jackie @ 12:23, I could, but good humor forbids

By Amazing

January 28, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Dude, I’m Georgia born and Georgia bred. I’m agreeing with “libruls” here in your case, and your case only. You’re dumb only in that you are drawn by words without proof of deeds.

Research dude, research. Never let a politician’s words, alone draw you into believing.

And don’t get your panties in a bunch because I repeated what libruls say about dumb rednecks here everyday. You signed on as GaEducated in a site infested with self-espousing libs.

Dumb!

By getalife

January 28, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Frank,

If you have crap in one hand and hope in the the other, what have you got?

Hopeful crap.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

jbm,

Yes, PoFo is on. Dammit.

With your recommendation I’ll have to give the Buckley spy stuff another go. Could you recommend an especially snide one to start me off to a good start?

By Peter

January 28, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

OK Wrongs…… who about “Amazing”

Tell about something GOOD that is happening in America TODAY….!

How about a positive head line about the “State of America” January 28th, 2009 ?

By Tector Mills

January 28, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

I have got no problem with those who are into killin-n-grillin, as long as they don’t do it with handguns. They should not bring a handgun to an insurection either. Sooner or later this country will wise up and have the officers use the necessary firepower and technology to hunt down handguns and with a couple of exceptions those who own or sell them. Then our NRA will become the National Rifle Association I joined as a boy.

By tom Robinson

January 28, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Rome fell because it rotted from within

The US will fall fast if we elect Hillary Clinton or Obambi Barack. In the Case of Obambi, the muslim’s will be happy

By getalife

January 28, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Yes, pf is on………

……………………

something.

By MomCat

January 28, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

10:59 AM -I hope he learns how to fight, because when the Clinton haters turn on Obama (and they will), he’s going to wish he was still duking it out with Clintons.

You bet your bottom dollar they will turn on him (Obama). Many wingnuts will vote for him in the primary, as opposed to an R candidate. They ar sooo hoping to out Hillary. The race issue will be a factor in the redneck south, and the name Barak HUSSEIN Obama will initiate swiftboating to the 9th degree. Yep, just wait until he gets the nomination. They know Hillary will be harder to beat than Obama; hence, that’s why the right wing media and the R’s are promoting him (now), but just wait until he gets the nomination!!! JUST WAIT AND SEE!

By Grampus

January 28, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Speaking of endorsements, read the AJC’s coming out for Romney as the Republican nominee. Then ask yourself if its choice for the Democratic nominee - Obama - even comes close to Romney’s level of experience. Then ask yourself if the editors of the AJC ever actually read it.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Amazing. Huh? I am truly amazed at this point that I have managed to leave such a mis-impression on one poor soul. I’m speechless! Speechless, I say! Just SPEECHLESS!

P.S. I can feel your pain for I too am not merely GaEducated. I am Georgia born and bred and I come from a fine lineage of Georgia born and bred. There. A burden has been lifted. I feel properly clothed now that I have outed myself.

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Joe D @ 11:14, forget Pygmalion, I’m just looking for Galatea.

By Vasily D'Efferins

January 28, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

All these people swooning over Obama because they want another JFK. Does that mean we also get another Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis courtesy of an dangerously inexperienced, smooth-talking, movie star chasing playboy? Well, at least JFK wasn’t a far-left drunken sod, or a power-hungry weasel like his younger brothers. On the other hand, maybe we didn’t get the chance to find out. Be careful what you wish for, fools.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Glenn, Where do you think Huckabee would be today if not for Billy Graham? Would he still be out standing in a field. What would Rove’s strategy have been in order to garner those much-needed votes? Would he have just identified a different sect in need of a voice?

I wonder where we would be today?

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 12:59, Stained Glass (the second in the series) was my first and was always my favorite. I read the first in the series (Saving the Queen) after that, then the others in order, except I never read High Jinx (actually never heard about that one until now) nor Mongoose RIP (I have it in paperback, sitting there for 10+ years now, unbegun.) Buckley was still developing his novel style with Queen, but he hit his stride with Stained Glass. Caveat, I had forgotten all of the names of all of the novels and had to do an internet search just to be able to talk intelligently. Perhaps I should not assert “memorable,” just “enjoyable.”

