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DEL.ICIO.USAre Hillary and Huckabee done?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee acknowledges that he “may be killing my political career” by remaining in the Republican presidential race after it’s long been evident that he won’t win the nomination.
Campaigning at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, Huckabee said he may be finished in national politics “but I know this: if we don’t start thinking in terms of solving some of America’s problems, we’re killing all of your careers.”
Later when asked to elaborate, Huckabee said: “I’m just saying there are a lot of people who say I’m staying and creating problems for the party, and there are obviously people in the party who are unhappy that I’ve stayed.”
Staying didn’t matter much in Wisconsin and in Washington Tuesday. John McCain won easily in both and managed to split the conservative vote with Huckabee in Wisconsin.
On the Democratic side, Barack Obama socked away two more states — Wisconsin and Hawaii — putting his string of wins at 10. Hillary Clinton may be about a week away from finding herself in Huckabee’s position — under a great deal of pressure to concede for the party’s sake. She badly needs Texas and Ohio on March 4. Win those and she could make a race of it into the convention.
Her assaults on Obama are having an impact. A three-day Gallup tracking poll finds that she has cut his lead nationally from 7 points to 1. That covered the period where the Clinton campaign has accused Obama of plagiarizing speech material from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick
She needs some good news. Exit polls in Wisconsin reveal an erosion in her support among working-class whites and women. Hillary does best among the less-educated and the elderly. Obama has solid leads among independents, the well-to-do, voters with a college education and those who are very liberal.
Two questions here, one for those who expect to vote for the Democrat in November and one for those who intend to vote Republican. It’s strongly evident that the two parties represent sharply different directions for the country so nobody who’s been paying attention could be in doubt.
For Republicans: Is it time for Huckabee to pull the plug? I say let him go on; he’s no threat.
For Democrats: Is it over for Hillary?
Comments
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
There being no polite society in Arkansas since the passing of Winthrop Rockefeller, persons bred in that state never know when to leave.
By Dusty
February 20, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
Well, Jim Wooten, I agree with you. Let Huckabee go on. I would not vote for him but he has given us a lesson in perserverance. If you believe in what you are doing, do not give up easily even when the odds are against you. Yes!!
Huckabee will decide on this issue. Let him! (Besides, he can play a guitar which is more entertaining than throwing water bottles.)
By OneForTheRoad
February 20, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this
The primaries are there to “sell” yourself to the voters. As far as I’m concerned, there are two slots for sale — President and V.P. Maybe it’s time to differentiate between these two slots. Let the parties compete for each slot independent of each other. Now that might bring a little sport back into the game.
Paul/Obama in 2008
Interesting, eh? It’s like adding vinegar and baking soda — a lot of froth initially with a neutralized substance remaining. Too bad Georgia did not end up with Perdue being neutered — I mean, neutralized — by a Democrat Lieutenant.
By Redneck Convert
February 20, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
The only good news is this Hillary woman is being beat like a rented mule. Its all those Republicans crossing over to vote against her. The librul Democrats like to brag about the turnout for their primaries, but come November the godly Republicans will come home and the Democrat votes won’t even come to half of the Republican votes.
Its just nice of all those states to give us Republicans a say in who the Democrats run. Kind of like being allowed to pick who you are going to fight. Me, I would go for the midget in a wheelchair. That’s pretty much what the librul Democrats got in this Osama guy. When us godly White Southreners show up at the polls in November, you can bet your paycheck we won’t be punching no screen for one of Those People. Here in GA, it will be about 90-10 for McCain.
The Rev. Huckabee needs to stay in the race. He gives us godly conservatives a way to show we ain’t happy about having our party took away from us by the moderates and libruls. Bunch of Traders. Just because we run up a few trillion in debt and shipped a few million jobs overseas and give the tax cuts to the rich people that pays the taxes in the first place they want to take over.
We’ll never get the 10 Commandments put up everywhere and prayer in schools and abortion outlawed with somebody like McCain on the ticket. We’ll be watching his every move and hounding him every time he trys to get palsy-walsy with the librul Democrats. Then we’ll take over again in four years by electing the Rev. Huckabee as the next President and leader of the party. We may have to wait four years, but we will become a godly Christian country again.
By Tector Mills
February 20, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Let’s hope they beat that rented mule right out from under Bill Clinton.
By Shar
February 20, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Good Morning. Glenn, Senator Clinton was raised in Illinois, so insulting the good folks of Arkansas in order to take a swipe at her is inaccurate on both sides. Unlike you, mon vieux - perhaps a second cup of coffee is in order?
Senator Clinton’s campaign was over before it started, with the clods starting to fall when she failed to keep the Big Dog on the porch in South Carolina. Smarts and strength of will nothwithstanding, no candidate can be elected nationwide with a negative rating over 50%. Senator Kennedy found that out when he tried and failed to finesse Chappaquiddick in 1980, and his effect on the party was the same as Senator Clinton’s: enough star wattage to discourage more able candidates from running, or undermining lesser-known but more qualified candidates’ campaigns (see Governor Richardson).
Unfortunately, her media appeal having drowned out all but another ‘media-friendly’ candidate, the Democrats are left with a charismatic guy who lacks sufficient experience, either executive, legislative or hard-knuckle political, to win in November. It is now immaterial when Senator Clinton bows out. Her implacable ambition has had its effect, and we’ll have at least four more years of Republican executive power.
By J.Carville
February 20, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Jim, wingnut candidates have been done since the New Hampshire Primaries. Wingers still don’t get it. Mainstream America declared war on the wingwackos and have effectively eliminated you freaks as a voice in the Republican party for decades to come. If George W. Bush accomplihed one thing in 8 years it was to provide the catalyst for the death of the radical wing of the Republican party. VIVE LA BUSH! Real Republicans have said it loudly and clearly. Wingwacks, talibaptist, xenophobes, nativist, bigots, and racists are no longer wanted in the Republican party.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
Yeah, McCancer looks frail and sick: that is why Huck is still running, despite the fact that he has no mathmatical chance of winning. If McClown drops dead, or developes end stage cancer, the Huckster will be waiting in the wings…..Like an Angel of Satan…
Hillary is done, stick a fork in her and turn her over. Her campaign reeked of the same odor that her husbands administration secreted for eight years: Mendacity.
By Two Party Player
February 20, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
Hillary and Huckabee should both stay on. Keep the arguments going - educate the American people to both sides of the issues. Sad to say, but so should Ron Paul stay on. He would never get elected, but he made us stop and think. Limited government is the best government. If either the Dems and Pubs can actually accomplish that, I will vote for them.
By Two Party Player
February 20, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Hillary and Huckabee should both stay on. Keep the arguments going - educate the American people to both sides of the issues. Sad to say, but so should Ron Paul stay on. He would never get elected, but he made us stop and think. Limited government is the best government. If either the Dems and Pubs can actually accomplish that, I will vote for them.
By Two Party Player
February 20, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Hillary and Huckabee should both stay on. Keep the arguments going - educate the American people to both sides of the issues. Sad to say, but so should Ron Paul stay on. He would never get elected, but he made us stop and think. Limited government is the best government. If either the Dems and Pubs can actually accomplish that, I will vote for them.
By M.Howard
February 20, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
The point most are missing is that we need to elect someone regardless of race, (that is so old now)that is not as influenced by the lobbyist. Sure he has some but it’s not as severe as it is now. Bush took care of his friends by increasing gas prices for us poor folk that have to drive everywhere to work, take our children places and still have to put food on the table. So when I pull up to the pump, there goes that Friday/Saturday night out with the kids. What I don’t get is how can you people not focus on all the crap that has been a result of the GOP’s actions and not say, hey, something just might be wrong here or am I the only parent in this country that can’t occassionaly spurge for his family because of the high gas prices, living in a neighborhood with foreclosed homes and high prices for the basics. Is it me or what?
By Dusty
February 20, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
J Carville @9:25
You are partially correct. Liberals in American declared war on Republicans while Republicans declared war on terrorists.
Too bad you don’t know for what you are fighting. While you were busy fighting the Commander-in-Chief, our troops have given freedom to two countries. Oh, you forgot? It is Afghanistan and Iraq.
Try and get on the right side. Remember? America, little one, the USA!!!!
By Anyone But Hillary
February 20, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
They are, as the phrase goes, “Gone With The Wind”. I do hope Hillary continues to stay in the race for awhile, resulting in a big fight for superdelegates at the convention which will result in at least a third of the Democraps getting angry and staying home for the general election. See ya at President McCain’s inauguration!
By getalife
February 20, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
McMaverick’s victory speech:
“My friends, thanks. Don’t listen to good, eloquent speeches. Listen to my speeches. And listen to me talk about how much experience I have. And look over your shoulder. See those brown people? Those terrorists? Venezuela? Yeah. My friends, that’s why you have vote for me.”
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
By Curious Observer
February 20, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
If Hillary Clinton cared at all about her party, she would be dropping out of the race this morning. Instead, we will be treated to some party-splitting shenigans at the convention—an effort to get the disqualified delegates from Michigan and Florida seated, accompanied by an effort to allow the superdelegates to assure her nomination.
I agree with Shar, and I’ll say it for the fourth time in the past six months: no candidate with a 50% negative rating can hope to win the presidency. If Hillary continues with her little game, she will cripple her party and drive independents and many moderate Democrats to vote for McCain. Hillary is like the proverbial ghost—she’s dead, but she either doesn’t understand that or else she chooses to ignore it.
Meantime, McCain will have plenty of time to consolidate his party and gain national support while Hillary is gumming up the works on the Democratic side.
By Old School
February 20, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Time to bring back the CCC camps of FDR’s day! Best thing the government ever did for us.
By Dusty
February 20, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
M. Howard @ 9:38
Excuse me but DUH!! Gasoline prices were high when Jimmy Carter (D) was president. Was it all his fault? Was he taking care of his friends??
Have you ever heard of OPEC? The price of oil/barrel? Do you want the government to take care of your house payments for you? Your healthcare? Control food prices? Then you must be a liberal on the way to being a socialist.
By Pray for Democrats
February 20, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
M. Howard @ 9:38:
I feel sorry for you. You’re part of the dependent Democrat class who believes a single individual (President Bush) can set gasoline prices. The concepts of world markets and world demand elude you. That most of the oil reserves are not held by U.S.-based companies is a foreign concept. That all of Europe pays higher gas prices than the U.S. is a concept unfamiliar to you.
Since you profess to understand how gas prices are set at the pump (by President Bush), take a moment to write on this blog how this takes place. Does Bush actually go to the convenience store and change the numbers himself? Oh, that’s right, VP Cheney and Karl Rove do it—I forgot.
