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Rhetoric will leave off where McCain begins

In one sentence on primary night in Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. John McCain nailed Barack Obama — and defined precisely the terms of the fall campaign.

Be not intimidated by the growing certainty that the rhetorically gifted Obama, and not his fingernails-across-the-chalkboard opponent, will emerge as McCain’s opponent in November. With Hillary came the high negatives that gave Republicans hope of a built-in general election advantage. With Obama comes an army of high-end liberals, affluent and well-educated, along with an energized swell of blacks and the young drawn specifically to him. The prospect of running against a “movement” has unnerved some Republicans, to say nothing of those — affiliated or not — who have listened to Democrats lay out their vision for America through a long series of debates.

McCain summed it up in that one sentence. “I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by the eloquent but empty calls for change that promises no more than a holiday from history and a return to the false promises and failed policies of a tired philosophy that trusts in government more than people.”

No question that a decade or two ago, Americans, hands down and without reservation, would have rejected the alternative McCain described. But half the U.S. population is younger than 36.6 years, and an increasing percentage of the country, now almost a third of those who file, pays no income tax, up from 20.6 percent two decades ago. What’s more, an alarming number of children are born to unwed adults — more than two-thirds of blacks, almost half the Hispanics and a quarter of whites — without the security a two-parent family provides.

The point is simply that the “failed policies of a tired philosophy” McCain describes are distant to the experiences of the YouTube and Facebook generation and they are, furthermore, no threat to those who see themselves as possible beneficiaries of Obama’s spending. Besides, 97 percent of income taxes are paid by 50 percent of those who file, according to the Tax Foundation, so — many potential beneficiaries believe — the tab for Obama’s $900 billion in proposed new spending will be borne by somebody else, by “the rich.”

Still, there’s much reason to believe that with time and a focused message elaborating on the two options for America that Obama (or, if by some miracle, Hillary) and McCain represent, the nation will choose the course that avoids replaying the “failed policies of a tired philosophy.”

Why be invigorated by the prospect of running against Obama? Simply this: He will talk himself into trouble — and may very well talk himself out of the White House.

Obama is a truly gifted orator. But he’s been reassured of that so often, and his rhetorical skills have taken him to such heights, that he’s grown much too comfortable with his eloquence. He’ll say too much. He’ll get caught up in the beauty of his argument and get careless.

In the two Democrats’ Los Angeles debate, number 18 in the series of 19, the line of questioning went to the two candidates’ health insurance proposals, which would be costly and require raising taxes “on millions of Americans,” the questioner declared.

“On … on … on … on wealthy Americans,” Obama replied.

As the exchange continued, Obama finished his point.

“And then look, I, I, I’m not … I’m not bashful about it,” he said. “You guys,” he said, making reference to what he said was a “pretty well-dressed” audience attending the debate, “potentially pay a little bit more. I will pay a little bit more.”

Agreeing moments later with Hillary that “people did really well” before tax rates were lowered, Obama declared:

“They were doing just fine.”

When he’s the nominee, expect to see his words fed back to him.

While he may not repeat the mistake of picking up the rhetoric of others, as the Clinton camp accused him of doing last week — she called him “change you can Xerox” in Thursday’s debate from Texas — Obama’s strength is his weakness. He’s been surrounded by the adoring, by party activists who applaud at lines that connect with the moveon.org left but reflect a tin ear for the workaday worries of ordinary people.

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By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

{{{{Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s must-win states of Ohio and Texas are no cakewalk for her, largely because independents and crossover Republicans are welcome to vote in their Democratic primaries.}}}}

Hehehehehehe.

Another “large turnout” coming up for the demokrats, haha.

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{{{{The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters—straight to Barack Obama.}}}}

{{{{In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama or deciding they now are undecided.}}}}

al-Gitmo: So when you gonna jump ship……..with the rest of the rats?

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{{{{Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opted Friday to keep the cease-fire order for his Mahdi Army militia in place for another six months, a step that could hold down U.S. and Iraqi casualties while bolstering al-Sadr’s importance as a political player as Iraqi factions jostle for power.-POS Urinal}}}}

Yeah, “powerfully” hiding in another country, where he can safely direct his brainwashed masses to blow themselves up, be sure to take some women and children with you.

Look at how unbelievably wormy the AJC is to add in their little punk language,the AJC being a bunch of little sissy mofos that would run at the first sign of trouble.

Isn’t that sweet, the AJC shoots off their kowardly pieholes from underneath their beds and other people get killed because of it.

Like Mookie is the second coming of Sherman’s Union Army or some sh-it.

Come on out, “powerful” little Mookie, wield your band of criminals against the 82nd Airborne, see how long your little tin soldiers will last.

Why do you think they’re hiding in the first place?

Duh.

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{{{{Turkey launches attack on Iraqi Kurds!!!!!! Turkey’s government has complained that Iraqi and U.S. authorities weren’t doing enough to stop guerrilla operations!!!!!-POS Urinal}}}}

You think the following information just might be an important part of the above mentioned Scumbag Urinal scare story:

{{{{Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he called his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki, on Thursday night to give him an advanced briefing of the operation. Erdogan said he later briefed President Bush in a telephone call.- 2/22/08.}}}}

Total anti American POS Atlanta Journal Constitution, slanting the news, not reporting it.

Again, from underneath their bed, trying to get other people killed. Turning a story of an anti terrorism operation coordinated among several countries using intelligence given to them by the United States, and turning it into a Turkey!! Invading!! Iraq!! Crying Jag Waaaaaaa!!!!

GFY.

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{{{{PUBLIC EDITOR: We hate to make mistakes, but we don’t ignore them, Accuracy is essential to our credibility. Each mistake we make chips away at the public’s confidence in the newspaper.-Urinal Ombudsmen, blah, blah, blah.}}}}

Of course the column shows the Urinal’s undying, whatever the cost devotion to avoiding errors of…….grammar.

Hahahaha.

You can’t make this kind of crap up.

Totally fabricated “news” stories, no problem, just get the spelling right.

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So how are those river mussels doing?:

{{{{Pike’s nurseries on block- Drought killed sales for the struggling 50-year-old institution.-Urinal}}}}

You truly have to admire the irony here- The junk science environmentalists drained our water reservoirs and single handedly wiped out the real “green” industry.

There is nothing more beneficial to our atmosphere than CO2 consuming, oxygen producing trees and plants, and here we are watching the misguided dimwit environmentalists lay waste to green whole industries, causing far more harm to the planet than if they’d just let the mussels “evolve” naturally.

It’s environmental terrorism, pure and simple.

{{{{Spike in gas prices could end quickly- Even though most experts forecast $3.75 to $4 a gallon, supply cushion has grown. While gasoline has risen sharply in recent days in response to oil’s dramatic climb to a record above $101 a barrel, gas supplies have quietly grown to their highest level in 14 years.-Urinal}}}}

So rising gas supplies cause prices to fall, eh?

{{{{Over the last quarter-century, the number of refineries in the United States dropped to 149, less than half the number in 1981. The last refinery to be completed in the United States was in 1976, and Mr. McGinnis knows all too well that community and political opposition squashed earlier projects. His proposed refinery in Arizona has already been forced away from its original site near Phoenix, in 2003, after the state considered expanding the city’s clean-air limits.}}}}

Environmental terrorists attacking your wallet and the economic output of the entire United States.

When will we ever learn?

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From the Urinal Vent:

{{{{If Obama’s the answer, I’d sure hate to see the question.}}}}

{{{{I’m not interested in anything Jane Fonda says unless it’s: “Stand back or I’ll jump!”}}}}

Now, now, let’s no go that far with it, but you do bring up an interesting point; Why the pinko fascination with what this dimwit has to say? Do other dimwits gaze upon this failure with awe and wonder?

{{{{Universal health care. Brought to you from the makers of the “FEMA trailer.”}}}}

{{{{I understand that Bush plans to talk up our successes in Africa. That shouldn’t take long.}}}}

Our being the previous democrat administration, of course.

It sucks seeing Africans dancing and cheering for Bushie, don’t it?

By Redneck Convert

February 23, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m warning you right now, if this Osama gets elected, there will be heck to pay. Instead of a couple weeks in Hawaii, well-off people like jbmlaw will have to settle for a week in Smyrna. And poor Wooten will have to give up South America and take a couple days vacation in Acworth. There’s just no telling where it will all stop when this Osama starts getting rid of the tax cuts of My President.

That’s not even the worst of it. The first thing Osama will do is start bringing our troops home and these Iraqs will have to make up their diffrences and learn to live with each other. Just think of all the poor troops with no war to fight. The card playing will commence and they will have all kind of time on their hands and get into trouble. Next thing you know some of them will take out after the people that wanted them to stay in the war and we could get hurt bad.

Anyhow, like I said before, I don’t want to live in a America with one of Those People as president. Just imagine the shame of turning on TV and seeing a picture of Osama behind a podium with the seal of the President and the rest of the world dumbfounded and saying, “Why, that’s one of Those People!” That’s why me and my buddy Jim Earl and Joe Bill plan to go to the Canada embassy or something like that and ask about maybe them taking us in. Just in case Osama is elected, you know. It won’t be America no more if somebody other than a White man is President.

Anyway, I thank God for folks like the Swiftboat Veterans that can start smearing people like Osama and maybe talk people into voting for McCain even if he is a librul and maybe likes to poke and fumble around lobby women. Leastwise its better than voting for a librul Democrat. But not much better. I would like to see the Republicans rise up and make the Rev. Huckabee the leader of the Republican party.

Well, I got my best blue jeans on and a long sleeve T-shirt and am headed for Countryland Golf Course down in Cumming to spend the day. I hope people on this blog don’t get me mixed up with this Captain Freedom again today. Its downright shameful to be mixed up with a crazy guy that just digs up big words and makes us godly Republicans look bad even if he don’t mean to.

Have a good weekend everybody.

By Thor

February 23, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Andy, aka AJC Management, Luckodull, etc, our whatever he calls himself at any point in time is my gay lover.

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Thor February 23, 2008 8:48 AM Andy, aka AJC Management, Luckodull, etc, our whatever he calls himself at any point in time is my gay lover.}}}}

Well, of course the AJC Management is gay!

Is there something wrong with that?

Do you fascists have to hate everybody?

By Hal Lindsay

February 23, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama is a great man of peace.

By Captain Freedom

February 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

THE Captain of course agrees with Jim. That Obama has a smart mouth, and when people like him go sassing off the way they do, they can’t help but themselves in deep trouble.

Besides, as Jim points out, We of True Belief have a rhetorical dynamo in John McCain to counter Mandingo Mouth. St John indeed summed up the problem with Obama in a single sentence; alas, it is a run-on nightmare that would have made even Thomas Hardy blush. But no matter, that. It is the powerful, energetic delivery that McCain brings to the game, capped with that rictus smile at the end of every statement that shows The American People that, yes, he knows he is supposed to smile, but dammit, he can barely be bothered. This is a calculated and surefire tactic to secure that all-important Cheney supporter vote.

But Jim is right. THE Captain can’t wait until He attends the GOP convention and We Common Sense Conservatives can all join hands and chant together: ““I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by the eloquent but empty calls for change that promises no more than a holiday from history and a return to the false promises and failed policies of a tired philosophy that trusts in government more than people.” (then the crowd faints from lack of oxygen)

Yes, it verily rolls off the tongue, a natural rallying cry. THE Captain feels a tingle up his leg at the very thought. Who’s gonna overcome, now, pinkos??

Have a nice day, everyone. And your little dog Glenn, too.

By Political Foreskin

February 23, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

As one of the premiere liberal fascists on this blog, I must say that I am deeply offended by these types of comments-

By AJC Management February 23, 2008 9:15 AM Do you fascists have to hate everybody?

Just because we hate gays and black people is no reason for the trolls to as-sume that we hate “everybody.”

I mean really, we don’t hate the Islamic terrorists.

We don’t hate child molesters.

Mass murderers are O.K. as long as they are not U.S. soldiers.

I’m calling on you, Mr. Wooten, to delete these offending comments and set the record straight about who the democrats hate and who we love.

By Commander Guy

February 23, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

As long as we are looking at the strength of John McCain’s vision, let’s enjoy the following quote:

“This is Sen. John McCain. I’m calling to urge you to support my friend Rep. Rick Renzi for Congress. Rick has represented the first district of Arizona with tenacity, honesty and integrity beyond reproach. I work with Rick every day and can report to you his total dedication to the people of Arizona and the United States. Please join me in supporting rural Arizona’s workhorse congressman on Nov. 7.”

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Hot dang good column there, Jim Wooten. Many compliments.

Maybe you shoulda been stringing for Hillary; then, she wouldn’t have used that line from the bubble gum wrapper about Obama offering “change you can Xerox.” You’d have given her something a mite better, I’m sure. “Change you can spend”?

Your column, of course, hinges on the accuracy of McCain’s characterization of Obama’s massage. (Apologies to McLuhan.) You dig JM’s characterization. I dig it. You aks, will the Peeps dig it? Hmn. Well, it worked for Nixon to play to the fuddy-duddies against the longhairs. It worked for Reagan to package traditionalism as something new and alternative. We’ll see.

The severity of historical aphasia exhibited by the thumbpadded ones is quite disturbing. It will be fun to help McQueeg to show it up over the next several months. Poor things. They know not what they text.

Had Billary ever met a policy proposal they didn’t try to triangulate, they’d be able now to distinguish Hillary’s flowing horn o’ plenty from Barack’s; for example, by pointing out that Hillary is merely a cornpone liberal of the Franklin and Eleanor school, whereas Barack is a neoMarxist committed to The Struggle.

But that’s perhaps just as well, because now the Republicans get to have all the fun.

By @@

February 23, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Good grief! you’re third paragraph—did McCain really speak that eloquently? He must have gotten a new speech writer. Good! he needed a little polishing in that arena. He needs none in the realm of experience (legislative and military).

Obama is a truly gifted orator. But he’s been reassured of that so often, and his rhetorical skills have taken him to such heights, that he’s grown much too comfortable with his eloquence. He’ll say too much. He’ll get caught up in the beauty of his argument and get careless.

I’ve already seen that ^^^ happening.

While I’m no big fan of Hillary’s, I can find sympathy for her when she tries to address Obama’s shortcomings only to be booed for her attempts.

He (Obama) is such a “nice guy” and people don’t like it when a “nice guy” is called to answer the questions put forth.

“Nice guys” finish last. They can only get so far and then they’re dumped. Just ask me…I chose a “bad boy” who turned out to be THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR and an all-around “good guy”. No regrets!

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Whooo eeee

The whole Democratic Party must have turned out this morning. If it were not for “AJC Management”, I would think I was eating breakfast at a liberal luau.

RedNeck rules his post with country pinko perfection. Captain plays the lib’s wizard wonder. Commander Guy throws in his two cents worth of guilt for one fits all.

Wooten has noted Obama’s weakness, that being his flight of fancy with “the word”. Obama loves the fanciful CHANGE while expecting Americans to thrive on fairy tales.

Forget Mother Goose and Rumplestilkin. We need substantial fare and McCain is the only one to offer it. Right now, we have Humpty Dumpty Obama sitting on the glorified wall. He will crack at the first fall (which will probably be named Michelle). I’m not ready for an omlette of cracked shells and shills to run this country.

By Devastator

February 23, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

@@,

You seem to be mighty sympathetic to Hillary lately. Your 10:01, and your comment yesterday concerning Hillary going to Yale and appealing to 74 year olds with a six grade education.

The group she’s appealing to is based on facts, that’s whose voting for her. Has nothing to do with her education.

Careful,@@, your gender bias is showing.

By McInsane is INSANE

February 23, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Dr. Dobson: I Will Never Vote for McCain Newsmax.com Friday, February 1, 2008 12:07 PM

While John McCain has risen to the top of the heap among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson remains adamant that he will not support McCain’s bid for the White House.

Dobson, one of the nation’s most influential evangelical Christians, declared more than a year ago that he wouldn’t support McCain under any circumstances, saying McCain didn’t support traditional marriage values.

A Dobson spokesman told the New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick Wednesday that he stood by that position, and as a matter of conscience could never vote for the Arizona Senator.

According to the paper, Dobson is joined by a slew of other prominent conservatives who oppose McCain on a number of issues:

Talk radio host Mark Levin urged visitors to the National Review’s Web site to “rally for Romney” to ward off a McCain win, saying: “Conservatives need to act now, before it is too late.”

Talker Rush Limbaugh told listeners on Thursday: “McCain is in a lot of these places not actually the Republican candidate. He is the candidate of enough Republicans, but [also] independents and moderates and probably even some liberals.”

Pat Toomey, president of the anti-tax organization Club for Growth, said in comments reported by the New York Times: “I have yet to see McCain make any attempts to reach out to free market conservatives.”

Conservatives fault McCain for voting against President Bush’s tax cuts and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and for supporting embryonic stem cell research, looser immigration rules and stricter environmental regulations.

Conservatives were particularly irked when McCain made a deal with Democrats to break a deadlock on judicial nominations, according to the Times.

Anger over that compromise was rekindled this week when Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund wrote that McCain had privately criticized Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito because “he wore his conservatism on his sleeve.” The McCain campaign denied that report.

Following McCain successes in early primary states, however, other conservatives are beginning to warm up to his campaign:

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, who previously opposed a McCain nomination, said: “He has moved in the right direction strongly and forcefully on taxes.”

