Thinking Right

By Captain Freedom

March 12, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

THE Captain for one thanks His Almighty Lord for the Great State of Mississippi. It is the best thing to happen to Georgia since sliced bread. Why, without that slab of god-forsaken piney woods and swamp, the Good People of Georgia would have no one to look down upon.

But the best thing about Mississippi is that it puts greater distance between Georgian and Arkansas.

So says THE Captain.

By Copyleft

March 12, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

The great thing about Mississippi is, no one cares about it. The state and its people are stuck in another century; they have no relevance to our nation.

Finally, someone that even Georgia can look down on!

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of my home state of Mississippi; I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia.

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of my home state of Mississippi; I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia.

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of my home state of Mississippi; I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia.

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of my home state of Mississippi; I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia.

By jbmlaw

March 12, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. First, to answer the questions: (1) yes, (2) yes, (3) no.

I would vote for a conservative from Massachusetts. I would vote for a conservative from California. I would vote for a conservative from Vermont. I would vote for a conservative from Washington DC. If I would vote for a conservative from a place where conservatives don’t even exist, why would I not vote for a conservative from Mississippi, where they undoubtedly exist? Southerners are not prejudiced against southerners – that mindless bias exists only outside the South (or among the few leftists in our midst, as they are all self-loathing types.) I know when I (foolishly) travel to the northeast, I can rely on the assumption by locals that I am unlearned - they form that assumption from my accent. (For our friends who encounter that prejudice, I have a little game that works wonders: wait until they overplay it, then slap them with a vigorous argument – they are so stunned to discover that we are smarter than they, that they behave nicely thereafter. Also, you will never have that problem in Brooklyn or the Bronx, since dos guys suffer the same prejudice – it is strictly a Manhattan and Staten Island thing.)

The media is “sexist” in the same sense that “equal opportunity laws” are sexist: the media turns backflip somersaults to avoid bias against women, and against people of color. The same “journalists” who are attack dogs with white conservative males are lap poodles with nonwhites and nonmales. I think Geraldine has it backwards, generally. Caveat, all I write assumes a political ceteris paribus. Hypothetical, whereas the evil governor of New York is getting a feather-tickling over his $80,000 expenditures on harlots, if Condi Rice similarly spent $100 one time for one evening’s pleasure, the democrats would initiate impeachment.

Would Obama be in the same position if white or female? It is hard to distinguish Obama from John Edwards on politics, or rhetoric, or even background generally.

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of the Mississippi people voting for what’s right. I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia. Go Home State,Go Home state Go!!!!

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of the Mississippi people voting for what’s right. I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia. Go Home State,Go Home state Go!!!!

By CDM

March 12, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

I am so proud of the Mississippi people voting for what’s right. I love you!!!!!!!! To all the Haters go to H###. Hint, Hint, Georgia. Go Home State,Go Home state Go!!!!

By Ron

March 12, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim,This country is split down the middle as far as Dems and The Gop go.This means that Hillary and Obama is splitting about 50% of the vote down the middle.Which means that Obama is getting about 25% of the vote cast.That’s the black vote and the pie in the sky dreamers vote.If Obama were white,he would not be running for the Democratic nomination.If he were another woman he would not be running either.

The media is the media.It’s racist,sexist, and about every other ist you care to hang on it.Try foolist.Listennow..Just love that word,Jim.

I would never even entertain a vote for a right wing conservative from any state.I like my politics down the center of the road.McCain sits on the white line.

By BadOleBoys

March 12, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Red. Red. RED! Whack! REDDD! Look at me so you can hear what I’m sayin.

OK Bubba. You didn’t have to hit me so hard.

WHAT!!!

I SAID YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO….

I can hear you. You don’t have to yell.

Did you go to another Monster Truck rally?

WHAT!!!

I SAID DID…

You don’t have to yell….Did I tell you that I went to the Monster Truck Rally?

Yep.

When?

Just now.

WHAT!!!

By Bubba Li Cious

March 12, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Bubba, honey?

Yes, Suga Baby?

Did you hear what Miss Geraldine done gone and said about Obama. She said that if he was white that he wouldn’t be in this position.

Well, Suga. She is right, you know. He’d be on top. Just like that fella from New York was. Look at the time. I got to git home. See you tomorrow?

Sure thing, Bubba.

By Redneck Convert

March 12, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m mighty proud of the white folk in Miss. They come right out and say they won’t vote for somebody of a diffrent race. Heck, they don’t even have to use “Those People” when they talk about it. At least we have some Real Americans in that state.

It figures Haley Barbour will probly get passed over for VP. Here he is, the head of a state that ain’t trying to forget the civil war and is mighty proud of it, and he will get treated like dirt by the panty-waists that will just surrender to Those People because they might get their feelings hurt a little. You can’t even beat up and kill a few yankees and Those People in the past without having people throw it in your face.

Anyhow, I use to be proud of the Republican party. They just come right out and said in so many words that they were for White people and were going to see to it that Those People were going to be put in their place. Now, they are all timid about it. They do things like cut Medicaid and Peachcare to please us White folk, but they won’t come right out and say they are against Those People. They sort of hint at it and that’s all.

