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Excuses, a new mom, troop tactics

  • State Rep. Ron Sailor Jr. (D-Decatur) has the second-best excuse ever for missing 91 percent of recorded votes in this year’s legislative session. First best: “I was dead.” Second best: “I was engaged in a federal effort to catch other corrupt officials.” A minister, Sailor helped people he thought were drug dealers launder money through a phony church.

  • How does a conservative or Republican know he/she is on the wrong track? The wrong people love what you’re doing. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings elicits this reaction from the president of the National Education Association teachers union to her proposal to relax No Child Left Behind provisions in some states, possibly including Georgia, so that fewer schools are designated as failing: “This is something good, something we’ve been advocating.” NCLB is toast anyway if Democrats control Congress and the White House next year.

  • Actress Halle Berry and male model Gabriel Aubry have a daughter, her first child. The two don’t plan to marry, but she wants you to know that they feel fully committed to each other. Semi-fully, anyway. Playing a mother in her latest movie helped convince her to be one.

  • Thank Georgia Supreme Court justices Harold Melton, Harris Hines, George H. Carley and Hugh P. Thompson for failing to cave in to candlelight-vigil justice in the case of Troy Anthony Davis, murderer of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. Recanted testimony that is suspect or consists of “a carefully worded and vague account that can be represented as stating one thing when it might very well state the opposite” (a phrase from the majority opinion) is no reason to question his original conviction —- despite the PR effort to get him a new trial.

  • Headline: “Migrants fear changes in Georgia.” Would that be legal immigrants or illegal? —- ‘cause they’re different.

  • Some Decatur school board members are “threatening” to withdraw a request to become a charter school system if the General Assembly passes House Bill 881, which would set up a state alternative for granting charters and would establish that the money follows the child. What’s with these low-level board members making demands on the state? The Grady board did it, too, insisting that they’d hold their breath until the state agreed to a list of demands. If the Decatur board decides charter status is not the route to go, give it up. No hard feelings. Do it.

  • Gwinnett expands its tax-giveaway program to business. Giveaways ought to be illegal anywhere in metro Atlanta. Growth is coming. State and local governments should be giving business, and the rest of us, fair treatment, good service and a qualified work force. Incentivize development in the boondocks, where it otherwise won’t go.

  • Relocating the Georgia Department of Corrections to the old Tift College campus on I-75 in Forsyth is a smart move, even if the initial cost to prepare the campus is $50 million. It helps traffic congestion in Atlanta and it spreads growth around the state. Move one major department to Augusta, Macon, Savannah and Columbus, one small department to Albany, Rome, Valdosta and the Statesboro-Dublin area. Leave storefront operations near the Capitol, to be immediately available to the governor and General Assembly. A state department could save or grow lots of cities. No need, really, for them to be here.

  • DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones picked up serious primary opposition this week: former state Rep. Jim Martin of Atlanta. Good guy, but he starts off sounding just like national Democrats: “I believe we should respect our troops by using them more effectively and taking better care of them when they come home.” Democrats have decided a version of that line is the safe way to frame their opposition on Iraq.

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By Joe Bland

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

You are correct sir on your view of moving the Department of Corrections to Forsyth. It also puts them nearer their largest concentration of facilities in Milledgeville.

Speaking of Milledgeville, I wish someone would lead and an effort to save the campus of the state hospital there. While thankfully most of the facilities on that beautiful quad are no longer warehousing the mentally ill. It seems a shame for those attractive, historic buildings to sit idle and in disrepair, or be torn down when they could have a useful life and preserve history if used by another agency or private enterprise.

By Waycross

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

Yeah, let us use the incentives and let the Atlanta area, with all of its natural advantages just use those.

Free admission to Okefenokee Swamp Park anyone?

By Chris Newton

March 21, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Is Ron Sailor the tip of the iceberg, or is he it? Tennessee Waltz started with little fish getting caught and helping snare the whales.

By Redneck Convert

March 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Well, Jim, I guess your stuff is a little too local today for all the pointy heads who usually are all over themselves at 8:01 to their viewpoints on here. That, or maybe its the Good Friday thing. Anyway, did you know that Halle Berry’s (one of Those People) baby daddy (I think I wrote that right) is a white man. I can understand why he would do it, but he’s right not to marry her, because that just wouldn’t be fittin’. Bet is favorite president is Thomas Jefferson. Well, I got to be hitting the stores. It may be good Friday, but the Baptists has still got to stock up today or tomorrow for Easter. Have a good day everybody.

By SanFranNan Follies

March 21, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Don’t look now, but America’s first Black President, Billpeck Clinton, is having a nice chat with Rev. Hatewright. At a prayer breakfast no less. This is the same hate monger who preached that the US deserved 9/11. That also infers that those 3,000 people deserved to die. Anyone else find it interesting that the lame stream media isn’t investigating Rev. Hatewright being Obama’s deep “spiritual adviser” much deeper? After all, he did baptize Obama’s children. McCain never even heard of Rev. Hagee.

Well it appears Bill Richardson is endorsing Obama. All you demwit-crats who drooled over a Clinton/Richardson ticket and who still hope that Hillary can somehow pull out the nomination can kindly go drink yourselves to death now.

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) - A 75-pound stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said. What? No scaremongering and mentioning of man-made global warming as the cause of flying stingrays jumping out of boiling hot sea water killing people? I CAN’T BELIEVE IT. Easter is early, so that means April Fools Day has to be early too. Give that story another day and some government-funded Al Gore junk “scientist” will find a correlation. Guaranteed.

By TW

March 21, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Halle Berry? Out of all the people who have children out of wedlock, you go after Halle Berry? Why Halle Berry, Mr. Wooten? Hmmmm.

Thinking Right - the chickens way of wearing the cone hat…

At least the rightwing of old had the stones to call a shovel a shovel. Now they just have…fiscal responsibility? No…Military wisdom? No…

By BadOleBoys

March 21, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim.

Your Friday Free-For-Alls definitely offer up a little something for many “different” tastes. It is sort of like the Wrestle Mania things where you can pick between the many “different” varieties: plain wrestling, tag-team, cage match, mud wrestling, etc. I’ll start with a look at your second bullet item for now. Let’s see,

How does a conservative or Republican know he/she is on the wrong track?

How do we best answer such a question? How about,

  • Look to see which track all the other conservatives or Republicans are on.

  • Ask for signs to be placed on the tracks much like the signs MARTA places on the front of their buses. You know. The one labeled “East Republican” goes to Gwinnett County, the one labeled “South Liberal” goes to Clayton County, etc.

  • Start up a new blog to provide people with that answer. You could call it “Just Ask Jim”. And for the doubters, you could get testimonials from — Oh, let’s see — Perdue, Cagle, Richardson,…

Mooooooooooooooooooooo.

My personal favorite is to not deliberately constrain my thought process with worthless, meaningless, …, labels. Of course, we all tend to display our weaknesses at one time or another, don’t we? Besides, well chosen labels do tend to promote more concise writing. The writing might even have real meaning if it references the appropriate compilation of definitions.

By liberal brownstain

March 21, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Liberal Democrat brilliance:

Congressman Dingell (D) wants to raise gas taxes by $.50/gallon to force people to decrease driving to curb emissions - pun intended there. If anyone can find that story anywhere other than on Faux News, like the Corrupt News Network or PMSNBC for example, let everyone know. Do you think this hyperventelating putz has actually thought about what that will do to business owners and food prices and jobs, or more specifically, how it will impact the working class and poor for example? Nah, you are dealing with the mindlessness of liberalism run by emotions only. Ramifications be damned. What an idiot.

By ron

March 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim,Degrees of failure in the No Child Left Behind debacle.My school didn’t fail as bad as your’s did,will be the hue and cry.

Decatur ca withdraw if it wants to;from the planet even.

I don’t care what Halle Berry plans to do,ever.

Finally,I hope Red Neck Convert doesn’t think I’m a pointy head.I don’t drink his beer though,only Laphroaig.I do however manufacture a mean stout for myself.You just can’t buy a good one of those.

By Inherit America

March 21, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

I find it extraordinary that democrats are still talking in terms of ending the war in Iraq. It’s not even a war anymore. It’s a peace-keeping entanglement from which our country cannot and must not ever extricate itself. We are trapped, against our will of course, but trapped. The world without our occupation is worse than the world with it. Period.

I wont bother to explain why, it involves an education and an understanding of human behavior that escapes 99.999999999999999999999 people out of 100.

The decision to go in? The worst decision ever made by a man.

By Teacher

March 21, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Jim - you and a lot of folks are totally wrong about No Child Left Behind. This law is one of the worst ever passed. As a conservative, you should be appalled that the feds are involved in making education policy. I cannot find it in the constitution anywhere.