Former McCain foe Tony Perkins, a prominent Christian conservative, told the Times: “I have no residual issue with John McCain,” adding the candidate needed to “better communicate” his stand on social issues.

Richard Land, an official with the South Baptist Convention, agreed, noting that McCain “is strongly pro-life.” He said: “When I hear Rush Limbaugh say that a McCain nomination would destroy the Republican Party, what I want to say to Rush is, ‘You need to get out of the studio more and talk to real people.’”

By McInsane is a Fake War Hero

February 23, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Are McCain’s handlers playing the wrong card? By David H. Hackworth January 25, 2000

John McCain is being hailed by the press as a “genuine war hero.” But is he a war hero in the conventional sense like Audie Murphy and John Glenn? Or is his “war hero” status the creation of a very slick publicity campaign that plays on flag, duty, honor and country?

For sure, McCain has the fruitsalad a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars , two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service gongs.

On a purely medal count basis, he outweighs Murphy and Glenn, who both for years repeatedly performed extraordinary deeds on the ground or in the air against an armed enemy.

McCain’s valor awards are based on what happened in 1967, when during his 23d mission over Vietnam, he was shot down, seriously injured, captured and then spent 5 1/2 brutal years as a POW.

In an attempt to find out exactly what the man did to earn these many hero awards, I asked his Senate office three times to provide copies of the narratives for each medal. I’m still waiting.

I next went to the Pentagon. Within a week, I received a recap of his medals and many of the narratives that give the details of what he did.

None of the awards, less the DFC, were for heroism over the battlefield where he spent no more than 20 hours. Two Naval officers described the awards as “boilerplate” and “part of an SOP medal package given to repatriated (Vietnamera) POWs.”

McCain’s Silver Star narrative for the period 27 October 1967 the day after he was shot down to 8 December 1968 reads: “His captors… subjected him to extreme mental and physical cruelties in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes. Through his resistance to those brutalities, he contributed significantly towards the eventual abandonment…” of such harsh treatment by the North Vietnamese.

Yet in McCain’s own words just four days after being captured, he admits he violated the U.S. Code of Conduct by telling his captors “O.K, I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”

A Vietnam vet detractor says, “He received the nation’s third highest award, the Silver Star, for treason. He provided aid and comfort to the enemy!”

The rest of his valor awards issued automatically every year while he was a POW read much like the Silver Star. More boilerplate often repeating the exact same words. An example: “By his heroic endeavors, exceptional skill, and devotion to duty, he reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Naval Service and the United States Armed Forces.”

Yet McCain’s conduct while a POW negates these glowing comments. The facts are that he signed a confession and declared himself a “black criminal who performed deeds of an air pirate.” This statement and other interviews he gave to the Communist press press were used as propaganda to fan the flames of the antiwar movement.

Accounts by McCain and other writers tell of the horror he endured: relentlessly beatings, torture, broken limbs. All inflicted during savage interrogations. Yet no other POW was a witness to these accounts. A former POW says “No man witnessed another man during interrogations… We relied on each other to tell the truth when a man was returned to his cell.”

The U.S. Navy says two eyewitnesses are required for any award of heroism. But for the valor awards McCain received, there are no eyewitnesses, less himself and his captors. And they’re not talking.

Our POWs in Vietnam were treated appallingly. The Viets would either break a POW or kill him. POWs provided info beyond name, rank and serial number or they didn’t come back.

Based on these stalwart men’s horrific experiences, the Code of Conduct has been changed. A POW says, “Now the training is to give them something… don’t risk permanent damage to health, mind or body.” McCain refused an early release. An act of valor? Three former POWs told me he was ordered to turn it down by his U.S. POW commander and he “just followed orders.”

McCain certainly doesn’t appear to be a war hero by conventional standards, but rather a tough survivor whose handlers are overplaying the war hero card.

David H. Hackworth died in June 2005, he was a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam. Col. Hackworth received 78 combat awards — including a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and eight Purple Hearts — during his 25-year military career which spanned the Korean and Vietnam wars..

By Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

since she is posting on a saturday, and we all know she only blogs on her employer’s time…If only we knew which government agency she worked for, we could INFORM on her…My guess is Ga Tech, as she avoids mentioning Tech….Maybe Ga State…Possible Grady, as they have few controls…..come on dusty, show some balls, tell us who you are stealing paid work time from…..

By @@

February 23, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Careful,@@, your gender bias is showing.

You couldn’t be more wrong Devastator. I’m on my way to a wedding where women will be acting insincerely enthusiastic while stabbing each other in the back. All within a period of five hours.

I’ll be involved, but indifferent.

Would you like to go in my place?

By Mid-South Philosopher

February 23, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

John McCain has it right in his statement that you quoted from his victory speech the night of the Wisconsin primary. However, I suspect the average voters (not the hardcore Democrats or Republicans)are going to ask themselves a question come November…especially if, as I suspect, Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee. That question will be…“Am I better off than I was eight years ago…before George Bush?”

Those, who can honestly answer “Yes”, will vote McCain and the Republicans.

Those, who cannot answer in the affirmative, will vote the other way.

We shall see.

By Devastator

February 23, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

@@,

how’s about I go with you, stay 5 minutes,and then do our own thing.

That’ll give me enough time to wow you with my Obamanomics.

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Well, the Democrtic propaganda team is working overtime today. Look at the 10:27 and the 10:30 smears.

McCain is a graduate of Annapolis and served in the military during wartime. He was captured and tortured. He has an HONORABLE discharge from the military.

Now liberals are trying to crank out the old “he didn’t do it right”. I guess next we will get some fresh forgeries on his war record. You would think the Democrats would at least quit the phony stuff. But they keep trying. Just read the “canned” stuff presented here today.

How about Obama’s military record? You libs want to tell us? We are waiting………

By Typical AJC Blog Debate

February 23, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Conservative: So what about the resurgence of nuclear energy as a safe and clean alternative to the import of foreign oil, good or bad?

Liberal: Shut up! STFU! You’re blogging from work on the weekend, I know it! I’m gonna tell on you!

You fa-g!

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

@@,

Stop braggin on that fine man you married, please. It makes the natives restless.

I do gotta agree wit da ‘goyle who sed dat Hillary’s ed cred don’ mattah. My point last night is that Michelle proves that.

My guess is that Barack too will prove it, if he hasn’t already done so. In any event, Lincoln and Truman were exquisitely educated for the Presidency.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Too bad I’m not as accomplished as the Obama’s.

If I was, I’d have better things to do than insult them.

Only so much I can do with a correspondence degree.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

To the anti-military goyle who posted the eccentric Col. Hackworth’s piece @ 10:30: don’t scare Dusty with facts.

By @@

February 23, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Devastator:

One last thing before I’m off…

if I were seeking a feminine mystique/mystic to lead our country, I’d be voting for Obama. I’m not.

You guys have fun.

By Captain Freedom

February 23, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

THE Captain cringes to take Dusty’s side in any battle, but He must agree that you Americahatingliberalcommielovers (THE Captain realizes that is a redundant superfluous repetition, but begs the reader’s tolerance for poetic license) are sinking to a new low when you have the temerity to slander the decorated military heroism of one of Our Brave Warriors of Indochina. The very idea that you would mock the courage of a man who was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts is lower than snake sweat, even lower than Dusty’s sagging mammaries. Granted, there may be some so-called “eyewitnesses” who suggest that the story was trumped up, but Our Own Military has verified the man’s actions and awarded him as it deemed appropriate. Are you calling our military a bunch of liars?? Why do you hate Our Troops so? Why do you hate America?

When will you Islamecoliberesbians ever learn that mocking the Honorable Military Service of a true American Hero for political gain is beyond the pale of acceptable discourse.

For shame.

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

ID Thief,

You haven’t presented any “facts”. Now you were supposed to tell us about OBAMA’S MILITARY RECORD? Don’t you have any down at Dem Headquarters? Waiting………..

Oh I see. You only doctor up McCain’s. Obama doesn’t have any military record. WHAT?? A Commander-in-Chief with NO MILITARY RECORD?? Sounds like a Democrat for sure.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Jacker, if only you can sustain your Obama sychophancy, Micelle Obama may wake up proud of her country someday soon!

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

You can always tell when Luckodull gets the little liberal girlie boys’ pinko panties in a wad: they always infer homosexual or racist epithets instead of picking his post apart and actually debating. But we all know the rotten pigas-sed liberal RATs here despise original, logical, and straight to the point topics that THEY don’t agree with. It must suck to be brain dead zombies, I suppose.

Hey gitmolife - you were asked a direct question: when you gonna jump ship, RAT? Hahahaha..

Anywho, moving Right along…

Recently Michelle O, the latest sensation in politics like her husband, went speaking around the nation. Fortunately, it didn’t appear that any women actually passed out due having such a boring wretched life that watching grass grow is overtly stimulating(unlike when they watch her husband speak). Do we really need people voting who are so caught up in emotions over politics that they can’t contain themselves like being at an Oscars expo? How ridiculous. Anyway, she really is as effective a speaker as her husband. It’s amazing how a couple of people can say so much without really saying anything: “change” & “we need to move forward” & “life is terrible for Americans these days and the past needs to be left behind.” What a bunch of empty words and phrases.

A couple of things she said made some ears perk up. This is paraphrased, but close enough to get the point:

’We need to all take responsibility for our fellow Americans, especially those who struggle and need to be lifted up to a higher standard of living with all our help. It is not fair that we have such inequalities in this nation where the haves have and the have nots do not.’

Uhm, wasn’t that what government assistance programs like housing and food subsidies were designed for? Why are there still people stuck living off these programs for generation after generation? Besides, isn’t that what income redistribution is for where the top 50% of federal income tax payers foot 96.3% of the bill for the remaining bottom 50% receive some of their tax dollars as income?

It is easy to infer that those who don’t have what others have are getting the short end of the stick in this nation by being at a mental or physical disadvantage. To some extent, that most assuredly is true. However, what about those able bodied and able minded individuals who choose to loaf? What about those who settle at best for mediocrity in life and on the job? How come liberals and democrats never talk about them? You know those types: they come in right at the clock start and not a minute earlier, and leave right at clock end and not a minute later; they don’t volunteer for extra curricular activities or weekend work or after hours work if a crucial deadline comes around; they take ten smoke breaks a day; they use all of their sick days, whether or not they are sick; they surf the web and yap with their girlfriends all throughout the day.

Now, those are the same people wondering why they are passed over for a promotion or why another candidate was chosen for that internal position that was more visible to future income growth potential. Then they look to Democrats like Obama who will hand them their higher quality lifestyle at the expense of others - who do everything BUT all of the above and wind up, imagine this, more financially rewarded – what a concept, huh? As to be expected, that’s just not fair enough for liberal democrats.

It is not surprising of Democrats like Michelle O to fail to acknowledge that not everyone in this nation is entitled to or DESERVES success and a better life, irrespective of the ORIGINS those funds for that better life come from. In the old days, that was earned through the exact opposite of the aforementioned attributes of mediocrity. Communism/marxism (see: Obama’s past) has failed around the globe because everyone is equal in those realms. If someone works twice as hard as someone else and only gets paid an equal amount to someone who works half as hard, where’s the incentive to better him or herself?

What a shame so many in this nation are turning to a dependent and entitlement-based mentality where they feel they are owed everything in life, whether or not they earn and/or deserve it, and Democrat-ic politicians happily pander to them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (and his father Joe) would be ashamed of the modern version of his party. You could probably say the same about Reagan and the modern version of his party as well: Republicans who are anything but that, let alone conservative – but at least they aren’t trying to destroy the foundation of this nation, the freedom to seek prosperity and the spirit of the entrepreneur - let alone cave in to a bunch of 7th Century women stoning Middle Eastern cave dwellers. So, how many of those bottom 50% mentioned earlier has anyone ever worked for? Thought so.

By Ron

February 23, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Morning Jim,Had to go shoot a few groceries this AM.I agree this morning.Compared to Obama,McCain is an arch conservative.Either every Conservative and everyone they can drag to the polls this fall votes for McCain or the outcome will be a foregone conclusion.You can have a liberal Republican or an ultra liberal,almost communistic, Democrat.I have been perusing the Global Poverty Act,and that is scary.Billions will disappear to cover that bill.

By Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Hey Dirt Ball aka Dust thing: McInsane graduated from the Naval Academy fifth from LAST in his class..and only managed that because daddy was an Admiral and daddy’s friends were McInsane’s teachers…IsraleioFascist: McInsane’s three medals were automatically awarded to ALL returnng pow’s, he did nothing special to earn them…

By Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

@@ - I worked my way thru college in part by taking photo’s at weddings, a fertile field in a college town with 20,000 student’s. I always scored with a hot girl at the wedding, something about weddings just made them put out to strangers….Nail them to the wall….

By Jenjis Khan

February 23, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Earlier this week, in this space…

Lieutenant Chris Taylor, United States Navy: 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.

TAFKAHgoyle:

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 Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

My wife always votes Repuke, that is if I let her….She has agreed that she will not vote in this election, as even she cannot stand McInsane…I am taking no chances, she will be drugged and tied to the bed on electin day….

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Dear Captain Freefall,11:07

Your complimentary comments on McCain are worthy of a Pulitzer or maybe a Nobel such as the noble Gore received or was it the Grammy Awards? I forget. Gore does sing and dance, doesn’t he?

Ah well, I am glad you have progressed from Bilious Brassiere Salesman to the finer fountains of life. And what is your size,sir? But let us not wander from the goals of goodness, necessary to offset the Dubious Ditties of Democrats.(I like alliteration also.)

Alors, back to our hero of truth and acceptable discourse. Yes!! McCain ‘08

By Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

McInsane is also McLIAR, imho. He crashed and destroyed three Navy jet in practice while hot dogging, accidently launched a rocket from his jet on the Forrestal destroying that jet and killing 138 American sailors, and in each and every case, he was given a new jet by his Admiral daddy and daddy’s friends, plus an new air craft carrier after he so severely damaged the foresteral that it had to return home for repairs, and the burial of 138 crew men. Now McInsane wants to command the entire us military..What a disaster that would be…

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Once he his out of office the secret service is not around to protect people from him. We better be careful about where he goes hunting. Safety protocol would be useful, don’t you think? - Hillary

To think that woman got upset when someone said she was “pimping out” her daughter (she is).

Can anyone see The HillBilly duck hunting? I can’t even get a visual on that - oh wait, yes I can: Dukakis in a tank. Hahaha..

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Uh, I would like to buy a consonant from “sychophancy” and add it to “Micelle”, please.

By Dusty must be working overtime

February 23, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

If you hate John McCain, then sign up for a one year subscription to the new york times at nyt.com ~ Tell them you are subscribing to support the Times in their revelations about the crooked McInsane….Cancel your subscriptions to the ajc to fund your times subscription….

By Khanslayer

February 23, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

“Can I buy me a hunting-uh license heerr?”

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

POFO aka Dusty…overtime, etc…,

Cut out the phony stuff, will ya’?? We know it is you, all except the canned copies which are put out by paid political sidekicks.

We know you are bored. That it is Saturday and you don’t have a job. That your wife is a saint to put up with you. But..forget the other stuff. Just use PoFo for ID, not all that silly junk. Thank you!!

By Dusty is sniff her own but...

February 23, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

If a military record is required dirt thing, where is yours……oh, that’s right, your daddy was a draft dodger, your grand daddy was tried for deseration under fire, and your hubby hide in college with a student deferment…..SNIFF AWAY HAG, IT IS YOUR ONLY SKILL….

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Our teachers are left-leaning. They are progressives. They’re going to have things (in their courses) that conservatives are not going to like.

Viva le Che! The ba-stard and his “cause” killed and enslaved millions, yet school children in Tuscon are going to learn all about the wonderful world of revolting and revolution from anarchists and communists - all under the guise of multiculturalism studies. Can you believe this disgusting un-American propoganda? This is what modern liberal demonRAT moonbats call “progressive” I suppose. Sickos from hell is all they are.

By AmVet

February 23, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

How cute. The Swiftboat crowd now laments the slurs against McCain.

If you cretins could get just a wee bit of consistency, someone might give a rats arse about you chickenhawks.

Hint: veterans vested in the nation more than some political party and their latest poster boy, are universally sickened by attacks on combat-tested vets. Democratic or Republican.

ESPECIALLY coming from the ilk that it generally does.

By getalife

February 23, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

McLoser has credibilty, lobbyists, voted for all pork hypocrite and mistress problems.

But for the gop, that is a higher standard than most.

Jim and his ilk will vote for him anyway.

They could give a damn about our country or our troops.

And that is a damn shame.

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

11:37

In case you haven’t noticed, we are talking about possible presidential candidates. I’m not one of them.

What was it you said about OBAMA’S MILITARY RECORD? Did you forget??

By AmVet

February 23, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

To the “satirist” at 11:35, some facts:

*A Zuni rocket was accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom II by an electrical power surge during the switch from external power to internal power. It flew across the flight deck, striking a wing-mounted external fuel tank on an A-4 Skyhawk, Aircraft No. 405 piloted by LCDR Fred D. White. Aircraft No. 416, piloted by LCDR John McCain, was right next to it.

That McCain wasn’t killed instantly was just plain luck. And that he later survived 5+ years in the Hanoi Hilton again testifies to the fact that IMHO his bravery is unimpeachable.