Anyway, I’m just disgusted with the way things are going. But I won’t have no choice but to vote for the Republican in the fall, even if he is a librul. He’s better than one of those wild-eyed librul Democrats that will work to make sure Those People get equal treatment. If they get elected we won’t have nobody to look down on.

Have a good day everybody.

By Rick

March 12, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Snail mail ballots? Of course Howard Dean likes the idea. Isn’t he the one who went postal the last time around?

By Peter

March 12, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Gotta love Jim today….the country is hanging together by threads…..

We are finding out the Bush Administration has squashed another important CDC science finding of pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes.

The banking sector is in trouble, oil prices are through the roof, inflation and unemployment and the deficit is way up, and nothing from Jim about the state of the Union.

Also the guy leading the MADE UP WAR resigns, and nothing there either.

So what does he talk about …. Racial divides in this country…..

Gotta love the journalism here, show what a true Bigot he is, pulling out the race card NOW !…….

Barack Obama is an AMERICAN……Maybe Jim doesn’t get that !

Why is Jim telling us he is a Mississippian ?

By Apocalypse

March 12, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

13 % of Republicans voted for Hillary today…….and she still didn’t win….but this is why her numbers were so high among Whites in Mississippi…………..

As I wrote HERE, Barack Obama’s performance on March 4th represented a real loss in support among non-Democrats who up until last week had tended to support him over Hillary Clinton by fairly large margins. We’re seeing the same thing in Mississippi today.

According to CNN’s exit poll, 13% of those that voted in the MS Democratic primary today were Republicans and they went for Hillary Clinton by a huge margin of 77-23%. Among independents who voted in the Democratic primary today, Clinton loses only by a slight 48-51% margin. These results represent a phenomenal improvement for Clinton among these groups as compared to her overall pre-March 4 results when she lost among Republicans 29-64% and among Independents 36-56% (h/t Open Left.)

The real story here is Clinton’s performance among Republicans though. This is the first open primary since John McCain secured the nomination, so it makes sense that they would participate in the Democratic primary in larger than normal numbers (Republicans represented about 9% of the Dem primary electorate in the last 3 open contests in Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio) but going for Hillary by more than 50%? What made her Republican support in TX and Ohio so surprising was that she had closed the gap to a single digit deficit or a tie, but here she is well ahead. I was skeptical of the right-wing campaign to turn out for Hillary Clinton so that the battle for the Democratic nomination would drag out even longer, supposedly meant to help John McCain (John, who?), but today’s results make it difficult to ignore. Although, the more insidious side of what may have motivated these Republicans to vote for Hillary against Barack is that the racist vote may have been alive and well. The electorate was deeply polarized along racial lines (90% of black voters went for Barack, 73% of white voters went for Clinton) in Mississippi today and I don’t think it’s entirely unrelated that the exit polling The AP did show Clinton benefiting from a distinctly anti-Obama sentiment.

—[Just] 4 in 10 Clinton voters said she should pick Obama as her running mate if she wins.

— Nearly three-fourths of Clinton voters said they would be dissatisfied if Obama wins the nomination.

—Only about one in five Clinton voters said Obama [offered clear and detailed plans to solve the country’s problems.]

By Steve

March 12, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

God I just reading Jim’s southern, back-assed, racially twinged “opinions.”

It’s better than watching reality TV, or a train wreck.

By HILLARY STINKS LIKE ROTTEN TUNA FISH

March 12, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Mississippi is the second most corrupt state in the union, just behind its neighbor, Louisianna. Never trust a politician from either state, they are all liars, thieves, cowards and traitors, much like the so called conservatives on this blog…

By Glenn

March 12, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

The “due respect” is owed to Andy on this one, as ‘twas he who pegged the KKKlinton proKlivity to give the Public race wedgies. Ferraro is totally out of the closet with that charming little perversion of KKKamp KKKlinton.

Because Hillary dare not silence her, Ferraro keeps mouthing off about her great success in inflicting us with the latest Obama wedgie. She’s proud of her feat, though she was so misunderstood that she bites on any opportunity to byte about how she should have been even more explicit, even more ugly and blunt. The former congresswoman is strutting her stuff, and it’s the stuff of a bigoted old slatern.

As I write, she is holding forth about how the responses she received from Obama & Co. were “more divisive” than hers. (What a procedural genius! Why is she not on the Columbia Law faculty?) She cites a scholarly tome establishing a social scientific certainty that being a woman is “harder than being black”. Being both black and a woman, presumably, will win you the White House by acclamation; so if you are both and your find that MAN Barack standing in your path, make common cause with your sisters, because you can be sure that Barack Obama is not going to be The First Female President. No, sez Gerry, we sisters have got to do it for ourselves! Black women of America, come back to Sistah Hillary, won’t you?

Ferraro just keeps running her mouth this way, pulling up the elastic waistband all the higher with every news micro-cycle. Gerry is Hillary’s Billy, mean-drunk on her own rotgut beer.

By Apocalypse

March 12, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

It’s tough to think of two states more different than Wyoming and Mississippi.

But we won Wyoming on Saturday, and we won Mississippi by a large margin yesterday.

Between those two states, we picked up enough delegates to erase the gains by Senator Clinton last Tuesday and add to our substantial lead in earned delegates. And in doing so we showed the strength and breadth of this movement.

But just turn on the news and you’ll see that Senator Clinton continues to run an expensive, negative campaign against us. Each day her campaign launches a new set of desperate attacks.