Also, No Child Left Behind is a bad idea also because it mandates graduation rates and actually encourages cheating by the school systems - e.g. manipulating figures or test scores. The best thing that could happen at this point is that the states never take another penny from the federal government for education and that the feds abolish the Department of Education.

By Redneck Convert

March 21, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Well, I see somebody at 8:40 done wrote my piece for me today and I thank him kindly. My buddy Jim Earl claims its me sleep-walking and maybe not knowing I’m writing, but I don’t think its true. I don’t sleep at that hour on account of having alot of beer to deliver.

I don’t go to movies so I don’t know who this Halle Berry is. But if she’s doing You-Know-What without being marryed and counting on us taxpayers to support her fambly then she’s just another one of Those People. We need to make a law to spay her to make her stop.

Anyhow, I say this Tift Colledge campus is just too pretty to be turned into a prison place. We can’t have Law and Order if people think they will get sent to a pretty campus to serve their time. Next thing you know Wooten will want to move in a bunch of pretty girls to keep the inmates innertained. Put it in the middle of a swamp with lots of bugs and snakes. Sometimes I wonder about Wooten.

Well, I got to finish my run. Me and Joe Bill and Jim Earl are going back to Countryland Golf Club down in Cumming to play golf tomorrow. Its the only golf course I know that has more rednecks than rich people. Out of respeck I’ll be wearing my best blue jeans and a tee shirt and a pair of tennis shoes.

Have a good day everybody.

By jbmlaw

March 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Rep. Sailor is another of those seemingly inexplicable stories, a scion of a family with a history of service to the community, engages in risky and pointless criminality. I am used to middle- and lower-middle class stupidity in my criminal dealings, and I have a hard time grasping irrationality among those who have it made otherwise. Saw an essay, probably in the WSJ, arguing that the behavior is further proof of the self-destructive gene that exists in so many. A truly sad case, different from Spitzer only in the depth of the fall. (Well, Sailor may be a nice guy, also a distinction.)

The phrase “US Secretary of Education” is enough to inflame my libertarian gene.

The level of one’s “Commitment” is observable over a lifetime. We’ll analyze the level of Halle’s commitment when the child is graduated from high school, but for now the indicia do not support her affirmation.

I am with the migrants, legal or undocumented: I fear changes in Georgia. I heard someone is running for president on a platform of making unspecified “changes,” and his background is as a big government leftist. That does not bode well.

Seeing the note on the Decatur school board, I sometimes suspect that Decatur is the epicenter of ignorance. I am uncertain that is despite Emory’s presence, or because of it.

I plead ignorance on the details of the Gwinnett tax “give away” but I have little general dispute with a failure to tax. Taxation strikes me as a worse sin than nontaxation, generally.

“Relocating the Georgia Department of Corrections to the old Tift College campus on I-75 in Forsyth is a smart move… No need, really, for them to be here.” An unquestionable truth, and one wonders why it has taken conservatives so long to deconsolidate and decentralize the local Leviathan.

By JK

March 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Yes, I also wonder why Nanny Wooten put Halle Berry in his column today. Did you see her standing in line to apply for public assistance here in Georgia? What business is it of YOURS how she handles her personal family structure? Why are Republicans so obssessed with the personal lives of others?

By Bond

March 21, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Bond. James Bond, here. Now listen, Jim — may I call you Jim — old boy. My dear acquaintance, Halle, has shown up in our surveillance logs of Internet activity and I have decided to delve deeper into this matter. As you probably already know, Halle and I have known each other for Oh, Oh, Seven years or more now. I think of her as one of my greatest achievements and I would simply dread to see any Plame blaced on her for this public transgression. So, I expect that you will be a good fellow and take care of this matter, won’t you.

By Glenn

March 21, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim. This column of yours is a barrel full of something.

  • If Rep. Sailor has the second best excuse—-next to being deceased—-for shirking the Dome, what is the un-Governor’s excuse?

  • If one can tell a Republican’s “on the wrong track” when he or she is loved by the teachers’ union, then how derailed does that make the NEA favorite, Mike Huckabee?

  • Ms. Berry and Mr. Aubrey have announced a casting call for the role of “Second Child”, in their Playhouse ‘09. Asian males ages 4-12 months are welcome to audition.

  • I wonder whether Troy Anthony Davis had a chance to tell Bill or Hillary that testimony consisting of “a carefully worded and vague account that can be represented as stating one thing when it might very well state the opposite” sometimes is not enough to save your hide.

  • I’m a “Migrant”, and I don’t fear changes in Georgia, though I do love her just as she is.

  • The Decatur school board members could use a magisterial bucket of cold water in the face, to remind them that their board, their district and their county are all creatures and subdivisions of the State of Georgia, which may dissolve, dispossess, occupy or change any of them, at any time.

  • So municipal tax incentives to lure businesses are to be banned inside the Perimeter the Next, but there should be a State Commission on the Assignation of Boondockitude to decide where in the stix such incentives will be permitted? Thassum real fine common since con-servatism there, Jim.

  • What is un-commonly sensible is your inspired proposal for decentralizing state government while capitalizing on the big agencies as potential nodes of regional employment and economic growth. By maintaining Executive- and Legislative-friendly storefronts in town while also spoking-out to remote nodes, you’re duplicating services, but with the distinct potential for both increased efficiency and improved effectiveness. “Most counterintuitive, Jim,” saith Spock.

  • Translation of candidate Jim Martin’s take on the U.S. military footing: I believe we should respect our troops by snatching their disgrace from the jaws of their success in Iraq.

By TW

March 21, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Isn’t Vice President Dick Cheney’s Gay daughter doing the kid out of wedlock thing?

By JSM

March 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

By JK

March 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Yes, I also wonder why Nanny Wooten put Halle Berry in his column today. Did you see her standing in line to apply for public assistance here in Georgia? What business is it of YOURS how she handles her personal family structure? Why are Republicans so obssessed with the personal lives of others?

JK,those Wooten and others of his ilk are not republicans. They’re talibaptists and they pose the greatest threat to individual freedom in this country than any other element. They have to call themselves something and unfortunately it is Republican. Barry Goldwater, a true Republican, would be raising mortal hell at this threat to our liberty were he alive today.

By Jim

March 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

If you lump Dublin and Statesboro into an area you need to get out of Atlanta more often and see the rest of Georgia.

By Jim

March 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

If you lump Dublin and Statesboro into an area you need to get out of Atlanta more often and see the rest of Georgia.

By JK

March 21, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

TW, only because Cheney’s party denies rights to people like Cheney’s daughter who’d no doubt be happy to marry and have a family like everyone else.

JSM, good point. I actually RESPECT Republicans like Barry Goldwater, and Dwight Eisenhower, even though I might disagree on some policy points here and there. Modern Republicans do not even resemble the ones their fathers respected and voted for, that’s for sure!

By The other Jim is right

March 21, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

There’s A LOT of real estate between Dublin and Statesboro.

By TEACHERS ARE IDIOTS

March 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Hispanics drive like third world losers, killing thousands of Americans each and every year. My wife watched a third world scum bag race up in the left turn only lane, and cut in front of a small car, that then had to slam on its breaks to keep from running into the the hispanic scum bags pick up truck. The old guy in the small car then raced to get around the wet back, cut him off, and slammed on his breaks. The old guy got out of his car in traffic, walked back to the cab of the pick up truck and demanded the driver identify himself. He held the wet back in place until the police arrived. Good, we need to hunt down and exterminate all the gawd damned illegals and their illegal offspring in America, including their PR and legal mouth pieces. Hunt and Kill all you want, their is no limit on Wet backs in America…..

By TEACHERS ARE IDIOTS

March 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Yes, TW, Dirty Stinking Dickhead Cehney’s bulldyke female thing has indeed produced an outofwedlockBASTARD via some unknown male donors sperm.

By Lily Toad

March 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Gays want to get married, reproducing hets don’t. WTF!? Jim’s obsession is fathers who aren’t involved in their children’s lives — this guy, Autry, is involved in the child’s life, so what’s the problem? The state should get out of people’s lives and abolish marriage. Let people make whatever commitments they want without giving benefits to special classes of people.

By Lily Toad

March 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Gays want to get married, reproducing hets don’t. WTF!? Jim’s obsession is fathers who aren’t involved in their children’s lives — this guy, Autry, is involved in the child’s life, so what’s the problem? The state should get out of people’s lives and abolish marriage. Let people make whatever commitments they want without giving benefits to special classes of people.

By Unity

March 21, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are reading from the same political playbook as they attack Barack on foreign policy.