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

@jbmlaw,

As is typical of your approach, “talk loud and say nothing.” I knew that you would have nothing to say, as is typical with the empty suit you happen to be. Don’t forget to pick up your batteries at Wally-Mart. BLINK, BLINK, BLINK!!!!!

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

In support of our troops, Dubya has brought a dismissal of a lawsuit brought by some POW’s in the Gulf War against Iraq. Dubya says that Iraq has sovereignty and our military has no right to sue the government for torture to them by the Iraqis capturers. How does one rationalize this action?

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

GaEd, I don’t follow you. For one thing, when he headed his state SBC delegation, Huckabee was of the Carter wing of the SBC, not the Graham one, though Dr. Graham does not mix it up the way those guys and Dr. Price do. (That dude’s got a real problem on his hands—-caused by his own cartilagenous ecumenism, BTW.) So anyway, even though they’re both Baptists my sense is that Mike Huckabee thus far has succeeded in spite of, rather than because of, Billy Graham’s example. And certainly Huckabee’s oratory is pure pulpit pap, while Graham’s is grandiloquent strong meat. What they’re both exceedingly good at is the art of putting complex ideas into the simplest terms—-a noble skill in a democracy. Huckabee denatures his subjects, though; Graham does them justice.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

I think a lot of people just fail to grasp the Power of a smooth talker. Or should that be, they fail to be grasped by the Power of the smooth talker. You know what I mean, Don’t You?

By Filster

January 28, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

So much to comment on and so little space. Uh, Peter, automatic weapons are banned. The ones in the hands of the crooks were bought illegally, not at Wal-Mart or Dicks. Also, are you naive enough to think only U.S. companies manufacturer guns? ever hear of Kalishnakov, Uzi? Nah, didn’t think so. Sorry, but guns don’t kill 80 people a day. People with guns kill 80 people a day. As for Ted Kennedy’s endorsement, any potential redeeming value Obama may have had was just erased. Kennedy’s stand for diddlnig Marilyn in the White House, clubbing a girl who refused your advances to death, and driving off a bridge while drunk with a woman not your spouse (seems to be a genetic defect with the Kennedy’s - can’t keep it in the pants and all). Looks like we’re in for a pretty rotten 4 years. Obama for the Dems, Romney for the Pubs. Maybe it’s time for a walkabout down under.

By Patrick

January 28, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Judging from this column, you need a good laxative.

By Artie Sammish

January 28, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Why, sure you can smell his power-jonezin coming out his pores, but is Obama a good rascal, ‘s the question. Is it time yet for us now to praise good rascals?

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Glenn, I don’t follow all the history behind the various religious movements. That is part of what prompted me to ask my questions of you. For one thing, I recall reading (somewhere?) that “the Huckabees” were “born of” the Graham movement while others were off in the fields at Woodstock living in peace. If this religious movement had not occurred, would we still have had this strong religious right wing for Rove to go after in an election? Would we have ended up with something entirely different? Just curious.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Gaze upon your Senators today using unity to steal more of your freedom and give immunity for the corporates who have spied on you without a warrant.

Senator Clinton will vote no.

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Monday, January 28, 2008

Toni Morrisons Endorsement Letter

Here is Morrison’s endorsement letter…

Dear Senator Obama,

This letter represents a first for me—a public endorsement of a Presidential candidate. I feel driven to let you know why I am writing it. One reason is it may help gather other supporters; another is that this is one of those singular moments that nations ignore at their peril. I will not rehearse the multiple crises facing us, but of one thing I am certain: this opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the person to capture it.

May I describe to you my thoughts?

I have admired Senator Clinton for years. Her knowledge always seemed to me exhaustive; her negotiation of politics expert. However I am more compelled by the quality of mind (as far as I can measure it) of a candidate. I cared little for her gender as a source of my admiration, and the little I did care was based on the fact that no liberal woman has ever ruled in America. Only conservative or “new-centrist” ones are allowed into that realm. Nor do I care very much for your race[s]. I would not support you if that was all you had to offer or because it might make me “proud.”