They’re not just attacking me; they’re attacking you.

Over the weekend, an aide to Senator Clinton attempted to diminish the overwhelming number of contests we’ve won by referring to places we’ve prevailed as “boutique” states and our supporters as the “latte-sipping crowd.”

I’m not sure how those terms apply to Mississippi and Wyoming — or Virginia, Iowa, Louisiana, or Idaho for that matter.

I know that our victories in all of these states demonstrate a rejection of this kind of petty, divisive campaigning.

But the fact remains that Senator Clinton’s campaign will continue to attack us using the same old Washington playbook. And now that John McCain is the Republican nominee, we are forced to campaign on two fronts.

It’s up to you to fight back. Please make a donation of $25 today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/math

Thank you,

Barack

By Glenn

March 12, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Sister Gerry just fired her latest shot over the bow: Obama had better shape up and treat her Sayings with greater respect, “because there are a lot of people like me” and he’s going to need their votes in this KKKampaign!

Funny, she didn’t just say that “there are a lot of women who vote”. Evidently she didn’t mean women; she meant, and said, “people like me”.

TO: Barack

FR: Gerry

RE: Campaign

Mind your place, Boy!

By Apocalypse

March 12, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

Obama also finished first in the Texas Democratic caucuses. The caucuses were held last week, but the race was not called until Tuesday night.

Obama will get more delegates out of the state than Clinton, who won the state’s primary.

Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses last week.

Two-thirds of the state’s 193 delegates were at stake at the primary, while the remaining third were decided by the caucuses.

By Apocalypse

March 12, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Obama also finished first in the Texas Democratic caucuses. The caucuses were held last week, but the race was not called until Tuesday night.

Obama will get more delegates out of the state than Clinton, who won the state’s primary.

Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses last week.

Two-thirds of the state’s 193 delegates were at stake at the primary, while the remaining third were decided by the caucuses.

By Jaguar Paw

March 12, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Off topic. It happens every day, but the killing of two young, bright Georgians by a couple of worthless slugs within hours of each other reinforces in me the worthwhile vengeance provided society by the death penalty.

By Always Offended

March 12, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Ferraro’s remarks were indeed offensive. We all know that if Obama were a pasty-faced, red haired man who, barly mid-way into his first senate term, decided he was cut out for bigger things (to heck with this lousy senate job!) and it was time to be the leader of the entire free world (no veep job for me!), that Oprah would have endorsed him, he would have raised upward of $30 million per month from small donations, women would be swooning at the rallies, the Rev. Joseph Lowry would have called out John Lewis at a funeral for not endorsing him sooner, and nine out of ten black people in Mississippi would be lining up to vote for the guy. Totally. White women are such racists, aren’t they? Let’s all talk about how much we hate white women who don’t shut up when we want them to!

By HILLARY STINKS LIKE ROTTEN TUNA FISH

March 12, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Make no mistake about it, this Spitzer attack was a political hit prompted by the new york wall street crooks, and aided and abetted by the National Security Services under cover as the IRS. The NSA provided the phone call transcripts before any reports from the bank of “suspicious” transfers of funds. He ll, its his money, if he wants to spend it on wh or es, that is his business, not the irs, nsa, and certainly not wall streets. If the irs is so powerful and on the ball, then why have a thousand wall street crooks been arrested for exactly the same thing spitzer has been publically humiliated? You know damned well every hotel in washington dc and new york city is frequented by the politically and financially powerful for paid female services, so either charge them all or charge none of them. And stop reading my email, my bank records, and snooping in my bedroom, you perverts…there are too gawd danmed many laws and too many dudley dorights out their with a shiny new badge and six shooter snooping in our lives, the filthy scum…. here, catch dudley ..!..

By BadOleBoys

March 12, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Them boys over in Mississippi could learn a thing from the folks over in South Carolina. Yep. They know how to deliver a state of the Union address. Good thing we don’t have none of that nonsense here in Georgia. Knock down drag outs belong in a swimming pool filled with mud. Now that’s entertainment.

By Rick

March 12, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Snail-mail ballots? Of course Howard Dean likes the idea, he’s the one who went postal last time around.

By Horatio

March 12, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

—Ferraro didn’t back down. “I have to tell you that what I find is offensive is that every time somebody says something about the campaign, you’re accused of being racist,” she said later on Fox.—

Well Gerri, about all I can say is welcome to the world of being a Republican. Now you know what it’s like having to keep you mouth shut and not say a thing negative about anyone’s policies, lessen you be a sexist, racist, bigot, homophobe, xenophobe, nazi, (or insert lib paradigm here: __).

Good. More of you bedwetters on the left need a few doses of that medicine rammed down your gullets, sister.

By Tireseus

March 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Paw Jaguar, are you by any chance aware that you are on the cutting edge of contemporary theology with this choice of words: “…worthwhile vengeance provided society by the death penalty”?

Kudos, Puma. When you go “off topic”, you do it in style.

By Will

March 12, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

By Steve March 12, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this God I just reading Jim’s southern, back-assed, racially twinged “opinions.” It’s better than watching reality TV

Well Steve, you are the epitome of those highly intelligent Democrat voters if you know what it’s like wasting time and cranial matter watching that trash known as reality TV. Cream ‘o the crop man. Wow am I impressed.