To answer your last question: Yes, it IS you.
By Kenny
February 20, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
I think any demand or even suggestion for any candidate to drop out is contrary to democracy. It borders on vote suppression, especially for the states that have not yet voted. The demand or suggestion is often made by those whose own candidate is too weak to stand on his own two feet.
By Dennis
February 20, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
By Dusty February 20, 2008 9:39 AM | “Liberals in American declared war on Republicans while Republicans declared war on terrorists.”
C’mon, Dusty. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Everybody knows that Bush’s war on terrorists is just a front for control of the world’s oil.
Have a great day, Folks! See you tomorrow.
You don’t have to be a blind conservaative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By The truth
February 20, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Yes, Hillary needs to go back to the kitchen and make me some breakfast.
Here is some REAL news about Obama. Looks like he really does have communist roots.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
By J. Carville
February 20, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Dusty, mainstream Americans and mainstream Republicans declared war on a bunch of imposters that for too many years had successfully hijacked the party from true Republicans. Calling anyone that doesn’t share their hateful views liberals doesn’t work anymore. Real Republicans have taken back their party and put the hijackers in their place. There is no room any longer in the real Republican party for the trash that stole the term “conservative” and used it to foist their messages of hate. Deny that the overwhelming support by real Republicans for the “liberal” John McCain doesn’t say that loudly and clearly. If you don’t understand that Dusty, you don’t understand much of anything. Keep being an apologist and an enabler of right wing trash if you wish. Real Republicans have put you in your proper place. No doubt about that. And by the way Dusty. I am a West Point grad. I have been on the right side for a hell of a lot longer than you.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Dusty, you ignorant sl*t, freedom at the point of a bayonette is not freedom, its a photo opportunity. Imposing your favored form of government on another country is EVIL, regardless of the form of guv. Now spin those test tubes, it is all you are qualified to do…HAG…Dust looks a lot like Donna Shalala, the former Clinton secretary of HHS..Short, Fat, and really Ugly..
By Alfonce
February 20, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
It’s never too late too visit the Wizard Dusty. He might give you a brain if you ask for one.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
Hillary is learning the hard, expensive way that the US isnt ready for a loud, over bearing, egotistical woman Commander in Chief. Sorry.
I think Obama will learn in the general election that nor is the US ready for a smooth talking black man either.
President McCain. Who’d have thunk it.
By Shar
February 20, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
No, M. Howard, it’s not you, it’s those of us without the insider clout to have wildly benefitted under the worst Administration in the history of this country.
Back in medieval times (that boasted the kind of democracy Dick Cheney has worked so hard to reimpose), there was a strict heirarchy to eating at the lord’s table. Lacking tableward, the lord himself and his cronies ate the richest meat off of “trenchers”, pieces of bread that served as plates. Their most valued associates were given the trencher after the lord was full, and thus could eat whatever meat was left plus the bread and the fat it had absorbed, a valued source of nutrition in those days (thus today’s expression “trencherman” for one who eats bounteously). Everyone else ate enough porridge to survive and scrambled for any scraps that the priviledged might have overlooked.
Loyal Bushies and their enablers, like Haliburton and the oil companies, feast on meat. Trusted and necessary lieutenants, like Blackwater, are the trenchermen. The lack of sufficient porridge for the rest of us is becoming apparent.
By OneForTheRoad
February 20, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Bring back the CCC. I’ll go for that. Put all those government employees to work doing something useful — something other than figuring out new ways to tax us. Put them to work building dams, building bridges, building dam* bridges. Let them build bridges for us tax-paying Americans. Let them build us more bridges to nowhere. That’s where we are going — nowhere. Nowhere except deeper in debt trying to finance these government employees with their plans. Their plans to gather more taxes and tax more people. Tax them for building more bridges and tax them for thinking about building bridges — more bridges to nowhere.
By M.Howard
February 20, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
I must have struck a nerve or two. Please explain to huge profit margins made by the oil companies. What about the response to Katrina? Or better yet, this failing ecomony. All that money going to fight someone we should have left alone in the first place and you still have questions? Open your mind for a change. After Obama has been elected, you will eat all of those words. He will not be perfect but will make changes in the system that even a dumb-bell will notice. Notice, the educated class are voting for him, not the hicks in your town with their $2.00 per gallon of gas.
By Gimme a Break!
February 20, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
This is real interesting. Just compare the taxes. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html If you want to know just how effective the mainstream media is, it is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If any Democrat is elected, ALL of them say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even know what happened.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Shar, Wow, thats a nice little stroll back in time. But to compare today to that, I think is a stretch. Besides, one need only call Hosea Williams or one of his lieutenants to be fed from the lords table today. Meat is bountiful for all who want it, even those who arent willing to work and earn a wage to get it.
By Bosch
February 20, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
M. Howard,
That’s all the neo-cons can come back with. If you complain about anything then they label you as a person who just wants a hand-out from the government, or better yet, a socialist.
But Pray for Democrat is right about something, at least in my opinion, it certainly isn’t Bush alone, we have to hold Congress accountable too for turning a blind eye, or before the previous year of the Democratic control, enabling such policies that have ruined our economy to go through.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
M. Howard, Obama is going to make changes that ONLY the dumbbells will notice, because only the poorest and sorryest among us will benefit from anything he does. If you make $30k a year or more, you will be rich by his standards and thus be taxed to the bejesus belt.
Luckily he isnt going to be elected. But if he were to be? Wow, what a setback for this nation that would be. It would be equivalent to Dave Chappelles “reparations day” skit. “Im reeeoch beeeeeotch”
By Craig also
February 20, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Dusty get a brain? Sadly, I think that ship has already sailed.
To answer Jim’s question, yeah Hillary should call it quits, even though she is probably the smarter of the two. I heard an Air America talker today - yeah, Neal, they’re still around - who said that Hillary is like the smart but aloof brain surgeon, and Obama is the friendly family doctor with the good bedside manner. Which of those two do you want for four years?
And there really isn’t a choice - McAncient’s 100 years of war in Iraq, and more recession and debt for our kids, or Obama’s attempts to actually solve some of our problems.
By GT81
February 20, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Hasn’t it been mathematically impossible for Huck to win for some time now? That was my impression.
By Samuel
February 20, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
gimmeabreak maybe middle America is about to get just that. A break. Either way, Obama or McCain, America is about to be a better place for a higher percentage of people. The 8 years of Bush and the likes of Dick Cheney taught most of us a powerful lesson. NEVER AGAIN!
By Crazy Train
February 20, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Hey, GimmeABreak…I don’t care if the Dems take all my money, as long as they do something worthwhile with it! I am ready for a handout. I’m tired of having to take care of myself.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
It’s been over for Hilllary. Ten in a row, and most of those were landslides, across widely separated sections of the country, make it a mathematical certainty that Obama will be the nominee. He’ll sweep on March 4 too.
Obamamania is real. Hillary has been using the phrase “hard work” in her speeches lately. Big mistake. Hard Work is Bush’s description of war, and the phrase he uses ad naseum. Hillary’s writers are simply letting her down. If she cant see how obnoxious the phrase, “hard work” is to America, then she doesn’t deserve the nomination.
McCain has no chance against either Obama or Hillary, but certainly no chance against Obama. He set fire to an entire aircraft carrier, he’s a fool and an idiot, and a clumsy, accident-prone nincompoop, just like all the vestiges of the bush base.
The real america, the one that actually exists, wants Obama. Period.
By George
February 20, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Realist get real! The Bush years have been nothing but one massive setback. Not just for the U.S. but for the rest of the world as well. Thank God he’s about to be gone. And obviously a lot of republicans are feeling that sentiment seeing as how John McCain, the most demonized republican in his party by you conservative imposters has become the choice of real republicans. Be a realist “Realist”. Get a grip. Smell the coffee. Or just STFU. That will do nicely.
By Dusty
February 20, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Oh my goodness, Here’s what we are told today.
Anybody who is not a liberal does not have a brain, is getting rich off Halliburton and oil companies, is fighting imaginary terrorists, did not give a cent for Katrina, eats meat while spoiling the lil’bear’s porridge, and is rock bottom ugly!!!
I tell you, Lil’ RedLiberalHood is certain she sees the wolf. NOt only that but the wolf is dressed like Bush and Cheney. Ayiieeee!!!
So much for fairy tales, folks. We are talking about elections today so save your propaganda for the Presidential election. When McCain is elected you can repeat all your accusations and add the one about “stealing the election”.
I wish you libs would get some new lines. You have used the current lies too much.
By Crazy Train
February 20, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Hey, GimmeABreak…I don’t care if the Dems take all my money, as long as they do something worthwhile with it! I am ready for a handout. I’m tired of having to take care of myself.
By Jen
February 20, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Yes, Hillary should bow out for the sake of the party. There are not many policy differences between Hillary and Obama. The difference is the ability to get the policies executed. With the high negatives, loads of baggage, and her divisive personality, she can not get things done even if she wins the nomination. In contrast, Obama does not have any of these problems. The choice is clear, at least to me.
By Cindy
February 20, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Read my lips Dusty. Moderate, mainstream Republicans are not liberals. They are the true base of the party. But if it makes you feel better Dusty keep calling everyone left of Atilla the Hun and Ebeneezer Scrooge “liberals”. We don’t care anymore. Whatever you wish to call us Dusty, remember one thing. We are winning. And you Dusty are one big ignorant loser. Get used to it. When you right wingers get out of line from now on, we “liberal” republicans will be here to smack you down at the polls.
By Ron
February 20, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Jim,I predicted that Hillary would win the nomination,but it appears that she will now need a miracle to do so.I don’t believe that either Huckabee or Clinton should bow out though.There’s a lot of merit in staying until the end.Quitters are simply quitters.
By GayGreyGeek
February 20, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Dusty - it’s the flip side of “If you don’t want a permanent Bush presidency then you’re a traitor and support the terrorists”.
Ye shall reap what ye sow, etc., etc.
By Shar
February 20, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Realist @ 10:07, I’m afraid that I don’t have your connections. I have a hard time reaching Hosea Williams, since he’s been dead and unavailable to most of us since 2000.
