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GOP … on road to 2010 Georgia governor’s race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John Oxendine, the insurance commissioner who would be governor of Georgia, orders latte at the downtown Atlanta Starbucks.
No syrup, he says. But chocolate chips.
And skim milk.
He pauses briefly and then asks for cream and whipping cream.
Conflicted?
On latte, maybe. But not on a desire to be governor or the willingness to leave a safe job he’s held for 14 years to join the stampede to succeed Gov. Sonny Perdue in 2010. While others ponder the opening created by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s announcement that he’ll seek re-election to the Senate — not the governor’s office — in 2010, Oxendine’s in, declared, and ready to go.
Isakson would have been a shoo-in. Had he declared, the crowd would have assembled to replace him in the U.S. Senate. Now, in the gubernatorial race, U.S. Reps. Lynn Westmoreland of Grantville and Jack Kingston of Savannah are possibilities, as is Secretary of State Karen Handel of Atlanta and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. So, too, is state House Majority Leader Jerry Keen of St. Simons Island.
On the Democratic side, House Minority Leader DuBose Porter of Dublin, a 25-year-veteran, has a career decision to make. His life in the House gets no better; his party’s chances are nil of taking control of the House and elevating him to speaker. Over the next decade, the prospects don’t much improve, either. The combination of the Voting Rights Act and GOP control of redistricting will keep Democrats in the minority in the House and Senate.
Democrats’ best access to power is statewide. And while some of its best and brightest are too liberal to be elected statewide, others could position themselves in the mainstream. State Sen. Michael S. Meyer von Bremen of Albany, a thoughtful and decent moderate Democrat, is abandoning his Senate seat to run for the Georgia Court of Appeals. His Senate colleagues, Tim Golden of Valdosta and Doug Stoner of Smyrna, could have statewide potential, along with U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon. Atty. Gen. Thurbert Baker and Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond have already won statewide.
After that the bench thins.
Among Republicans, the best news is not at the top of the Gold Dome power players. It is likely to be 2010 before Georgians can gain real relief for the frustrations wrought by the three-way personality conflicts and the incessant games that Cagle and House Speaker Glenn Richardson play. Nothing and nobody on the ballot this November represents a solution.
The solution, incidentally, is not to recreate the last years of the Roy Barnes administration when a dominant governor could assemble compliant House and Senate leaders behind closed doors and decide what both chambers would rubber stamp. Tension is needed. Competition, if it can’t be cultivated in one party, requires Georgians to look to the other.
But the competition should be purposeful, grounded in principle and built on policy disagreements. Is it better, for example, to offer tax relief across the board or to wage-earners via an income tax?
Republicans are still trying to decide as a governing party whether tax relief and spending discipline are good things; whether choice in education and health care are worth pursuing and whether leaders or lobbyists set agendas. Competition, as practiced here, is not purposeful and productive. It’s personal. Ego- and ambition-driven. Pointless.
Isakson’s appeal is that he’s knowledgeable and serious about public policy, has first-rate political skills and is, furthermore, a calming presence.
He would be seen as coming from outside the problem — something Oxendine offers as an argument for his candidacy. (Oxendine says, incidentally, that he’s often asked why he didn’t run for lieutenant governor two years ago if he wanted to be governor. His explanation is that he thought it would be immoral to run for one office determined to pursue another. Fortunately for the ambitious, that immorality — if that’s what it is — is not a jailable offense.)
The next governor needs a Newt Gingrich vision and the political skills to turn competition productive for the Georgians who aren’t represented by lobbyists. We need a place to go and a plan for getting there.
• Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column appears Friday, Sunday and Tuesday.
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By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this
Oh the irony:
{{{{Myanmar’s military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign.-Urinal}}}}
Did not the Urinal and it’s cohorts in the pinko media treat Katrina as a propaganda kampaign meant to regain their hold on power?
How is that any better than this goon dictatorship in Burma?
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{{{{Marines pursue Taliban, protect poppy- Urinal}}}}
Poppy being the opium crop not some old man.
Check this out; the libs whined when the Taliban were cashing in the poppies to fund terrorism, the libs whined when they thought the U.S. would force it’s way of life on the Afghans, the libs whined when the war against the Taliban disrupted the lives of the Afghan villagers and now they are whining because we are preventing the first three whines from happening.
It’s a vicious pinko circle jerk, with libs whining the whole time.