By Rick

March 12, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Paradigm? You say that word a lot, Horatio, I dont think it means what you think it means.

By OneForTheRoad

March 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Can you just imagine the extra work that the IRS would be saddled with if we were to start taxing services. Just think of all the 1099s that would have to be mailed out to contract service providers by all those Johns or Elliots or ……well, you know who you are.

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Why, sure, Jim. I’d vote for a Mississippian any day if he/she had presidential capabilities. Why not?

The governor of Mississippi turned the state around after Katrina while New Orleans, LOUISIANA spun and sqawked in dependency.

Mississippi is a beautiful state and warmer than ALASKA and Buffalo, NEW YORK and surrounding states.

Mississippi has fewer nuts than CALIFORNIA and would NEVER run off Marine recruiters or any other military officials.

Mississippi has less gambling than NEVADA.

Mississippi has less snow than all of NEW ENGLAND.

Mississippi has more black officials than the state of KANSAS and most of the mid west.

Mississippi has no hotel “call girls” like D.C. Morals matter.

Mississippi has nothing like the race riots of Pontiac, MICHIGAN, Watts, CALIFORNIA and other well known cities.

I would guess that Mississippi would have high numbers of their citizens in the armed forces because they believe in fighting for their place on this earth. That means they are mostly conservatives.

You bet I would vote for someone from Mississippi. They’ve got what it takes to be leaders and they love the USA.

By Ron

March 12, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

My friend,G.A.,from down in Jessup said nothing good ever came from West Virginia,if that helps.

By Artie Sammish

March 12, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Oh sure Spitzer is the victim of some dis rap from Big Brother and the All Seeing Eye. O absolutely. What business is it of the American public if the Governor of New York wants to instigate and commit multiple criminal conspiracies to engage in international money laundering and participate in an Internet-linked prostitution ring operated by a nice little Mayflower Madam who wouldn’t dare tell a soul?

It’s all Bush’s fault. And what was the question?

Tags: JFK’s black book; Judith Exner; Lawford beach house tapes; Hoover + Tilton; Hoover + nonexistence of organized crime

By Rick

March 12, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Howard Dean is going postal again over the vote-by-mail mulligan primary. Sen. Craig is putters over the idea!

By TW

March 12, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Spitzer’s mistake was that he didn’t label the girls as ‘terrorists’ before he ‘interrogated’ them. Have the Dems not learned a thing?

By Disgusted

March 12, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

My friend,G.A.,from down in Jessup said nothing good ever came from West Virginia,if that helps.

Hey! Watch it, Bubba. I’m from West Virginia.

By getalife

March 12, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Are there any law abiding people left in government?

Any honest prosecutors left?

Corporate power is strong and I do not see that changing anytime soon.

By HILLARY STINKS LIKE ROTTEN TUNA FISH

March 12, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Hmmm, maybe we should stake out the Mayflower hotel, and make citizens arrests of attractive women coming out of hotel rooms? we could interrogate them in private. gitmo style.. They are obviously w h ores, since women get ugly after the marriage ceremoney..that’s cere-MONEY, for the slow witted dusty types…So if marriage is for money, how does it differ from prositution? Speaking of which, where did wolfoweitz take his arab wh or e for their encounters, and where the he ll was the FBI while this architect of the Iraq war was committing the felony of sex with a woman other than his wife…Did she cross state lines to reach the meeting room, ah ha a Man Act violation…Did money change hands or just job promotions…come on fbi, irs, nsa we want all the information in your files on wolfoweasel and his arab w h o re.

By Ace Mulholland

March 12, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

It’s got nothing to do with hookers.

By Rick

March 12, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Betty or Veronica?

Ginger or Maryjane?

By Rick

March 12, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

I wonder if any of those hi-end expensive callgirls has an older sister for me?

By OneForTheRoad

March 12, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Things are changing. Corporate power is getting stronger. But, never fear. We are reaching critical mass with the number of billionaires in the U.S. They cannot reach consensus on the simplest of issues any longer so they are each starting to put money, lots of money, into their own agendas, backing their own politicians, making their own movies. That means more money to stimulate the economy. Sit back and enjoy the show.

By Sven the Vent Catalyst

March 12, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

THE quickest and most expedient way for Obama to lose the general election is to be pegged as “The Black Candidate,” which carries with it connotations unattractive to most whites. And, bless her heart, the main catalyst for hanging that moniker around his neck has been Hillary. I hope the Dems understand that when they’re searching for answers as to how they lost so badly in November.

By Glenn

March 12, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Now wait just one minute, Dusty. Heredity compels me to defend the honor of my native State of California over against that of the no-account backwater State of Mississippi.

• CALIFORNIA does indeed have more nuts. MISSISSIPPI may have more pecans and GEORGIA more peanuts, but CALIFORNIA has more almonds and walnuts by far. CALIFORNIA has John Muir too. Cynthia McKinney, we could negotiate, but let’s leave MISSISSIPPI out of that one.

• MISSISSIPPI may have a better school system, but CALIFORNIA spends way more and also has a lot more teachers on credential waivers.

• MISSISSIPPI may have a conservative Republican governor who’s widely respected, but CALIFORNIA has a conservatively liberal Repuplicanesque governor who’s much more famous.