But I have spent some time with his Feed The Hungry lieutenants, absolutely awash in donated peanut butter, jelly and white bread, which is pretty close to medieval porridge particularly after getting mashed in transit. As part of a church group, I helped make and serve 2,500 peanut butter and jelly-based meals (recipients got one to eat at the table and one to keep for later, no more), and we didn’t have enough of them to meet demand. I can personally attest that meat is not as bountiful as you seem to think, and with the current job losses, work isn’t either.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Hillarity and her New York zionist supporters are not through yet: Look for dirty and dirtier tricks out of both, with the Clinton News Network repeating each and every lie ad nausium…The Clintons will tell any lie, betray any friend, to gain and keep power…I personally enjoy denying them their hearts desire….Suffer Hillary, Suffer - It gives me pleasure….
By JK
February 20, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
I don’t think any of them should have quit! The primary system is bogus, with the media whacks wielding way too much power. They decide who can participate in their little “debates” (which aren’t actual debates), and whom they’ll exclude based on some [paid hack]Zogby guy and what their corporate bosses tell them to do.
We should have a nationwide primary day, count the popular vote, then have a run-off between the top two vote getters in each party. Freedom of speech and choice is an illusion, folks, and there is very little in our process that resembles democracy.
By Barbara
February 20, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Way to go Cindy. Nothing is more fun than watching the just dont get its like Dusty keep coming back for more. Think she might be one of those closet freaks that likes being spanked.
By One
February 20, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
Bye, bye Billary!! Obama in 08!!!!
By OldSchool
February 20, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
Two Party Player- I see where you are going with this. I liked what Ron Paul stood for in a lot of his “limited government” approach. I also liked his way of interpreting and governing BY the Constitution. He simply won’t be elected because there is a snowball’s chance in Hades that the public will elect another Republican from Texas. That being said, he is a totally different camp than Bush is. The difference in the two camps is as clear as the difference between Ronald Reagan’s saying, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” and George W. Bush’s saying, “We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.”
That latter is just not true. It’s not Bush’s fault that 09/11 happened. It’s not Bush’s fault that Katrina happened. It IS Bush’s fault for the government response to it.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
If you are going to spank Dusty in the closet or elsewhere, I urge you to bring two heavy duty bags, one for her head, the other for your own in case the first bag breaks.. Yes, Dusty is so ugly that she qualifies as a Double Bagger…Just like Hillary and Donna Shalala….
By Robert
February 20, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
I’m a Republican and as sad as it is to say, anything is better than Bush. I don’t care who wins at this point. I will vote for McCain, but even Obama has to be better than what we have now. The last 8 years have been a disaster.
By Disgusted
February 20, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
We should have a nationwide primary day, count the popular vote, then have a run-off between the top two vote getters in each party.
I’m all for it—anything but these caucuses, which blatantly violate the concept of the secret ballot. Since when are mob rule, transportation options, peer pressure, and enthusiasm substitutes for voting?
A national primary and runoff system would also serve to eliminate the cross-voters—people who have no intention of voting for a party in the general election but are allowed to help determine the candidate of that party in the sequential primaries and caucuses. You might as well have the Republican National Convention name the Democratic candidate, and that, I fear, is close to what we have now.
By Old School
February 20, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
Oh yeah.. one more thing. Last time I checked, we were a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. When we all realize that, things just might flow a little smoother, get a little better, and represent the public’s interests. Chances of that actually happening? About as good as Hillary being on the cover of Maxim magazine.
By time for the harsh but fair surrender monkey truth
February 20, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
Huge I proudly hate leftist scum snigger
This is just too freaking funny. As I generously and thoughtfully explained to the knuckle dragging liberal surrender monkey anal warthogs on here a while back. BOTH the far leftist cut and run scum Barak Hussein the magic big eared vacuous cliche spewing half-black negro and Sh!tllary, the vilest most venal lesbovampire lard arsed lying feminazi in US history are merely p!ssing away hundreds of millions of pinKKKO scum donations in an utterly futile race to get fabulously humiliated again by a GOP candidate. Although this time its gonna be by a nasty shameless leftist illegal mexican type leech panderer called McLiar from AZ.
The notion that the US will in November actually vote for a simpering vapid half-black far left PLAGIARISING surrender monkey cut and run elitist is like asserting that Kerry the haughty snotty wind surfing gigolo wasn’t a chickensh!t gutless whiner in Vietnam or that the other beaten by Bush in every single count in FL - the blubbery hectoring rabid eco-wacKKKO nutter and giant energy guzzling hypocrite alBore - would have been an unmitigated disaster Jimmy KKKarter type.
And as Sh!tllary is very very happily now all but finished yet is anally and doggedly doing a truly superb job of exposing just what the remaining worthless hate mongering hate America vermin liberals and demoNcrats are like as serial losers the fantastic fun on cable news is a never ending litany of whining bleating leftist turds.
And as the sullen black cow Mrs Barak Hussein the vapid magic negro has NOT EVER been proud of this country until just the other day - her exact unpatriotic implicitly racebaiting words - we have another snot nosed black bigot like Coretta Scott King to sit and laugh at and heartily despise!!
You just couldn’t make up just how pathetic and worthless and unelectable the demoNcrats are this year if Karl Rove himself had written the plot. All the ephemeral manic magic negro hysteria - after Sh!tllary gleefully instigates the sullen loser convention riot - will just quietly dissipate as the folks in the autumn focus on this far left half-black vapid surrender monkey teleprompter moron. Assisted by the UNASSAILABLE FACT that the magic negro has not ONE major political achievment to its half-black, half mohammedan cliche spewing name!!
And McLiar will replace Bush with likely (at the very least) the senate (if not the house too) back in GOP control as the demoNcrat landslide, happily reminiscent of McGovern/Mondale/Du Carcass like defeat is joyously celebrated by ALL TRUE AMERICANS!!
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Realist, you semen sucking moron…
Hosea Williams has been dead for years. I realize it might take some effort, but surely you can find another Negro to hate that is still above ground. Perhaps your next President.
You pinhead chump.
Funny to see Dusty complaining about people repeating themselves. This from a dessicated tw@t who mutters “Bush Great, Liberals Bad” over and over like a stroke victim. And for god sake woman, get your hand out of your panties.
By Walter
February 20, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Everytime I see Dusty here I get this image of a fat Peg Bundy in my head. The intellect is similar.
By Artie O'Bamma
February 20, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Yes indeed, those New York Jew Zionists are going to get us all killed for backing Israel when it only makes the Salafists want to kill us. How is that making us safe and comfortable?
Vote for my man Barack. His middle name is Hussein, after all. He won’t be stepping on any terrorist toes—-attached or unattached.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
It doesn’t matter what Hillary says or does. She can even grab the Fla and Mich delegates if she wants. It wont change the reality of how America is speaking out during this astonishing campaign.
We want Obama. I toyed with the idea of a woman as prez, and i like that idea alot, but a black man as prez? That’s even better. It’s justice. The lift it will give black children, who are going to be the future of this country, is promising. I remember how the nuns celebrated when JFK was elected. I was in the 4th grade, and the nuns were exclaiming how great is was to have a catholic in the white house, and how great it is to be catholic, and I was happy and proud and felt my future was unlimited, as a catholic. Why, the nuns even passed around some communion wine, and I got my first buzz. (and I liked it).
This country is not the same country it was for Reagan, or Bush. In 2000, and 2004, we were split in exactly into halves. Half wanted a theocracy under bush, half wanted a republic under Gore, and the other half wanted their mommies. That’s why the Supreme Court was enabled to commit treason to annoint Bush in 2000 and why Ohio republican dirty tricks made the difference in 04. But it doesn’t matter what the GOP does in any state, the America that stepped up in the last few months is The America that will have Obama as it’s representative to the world.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Thats right Artie O’Bamma, and you know what my first act will be as the new secretary of defense, right? here is a hint, it involves a W-88, and a vile evil city that starts with tele….
By time for the harsh but fair surrender monkey truth
February 20, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
@ the tobacco queen
as smoking fa gs (enormously amusing long standing English slang for cigarettes) can give U lung cancer - would you mind awfully smoking at least five fa gs at a time!! Just to hurry the process along … cheers bubbapigturd!!!
@ TAKAFART … looks like we have another sullen wannabe black racist ebonics pukin’ wankpig here - or has the execrable possum raping aborted foreskin or one its queeralicious queertoyboys puked up its latest anally unfunny transexual sissyfit??!! GFY … often!!
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
No More Amerian Tax Dollars for Israel! I demand they repay every cent they have been given in the last 50 years, at 10% interest compounded daily….Pay up, Crooks
By Dusty
February 20, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
Well, I’d better hurry since I have to leave.
Cindy @ 10:30
Relax, honey, McCain is going to win whatever your politics are. Now stop whining.
Gay Grey Goose 10:35
Nobody mentioned traitors but you. Why is that? R U 1?
Shar @ 10:36
Did you pass out the p’nut butter sandwiches and pork/n/beans at Redeemer? That’s where I used to do that. Keep up the good work.
Barbara@10:42
Sorry, Babs. As long as liberals keep posting lies I have to speak the truth. Somebody’s got to do it!!
Tobacco is King Again @10:52
Aren’t you the real jester? But maybe you should try mime. That way you won’t have to spout all that trash.
Been fun, folks, deciding who is “done for”. See ya’ later.
By Phoebe Naguit
February 20, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
I find it amusing that people are wasting their breath trying to get Huckabee out of the race. Why is it so important for him to get out of the race? What kind of democracy gives people only one choice? Plus, Ron Paul is still in this race, as well, but no one wastes their breath trying to say that Ron Paul needs to get out or he is doing this on an ego trip.
When I think about Huckabee and Paul, I think of two people with strong principles and convictions. They are running to win the chance to be the Presidential nominee, but moreover, they are also providing the voice for those that feel disenfranchised and pushed to the side.
The media perpetuates their own thoughts and depending on the people that are listening, they will either fall in line or vote for their convictions. Huckabee and Paul supporters know why they are voting for their candidates and it is based on where they stand on issues important to them that is being marginalized.
Just because things seem to be sewn up by the first few states does not mean that the states that are voting later don’t have an equal right to vote for who they want without making people fall with party politics. It’s not about what’s best for the party, but what is best for the country.
So if people have strong convictions about who they are voting for whether it is Huckabee, Paul, McCain, Clinton or Obama, then let them stand by their people instead of media trying to skew the results by saying - give up, give in. Why would we want a President that is a quitter and gives up when all odds seem to be against them? I’d rather have one that is resilient and can show that they are able to have grace, but firmness in the midst of seemingly overwhelming odds.
By Joe Bland
February 20, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Actually the transexual sissyfit rated fairly high on the funny meter. Loses points for brutality toward the challenged. But overall a decent riff, unlike a certain corpses-of-J. Edgar Hoover-shagging faux Brit we all know and hate, whose necronazipsychorants are tiresome. Very tiresome.