Yours?

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Three news organizations that make continuous course corrections to ensure that they remain ever in the middle of the Liberal mainstream, are CBS News, The New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. They could tack to Port, but they don’t. They could tack to Starboard, but they don’t.

This week’s NYT fiasco was a reminder of the propensity of such news outlets to attempt to interfere in presidential politics. The phenomenon is not best understood by examining the content of their hit pieces (or their puff pieces), but rather by noting the timing of the pieces and by observing that information required of any student of the rudiments of journalism is actually missing from these self-important “scoops”.

So it was with the story about McCain’s indiscretions, which story boiled down to innuendo. So it was with CBS’ effort to throw an election by palming off “change by Xerox [or Inkjet Printer]” onto the voting public. So it was with the DNC-AJC’s hit on Giuliani as a yet unconvicted, serial felon.

Somewhere in the back of voters’ minds it has registered again and again that they are being manipulated. With increasing frequency and from across the American political spectrum, they are saying, with the late George Harrison:

I’ve been fobbed off, and Ive been fooled

I’ve been robbed and ridiculed

In day care centers and night schools

Handle me with care!

They want media that will handle them with care and respect. They know that they no longer have such media.

That is why they will vote for the candidate whom they perceive as less full of it.

By TAFKAH

February 23, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

jenjis khan certainly intends to inflame the partisans against my oh so impolite response to LT Taylor, who as a combat veteran is certainly above reproach. Flame away.

If you wingnuts had a shred of honesty and self-awareness, you would admit that YOU are the ones who opened this pandora’s box. The Democrats have never attacked any opponent’s honorable military service (and let’s not even pretend the Dubya’s TANG detail of snorting blow off the a$$ of hookers rises to that level). Not with Bush I or Dole when the non-military Clinton ran against them. And so far, the most vocal critics of McCain’s military service have been wingnuts like Sampley. I defy you to find one instance of Obama or Clinton questioning McCain’s service.

But you guys changed the rules in 2004 when you trashed Kerry, and the wingnuts continue to follow a strict rule regarding veterans: those that toe the line are heroes, but those that question the wingnut cause are fair game for any character assasination. The case last year of Scott Beauchamp is a case in point. And I wager that in the next few weeks, the Army captain referenced by Obama in the last debate will come in for his share of chickenhawk abuse.

So, as I wrote last week, goose and gander. If the extremists of the GOP feel that the service records of their opponents are fair game for ridicule and abuse, I will join in and hurl it right back.

As for Obama’s choice on miltary service…he did not dodge the draft by gaming the system (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gingrich), nor did he use family connections to garner a cushy posting (BushII, Quayle, etc.). He chose to not enlist, as is his right in this nation. That he elected to not subsume his life to the military does not disqualify him from the presidency, nor does it necessarily reflect poorly upon him as a citizen.

But if you guys want to eleveate military service as the defining characteristic of a man’s fitness for office, let’s take a real close look at McCain’s record of achievment. I doubt the real picture is as admirable as he would have you believe.

For the record…my own record of military servicing is exemplary. I’ve had c0cks from all of the service branches (including the Coast Guard) in my warm wet spots, and placed my own in each branch of the service in return, though certainly not in harm’s way. I love military men and women, and they love me.

By getalife

February 23, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Clinton: Obama Untested, Just Like Bush Was

Ouch.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

accidently launched a rocket from his jet on the Forrestal destroying that jet and killing 138 American sailors, - wanker on McCain

Hey liberal wank stain: instead of just talking out your a-ss like a typical disgusting lying lib, read up on the situation on the Forrestal before shooting off your uneducated, mind numbed, ball-less brain. It came from an F-4 during a pre-engine start, and the pilot flipped a switch that happened to set off a circuit that was tied in the armament link, and a fluke sent a charge to the missile - which was unsecured and should not have been until after engine start. McCain flew an A-4, ball-less brains.

I can tolerate a lot, but I can NOT and WILL not tolerate a lying, seething, sniveling pos liberal RAT from hell.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

You didn’t “reproach” Lt. Taylor, TAKFAHsan, you launched a crass ad hominem attack on an unwelcome stranger to the blog until you drove him away. Why? Because he’s in military service, and because you disagree with him.

That is what was called, by U.S. ground forces in WWII, “chickensh!tting”. You shat on him, like a chicken.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Clinton: Obama Untested

Oh sure, like The HillBilly has ever really been “tested.” She lives in her own glass house - then “cries” when the going gets tough. Laughing my AS-S OFF.

By TAFKAH

February 23, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Why? Because he’s in military service, and because you disagree with him.

According to the new rules of the game, as written by the wingnuts, that is all the justification one needs. Welcome to the world you have helped to create.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

The New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Glenn, the only difference there is that the Atlanta Communist Manifesto follows around and regurgitates from the New York Slimes like some pathetic leg humping mangy mutt.

By GLENN IS AN IDIOT

February 23, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Lt. Taylor does not exist, military types are forbidden from posting such trash and identifying themselves as military…me thinks Glenn himself is impersonating a military officer, a Federal crime, of the Felony nature…confess now Glenn, and we will go easy on you…NO WE Won’t, Hang HIM…no we will go easy…Not

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Why is some POS liberal RAT from hell still talking out it’s as-s about a visitor from last week anyway? Sick, infested, flatulating, infatuated loser.

By GLENN IS AN IDIOT

February 23, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

RUFUS, you are parroting the Admiral’s coverup of his son’s stupidity…All aircraft involved were destroyed and pushed overboard, so how exactly can the blame be placed on the F-4 - Oh yeah, F-4’s had not even been introduced to the forestal in 1967….

By getalife

February 23, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

There are 35,000 lobbyists.

McLoser should get those votes because he is their candidate.

Why in world would Americans vote for the legal bribery candidate so nothing will change except to finish off our country is beyond me.

Do you even care about your country?

It is the definition of insanity to vote gop and expect anything to change.

Snap out of it and get real.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Video: Another Obama supporter can’t name anything Obama has actually done.

Spoken like a true Obamanian - the lights are on, but nobody’s home. Get a load of Chris Matthews unloading on this a-ss hat. Hilarious. The Hill must’ve paid a few “visits” to Chris as someone noted in the comments.

By GLENN IS AN IDIOT

February 23, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Tax the Repukes from the face of the Earth….Let us confiscate all their wealth, put them in chains, and make them plow the fields and mine the coal until they drop dead, dead, dead from over work…That is my Platform for Dictator of AmeriKa….

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Tax the Repukes from the face of the Earth….Let us confiscate all their wealth, put them in chains, and make them plow the fields and mine the coal until they drop dead, dead, dead from over work - wank stain

HAHAHAHA!!! The disgusting liberal demonRAT pig meltdown begins!

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

*RUFUS, you are parroting the Admiral’s coverup of his son’s stupidity…All aircraft involved were destroyed and pushed overboard, so how exactly can the blame be placed on the F-4 - Oh yeah, F-4’s had not even been introduced to the forestal in 1967…

Ok, it is now apparent we are dealing with an uneducated, ill-informed wankstained anarchist Che loving liberal moonbat freakshow from hell. Liberalism really is a mentally fatal disease.

http://www.forrestal.org/fidfacts/planes/

Hey what kind of aircraft’s remains are THESE ON THE LEFT?

Read it and weep you sick bas-tard.

By Rufus is a Fake Dufus

February 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

IsraeliOfascist pig mocking good loyal Americans to benefit its uglythievingjesuskillingbutlicking home country…PrayingFortheholycauseII to come soon to the land of IsraeliOfascistpigshitt….

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Oh, and wank stain: the accident is ON VIDEO.

By RabbiRufus

February 23, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Hmmmm, I thing I shall dine on our tasty frient, the PIG…Yum, yum, pork chops, sausage, Blood pudding…

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Wank stain is having a serious meltdown people:

Hey jizz a belle: if you REALLY wanted to pick at McCain and you REALLY knew wtf you were talking about, you’d pick on his rank in his graduating class at the USNA. I know what it is - betcha you have to google it, pus-sy.

By Military Idiots Dumbed Down

February 23, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

First a new billion dollar plus spy satelite fails to work, then a 1.2 billion dollar B2 bomber crashes and burns…do ya think the dumbing down of America has gone far enough…..A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon the dollar will be worthless, just like the ajc, dusty, glenn, and the rest of you idiots…

By Markus

February 23, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

You all might remember me. I used to post here a lot. George W was my hero. I had an epiphany. Repuklicans haven’t been right about a damn thing so I’m now a liberal Democrat.

This once great nation is so f’ed up right now it will take a miracle to make things right.

Forgive me for being so stupid. And screw all you inbred Repuklicans.

Obama 2008. Thats right all you Bush lovers can kiss my aZZ. I’m, going with a winner this time.

I’d like to say thank you to Corky Cobb, he showed me how wrong I’d been. I love you Corky, God Bless.

p.s.- that miracle is Obama or Hillary. I’m fine with both.

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

{{{{General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a “total crock of s—-,” saying his views had no bearing on GM’s commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.}}}}

Sell the dimwits what they want, right Bob, the beauty of capitalism.