• MISSISSIPPI may have more working ports, but only CALIFORNIA has ports destroyed by union protectionism.

• MISSISSIPPI may have a working lumber industry, but that’s nothing to be proud of. And besides, CALIFORNIA has the Spotted Owl.

• MISSISSIPPI may have William Faulkner, but that loser was out of print in his own lifetime, whereas CALIFORNIA has Ariana Huffington. Or did have. Or whatever.

There! I rest my case.

By HILLARY STINKS LIKE ROTTEN TUNA FISH

March 12, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Well, if Elliots wife wants revenge, zipperboy clinton is available, no fee…

By Bubba Li Cious

March 12, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Here in Georgia when we say “I rest my case”, it means we had to put down the case of Pabst and sit a spell. Actually, a friend of mine, from my inebriated days, would never be caught with less than three cases at any one time to rest on.

By Lemon Spritzer

March 12, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

“Any honest prosecutors left?”

The left’s politicians are run rampant and amok with lawyers like John “I Am A Man - Really” Edwards and this blog gets a question like that?

How do you like that sourpuss on Mrs. Spitzer? If only looks could kill. Hehehe..

In all fairness I give the Luvernator real credit. He took it like a man and stepped down Iike the Republicans have done in similar circumstances) instead of blaming some vast, right-wing conspiracy and fighting it.

So now we have two histories being made: The redneck racist state of all redneck racist states, Mississippi, elected a black man to lead the Democrats (if that doesn’t speak volumes as to how Hillary is despised, nothing will - continue fighting it and get the nomination Hillary!); New York will get its first black governor - what’s not a first is a married Democrat getting caught with an unzipped schlong.

Here’s an interesting two-pronged question: how many typical Democrat[ic] voters out there (ie: couch loafers, worker’s comp scammers, all night drunks, etc.) do you think can name who the previous governor of New York is, what his political party is?

By Rick

March 12, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

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Aggressive Incrementalism is dead. Sen Craig sounded taps with his flag at half mast.

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Eliot Spritzer is hot.

By Offended Now

March 12, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Sven the Vent Catalyst, you’re almost right, but not quite. If the Dems lose in November, it will be because they couldn’t unite. If that happens, it will be because the white folks who liked Obama all along, were enthralled with his big debut in ‘04, and who were willing to support whichever terrific candidate wins the nomination, have been accused of being “racist” one too damn many times, and they’re freaking OVER IT. The Clintons are as racist as Cheney is a compassionate peace-loving hippie, and everyone knows it. Using the race card against your own potential supporters is poison. They should ALL stick to the issues, get the votes they get, and support whichever gets more, but that’s not enough…. THAT is what will cost them the election, not the color of anyone’s skin.

By getalife

March 12, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Yes, corporate power is flexing its muscle.

When will you see that changed?

By Tim

March 12, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty @11:15

HELLO!!?? Do you not remember all of the voting /civil rights workers who were killed in Missippi? This is not to say that all of Missippi is bad, but please don’t insult us by acting as though there is not a whole pile of dirt in Missippi.( Be careful) That pile may have the body of a Murder victim in it!)

By Glenn

March 12, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Bubba, thanks for the correction. I’m now sadder, Budweiser: now I understand why y’all favor longnecks.

Lemon Spritzer, and what’s wrong with this picture: Spits-her and his WIFE? That insane narcissist even got off a sentence that began and ended with the Foist Poysin Singulah! Something about how I have failed to meet the standard of right and wrong that I set for myself. Good grief. Is there a Governor’s Suite at Bellevue?

By Bubba Li Cious

March 12, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Anyone that goes and gits his truck stuck and has to git a JEEP to rescue his sorry a$$ just has to suck it up and drink it like man.

By Speller McMeller

March 12, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

It’s Jesup.

By @@

March 12, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Would I vote for a conservative from Mississippi?

Sure, and it wouldn’t matter whether if he/she was black or white. It’s the issues that matter to me.

Is the media “very sexist”?

I don’t know. Is a liberal’s God a man or a woman? Liberals find their media “very sexy” while ignoring their bias in political campaigns.

Would Obama be in this position if he were a white man or a woman of any color?

Probably. The liberal media will “screw” anybody depending on their hidden agenda (which liberal candidate they support.)

The “shades” are up and it just ain’t pretty, what’s happening in the “dem” light that is.

By HILLARY STINKS LIKE ROTTEN TUNA FISH

March 12, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

There is something seriously wrong with a government that seeks to punish privave sex behavior while the real crooks on wall street have looted trillions from our pension plans and investments…the guy is too stupid to catch the wall street crooks, so they pursue priavte sex acts…what a pos country we live in, eh…

By Bubba Li Cious

March 12, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

I wus just talkin to my friend Red about my new friend Glenn a little while ago. Red aint his real name. Its Billy Bob. He just lives in the trailer across the road. I wus tellin him about how Glenn and me wus talkin about trucks and Pabst and how Glenn says how all us from Georgia likes long necks and all. Well, I aint never seed Red git so all upset before. He said I should just quit thinkin of Glenn as a friend cus friends dont talk like that. So, I says to Red, What you mean, Red? and he done gone and explained how meen and ornery Glenn is. So I aint talkin nice to Glenn no more cus he is a meany and he uses real nasty language and his maw ought to wash out his mouth with some home made lie soap. Yep.