By Cara Prado
February 20, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
Fired UP:
Obama wins Wisconsin and Hawaii.
Call that plagiarism.
Now the Clinton camp can most assuredly use the phrase: Ready to go.
If you haven’t been to a rally, or have, and want to take it with you, you can get the entire Obama rally setlist—all the way from U2’s “City of Blinding Lights”, to which Obama takes the stage, to the Obama victory anthem “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” at ITunes, here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=273868596&s=143441&v0=575
By Phoebe Naguit
February 20, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
I find it amusing that people are wasting their breath trying to get Huckabee out of the race. Why is it so important for him to get out of the race? What kind of democracy gives people only one choice? Plus, Ron Paul is still in this race, as well, but no one wastes their breath trying to say that Ron Paul needs to get out or he is doing this on an ego trip.
When I think about Huckabee and Paul, I think of two people with strong principles and convictions. They are running to win the chance to be the Presidential nominee, but moreover, they are also providing the voice for those that feel disenfranchised and pushed to the side.
The media perpetuates their own thoughts and depending on the people that are listening, they will either fall in line or vote for their convictions. Huckabee and Paul supporters know why they are voting for their candidates and it is based on where they stand on issues important to them that is being marginalized.
Just because things seem to be sewn up by the first few states does not mean that the states that are voting later don’t have an equal right to vote for who they want without making people fall with party politics. It’s not about what’s best for the party, but what is best for the country.
So if people have strong convictions about who they are voting for whether it is Huckabee, Paul, McCain, Clinton or Obama, then let them stand by their people instead of media trying to skew the results by saying - give up, give in. Why would we want a President that is a quitter and gives up when all odds seem to be against them? I’d rather have one that is resilient and can show that they are able to have grace, but firmness in the midst of seemingly overwhelming odds.
By The ONLY "good" liberal is a DEAD liberal
February 20, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
still LMFAO!!!
This is what some putrid puss filled abortion bucket escapee union official said about the big eared vacuous half-black magic negro in WI last night at a Sh!tllary rally for defeat … fawning right in front of the pardon selling Arkansas rapist’s lard arsed lesbian partner.
I have to say though ITS ACTUALLY PRETTY FACTUAL AND VERY ASTUTE … PERFECTLY FAIR COMMENT!!!
But what a truly doltish maggot like name “Buffenbarger” is… sounds like a typical ACLU paedophile’s online id …
This is from a DNCTV blog today!!
Buffenbarger called Obama a “thespian,” and he sarcastically referred to the junior senator from Illinois as a “wunderkind.” He compared Obama to “Janus, the two-faced Roman god of ancient times.” And he pleaded with the crowd to boo Obama’s labor record.
Early in his speech, Buffenbarger asked, “So now we have a decision to make. Will we rely on the Harvard Law Review editor? The silver-tongued orator from Kansas, Hawaii and Illinois? The man in love with the microphone?”
Taking off the gloves, he said, “Barack Obama is no Muhammad Ali. He took a walk every time there was a tough vote in the Illinois State Senate. He took a walk more than a 130 times. That’s what a shadow boxer does. All the right moves. All the right combinations. All the right footwork. But he never steps into the ring.”
But it was Obama supporters for whom Buffenbarger saved his most vitriolic contempt, and he proved that the Democratic Party’s coalition is nothing if not fragile. Channeling Howard Beale from the movie “Network,” he yelled into the microphone, “Give me a break! I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius- driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter.”
By Mack
February 20, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
Huckabee and Paul and Hillary supporters are an endangered species, in fact I think history will display them right next to the third guy from the left on the evolutionary chart, where most of the prairie-doggin blogturds who comment here like anal fissures gone wild belong.
I have my finger on the pulse of real americans. I know the trend people are feeling before they feel it themselves. Why? How? Because I AM America. I never sold out. I talk to people as equals. When I go to the grocery store, I’ve got the cashier laughing within 15 seconds. I know what she’s feeling cause I feel it, and I know how to form the language that makes her feel good, and makes her understand that we’re all in this together as real americans, not an elite minority of fatbellies, pirates and evangelical jackals.
The real america people, that’s me. Know it. believe it. Live it.
Obama 08. Hope you change and join us. We’ve got a country to save and a world to convince.
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Notice how the crazy Brit conflates his fascination with my massive Negroidal dong with a tourettes-like repitition of the word an@l. Let’s you know about his hopes and aspirations pretty clearly.
Dream on. TAFKAH loves to ride the Hershey Highway, but not on syphilittic twinks with bad teeth. Try one of the guys in Grant Park, truth. It might be dark enough for even you to get rogered.
God, what a predictable little bottom he is.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
Shar, There isnt a lack of jobs, there is a lack of skills. James Evans was b*** about there not being any jobs back in 74. That was before the Chinese supposedly took all our jobs. It was lack of skills and motivation then, and its lack of skills and motivation today. Btw, dont tell the Mexicans jobs are hard to find, they came here in the millions and found plenty of $15+/HR jobs. So keep on keeping on with that sad song you people love to sing. Aint we lucky we got em……good times.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
How could Hillary have won? First, she should have sent Bill and Chelsea on an around the world tour for peace or to save the baby seals, or fight aids, or whatever, but last fall, she should have kissed him goodbye.
Then, all alone, she should have stayed on message: healthcare, education, and attacked bush’s eight years hard and heavy, and exposed some of the more aggregious acts of evil that horrid man perpetrated on the american people.
But, the way America is shouting Obama, and they’re shouting it out their windows, I dont know if Hillary could have done anything right to win
But it is over now. Let her spend her money. you know, give back.
By the ONLY "good" liberal is a DEAD liberal
February 20, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
@ TAKAFART
nice to see that this child molesting mutated mulatto son of a leper colony w hore and AIDS ridden with incurable syphilis and scabies rent boy is psychotically puking up its usual anally unfunny queeralicious aborted foreskin like homo bollocks.
time for a long golden shower with some chitterling flavoured liquid nitrogen for this maggot munching hermaphroditic dogturd!!
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
You can almost hear the brit twink’s prostate screaming out for a good tickle.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Hey Tafka, Shouldnt you be at work? Oh no, wait, I forgot. Nevermind.
So how is Judge Mathis today?
You are so right, I knew Hosea was dead, but his legend of feeding the homeless lives on, which was my meaning you ignorant little corn chip eating slave. You need to spend more time reading your primer boy.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
AMerica, do you want a rich foreign national (read saudi) telling you where you can or cant put your tanks? That’s what Bush/Cheney let the Saudis do. The problem with america is the foreign wealth that has trumped the will of the american people. It’s a handful of rich rich rich saudis and other foreign nationals who have made puppets out of our government.
Obama. He’s for real americans. He’s for real.
We are 4 america. We are 4 Obama.
By Shelby
February 20, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
Huckabee should get out of the race!
Many would question whether Mike Huckabee is a true conservative; I would question whether he is even a true CHRISTIAN! For an ex-Baptist preacher, the man sure has a potty mouth! “You want to come tell us what to do with the flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole”, said Mike Huckabee on January 17, 2008, in the lead up to the South Carolina primary on the issue of the Confederate flag. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee
Mike Huckabee says he is for family values despite the risqué music/song lyrics used by Huckabee and his band, Capitol Offense. Imagine the pastor of your church singing H*y Tonk Woman or Devil With a Blue Dress (song lyrics would be offensive to most conservatives). www.irdial.com/blogdial/?p=909
Huckabee has a history of corruption and lack of ethics and is one of two republican presidential candidates on the list of TOP TEN MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS of 2007. Hillary Clinton is #1 and Huckabee #6 on the list. www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt- politicians-2007
One example, after being married for 30 years, Huckabee set up a WEDDING registry at Target for him and his wife to receive gifts for their house. The wedding registry was a way to avoid ethics laws prohibiting gifts to politicians.
Huckabee raised a son who stoned and hung a dog to death. David was fired as a Boy Scout’s counselor for disobeying the “Be Kind” scout’s creed . Daddy Huck hindered the police investigation of David for animal cruelty. This should bring pause to anyone thinking of voting for Huckabee. Family animal cruelty issues often times indicate other problems as well. www.newsweek.com/id/78241
Mike Huckabee does not appear to have good judgment. He pressured the Arkansas Parole Board to free a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond — who then moved to Missouri and raped and killed two more women. Worse yet, he lies to this day about it, denying he had a role. Huckabee’s former lawyer — referred to reporters by Huckabee’s own campaign, to support his story — actually said that the governor called Dumond’s sentence “outlandish” and “way out of line”, and that Huckabee pushed for Dumond’s release. Huckabee refuses to release the documents from his office concerning the case. A former aide has said that Huckabee’s staff discussed how to make sure that documents about the case, especially the letters from other Dumond victims, could be kept secret. When he left the governor’s office, Huckabee spent the entire governor’s emergency budget - set aside for hurricanes, tornadoes and the like — destroying the hard drives of 100 computers in the governor’s office. www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm
Huckabee commuted or pardoned over 669 prisoners, including 12 murderers — 10 times as many as Bill Clinton did over 9 years, and more than all of the larger states surrounding Arkansas put together — as long as they claimed to be born-again Christians, or worked at the governor’s mansion, or played in the prison band. www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm
Huckabee could never win in a general election. Imagine his Confederate flag flap being played over and over in the Dem’s TV ads. And he wants to amend the Constitution to his religious agenda. This would alienate many moderates and independents. Americans don’t want to be ruled by an extreme religious leader. Huckabee underperformed in every state that didn’t have a strong base of evangelicals, even loosing to Ron Paul in five of those states.
Keep in mind Huckabee may be an ex-preacher but ACTIONS ALWAYS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS! Please do your homework if you’re thinking of voting for the smooth talking Huckaphony!
By Theo
February 20, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Huckabee needs to quit. He’s irrelevant. The only demographic that he can speak to is fundamentalist Evangelical Christians, IMO.
He says he’s only in it for the people but I beg to differ. Huckabee’s ego is HUGE! He can’t admit when he’s wrong and every statement out of the guy’s mouth is like a sales pitch from a used car salesman (or a preacher - is there a difference?)
Huckabee spends most of his verbal energy on platitudes that speak to everyone’s desire for the ideal but he’s not a serious contender.
The reality is that he doesn’t have a better offer yet. He’ll be unemployed after he quits and the thought of him not having a national platform is too hard for him to face right now.