If they want to run their car by plugging it into their butts, who are we to deny them that right?

~~~~~

{{{{An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.”}}}}

{{{{Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. Her suicide note read: “I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does.”}}}}

Liberals and their kampaign to kill the unborn makes me sick.

Hundreds of millions of lives ruined and cut short by the selfish lazy as-ses, nasty little harlots that can’t manage to not get pregnant and their dimwit enablers.

And by the way, if Code Pinko had one freaking note from a suicide in the Armed Forces that laid the blame on Iraq, it would be 24/7 wailing in the drive by media.

Notice how quite they are about Emma.

POS.

By Run Rufus Run - BACKTOTOILETAVIV FLUSH NOW

February 23, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

TRAITOR, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU…SOON…..

By getalife

February 23, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Yeah, it stinks up in here.

Its that pos macaca.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

By Run Rufus Run - TRAITOR, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU…SOON….. - wank stain

I never went anywhere, sick freak. You just aren’t real worthy of my time after your flat out LIE exposed for all the blog to see on the Forrestal. Ignoranus waste of a wank.

By Vandstra

February 23, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

There is no way that can be the real Markus at 1:35.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

do ya think the dumbing down of America has gone far enough

That’s a good question, moonbat. Why, let’s force our students to work AS PART OF SCHOOL CURRICULUM to ‘help society.’ Yeah, all to turn them into mind numbed liberal Nazis.

Another idiot couldn’t even tell what kind of planes were on the Forrestal and we’re supposed to listen to them wet beds about a B2 crash and a satellite that we BLEW OUT OF LOWER ORBIT? Don’t think so.

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Idiots dumbed Down @1:30

You are busy trying to spotlight a broken satelite and a fallen plane. Not good news, indeed. But you forgot to notice something important. WE DON’T HAVE ANY BURNING SKYSCAPERS IN OUR MAJOR CITIES. 9/11 gave us a preview of what can happen.

America’s homeland security has worked. We are being protected while our troops fight terrorists in far away places.

Your appreciation says it all. You DON’T CARE that America is being protected and our troops are fighting for us. You want to complain and downgrade everything, even veterans who have fought for us before.

All this to win an election. That’s right. YOU DOWNGRADE AMERICA TO WIN AN ELECTION.

I hope you don’t speak for all Democrats because you are a disgrace to this country and to the Democratic Party.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Newsweek’s Alter on Clinton: ‘One of the Worst Run Campaigns in Modern Political History’

Duh. Ya think? Tears won’t cut it in the real world.

By AmVet

February 23, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

I have a simple question for the so-called conservatives.

How does it make you feel to be put in the position where you may be forced to support your party’s candidate who a)believes in theory of evolution, b) believes in the validity of man-induced global warming and c) sees the stupidity in trying to deport 20 million people lock, stock and barrel.

That’s gotta burn some!

And as a corollary, why did the “real” “conservatives” all get so shellacked so quickly in the GOP primaries?

By Peter

February 23, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA HA Jim Whooten the Spin Doctor is at it again !

“McCain summed it up in that one sentence. “I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by the eloquent but empty calls for change that promises no more than a holiday from history and a return to the false promises and failed policies of a tired philosophy that trusts in government more than people.”

Speaking of a bunch of BULL CRAP…..

Well folks I guess we are going to keep on the same track the WRONGS have us on…..

US Dollar weak….. US looks like idiots to the world…… Not working with World leaders……Poor Economy at Home……..Infrastructure getting progressively worse…….US Housing market in trouble……..US in debt so far it pays Millions a month to China for interest…….A WAR it cannot WIN…….No real answer how to pay for it……..OK give the Bill to the Grand kids!

A history of over spending and debt by the Republicans, who “CLAIM” they are protecting America, while Actually bilking the treasury, and making us weaker.

HA HA HA HA…… Spin Doctors trying their best……

Gee has anyone seen the President’s Popularity rating lately ?

What is his approval rating…..any WRONGS know ?

Seems like Americans are not being deceived these days……. In fact they will speak again in the next election….

In the mean time….WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Rick Renzi was indicted Friday on charges of extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other matters in an Arizona land swap scam that allegedly helped him collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs.

Enough said….. Lemmings looking to march is what I see from the Right!

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

How does it make you feel to be put in the position where you may be forced to support your party’s candidate who a)believes in theory of evolution,

I believe in both evolution and creation. Don’t care one way or the other.

b) believes in the validity of man-induced global warming and

So he’s sucking up to the emotional sheep who don’t believe global warming ever happened prior to the Model T Ford. Nobody said he was perfect.

c) sees the stupidity in trying to deport 20 million people lock, stock and barrel.

We’ll see what he does in office. No matter what, he’s still a way better hope than Hillary or Barak Hussein Obama for this nation. Can’t win them all.

And as a corollary, why did the “real” “conservatives” all get so shellacked so quickly in the GOP primaries?

Uhm, because they all were no Reagan?

By Honest Abe

February 23, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

US Dollar weak…..

Yup.

US looks like idiots to the world……

Don’t care.

Not working with World leaders……

Ditto.

Poor Economy at Home……..

“My” economy is just fine. In fact, I’m making and have more now that I did under Bill Clinton. I’ll bet lots of Americans can say the same.

Infrastructure getting progressively worse…….

Take it to the states who waste funds on pork BS instead of infrastructure spending.

US Housing market in trouble……..

Who’s fault is that? Surely not those slackers who lied on their applications, no? Surely not those Democrats who coerced finance companies to relax lending policies to help the working class and less fortunate obtain the American dream of home ownership, no?

US in debt so far it pays Millions a month to China for interest…….

Two things. First, since we Americans aren’t buying US treasuries, someone has to invest in them. Second, China only owns a small part of our debt.

A WAR it cannot WIN…….

I’d rather try than sit back and take it like a cornered hedgehog.

No real answer how to pay for it……..OK give the Bill to the Grand kids!

That same comment was made back in the 1980s and Reagan’s spending. It’s amazing how in less than ten years that “Bill” disappeared, no?

By Dusty

February 23, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Amvet 2:31

I do appreciate that you have honestly and correctly affirmed the facts on McCain’s military record. You wrote His (McCain’s) bravery is unimpeachable. That needed to be said.

But as to “conservatives”, I am afraid you picture us as snake charming, halleluia, speak-in-tongues type who are a very rare breed. I don’t even know where you would find one.

Most conservatives are economy minded middle income people who desire integrity above all things. Most believe in the independence of self determination in business, healthcare and religion. We also believe that a good education is essential. These are the “real” conservatives.

GOP primaries? Perhaps the real conservatives voted for whom they thought best suited. I don’t know about your so called “real conservatives”. I’ve never run across any of them.

By RW-(the original)

February 23, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Here’s some evolution for you.

Yesterday, Reuters posted a story entitled “Sadr Expected to End Truce”, implying it was likely that Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr would end his Mahdi Army’s six-month ceasefire in Iraq. I can’t offer the URL of that story because once their cynical prediction was proved immediately wrong (today, Sadr announced that he’d be extending the ceasefire another six months) the link started bringing me to a new Reuters story entitled (surprise, surprise) “Iraqi Cleric Sadr Extends Militia Ceasefire.” Soon after that, the original headline disappeared from internet searches altogether.

The evolution of a Reuters “news” story complete with the papering over of the fossil record.

By RUFUS YOU IDIOT

February 23, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

When the Greenland Ice sheets slide into the sea, Your Pals in new york and israel are gonna be under water…I have already urged Iran to release their vast stores of methane into the atmosphere, to hasten that day….On that day, there will be free pork for all…pork, the other white meat….ymmm ymmm, barbacue….

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Canadians overwhelmingly prefer Democrat for president; warming to Obama: poll

Golly. I just CAN’T sleep at night as I’m worrying about what the Canadians think.

I wonder how many of them come to the US for medical care that everone gets for “free” in Canada?

By Farmer

February 23, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Famine is just around the corner for the world, including AmeriKa: I plan to raise pigs, fed on my own home grown grain, just to make sure the choosen people cannot eat it….Starve Scum Starve….tobacco and cotton are good too, scum like dusty cannot eat it, but China and India will pay top Rupee and Yaun for it. You can keep your ugly green pieces of paper, I already have enough toilet paper and if I run short, there is always the ajc to wipe my arse with….

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

You’re right, of course, about the DNC-AJC living downstream of the biohazardous waste produced by the NYT. Except that in the Giuliani case, it republished BS that embellished upon BS stolen from CNN, which got it from its customary upstream source, Bloomberg, which got it from Hillary’s oppo shop.

Sort of like Love Canal, a toxic picarresque.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

When the Greenland Ice sheets slide into the sea

Wank, you couldn’t even Google what kinds of planes were on the Forrestal. Sorry dude - your word is as bad as your breath.

Regarding your carnal hemorrhaging over a junkas-s science and Greenland, I surmise the Antarctic will make up for it.

“Never, EVER trust a liberal.” - we’ve seen why today

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

I usually don’t bother silly little pinko platitudes but this one is too fat to pass by:

{{{{By Honest Abe February 23, 2008 2:58 PM US looks like idiots to the world……}}}}

Uh-huh-

{{{{In response to a question pertaining to Senator Ku Klux Rodham’s remark that former KGB officers had no soul, Russian President Vladimir Putin replied: “At a minimum, a head of state should have a head.”}}}}

Meanwhile:

{{{{President Bush has been receiving an outpouring of support as he visits Africa. Tanzania President Kikwete had enormous praise for Bush and the US.}}}}

{{{{Canadians elected Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper as their next prime minister Monday.}}}}

{{{{Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy wins France’s presidential election.}}}}

{{{{Pro-Taliban party routed in Pakistan’s election}}}}

{{{{“The renegades and Americans started launching their attacks to destroy us,” the letter reads. “We lost cities, and afterwards villages, and the desert became a dangerous refuge. We got away from people and found ourselves in a wasteland desert, sniff, sniff, waaaaaa.”}}}}

The only people in the world that don’t like us are jerk offs.

No wonder the libs are whining about it.

By Peter

February 23, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

“No real answer how to pay for it……..OK give the Bill to the Grand kids!

That same comment was made back in the 1980s and Reagan’s spending. It’s amazing how in less than ten years that “Bill” disappeared, no?”

Yes….. Democrats came back in a cleaned up the debt…..Created Fiscal Responsibility, they Gave Bush a country with NOT a deficit but a balanced budget, and a SURPLUS.

Sure Didn’t take BUSH, and the Republican lead House and Congress long to Squander that!

Also we NOW have to worry about rising Health care, and Social Security Issues as well!

NOW 911 happens…… a bunch of loonies led by BIN LADEN…attacks the US…

Rational thinking (Right WING) says…. we let Bid Laden go free, as well as his family we kiss butt too (BUSH Family’s Big Buddies in the OIL Business) as well…and ATTACK……under FALSE Pretences, a different country…..

Think about it….you wouldn’t have to worry about being a “cornered hedgehog”….had we done the “Right Thing”……..

EXAMPLE……

Gotten Bin Laden……. That would have made America SAFER…… and showed the World we “Would Not Be Intimidated”……By Terrorists!

Spin Doctor’s at it again!

By Kick a conservative in the FACE

February 23, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Tax em, Beat em, Give em H E LL

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Gee has anyone seen the President’s Popularity rating lately ? What is his approval rating…..any WRONGS know? - Peter 2:38

About 10% higher than your pathetic Democrats who run Congress, liberal RAT. I guess with Pelosi decorating and putting flowers in the Capitol and inventing a “green” menu there are more crucial issues to address.

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Tax em, Beat em, Give em H E LL

Hehehe. This is fun! Hey wank stain, you gotta find the money first! I like this hatred from the kook fringe left.

By Kick a conservative in the FACE

February 23, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Strange, both Rat and Republican start with the letter “R”….

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

I wonder if anyone else here is into bestiality like I am.

There’s nothing like a good otter to get the day started.

By Kick a conservative in the FACE

February 23, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

what makes a good conservative? Well, a horse collar abound the neck, and scars on the back from a cat of ning tails is a good start….

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Uhm, Urinal Management, I think “Honest Abe” was responding to Peter’s keyboard defecation at 2:38.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Strange, both Rat and Republican start with the letter “R” - wank stain

But only ONE ends in RAT.

Hehehe. You got any more brilliant wit there, spaz? Oh I’m just all gitty waiting.

By Abomi Nation

February 23, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Yet it seems the American people are ready to keep Pelosi and the Dems in Congress.

Feb 18th Gallup Poll has 55% saying they plan on voting for a Democrat in their local Congressional race this November, compared to 41% that plan on voting for a Republican.

Sounds like a landslide to me. You would think if the people were upset with them Dems these numbers would be reversed.

Its the Republican obstructionists and criminals who will be booted out.

Here’s another one for you. Gallup Poll, released last week on party identity….

40% say they are Dems

34% say they are Independent

Only 20% claim to be Republican.

LMAO!

By Apocalypse

February 23, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Ohio, Texas uphill climbs for Clinton By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s must-win states of Ohio and Texas are no cakewalk for her, largely because independents and crossover Republicans are welcome to vote in their Democratic primaries.

The political calendar of late winter has been less than kind to the embattled presidential contender, who once figured that a big day in early February would affirm her march to the presidential nomination and the rest would be icing.

Instead, it’s been slippery ice at every turn, and Ohio and Texas contests on March 4 matter greatly, crucial tests in her big-state fallback strategy.

The field in both states could be tilted to Sen. Barack Obama, despite Clinton’s presumed advantage among some voting groups and long-held if diminished leads in the states’ opinion polls.

Obama has displayed strengths dating to January among different voting groups that would normally be in tension with each other, and his drawing power has become more pronounced in his 11-contest winning streak heading into March 4.

The Illinois senator has mobilized his party’s left wing, a big help in caucus races where party activists and fired-up newbies are key. And he’s drawn crossover Republicans and independents to primaries in which they are allowed to vote.

Ohio and Texas make it easy for them to do so. If they do, it could boost Obama’s vote.

Among independents, Obama is leading Clinton by 14 percentage points in Ohio and by 13 in Texas, according to a Washington Post-ABC News telephone poll taken Feb. 16-20.

And the settling of the GOP race in John McCain’s favor is an enticement for Republicans to come out for the Democratic election that still matters.

Moreover, both states let people vote early. Obama, fresh from his Wisconsin victory on Tuesday, didn’t wait for the dust to settle before exhorting Texans to vote right away. “I don’t want you to wait until March 4,” he said. Clinton, with a head start in campaigning in Texas, also appealed for an early lock on votes.

In the 22 contested Democratic primaries so far, independents made up 22 percent of the vote and they supported Obama by an overwhelming margin of 64 percent to 33 percent. Crossover Republicans, a far smaller percentage in the Democratic primaries, backed him 55-33.

Yet Obama has had the left flank covered, too: a 52-44 advantage over the New York senator among those who consider themselves very liberal.

Pennsylvania on April 22 offers the biggest remaining delegate prize in a primary limited to Democrats — 158. Even there, Clinton and Obama are opening a pitched competition to bring many of the state’s nearly 1 million independents into the party in time to vote, an opportunity now accorded about 4 million Democrats.

That means money, swarms of volunteers and a March 24 deadline to wrap up paperwork from those they can get to join. It’s the kind of grunt work where Obama’s forces have excelled, but Clinton’s are giving no quarter.

No such barriers exist in Texas and Ohio, where any voter can show up. Texans can vote while shopping for their corn flakes, in grocery and chain stores doubling as polling stations since Wednesday.

Polls point to a deadlocked race in Texas, where health care tops the concerns of Democrats in one poll and where Hispanics could make up more than a quarter of voters — two Clinton pluses.

Obama’s counterweight: A confounding delegate allocation system that awards more delegates to urban areas with high concentrations of black and young voters. The Texas contest, a primary followed by limited same-night caucusing, will yield 193 delegates.

Clinton’s lead in Ohio polling has slipped into single digits, less than half of what it was only weeks ago. Union households, a considerable presence in the state, so far are behind her, and she is more trusted to deal with the economy in a state that is struggling on that front.

A secure firewall? Not so, judging by results to date.

In 22 primaries, voters who named the economy as their main concern marginally favored her, according to interviews with them. But the trend has been in Obama’s direction. Not only did he win strongly among such voters in Wisconsin, but he won overwhelmingly among them the previous week in Maryland and Virginia.

She has narrowly outperformed him in union households, another eroding advantage.

Ohio has 141 delegates at stake. Rhode Island and Vermont primaries March 4 offer 21 and 15 respectively.

Obama’s delegate total stands at 1,362, Clinton’s at 1,266.5, with 2,025 needed to claim the nomination. The awarding of half a delegate comes from expatriate and U.S. territorial Democratic contests.

Associated Press Writer Alan Fram contributed to this report

By Apocalypse

February 23, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Superdelegates are flocking to Obama

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 23, 6:27 AM ET

WASHINGTON - The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters — straight to Barack Obama.

In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama or deciding they now are undecided.

The result: He’s narrowing her once-commanding lead among these “superdelegates,” the Democratic office holders and party officials who automatically attend the national convention and can vote for whomever they choose.

As Obama has reeled off 11 straight primary victories, some of the superdelegates are having second — or third — thoughts about their public commitments.

Take John Perez, a Californian who first endorsed John Edwards and then backed Clinton. Now, he says, he is undecided.

“Given where the race is at right now, I think it’s very important for us to play a role around bringing the party together around the candidate that people have chosen, as opposed to advocating for our own choice,” he said in an interview.

Clinton still leads among superdelegates — 241 to 181, according to the AP survey. But her total is down two in the past two weeks, while Obama’s is up 25. Since the primaries started, at least three Clinton superdelegates have switched to Obama, including Rep. David Scott of Georgia, who changed his endorsement after Obama won 80 percent of the primary vote in Scott’s district. At least two other Clinton backers have switched to undecided.

None of Obama’s have publicly strayed, according to the AP tally.

There are nearly 800 Democratic superdelegates, making them an important force in a nomination race as close as this one. Both campaigns are furiously lobbying them.

“Holy buckets!” exclaimed Audra Ostergard of Nebraska. “Michelle Obama and I are playing phone tag.”

Billi Gosh, a Vermont superdelegate who backs Clinton, got a phone call from the candidate herself this week.

“As superdelegates, we have the opportunity to change our mind, so she’s just connecting with me,” Gosh said. “I couldn’t believe she was able to fit in calls like that to her incredibly busy schedule.”

In Utah, two Clinton superdelegates said they continue to support the New York senator — for now.

“We’ll see what happens,” said Karen Hale. Likewise, fellow superdelegate Helen Langan said, “We’ll see.”

Other supporters are more steadfast.

“She’s still in the race, isn’t she? So I’m still supporting her,” said Belinda Biafore, a superdelegate from West Virginia.

Obama has piled up the most victories in primaries and caucuses, giving him the overall lead in delegates, 1,362 to 1,266.5. Clinton’s half delegate came from the global primary sponsored by the Democrats Abroad.

It will take 2,025 delegates to secure the nomination at this summer’s national convention in Denver. If Clinton and Obama continue to split delegates in elections, neither will reach the mark without support from the superdelegates.

That has the campaigns fighting over the proper role for superdelegates, who can support any candidate they want. Obama argues it would be unfair for them to go against the outcome of the primaries and caucuses.

“I think it is important, given how hard Senator Clinton and I have been working, that these primaries and caucuses count for something,” Obama said during Thursday night’s debate in Austin, Texas.

Clinton argues that superdelegates should exercise independent judgment.