By Jack is Back from the Drunk Tank

March 12, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Jack has discovered that Al Qaeda aka Al Cutie is behind the plot to destroy Elliot Ness Spitzer….They sent a body double of Mr spitzer to the Mayflower hotel….It was really Barney Fa Go TT who showed up as the hooker…Now we know what the dangerous acts were, eh Barney, aka Gitadyke…

By Rick

March 12, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Betty or Veronica?

Ginger or Maryjane?

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Tim!@12:48

Little one, every state has a pile of dirt. It does not pay to point out the dirt in another. As I mentioned, Califormia has Watts. Michigan has Pontiac. And where was it that drivers were being pulled out of their cars and trucks on the streets and beaten? It wasn’t Mississippi.(If you are not familiar with these actions, read up!)

Mississippi has dirt of which it is not proud. Just tell me YOUR state. I promise you will not be MR. Clean. Unfortunately, dirt seems to be universal. Go wash your hands! You’ve been digging in it.

By Ron

March 12, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

I can tell by the look on Mrs.Gov’s face that Mr. Gov.may have to move to Mississippi.I would guess that’s the look of a woman scorned,that hell hath to fury greater than.Eliot,old boy,I’m thinking that you’d best be putting wheels on the dog house and moving it on down the road.

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Glenn@12:15

BACKWATER STATE!!!!MISSISSIPPI???? In comparison to the CocoNUT Capitol of the world, CALIFORNIA?? I’ll give you one point for being loyal and two points for leaving the NUTS & NOODLES of California and heading South.

A Huff & a Puff for Faulkner? That’s like comparing ‘toilet water’ to Creme de Menthe.

Hollywood on the hill for the meandering marvel of the Mississippi River?

Earthquakes and fires instead of mystical bayous?

Berkley as a center of education? In what? Anti-American Activity?

Schwarzeneger as a fine governor but cannot even run for the US presidency EVER. But he does speak English.

When Californis breaks off and floats to Hawaii, nobody will notice until the movies quit coming and libs have no sponsors. What a day!!

So, Glenn, welcome south, brother. But mind your manners. You aint in California no mo!!

By Redneck Convert

March 12, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Well, I see this librul Spitzer in New York resigned and will be replaced by One of Those People! Things just keep getting worser and worser. I swear, any year now I expect to wake up and find one of Those People in the White House! And not as a guest neither.

Leastwise, he’s blind and so will have a hard time finding any money to steal like Those People always do.

By GayGreyGeek

March 12, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Ahhh, typical DustBusterPaleoCon “No YOU’RE worse, never mind me” when it’s hinted that she might want to throw a dustcloth around her own house before talking about the dirt in others….

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 12, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Here’s a an ideal running mate for Sen. John McCain….

(CNN) – Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate currently on parole from prison, is planning a run for Congress, a Detroit newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to the Oakland Press, Kevorkian is planning to mount an independent bid in Michigan’s 9th District seat currently occupied by Republican Joe Knollenberg.

“We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington,” Kevorkian told the paper. He also said his plans are in the “formative stage” and he would make a formal announcement next week.

The one-time pathologist needs to gather 3,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate.

Kevorkian has said he has helped well over 100 people die during the 1990s. In 1998, he was formally convicted on second degree homicide for assisting in the death of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

He was released from prison on parole in June.

Oakland County Prosecutor Dave Gorcyca, who was responsible for sending Kevorkian to jail, told the paper he thinks the candidacy is merely a “publicity stunt.” Rep. Knollenberg’s office is refusing to comment on the story. CNN has been unable to get a comment from Kevorkian.

– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

By jbmlaw

March 12, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ 2:34, I think Glenn’s post was tongue-in-cheek, which I am otherwise loathe to suggest on a blog preoccupied with the sexual misbehavior of politicians.

By Tim

March 12, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Dusty @2:08

I am born and bred right here in GA.(College in AZ), so I understand the no place is completely clean, but Mississippi’s history has a special place reserved in H*ll! Thats why there are still prosecutions going on today for acts that were commited 30 to 50 years ago. There is / was a mindset there that was bigger and badder than most places. The hatred there was etched on the hearts of so many people. Again this is not an indictment of everyone, But even you can’t deny there history is worse than most.

By GayGreyGeek

March 12, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Tim @ 2:54 - Yes, the DustBuster can deny such a thing. She can also insist that the sky is a Bright Purple Madras Plaid and get upset as all get-out when someone suggests that “blue” might be a better indicator of reality…

By jbmlaw

March 12, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Hope of all of my conservative friends read David Mamet’s piece in the Village Voice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html/full

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw @2:53

Sorry, jbm, but my posts were also tongue-in-cheek with a bit of realism. His post was the same. I shall try to wear kid gloves from now on if Glenn so requests.

By jbmlaw

March 12, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Dear Tim @ 2:54, your indictment of the State of Mississippi for the sins of a few truly evil men is conventional democrat collectivization at its worst. You have a future with the party.

By Rick

March 12, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Dusty: tongue in cheek with kid gloves? Isn’t that what got Spritzer in trouble?