By the ONLY "good" liberal is a DEAD liberal
February 20, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
MacKKK the tw@t
U’re slavish anal arselicking of a half-black teleprompter cliche puking far left worthless chickensh!t surrender monkey with not even ONE political achievment is actually enormously amusing. I naturally assume u’re doin’ this quite deliberately to make folks think u’re just an ignorant stupid Kwanza licking dickhead??
By Wake up People
February 20, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
Obama. He’s a real terrorist. For real.
We are against Terrorists. We are against Obama (and his monkey wife)
By Mack
February 20, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Maybe if anduhng had kept posting with italics, he wouldn’t have come even more unhinged than he was, if that’s possible. I minored in Psyche, and I could have this guy put away, but I think a working psychologists needs to step up and try to save this guy, have him committed (4 observation, u know), and maybe in two or three years he can be allowed chaperoned visits to the zoo or something.
A mind is a terrible thing to unravel. I teased the clown once about his italics and he’s been one flew over ever since. I cant help but feel responsible, but I know there’s no saving some folks. We cant be all things to all people, we sometimes have to let mother nature do her worst, (the poor sod).
Seems a shame.
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Having discovered that I will not unsheath my dong of terror to deliver the stiff tushie reaming he so desperately craves, brit twit turns his obsession to Mack. He even opens with an offer to felch Mr Mack, coded with several references to licking the arse.
Disgusting british twink. We know his kind well at the leather bar. He always cries when you are done with him and swears it was his first time.
By Jackie
February 20, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
The vote count in WI shows the Dems had more than 1.2 Million voters while the Repubs had roughly 400,000. Obama and Hillary beat the combined totals of the Repubs. I see a major political thumping building.
By Mid-South Philosopher
February 20, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
I am running way late today, Jim.
It may well be that we are on the verge of a “new day” in America. It may not be a “great” day. It may not even be a “good” day. But I see the status quo…the “liberalism of Hillary” and the “corporatism of Romney”…being threatened. What replaces it…the “ultra-globalism of Obama” or the “maverick approach of McCain” may not be any better, but it da*n well is going to be “change”!
If you end up not liking it, blame Georgie W. Bush. He lied his way into office claiming to be a “conservative”. He them proceeded to spend more money…not even counting the expense of the Iraq War…than any President since World War II. He violated his oath of office by failing to defend the southern border of the United State from illegal immigration, and he aped-up with Kennedy and McCain to try to allow the cheap illegal labor force to continue to exist with little or no sanction. What a piece of work this man was. January 20, 2009 can’t come too soon!
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Okay, Woo-tan asked a question…
Huckabee can take his inbred anti-education yahoo followers and go immolate themselves in their own little Jonestown. The sooner the country can be rid of the influence of these superstitious know-nothing skygod worshippers, the better. Bring back the Lions and the Coliseum.
Hillary needs to f^ck the f6ck off and not let her insane clown posse of advisers do any more harm to this country than they have committed over the past 17 years. Circle jerking DLC types are welcome to join the Huckabites in Jonestown, or join Lieberman in McCainville, which amounts to the same thing.
We are proud to support Obama in his fight against McCain, friend of S&L swindlers, pre-Alzheimer straight talker, and husband of a pill-addicted socialite drug embezzler.
C’mon Rethugs…is that all ya got? Bend over and get ready…
By time for the truth
February 20, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Actually mid south that (as far as it goes) is pretty fair comment about Bush, though the liberation of Iraq was necessary - if not badly mishandled for far too long by Rummy … it wasn’t all bad though as Bush did appoint two reasonably conservative judges to SCOTUS and he did prevent Libby from being fully lynched. And best of all he kept two worthless craven arrogant liberal turds out of the White House!! :)
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
I’m with Mack. Bashing the closeted little brit twink is like teasing a kid with Down’s syndrome (though time for the felch arguably deserves his abuse). I’d feel really awful if the abuse here led him to the suicide he thinks of nightly as he lashes his flaccid pud to a image of the Negro in the Village People.
The closet is a terrible place. Courage, twink.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Oh, its gonna be so good, having a President and an Administration not owned and operated by the stinking, lying, thieving pro israel lobby…..Who knows, we may yet have peace in the world….Scientists in New York have discovered the blackest object ever, the Heart of Zionism…..
By HIllary's big fat.... panic button
February 20, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
It looks like the 50% of America that vehemently dislikes the Clintons have spoken over the last few weeks. What, everyone thought the Clintons were so loved around this nation or something? Well, maybe to the 42% that voted for Bill in 1992 did.
The white males have spoken; the minorities have spoken; the poor and working class have spoken. Obama is the man. Both Clintons are heavy baggage to the Dem party, and if the Dem party thought ahead (they never do), they’d cleanse themselves once and for all of the Clintons and really move on. Then, we can get down to business and expose Obama for what he truly stands for.
On another note, I always knew Google was run by a bunch of extremist left wing kooks. They are well known for posting a modified Google logos with holiday reference symbols, even one about the Chinese New Year, but didn’t do anything for President’s Day. Now it appears they have blacklisted a news journalist and his website for continuing to expose the UN on mass corruption. That is so the kook left for you - just shut up or shut down what you don’t agree with like good little pinkos.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Hey Mack, just try having someone put away based on your minor in psycho babble - You will get the same treatment as that New York Hag shrink….Death by a thousand cuts….It gave me great pleasure to read about her death, and to imagine it, even to visualize it…slowly I raise the axe…..
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
All news networks have now agreed that when Hillary cries on tv again, they will all play the same background music - that old pop song, The Tears of a Clown….
By BS Aplenty
February 20, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
Sung to “Yesterday” by Paul McCartney
Hilary, Call your people in Eau Claire today, When you lose, it’s deja vu they say, Oh, “please a win” is what they pray,
Why she runs so slow, It’s “no show” Obama says, He’s been on a run, Now it’s crumbs for Hilary-y-y-y,
Huckabee, All the Party members are dismayed, Count your blessings, leave with grace today, Your last three checks “bounced” anyway.
Will he plagarize, win the prize in O-hio, Johnny’s got the glow, Take-a-hike, Mike Huckabee-e-e-e.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this
By MICHAEL LUO Published: February 20, 2008
CHICAGO — A cluster of cramped cubicles, tucked away in a rear corner of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters here, serves as the heart of a fund-raising machine that has reshaped the calculus of the 2008 election.
Mr. Obama’s finance director, Julianna Smoot, who has helped him raise more than $150 million so far, does not even have her own office. A Ping-Pong table is the gathering spot for Friday lunches for her team.
The setting, which has the feel of an Internet start-up, is emblematic of how Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has been able to raise so much money. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign will report to the Federal Election Commission that it collected $36 million in January — $4 million more than campaign officials had previously estimated — an unprecedented feat for a single month in American politics that was powered overwhelmingly by small online donations. That dwarfed the $13.5 million in January that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is expected to report Wednesday and the $12 million Senator John McCain’s campaign said he brought in for the month.
Mr. Obama’s startling success, however, has also now put him on the spot, tempting him to back away from indications he gave last year that he would agree to accept public financing in the general election if the Republican nominee did the same. The hesitation has given Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee whose advisers concede he would most likely fall far short of Mr. Obama’s fund-raising for the general election, fodder for a series of attacks.
“This type of backpedaling and waffling isn’t what inspired millions of people to invest in Senator Obama’s candidacy,” said Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain.
Under rules of public financing, a candidate has access to $85 million from a taxpayer-financed fund for the general election, a substantial amount to spend for the roughly two months after this year’s conventions. But this election cycle has shattered fund-raising and spending records and upended expectations.
The details of Mr. Obama’s January fund-raising illustrate just how much his campaign has been able to chart a new path for the presidential race. He brought in $28 million online, with 90 percent of those transactions coming from people who donated $100 or less, and 40 percent from donors who gave $25 or less, suggesting that these contributors could be tapped for more. (Donors are limited to giving $2,300 per candidate during the primary season.) More than 200,000 of the campaign’s nearly 300,000 donors in January were first-time givers to Mr. Obama.
The campaign’s success over the Internet has freed Mr. Obama from having to take valuable time off the trail for fund-raising events for major donors — just $4 million in January came from traditional fund-raisers.
“We know we don’t have to get him in front of as many major donors now,” Ms. Smoot said.
Mr. Obama has done just a few traditional fund-raising events in January and none in February, in contrast to the Clinton campaign, which has been keeping up a steady diet of fund-raisers with either Mrs. Clinton or her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton’s operation has also been pushing to improve its efforts online, with her campaign saying Tuesday that it brought in $15 million over the Internet in February, with donations jumping after news broke that she had lent $5 million to her campaign.
Mr. Obama’s January surge surprised even members of his finance team. When Meaghan Burdick, who works on Mr. Obama’s online fund-raising efforts with Joe Rospars, the campaign’s director of new media, drew up a set of projections in December, she came up with three possibilities for January in the event Mr. Obama won Iowa, finished second or third, with a victory expected to draw $10 million to $15 million over the Internet.
At the center of the Obama campaign’s online effort is an e-mail list, which now numbers in the millions but started out with fewer than 50,000, culled mostly from Mr. Obama’s Senate run.
That list grew as Mr. Obama’s many rallies drew thousands of people, where attendees gave their e-mail addresses to the campaign, as well as other initiatives to draw more people into the campaign’s orbit.
But tapping small-money donors can be a balancing act. Campaign officials say they believe they have gotten better at calibrating efforts at making sales pitches for cash while also trying to encourage people to participate in other ways. As a result, a recent e-mail message asked supporters to write letters to superdelegates making their case for Mr. Obama.
The campaign’s online donors have also come to form the backbone of its vaunted grass-roots operation across the country, with information about new donors quickly transmitted to organizers on the ground to enlist for phone banks and other volunteer efforts.
“We want to make sure that the experience people have with us is not solely around money,” said David Plouffe, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager.
After Mr. Obama’s victory in Iowa, the campaign collected $2.8 million online. But it was the two days after Mr. Obama’s stunning loss to Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire that campaign officials point to as when they began to realize they were in for an extraordinary month.
On the evening of the primary, Mr. Obama’s finance staff settled in to watch the results from their cubicles. When the television networks called the race for Mrs. Clinton, their spirits sagged. But Ms. Burdick was staring at her laptop, watching a graph showing how much money was coming into the Obama campaign over the Internet. Within minutes, it was shooting upward.
“This is crazy,” Ms. Burdick said, calling over to two of her colleagues sitting near her.
Within three hours, the campaign had cleared $500,000. In the morning, when Ms. Burdick checked again, the campaign had raised $750,000. Over the course of two days, Mr. Obama collected $4.4 million online.