They have both criticized Barack’s commitment to act against top al Qaeda terrorists if others can’t or won’t act.

And they have both dismissed his call for renewed diplomacy as naïve while mistakenly standing behind George Bush’s policy of non-engagement that just isn’t working.

But most of all — after five years of overwhelming evidence that we are less safe, less able to shape events abroad, and more divided at home — Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are failing to address the consequences of a war they both supported that should have never been authorized and never been waged.

We need a leader who had the judgment to oppose this war before it began and who has a clear plan to end it.

But Barack is facing a two-front battle against Senator Clinton and Senator McCain. Make a donation of $25 to support this campaign today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/twofronts

We knew at the beginning of this campaign that we’d be up against the full force of the conventional thinking that grips Washington.

But no one could have imagined it would go on this long, or that we’d have to fight this battle on two fronts at the same time.

Senator Clinton’s campaign, with her chances of winning dwindling and our delegate lead even larger than it was before her so-called comeback on March 4th, has adopted a “kitchen-sink” strategy to throw everything they can at us. Her campaign has made it clear they will do and say anything to win this nomination.

Senator McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, is already running his general election campaign. He’s so eager to justify another 100 years of war in Iraq and drum up conflict with Iran that he and his campaign have been making sloppy and woefully false assertions about links between Iran and al Qaeda in Iraq.

We’ve got to take on both Senator Clinton and Senator McCain at the same time.

https://donate.barackobama.com/twofronts

Yesterday, Barack laid out a clear plan to make America more secure and end the war in Iraq.

Today, he laid out the economic costs of the war that Senator Clinton and Senator McCain supported.

In both speeches — and in his speech on race in America earlier this week — Barack Obama demonstrated that he is the candidate with the courage and judgment to tackle the challenges we face.

The choice Americans have in this election is clear — and your support right now sends a message to those who support the status quo that it is time for a new kind of leadership.

Thank you,

David

David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America

By Unity

March 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Hillary’s Nasty Pastorate by Barbara Ehrenreich

There’s a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that “through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as “The “Fellowship,” also known as The Family. But it won’t be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet’s shocking exposé The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.

Sean Hannity has called Obama’s church a “cult,” but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton’s “Family,” which is organized into “cells”–their term–and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family’s home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power. He wasn’t undercover; he used his own name and admitted to being a writer. But he wasn’t completely out of danger either. When he went outdoors one night to make a cell phone call, he was followed. He still gets calls from Family associates asking him to meet them in diners–alone.

The Family’s most visible activity is its blandly innocuous National Prayer Breakfast, held every February in Washington. But almost all its real work goes on behind the scenes–knitting together international networks of right-wing leaders, most of them ostensibly Christian. In the 1940s, The Family reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolf Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs. As Sharlet reported in Harper’s in 2003:

During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa’s postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand “Communists” killed marks him as one of the century’s most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise.

At the heart of The Family’s American branch is a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum. They get to use The Family’s spacious estate on the Potomac, The Cedars, which is maintained by young men in Family group homes and where meals are served by The Family’s young women’s group. And, at The Family’s frequent prayer gatherings, they get powerful jolts of spiritual refreshment, tailored to the already powerful.

Clinton fell in with The Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the Senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family’s “most elite cell,” the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia’s notoriously racist Senator George Allen. This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, The Family’s publicity-averse leader, that he is “a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.”

Furthermore, The Family takes credit for some of Clinton’s rightward legislative tendencies, including her support for a law guaranteeing “religious freedom” in the workplace, such as for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions and police officers who refuse to guard abortion clinics.

What drew Clinton into the sinister heart of the international right? Maybe it was just a phase in her tormented search for identity, marked by ever-changing hairstyles and names: Hillary Rodham, Mrs. Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and now Hillary Clinton. She reached out to many potential spiritual mentors during her White House days, including New Age guru Marianne Williamson and the liberal rabbi Michael Lerner. But it was the Family association that stuck.

Sharlet generously attributes Clinton’s involvement to the under-appreciated depth of her religiosity, but he himself struggles to define The Family’s theological underpinnings. The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the “meek.” They believe that, in mass societies, it’s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God’s “dominion” on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it’s all about power–cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or “cells.” “We work with power where we can,” Doug Coe has said, and “build new power where we can’t.”

Obama has given a beautiful speech on race and his affiliation with the Trinity United Church of Christ. Now it’s up to Clinton to explain–or, better yet, renounce–her long-standing connection with the fascist-leaning Family.

Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed (Owl), is the winner of the 2004 Puffin/Nation Prize.

By REAL UNITY....

March 21, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Unity, you ain’t preachin’ unity. Stop deluding yourself.

REAL UNITY can be found in those of us who’ve said all along, and still do in spite of your attempts to dissuade us, that WE WILL SUPPORT THE NOMINEE that comes from the fine group of candidates this year. Why do you want to run off dedicated supporters just because we aren’t falling down in fits of the Holy Spirit like YOU are? Do you really think our support won’t matter between June and November, or that we’ll forget how UN-unified you and your kind really are?

Just hope we are more forgiving than you are accepting of other viewpoints.

By dave

March 21, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

So Halle is NOT a mother? hmmm…I really don’t care if she is an actress or not…but one does NOT need to be MARRIED to be a MOTHER. Marriage in itself is another “religious” entity that has been forced upon society. Better to “stay” together for “the children” than to be in love? Sir, your logic is ALWAYS faulty at best. Is one not able to call themself a “mother” if they are not married? Perhaps we should ask Ted Haggard what he thinks, as I’m sure his kids are very “proud” of their “daddy”… Humans are animals…that don’t need to mate for life. Most animals don’t. Over 99% of all animals don’t mate for life. Why must our society be based off of religious principles? Do you think MOST married couples are happy? If you do..than all you need to do is look at the divorce rate which has been over 50% for tears now and growing everyday… love+children do NOT= a religious ceremony. Love is love. When a woman gives birth…she’s a MOM….maybe you left out the part whre you think that Halle will be lining up for “handouts” b/c she’s a single mom…seems to me…since MOST marriages end in the divorce..MOST children are raised by single parents…and know what? that sky STILL has not fallen…well maybe only for the talibangelical Right it has…but THEY don’t matter anymore…nobody cares what they think any longer…as their own crazy ideas mean little in the scope of the entire world… ;-)

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

What is the matter here this morning? Are the Democrats running out of money? Both Hillary’s folks and Obama’s are here putting their hands out for money or passing out propaganda. This is a blog not a collection and distribution center.

Besides, CONCISE IS NICE!

Anyway, I enjoyed Jim’s run through this morning but I had already had a good laugh. Bob Barr is going to run for the President of the USA on the Libertarian ticket!!

The Libertarians are really hard up for candidates. They missed a great opportunity with Cynthia McKinney when she went “green”. Oh well, they got the candy Barr. How sweet it is!!

By Unity

March 21, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

New Mexico’s Richardson endorses Obama Hispanic governor says presidential hopeful a ‘once-in-a-lifetime leader’ Jeff Geissler / AP file

SANTA FE, New Mexico - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, America’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a “once-in-a- lifetime leader” who can unite the nation and restore the country’s international leadership.

Richardson, who dropped out of the Democratic race in January, is to appear with Obama on Friday at a campaign event in Portland, Oregon, The Associated Press has learned.

The governor’s endorsement comes as Obama leads among delegates selected at primaries and caucuses but with national public opinion polling showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pulling ahead of him amid controversy over statements by his former pastor.

Richardson has been relentlessly wooed by Obama and Clinton for his endorsement. As a Democratic superdelegate, the governor plays a part in the tight race for nominating votes and could bring other superdelegates to Obama’s side. He also has been mentioned as a potential running mate for either candidate.

No primaries are scheduled until Pennsylvania’s on April 22, a gap in time Obama hopes to use for such announcements to assert that he is the front-runner for the nomination.

‘Once-in-a-lifetime leader’ “I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in the world,” Richardson said in a statement obtained by the AP.

“As a presidential candidate, I know full well Sen. Obama’s unique moral ability to inspire the American people to confront our urgent challenges at home and abroad in a spirit of bipartisanship and reconciliation.

Richardson’s endorsement also could help Obama pick up support among Hispanics, who are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority.

Clinton has been the favorite of Hispanics in primaries and caucuses, according to exit polls. She won the New Mexico caucus in early February with a nearly 2-to-1 advantage among Hispanics.

Richardson backed Obama despite his ties to Clinton and her husband, the former president. He served as ambassador to the United Nations and as secretary of the Energy Department during the Clinton administration. Last month, Richardson and former President Bill Clinton watched the Super Bowl football championship together at the governor’s residence in Santa Fe.