By Jack is Back from the Drunk Tank

March 12, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Spitzer got his money from his daddy, a new york real estate jew…so spitzer is a rich new york jew - good, that makes it ever so much better for me…

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Dear Tim 2:54

The crime in Mississippi was horrendous. Was it worse than horrendous crimes elsewhere? I don’t think so. The political correct atmosphere of the past decades has decided that any crime involving racial bigotry is worse than a crime of equal horror.

Have you ever heard of the Valentine Day Massacre? The trail of tears? Ted Kazinsky? Waco? Oklahoma bombing? Bundy? The Atlanta Teenagers Swathe of Death? Are these crimes any less horrible than those in Mississippi? You are deciding the death of the civil rights workers as a greater tragedy than those of other innocent people. I don’t think the dead would agree with you.

Every state fights crime. The search for killers goes on indefinitely. Except for the notoriety, horrible crime in Mississippi is little different from that of other states. Without an ‘open’ mind, it is hard to be fair.

By Tim

March 12, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw @3:22 I appreciate the offer, but I am much to much of an INDEPENDANT THINKER to belong to any political party. I make assesments for myself, and we know that that goes against BOTH major parties.

By Thomas

March 12, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Your question and the media’s assumptions about the vote in Mississippi are a form of bigotry itself. To assume that all Mississippians are backwards racists, is a generalization without merit. Misssissippi has an indefensible history, just like Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and other southern states. I’m sure, though, that you feel much better as you look down upon others.

By snapdragon

March 12, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I don’t think people have a clue how much Luv. Spitzer wrapped himself around going after CEO pay, Wall Street executives and their pay, and ‘private matters’ such as what someone chooses to do with his or her money.

There are a lot of people in jail due to the enforcement laws and policies Spitzer put in place. Who would have ever guessed he’d be caught in one of his own snares. Only a Democrat can be that stupid.

By Jackie

March 12, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

The state of Mississippi, along with all other states, has its sordid past relating to race relations and the system. There are no clean hands anyplace. To concern ourselves with whether we would vote for some because they are from Mississippi is “small potatoes.” Why are we not preparing ourselves for the impending war with Iran and the cost that it will heap upon us. Cheyney was not sent to Israel to make peace with the Palestinians; Fallon was not fired for disagreeing with Dubya; the Israeli military does not maintain a brigade in Northern Iraq for training purposes; the Iranians have not doubled their protection of their scientists without reason; the naval incident in the Straits of Hormuz was not a problem until it was announced a motor boat with two people were attacking a US destroyer and 2 frigates. If we attack Iran, the price of $110 a barrel oil will double. More than 60% of the world’s oil comes through the Straits and it is only 17 miles wide, barely enough room for one-way traffic for the supertankers. Wonder what Dubya will tell us about the Depression we will be in? Will tax cuts offset the problem and will be all be lazy and not supporting the fight for freedom when you don’t have a job and the unemployment rate is only 5%? Just more diversion from real world events.

By AmVet

March 12, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Haley Barbour, Mississippi’s Republican governor, would be a strong contender as John McCain’s running mate but for one fact: He’s from Mississippi.

Mr. Wooten, puhleeeze!

Haley Barbour would be a horrific choice for McCain, NOT because he is from Mississippi.

But because he is a neo-con neanderthal…

Ferraro was spot on in her analysis.

No racism. No apologies. Just a logical and lucid observation.

His color is a factor in his popularity. To pretend otherwise is like attributing global warming to “variations in the sun’s temperature”.

By snapdragon

March 12, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Correction -

I meant to say “and other ‘private matters’” because a CEO’s pay, and executive’s pay, or that of anyone else for that matter is nobody’s damn business.

jackie - we aren’t going to attack Iran. Put a paper bag over your muzzle and breathe.

By Jack is Back from the Drunk Tank

March 12, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Super Duper Secret Agent Jack can confirm a planned attack on Iran by the neocons, regardless of the cost to America and Americans. Who do you think has been bidding the price of oil up dispite the growing inventory of refined products? The neocons and their ilk, they plan to make a big killing in the oil markets along with the destruction of Iran….They may be in for a big suprise….Jack reports Ivan has now suppied three airborne early warning radar aircraft to Iran, along with 200 first line fighter aircraft, all flown by Russian aircrews. Ivan has also supplied hundreds of land based anti ship cruise missles and launch centers, also manned by Russians, who are training the Iranians…the big suprise however is that the Russians have supplied three 20 megaton city buster nukes, along with the mobile missles that carry the warheads…Under Russian control for now….ONLY A FOOL WOULD ATTACK IRAN…OH, OUR CHIMP IN CHIEF IS A FOOL…UH OH

By GayGreyGeek

March 12, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

snapdragon @ 4:19 - Duh-bya And The Coconuts have another 10 months or so to construct enough lies to try it…after all, an awful lot of sheeple fell for their lies several years ago…

By HOPE & CHANGE

March 12, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

AMERICA’S MOST WANTED

WHITE, SOUTHERN , CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTAN, LAW ABIDING, FAMILY ORIENTED, HETEROSEXUAL, MALE. Your days are numbered buddy.

GAY , MIXED RACE , LIBERAL , IMMIGRANT , ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE it’s your country now without firing a shot.

By AmVet

March 12, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

What?

Not preemptively attack Iran?

Utter foolishness by cut and runners if I ever heard it!

How quickly we forget:

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

And I ain’t volunteering for no Hiroshima!