The campaign sent out an e-mail message from Mr. Obama to donors the morning after the New Hampshire defeat.
“I know you just made a donation, but we are about to enter the most decisive period of the campaign,” he said, signing his name at the end, “Thank you, Barack.”
In Birmingham, Ala., Matthew Lane, 38, logged into his e-mail and received that message. Although he earns less than $20,000 a year as a storyteller in public libraries and as a freelance writer, he decided to give $25 on top of a few small contributions he had made dating to March 2007.
“The campaign has been so incredibly grass-roots, it does sort of feel like you are making a difference,” Mr. Lane said, “even in giving in small increments like that.”
And this month, after the Feb. 5 primaries, Mr. Lane decided to tack on another $25 donation.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Hey, I minored in Psyche.
Look at Wooten’s insights today: He first says that Hillary’s attacks have had an impact, and points to a gallup poll that has a 7 point obama lead shaved down to 1 point, and then the real america speaks and it’s an obama landslide. Polls are valid for fifteen seconds.
Dont believe in gallup polls, believe in the american people when they ring the bell of freedom and yes, that bell of the free tolls for thee 2, (yes, it even rings 4 a Saudi lovin’ diehard like you).
Cause Obama’s America is every american’s america, (not just foreign lobbyists) and now it’s on to Ohio and we’ll win there!!
By Realist
February 20, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
Tobacco, Israel has the money and the nukes. They arent going anywhere ever. And when you screw with them, you get bombed to the bejeezus belt. Get used to it.
By Artie O'Bamma
February 20, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Funny, the nuns within my earshot warned that Jack Kennedy was a “Roamin’ Catholic, not a Roman Catholic”, and never to confuse the two.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
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By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
I hear that the Clinton people are so short on money that they have resorted to having Hillary Clinton paged every 15 minutes at all airports in Texas, Ohio, and Pa, in place of TV ads.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Hillary, shut up. Just shut up. Enough. We’ve got a country to save, and a world to convince.
Obama 08. for real change in a real america
By the wanker
February 20, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Ive got 40 acres and a mule I would love to donate to Obama. Maybe he and his dog Sounder can run off and live happily ever after and leave running the country to the God fearing white folk.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Teamsters Union to Endorse Barack Obama
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama is slated to pick up the endorsement of the powerful Teamsters, the second major union endorsement for the Democratic front-runner in a week, union officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Obama will meet with Teamster President James P. Hoffa in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. The endorsement is expected to come soon thereafter, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the planned formal announcement.
The Teamsters represent 1.4 million members.
Union support will be key in the Democratic primaries in the next few weeks, particularly in Ohio on March 4 and Pennsylvania on April 22. Ohio and Pennsylvania have some of the nation’s largest number of union workers, with more than 15 percent of the workforce unionized in Pennsylvania and just over 14 percent in Ohio.
The endorsement from the Teamsters is Obama’s third from organized labor in a week. The 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union endorsed the Illinois senator last Friday, and the smaller United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed him last Thursday.
Obama also has two AFL-CIO unions in his corner in the Transport Workers Union and the National Weather Service Employees Organization. And with a Teamsters endorsement, he will have four Change To Win unions in his corner: the Teamsters, SEIU, the United Food and Commercial Workers and UNITE HERE, who gave the Illinois senator his first national endorsement from a union.
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By BS Aplenty
February 20, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
Refrain
Sung to “Yesterday” by Paul McCartney
Hilary, Call your people in Eau Claire today, When you lose, it’s deja vu they say, Oh, “please a win” is what they pray,
Why she runs so slow, It’s “no show” Obama says, He’s been on a run, Now it’s crumbs for Hilary-y-y-y,
Huckabee, All the Party members are dismayed, Count your blessings, leave with grace today, Your last three checks “bounced” anyway.
Will he plagarize, win the prize in O-hio, Johnny’s got the glow, Take-a-hike, Mike Huckabee-e-e-e.
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
By all means yes, Hillary, do have your husband shut you up, after he himself shuts up. And you, Barry, keep talking. Your wife too.
We want everyone to read this statement: “For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country.” We want them to read this statement, and approve it, and adopt it, and recite it. Twice. In public. We want them to try to say these words right now, in the privacy of their own cyberspace.
We want them to see how it feels to say such words, even when others do not hear them. We want them to see whether they honestly mean anything good, to anyone other than a postsecondary Marxist filled with generosity by her conviction that her country, at long last, wishes to establish Socialism.
We want her husband to put substance to his vaporous speeches, and to recite at great length the trillion-dollar shopping list of items he will give unto his American People at no cost other than wealth redistribution on a massive scale. We want him to explain how the essence of his hope is that this, yea even this very redistributionist gospel, will be preached in every hamlet and metropolis, until all the nation is united.
Keep talking.
Preferably for 45-minutes at a stretch.
By CJ
February 20, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Hillary doesn’t care how much she damages the eventual nominee from her party or the party itself in her quest for glory. She won’t win the nomination, but she’ll take her party down trying.
She should get out soon, but she won’t.
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
I wonder if my propensity to suck c@ck interferes with my ability to post coherent messages.
My gayness should have nothing to do with my intelligence.
I’ll keep talking then.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Yesterday, the people of Wisconsin voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new kind of politics.
They rejected an onslaught of negative attacks and attempts to distract them from the common concerns we all have about the direction of our country.
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But the noise of these tired, old political games will not drown out the voices of millions calling for change.
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If we win in Hawaii, it will be ten straight victories — a streak no one thought possible, and the best position we can be in when Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont vote on March 4th.
Thank you for making this possible,
Barack
By Redneck Convert
February 20, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
Well, I’m just sorry as I can be that TFTT or whatever he calls hisself these days is one of Those Kind of People. I always knowed there was a screw loose somewhere, but I didn’t know he went for That Kind of Stuff. No wonder he’s so mixed up. It’s downright unpolite for people to broadcast it tho, like they done here.
By Peter
February 20, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Dusty….You are constantly spewing baloney…..
“You are partially correct. Liberals in American declared war on Republicans while Republicans declared war on terrorists.
Too bad you don’t know for what you are fighting. While you were busy fighting the Commander-in-Chief, our troops have given freedom to two countries. Oh, you forgot? It is Afghanistan and Iraq.”
REPUBLICANS are bilking the treasury, starting made up WARS and spreading propaganda, like you!
It will be nice when our Commander in Chief actually WORKS with the rest of the world leaders, and NOT continuously hang us out to dry!
I agree I hope Hillary is done……I could never vote for her, and when the dust is settled, it will be very interesting to see the Presidential debates!
In the mean time, why doesn’t Dusty actually work if she is employed, and STOP wasting her employers money!
Ops I forgot “Family Values” !
By JK
February 20, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Apocolypse, may I interrupt your campaigning and soliciting for a little breakdown?
(1) This is a Georgia-based blog. We’ve already voted in our primary. Obama already took the state’s delegates. I need my money right now, thanks. (2) Contrary to the corporate Republican media, MOST Democrats are not all that divided. We were thrilled with the entire field of candidates, and will vote for our nominee no matter who it is. WHY are you creating more discord where it’s neither necessary or helpful? (3) I will vote for Obama, but he would have gone a lot farther toward being “my hero” had he not allowed his people to twist some BS in SC and accuse the Clintons of being racist. That was a racist thing to do, IMO, because no one really believes they are unless they WANT to believe that, and it was done by his people to get votes there… period. (Carnies blow up and twist balloons and call them giraffes, but they’re not giraffes, they’re just bits of rubber blown up and twisted. Same thing.) (4) Do you really think you’re putting your talents to their best use right now? UNITY is a two-way street, Dude. Think about it. Thanks for listening.
By Anyone But Hillary
February 20, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Jackie - you’re not paying attention. The reason the “numbers” were large in the primary is that many of us conservatives voted in the Democrap primary so that we could throw the election and get in the candidate that is easiest for the Republicans to beat in November. We have no intent of voting for the Democraps in November - you’ll see a big change in the numbers then.
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
Sometimes it’s interesting, sometimes not, that Political Foreskin never asks someone whether he is gay, but instead labels him as such as though the label were the ultimate insult. For him the worst thing in the world would be a Jewish homosexual.
I’m guessing that most gay Jewish American men probably are pretty smart fellows—-an amalgam of stereotypes, perhaps, but if so then also a fairly educated sociological guess. I’d further speculate that very few of them would be, like PoFo, stupid enough or deceitful enough not to recognize that the reason for Barack Obama’s elusiveness is that he and his wife are arch-redistributionists several degrees to the left of the Left Wing of the Democratic Party.
Yeah, they’d probably get that fact in a heartbeat. They’re in the main pretty good at seeing through people’s artifices.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
JK, may I interrupt your unwarranted critique of my posts for a little breakdown?
(1)Obviously you should know that I am aware of where this blog is geographically located. Therefore this question should enter your mind: Why is he blogging here? I’m glad you asked JK. The reason is there are a lot of people here who claim to not know Obama’s specific positions and, assuming you’ve seen my past posts, I have provided them. This is necessary so that they will not be armed with that excuse when we approach the general election. Also, there are a lot of people including myself that are aware that since money doesn’t grow on trees, we will continue to put action with our support.(2)I agree that Clinton’s statements weren’t racist, but it was the media who spearheaded that accusation not the Obama camp. They may have mentioned it, but it was MSNBC,CNN, and Fox news who were responsible for most of those charges.
Finally, you are absolutely correct. Unity is a two way street, so why don’t you lay off attacking me in the presence of the opposition so that our unity will be evident.
Thanks for listening.
By GayGreyGeek
February 20, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
Apocalypse - Fine. You’ve been asked what Obama’s positions are.
Do you REALLY have to flood the blog, day after day after day, with multi-hundred-line cut-n-pastes from barackobama.com?
I now live in Tennessee, and I voted for Obama on Super Tuesday, so I say this as One Of Us - shut up. You’re doing more harm than good, and it’s pitiful that you can’t see that.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
Wrong Glenn, they are mostly stupid perverts: Like “Adam the pervert Grady Doc” who showed up in a 15 year old boys driveway at 5 am, with sleeping bag, ky jelly and plans to molest the boy while mom and day were away. Doc Adam is now in Prison, where he belongs, yulumka and all. Oh yeah, did I mention the pervert was HIV positive, had made contact with the minor over the internet, and was repeating a crime that he had already been successful with in molesting at least one other boy? Yeah, a*****, they are all pretty smart….
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
GayGreyGeek,
You are lying. If you were an Obama supporter you would not take such an offense to my posts.