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{{{{Sadr says “open war” threat only against U.S. forces-April 25th}}}}
{{{{Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers killed approximately nine criminals and discovered weapons caches during night operations in Baghdad May 5-6.-May 6th}}}}
{{{{Sadr City cease-fire to begin today - Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire with militants fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City as the country’s army launched an offensive in Mosul against al-Qaida’s main bastion in Iraq. Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said the cease-fire will go into effect today.-Urinal, May 11th}}}}
Bwa.
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Hey, what do you know, the libs are finally supporting religion:
{{{{Several retired nuns who have been voting all their lives were prohibited from casting ballots in South Bend because they didn’t have proper ID. A couple of sisters showed expired passports, but the law doesn’t allow those, either.-Queen Pinko, Urinal}}}}
Let’s see, Indiana has an idiot dimokrat for governor, so he passed a voter driver’s license ID law instead of just a voter ID law.
Why would that be our fault?
Duh.
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So who is at fault here?:
{{{{Deputy’s gun fires in arrest attempt!!!!!!!!!-Urinal Blaring Headline}}}}
{{{{When the officer entered the apartment to confront the man in the incident, the man resisted arrest, police said. During the struggle, the man allegedly went for the officer’s gun. A shot was fired and hit the suspect in the foot.}}}}
FY AJC, POS, you can stick your wormy little war against those who protect us right up your as-s.
Mofo.
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Getting to know the KKKlintoons like we already do:
{{{{“It’s never gonna be the same, it’s never gonna be what it was,” Democratic strategist Dan Gerstein said. “The name is never gonna be hallowed the way it was in African American communities.”}}}}
{{{{The KKKlintons are still ruffling feathers. Bill Klux lashed out at a critic who challenged him and his “wife” on health care earlier this week in West Virginia. And after Bruno lost the North Carolina primary to Obama Tuesday by double digits, she turned to race as a way of explaining her electoral appeal.}}}}
{{{{Bruno loses about 90 percent of the black vote to Obama in just about every contest now, but she wasn’t always polling so low. A survey of black primary voters taken by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in October and November found that 51 percent viewed KKKlinton very favorably, compared with the 40 percent who viewed Obama the same way.}}}}
Nice people, aren’t they?
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
Jim has got his column all bas-sackwards today:
We need a place to go and a plan for getting there.
That was the very last sentence and it was proceeded by the only plan that should really concern the people of Georgia, this little jewel:
On the Democratic side, House Minority Leader DuBose Porter of Dublin, a 25-year-veteran, has a career decision to make. His life in the House gets no better; his party’s chances are nil of taking control of the House and elevating him to speaker. Over the next decade, the prospects don’t much improve, either. The combination of the Voting Rights Act and GOP control of redistricting will keep Democrats in the minority in the House and Senate.
This means that the State will be in the hands of sane, America loving normal people.
Who could ask for more than that?
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
Someone please speak to me! I’m a lonely old man with nothing better to do with my time than to namecall and fingerpoint!
I’m oh so lonely.
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this
I wonder how my sweetheart Bush is doing today?
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
I bet I’d get some attention if I were a mother!!
By George Washington
May 11, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
I’ve beem called a MFer many times, should I be getting flowers today?
By letsbefrank
May 11, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this
The governor is a self serving bone head that cannot keep the peoples needs above his own. He would let road builders pave right over the state house for another contribution. He thinks its 1953 and we just started the highway system and he wants to build all the 4 lane highways he can all over the state with 55mph speed limits to fund every small town speed trap in the state. Mass transit allows to much federal control and they would keep the gov and his buddies from all the free fishing trips etc. He and the worthless insurance commissioner allow the insurance companies to raise the rates on those who can least afford with a law which allows them to use credit rating in setting rates, and now he just passed another bill to stick it to the consumer with not one word from the worthless commissioner. This state is in for big trouble with the schools, water management that means praying for rain after stopping the reservoirs that were planned. Not to mention the giant parking lot in Atlanta that spreads every day. The governor and Oxywine both have the leadership ability of Elmer Fudd. Talk about stupid instead of having Kia build in the center of the state where there is a large river, he builds it on the Alabama border so half the jobs go to another state and where there is a major water crises. He needs to go back to Fuddsville and count the tax rebate he signed into law and the insurance commissioner needs to go to Allstate and State Farm and be their lap dog. He is supposed to be pro business and needs to start being that by taking care of the problems of the state and not juice up to payday loan scum.