In thinking carefully about the strengths of the candidates, I stunned myself when I came to the following conclusion: that in addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don’t see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it. Wisdom is a gift; you can’t train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace—that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom.

When, I wondered, was the last time this country was guided by such a leader? Someone whose moral center was un-embargoed? Someone with courage instead of mere ambition? Someone who truly thinks of his country’s citizens as “we,” not “they”? Someone who understands what it will take to help America realize the virtues it fancies about itself, what it desperately needs to become in the world?

Our future is ripe, outrageously rich in its possibilities. Yet unleashing the glory of that future will require a difficult labor, and some may be so frightened of its birth they will refuse to abandon their nostalgia for the womb.

There have been a few prescient leaders in our past, but you are the man for this time.

Good luck to you and to us.

Toni Morrison

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Monday, January 28, 2008

Letter From Ted Kennedy

Dear Friend,

Barack Obama inspires me.

That’s why I’m about to take the stage with him here in Washington and endorse his campaign to become the next president of the United States.

It’s that simple. Through Barack, I believe we will move beyond the politics of fear and personal destruction and unite our country with the politics of common purpose.

All Democrats in this race have strong ideas to address the challenges before our country. But Barack is the candidate who can inspire Americans to act and bring us together to achieve those goals — an economy that works for everyone, health care for all, and at long last ending the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home.

Join me and become part of the Obama campaign today:

http://www.democraticmajority.com/obama

I remember another leader who inspired the nation, especially our youth, to fulfill a promise of change. Those inspired young people marched, sat in at lunch counters, protested the war in Vietnam and served honorably in that war even when they opposed it.

That leader challenged them to ask what they could do for their country and, together, they changed the world.

So in the words of that leader, John Kennedy: “The world is changing. The old ways will not do… It is time for a new generation of leadership.”

I have found that next generation of American leadership in Barack Obama.

Take a moment to join his campaign:

http://www.democraticmajority.com/obama

I respect the strength, the work and dedication of two other Democrats still in the race, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. They are my friends; they have been my colleagues in the Senate. Whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support.

But I believe there is one candidate whose extraordinary gifts of leadership and character match the extraordinary demands of this moment in history.

Barack will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past. He sees the world clearly without being cynical. He fights for the causes he believes in — but refuses to demonize those who hold a different view. He’s tough-minded, but he also has an uncommon capacity to appeal to “the better angels of our nature.”

In Barack Obama, I see not just the audacity, but the possibility of hope for the America that is yet to be.

I love this country. I believe in the bright light of hope and possibility. I always have, even in the darkest hours. I know what America can achieve. I’ve seen it. I’ve lived it — and with Barack Obama, we can do it again.

Sincerely,

Senator Edward M. Kennedy

By jbmlaw

January 28, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie @ 1:30, good attorneys make their opponents look like babbling psychopaths after cross-examination. Really good attorneys can achieve the same before cross-examination. As you were saying, “Don’t forget to pick up your batteries at Wally-Mart. BLINK, BLINK, BLINK!!!!!” Do go on.

By AND....

January 28, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Fake sc-heist-ers blog and bloviate all day while charging hourly fees to the poor bas-tards who needed their help but aren’t going to get it.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Hey Flister, maybe you want to comment on the below……

“By Filster

January 28, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

So much to comment on and so little space. Uh, Peter, automatic weapons are banned. The ones in the hands of the crooks were bought illegally, not at Wal-Mart or Dicks. Also, are you naive enough to think only U.S. companies manufacturer guns?”

Seems you are somewhat partially right…

Fully automatic weapons are banned YES, but you can still purhcase semi Automatic assault weapons such as AK 47s. Thompson Machine Guns, and Armalite AR 15s, and there are many semi automatic pistols one can get their hands on including the Glock semi automatic pistol, the same gun used in the Virgina Tech shootings.

I also spoke with a gun ethusiasist, he said you can buy older used automatic guns.

He said you had to buy them used, as they do not allow them to be imported any longer.

The ban on semi automatic weapons, was let slide by Bush, and the GOP Congress a few years ago.