Even if you are, you would have handled yourself in a nicer way when correcting me.
You acknowledge that I’ve been asked about his policies and then question me because I answer?
You are lying.
By Camus
February 20, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this
Here’s an interesting note from the latest ARG poll:
George W. Bush’s overall job approval rating has dropped to a new low in American Research Group polling as 78% of Americans say that the national economy is getting worse according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove.
I don’t think any Pres has ever hit as low as 19% (maybe Nixon). Yikes. This can’t be good news for McCain, since he is running as the more-of-the-same candidate.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this
Wrong Glenn, they are mostly stupid perverts: Like “Adam the pervert Grady Doc” who showed up in a 15 year old boys driveway at 5 am, with sleeping bag, ky jelly and plans to molest the boy while mom and day were away. Doc Adam is now in Prison, where he belongs, yulumka and all. Oh yeah, did I mention the pervert was HIV positive, had made contact with the minor over the internet, and was repeating a crime that he had already been successful with in molesting at least one other boy? Yeah, a*****, they are all pretty smart….
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
Some of them, such as Roy Cohn, are smart enough to put such greenhorn daddy’s boys as Bobby Kennedy on the map, for sucking up to Joe McCarthy and Dick Nixon.
By JK
February 20, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
Right, Apocolypse. You can post 68 paragraphs a day, but I should… what? Shut the heck up, get back in the kitchen and bake some biscuits like women are supposed to? Thanks, Dude, but the people claiming repeatedly that the Democrats have no ideas or positions are die-hard Repuglicans who WILL NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT no matter what you say. DUH! They hate us just for breathing, and you’re falling for it. And I wasn’t “attacking” you OR your candidate, but that will happen soon enough when the Repugs crank up their slime machine to full production. Hope BO can handle it with more grace than his faithful do.
President McCain is not something I EVER want to see. Don’t effing blow it!
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
JK,
Women and biscuits? I made no such comment.
I’m afraid that I must break fellowship with you now due to your propensity to hear things that don’t exist.
By Tobacco is King, Again
February 20, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
Glenn, I don’t give a s** about jewish history, any more than I care about wigwams and indians….
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
Barack Obama’s Plan Protecting Our Chemical Plants
Chemical plants are attractive terrorist targets because they are often located near cities, are relatively easy to attack, and contain multi-ton quantities of hazardous chemicals. While a number of plants have taken voluntary steps to improve security, there are still major gaps; and the federal government has never established meaningful, permanent security regulations. Senator Obama worked with Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) to introduce comprehensive chemical plant security legislation that would establish a clear set of federal regulations that all plants must follow. The bill requires chemical facilities to enhance security, including improving barriers, containment, mitigation, and safety training, and, where possible, using safer technology, such as less toxic chemicals.
Keeping Track of Spent Nuclear Fuel The nation has 103 operating nuclear power plants which annually produce over 2,000 metric tons of spent fuel that remains highly radioactive for many years. A report by the Government Accountability Office found inadequate tracking and security for spent nuclear fuel rods. Nuclear plants in Connecticut, Vermont and California have reported missing spent fuel in the last five years. Senator Obama introduced legislation to establish guidelines for tracking, controlling, and accounting for spent fuel at nuclear power plants.
Evacuating Special Needs Population in Emergencies One of the most devastating aspects of Hurricane Katrina is that most of the stranded victims were society’s most vulnerable members - low-income families, the elderly, the homeless, and disabled Americans. Too many states and cities do not have adequate plans in place to care for special-needs populations. Senator Obama introduced and passed legislation to require mandatory planning for evacuating people with special needs.
Reuniting Families After Emergencies After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people struggled to contact family and friends following evacuation. Evacuees were forced to comb through dozens of databases in an effort to reconnect with loved ones. Senator Obama introduced and passed legislation to create a centralized, federal database to allow individuals displaced by an emergency to call one phone number or go to one website and post their location and condition. Family members and law enforcement officials would be able to use this same secure, centralized system to check the status of missing loved ones.
Keeping Our Drinking Water Safe There are almost 170,000 public water systems in the United States. An attack on a drinking water system could contaminate or disrupt water service, thereby disrupting society, impacting human health and compromising critical activities such as fire protection. Senator Obama introduced legislation to provide $37.5 million over 5 years for drinking water systems to upgrade their monitoring and security efforts.
Protecting the Public from Radioactive Releases Following reports that nuclear power plants in Illinois did not promptly notify local communities that tritium – a byproduct of nuclear generation – had leaked into the groundwater, Senator Obama introduced legislation to require nuclear plants to inform state and local officials if there is an unintentional leak of a radioactive substance. Chronic exposure to high levels of tritium can increase the risk of cancer, birth defects and genetic damage.
Barack Obama’s Record There have been tritium leaks at other nuclear plants, though none so extensive as at Braidwood. The uproar over Braidwood prompted the Nuclear Energy Institute to outline a voluntary policy for monitoring tritium leaks and reporting such incidents. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has vowed to continue to push for federal legislation that requires reporting. “The nuclear industry already had a voluntary policy, and it hasn’t worked,” he said. Exelon’s past actions have helped to prove his point.
— Chicago Tribune, Editorial, May 25, 2006
By GayGreyGeek
February 20, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Apocalypse - you’ve answered. And answered. And answered.
Trust me, you’ve answered.
You’re doing more harm than good. It’s a shame you can’t, or won’t, see that in all your enthusiasm. It’s just sad.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
All you blacks are going to be screaming bloody murder when your boy loses. And he will lose. No way this country lets gives the reins to a black man. We just arent there yet. Hell, I dont think we are ready for a woman iether to be honest. I think McCain is going to win it on votes from those who wont vote black or female, and there are millions who fit that mold.
By Apocalypse
February 20, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
GayGreekGeek is a Hillary supporter and thinks I’m as dumb as she is.
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Tobaccolypse upon Foreskin,
How do you feel about American history?
And how do you like the idea of a Socialist POTUS, circumcised or otherwise?
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Hey Realist, I see you took my advice and found a new Negro to hate on. Good for you!!
But you still seem to have trouble with the name. Repeat after me…
President Barack Obama.
That ought to get your cracker blood boiling.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Apocolypse, On behalf of McCain supporters and neo-cons everywhere, we salute your tireless efforts, no matter how insane and obsessed.
JK, Stop sweating it dear. Its already effing blown. Your two candidates are going to duke it out so long and tear each other down so low, they by the general election McCain will be ale to skate in. But yes, we will fire up the machine soon and begin to tell America the true story of Osama, er I mean Obama. As far as Hillay, hell, she will do her own self in, we dont have to help her. Your only hope is Obama and like you said, they are already effing blowing it. LOL!! I love it.
By JK
February 20, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Apocalypse, I don’t care for your fellowship anyway, but I will stand with you to put 19th-Century inbred crackers like Bama Realist back under their rocks in this most important of election years.
Misogyny clearly crosses ALL racial, cultural, and political factions, but hey, we go to election with the a—holes we have, not the b—-hes we want, right? (And you have made your SHE-hatred clear in the past, dude… just because our butts are sweet and round doesn’t mean we forget.)
By DavidE7
February 20, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
America’s number one enemy is not Al Qaeda, but the commercial media, because those who control the media place making money above the welfare of the country. They turn the election into entertainment by trying to reduce the contest to two candidates as fast as possible. They assume that those with the most name recognition and the most money should be the favorites. But a national election is about leadership ability and the future of the country, not who is best looking or who can raise the most money. I would take the job of informing the public away from the commercial media and put it the hands of patriots who are tied neither to the establishment nor anti-establishment groups. Then America might get the leadership it needs to survive in today’s world.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Your right JK. This is a BIG election year and VERY important. Let me ask you this. When is the last time something so big and so important actaully went the way it should or the way you wanted it to? Never. McCain is going to win and break the hearts of millions, who will scream conspiracy, set up, voter fraud, etc. Watch. Mark my words.
By Realist
February 20, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
Tafkah (is that your tribe name?)
The only thing that gets my cracker blood boiling is when my son accidentally leaves our spa on 110F. Well, that and when George, our front gate guard lets those damned colored kids in the neighborhood to sell thier stupid football and baseball fundraisers. Drives me nuts. Dogs go crazy. The neighborhood wives afraid to come outside. its just a mess. Weve told him time and time again to keep them out but he doesnt listen. That one irks me to no end!
But Sen. Osama? Nah, he doesnt phase me.
By JK
February 20, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Mr. Realist, November 24th, 2007. Hahaha! Six in a row!!!
Regarding the election, you sound like you KNOW the electoral process will be hacked and defrauded again. Is the Alabama Sec. of State also the Elect McCain chairperson this year, as was the case in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004? Or is the hacking at a higher level this year?
You’re right; if McCain wins I will never believe a fair vote is possible in the United States of America. As it is with our bogus delegate primary system and electoral college, I believe “democracy” really is only an illusion we cling to. Money still buys, owns, and buries the truth in America.
By Grr
February 20, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Apocalypse we are tired of your long a* posts that are just spewing the same crap over and over. If you really want to get our attention why don’t you stop posting long blogs that no one reads and come up with something original.
By Copyleft
February 20, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
I love the backward names the right-wing loons cook up for themselves: “Realist,” “The Truth,” and so on. I guess they were inspired by the example of their lying masters: “Clear Skies, Iraqi Freedom, Healthy Forests….”
Funny stuff. Ultimately useless, of course, since they can only win in the imaginary world they’ve cooked up—the one where everybody admires Bush, and the Iraq War made us safer, and America isn’t going to vote overwhelmingly Democratic this November.
Let’s tiptoe away and leave them to their childish daydreams, shall we? No need to spoil their fun just yet.
By JK
February 20, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
DavidE7 at 3:06: AMEN!!
By OneForTheRoad
February 20, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
Well, Bernanke finally admits that unemployment is getting worse and inflation is going up. Too bad he can’t see that he should have left things alone. All that easy money he has been throwing out is being used to buy commodities and run up prices. That’s right. Bernanke’s policy is making things worse. People are still losing jobs, house values are still going down, foreclosures are still going up, credit is even less available and now we have higher inflation on top of that. I know. Let’s borrow more money and give everyone a rebate of $600. Wow. Doesn’t that make everything all better. The only thing we need to do now is raise taxes to bail ourselves out of this mess.
By GayGreyGeek
February 20, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
Copyleft - you forgot “Mission Accomplished”.
By Chris Taylor
February 20, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
I’m a staunch Huck supporter and want him to stay in until the convention, whether he gets the nomination or not, he has proven to be a man of integrity and a true conservative. He is running to give the voters a choice and a voice.