By AJC Management's Name Jacker
May 11, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Someone please make everything stop! I’m a lonely old man with nothing better to do with my time than to whine about what other people are doing that I don’t approve of!
I want to be the Boss!!
Waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
P.S. AJC Management doings update: I am getting ready to go to church with the wife and mother, I read the Urinal litter box liner this morning and had some comments on the content.
So shoot me.
Look in the mirror wanker, you are the one with no life.
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Polly Basement Lurker: Can I get your approval to read Steve Chapman’s column on the Real Clear Politics website?
I wouldn’t want you to wet your panties or anything.
{{{{The last couple of months have been springtime in paradise for Republicans: the loveliest of all possible seasons. They have been watching two Democratic presidential candidates in an endless battle to destroy each other — a process that does not appear to enhance the chance that the eventual nominee will win in November.}}}}
Yes it has.
{{{{Currently, 69 percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is doing his job.}}}}
Good thing Bushie isn’t running this year, you reckon?
And by the way, I believe John McCain belongs to the 69 percent of Americans who disapprove of the way President Bush is doing his job.
{{{{Many Republicans see Barack Obama as the natural heir of George McGovern — an antiwar liberal with an avid but narrow base who is perfectly positioned to lose. They are also reminded of Michael Dukakis and his difficulty connecting with white males and working-class voters.}}}}
Many dimokrats see him the same way.
And worse.
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
{{{{Against trends like this, he strongly doubts that voters will put much weight on factors like Obama’s associations with radical preachers or his flag-free lapel. Thanks to the Democratic contest, those matters have been fully aired, without fatal effect, and they are likely to sound stale and irrelevant by November.}}}}
Whoop dee do, these issues survived the dimokrat primary where only voters who hate America just as much as Obambi does got to vote.
Wait till you see what we do to your Super Lib with them.
Can you say McGovekasis?
By George Washington
May 11, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Mr Obama has millions of little people digging deep into their pockets to send him 20 or so dollars per month….Hillary has maybe ten thousand rich fat cats who have already given the 2,000 plus dollars they are legally allowed to give her….Yet she complains she is being out spent by Mr. Obama…No Hillary, the little people are out spending your fat cats….IT WOULD BE AN INSULT TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SACRIFICED FOR MR OBAMA FOR HIM TO NOW GIVE MILLIONS OF THAT HARD EARNED MONEY TO HILLARY TO PAY OFF HER PERSONAL LOAN TO KEEP HER INSULTING CAMPAIGN GOING…NEVER….
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
{{{{Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American radical left group formed in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They took their name from the lyric “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” from the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. They also used this lyric as the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18th, 1969, as part of a special edition of New Left Notes. The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM’s Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other “anti-colonial” movements[1] to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.”}}}}
Well, how very delightful.
{{{{“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Weather Underground Founder Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”}}}}
{{{{Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.}}}}
Let’s get ready to ruuuuuummmmmbbbbbllllleeeee.
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
BERNARDINE DOHRN-
Leader of the domestic terrorist group Weatherman
Participated in the bombings of New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
Delighted in Charles Manson’s infamous murders
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942, Bernardine Dohrn is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University, where she is also Director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center. Moreover, she sits on important committees and boards of the American Bar Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.
A Chicago district attorney named Richard Elrod was seriously injured in the Weatherman riot that erupted during the Chicago “Days of Rage” in October 1969, and he was paralyzed for life as a result.
Law-enforcement authorities are still investigating a bombing in San Francisco that killed a policeman, for which Professor Dohrn is one of the suspects.
Can you say Eric Rudolph?
Michelle Obama and Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz were also original faculty members of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University
Ahh, Northwestern University, that name sounds familiar:
BERNARDINE DOHRN- Director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University
Let’s get ready to rrrrruuuuuummmmmbbbbllleeeee!!
By Devastator
May 11, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
AJC,
Go ahead and regurgitate the issues Obama has already overcome. If this is the best you have, then get ready for an Obama presidency in next year.
Yes we can!!!
By dirty harry
May 11, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
ajc management…..Have you ever THUNK that nobody bothers to READ your diatribes?
As McCain would say “My friend”..less is more!