Clinton a ‘distinguished leader’ Richardson praised Hillary Clinton as a “distinguished leader with vast experience.” But the governor said Obama “will be a historic and great president, who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad.

Richardson was a roving diplomatic troubleshooter when he was a congressman from New Mexico, negotiating the release of U.S. hostages in several countries and meeting with a rogue’s gallery of U.S. adversaries, including Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro.

“There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama has the judgment and courage we need in a commander in chief when our nation’s security is on the line. He showed this judgment by opposing the Iraq war from the start, and he has show it during this campaign by standing up for a new era in American leadership internationally,” Richardson said.

“Whether it’s fighting to end the Iraq war or stop the genocide in Darfur or prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, Gov. Richardson has been a powerful voice on issues of global security, peace and justice, earning five Nobel Peace Prize nominations,” Obama said in a statement.

By jm

March 21, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

I wonder why Mr. Wooten advocates using state departments to “save or grow lots of cities”, shouldn’t that job fall to the private sector?

I wonder why Mr. Wooten advocates using corporate welfare to “Incentivize development in the boondocks”.

By TEACHERS ARE IDIOTS

March 21, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Bob Barr is a jesusfreakingidiot who should never, ever have any government power over anyone. That said, Mr. Barr makes a great cup of coffee and should seek his natural calling as a starbucks coffee maker….and he sould get to keep all his meager tips…

By TEACHERS ARE IDIOTS

March 21, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

jm - Jim is just a backwoods hick who migrated to the so called big city and thinks he is helping out his country red neck relatives back home on the cotton farm. When the ajc folds, and his pension plan goes under, Jim will return to the cotton farm, seeking a postion as overseer of the hired help.

By TW

March 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

That teat cheese was from Boris’ Mama!

By South Georgia

March 21, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

OK you metro jackasses. We’re here, you might as well throw us a frickin’ bone, alright? Geez.

By jbmlaw

March 21, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Dear jm @ 10:59, I think I have the answer: “I wonder why Mr. Wooten advocates using corporate welfare to “Incentivize development in the boondocks”.” Jim could not give the honest explanation – our great desire to dump as much of state government onto other unsuspecting locations, to improve traffic here. I mean, really, government INCENTIVIZE development? Rather like churches incentivizing prostitution, or democrats incentivizing intelligent discourse.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

TEACHERS ARE IDIOTS…11:13

Are you a teacher? Must be, according to your ID.

TW@11:25

Your comment makes no sense at all.

By the way, Halle Berry likes her name in the news. She’s a movie star and the more publicity the better. If you don’t like her name in the news, tell her to stop sending out press releases.

Jim Wooten is a family man who advocates a solid committment with a legal marriage. Obviously, the legal part is the step that Halle’s buddy did not want to take. If you think that shows “committment”, I don’t. It means leaving the door open to run anytime your “taste” changes.

By TW

March 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.

What if they’ve just been layin’ low until the ‘surge’ breaks…nah…no way they could pull a fast one like that on ‘w’…

By BS Aplenty

March 21, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

A TEN-SECOND PLAY

Sunday morning worship service at the Trinity United Church of Christ. A young Obama sits in rapt attention. The song service (and the lessons) have just begun.

REV. JEREMIAH: (standing up) Yes, brothers and sisters, sing with me the songs of redemption, the songs sung by our ancestors as they broke their chains of bondage and headed for freedom, yes sing with me now…

(SUNG to Yes, Jesus Loves Me)

Foolin’ Whitey’s good to know, Come on in and join our show,
Shoutin’ loud and dancin’ real, Maybe Soul Train makes a deal.

Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty,
Stacks high & tidy,
My conscience full o’ blow.

Welfare’s payment for your sins, Givin’ Green’s a recompense, Brother’s got to blame someone, You got cash, so you’s the one.

OBAMA: (singing) …Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Yes…

Twenty years later on the presidential campaign trail and the song remains the same.

OBAMA: (answering reporters’ questions) …and I sang so off-key in church that anyone familiar with a capella singing would not believe that I believed a word I was singing unless they were singing more off-key than I was. This issue is a diversion from the true problem in America which is color…(Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Yes foolin’…).

THE END

By Apostle Paul

March 21, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Christ didn’t have a script any more than you or I. What you have to ask yourself is, “How did Christ know he was the Christ and when did he know it?” I read where in the generations before Christ hundreds of messiah’s stepped forward only to be killed by the romans. Why? because most of them carried a geo-political message. That’s why christ kept telling his apostles, “ixnay on the ingdomkay”.

What observations could Christ have possibly made to convince himself to the point where he allowed himself to be crucified as the Christ? It’s one thing to gamble that your public miracles will work. It’s another to allow yourself to be abu graibed over a self agrandizing religious fantasy. I am the son of god? He never said that, we think, but certainly he acted as though he could forgive sins, and that brings up another point: Can we trust what we read as christ’s story and words in the new testament? there is great doubt about the authenticity of many of Christ’s words and deeds, not all, but certainly the lord’s prayer is one passage that seems 2B a forgery. I wish it wasn’t so, and I will live out my days believing that christ riffed it, but the evidence, if we can trust it, is contrary.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

TW@11:57

Can you get it through your head that Bush is not running for a third term. You do not have to keep mouthing “Bush did it” or “w” as you like to say.

We all know that there are still people fighting in Iraq to undermine any sort of democratic government there. You do not have to help these criminals with your liberal backwash against all the goals our troops have helped Iraqis obtain. Does it ever occur to you that you are encouraging terrorists in Iraq with your snide remarks?

By BS Aplenty

March 21, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

A TEN-SECOND PLAY

Sunday morning worship service at the Trinity United Church of Christ. A young Obama sits in rapt attention. The song service (and the lessons) have just begun.

REV. JEREMIAH: (standing up) Yes, brothers and sisters, sing with me the songs of redemption, the songs sung by our ancestors as they broke their chains of bondage and headed for freedom, yes sing with me now…

(Sung to Yes, Jesus Loves Me)

Foolin’ Whitey’s good to know, Come on in and join our show,
Shoutin’ loud and dancin’ real, Maybe Soul Train makes a deal.

Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty,
Stacks high & tidy,
My conscience full o’ blow.

Welfare’s payment for your sins, Givin’ Green’s a recompense, Brother’s got to blame someone, You got cash, so you’s the one.

OBAMA: (singing) …Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high &…

Twenty years later on the presidential campaign trail and the song remains the same.

OBAMA: (answering reporters’ questions) …and I sang so off-key in church that anyone familiar with a capella singing would not believe that I believed a word I was singing unless they were singing more off-key than I was. This issue is a diversion from the true problem in America which is color…(Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high & tidy…).

THE END

By BS Aplenty

March 21, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

A TEN-SECOND PLAY

Sunday morning worship service at the Trinity United Church of Christ. A young Obama sits in rapt attention. The song service (and the lessons) have just begun.

REV. JEREMIAH: (standing up) Yes, brothers and sisters, sing with me the songs of redemption, the songs sung by our ancestors as they broke their chains of bondage and headed for freedom, yes sing with me now…

(Sung to Yes, Jesus Loves Me)

Foolin’ Whitey’s good to know, Come on in and join our show,
Shoutin’ loud and dancin’ real, Maybe Soul Train makes a deal.

Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty,
Stacks high & tidy,
My conscience full o’ blow.

Welfare’s payment for your sins, Givin’ Green’s a recompense, Brother’s got to blame someone, You got cash, so you’s the one.

OBAMA: (singing) …Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high &…

Twenty years later on the presidential campaign trail and the song remains the same.

OBAMA: (answering reporters’ questions) …and I sang so off-key in church that anyone familiar with a capella singing would not believe that I believed a word I was singing unless they were singing more off-key than I was. This issue is a diversion from the true problem in America which is color…(Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high & tidy…).

THE END

By Glenn

March 21, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Well now. Bad news from Dr. Ehrenreich, huh. Looks like tens of millions of Democrats have, in their wisdom, decided to choose between a candidate whose Christianity is fascism and one whose Christianity is Marxism. (And here we were worried about “Talibaptists”!

Ah, fascism and Marxism—-next to Bill Clinton, the other Things That Wouldn’t Leave. The twin faces of what becomes of tender liberalism when social meliorism silently clicks over into social instrumentalism—-in that moment when persons become, in a candidate’s head once filled with the best of intentions, “human resources”.

By TW

March 21, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Dusty - as long as our commander in chief is a moron, the terrists need not the help of my ‘snide remarks’. Besides, everyone knows there is no greater propoganda soldier for al qaueda than the ‘mission accomplished’ rightwing contingent of sheep that have infiltrated the once respectable Republican Party.

i.e. - you

By It's America, Stupid

March 21, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

This is not your forefather’s country. Speech. Lets all tell our own stories about our own racial confrontations, just like Obama did.