“These are the rules that are followed, and you know, I think that it will sort itself out,” she said during the debate. “We will have a nominee, and we will have a unified Democratic Party, and we will go on to victory in November.”

Behind the scenes, things can get sticky.

David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, R.I., indicated this week that his support for Clinton might be wavering after — he contended — members of her campaign urged him to cave to the demands of a local firefighters union ahead of her weekend appearance there. The firefighters, in a long-running contract dispute with Cicilline, have said they would disrupt any Clinton event the mayor attends. A Clinton spokeswoman said the campaign would never interfere in the mayor’s city decisions.

Obama has been helped by recent endorsements from several labor unions, including the Teamsters on Wednesday.

“He’s our guy,” said Sonny Nardi, an Ohio superdelegate and the president of Teamsters Local 416 in Cleveland.

The Democratic Party has named about 720 of its 795 superdelegates. The remainder will be chosen at state party conventions in the spring. AP reporters have interviewed 95 percent of the named delegates, with the most recent round of interviews taking place this week.

The superdelegates make up about a fifth of the overall delegates. As Democratic senators, both Clinton and Obama are superdelegates.

So is Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, which is one reason his phone rings often.

He is a black mayor, and Obama has been winning about 90 percent of black votes. His state has a March 4 primary with 141 delegates at stake. The Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, is stumping hard for Clinton — and perhaps a spot on the national ticket.

A phone call from former President Clinton interrupted Mallory’s dinner on a recent Saturday.

“I continue to get calls from mayors, congresspeople, governors, urging me one way or another,” said Mallory, who is still mulling his decision. “The celebrities will be next. I guess Oprah will call me.”

Associated Press Writers Ace Stryker in Salt Lake City, Laura Kurtzman in Sacramento, Tom Breen in Charleston, W.Va., John Curran in Montpelier, Vt., Joe Milicia in Cleveland, Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and Anna Jo Bratton in Omaha contributed to this report.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Wank alert Glenn @3:54

It sure is fun driving the moonbats off the cliff here. It doesn’t take much to do it either, does it? Just give them some fact enemas and wait for the self defecation.

Moving Right along…

Eat bugs now to stop global warming and cow farting! I thought that idiot was being facetious at first. Yes, lets eat bugs like third world people. Liberalism.

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

What a big baby:

{{{{“I don’t believe that it is fair for this mailing to make claims that are not true,” Ku Klux Rodham continued, calling on Obama to retract the message and “take down these mailings.”}}}}

Some history being made here, pinko style: Mr. B Hussein Obama, take down these mailings.

Hahaha.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

You said it baby. Let me know when you round up the chickens for our orgy this weekend.

Smooches.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Yes….. Democrats came back in a cleaned up the debt….” - “Peter” on responding to a comment about 10 years after Reagan’s spending and the debt disappearing

Uhm, Peter, who ran Congress in 1998?

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Here’s another one for you. Gallup Poll, released last week on party identity….

40% say they are Dems

34% say they are Independent

Only 20% claim to be Republican.

Gee where have we heard this before? Republicans are a large minority. Uh huh. You’ll find out in November, moonbats.

By Apocalypse

February 23, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Obama vs. Clinton: The Truth

Obama is the clear choice! Please go to The Library of Congress Website @ www.thomas.loc.gov to get more information. Pass it on!

Senator Clinton, who has served only one full term (6yrs)and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law 20 pieces of legislation. These bills can be found on the website of the Library of Congress www.thomas.loc.gov, but to save you trouble, I’ll post them here for you. 1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site. 2. Support the goals/ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month. 3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. 4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall. 5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson. 6. Name post office after Jonn A. O’Shea. 7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day. 8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day. 9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death. 10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship. 11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship. 12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program. 13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda. 14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death. 15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty. 16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11. 17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11 18. Assist landmine victims in other countries. 19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care. 20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.

I would post those of Obama’s, but the list is too substantive, so I’ll mainly categorize. During the first 8 years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced: 233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others. His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These inculded *The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, - became law, *The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate, **The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, - became law

Senator Obama has written 890 bills, co-sponsored another 1096. He’s not just a talker. He’s a doer.Pass it on.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Do the liberal demonRAT LEFT WING HACKS here know how to post a small part of an article as a link like I have done, or are they too stupid and/or lazy to do it and just cut-n-paste the entire damned thing? Oh wait. I just answered my own question. Democrat-ic constituency. Never mind.

By Devastator

February 23, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Does Rufus have anything to do other than flirt with Glenn and talk negatively to posters because he knows that can’t find him and kick his sorry a$$? Never mind.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Some history being made here, pinko style: Mr. B Hussein Obama, take down these mailings.

LMAO!!!! Funniest post of the day - at the expense of the kook left naturally. Hey libs, don’t like it? Then make like a sheep and get the flock outta here. Go flock to Daily Kos, Huffington post, or wherever else you sheep normally flock. You aren’t making any changes in minds here and are wasting your time. Kooks.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Abomi,

You can’t be LYAO, because your are LYAO every time you post, and you post so unconscionably often that you’d have L‘d your A O long ago, and by now would have no A to L O. Unless it grows back, your A. Does it? Forked tail and all? How very supernatural.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Does Rufus have anything to do other than flirt with Glenn - wank stain who “flirted” with me ala a Glenn hack

and talk negatively to posters because he knows that can’t find him and kick his sorry a$$?

Awe. That^^ from an a liberal demonRAT from hell who talked about enslaving and killing Republicans and Conservatives.

Need I say more?

By Apocalypse

February 23, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Hillary is Bipolar!

The Facts About NAFTA! It is a well known fact that Hillary supported NAFTA during her husbands presidency! What is she on television yapping about??? That woman is bipolar! She supported NAFTA and Her Healthcare Plan will never succeed—-she failed miserably the first time..why would we trust her with healthcare again this time.

I guess she must have received news that she is slipping fast in the polls in Texas and Ohio……lol

”[…] Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting “a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA.” Yes, you read that right: She traveled to Davos to thank corporate interests for their campaign ramming NAFTA through Congress.

On November 1, 1996, United Press International reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Clinton “touted the president’s support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region.”

The Associated Press followed up the next day noting that Hillary Clinton touted the fact that “the president would continue to support economic growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.”

In her memoir, Clinton wrote, “Senator Dole was genuinely interested in health care reform but wanted to run for president in 1996. He couldn’t hand incumbent Bill Clinton any more legislative victories, particularly after Bill’s successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA.”

Yes, we are all expected to just forget that, so that Hillary Clinton’s campaign can manufacture supposed “outrage” that anyone would say she supported NAFTA - all at a time her chief strategist, Mark Penn, simultaneously heads a firm that is right now pushing to expand NAFTA into South America.

What a total insult to America’s intelligence.”

By Harry Jaffa

February 23, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

YET AGAIN:

It seems we have established that Mr. Obama is a hyperactive legislator, a veritable dynamo of lawmaking activity. A grower of government and builder of bureaucracy. A great fount springing forth red tape for all, enough tape to bind a nation, united.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Someone here is on some SERIOUS drugs man.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters - straight to Barack Obama.

How many souls are left on the CSS KKKlinton?

By AmVet

February 23, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

I believe that most Americans no longer think this failed version of the GOP can adequately LEAD this nation into the 21st century.

But being hopelessly stuck in some sort of romanticized, delusional Reaganesque past, is I’m sorry, just sad and self-defeating.

Yes, this strange habit of “longing for the good old days” and misplaced reverence for a man with amazing liabilities is one of the reasons that the Republican Party is, indisputably in such shambles.

But as long as Pretty Boy Sean and other oracles, including some of the more desperate candidates, lament(ed) the lack of the next Ronnie as the reason for the GOP’s stunning losses, it is a sure omen of more of the same to come.

By Peter

February 23, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

“Uhm, Peter, who ran Congress in 1998?”

Rufus…I know the answer……here is one for you!

“WHO allowed the government to shut down…… until CONGRESS came back to him with a balanced budget, that was fiscally responsible, and cut the Republican created Deficit?”

By the way…where is Chaka Khan these days ?

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Another blog observation: there’s an echo in here because someone can’t come up with an original thought - he or she can only trace back and morph from someone else’s original post. For shame.

Earlier, resident evil wanker was wanking about taxing the rich to death - literally. Well, go for it libs - the taxing part anyway. You’ll see money flying out of this nation and a REAL economic crisis faster than a loaded chili dog through Michael Moore. (Apologies to the ladies for the reference).

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

“WHO allowed the government to shut down…… until CONGRESS came back to him with a balanced budget, that was fiscally responsible, and cut the Republican created Deficit?” - Peter

You are kidding, right Peter? I mean you are really, REALLY kidding here. You have to be. So Clinton was the fiscal one and Newt’s Congress was the big tax hiker and spender and was dragged to the table kicking and screaming to Mr. “Low Tax” himself, right? Good GOD.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

I’m all out of chickens sweetheart. I have a couple of armadillos though.

They don’t hurt as much, and they’ve forgotten about our last incident.

By Peter

February 23, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Well Rufus….too bad Newt’s ideals are not part of the current Republican Philosophy.

Yes and Clinton did allow the Government to shut down….

Poor Memory?

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Yeah, the world just hates Bushie:

{{{{South Korea’s anti-American President Roh Moo-hyun leaves office Monday, and while any man with four stars on his shoulders knows better than to publicly diss the leader of a U.S. ally, it’s not hard to see that Gen. Bell is counting the days. “The alliance weathered a couple of storms recently,” he told the Korea Society, “but it’s got to rain a little for the flowers to grow.”}}}}

{{{{This particular flower is called Lee Myung-bak. He’s the former businessman, legislator and mayor of Seoul who is the president-elect. The general calls Mr. Lee “pro-American” and notes that he was elected “by an overwhelming majority” of voters on a platform that promised to improve relations with the U.S.}}}}

Bwa.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Based upon the wankstain’s 4:55, when a kook lib can’t handle the truthful heat here, said lib jacks other people’s IDs - or threatens to track them down and “bet the hell out of them” or worse, “kill them.” Fortunately, Georgia has a rather “liberal” lethal force policy with self defense.

Anyway, Michael Moore commenting on Hillary’s mandatory health care proposal is like al Qaeda commenting on micro circuit design - the qualification just doesn’t add up.

Of course, his fatas-s doesn’t know that 55% of health care costs are due to smoking, poor diet, and lack of exercise. Then we have 40% of our medical dollars going to insurance costs, which are not the actual medical procedures and those who perform them.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Well Rufus….too bad Newt’s ideals are not part of the current Republican Philosophy.

Agreed there bigger than you would ever know, Peter.

Yes and Clinton did allow the Government to shut down….

Sure he did, Peter. Gingrich had nothing to do with it.

Poor Memory?

Mine is fine. I’d say yours needs a few fish fillets - unless you were taught that crap in school.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Another example of the New York Times fabricating mass hysteria. And guess who eats this crap up?

“Not since the Depression has a larger share of Americans owed more on their homes than they are worth,” New York Times reporters Edmund Andrews and Louis Uchitelle wrote in a February 22 article. “With the collapse of the housing boom, nearly 8.8 million homeowners, or 10.3 percent of the total, are underwater.”

Yep. Over 95% of mortgages in this nation are still paid on time and are current. It’s a national freaking crisis I tell ya. This is nothing but emotional terrorism to strike fear in the idiot masses for “change.”

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

To answer a few of the questions posed here today:

{{{{Political scientists tend to view the political party as a rational team of office-seekers. The primary goal of political parties—and of their professional cadre of experts and activists—is to win elections. In a two-party system, a party must be able to appeal beyond its own (often narrow) base to attract the votes of independents and crossovers if it hopes to be victorious in a general election. Of course parties must stand for beliefs and policies to distinguish themselves from their rivals and to attract supporters. But no party can hope to implement any policies if it fails to win elections, and winning usually means appealing to the center and wooing the floating voter.}}}}

To whit, the Republicans, as we all agree, have chosen a “moderate” and the Code Pinkos have picked a……hardcore liberal.

Hahahahaha.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Oh we can’t finish off a nice Saturday afternoon of nail-driven truth. Hillary’s motorcade had an accident this week and an officer was killed.

Here’s how Time reported the headline: Officer Killed Escorting Clinton

Now, compare that with Time’s headline when the same thing happened to Bush: Bush Motorcade Kills Cop

I truly believe this is not intentional from the liberal mainstream media like Time. They are so biased left they really don’t know how they are coming across. Well, now we know why the liberals hate Fox News, Wooten, Rush, and anything else conservative or RIGHT. Ah, who gives a damn what libs think anyway. I can and do live without them or their oppressive policies and twisted ideologies.

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Yes, the demokrats are just so good at making the world love us:

{{{{Mr. Putin’s remarks on the inspiration that Kosovo’s independence has given to violent separatists in Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and elsewhere, are entirely to the point.}}}}

{{{{Indeed, driving the Serbian government and Serbian people into the protective embrace of ex-Soviet Russia, and ultimately her ex-KGB strongman, was among several counter-productive dimensions in the war that Madeleine Albright organized, along with other ruinous Clinton interventions in areas of peripheral interest to the U.S. (Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia).}}}}

{{{{The NATO action in Kosovo brought Mr. Putin — the hammer of the Chechens — to power, by demonstrating that force and force alone will decide secession struggles, East or West. It restored anti-Americanism to its place in the Russian national security consensus, indirectly bringing an end to the Yeltsin reform era.}}}}

Believe me, we all know why the world hates us.

Thanks alot, Code Pinko.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

To whit, the Republicans, as we all agree, have chosen a “moderate” and the Code Pinkos have picked a……hardcore liberal.

Now now, Lucko, you have to remember that the pinko moveon.org liberal left representing modern Democrats think they already ARE the center. I posed this exact issue here last week or so about McCain. Republican voters have moderated for now. Democrats? Look how they threw Lieberman under the bus. Those people are sick in the head I tell you.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

Frigid Arctic air coming down from Canada broke records in eastern North Dakota on Wednesday, including one that had stood for more than a century.

Yep, WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING NOW!!!!!!

Always support the opposite of what a liberal demonRAT supports. Your life will thank you for it. (That’s right - contrary to popular liberal afterbirth thought, your life is YOUR life - not theirs and their beloved neo-socialist wannabe government under Hillary or Obama Hussein).

By AmVet

February 23, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

McCain is a moderate???!!!

I coulda swore he was a bleeding heart, amnesty loving, liberal loving, anti-free speech, global-warming loon, Democratic RINO!!! (Well, at least according to the “base” who has NEVER courted the reasoned and reasonable center!)

What next? An epiphany for the unredeemable!!!

Man this is gonna be one wierdass election.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

I coulda swore he was a bleeding heart, amnesty loving, liberal loving, anti-free speech, global-warming loon, Democratic RINO!!!

A real RINO supports Obama.

Besides, you hypocrites on the pathetic liberal loon left threw your 2000 VEEP under the bus. So I don’t want to hear it, CRYBABIES.

By AJC Management

February 23, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

Behold the dimwit that runs the Treason Times:

{{{{“Personally, I was surprised by the volume of the reaction,” including more than 2,400 comments on the paper’s Web site, he said. “I was surprised by how lopsided the opinion was against our decision, with readers who described themselves as independents and Democrats joining Republicans in defending Mr. McCain from what they saw as a cheap shot.”}}}}

{{{{Some analysts said the Times article could rally conservatives because of their frustration with the news media.}}}}

You reckon?

By getalife

February 23, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

BO sends out some lying like w fliers and Clinton attacks.

Great stuff.

McLoser is dead man man walking and the Times has more on him.

Gomer says shazam, and Mitts kids want him back in the race so they will not have to serve.

We are having fun now.

By Rufus

February 23, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

More global warming horse crock. So now since we have had TWO seasons of NO hurricanes when they DID forecast strong seasons, according to the NOAA, death increases are from population growth, not storm strength growth due to the kook kool aid LIE of man-made global warming. Well, who’s surprised. If the kook fringe can twist global COOLING to global warming, ANYTHING is possible.

By Glenn

February 23, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Nice work, Rufus & Andy.

For that, I will defy death by revealing unto you the long-sought recipe for Authentic Texas Chili. Three simple steps, as follows:

  • Take one medium armadillo.

  • Add other things.

  • Save the shell.

  • Now that, p!ssing gargoyles notwithstanding, is what to do with an armadillo.

    And when Barack Obama runs out of plastic and has to bring his vacation from history to a close, history will be waiting, on some gray Monday morning.

    By Rufus

    February 23, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

    Fun indeed. Two avid liberal socialist neo-communists at each other’s throats, and McCain owns the moderates and has brought the majority of the Right to him ONLY because of the aforementioned neo-communists.

    Fun fun indeed. Tears and all.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

    The White Powers trying to gin up some free kampaign advertizing, they spent up all their money remember, and the Atlanta Urinal is only happy to help:

    {{{{Angry Clinton rips Obama over campaign mailings-Urinal}}}}

    Where’s the beef?

    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®

    If you get the Urinal litter box liner, look at page A3 and behold with wonder the depths that wormy liberal will go to cast the United States in the worst possible light; Does that picture not look as though the Iraqis are getting ready to shoot the American. Sure enough, a quick read through the caption and it explains that the American is training the Iraqis, teaching them how to be the baddest mofos in the Middle East, who will continue to kill terrorists long after we’re gone.

    My point being, if you’re a typical dimwit liberal thumb sucker, quickly turning Urinal pages trying to find the Hollywood gossip section, you see this picture and your spineless feminine emotions well up and you think the Iraqis hate us, waaa!, exactly what the AJC intended the picture to do, plus they know you are a mouth breathing liberal who can’t read the caption.

    Another surrender monkey is born.

    ~~~~~

    {{{{OUR OPINION: Let’s finally change foolish Cuba policy-Queen Pinko, Urinal}}}}

    Well, well, John F Kennedy’s Cuba policy is “foolish,” eh?

    Welcome to the world of wingnuts, Ms. Tucker.

    Gee, if this doesn’t open some doors, imagine all of the “precedents” from previous demokrat administrations that we can now overturn, Roe V Wade, Kosovo independence, et al.

    I mean, if we are going to get the blame for them…..

    Um, do these statements not conflict eachother?

    {{{{President Bush took an illogical policy to its foolish extreme. He clamped down on cultural exchanges, cut back on remittances and limited the trips that Cuban emigres could make to visit relatives still on the island.-QP, Urinal}}}}