The guns I am speaking about, I was told you can buy at a gun show, or a Gun shop.

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

This campaign is about something more than politics.

You felt it, and like thousands of others across the country, you volunteered to get involved in your community.

With less than two weeks until the Georgia primary on Tuesday, February 5th, our moment is now.

I’m writing to ask you to join a special group of grassroots volunteers and activists who are going the extra mile to support Barack.

Join the Action Team and help bring change to Georgia:

http://my.barackobama.com/GAactionteam

As a team member, you will:

Receive updates on important Obama for America events

Learn how you can grow our movement in your area

Stay up to date on our GOTV efforts in your area There are less than two weeks left until our primary on Tuesday, Feb 5th. Now is the time to take action!

Join the Georgia Action Team now:

http://my.barackobama.com/GAactionteam

By Carol

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

I have been a Democrat for many years. Unfortunately, I must admit, I agree with your assessments of the Kennedy clan and their recent proclamations.

By On the other hand

January 28, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

You can go to Senator Clinton’s website and get answers to your questions WITHOUT having to “sign up for the team” and give your email address and personal information that result in endless fundraising spam or phone calls to your home. It should be okay to seek information without being recruited.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

GaEd,

The answer to your question takes too long to put precisely or tastefully, so I’ll just have to make it short & pungent. Billy Graham didn’t start a movement; not in this country anyway. There was a religious revival after WWII, the third in American history. Graham was the most prominent evangelist during that revival, the most adept at the new communications media, and arguably the finest speaker of many fine speakers (including Dr. King). The last wave of this was the “Jesus Freak” movement, which Graham used but did not start. (It’s been carefully studied by sociologists of religion.)

He of course has brought more people to Christ than anyone in history, and if the Huckabees are among them then I personally am glad. I do not, however, find the Christianity in Huckabee’s espoused creed; only some of the rhetoric. He’s cherry-picked, decontextualized and diluted the ancient belief system, Christianity, beyond recognition. (So did Hitler and Goebbels do, BTW.) He is Hallmark.

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

On the the other hand,

You can do the same at Obama’s website moron.

The difference is that I was referring to a winner’s team.

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

@jbmlaw,

I guess that leaves you out!!!! Your cross examinations and logical disassembly seem to leave much desired, empty suit.

By PoFo

January 28, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

I’ll keep posting my one-liners and you guys keep posting your pseudo- intellectual babble and plagiarized rants.

By On the other hand

January 28, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Wow. Calling me a moron really wins me over to your “side” — not. It’s not about “sides” for everyone. Surprise surprise, some people haven’t decided, and want to make an informed decision based on facts and who’s most qualified. Some people plan on voting for whomever wins the primary, but thanks for pulling that “uniter, not a divider” crap. Where have we heard that before?

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Capuano endorses Obama for president

January 28, 2008

WASHINGTON—Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano is throwing his support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

The Somerville Democrat says Obama seems best able to deliver on promises of change and unity.

Capuano’s announcement Monday came as Sen. Edward Kennedy endorsed Obama in Washington and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made a campaign stop in Springfield.

Sen. John Kerry and U.S. Rep. William Delahunt are also backing Obama. © Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

Don’t pick on Jackie. He’s a member of the McVeigh Radical Runners and they haven’t had any exciting fireworks lately.

Just let him stay busy writing thank you notes to the Iranians for “teasing” our Navy. Maybe that will keep him out of trouble.

By Apocalypse

January 28, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

On the other hand,

Oops, I’m sorry. I assumed that since you posted an opposing email to my post and also that you criticized being recruited by Obama, which the last time I checked was how campaigns are grown, that you were a Clinton supporter.

My mistake obviously.

In the future, if you don’t like being attacked in a political arena, you might want to lay off the attacks. Directly or indirectly.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Hope in one hand and crap in the other.

Hopeful crap.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

A c** in my a$$ and a c** in my mouth.

Cockfight.