By Attn: AJC Hall Monitors
May 11, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
A concerned citizen has a couple suggestions. PLEASE MONITOR! We concerned citizens prefer to read concise information even if some of it is hogwash and propaganda. Limiting blogs to fewer words would help, and probably give the perpetrators time to think MEDS!!!!!
By RW-(the original)
May 11, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Talk about change! Obama apparently thinks we have 62 states
There’s the 57 he’s campaigned in plus the one he hasn’t so far. That’s 58 and since he says his staff wouldn’t let him go to Alaska or Hawaii that’s 60. Now he’s told us all along he wouldn’t and didn’t go to Michigan and Florida so assuming he still recognizes them as states we now have the 62 United States of America.
Anybody care to name the 12 states Obambi has added? And this guy says McBushie has lost his bearings.
Geez
By George Washington
May 11, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
uh, exactly when will mah flowers be arriving?
By To AJC Management
May 11, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
While you’re at church with the wife and kids, I hope you take time to think through your anger management issues and whether or not the things you post are truly Christian. I fear for your family if you have this much hatred in your heart for those who have different outlooks on life. For their sake, please seek couseling.
By ron
May 11, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Good morning Jim,The next Governor of Georgia will probably be as ineffective as the present one.They’re all politicians and we just expect too much from them.It’s just not in a politician’s nature to be anything but self serving.People that can,do,and people that can’t,teach, or run for office.
By George Washington
May 11, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
Yo AJC clown: Exactly who are you muttering at? Ah’m just a MFer lookin’ ta score some free flowers on this day of days, sooner rather than later, so ah’s kin sell them off Ga 400 to some poor guy who fergot to git his wife some flurs….The first fifty bucks takes the dozen red roses with baby’s breath…..
By Jim
May 11, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
Mission Acomplished 4,000 +
By Winfield Scott
May 11, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
No more war for nuggets. Save the poultry NOW!
By Redneck Convert
May 11, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
Well, the missus about cleaned out the buffet this a.m. and now she’s snoring in a chair here at the trailer. I hope everybody has a good Mothers Day. We ain’t heard from Sister Dusty yet on account of her lunkhead sons are taking her out to lunch and mighty thankful she didn’t beat them any harder when they were growing up.
It looks like this AJC Management is spoiling for a good fight this a.m. I reckon he knows where his local recruitment office is. They can fix it up so he gets in a good one.
Anyhow, I’m for this Oxendine for guvner. The reason is because he knows how to do nothing good because he’s been doing it for the last ten years or so. He lets the insurance cos. charge whatever they want if they fork over money to his campaign. I figure we want the guvner to do as little as he can so he don’t do no damage to us, and Oxendine is the best at it I ever seen. Gov. Oxendine sounds fine to me. He would probly stay with prayer as the GA water plan too.
Have a good day everybody and don’t go trying to buy beer on my Sabbath. You know good and well you can’t be trusted not to get hornswoggled, so you’ll just have to drive to the bar or a eating place to get your booze and drive back home today. I bet Oxendine will keep out the Sunday beer sales like Old Sonny. His name sounds kind of Jewish, but I reckon he’s a good Southren Baptist.
By Glenn
May 11, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
First, a happy mother’s day to those who are mother’s. Irrespective of whether you know of or care about the fact, the fact remains: your maternal powers are the great prize in the war for power. You Rule!
Second, thank you Jim Wooten for this generous intelligence appreciation from the Front. (It’s of course even more than that; thanks all the more.) Also, I admire your several clear-eyed distinctions, which clear away much of the rhetorical kudzu that chokes the DNC-AJC.
One quibble: your overuse of the ultra-polticized word “choice” is starting to creep me out. With respect, Mr. Wooten, sometimes I wonder whether you aren’t using that word as something like a cheerful placeholder where actual thought and moral reflection should go. How, then, do you differ from the very young woman who “celebrates” the surgical scouring of her uterus as a salubrious exercise of her free “choice”?
Something of grave import and solemn responsibility, in both cases reduced to a Happy Meal.
And guess what: that which you call perental choice, I call the hope that a parent might one day select whether his daughter will be shot in the back of the neck with a .38, or a 9 MM.
By AmVet
May 11, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
Happy Mothers Day to all of you mothers and Frank Zappa fans out there!
letsbefrank scores a bullseye. The undeniable reality is that the far right-wing that has completely dominated the Republican Party for many years wishes it could turn back the clock to the “good old days”.
NEWT GINGRICH???