    {{{{And Cubans already have an affinity for American culture —- baseball and popular music, movies and television. Among the most popular items smuggled into the country are CDs and DVDs. Though Castro tried hard to keep the country closed, he enjoyed only limited success.-QP, Urinal}}}}

    Blaming America for a dictatorship that we opposed for nearly fifty years, isn’t that unique.

    You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all wanna change the world.

    ~~~~~

    Yes, the world loves us, thanks Bill Klinton:

    {{{{Serbia’s hard-line leaders on Saturday called the U.S. “the main culprit” in violence triggered by Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Branislav Ristivojevic, an aide to hard-line Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, said any future violence also would be blamed on the U.S….. In Athens, Greece, about 2,000 pro-Communist demonstrators marched to the U.S. Embassy on Saturday to protest Kosovo independence. And in Germany, about 1,200 people demonstrated in a square in downtown Stuttgart and 500 others protested in Frankfurt.-Urinal}}}}

    Gee, thanks, Bill.

    ~~~~~

    {{{{Gay people in Jamaica besieged- Killing, harassment of gay men, lesbians routine; rooted, many say, in following the Bible. But casual heterosexual sex is OK.-Urinal}}}}

    We know the heathens at the Atlanta Journal Constitution would never pass up a chance to discriminate against Christians but is the Bible really to blame?

    I missed the part where the Bible instructs us to hack gays to death.

    Maybe you pervert liberals could show me that Scripture, no?

    Gosh, I wonder, could it be the savages living in Jamaica that are to blame?

    ~~~~~

    {{{{As if the liberal establishment media isn’t already embarrassed enough by the bizarrely thin New York Times hatchet job against John McCain, now 60 Minutes comes along to run with an even less documented, and frankly far less believable hatchet job against Karl Rove — without even asking Rove to respond! The whole story is not just sleazy journalism, it’s whatever ranks below “sleazy” on the absolute scale of perfidy.}}}}

    {{{{And why would any self-respecting journalist (which, I guess, by definition excludes 60 Minutes) believe that Rove, with all the other, more sophisticated campaign tools at his disposal, would do such a thing? And why would Rove ever have reason to believe that this woman would even be in a position to photograph Seigelman in flagrante? I mean, this is so ludicrous as to belong in black helicopter, tinfoil hat territory. PLEASE continue to watch this space, because I am putting together a major report here refuting the 60 Minutes slime job, with lots of excellent sourcing. But I wanted to get this posted now, as it is getting late on a Friday afternoon.}}}}

    Does the drive by media even care anymore?

    ~~~~~~

    Do the liberals not realize that their blogs are archived?

    {{{{A liberal dares to ask questions. A conservative screams, “How dare you ask questions!”-Urinal Vent}}}}

    If this were true then it should be easy enough to show us one instance of it.

    You pinkos do know how to search the archives, don’t you?

    ~~~~~

    This is not an unequivocal denial:

    {{{{Rice says has no plan to run for vice president}}}}

    This is someone who does not feel there is enough support.

    Imagine for a moment, Condoleezza Rice’s inauguration speech in January 2013.

    I sent chills down your spine, didn’t I?

    The real “change” we need in 2008 is to change Ms. Rice’s mind.

    Let’s get to work.

    Contact the State Department.

    “We all take life a day at a time in terms of trying to get the job done,” she said, saying she planned to concentrate on her work as secretary of state. “I don’t expect in any way to be involved in this campaign.”

    Submitted to the State Department:

    What “job” are you going to get “done” with a democrat in the White House?

    Aren’t your successes worth sustaining?

    You are the real “hope” for the future of this country and we need you to lead us there.

    By rascal

    February 24, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

    These two letter were sent to AJC and ignored like all other letters in the past week in response to Maureen Dowd’s column. I guess she was scared to print the response to her communist support piece regarding real change in Georgia’s schools

    “COMRADE DOWNEY IGNORES PARENTS, CONSTITUTION AND FACTS Maureen Downey, in her editorial attacking charter legislation before the General Assembly, sounds as if she were writing for Pravda in Russia before the fall of communism. Much like the comrades who wrote for Pravda, Downey ignores the facts, the constitution and individual rights, attacking H.B. 881 in supporting the mantra of school boards about “local control”.

    Comrade Downey ignores the fact that Georgia’s education establishment has done everything in its power over the last twenty (20) years to restrict competition in education while increasing per-student funding in Georgia. In large part, they have succeeded. Despite having a charter school law for thirteen years, Georgia’s local school boards have thrown up enough barriers so that barely 25,000 out of 1.5 million students in Georgia attend start-up charter schools. The low number of charter school students is certainly not a reflection of great academic achievement by Georgia’s traditional public schools, or parental satisfaction with the status quo, which would explain why 52% of Georgians recently said in a poll they were not satisfied with K-12 education in Georgia. Consider these facts which explain the dissatisfaction and were ignored by Atlanta’s version of Pravda:

    • Only 56% of all students and 43% of African-American students graduated from high school on time;
    • Less than 25% of Georgia’s 8th graders, and less than 10% of African-American students, are proficient on the NAEP tests in math and reading
    • Barely 3% of Georgia’s African-American students score a 3 or better on any Advanced Placement tests;
    • 43% of students in Georgia attending schools with a high percentage of minority or low-income students are taught by a teacher without a major or minor in the subject matter;
    • According to research by Johns Hopkins University, 124 Georgia public high schools, or 38.9%, qualify as “dropout factories” since they graduate 60% or less of entering freshman

    Certainly, the failure to achieve better academic results is not based on a lack of funding, or money spent on education in Georgia, another factual misstatement by Ms. Downey. Over the past twenty (20) years, after taking inflation into account, spending on K-12 education in Georgia has more than doubled. According to the National Education Association 2006-2007 report:

    • Revenue per public school student enrolled in 2005-2006 was $10,041 in Georgia; • Revenue per student based on average daily attendance was $10,797 in Georgia in 2005-2006 • Assuming an average classroom of 25 students, we are spending $250,000 per classroom for the dismal results cited above

    The final fact ignored by Ms. Downey is that H.B. 881 does not mandate a dime of property tax revenue be diverted to charters. Instead, the bill clearly says that only state tax revenue is used to fund charters authorized by the state. The Georgia Constitution, Article 8, §1, 1, provides that Georgia’s citizens, not local school boards, have the ultimate local control over public education. That provision, which Ms Downey either ignores, or has not read, says:

    “The provision of an adequate public education for the citizens shall be a primary obligation of the State of Georgia. Public education for the citizens prior to the college or post-secondary level shall be free and shall be provided for by taxation.” [Emphasis supplied]

    In other words, the people of Georgia have adopted a constitution which gives citizens, not school boards, the right to a free and adequate public education. 72% of Georgians, according to a recent poll, think someone other than local school boards should have the authority to approve charters. In fact, Georgia’s House just passed H.B. 881 by a similar margin, 119-48.

    Contrary to Ms. Downey’s diatribe, the General Assembly has given all school districts the option to voluntarily sign a contract with the state to become charter districts and be freed from unnecessary mandates in a bill sponsored by Lt. Gov. Cagle, and passed last year. So far, only one school district has accepted that option, despite the fact that school districts choosing this route have substantially increased autonomy and flexibility, just as charters authorized under H.B. 881 will, and are to be funded via the same method as traditional public schools on a per-pupil basis, at the same levels, with the money following the child. Both charters and charter districts would be free to admit students from other counties, since the state and federal money follows the child. In those districts who like the status quo of tight regulation and property tax funding, let them maintain the status quo and let’s see how long they can compete and survive.

    In other words, the General Assembly, by passing Lt. Gov. Cagel’s charter district legislation last year, and H.B. 881 this year, is giving parents more choices while giving school districts more freedom, less regulation, and allowing more competition through new charter schools. Georgia’s political leaders are showing the backbone and courage to start a revolution in K-12 education, ending traditional school districts’ monopoly over K-12 education by taking the steps necessary so that Georgia has a school system which promotes the American values of opportunity, freedom of choice, autonomy and competition. H.B. 881gives all “citizens”, not school boards, control of their children’s education and should be passed by the entire General Assembly.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

    Good morning all. We have seen a Seinfeld candidacy before, in 1976, and it was successful. Leftists are smart enough to know they cannot be elected if they reveal their agenda. So the only course to election is to say nothing so that it sounds like something. That will work against a wishy-washy moderate, who similarly is unwilling to take strong stands (e.g., Ford in 1976, Bush in 1992, Dole in 1996); it does not work against any candidate (even a wishy-washy moderate) who will take and adhere to strong stands (e.g. Bush in 2000 and 2004). Advantage McCain.

    Rufus and AJC Management, you guys are kicking a**, impressive work.

    By Al

    February 24, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

    I have only 3 words to say.

    Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

    Or as Ted Kennedy said,

    Obama Osama Obama Osama……

    By rascal

    February 24, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

    Am I missing something or is Wooten the only AJC writer that allows reader feedback? Kind of odd that all the liberal writers at the Urinal don’t allow easy and constant feedback sort of like “free speech”, while they constantly spew their rhetoric about - you got it - Free Speech.

    By Ron

    February 24, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

    McCain is a middle of the road politician.This time the Conservatives have no one running.Too bad for them.Obama,on the other hand,is just to the left of Jane Fonda.The Europeans love Obama,The Canadians love Obama.Raul Castro should fit well with Obama.I keep reading that he is the most liberal Senator in the group.To the left of Kennedy and Schumer.To the left of all those liberal Democrats.Just think of that.

    By TW

    February 24, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

    Perhaps when assessing one’s patriotism, we should look at who has done the least amount of damage to the country?

    By Craig also

    February 24, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

    Maybe, rascal, they weren’t printed because you managed to come off as both wordy and deranged. Try reading and learning from some of jbmlaw’s posts. He’s wildly and spectacularly wrong, but he’s concise. Wins the day every time.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

    Dear TW @ 9:07, good argument. That is a loser for leftists every time. They have made no initiative since 1964 that did not cause significant damage to the country.

    By TW

    February 24, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

    jbmlaw - good morning, trust your trip and the surgery went well, and that the hormones will eventually slow the hair growth.

    I suppose the left is to initiatives what the right is to war?

    McCain incompetently trashes numerous of our jets and then spends five years in a hole after he gets shot down.

    Yeah, I want to be like that…

    Real hero…should have known times had changed when the right gleefully spent the last eight years on their knees in front of a draft dodging frat boy…

    By @@

    February 24, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

    I just got around to watching a re-airing of the dem debate last night.

    He (Obama) criticized her (Clinton) for trying to leave the impression that his supporters are “being duped and eventually they’re going to see the reality of things.”

    *Obama, echoing an early campaign statement that he would meet with leaders of so-called rogue nations without precondition, said he would meet with Cuba’s new leadership after adequate diplomatic preparations.

    Aren’t ^^^ those preconditions? Political double-speak! I see it a lot, and it’s worth nothing to me.

    Another reality that goes missing:

    “It gets more and more difficult to see how any of the candidates can meet the full portfolio of promises” they’ve made, said Maya Macguineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that advocates balanced budgets.

    Clinton has proposed new spending in excess of $200 billion, much of it annual. Obama has surpassed her, promising annual spending of at least $210 billion.

    People…people…people. This is political pie-in-the-sky that will end up on our faces. Get a clue!

    The most obvious problem, which Clinton and Obama have acknowledged but not addressed, is the unpopular alternative minimum tax.

    The AMT wasn’t indexed to inflation decades ago, when it was targeted at income levels then considered wealthy, so it now threatens to ensnare millions of American families with annual incomes of $75,000 to $200,000.

    $75,000 household income. Isn’t that like, ummmmmmm….middle America?

    SPLAT!

    By Redneck Convert

    February 24, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

    Well, it looks like this Ralph Nader done fixed the librul Democrats wagon. By running for president he will draw off the votes of some of the tree-huggers and make McCain the winner in the close states. Leastwise that’s how my buddy Jim Earl sees it and Jim Earl is never wrong. It will be the same as happened in Florida when My President was running for the first time. It won’t matter how many of Those People and the kids turn out to vote now. Nader will take just enough votes away from the librul Democrat to carry the election for McCain.

    I have to admit I was down for awhile, but now its a lead-pipe cinch a Republican will stay in the White House. So I’m going to sellabrate by taking the missus to Ryans today. I get a big kick out of watching her clean out all the steak and mashed potatos. The people that put the food out sure look glum when they see her plowing thru the line.

    I’m kind of sorry to see jbmlaw back. Now the rest of us won’t hardly get a word in edgewise. Between him and this Duh guy I expect he’ll fill up the whole blog. It was sure nice for awhile.

    Have a good day everybody.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

    {{{{“If Obama’s margin on March 5 is at or near its current level, many of the … superdelegates who are now officially undecided will likely decide that it is time to bring this historic contest to a close,” Mr. Galston wrote in an analysis circulated among Democrats last week.}}}}

    Now they are all turning against Ku Klux Rodham.

    The World of Hate has already taken it’s anger to the next level, what foul brew will we see gushing from this vile beast, what nasty little surprise will it vomit forth upon the demokrat party.

    Let’s all “hope” it is something really ugly, hahaha.

    By J$

    February 24, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

    Jim hit it here:

    “He will talk himself into trouble — and may very well talk himself out of the White House.

    Obama is a truly gifted orator. But he’s been reassured of that so often, and his rhetorical skills have taken him to such heights, that he’s grown much too comfortable with his eloquence. He’ll say too much. He’ll get caught up in the beauty of his argument and get careless.”

    ObamaMania is a fad. Watch him when he gets flustered.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

    By the way, will Webster’s be updating their dictionary to include the new meaning the liberals have given to the word “inevitable?”

    And how about the new definitions for “hope” and “change.”

    Change- (verb) as in spewed by a demokrat presidential candidate- to “change” America into Canada, a pacifist, wholly dependent non productive country which relies on others to protect it from it’s enemies and whines about everything.

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

    Obama threw an Army Captain under the bus but Clark has his back, blew off the State of the Black Union but Clinton spoke, then sent out two lying fliers and went against the party on health care to lose the super-delegates.

    Clinton took over yesterday and we witnessed who is the fighter.

    By Mack

    February 24, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

    The only good thing Bush did was to destroy the value or liability of eloquence. If america didn’t laugh that idiot off the stage for his chewbaca act, then Obama can withstand oratorial scrutiny.

    Bush also destroyed any trust america had in substantive government pronouncements by lying about every step of the way to Iraq, lying about Plame, lying about what total sluts the Bush Twins are, but the truth emerged and now americans dont want to hear anything substantial from anyone in government, because obviously it’s all lies. McCain is a liar, and he’ll lie his round head off to get elected. Nobody believes a word he says, and if anyone will trap himself with an election-losing gaff, it will be the moron who tries to be substantive.

    As usual none of the uber-pudwits saw the supreme irony in Wooten’s piece: Malapropism as conservative policy. Eloquence as failed government. Bush as master debater. Wooten’s writing has always been terrific, but lately he’s reaching the stratosphere.

    He really does write over your heads. He’s playing with you. He writes at a level that is calculated to probe the depths of your vacuity by the sheer ignorance of your responses. So, a few of us get really big laughs, and for that, we thank the master, Jim Wooten.

    Okay, the round tables are starting up now, and you folks need to watch them. It’s important that you understand the punditry and it’s convolutions in order for you to extract a readable opinion about the campaign, and iraq, or any other issue….

    …then maybe wooten wont so easily play you for the chumps you truly are.

    and maybe even I will read some of your comments.

    By GaLiberal

    February 24, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

    Moron Jim says: No question that a decade or two ago, Americans, hands down and without reservation, would have rejected the alternative McCain described.

    What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is that Americans were CONNED into this rejection by the false and empty promises of lower taxes and less government. So let’s recap the last two decades and see where this has taken the US. The number of people living just above the poverty level has increased significantly while social safety nets have been shredded. The ranks of the very rich swell from favorable tax cuts while the middle class gets squeezed even more due to high inflation. Gas has gone from about $1.25/gallon to over $3.00/gallon - 240% increase - in just two years and will even go higher. The Rethuglicons have made politics divisive and polarizing. George Bush has ran up a $300+ BILLION deficit with runaway spending, a reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq, and more tax cuts for the ‘haves and the have mores.’ The religiNazis want to turn the country into a theocracy. Bigotry toward immigrants and gays is allowing hate groups like the KKK, neoNazis, and white supremacists to attract new younger members who will spread their message of hate to future generations.

    Another thing that Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is that tax increases WILL be needed to pay off the Bush deficit which continues to grow as the reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq siphons off $200+ billion each year. That budget cuts for agencies like the FDA and USDA meat inspectors will only put people at risk.

    When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And the last two decades are living proof.

    By @@

    February 24, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

    and maybe even I will read some of your comments.

    Like we care whether you do or not PoliFore. You really do suffer from delusions of grandeur, don’t you?

    This coming from PoliFore who constantly changes his name because people stopped reading hers/his, and she/he can’t bare to live without our recognition of her/his posts. So what does PoliFore do? Namejacks and posts under multiple IDs out of a desperate need for attention.

    By Craig also

    February 24, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

    Well said Mack and GaLib. Although I tend to agree with Mack more about Jim - I could never understand why he continues to be so infatuated with the current president. I don’t think it’s because he’s a moron - instead I find Mack’s opinion compelling - he’s tossing stuff out, and reading the responses from atat and jbmlaw and rufus and ttft and dusty, and laughing uproariously.

    Good times….

    By Ron

    February 24, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

    Change— all you’ll have left in your pocket after Obama gets done with you.

    By J$

    February 24, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

    Bravo GaLiberal. Bravo.

    Your eloquence is eloquent.

    Rethuglicon, moron, nazis. All the eloquence food groups are represented. Well done.

    Eloquence is that new Hillary alarm clock from WalMart that screeches out one of her eloquent rants then you get to hit the snooze button at 5am.

    By Mack

    February 24, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

    How about Hillary purring up to Obama, getting as close as she pleases, and then the feline freddy-kruger act scratching his face just 48 hours later.

    Hillary is hacking lines from everywhere, including Bill’s 92 campaign. Fool me once, sh!t on you, fool me twice, sh!t on Bush, fool me three times, Sh!t on Cheney, fool me four times, sh!t on the GOP, fool me five times, sh!t on conservatism in general, and fool me over and over then sh!t on the Saudis and the Military Industrial Complex.

    Fool me infinity times, and boy oh boy am I mad….(i know, you get the bit)

    Meet the Press has a very interesting discussion about hacks. Guess what, they’re stealing from Civil War era writers in american politics then and now. Hacks. all hacks.

    By RabidRabbi

    February 24, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

    GaLib: Your high taxes have allowed six million jews in Israel to live a Western European lifestyle in a land of poverty and dispair for the native inhabitants. We should thank you, but since you gave without knowing, you deserve no thanks. You will continue to pay higher and higher taxes to support the Choosen People, just as God intended. We own America, lock, stock, and barrel, and you sheep know deep down in your so called souls…

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