By On the other hand

January 28, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Sorry, A. Obama’s people call me for money regularly, and it’s getting on my nervers. My decision in the primary — ALL the Dems are terrific candidates — will not be about getting swept up in a feeling or a movement. This kind of group think has led to bad decisions in recent years, doncha think? I think we should all shut up, step back, and really make an informed decision about who we want running agsint the Repugs in November, and their ability to fight, win, and do a good job. They’re ALL good. Who can win? If you call Clinton supporters “morons” today, how will you ask for their support next month? The whole “You’re with us or you’re against us” attitude is Bush speak. Look where it’s led this country! Does it have to be this way?

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

I thought I would not put it out to you about your diatribe on Saturday. You said that you were a mental health specialist and I still did not “support the troops or the President.” Since you are schooled the science of mental health, I think you understand the term cognitive dissonance. You continue to believe that the US Navy was intimidated by some motorboats that contained no more than 2 people in the alleged assault on the frigates and destroyers in the Straits of Hormuz. The Pentagon and the Navy have stated the whole incident was due a radio person that tries to harass all ships in that area. Yet, you sit and believe all the crap that is passed out by Dubya and his criminals. I talked with a family member who is a clinical psychologist about you and his opinion was you need help, badly. Your own words show the depth and breath of your comprehension of details. Your level of understanding and depth of knowledge is suspect. Your thought process is one-dimensional, therefore, you are myopic in your outlook. Again, you are entitled to your opinion, but, you are not entitled to your own facts. And, when it comes to your trying to accuse me of being un-American or un-patriotic because of my lack of support for the criminals in the White House is typical. You can keep saying what you say, think what you think and think what you think without comment from me. You will, however, get a vociferous response from me when you try to lay your insecurities at my blogging door. If you choose to discuss this further, please give some cogent dissemination of your argument.

By Crusty

January 28, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Don’t bother trying to talk sense into Dusty. She has made many claims that are often contradictory. Dusty is PoFo.

By Lance

January 28, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

TW said: Unless the Dems can figure out how to sprinkle 50 IQ points atop each southerner before November, they should forget about the south – don’t waste a dime. In 2004, the ten states with the lowest test scores ALL voted for Bush

I see you are LYING once again. You have posted this lie before and I refuted it with FACTS. The first time you did it, I might have understood that you made a mistake. Now that you have done it again after having been told the truth, it is clear that you are a poster to be ignored because you have no intellectual honesty whatsoever.

The two lowest states, Oregon and Washington, voted for Kerry. If you include D.C. - the bottom THREE SAT performers ALL voted for Kerry.

TW = LIAR

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Well, I see someone has had their unpatriotic, leftist nerve touched. Good. There’s still hope for you yet. You can still get on the side of right and support our country and not its enemies.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Aborted Foreskin, I’ll have you know my babble is certifiably intellectual.

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

I do not people with mental disorders get on my nerves. You only elicit my empathy.

By PoFo

January 28, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Flatulence is fun. A sack of Krystals is dinner and a show, all for about five bucks.

Bada-boom!

By Peter

January 28, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Bush spending More money then ever, as a last ditch effort.

“With his approval rating near its all-time low and less than a year remaining in his presidency, Bush lacked the political clout to push bold ideas before a hostile, Democratic-led Congress on Monday night. Offering modest new plans, Bush proposed a $300 million “Pell Grants for Kids” program to help poor children in struggling public schools pay for the cost of attending a private school or a better public school outside their district.”

He wants to cut pork spending HA HA HA……

The president will issue an executive order Tuesday ordering federal agencies to ignore “earmarks” that aren’t explicitly enacted into law, erasing a common practice in which lawmakers’ projects are outlined in nonbinding documents that accompany legislation. The move is aimed at making doubly sure that lawmakers have the opportunity to strike earmarks during floor debates.

However, Bush’s plan leaves untouched the more than 11,700 earmarks totaling $16.9 billion that Congress approved last year.

Good gosh……..he is behaving like a Democrat!

Must be tough to be in the last year of office, after 7 plus failing years, and going to be considered one of our worst President ever!

GOP gets wiped off the map during the next election……

Please all WRONGS and arise and say Thank you Mr. Bush!

Wow even more turning around here……

“He also was recycling ideas on alternative energy, affordable health care, housing reform and veterans’ care. Bush also was renewing his ideas on climate change and stem cell research.”