Our esteemed columnist has got to be shiite-ing…
Unless there is a new term that I’ve missed, called reactionary non-conservatism, other than in isolated pockets like here in the Moron Belt and Utah, etc… this ridiculous agenda has become generally irrelevant.
The evidence keeps mounting.
Even in a heavily “conservative” district in Louisiana a Democrat won yet another US House seat. And this in a district that the GOP had held for 34 years and voted for King George II at a 59% clip in 2004.
The victory in that special election was the second time in three months that a Democrat was elected to finish the term of a Republican who resigned from office.
Last month, a Democrat won the most votes and forced a runoff for a U.S. House seat in Mississippi that a Republican held for 13 years.
There are more VERY, VERY bad times ahead for the neo-cons.
Who may well lose another 15 US House seats or more in November. And perhaps 5 more US Senate seats.
And that is the BEST possible news for a country positively reeling from nearly eight years of the GOP’s near total incompetence, unmatched corruption and hubris and deadly mismanagement.
Though it is not 1932 and regrettably we have no FDR running, nonetheless Happy Days Are Here Again!
dirty harry, this and Luckovich’s blog ARE {{{Andy’s}}} life.
Let him have it. I’m fairly sure many more than don’t, do not wade through that vitriolic jibberish…
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
Good morning all. If Georgia Republicans had any brains, we would consider electing as our next governor a self-made millionaire, who has a history of running in state-wide campaigns. It would be helpful if the fellow was a smooth-talking intellectual type. If he were well known for his conservative beliefs, of course, that would be a huge plus. And, if he were African-American, that would be the cherry on the sundae. No, not Clarence, although he would be great, I was thinking about Herman.
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
And of course if I had any brains I would realize it is afternoon. Apologies for not knowing the difference.
Also, AJCM, good stuff, as always.
By Glenn
May 11, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
Why would we want an FDR? We’ve got two shysters to choose from as it is.
By Glenn
May 11, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this
Why would we want an FDR? We’ve got two shysters to choose from as it is.
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
Allow me to pass along a very timely sentiment from today’s service (no, you do not have to cover thee children’s ears, I will not be ranting about the KKK of A, you are thinking of a different church:)
To all of you mothers and grandmothers that have children or grandchildren serving our country in the military, either at home or away-
God Bless You.
May He fill the empty place in your heart with the comfort and blessing of the knowledge that you have a child so honorable that he would lay down his life for others, just as Jesus laid down His Life for all of us.
We are in awe of your sacrifice and we pray for the safe and quick return of your loved ones.
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To answer a few of the comments registered in my absence, let me just say that I think you should judge a man’s life not by the things that he says about himself but instead by the good deeds that he does.
That is why I believe that Obambi’s kandidacy is going to float like a lead balloon, he gushes forth like a gigantic gasbag with the most grandest of empty platitudes, he who is all for giving money to the poor and needy as long it is your money and not his, he who claims the call of Christ to love your fellow man, just as long as he’s black like he is.
I consider my comments to this blog to be good deeds. They are meant to be a public service to liberalism, after all, were it not for me, what else would these liberals have to whine about? Just think of all the help that I have provided to these poor souls, they do not have to read or educate themselves, wasting all that time, I bring directly to them an easily understood and somewhat compact synopsis of why they are so wormy, and they just take it from there.
You should be thankful for my efforts but, alas, it just proves that liberals, by nature, cannot be thankful for anything.
By Dusty
May 11, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
Oh…this is just the best weekend ever…I am having a good time. Maybe Jim Wooten won’t mind if I leave the politics to him. One reason being, I don’t know WHO or WHOM I would suggest for governor. I’ll just have to wait and probably depend on Jim for good advice.
But Mother’s Day..how great it is to have delightful children. Of course they are not perfect. Just fine citizens who make this family proud. They have made this a fun weekend. Louisiana fried shrimp outdoors yesterday at a lovely place, not to mention my favotite gift specialty, a bottle of Manichevitz!! My daughter loves to raid the drug store for things to make one sweet and smooth..Also flowers and chocolates and tonight an inhouse (our house) special ..roast chicken from Kroger with all the trimmings. It suits me just right.