Obama is showing us the way, Americans. Obama is saying, “Open the dialogue with those around you, your familiy and friends. Tell your experiences.”

Obamamania: Tell it.

By Okay, I'll go next

March 21, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

“Open the dialogue with those around you, your familiy and friends. Tell your experiences.”

Here’s my race issue confession:

As a liberal white southerner (Atlanta in the 70’s & 80’s, so not as segregated as some), I get sick of having to tip-toe around words and bite my tongue and NOT comment on something for fear that someone will take it the wrong way. I’m no more a racist than a Lester Maddox was a flower child, (and neither are the Clintons dadgummit, and you KNOW that!), but I get sick of always having to PROVE that I’m not by nodding my head at the politically-correct time. The mandate “Oh, there are just certain things you DO NOT say!” has gone too far. Excepting the “n” word or related nasty words, I should be able to say whatever the flip I want to, and not be accused of some inbred ongoing prejudice for an entire group of people whose melanin content is different from mine, when my real prejudice is against self-righteous, santimonious ayy-holes of any color.

Furthermore, stop making fun of how white my legs are. It’s not nice and I have feelings too.

Next!

By dave

March 21, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Actually Glenn,Most of us americans don’t give a c$ap about christianity… we care about this country..

why don’t you read HISTORY… instead of believing what your uneducated pastor tells you to be truth…

this country was NOT founded on chritian principles…those that came here…. that came here in the beginning came here because THEY DID NOT WANT a state run religion…. they risked their lives crossing an ocean by a wind powered ship to rid themselves of “state run religion”…

religions of this world only hurt…never help..they DIVIDE more than MEND!!!!

By Shar

March 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Unity and It’s America: Senator Obama gave a gorgeously-crafted, impassioned and dignified speech which, most regrettably, exposed his absolute failure to lead. He excused his refusal to stand against the racism that was spread through his congregation by bowing to the age of his pastor, not wanting to offend an old, cranky man ‘who was like and uncle to him’. Instead, he continued to support the church and its leader, lending his name and prestige to a hateful, extremist message.

My mother-in-law is also old and cranky, a woman who has always been kind and generous to me and my children and yet whose 1920’s Alabama upbringing fostered a deep racism. When my nephew brought home his Philipino girlfriend and her lovely, smart, charming half-black little daughter, my mother-in-law was furious (yet still remained far more civil than has Senator Obama’s pastor). She appealed to me for support, and I told her that she could have whomever she wanted in her own house but that she was in the wrong and had no right to try to make others share or tolerate her views. I said that our family would not participate in any large-scale familial events at her home if she felt that she could not make this little girl completely welcome.

Despite storms of tears and rivers of self-justification, we have not been back for family events. I deeply offended and hurt an old woman who has been nothing but kind to me, but I felt that I had no choice. I could not support her actions, and I could not let my children see ugly racism coming from a beloved figure of authority.

It is no more acceptable to hate white people than it is to hate black people, or any other target of prejudice. Senator Obama’s decision to spare Reverend Wright’s feelings permitted the message of hate, victimhood and disempowerment to permeate the congregation, to influence those who, like my children with their grandmother, revere and model themselves on his behavior. His words are not the excusable crochets of an elderly generation, they are divisive and destructive and needed to be countered instead of condoned.

Senator Obama’s eloquence and directness cannot hide his utter failure to lead. After eight years of failure, self-interest and lies, the country is in enormous need of responsible leadership. I am deeply disappointed to see that we cannot expect that from this candidate.

By GayGreyGeek

March 21, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

DustBuster -

Remember, Concise Is Nice, even for Paleocons such as yourself.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Dear TW @12:40

What a blind fool you are! Our president is no more a moron than you are a genius. He has excelled in getting a MBS at Yale and a pilot’s certification in the National Guard. He is now the greatest opponent to terrorism in the world. He has protected this country from terrorism and released two others from dictatorships. You should be very thankful you live in a great country with a strong president.

But you are too weak in the head to even know it. You sit around complaining and griping. Your lack of appreciation is despicable.

By dave

March 21, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Dusty, Where did these terrorists in Iraq come from?…as they did not exsist in that country until we invaded…

Did you NOT undesrtand that EVERY SINGLE REPORT and study that has been done shows that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11? Or… are you just a plain IDIOT?

Guess who brought the terrosrists into Iraq…Saddam?….nope…WE did!

Terror activity worldwide is up over 500% since we invaded….

Saddam was WAY more peaceful than bush and cheney…. they will be known…in their life history…as terrorists…and will be in the very SAME history book as Hitler…

By getalife

March 21, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Of course, Jim fails to write about passportgate.

Retire hack.

By GayGreyGeek

March 21, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Dave - the DustBuster has not only gorged herself on the Paleocon Kool-Aid, she’s had so much of it that she’s turned into an Idiot-Grin-Etched Glass Pitcher that likes to burst, unnanounced and unwanted, thru fences and walls…

By It's America, Stupid

March 21, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

a racial confrontation is neither wrong nor right, but it is uniquely american, it simply is america, and we need to tell it.

Obama 08: Tell it.

remember, seven score and four years ago, Lincoln addressed the very issue Obama addressed in The Speech. (insert twilight zone music here)

By Tim

March 21, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 11:57

Hey Dusty, The divorce rate in this country is over 55%!! Since when did a wedding stop someone from leaving when their taste changes. And you can ask John Mccain about that!

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Dear Shar@1:37

I hope your halo does not get too tight. You want to tell your gradnmother what to say as she talked to you in confidence. All you had to say was “I disagree with you.” I hope you did not give her the sermon you gave us. You said she was civil. I don’t think you were. You were in her home.She was not having a KKK rally. You treated your grandmother worse than she treated the little girl visiting. Thankfully you have not returned in your purity of great knowledge and benevolence.

When you are a grandmother I hope your politically correct grandchildren do not stay away because they disagree with you.

Obama should have left his church long ago to show his rejection of racism. This was his church, not his family. If he should follow your rules, he should also leave his wife who has shown all signs of being a racist.

By jbmlaw

March 21, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Dear Dave @ 1:46, you deceive. “Dusty, Where did these terrorists in Iraq come from?…as they did not exsist in that country until we invaded…” A technical truth, but a deception nevertheless. It is not that the terrorists, who would murder all Americans did not exist; they existed and were spread all over the world. You pinheads would have dispersed our noble Marines in tiny groups all over the world to try to extinguish the killers? A smart fellow, unlike any leftist who has popped out of his hole, would have conceived a strategy that would lure all of the America-haters, excluding American democrats, into a small area where the Marines could do what Marines do best. And only an American democrat could call that success a failure. We conservatives call such analysis “connecting the dots” and we know you cannot connect dots, thus this explanation.

By gafarmer

March 21, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

“Migrants fear changes in Ga”, all of them Jim. Most are Hispanic and until officials ask questions they can’t sort the legal from the illegal. The illegals fear deportation and the legals fear the hassel.

By liberalextremist

March 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dave, Dustbuster is just a plain idiot. Anyway Dusty, when did Yale hand out MBS, I thought they were MBA’s. You are the most predictable, dim-witted individual on this earth. You are nothing but a sponge for the Republican tripe. Your post a few days ago, p** me off to no end. Black people in this country were murdered by White people just because of their race, nothing more nothing less. That is why these murders and/or crimes were such a big Deal. But as a White woman, you could never see beyond what’s in your narrow minded pea size of a brain.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Dave,

If I were you, I would not call anyone an idiot. If you think terrorists were not in Iraq, that is fine. Enjoy your ignorance. They are in almost every other country in the world including ours. Bush has gotten rid of many of them, something you don’t want to believe. He does it to protect us, you slow witted lib.

You really believe that terrorists sat outside Iraq twiddling their thumbs, waiting for an invitation from that sweet innocent Saddam. You go for it, Dave. Stay simple. I’m glad you are not a Republican.

Tim@ 2:20

Getting out of a legal marriage is much more complicated than walking out the door. It does make some spur of the moment Casanova to think twice before leaving wife and children behind. Even if his heart is not there, his bank acount may be and he always remembers that.

By Glenn

March 21, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Barack’s big speech, Lincolnesque? What?

I admired his courtroom procedure, his occasional street rhythms (which he does even better than Billary) and his inexplicable touches of lovely, high-toned Virginia singsong. He said that he is the atavar and Gestalt of our national tuttifrutti, and evidently that is so phonologically as well, as his pronunciations code-switch from one national region to another.