What would that term be called…….Flip flopping…..

Bush acknowledges Global warming, needing alternative energy, health care…… WOW…….Flip Flopping at it’s best!

By Jackie

January 28, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

Please correct my typo in the previous posting.

It should have read “I do not get upset with…”

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Jackie @4:24

Do you always get things wrong? I have never claimed or written that I was a mental health expert. I mentioned the rights of all law-abiding citizens not to be forced into a place they do not wish to enter.

If you were talking with a clinical psychologist, I doubt very much that I was the subject discussed. But I am glad the VA has clinical psychologists for vets with problems. Your criminals in the White House is right on the edge. Try and take it easy.

By Aquagirl

January 28, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Jackie, you may have a point. Seriously. Stop while you’re ahead, for the sake of your mental health.

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Stolen ID at 4:50. Not Dusty. Probably PoFo. Maybe Crusty aka as getalife.

Children will be children.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Hey Lance, must be hard finding facts these days…..

“The two lowest states, Oregon and Washington, voted for Kerry. If you include D.C. - the bottom THREE SAT performers ALL voted for Kerry.

TW = LIAR”

Seems not also are you a name caller, you must have a hard time reading and discovering where to find your facts…….

Washinton the state ranked 25th…. Oregon ranked 27th…..

In fact Bush got the vote from the states with the lowest incomes and the lowest SAT scores!

By Mermaid Man

January 28, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Aquagirl, my long lost crime-fighting sidekick. Barnacle Boy and I have missed you at the Mer-Lair. We could have used you last week in our battle with the Dirty Bubble and Man-Ray.

By Lance

January 28, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

My apologies -

Oregon and Washington were not the two lowest states. I made a mistake when I copied the data from a website. But while my mistake was made in earnest, TW’s false claims were done purposely.

And the fact is that I am still right in my assertions. The FACT is that five of the ten states with the lowest SAT states - PA, HI, RI, DE, ME all voted for Kerry. D.C. had the lowest SAT scores and of course D.C. was carried by Kerry!

Meanwhile, six of the top ten states with the HIGHEST SAT scores all voted for Bush.

By Lance

January 28, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Well Peter, since you bothered to look up the information for yourself, would you care to admit if TW is telling the truth or not with his claim that the 10 states with the bottom SAT scores voted for Bush? Seems you left that detail out. Are you intellectually dishonest as well?

By Children

January 28, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

Hi, what’re you up to? We’re busy being children.

By TAFKAH

January 28, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

There sat Jim, sucking his own thumb (well, it was a small as a thumb, and I don’t think Jim is especially limber, but oh god I can’t bear the possibility…) wondering what kind of wantwit twaddle would fill his column space when he stumbled over a novel idea, one that would revolutionize punditry as we know it…he would write (if by write one means fecal scribblings on the asylum wall) a column that makes fun of Ted Kennedy. The innovation!!!! Whoever thought of that before??

Hats off, Jim.

In the meantime, the “Serious” Party of Grand Old Punditidols demonstrated more of their seriousness….

Romney, of Massachusetts, dug into a piece fried chicken at KFC while campaigning in Lutz, Florida on Saturday, but not before peeling off what most would consider the best part — the crispy skin.

Huckabee, looking ahead to a flotilla of southern states up for grabs on Super Tuesday, was told about the move by a reporter here in the Florida panhandle.

“I can tell you this,” he said, “any Southerner knows if you don’t eat the skin don’t bother calling it fried chicken.”

“So that’s good. I’m glad that he did that, because that means I’m going to win Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma … all these great Southern states that understand the best part of fried chicken is the skin, if you’re going to eat it that way.”

Thanks for that dose of teh serious, GOPhers.

By Aquagirl

January 28, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

Sorry, Merman, I must have missed the e-mail. Forgot my Blackberry—how embarrassing! Don’t you hate it when that happens? Next time, try notifying me of showdowns with evildoers by text. Get Barnacle Boy to help ya out with that.

Was THE Captain unavailable? You should have tried him. If you’re fighting non-American evildoers, he’ll wipe them out faster than Ted Kennedy going through a fifth of vodka.