    I was watching a bit of an interview with John Stewart on Larry King last night and talk about great political humor!

    I never watch the late shows so I only know about Stewart anecdotally, but I can see why the guy is so popular!

    I’m sure to the foaming, rabid right he is despicable, but I have to wonder, if they experience any self-loathing when they send junior off to bed and watch his show (at very low volume). Or any and all of the other politically demonic liberals on TV for that matter.

    That thought alone makes me laugh.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

    Dear AmVet @ 10:55, you misread those of us on the foaming, rabid right. I think Stewart is almost as funny as Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

    Dear AmVet @ 10:55, in fact, I think Stewart is almost as funny as PoFo.

    By Mack

    February 24, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

    CNN just reported that Cuba claims that their borders were incorrectly drawn by mother nature 1.8 billion years ago during the Moronzoic Age, and they claim Miami is all theirs.

    By Peter

    February 24, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

    Well folks…the nice thing going on in this Election is we will have a choice between a Democrat, and a……..

    LIBERAL REPUBLICAN !

    By Lying JohnMcClown

    February 24, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

    Straight Lying John steals from the church collection plate.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

    Dear Redneck @ 9:34, actually I don’t post so many times or so many words - it is just that, when I post, the argument leaves almost nothing for response. It simply SEEMS like I write a lot.

    By Mack

    February 24, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

    Chris Mathews has on who is maybe the biggest idiot that america has been tortured by in the last fifty years: Dan Rather

    The Mathews round table today has pundits doing variations of “it’s not over 4 Hillary yet”. Dan Rather’s pie hole, and he doesn’t have a mouth, he has a pie hole, (it makes me sick), is expressing some obsolete view of how polls have been wrong about the gap narrowing that’s occured in ohio and texas.

    What is everyone missing? The Eleven-in-a-row landslide victories that have occurred which, if you were conversant in quantum physics, mathematically eliminates every single opposing candidate in both parties (except Pat Paulsen).

    It’s over. Obama is the next president. Accept it. Know it. Believe it. Live it.

    Obama 08: We’ve got a country to save and a world to convince.

    By J$

    February 24, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

    This just in from meat the press roundtable:

    Nader nominates Hefner as his running mate for the Presidential bid.

    Since meat the press discriminated against their age, NaderHef has decided to recruit the last 10 years of playmates to stump for Bunnies for the Blue hairs.

    By Obamacan

    February 24, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

    Ironically, “the failed policies of a tired philosophy” seems to be equally descriptive of the “might makes right” mentality the Bush administration has lived by for the past 8 years and would continue to be propagated in a McCain presidency. The GOP should be far less concerned about the Youtubers and Facebookers flocking to Obama and more concerned about the parties base, 40 - 50 something, upper middle class white males like me, who would rather give the new generation their shot at fixing the mess we made, then hold our nose and vote for a relic. Just as 36.6 reflects the median age of the US population, it is probably pretty close to the number of years since the Republican party has had an original idea. If some of us have to pay a few more taxes, so be it. Both you and I can afford it Wooten. Time to blow the cobwebs off the coin purse.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

    jbm, you reveal your undoing by being a cheap imitation of a Yale cheerleader. But my goodness man! Amos (Rufus?! Gimme a break from these moronic morphing monikers) and Andy?

    The obvious difference, at least to me, that seemingly eludes you is that Stewart appears to be rational and is using his knowledge and talent for more than just completely partisan, hate-filled diatribes.

    And unlike those misanthropic oracles of your persuasion, he actually employs humor and comedy. Something that almost always gives the conservatives a miss, as the blokes say.

    Perhaps you mistake that some people are merely laughed at while others are laughed with.

    By Mack

    February 24, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

    The round table pundits this morning are all historians, they tell you who won the primaries, and then they dismiss that as old news and say, “but look at the flashbulb-lived polls and I wonder what will happen in the debate and what about next tuesday”. They are historians, who will never admit it’s over because then they’d have no job.

    As opposed to me, who, disguised as a mild-mannered comedian blogging for a major metro newspaper, predicts accurately the never-ending truth about the American Way!

    Obama 08: We’ve got a country to save and a world to convince.

    By PoFo

    February 24, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

    Well!

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

    GaLiberal:

    “The number of people living just above the poverty level has increased significantly while social safety nets have been shredded.”

    Well let’s see here. Nineteen year old college students who live at home and wait tables for spending cash are considered to be living in poverty based on their income. Poverty rates in this nation are based on a simple number known as reported income. Nothing else is taken into consideration. With that said, I am most curious to know what kind of social safety nets have been shredded in this nation, or soon will be like Social Security. Break it down for me sweetheart.

    “The ranks of the very rich swell from favorable tax cuts while the middle class gets squeezed even more due to high inflation.”

    We have a heavily progressive incomem tax in this nation. Here is a federal income tax breakdown based on income:

    The top 1% earn $365k and up and pay 39% of all federal income taxes

    The top 5% earn between $145k and $364k and pay 60% of all federal income taxes.

    The top 10% earn between $104k and $144k and pay 70% of all federal income taxes.

    The top 25% earn between $62k and $103k and pay 86% of all federal income taxes.

    The middle 25% - the middle class if you will, those between the top 50% and top 75% of income earners, earn between $31k and $61k pay 11% of all federal income taxes.

    http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6

    Now what kind of Stalinist would not understand that those who pay income taxes will get a break accordingly when cuts come around? I really don’t know why it’s such a hard concept to grasp. But we are dealing with libs here, so that helps ease the pain of dealing with ignorance some.

    “Gas has gone from about $1.25/gallon to over $3.00/gallon - 240% increase - in just two years and will even go higher.”

    1) Increased global demand has caused oil to increase in cost.

    2) Oil is traded on the international market.

    3) We have over 70 different fuel formulations in this nation due to regional and seasonal emission reduction laws. Ten years ago, we had less than 40.

    4) We have not had a new refinery built since 1976 due to environmental regulations. One of those not in my back yard situations like the Kennedys and windmills.

    5) We cannot drill or explore for our own oil. See #4.

    “George Bush has ran up a $300+ BILLION deficit with runaway spending,”

    And the democrats were right behind him adding pork. I can count on two fingers how many vetoes Bush did. Two peas in a pod.

    “a reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq”

    Now you are getting emotional and opinionated. Democrats voted for the authority. Now, if said democrats felt duped, then what does that tell you about their judgement and leadership capabilities?

    “The religiNazis want to turn the country into a theocracy.”

    Gee, you think McCain is out in front because this nation is nothing but a bunch of thumpers?

    “Bigotry toward immigrants and gays is allowing hate groups like the KKK, neoNazis, and white supremacists to attract new younger members who will spread their message of hate to future generations.”

    you">http://aclu.tribe.net/thread/457fa78a-8a30-41a8-8118-7863506e42fd">you need to take that up with the ACLU.

    Emotions over reason fail every time.

    By RW-(the original)

    February 24, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

    I never watch the late shows so I only know about Stewart anecdotally, but I can see why the guy is so popular!—Blowhard @ 10:55

    And unlike those misanthropic oracles of your persuasion, he actually employs humor and comedy.—Blowhard @ 11:39

    That must have have been an intense 44 minutes of boning up on Jon Stewart.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

    The only good thing Bush did was to destroy the value or liability of eloquence.

    Good point, Mack. But he is in many ways, merely the culmination of the dumbing down of America, I suppose. As evidenced not just by his well documented legacy of dubious logic but by his once-legion number of adoring fans, the worst of whom, display a lack of political acumen that is almost beyond belief.

    And even though some might argue that it is POSSIBLE to pity W in some regards, it was our very own Newt Gingrich who is one of the most important poster boys for the current failure of our government to provide even a semblance of effective leadership.

    For it was he of the no compromise mentality who started the widespread destruction of the values of mutual respect, statesmanship, civility and ethical professionalism in Washington.

    And that some of the more living sadly in the past wackos here still miss him says an enormous amount about how they are probably the very worst to entrust to make the choices of who is to LEAD us into the 21st century.

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

    Obamacan:

    “upper middle class white males like me, who would rather give the new generation their shot at fixing the mess we made … If some of us have to pay a few more taxes, so be it. Both you and I can afford it Wooten. Time to blow the cobwebs off the coin purse.”

    If you want your taxes raised and you can afford it good for you. People like me who make well above average will just cut back on spending and/or investing. There’s no point in investing if the gains are going to be taken away. Go ahead and raise taxes on corporations too and watch them increase product and service prices and cut back on hiring. Hey, at least you won’t be able to blame Bush for Obama’s economic collapse. Like a plane crash, there is a chain of events that leads up to an economic crash.

    By Glenn

    February 24, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

    getalife, the State of the Black Union was really cool. Did you happen to see it? Did you go? Dick Gregory doing stand-up with Cornell West as straight man. Totally classic, and light years ahead of this name-calling, name-jacking BS.

    When Obama talks and talks and talks about the need to abandon the Left/Right metric (presumably because he doesn’t want to have to move to the Right so as to place himself on the Leftmost edge), meanwhile those men and women on the dais were having a conversation that left the old dichotomies thousands of feet below. (Except for Brazille, who’s too deep into it, bless her, to have any kind of remove at this point.)

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

    My ACLU link flamed out at 12:03.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

    Wassup, RW?

    Did you take the references to misanthropes, completely partisan hate-filled diatribes, the foaming, rabid right, despicable and self-loathing personally?

    Yet again?

    Though not directed at you, slow learner?

    I and many others here can totally understand why.

    If the fu sh!ts…

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

    “the no compromise mentality”

    And Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are nothing but full of moderation and compromises with Bush and fellow Republicans in congress.

    Don’t make me puke, AmVet.

    By PoFo

    February 24, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

    CNN just reported that Cuba is claiming that mother nature drew her borders innaccurately 1.8 billion years ago and in fact they claim that Miami is actually part of Cuba. Miami responded with one word in unison (all 10 million expatriots): Si!

    History channel has a great dogfight show. This one has the F4s against the Mig 17 during nam. This is great television. You need to know this history to understand America.

    By RW-(the original)

    February 24, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

    Blowhard,

    I’m merely pointing out the typical dishonest stench that adheres to all you say and do.

    Jon Stewart is a truly talented comic and I enjoy his show immensely.

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

    No Glenn I did not go.

    Clinton did and her attack yesterday was correct.

    Obama is a liar

    He is just another weak, lying politician punking America.

    Lets face it, Americans are gullible and elected w twice.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

    BTW, Ricky, GREAT first post of the day!

    I cannot begin to explain how my words have so much power and relevance to you that they bring you out of your lurking and force your unsolicited replies to my posts.

    It is illistrative how similar it is to exterminators spraying RAID behind the cabinets and bringing out the roaches.

    Uncanny.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

    Merely, ricky?

    That I can discern more about the three personalities in question, in 44 minutes ( as you pulled out of your arse) than you can in 44 months (out of mine!) is no big deal.

    But then I’m not a charter member of the flat-earth, living in the past. slow to learn club like you.

    But hey, even richard rong wing can’t ruin this great day!

    There has been wonderful news regarding someone with the nads to stand up to the bumbling Democrats and the ruinous Republicans.

    More on that later!

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

    SNL was hilarious last night.

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

    It’s pretty funny reading someone whine over the right wingers merely defending their positions who at the same time watches Jon Stewart’s lib left wing frothing biased Hollywood entertainment-like claptrap.

    By Hillary Clinton is a Fat, Ugly, Lying HAG

    February 24, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

    Hillary Clinton should be hung for treason, lying to the american public, and for being Fat, Dumb, and Ugly. GitaDyke likes Hillarity because she likes muff divers, and Hillarity surrounds herself with muff divers….Aids is gods pay back to f a gs, muff divers, and other assorted perverts. Praise Jesus….

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

    Chip, GREAT reply!

    That many others in both parties showed infinitesimally small amounts of decency and followed Newt the Nut merrily along the path to vomitous intransigence, is not in question.

    That Newt was the founding father is also not.

    That you dodge that salient fact with irrelevant and sophomoric red herrings is again, sadly, not.

    By Hillary Clinton is a Fat, Ugly, Lying HAG

    February 24, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

    Hillarity the Clown should be careful using the word “LIAR” considering her husband is a convicted LIAR who was IMPEACHED for lying to Congress….GitaDyke is also a liar, lying about its gender, its perversions, and about cancer….

    By RW-(the original)

    February 24, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

    Good For You, Blowhard!

    Now one could say that your 10:55 solicited replies from no one or everyone. Since you’ve decided to blow a gasket over my response and not over jbmlaw’s response one must surmise the problem is on your end and it’s the power of my words playing you like the little puppet you are.

    Feel free to flame away as I’m now out of here for the day.

    By Rabid Rabbi

    February 24, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

    AMERICAN SHEEP, I COMMAND YOU: DO NOT VOTE FOR THAT DIRTY STINKING ARAB RALPH (AKMED) NADER.

    Ralph Nader enters presidential race Ralph Nader is entering the presidential race as an independent, he announced today. “Dissent is the mother of ascent,” he said. “And in that context I’ve decided to run for president.” It marks his fourth straight White House bid — fifth if his 1992 write-in campaign is included.

    By roddy21

    February 24, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

    I couldn’t help but notice a post at 10:11am and a mention of gas prices. Isn’t that one of the major issues Speaker Nancy Pelosi ran on in 2006, high gas prices? How long have the Dems been in control of Congress now, a year and a month? My don’t we have short memories:

    http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/8560

    By @@ rocks!

    February 24, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

    @@, you’re the name jacker, and the twin-lipped defibrillating brillo pad of all things wrong with the heart of the country’s panhandle thing.

    Hey, how about that gaff Obama’s wife made about patriotic pride…

    I’m about to give you the break of your life: Do twenty five words or less on Mrs. Obama’s gaff, and I promise I’ll read it and if it’s a “your-mama slam dunk” then I wont post another word till the ohio/texas primary.

    Man oh man, “Dogfights” was good. That Vietnamese pilot was amazing. RIP, charlie.

    By Chip

    February 24, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

    “Chip, GREAT reply!”

    AmVet, your idea of compromise is 100% left of center. No news there.

    By Rabid Rabbi

    February 24, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

    american sheep, you have no right to pride, you are the property of the state of israel and its agents: get to work producing guns and butter of israel….

    By @@

    February 24, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

    The obvious difference, at least to me, that seemingly eludes you is that Stewart appears to be rational and is using his knowledge and talent for more than just completely partisan, hate-filled diatribes.

    I’d like to say I find it surprising, but there’s no way I can. The HUGE DICKtater, AmVet arrives to make his assumptions based on what he thinks he knows about all conservatives.

    Add me to the list of conservatives who thinks John Stewart is funny.

    The difference between someone like myself and AmVet is that I don’t adapt my political opinion to those of a comic.

    Lewis Black, (who I think is hilariously funny) was on the History Channel last night “History of the Joke”. Lewis recognizes that humor is subjective so that makes AmVet the brunt* of Lewis’ **punchline.

    AmVet seems to think if he blows really hard we’ll get it. The funniest part is that AmVet simply blows.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

    Try as he might, Mr. RW cannot escape the holes in his “logical” fossil record!

    Rabbi,

    Did you see where Hucksterbee says he’s glad that Ralph has entered the race?

    His reasoning?

    That Nader will siphon votes off of the Democratic nominee.

    Poor old pastor Mike bought into that nonsense the first time around. Or at least hopes beyond hope it was true then and will “miraculously” happen again.

    But there’s one teensy weensy lil problem with that “conservative” “analysis”.

    Though undecided I have been leaning heavily towards voting McCain. (Like I said before, what a wierdass election!)

    Now that Ralph is in, guess what?

    Har Dee F@cking Har!

    Payback is so sweet!

    But it is a bit sad that I won’t be overtly “siphoned off” the power-hungry, gutless Democratic vote again.

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

    Another cockroach sighting at 1:07!

    Wish I too could stay and play with (torture?) the vermin, but alas someone has got to keep this great American economic engine humming!

    Spend, spend, spend!

    Man, wait ‘til I get my hands on that few hundred dollars/tax rebate windfall!

    I’m really gonna stimulate the economy!

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

    Oh, you yankees like Commander Cunningham when he shoot down six Mig 17’s in Vietnam. He also serve as Congressman on the House Appropriations Committee during the 90’s. He corrupt capitalist pig! He now disgrace! He sent to prison! He most corrupt congressman ever!

    You yankees will pay for vietnam. You yankees will pay for Iraq! I Chinagirl! You likey? We bid up oil! You pay more! Yankee now poor. Chinagirl now rich! You likey? We got more for you yankee! You see! Rots of ruck!

    By @@

    February 24, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

    Rocky Rumbles:

    I’m about to give you the break of your life: Do twenty five words or less on Mrs. Obama’s gaff

    I’m more interested in tracking down Michelle’s college thesis (which has suspiciously disappeared from the shelves.)

    That may take me to the heart of the gaff.

    26 words excluding your crap.

    By Rabid Rabbi

    February 24, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

    Hillarity the Clown: you and your entire staff need to just drink the kool aid at around 10 pm on March 4, 2008. It will all be over then, and you and your whole campaign team will be the laughing stock of the Nation. Just go to sleep, HAG, it is for the best….

    By Snakes!

    February 24, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

    This global warming boogeyman crock & bull is getting more and more ridiculous every day. Now it’s giant snakes that are going to take over the lower 1/3 of the US straight out of a 1970s Japanese horror flick.

    Run!

    Sell your gas powered cars!

    Turn out the lights!

    Stop cooking!

    No more fires in fireplaces!

    Stop eating meat!

    Make love, not carbon emissions!

    Hide! <- you can at least sell the heck out of snake skin, so maybe it won’t be all that bad after all for the economy!

    These global warming cultists are never ending for the entertainment factor.

    By Rabid Rabbi

    February 24, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

    Ymm Ymm, roast python steak, tastes like pork…..uh, make that mutton

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

    @@, you hobble america like the hag in “Misery” who cobble-bludgeoned James Caan. Too bad you’re obsolete, cause Chinagirl know world would eventually rise up and destroy america if you were allowed to be relevent any longer. but america change on chinagirl. it no fair. America now a just people willing to share planet with chinagirl. that no fair. we must now play nice. we wanted war, but it no good. nobody want war with fair america. so @@, please keep posting so chinagirl can hate again.

    By Rabid Rabbi

    February 24, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

    ChinaGirl: Five bucks for knackie knackie, Five bucks American

    By @@

    February 24, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

    so @@, please keep posting so chinagirl can hate again.

    It’s a wasted emotion ChinaGirl, but then who am I to tell you that you can’t waste your life on emotion.

    Kathy Baits you ChinaGirl, and you predictably answer the call.

    Wham-Oooooo!

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

    Ahhh, the memories:

    {{{{Then one day in early January 1996, out popped the records from the White House family residence. The pile of computer printouts detailed her work for the McDougals’ failing S&L in the mid-1980s. A Clinton staffer said she had found the printouts stashed in a box in a storage room.}}}}