Think how well he did with EVERYONE (media, Republican elites, talk radio, even some Christian leaders like Robertson)against him. He was a late bloomer that didn’t get the recognition he needed until it was too late. Everyone already had made up their minds of who to endorse, and mislabeled him a “liberal” early on. In 2012, it will be a different story.
McCain is going to get smashed in the general. He is too moderate/liberal and provides hardly any contrast on issues with the Dems. Plus, he has the personality of a dead person. McCain would do well for himself to make Mike his running mate. That would be his only way to win. Otherwise, I’m writing in Huckabee for the general.
GO HUCK IN TEXAS and OHIO! Send McCain a message!!
www.mikehuckabee.com
By Rev. Hermann in California
February 20, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
The only reason Mike Huckabee is still in this race, is because over 1/3 of Republican voters believe in him and want their voices heard.
Isn’t it odd that he had absolutely no National Media hype, GOP support or Wall Street money telling us how to vote, going into Wisconsin, yet he was still able to get 37% of the vote. That’s nothing short of a MIRACLE. The average American is speaking through Mike Huckabee. Just think if he actually did get some support from the big wigs who think they can buy America.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to abolish Slavery, and it needs to get back to it’s roots and values for us to become united again.
By Realists
February 20, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
Wow JK. Cant really argue with you. I do have that gut feeling though to be honest. No way “they” let it happen for Obama. I just dont see it. Too much at stake.
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
DavidE7,
At least a couple of us agree with you that the media are a clear and present danger, a fact made manifest in this already interminable election cycle. Yesterday we were saying that media people also are expressing your concern, from within their own weird bubbles. Any ideas as to what to do about it, other than to find a buyer & nutcutter for the DNC-AJC?
By Abomi Nation
February 20, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Did you hear that everyone!!
Huckabee gets 37% of the Wisconsin Republican primary vote and now is a MIRACLE!!!!!
LMAO
By The Trilateral Commission
February 20, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
We have chosen as your next president … John McCain.
Oh, vote if you like, but we have picked. Resistance is futile.
Have a nice day.
By GoMike
February 20, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
When are Obama’s supporters going to wake up and realize he’s just pretty words, with nothing to back it up? The guy’s running a sunshine and lollipops campaign. I couldn’t be less an evangelical- I am voting for Huckabee because of the FairTax, and because he actually has a solid plan to rid this country of illegal aliens.
By GoMike
February 20, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
When are Obama’s supporters going to wake up and realize he’s just pretty words, with nothing to back it up? The guy’s running a sunshine and lollipops campaign. I couldn’t be less an evangelical- I am voting for Huckabee because of the FairTax, and because he actually has a solid plan to rid this country of illegal aliens.
By The Council on Foreign Relations
February 20, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
We have chosen as your next president … John McCain.
Oh, vote if you like, but we have picked. Resistance is futile.
Have a nice day.
By OneForTheRoad
February 20, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
Well, Bernanke finally admits that unemployment is getting worse and inflation is going up. Too bad he can’t see that he should have left things alone. All that easy money he has been throwing out is being used to buy commodities and run up prices. That’s right. Bernanke’s policy is making things worse. People are still losing jobs, house values are still going down, foreclosures are still going up, credit is even less available and now we have higher inflation on top of that. I know. Let’s borrow more money and give everyone a rebate of $600. Wow. Doesn’t that make everything all better. The only thing we need to do now is raise taxes to bail ourselves out of this mess.
By The Order of Skull and Bones
February 20, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
We have chosen as your next president … John McCain.
Oh, vote if you like, but we have picked. Resistance is futile.
Have a nice day.
By The Girl Scouts of America
February 20, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
We have chosen as your next president … a box of Samoas.
Oh, buy as many as you like, we have plenty. Resistance really is futile.
Have a nice day.
*Now wasn’t that worth waiting for?
By Hillary the Cookie Baker
February 20, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
More! More!
I’ll spend More!
I’ll have More solutions! To More problems!
Bill will have eight More years!
More! More! More!
By Joe Bland
February 20, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
You know, I’ve been published thousands of times in dozens of countries over 25 years. But nothing beats reading my own crap on the Wooten blog.
By Frank Fat
February 20, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
Missuh Jo Bran he woukuh fo duh Hong Kong Nooduh Factory. He right-a fo-chun cookie fo many yee-uh. He very great rightuh. Yeah.
Dassa gootwong!
By Jackie
February 20, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
The Repubs may have crossed over to vote for Obama in the primaries, but, when the general election rolls around, there will not be enough of them to stop the tsunami. Presidentail and Congressional blowouts. Watch those numbers.
By getalife
February 20, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
Well, w is down to 19% so McMaverick may want to change course on w’s third term or he will get embarrassed.
Blog on.
By Jackie
February 20, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
Muqtadar El Sadr, the Shiite cleric that controls the Madr Army, has threatened to break the 6 month ceasefire in Iraq. The number of US fatalities are expected to rise and the US military has spent more than 5 years “training” the Iraqi military. The surge is not working and we spend close to $38 Million per second in that country. We are faced with a faltering economy and rising unemployment and Dubya protests that the House will not give him retroactive immunity to cover his crimes, so the terrorists are coming to get us. Afghanistan, is getting ready to boil over; Pakistan is slowly moving Musharref out of the picture. All the missteps by our government are starting to create major problems for us. By the way, all monies borrowed from China goes to build their military. Is that our next axis-of-evil?
By Chris Taylor
February 20, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Jackie, the next “axis-of-evil” is already here. Their names rhyme with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
We need a Commander-In-Chief to win this war and come home honorably; not a Dem who’d rush the troops home and leave Iraq and Afghanistan a mess. This would absolutely dishonor the troops who have already died for the cause.
I’ve flown missions in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I know first-hand what we are doing there. It is my job to support our ground troops and keep them safe, including those I know and serve with. (I myself will be doing a ground tour for a year). It is a noble campaign (what we are doing there) and it’s the troops out there dieing to keep you free to voice your flawed positions.
Freedom isn’t free! Troops are dieing and you are more worried about our financial losses?!
LT Chris Taylor, USN
By Glenn
February 20, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
Yep, get, if W plunges another four or five points, he’ll be right down there with Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic House.
Jackie,
I sure hope China is the regarded as our enemy. They aim to take us. And their spying on our shores and interference in our affairs has been out of hand for too long.
Not only the financing we get from China, but also a portion of the proceeds from the purchase of all Chinese goods, goes to feeding development and deployment of countermeasures over against our national defenses. The country is set up as an organized crime racket, with the “mob” being the military junta that runs the country with its minions, in uniform and in mufti, who among other things sit as plants on every board of every business. It’s a protection racket, a shakedown.
Only in the Chinese racket the U.S. loses its protections.
I vote for whichever candidate shows the most hatred for those murderous pigs who are desolating that great culture and making war on freedom wherever they find it. I also think the U.S. government should confiscate the passports of people like Haig, Kissinger and GHW Bush, who flack for the junta as though it were General Motors.
By Mack
February 20, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
Obamamania!
Ashley Judd sure is loaded for bear.
By blitzer
February 20, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
Well, w is down to 19%-
No he’s not, c0ck knock. Still almost twice as high as your beloved Pelosi congress. You were wrong about Shrillary too. Wrong as usual. That’s getalife.
By blitzer
February 20, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this
Thank you, LT Taylor. Pay no attention to the moonbat operatives known as Jacked-up Jackie or that total loser, gotnolife.
Well said, as usual Glenn. You drive the moonbats batty. They keep getting more vitriolic. You would think winning congress in 2006 would have calmed them down. Apparently not. They are more angry and vitriolic than ever. Let’s just hope they all commit mass suicide and save this nation from oppressive tyranny of neo-communism’s failed economic policies already well proven around the globe in many cultures.
By TAFKAH
February 20, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this
LT Taylor,
You regurgitate the standard wingnut talking points very nicely. How do you keep the koolaid down when you puke up the rest of that cr@p?
As with the GOP, I find no reason to respect a person just because they serve in the military. As such, I am wearing a purple bandaid in your honor and smirking at your service. I will also be launching a Keyboard Kommando investigation into your actual exploits in the Iraq and Afghan theatres, as I am certain that your story does not add up. Something about the kerning of the typeface in your post makes me most suspicious. How dare you presume to speak for Our Brave Men and Women in harm’s way, you make believe soldier.
That’s the way the wingnuts play it. Good for goose and gander, eh guys?
By getalife
February 21, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
Today, we hear McLover say, “I did not pork that lobbyist”
I told you the karma is beautiful.
Bwahahahahahahaha.
By TAFKAH
February 21, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Before any of you wingnut fools get your panties in a twist (I’m looking at you, Dusty) over the liberal media’s slam down of St John McCain and his McClenis problem, think about who has the most to gain from this story when you decide who is to blame.
Three words, people. Rhymes with..
F^ck. A. Bee.
At least Lewisnsky was not trying to get favors for the telcos when she was doing Clinton. She was just sucking c0ck for fun. That’s my kind of gal.
By Curious Observer
February 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Today, we hear McLover say, “I did not pork that lobbyist.”
You’ve made my day, Get. LMAO!
By getalife
February 21, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
CO,
It is hilarious and he is speaking now.
By getalife
February 21, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Sir, did you pork that lobbyist?
No.
McClenis is lying.
By betty jo hicks
February 22, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
It is exciting to see someone like Mike Huckabee not buckle to pundits and Republican “wheels.” He has given his supporters his word that he will not quit until McCain has won.
I still am impressed with the frugality of his campaign. Oh, that that could go to Washington. How happy my pocketbook would be.
By Chris Taylor
February 22, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
TAFKAH,
I’m in VAW-125 Norfolk, VA. I came off a 7.5 month cruise on the USS Eisenhower in May 2007. Hope this helps with your research…you will find that we flew missions as I described.
Thanks for letting everyone no you are a fascist who does not support the troops. God bless the USA and all those serving or have served.
By Chris Taylor
February 22, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
TAFKAH,
Here’s a bit more for you to chew on to help shut you up:
As for aircrew doing ground missions; it is a reality. The program is called Individual Augmentation. It basically takes people from all services out of their normal jobs, retrains them to a specific job set to perform 6 months to a year in various places, but mostly Iraq. Members can volunteer or be volunteered, but it is happening. Many from my squadron from the officer to the enlisted are participating. This is to help spread the Army/Marine Corps with low manning.
If physically able and not too old, why don’t you join and help the cause?