He tried to take us coming out the gate, and evidently he succeeded with everyone who was just waiting to be ravished, as well as with, more significantly, some of the undecideds. The speech is a boilerplate psychofessional in which he begins on the couch, with us in the chair, and ends with a role reversal.

Be sure to get a transcript so you can read the brilliant lawyerly “feats of nomenclature”; they’re quite interesting, forensically, especially the gliding from moral equivalency to moral equivalency (which went down very well with the East German judges, earning him an unprecedented 9.8!)

He pretended as though he, our atavar, “chose this moment in history” to run this race and give this speech—as though this were the race he’d have chosen to run, or the speech he’d wish to give. Just about every paragraph is devoted to some similar “Strategic Misrepresentation”, to use the name of a Harvard graduate course from back in Barry’s day.

Mainly Sen. Obama seemed very intent on teaching us about the “dialogue” we all “need” to have because we haven’t “had” it prior to the outing of Obama’s Black Liberation Theology. He commanded our Undivided whilst he went into the mildly painful subjects of race and religion so as not to have to go into the deadly painful one of his lifetime of mentoring by doctrinaire Marxists, including Dr. Wright.

Much of the reaction to the speech reminded me of that somehow quintessential scene at the Academy Awards about 30 years ago in which Sir Laurence was accepting a Lifetime Achievement Oscar with a heartfelt speech that made Best Actor Nominee Jon Voigt fairly leap with rapture and hump the nearest leg. After the show “Larry” confessed that he’d forgotten his lines and hadn’t known what else to do but resort to melodious gibberish for the benefit of his audience of fawning Anglophilic Angelenos.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

liberalextemeist@2:40

Your ID is correct. As you said Black people in this country were mudered by White people just because of their race. Murder of any kind is an injustice.

So, now, it is OK for Black people to murder White people for no reason at all? Or murder Black people also for that matter? Is that what you are saying?

Have you looked at crime statistiscs lately? Bill Cosby has and he doesn’t like it and says so. Why don’t you wake up?

Murder for ANY reason is an abomination. There is no reason to excuse any killer. It is all bad, not just one kind. Try to overcome your prejudice ‘cause you ARE prejudiced.

By Decatur Mom

March 21, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

As a Decatur Mom, I do not always agree with what our School Board members decide. However, I respect them for speaking up when the State of Georgia, not exactly known for its educational prowess, tries to inhibit the school districts who are trying to do more for their children than the bare minimum the state funds. As Mark Twain said, “Out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation”.

By Devastator

March 21, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Rush Limbaugh’s Ties To Illegal Cross-Over Voting Investigation

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/80392/

By Steven Rosenfeld, Alternet Posted March 21, 2008

As the board of election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where Cleveland is located, launches an investigation into illegal crossover voting in the state’s 2008 presidential primary, a big open question remains unanswered: Will county officials go after the ringleaders of apparently illegal electioneering where thousands of Republican voters swore — under penalty of law — allegiance to the Democratic Party in order to vote for Hillary Clinton?

In case you missed it, Rush Limbaugh, the nation’s top-rated talk radio host, was urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to skip their party’s primary on March 4 and instead cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the fight between her and Barack Obama. And that Tuesday, as media in both states reported, thousands of Republicans did just what Limbaugh and others had suggested — they changed parties to vote for Clinton.

“I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura,” Limbaugh told Laura Ingraham on Feb. 29, near the start of his Hillary crusade. “This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it’s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don’t have the stomach for it, as you probably know.”

And on Wednesday, the day after the Ohio primary, Fox News asked Clinton if she owed Limbaugh a thank you. “Be careful what you wish for, Rush,” she replied. Later that day, Limbaugh played the Fox tape on his show and said, “How do you interpret this, folks? She could have said thank you. She could have said thank you! In fact, I was expecting in her victory speech last night to be thanked.

“I helped give Mrs. Clinton the biggest and happiest moment and night of the campaign season so far, maybe her life, and she tells me, “Be careful what you wish for, Rush”? Why, that sounds like a threat, does it not? I’ve got a Democrat presidential candidate threatening your host. Why, I am stunned! After all I did …”

While this all makes for great talk radio and sounds like fun, there is one catch: What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail. That is because in order to change party affiliation in Ohio, voters have to fill out a form swearing allegiance to that party’s principles “under penalty of election falsification.”

On Thursday, March 20, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the “Cuyahoga County Board of Election has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary.” According to the report, “One voter scribbled the following addendum to his pledge as a new Democrat: “For one day only.”

“Such an admission amounts to voter fraud,” the report continued, attributing that conclusion to BOE member Sandy McNair, a Democrat. The report said the four-member board — two Democrats and two Republicans — had yet to vote on whether it would issue subpoenas, although Ohio’s secretary of state, Democrat Jennifer Brunner, is empowered to cast tie-breaking votes when the BOE is deadlocked.

In 2008, 2.22 million Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary, compared to 1.27 million in 2000, according to unofficial results released by Brunner’s office. In contrast, 1.01 million Ohioans voted in the 2008 Republican primary, compared to nearly 918,000 people in 2004.

Both Ohio’s secretary of state and attorney general, both Democrats, were reluctant to embrace the prospect of voter fraud prosecutions.

“Secretary of State Brunner has not been contacted by anyone regarding the prosecution of alleged improper crossover voting,” Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said. “Prosecution of such activities is the exclusive domain of the county prosecutor or the Ohio attorney general.”

“We will not make a blanket statement that we would never pursue a case such as that, but it would be our position that a case such as that would be very hard to prosecute,” said Ted Hart, spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who added that a senior attorney in his office said it would be difficult to ascertain voters’ motives on particular days. “The county prosecutor would have the first right of refusal.”

But Michael Slater of Project Vote, a nonpartisan group that designs voter registration drives for low-income people, said GOP meddling in the Ohio Democratic Primary was a clear-cut example of fraudulent voting, which is how Republicans have defined the issue in recent years, as GOP advocates have urged state legislatures and Congress to adopt anti-fraud measures such as tougher voter ID laws.

“Here we have a real instance of spurring people on to engage in illegal election activities with a real intent to affect the outcome,” Slater said. “That is voter fraud. People were encouraged to break the law. They had to declare allegiance to a political party and sign a document under penalty of perjury. Intent is what matters in voter fraud.”

For years, Republicans have literally made a federal case of voter fraud. The Bush Justice Department fired U.S. attorneys who would not prosecute cases of people who GOP politicos believed were impersonating voters to help Democratic candidates.

Voting rights groups such as ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which registers millions of low-income people in presidential election years, have been prosecuted by U.S. attorneys for voter fraud — even after ACORN followed the law and alerted the FBI about mistakes made by its volunteers.

After 2004, Republican-controlled legislatures in Florida and Ohio passed laws, now overturned, curtailing voter registration drives under the guise of fighting voter fraud. Meanwhile, numerous states have passed new and tougher voter I.D. laws, all aimed at stopping people who purportedly were impersonating voters.

“I think this is Rush and others inspiring people to commit voter fraud,” Slater said. “They should be brought under investigation.”

By GayGreyGeek

March 21, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

DustBuster - Thus, since in your own words Murder for ANY reason is an abomination. There is no reason to excuse any killer. It is all bad, not just one kind., what punishments do you propose for your Fuhrer Bush and his right-hand man, Darth Vader, and the results of all the useless deaths in Iraq they caused by their lies and invasion?

By ghost rider

March 21, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty I have to say you are a laugh a minute. Bush did not receive and MBS from Yale, it was a BA, He received his MBA from Harvard after The University of Texas declined his application. Yes he did learn to fly and was awarded his wings, but after failing to show up for his annual flight physical was promptly removed from flight status….Some accomplishment! The only thing Bush has accomplished is five years of war! Iraq was no threat (UNDERSTAND THAT CONCEPT)to the United States..Clinton did just fine in maintaining a stable area. The United States is not in or should be in the business of bringing democracy to the world…nor ridding the world of terroists!

By Devastator

March 21, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Stop dodging the issues, Barack!! It’s time to come over to my home and repeat to me everything you’ve ever said, written or thought.

By Mark Bazer

Who is the real Barack Obama? Undoubtedly, he is a brilliant writer, an eloquent speaker, a rock star of a candidate. But, setting aside Sen.

Obama’s charisma and lofty oratory about “hope” and “change,” do any of us know what the man actually stands for — if anything?????

Yes, we do know that Obama opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and that he now favors diplomacy with Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran. And that, if elected, he’d advocate allotting $2 billion or more to help Iraqi refugees. And, oh right, that he’d withdraw one or two U.S. combat brigades each month, with the goal of bringing all combat brigades home within 16 months — though keeping a residual force to protect American diplomats and target al-Qaida.