But an outstanding hit..a card that says “When I need cheering up, calming down, or just a little extra Love…it’s MOM to the rescue!” Then the card actually plays the Lone Ranger’s theme song, William Tell’s overture no less. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
Thanks to AJCManagement for the good Mother’s Day thoughts and to all of you who are enjoying this day with your mother or your children. The sun is shining today in Atlanta for all of us, as it does on America. Hey, smile! We are the luckiest people in the world.
By Glenn
May 11, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
Happy Mother’s Day, Dusty!
You were a good sport to play along with the sibling rivalry gag, with jbm.
Mothers do rule.
THEY RULE
By catlady
May 11, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
Isakson a shoo-in for Governor? Who has been drinking the Kool-aid? He might have the greatest name recognition, but very few would have ever voted for him, given the immigration legislation debacle (and other reasons).
By catlady
May 11, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
Isakson a shoo-in for Governor? Who has been drinking the Kool-aid? He might have the greatest name recognition, but very few would have ever voted for him, given the immigration legislation debacle (and other reasons).
By AJC Management
May 11, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Regurgitated?
{{{{A survey released this month by the independent Pew Research Center found that most voters described Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, as “a centrist whose views are fairly close to their own,” even though McCain describes himself as a thoroughgoing conservative. The same voters described Obama as the most liberal of the candidates still in the race, well to the left of what they saw as the midpoint of American politics.}}}}
I don’t remember KKKlinton pointing out Obambi being a Super Lib, like we will be, after all, what is she?
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{{{{Although more than half of respondents said his race isn’t a factor in the election, many of those surveyed also said racially charged remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright will play an important role as they decide whom to support in the May 20 primary.}}}}
{{{{Wright’s remarks are important or very important to 43 percent of those polled. Among white voters, his statements were important to 46 percent, compared to only 11 percent of black voters.}}}}
{{{{“Race is still the elephant in the room, and the Rev. Wright issue hits at remaining racial prejudices and fears that people here might have,” said Saundra Ardrey, head of the political science department at Western Kentucky University.}}}}
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{{{{In Shepherdstown, Obama and Clinton supporters have withdrawn into such tight cliques that reconciliation seems unlikely, some of the women said. Obama supporters damage yard signs; Clinton supporters take their complaints about unruliness to the local press. When Clinton visited Shepherd University for a rally Wednesday, a dozen students showed up with Obama signs and chanted before Clinton took the lectern.}}}}
{{{{“I don’t recall any other primary where the other side has been a little bit abrasive like this,” said Bell, the retired lawyer from Shepherdstown. “That’s just their style, and it can sometimes come off as harsh.”}}}}
A house divided shall…….
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{{{{That’s a remarkable admission of a racialized “ends justify the means” morality. It helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to stick with a crackpot like Dr. Wright. It also might explain why an up-and-coming Barack Obama found nothing particularly wrong with rubbing political elbows with Bill Ayers, the Chicago university professor and onetime fugitive member of the revolutionary, communist Weather Underground.}}}}
{{{{It’s not “guilt by association” to inquire to what extent Mr. Obama – whose moral and political conscience was shaped by his education at elite universities, his street activism and his tutelage at Dr. Wright’s knee – shares the views and assumptions of the soixante-huitards. In terms of style, he’s plainly not one of them. But his deeply liberal voting record marks him as at least a fellow traveler. Besides, as Rolling Stone magazine put it last year in a sympathetic profile, Mr. Obama’s is “as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from.”}}}}
{{{{This may be of no matter to the left, but Mr. Obama is not running for mayor of Berkeley, president of Harvard or prime minister of The New York Times.}}}}
Let’s get ready to rrrruuummmmmbbbbllllleeeee!!!
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The libs ridiculing……themselves:
{{{{Terrifying? For all of the hullabaloo about radical right-wing evangelical power, they’re certainly acting fairly scattered, and they’re certainly not making a very big impact on the domestic front as of late. 40% of births in America are out of wedlock. Gay marriage thrives in Massachusetts. Evolution is still taught in schools, and, yes, “Gossip Girl” is still on the air. Secular America seems to be safe, sound, and thriving.}}}}
Huh, “right wing evangelicals” are responsible for out of wedlock births?
Hahahahaha, you libs are such dumbas-ses.
Look at it this way; 60% of births in America are in wedlock. That means that the “right wing evangelicals” are winning against the gay mongers, the family haters and all the other masses of left wing secular sicknesses that plague this great country.
And if we all agree that these are bad things to be happening to our society, then how would electing a secular liberal help matters any?
Duh.