By ray

January 28, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

somebody please tell me what an SAT score is.alls i know is that Bush has made all us white dudes real proud. to bad this TW liar didn’t learn nothing about honesty from our leader. i hate being lied to lance. thanks for the help brother.

By Peter

January 28, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

Lance you are WRONG again…..go to the 2004 SAT scores and then you will realize 5 of the top 10 voted each way….

“Meanwhile, six of the top ten states with the HIGHEST SAT scores all voted for Bush.”

WRONG……

3 was Wisconsin… they voted Kerry, 5 was Illinois… they voted Kerry, 6th was Minnesota… they voted Kerry.

You need to figure out the time frame 2004, and who voted for whom, before you speak about something you don’t know about!

The bottom of the SAT charts all overwhelmingly voted BUSH….that would be the SOUTH, where Bush actually won the election.

By getalife

January 28, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

OMG, The Dem Senators finally blocked w’s FISA bill with immunity.

By Mark Perkel

January 28, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

If I were in Congress I would do something very different to stimulate the economy. The first thing I’d do it end the war in Iraq.

Then I’d change the law that prohibits the government from shopping around to get the best prices from the drug companies.

Next I’d implement universal health care so insurance doesn’t go up every year.

Then we need to get off of oil even if we have to convert to diesel from coal until we can develop electric car technology.

We can take away corporate subsidies for oil companies using the money to develop green technologies.

Eliminate tax breaks for the rich so that they have to pay middle class tax rates.

If we do all that then we will go back to surplus “problems” rather than what we are going to do about the deficit.

By GrumpyDad

January 28, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Children @ 5:21, shaddup, I’m trying to watch the game. Go play outside.

By Dusty

January 28, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

Well,5:21 let’s put the children to bed. It’s past their dinner time.

Good night PoFo et al & ever’body else. Pleasant dreams.

By TW

January 28, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Well, well, well - give Lance the prize. Been waiting months for that. Funny, this ‘intellectual dishonesty’ of which you speak. Like telling soldiers’ spouses and parents that we went over there for WMD? Or that saddam was part of al qaeda? Or telling those who show concern for the misuse of our troops that they ‘don’t support the troops?’ That kind of intellectual dishonesty, Lance?

Should have known when somebody on this blog finally caught it they’d have a problem with it, being that hypocrisy is as fundamental to rightwing beliefs as is selfishness.

Adios Wooten Clanners.

By Mike

January 28, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

It truly doesn’t get any better than this. We have a lib mainstream media that gives a free pass to Bill & Hill making snide racial comments. We have a lib mainstream media that is totally ignoring the massive split in the Dem party while giving unrelenting coverage of the split and fist fights within the Republicans. We have the pseudo-Camelot Clintons wondering what has happened to their dynasty and Wild Bill working on another heart attack (how was that snooze during MLK day, Bill? hahahaha!)

Even Democrats and those in the lib media like Maureen Dowd are realizing what a pathetic excuse we once had as “leadership” with the Clintons. How sweet it is. Politics, especially when the wingnut Demoncats are in the spotlight, is just too sweet. God I love it.

By GaEducated

January 28, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, all those kids just now getting their test scores are wondering when they will get to vote in an election.

By Glenn

January 28, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Well PoFo’s more full of it than W and Wooten put together, but at least he’s funny and original (though Alan Bullock should sue over the lift on Hitler’s Dr.) If he keeps it up, he’s welcome to plagiarize my name any time.

Tonight’s the night for the President to show that Mitt Romney’s not the only national political figure with formal business training and a good track record in the private sector. We should all wish him well; he’s the only President we got, and a lot of people are going to get hurt if the recession goes border-to-border.

I sure hope he’s tasteful enough not to rub it in the Dems’ faces that by doing the patriotic thing and agreeing to the stimulus (even without bumps in food stamps and other social welfare), they’re surrendering any effort to block reauthorization of his tax cuts of old. He shouldn’t crow about it, even though it constitutes what in DC they call a victory. And if he’s like his pop, he won’t toot.