But do we know the senator’s stance on how to construct a working public-library system in Baghdad? What about his views on establishing an off-track betting site in Kirkuk? And can any of us pretend to know how Obama plans to get Sunnis, Shias and Kurds to agree on a recycling program?

For that matter, can anyone decipher Obama’s ideas on environmentalism here at home?

Sure, the senator may discuss a “market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions” by “80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.” And that he wants to institute a new National Low Carbon Fuel Standard, increase funding for the Conservation Security Program, eliminate traditional incandescent light bulbs by 2014, create a Green Jobs Corps, fight for a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard and blah, blah, blah.

All well and good, but what does Sen. Obama believe should be allowed in the American people’s blue bins? He has been curiously mum about glossy paper.

But let’s not talk about Al Gore-created issues, but about real ones. Like race in America. Turns out Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has said some pretty awful things about this country.

How can we be certain Sen. Obama doesn’t feel the same as Wright does? Has Obama done anything whatsoever to repudiate Wright’s sermons and articulate his own ideas? Anything at all? Something along the lines of a well-crafted, from-the-heart 40-minute, 5,000-word speech, perhaps? I’ve been working nonstop on this piece the last three days, but I’ll check after I hand it into my editor.

And how about more bread-and-butter campaign issues. Like abortion. We may know Obama believes in upholding a woman’s right to choose. But think of all we don’t know. For instance: Has Obama ever performed an abortion? Has he ever needed one himself? And, comb through his record all you want, but I defy you to find the senator’s take on the abortion scene in “Dirty Dancing.

Then there is the issue of health care.

Obama may have a “plan,” and it may be “long,” and it may on his “Web site,” but could someone from the Obama camp please explain why the senator doesn’t read the entire plan at every primary victory speech?

Indeed, how in the world are you supposed to know anything about Obama if you don’t have access to the Internet (or do have a special Web browser that doesn’t let you type “Obama and issues” into Google)?

For the sake of argument, let’s say you do have Internet access or know someone who does.

Even then, how can you believe that what Barack Obama says he believes is actually what he believes and not something he wants us to believe — and that, even if elected, he’d continue to espouse and act upon these so-called beliefs until his time in office were over and then, many years later, perhaps on his death bed, he’d reveal that, in fact, he all along believed something entirely different?

Sen. Obama, it’s time to stop hiding. It’s time to come over to my home and repeat to me everything you’ve ever said, written or thought.

I’m dying to meet you!

By Devastator

March 21, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Pennsylvania Voter Registration SOARS!

This is always a great sign for us! Thanks to all those helping to register new voters and also register Independents and Republicans as Democrats for this particular primary! The Deadline to register in PA is March 24!! If you know anyone in PA….call to make sure they are registered (as a Democrat) and if they are not tell them to go get registered before the 24th!

Pennsylvania Voter Registration Soars

Posted: 20 Mar 2008 08:06 PM CDT Both CNN and AP are reporting big increases in Democratic voter registration in Pennsylvania in advance of the April 22 primary.

But there’s an interesting and potentially significant tidbit down in the AP story:

_ The nine counties with the biggest percentage increases in Democratic enrollment since last fall — more than 5 percent — are mainly in two tightly contested areas — the Philadelphia suburbs and the state’s vast central region.

I happened to be in Philadelphia to interview Gov. Ed Rendell today, and he mentioned those two areas—the Philly suburbs and Central Pennsylvania—as crucial to Obama’s hopes in the state. Both are affluent and well educated, which fit the Obama demographic. They are Obama’s most likely troves of votes, outside of heavily African-American Philadelphia. Rendell himself carried much of that same territory in his own bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2002. He ended up winning only 15 of the state’s 67 counties, he told me—but still managed to beat Bob Casey, the party establishment’s pick, by a hefty 12 percentage point margin. Rendell, who is supporting Clinton, is determined that Obama not pull off a similar feat this time.

By Bond

March 21, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Jim,

Bond. James Bond, here again. I am terribly sorry to have to do this, old boy. I’m afraid that I must come out myself and correct a most unfortunate error before it has a chance to do irreparable harm. In my 9:33 message I truly meant to say “blame Placed”. Please know that normally I would think that such things never happen but I have now learned to never say never again. I have already talked to Halle about the incident and she knows that I would just Die if she had to suffer Another Day over this unfortunate mix up.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

ghost rider @ 3:12

You are correct in some things. I did mix Bush’s bachelor degree from Yale with his MBA from Harvard. And my son who is a CPA would be greatly disappointed if I did not know an MBA from an MBS(whatever that might be). So, sorry about my misprint.

Now…you don’t mind terrorists roaming the world unhindered. I myself prefer the George W. Bush method,i.e. get rid of terrorists in a far away place instead of..on my front porch. You don’t seem to mind. Well…I do.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

ghost rider@ 3:12

I forgot to tell you that you misspelled “terrorists” in your last sentence. Do you have an MBS?

By It's America, Stupid

March 21, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

I am afraid of Cheney. During his latest TV appearance in the Iraq Poll interview, his eyes revealed that he knew something we dont, like what names will be on the november ballot. I can read cheney like a blind governer can read liberal sentiment. Cheney knows something’s in the works against Obama. It could be a swiftboating, or worse, I dont know, but cheney knows. It’s in his face. Cheney recently went to Saudi Arabia. I wonder what he contracted there. I am afraid of Cheney, the Saudi Puppet.

Ask yourself if you trust the Saudis. Saudi=Cheney.

By Halle

March 21, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Babies are the new purse dogs!

By Jackie

March 21, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

It is unfortunate that the passport records of Obama, Clinton, McCain and other presidential candidates were viewed by someone(s) in the US Department of State. The part that is a problem is these people can not be prosecuted because they are no longer employed by the Federal government. The Inspector General does not have authority to question them and there is no mechanism to question them in a court of law because there are no law(s) infraction they can be charged with.

The Karl Rove school of politics is alive and well.

What is the classic definition of fascism?

By W

March 21, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty,

As you know, We have the terrorists on the run again and We will not relent in our pursuit of Victory. However, bullets and waterboards Do cost Money. We need more Money, NOW. Please send your paychecks to the W War Effort until further notice.

Thank You for your Patriotism, Your Leader, W

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Jackie @ 3:49

I hate to bother you but what are you trying to say in your last post?

By Glenn

March 21, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Devastator @ 3:18, that’s as pispoor a parody as Barack’s I-Am-a-Sinner (Because It’s Better than Admitting I’m a Black Marxist)speech. I don’t give a damn about the “blackness” of Jeremiah Wright, his church, or his homiletics. I care that he’s a Marxist whose church is consecrated to Christ but dedicated to that Marxism which is Black Liberation Theology. If John McCain had been a practicing Scientologist for the past 20 years, and were he to remain one today, should we not conclude that he is a Scientologist, and then ask what implications his Scientology might have for his prospective leadership of the Free World?

Do you think it would be acceptable for Mr. McCain to expressly reject Chapter Six of L. Ron Hubbard’s 17th book, and two sentences “taken out of context” from one of his other books, and then use those rejections as an occasion to lead “the country” on a journey of discovery of the under-appreciated literary value of Science Fiction?

The issue is Marxism, not racism. The issue will not go away, as you’ll soon see.

By Apocalypse

March 21, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Barack Discusses the War with Iraq Veterans Tonight on MTV Category: News and Politics

..Watch Senator Obama discuss the Iraq war with eight young veterans that have recently come back from serving in Iraq.

This conversation airs tonight at 6pm ET/PT on MTV and will be streamed at chooseorlose.com starting at 7pm ET. ..

This hour long event that was taped in Scranton, PA will be broadcast on all MTV stations (MTV, mtvU, MTV2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, and streamed across 1,800 sites of the Associated Press online video network.

Also check out think.mtv.com/BarackObama, one of our newest official social networking sites within the MTV community.

(MTV photo of Sen. Barack Obama and Marine Veteran Chris Weimer)

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Dear W @3:52

I’d loan you the money but the Democrats have used it all in their campaign funds. Hillary might give you an advance since she ‘loaned’ five million to her campaign.

But, as all libs know, politics are more important than securing freedom. Just ask them. They say we do not need “to rid the world of terrorists”. Ghost rider, a good liberal, just reminded us of that this afternoon.