The very odd post at 4:35 reminds me of that line in The Simpsons Movie, where the town elders go to Burns for help and he says, “So… you want some of my electricity, do you? Well, for once, the rich white man is in control.”

By Dusty

March 12, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Liberals still at it, I see.

NEWS FLASH #1 George W. Bush is not running for a third term. You can cut the trash now.

NEWS FLASH #2 Democrats approved Iraq war plans just like Republicans. So, let’s call them Sheeplecrats. OK??

NEWS FLASH #3 Democrats are in control of Congress now so you do not have to worry about going to war against Iran. Dems are too afraid to fight. They haven’t approved of anything since they got control of Congress. So..not to worry.

Bye now…getting late….

By Jackie

March 12, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

@snapdragon,

“jackie - we aren’t going to attack Iran. Put a paper bag over your muzzle and breathe.”

I say to you, open you “brown eyes” and take something for your constipation because you have not been paying attention. Same scenario for attacking Iraq is been repeated. Professional USA military people are trying everything they can to keep this from exploding.

By Jackie

March 12, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

Dubya may not be running for another term but he is certainly causing significant damage. The EPA just announced that it is allowing more ozone pollution, overriding its own scientist. The amount allowed will be 75 millions per part, up from the 60 millions per part recommended by the scientists. Wonder how you are going to breath all that additional “hot air?”

By Tim

March 12, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

My point was never that one crime was worse than the other, You made a point of saying in your 11:24 post that Mississippi had no race riots like Watts and Pontiac ect. My point was they have there own issues that can not be glossed over. And to your point, yes, there are some crimes that are by there nature and reasoning worse that others. The rape of a child is worse than the sexual assault of a drunk college student, Murdering a senior is worse than a dealer being killed in a bad drug deal. These type of things are not about being PC but raw hatred superficial reasons. That type of hate needs to be viewed differently.

By John

March 12, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Listen wingnuts, the last time I checked, it takes Congress to approve going to war, or, in the case of Iraq, voting for the authority for it. Now which one of you Bush deranged moonbats [Jackie?] is going to come out and say that Democrats are going to push through a resolution to go to war with Iran? You people have been off your rocker since 2000. It’s great for entertainment reading all this drama silliness from you leftists if nothing else.

By NSA tape

March 12, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Elliot: “Sorry honey, but if you had just played ba ba the sheep with me, I wouldn’t have need to rent a sheep.”

Mrs Elliot: “You wanted to put WHAT in my What!” Bad Boy Bad

By NSA

March 12, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

The chimp claims he already has the congressional authorization to attack Iran, the same one he used to attack Iraq.

By Jackie

March 12, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

@John,

If you are going to criticize, please try to do so based upon information that I have posted. Read what I posted previously and post back, dipstick.

By john

March 12, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Without Atlanta, Georgia IS Mississippi or Arkansas.

By AmVet

March 12, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Good old “Blood & Guts” Dusty.

Reminds me of Saxby.

Whether Bushco/Haliburton will attack Iran is hard to say. But given this administration’s track record of botched invasions (and overall ineptitude), it seems plausible.

And as a truly great American observed:

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” ~ Yogi Berra

By Skid Row

March 12, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Really? Bush ALREADY has congressional authority? Where’s the link? You people really are deranged. 80% of Congressional Democrats voted to give Bush authority for war in Iraq, yet you pud polishers on the wacko left still call it “Bush’s War.”

By AmVet

March 12, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Actually skid mark, the Dems in the Senate voted as follows:

29 for

21 against

And even using neo-con math that isn’t 80%.

In the US House, 126 Democrats, amajority voted against.

The GOP however gave WAY over 80% support.

Ah reality, with it’s liberal bias. What a b!tch.

Bipartisan support? Yes, I’d say so.

Your claim of deranged being completely misplaced? Again, yes…

By Skid Row

March 12, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

You are correct, AmVet. In my haste, I meant to say 80% of CONGRESS voted for the war, including a MAJORITY of Democrats. I don’t care how you want to split liberal pubic hairs, but 29 is MORE than 21.

So you go on pretending NOBODY BUT BUSH AND REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED IRAQ. The TRUTH is the TRUTH. You can lie about it, spin it, twist it, distort it, or SHOVE IT UP YOUR LIBERAL A$$ for all I care you miserable p-issed off liberal!

By Skid Row

March 12, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

And AmVet, you question my reference about you kook liberals being deranged? Only you kooks on the left do not even remember that there is a freaking CONGRESS RUN BY DEMOCRATS THESE DAYS. It’s just BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! BUSH!

Yes, AmVet, VERY deranged indeed. I’m spot on and you know it, kook.

By Will

March 13, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten:

I have listened to the republican radio and tv shows the last couple of days relating to Governor Spitzer and his immoral act. All of these entertainers have been consistent in their condemnation of the Governor and the demand for his resigination.

When Senator Vitter confessed to this same immoral act and Senator Craig pleaded guilty to a related charge, they both chose to remain in their government jobs.

Which decision (resigination or ride out the storm) do you think was the correct decision?

Also, why do you think the republican radio and tv entertainers were not equally adamant when the immorality of Senators Vitter and Craig was exposed?

By Glenn

March 13, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Dear Will: You’re an idiot.