He’s going to make me furious with some brain-dead, flat-out harmful and exorbitant rubbish about No Child Left Behind, which no candidate running has done other than excoriate, for good reason. But as long as he’s sound on the economy tonight, what the hell, burn another cohort of schoolchildren. It’s OK with Wooten, and who am I to be holier than the Pope?

By Mike

January 28, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

It should be no surprise that the Clintons are playing the race card. - Slate’s Christopher Hitchens

The Clintoons are nothing but a bunch of modern day political pirates who will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including plundering and destroying their own - at least according to those a* kissing Clintonista comments of America’s First Black President.

This is truly telling of those who continue to support the Clintonistas. They actually make those who continue to be Bush supporters look intelligent.

By Jack

January 28, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Jim

You are consistent, I’ll give you that. You use ridicule to block out the disaster of the past 6 Bush years:

the long line of pious Republicans ( Mr Wide Stance who has sex with gays in public restrooms, the GOP Florida Congressman who hits on Congressional pageboys, the Louisiana GOPer who frequented hookers in DC, preacher Ted, W’s buddy who called him at least once a week who had gay sex with a male prostitute, GOP Congressman Duke Cunningham cavorting with hookers and taking millions in bribes)

And maybe most of all, W has been such a disaster that even GOP candidates refuse to mention Bush’s name,

So Jim, you and your right wing wackos need to take responsibility for this mess you got us in. And recognize that your views have no credibility.

By Mike

January 28, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

“And recognize that your views have no credibility.”

NO more so than those of yours or those of any of your fellow left wingnut liberal neopink Daily Kos kooks on this blog, Jack. That road definitely goes both ways, jack.

By Mike

January 28, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

One more thing, Jack: not one of those republicans you mentioned ever drove off a bridge and left a woman to drown like drunk or a coward - or both. So STFU.

By brundlefly

January 28, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Mike, not to mention the fact that every Republican the idiot mentioned is either no longer in office or in jail, unlike Ted Kennedy. Then there’s the frozen cash congressman from Louisiana, missing 9/11 document “sock” puppet Sandy Berger, Reid’s shady Nevada land deal, etc. etc. But why waste time on reminders for the idiot left on this blog? They don’t give a flying pig what their own ilk does - or doesn’t do.

By TAFKAH

January 28, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

The brilliant Mike, who dreams nightly of gobbling ever more of his President Codpiece’s seminal chowder, hurls that old chestnut about Ted Kennedy drowning Mary Jo, so STFU all liberals ever as far as time goes on nanny nanny boo boo I can’t hear you because I have the man snot of Rush Limbaugh filling one ear and the squid burp of Sean Hannity filling the other.

Mike is a perfect example of the cretinous yahoo knuckle draggers that have pulled the GOP into the alley and turned on all fours for a good bum reaming, begging the Meisters of Compassionate Conservatism to ram that fist of I-got-mine up so hard it tickles the navel. “GIVE IT TO ME” screams Mike and his greedy cohort, anxious to the last to get what’s coming to them. Alas for the rest of us who would prefer to not have Cheney’s Dick headed schemes pounding up the hershey highway, we are stuck (in so many painful and unlubricated ways) to bear the burden for Mike’s unholy desires. Our children will pay for this abomination, too, but we will only care if they are unborn or happen to drown at the bottom of Massachusets stream bed. Everybody else can go f^ck themselves, right Mike?

The Republican Party is dead for a generation, and good f^cking riddance to the likes of Bush, Delay, Armey, Gingrich and the rest of these double dealing dooosh bags who have perpetrated this scam on the American nation. Too bad the grown ups will have to clean up after these wastrel party boys, scraping their encrusted moral scum off of our global reputation for years to come.

Or does this sound too shrill?

Off to enjoy the SOTU drinking game with Sister Dusty and a massively donged and be-meloned she-male hooker who looks just like Ann Coulter, only, you know, pretty. And with tyts and a smaller Adam’s Apple. Dusty likes to play Chinese handcuffs as long as she is in the middle where she can see ChairMAN Ann’s silocone beauties…pass the Jager.

By Ryan

January 29, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

A candidate’s stand on guns is the only thing a voter needed to know? Pathetic.