By jbmlaw

March 21, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Dear ghost rider @ 3:12, “The only thing Bush has accomplished is five years of war!” [Yes, that and execution of around 50,000 terrorists, plus breaking their financing and distribution networks. Small potatoes.] “Iraq was no threat (UNDERSTAND THAT CONCEPT) to the United States..” [Other than the fact that it allowed its territories to be used as a safe haven for terrorists. Wouldn’t it have been great if President Bush had warned Hussein that America would chase down terrorists wherever they found them.] “Clinton did just fine in maintaining a stable area.” [More than stable, I would use the word ‘incubator.’] “The United States is not in or should be in the business of bringing democracy to the world…nor ridding the world of terroists!” [Your solidarity with the anti-American Islamists is well known to us conservatives; I know you wish you had flown that plane into the WTC. Fortunately grownups set the policy when republicans are in office.]

By Devastator

March 21, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

I really don’t give a sh!t at this point. As long as he wins the nomination!!

By Jackie

March 21, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

I am saying someone/many someones working as contractors for the US State Department went into the passport records of many presidential candidates, Dems and Repubs alike. It is a clear violation of the law just to view those records without “a need.”

It appears they were viewed and the information passed along to someone outside the government.

The Inspector General of the State Dept. was not aware of these breaches committed on three known occasions.

It just seem awfully strange that some of those known to have committed this crime worked for KBR.

It is one thing for those that choose to run for political office to present their platforms to the public for judgement, it is another for those folks that want to win at all cost, to subvert the Constitution to force their doctrine on the rest of us.

It appears to me, this is classic fascism. With this pattern and practice, those we elect to office and not what we had come to believe. “Say one thing, do another.”

By W

March 21, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty,

I did not speak of a loan however there will be payback if I don’t start getting those checks NOW. The liberals are already paying their fair share. I expect you and your partner, jbmlaw, to start forking over the cash. Do you think wars fund themselves. Do you think we can continue with these tax cuts forever. Now, SUCK IT UP. We have terrorists to track down and kill.

By Jackie

March 21, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

The “terrorist” DID NOT use Iraq as a base of operation, according to more than 600,000 documents reviewed by the Pentagon. As a matter of fact, Saddam hated the fanatics and the ultra-religious Muslims.

The claim is made that we have killed more than 50,000 terrorists. Who compiled this number?

Many Repubs like to make the assertion that Saddam was the bad guy. A review of facts shows that Saddam was a supporter of the Palestinians in their fight to regain their occupied homes. Facts will show the Saudis supported Saddam with financial assistance in the plight of the Palestinians.

Facts will show the USA of supported and encouraged Saddam to attack and fight Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. Once his service was no longer needed, he was tossed aside.

By GayGreyGeek

March 21, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Jackie - you’re tilting at windmills. DustBuster has demonstrated, ad infinitum, that she has all of the listening and cognition skills of the carving at Stone Mountain.

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie@4:21,

So.. some contractor for the US State Department had someone who reviewed passport records of politicians. KBR at work?? What?? Who??

Now you don’t know who did it or mention who was investigated or say where you get your information. But, you ask….who is saying one thing and doing another?

Since Democrats are fighting tooth and nail with each other, perhaps you have Dems vs Dems. McCain is not worried about his passport.

Dems lead Congress and are elected officials. Are you referring to Democrats as fascists?

By liberalextremist

March 21, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Jackie @ 4:34pm, Excellent post. However you have some die hard, shrub and Darth Vader sympathist on this blog that have been drinking the Neocon koolaid for so long, the truth is lost on them. Those arguments are the absolute truth, Saddam just needed to reign in those bad a$$ sons of his. Anyway Kudos on a great post, but it will be ignored and even go over the heads of great many.

By ghost rider

March 21, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

JBMLAW:

Aw yes…When those responsible republicans are in charge…Let’s take a look shall we…..

The National Security Council meeting of the Counter-terrorism Security Group, lead by Counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, discussed intelligence about possible terrorist attacks against the US overseas. During the meeting CIA officials stated that they (al Queada), “believe the upcoming attack will be ‘spectacular,’ qualitatively different from anything they have done to date.”The meeting led to a suspension of nonessential travel by counter-terror staff, including air travel.

FBI agent wrote to headquarters asking for an investigation into all US flight schools with the concern that al Qaeda was attempting to infultrate the aviation industry for terror purposes. The investigation was closed and no action was taken. This was known as the “Phoenex Memo.”

CIA director warned the White House of an imminent terrorist attack.

And Bush went on vacation, and read My pet goat…And Kinda Sleazy Rice ignored the presidential daily briefing that described an imminent attack that Richard Clarke tried to get her to pay attention to.

Oh yea, you right wing chickenhawks have all the answers … Trouble is they are WRONG!

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Dearest Gay Gray Geek & Squeak,@4:39

At last!! You understand something!! Congrats!!

I never bother with your posts because …(get this)…they are NOT worth the time it takes to read them. Keep trying!!!

By Jackie

March 21, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

The State Dept. is administered by the current administration. Condi and Dubya are in control of that dept.

The Inspector General said he did not know who did it, but, the two contractors that were fired before he had a chance to investigate were employees of KBR.

Again, you Repubs always try the plausible deniability route to wriggle out of problems.

If you don’t understand what was said, you do not have a good concept of how our government works.

I am saying that anyone that employs those tactics are fascists, regardless. In this case, it is the Repubs (Karl Rove) that continue along this path.

Your obfuscation does not work. You are well aware what is going on and refuse to accept the facts.

Speaking of McCain, he did show that he was in command of his facts yesterday. He had to be informed by Lieberman as to difference between Sunni and Shiite. Not once but on four different occasions the same error was made. I guess he just forgot?

By jm

March 21, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

I got news for you all. Government workers like to take a peek at things they are not supposed to as much as anyone else. I find it hard to believe that only three people have peaked at Senator Obama’s passport record. While some may have had sinister intent, most are just curious. Some people just look at the stuff because they can. If something about anyone is in a file somewhere, chances are someone who should not be looking at it, is. That is one of the prices of living in the information age.

Raising an issue about this is a waste of time.

By deegee

March 21, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

There are an estimated 10 million undocumented immigrant workers in the U.S. The government crackdown on employers is a joke. The employers offload their risk to the immigrant workers. The employer tells the worker to go buy false papers so that the employer can hire the worker and escape prosecution. The worker bears all of the risk of being prosecuted for employment fraud and identity theft. The employers sat back and let immigration reform die in the Senate this year. Wonderful system we have, isn’t it? And you wonder why people speak out angrily against injustice?

By Dusty

March 21, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie,4:57

You are so determined to find someone doing something wrong in this administration that you pick three out of thousands and holler “Fascism” and “Rove”.

Rove is no longer around. The peek-a-boos who did something wrong were fired. Why the big todo over passports? Somebody took a trip?

McCain did not forget under torture to keep his mouth shut in prison camp? Could you do that?

Maybe you see a fascist under every BUSH (that’s a joke, Jackie) but you’d better watch out. That “fascist” just might be…a LIBERAL!

Goodnight all….

By Jackie

March 21, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

And you wonder why many on this blog do not take you seriously?

News today indicates Rev. Hagee has said that John McCain came to him begging for an endorsement. He now says that he is rethinking his endorsement.

The radio announcer in Cincinnati says the same thing about McCain. The toxic effect that these folks have on our political process is deplorable, yet, we have reverted to the extrapolating what one person says in their support of a political candidate without asking the critical question about the policies of the candidate and how that affects our daily lives.

By TW

March 21, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

Give the Mexicans a SS card at the border and bring ‘em on! Hot women, great food, great music, great work ethic, great emphasis on family - bring ‘em on. Perhaps we could work up a swap and send Mexico some of our Georgia redneck meth head trash?

By Glenn

March 21, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Ghost rider, we posted yesterday a warning that terrorist elements are planning a spectacular attack on American targets overseas, and today we’ve warned you that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden may be planning to strike within the US, possibly using aircraft. Now, what would you have our President DO about this information?

By ghost rider

March 21, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You corrected me on my typo (terrorist) so I’ll correct you on your lack of facts…John McCain did crack under torture…Can’t say as I blame him (war is hell.)Believe me I’ve been there, done that!

See what McCain said himself….

The “documents” include an article McCain wrote for U.S. News & World Report in 1973, upon his release from prison camp. In the article, McCain admits that he—like many POWs—confessed to war crimes under physical and emotional duress. There’s also a transcript of an interview POW McCain did for French television, a story about McCain that appeared in a Vietnamese newspaper and an account of an interview of McCain by a Spanish psychiatrist.

By Jay

March 22, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Anyone notice this week how the media has started the countdown to 4000 combat deaths in Iraq? Instead of observing the occasion with dignity and honor, the media and Democratic Party will implement their Standard Operating Procedure and use the opportunity to beat the President over the head with it. God Bless our Troops, our country is safer today because of you.

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