    {{{{Prosecutors were furious. They had issued a subpoena for the billing records 18 months earlier. The prosecutors summoned Hillary Clinton, making her the only first lady to appear before a federal grand jury.}}}}

    {{{{The billing records did not present a pretty picture regarding Hillary Clinton. They showed that she drafted a real estate document regulators later said had misled bank examiners. Prosecutors concluded that McDougal and others had used her legal work to conceal unlawful activity.}}}}

    But yet she plunders on, Bruno the Hag wielding her battle axe against the law books, leaving the corpses of truth and honesty in her wake as she pillages the next target.

    China Girl: Uh, say, could you bundle up another ten million or so in Chinese Kampaign Kontributions, I believe the Klintoons have spent the last 132 million of them.

    They be broke now.

    By robert chapman

    February 24, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

    The tired rhetoric comes from those doctrinaire conservatives who are flocking to McCain out of loyalty to the movement.

    McCain will be the US Grant of this age. A man with impressive military background who simply cannot control his underlings.

    A man with a substantive record of individual accomplishment, but a poor judge of character.

    The facebook people may be young, but they are able to recognize character and they recognize it in Barak Obama.

    They also recognize that Obama’s experience in organizing the down trodden in the streets of Chicago is experience more germane to the challenges we face than McCain’s.

    It is contemptable to choose to put idealogy over patriotism, but it is a choice that the “Common Sense Conservative,” seems entirely willing to make.

    By Wilson

    February 24, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

    Given the tremendous challenges that we face - an economy on the brink of recession, a deficit of record proportions, the on-going war on terror and our continuing decline in world standing - now is a time when we need real strength. We have had eight years of weakness and small mindedness with Bush. This weakness has taken us to a critical point in our history. Given all that is at stake, our nation cannot afford decisions based on emotion.

    I find the emotional fervor and negative statements of Obama supporters to be frightening. Furthermore, Obama appears to have little understanding of the economic problems that face us. The emotional tenor of his campaign, coupled with his inherent weakness on economic issues, creates a combination that history has proven to be destructive.

    As a life-long Democrat, I will cross party lines and vote for McCain or a third party candidate rather than risking the problems of an Obama presidency. Incidentally, I am one of those Democrats that Obama says he’s “reaching out” to. With the negatives of his campaign, he’ll loose a great many of the “Old-Line Democrats”. I’m convinced that a Republican landslide is about to occur.

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

    Does anybody even read Jim the gop hack’s drivel anymore?

    We are seeing the real Obama and McCain now.

    Both are frauds and Clinton is the only one to save this country.

    But Americans are getting punked again for the third time.

    I doubt even both Clintons can clean up the mess after this last bush.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

    {{{{By getalife February 24, 2008 2:56 PM I doubt even both Clintons can clean up the mess after this last bush.}}}}

    al-Gitmo: Considering that you are backing the most korrupt kandidate that ever lived, even more scandal ridden than your average Louisiana governor, one has to wonder what you mean when you say “clean up.”

    I have no doubts that Ku Klux would like to “clean up.”

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

    Dear Robert @ 2:46, so your argument is that conservative who vote for a moderate confirmed patriot are ideologues, but leftists who vote for a leftist are not ideologues. Interesting, if typical, leftist argument.

    By AJC's Management couldn't manage an Outhouse very well

    February 24, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

    How long until this rag goes bankrupt? Soon I hope…speaking of mis-management, ah sure hope the Hags staff does the right thing on March 4, 2008 and falls on their alleged swords….Just drink the kool aide, d y kes.

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

    You are right, there is nothing to change.

    Both are frauds and it will be politics and business as usual.

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

    You are right, there is nothing to change.

    Both are frauds and it will be politics and business as usual.

    By AJC's Management couldn't manage an Outhouse very well

    February 24, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

    hey gitadyke, just because hillary is a pseudodyke does not mean she would make a good president for all the people, just for the d y kes and the fudge packers out there. Me thinks special camps should be set up to deal with your kind….

    By HilDykes are the Reason Hillary is Hated by 52% of voters

    February 24, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

    How many of these fanatical hillary supporters on this blog are d y kes and f a gs hoping to cash in of Federal jobs in a ClinDyke administration, where they can prey on innocent young women and men? I can guess at their idenities, they reek with their perversion and outrage that the American public see’s thru the LIES of Hillary

    By ray

    February 24, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

    anybody get a good look at that chick mccain was bangin’? very, very nice. so, his is camp gonna answer the specifics about the nyt article, or are they just gonna stamp their sissy gop feet like the rest of ‘em do when they get checked?

    By getalife

    February 24, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

    Me thinks special camps should be set up to deal with your kind

    Stop running your sissy mouth punk.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

    {{{{“She has a real military discipline that, now that times are tough, has really kicked into gear,” said Judith Hope, a friend and informal adviser to Mrs. Clinton, and a former chairwoman of the New York State Democratic Party. “When she’s on the road and someone has a negative news story, she says, ‘I don’t want to hear it; I don’t need to hear it.’ I think she wants to protect herself from that and stay focused.}}}}

    Oh, o.k, Bruno’s got military discipline, eh?

    That’s why her as-s is twice as wide as her chest, all those buffets that she has resolutely foregone.

    {{{{Over take-out meals and late-night drinks, some regrets and recriminations have set in, and top aides have begun to face up to the campaign’s possible end after the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4. Engaging in hindsight, several advisers have now concluded that they were not smart to use former President Bill Clinton as much as they did, that “his presence, aura and legacy caused national fatigue with the Clintons,” in the words of one senior adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity to assess the campaign candidly.}}}}

    Gee, all those things about what a great president Billy was that have been shoved down the throats of our public school students, turns out he’s nothing but lying bigoted pervert, just like the wingnuts said 17 years ago.

    How far we have come together America, to witness the Klintons blaming it all on the Klintons.

    {{{{Morale is low. After 13 months of dawn-to-dark seven-day weeks, the staff is exhausted. Some have taken to going home early — 9 p.m. — turning off their BlackBerrys, and polishing off bottles of wine (uh, whine), several senior staff members said.}}}}

    Yeah, Bushie is a “drunk.”

    {{{{Some advisers have been heard yelling at close friends and colleagues. In a much-reported incident, Mr. Penn and the campaign advertising chief, Mandy Grunwald, had a screaming match over strategy recently that prompted another senior aide, Guy Cecil, to leave the room. “I have work to do — you’re acting like kids,” Mr. Cecil said, according to three people in the room.}}}}

    You know, I’m starting to look at the possibility that these POS Klintons are just not that smart, much like the people who vote for them.

    Let’s take Katrina as an example; The day that the levees broke, all of the drive by pinko media was whining about Bushie but yet their TV cameras showed residents of New Orleans swimming through the streets with 63” big screen televisions perched upon their shoulders, back to their homes that had no electricity.

    Was I the only one wondering why they didn’t swim to evacuation centers instead?

    Now think about who it is that Klinton panders to.

    The successful?

    The prosperous, like her “husband” and Obama’s wife?

    The productive?

    No.

    What these demokrats are running for is to turn the looters loose on the U.S. Treasury.

    Passing the big screens out the window to them.

    It’s a sickness.

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

    Okay, enough. There has been tectonic demographic change in america. People are slow to know what’s happening underneath the surface of population change.

    We’re a totally different country than the one the GOP is relying on to win in november. Bush/Cheney slew that country to death. It no longer exists. The Bush approval rating is the vestiges of the Bush Base, and it cant possibly get any lower, because the Bush base is now nothing but corrupt capitalists who would send their grandmas into a mine field if they had the contract on minesweepers. “aw, we need to buy more minesweepers, there’s nothing left of grandma Cheney”.

    A moment of silence for the last great measure of devotion our troops have suffered in Iraq. Nobody post for ten minutes in respect for our troops, please. These americans are fighting a new war against a new enemy that took our generals three solid years to figure out a viable strategy against which even then Cheney refused to accomodate because of the costs and because the Saudi-based defense contractors who ordered Bush to attack Iraq had new weapons systems on the table that may have been cut if they were forced to pay for proper equipment to fight the newfangled war and ingenious enemy in Iraq.

    Dont post for 10 in respect for our troops. Support the troops. Vote Obama.

    Obama 08. We’ve got a country to save and a world to convince.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

    Dear PoFo @ 4:25, “slew to death?” What is the alternative, “slew to a belly ache?”

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

    yet their TV cameras showed residents of New Orleans swimming through the streets with 63” big screen televisions perched upon their shoulders, back to their homes that had no electricity.

    Uh, AJC Management, that was Bush’s fault, just like the murder rate in New Orleans post-Katrina is Bush’s fault. Lousyana “freezer cash” political and police corruption is also Bush’s fault. Just thought I’d help straighten out some things for you pal.

    On a cool, clear mid-October weekend six people were murdered in New Orleans. The killings brought the tally of the slain in the Crescent City this year to 163, above the total of 162 for the entirety of 2006. The following weekend three more people were murdered in New Orleans - on Saturday alone. With nearly two full months left in the year, it is looking like the homicide rate in New Orleans will substantially outpace 2006’s near-record numbers.

    By Glenn

    February 24, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

    get,

    That’s great that she went. Obama, of course, was the topic beneath every topic. Much parsing of why the emigration from the Clinton to the Obama camp.

    Speaking of camp, Tina Fey wasn’t “hilarious”; only snide. And Hillary is not a b!tch, just a venal power maniac.

    And if the gullibility of the voters was shown by W’s two victories, wouldn’t that show especially the gullibility of Democrats who nominated still weaker candidates?

    There’s no question that the voters have been gulled heretofore. Many times. Are they as gullible now? More so? How so?

    These seem really crucial questions, ones that go to the heart of Jim’s column, too.

    On the one hand, they’re burned by the media and wary as hell because of it; on the other hand, a lot of them just want that swelling feeling one gets from a well delivered bit of oratory. What happened to “voting one’s pocketbook”, and other such references to enlightened self-interest? Are most voters now emotivists?

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

    Glad you liked the material. Feel free to steal. Then folks’ll think that YOU’RE the genius instead of the over-starched jockstrap chafe you truly are.

    You’re out of touch with the USA, jbmlog, and like a man without a country you must drift till you run aground of yourself, and stew in your own bitters, like a over anxious cannibal who got too close to the boiling cauldron and fell into his own concoction.

    By Peter

    February 24, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

    Hey Chip……. Bad call here…..

    “1) Increased global demand has caused oil to increase in cost.”

    Increase in Oil prices is due to the Chaos, and UNCERTAINTY in the market….

    One of the MAIN Reason’s Bush has his MADE UP WAR….

    Yes he did his DADDY, Family, and the BIN LADDEN Family Proud…..

    We are taking it up the A$$, because of BUSH, and his whole Family is Smiling all the way to the BANK !

    By Ron

    February 24, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

    Jim,This column used to be so interesting,but now the interest has been slewed to death.I wear my thumb wheel out just getting by reams of drivel.I can write drivel too,but it's short drivel.I believe I've slewed myself into a belly ache by eating too much beef stew.Nighty night folks.

    By TAFKAH

    February 24, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

    More crunchy goodness from the Always Ethical Straight Talking Maverick, Saint John McCain:

    First, McCain was able to get around ballot access rules for the primaries in states around the country — at a value of $2-$3 million (what Dean’s own campaign had to spend on ballot access, having not participated in the public financing system in 2004) — by participating in the program. Pulling out now would enable him to reap the material benefit of ballot access offered by the program — again, valued at millions of dollars — without having to abide by the program’s overall spending limit (somewhere in the neighborhood of $54 million).

    Second, McCain used the promise of public funds as collateral to help secure a private loan. Once a candidate uses actual public funds in this manner, they have used those dollars, thus locking them into the program. This is key, not only in that it seems to bind him to the program but also in that McCain showed a clear willingness to capitalize on voluntary taxpayer money in order to help him raise more funds from special interest lobbyists (some of whom are at the upper echelons of his campaign staff).

    Finally, now that McCain is in the program and hasn’t been certified to pull out — an act that requires a vote of the FEC — it seems that he may have already gone over the spending limit in violation of the law. As of the last campaign finance filing deadline, McCain was already coming dangerously close to the $54 million threshold, and in the weeks since he might have already passed it.

    The guy is crooked as a dog’s hind leg. He thinks the rules don’t apply to him. He’s always been that way. Check out his service record for proof.

    And it doesn’t matter if he was banging that lobbyist bimbo (and God knows she is so homely I wouldn’t f^ck her with somebody else’s dick). The guy is up to his a$$ in lobbyists, including his unpaid campaign manager who admits that he conducts lobbying business from the McCain campiagn bus. Now THAT is access.

    Filthy lying stealing corrupt morally and ethically bankrupt…that’s the best the GOP can come up with?

    Enjoy your koolaid, wingers. Even Ralph Nader can’t save you now.

    By Glenn

    February 24, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

    Welcome back, jbm,

    You will have noticed by now that things got even more twisted during your absence.

    Two very important things happened domestically last week. They may have escaped your notice whilst you were busy contemplating the paper umbrella.

    Ensign Craig’s military service demonstrated that it, too, can shoot a bullet with a bullet. The way they did it is quite fascinating. First they outsretched the fingers and thumb of their right hand, touched the thumb to the tip of the nose, and waved derisively at the Chinese, North Koreans and Russians.

    Among other things, a conspicuous demonstration of the dexterity of the National Labs at riding out the Clinton/Gore years by repackaging their physics to suit Democratic fashions. So a big thumbing of the nose at former Commander-in-Chief Clinton, too.

    The other hugely huge domestic development was Wal-Mart’s unveiling of plans to deliver retail medical services, taking full advantage of that company’s ubiquity.

    From “smart rocks” to “brilliant pebbles”. Whatcha wanna bet the educrats downtown never stopped to think of Wal-Mart as a service delivery system?

    Duh.

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

    Peter is an absolute obtuse idiot:

    Increase in Oil prices is due to the Chaos, and UNCERTAINTY in the market….one of the MAIN Reason’s Bush has his MADE UP WAR….

    Even CNN got it right last year.

    Never let Bush Derangement Syndrome ever get in the way of facts, right Peter? Moron.

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

    Hey TAFKAH, anti-Semitic racist xenophobic jackal, don’t you have anything better to do, like blow yourself up in a Synagogue or something?

    By Glenn

    February 24, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

    The U.S. government also has taken action to suppress production from the Iraqi oilbeds, a market restriction that has played a preeminent role in the hiking of our pump prices and the unprecedented profits of U.S. oil companies of late.

    What trade-offs the U.S. got in return is, of course, for very few people to know. Geopolitics is ugly, rough sex, and definitely not for immature audiences. You want to play with the Rohrscheney Blots, knock your Self out. We’ll never really know until a lot more water has passed under the bridge whether the Administration truly acted in our interest. We can only pretend to know.

    By jbmlaw

    February 24, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

    Good afternoon Glenn, thanks, had a great time. The little I was able to look at the blog it looked like you and Dusty and @@ and TFTT held back the Vandals and Goths. We were conscious of the Navy shot, but I missed the WalMart story, thanks. Back to the wars tomorrow morning.

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

    NEW YORK - NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama. Too funny. Sounds like that big “X” by CNN over Cheney and their response was “OOOPS.” Of course, everyone knows where CNN and PMSNBC stand on “objective” news when it comes to republicans vs. democrats.

    These days, however, it’s kinda hard to figure out the mainstream lib media on the Barack-Shrill duel. Who are they rooting FOR?

    By AmVet

    February 24, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

    robert, good post at 2:46.

    As someone who grew up watching first hand the repugnant Nixon and the ruinous Reagan, and who now endures bumbling Bush/Cheney and praying Perdue, I was understandably fairly reticent to vote for McCain.

    And having seen the likes of their more imbecilic and hate-filled fans here for months now, it only confirms what major league screw ups and wretched human beings that far end of that political party has, can, does and sadly, may always attract.

    The deranged have always flocked to the rightmost lunatic fringe like moths to a flame.

    But alas this November they are going to get scorched and we others are going to love that bonfire.

    By AJC Management

    February 24, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

    {{{{After the Potomac primary wipeout, Mr. Penn declared that Mr. Obama hadn’t won in “any of the significant states” outside of his home state of Illinois. This might come as news to Virginia, Maryland, Washington and Iowa, among the other insignificant sites of Obama victories. The Daily Kos blogger Markos Moulitsas Zúniga has hilariously labeled this Penn spin the “insult 40 states” strategy.}}}}

    {{{{The insults continued on Tuesday night when a surrogate preceding Mrs. Clinton onstage at an Ohio rally, Tom Buffenbarger of the machinists’ union, derided Obama supporters as “latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust-fund babies.” Even as he ranted, exit polls in Wisconsin were showing that Mr. Obama had in fact won that day among voters with the least education and the lowest incomes. Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Obama received the endorsement of the latte-drinking Teamsters.}}}}

    Marvel at the demokrats ripping themselves limb from limb.

    Need any help?

    Hahahahaha.

    By Glenn

    February 24, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

    Sola Fide!

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

    As someone who grew up watching first hand the repugnant Nixon and the ruinous Reagan

    I’m w/you AmVet. In the Reagan 1980s, I missed the hell out of those 21% interest rates, 8% plus inflation numbers, four hour gas lines, 8-10% unemployment rates, and failed military and diplomatic excursions.

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

    China/India’s modernization is the sole reason for the price of oil and why it will continue to rise. They constitute 1/3 of the population of the planet, morons, of course with that kind of demand the price will rise.

    You people are total ignorami. total.

    I alone am the bastion of truth and reason here. Glenn and his, “geopolitics is ugly” horsh!t. I pee on you Glenn, and that’s the greatest of your accomplishments in your entire life. Enjoy, you intellectual midget.

    I know all. I pee on all. I am Trickle-Down Man!

    Our country has changed. So has the planet, and the GOP relics can not be allowed to try to destroy the globalization of trade and geo-political compromise that will be necessary to keep us from destroying ourselves at the bequest of the Saudi Puppets now in charge in Washington.

    Revolution sometimes comes in tiny little baby bunny packets.

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

    Those numbers I gave were of Carter’s administration of course.

    It is rather funny watching AmVet whine about the “rabid right” when the rabid hypocrite lib talks about “scorching” and a “bonfire” for those “deranged” who don’t think like him. Derangement syndrome, liberalism becomes thee.

    By ChinaGirl

    February 24, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

    I SAID TINY LITTLE BABY BUNNIES!!!!

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

    Is it just me, or is the loon left like AmVet getting more rabid and vitriolic lately? What are these brain dead bots on the quack left afraid of?

    By quackmired

    February 24, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

    I alone am the bastion of truth and reason here.

    You’ve got a lot of nerve saying that, Mr. “There were no F-4s on the Forrestal in 1967.”

    Hahaha.

    By Glenn

    February 25, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

    THAT explains the spike in pump prices, ChinaGirl! Demographics and macroeconomic trends! Of course! They are ever so surprising, aren’t they?

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