Thinking Right

By NAFIZA

May 14, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

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By Rick

May 14, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

With McCain trying to appeal to liberals - rather than conservative - the GOP can write off the White House this election. They need to concentrate on the Congress - especially trying to keep at least 41 seats in the Senate so they can filibuster the horrible legislation that is sure to come up.

They need to come up with a new “Contract with America” that promises the following:

If they don’t… then the next two years may sound the death knell for the conservative movement in America. It may also put America into a tailspin from which it may never recover.

By WV Native

May 14, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

“Why did they have to run that N** for president?” Thus was my West Virginia uncle’s recent comment on the Democratic primary.

I know the state. I grew up in it. I’m still a property owner there. And believe me, Clinton’s victory in the primary had nothing to do with Thinking Right. Some people there have never met a black person. I can recall a classmate whose parents moved him from Front Royal, VA in the late fifties to avoid racial integration. I had never met a black person until I went off to military service. With only a 4% black population, the state is in many ways more suspicious of black people than any Southern state. Moreover, the lie that Obama is a Muslim has stuck with at least 50% of the state’s population.

The demographics of the state are ideal for Hillary Clinton—a largely poorly educated population with deep-seated racism.

Don’t make the mistake of attributing Hillary Clinton’s win yesterday to a conservative bent. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy are still worshipped in that state, and its population relies heavily on federal programs. It is heavily pro-union.

Call the victory what it is—a product of the purest form of racism. And that characteristic largely explains the loss of the last two Democratic presidential candidates in state voting.

By Rick

May 14, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

With McCain trying to appeal to liberals - rather than conservative - the GOP can write off the White House this election. They need to concentrate on the Congress - especially trying to keep at least 41 seats in the Senate so they can filibuster the horrible legislation that is sure to come up.

They need to come up with a new “Contract with America” that promises the following:

If they don’t… then the next two years may sound the death knell for the conservative movement in America. It may also put America into a tailspin from which it may never recover.

By Rick

May 14, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

With McCain trying to appeal to liberals - rather than conservative - the GOP can write off the White House this election. They need to concentrate on the Congress - especially trying to keep at least 41 seats in the Senate so they can filibuster the horrible legislation that is sure to come up.

They need to come up with a new “Contract with America” that promises the following:

If they don’t… then the next two years may sound the death knell for the conservative movement in America. It may also put America into a tailspin from which it may never recover.

By ron

May 14, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Good morning,Apparently no one has ever won the White House that didn’t win West Virginia.Let’s not be making history this year.

By zeke

May 14, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

No better way to say it! Left is wrong! Right is right! You are either an American with American values of indivudual rights, duties and freedoms, or, you are a leftist who dreams of turning the US into Cuba, Russia China, socialist Europe or Venezuela! Right is conservative, pro life small government! Left is big government , class warfare, multi cultural death of the American dream! McCain may not be the true conservative, but, in all respects he is a much better choice to preserve the America that has in a little over 200 years become the shinning city on the hill, the light of the world and the greatest country in recorded history! The socialist liberal dems want to change that, period!

By jbmlaw

May 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. One of the silliest lines of the campaign so far: “This is our moment to turn the page on the divisions and distractions that pass for politics in Washington.” As Jim properly notes, and as we discovered on yesterday’s blog, when Democrats and Republicans work together without divisions and distractions, they pass the bills on to us. If we wish to paralyze the overlords, we will need to elect more conservatives. Whether they are democrats or republicans makes little difference to me so long as the voting reflects the ideology.

Jim, you could have cited the democrat fellow who has so many consonants in his name. He ran against a Baton Rouge republican who had a friendly relationship with David Duke (sorta like Obama and the bullfrog.) The Louisiana democrat was more conservative than Saxbe Chamblis, although that may be true of John McCain.

I think the bigger issue is the one Dan Henninger disclosed last week in his regular column, the “end” of the culture wars, with unilateral surrender by the leftists. The normal democrats are beginning to discover that conservatism works, both in politics and in economics. Glenn, our ally-in-the-cultural-wars, suggests the new conservative democrats are dishonest, merely mouthing conservative platitudes for the sake of seizing the reins of power. He may be right, but I don’t think so. The democrats who run as conservatives uniformly seem to me to be decent people, not disingenuous at all. I am an amused that they have embraced the Reagan-era term for conservative democrats, “Blue Dogs.”

By Mike in MS-01

May 14, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Correction — Childers won 54 to 46. +8 in a district that was +24 for Wicker the last time. The vote was as much against the sleazy polarizing right wing campaign of Davis as it was for Childers. People are tired of the republican partisanship. The days of Karl Rove are over. Childers message although conservative, aligns with Obama’s - He’ll work with both parties, for the ordinary folks of MS. It’s obvious now that using liberal as a curse word won’t work any more. Just wait until the fall when Obama’s unity message, and organization have had a chance to build. The republicans will be in big trouble unless they throw out the old playbook.

By arman d

May 14, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Zeke:

You are truly a retard. Please never vote or have kids. But hey, at least you have an open mind! Go America!!!!!

By Copyleft

May 14, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Wishful thinking, Mr. Wooten. Obama has already won by being—as you call it—“ultra-liberal” (HAH!), and McLame… well, you really don’t want to talk about him, do you?

By Aquagirl

May 14, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

This is the ultimate no-win situation. If Obama is elected, we’ll spend four years with an empty suit in the White House. If he’s not, we’ll spend four years (likely more) enduring pantywaist hand wringing over “racism” in America. Either way, I’m buying stock in earplugs.

By A TRUE American

May 14, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

I have an idea. How about we get someone, anyone in office that can fix the giant screw up that we have now? I don’t care about religion, color, gender or party alliance.
I just want it FIXED!!!

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

This column should be called “Knee Jerk to the Right.” I am so going to enjoy watching the former middle class clowns, who support woodenhead’s racist columns, as their world crashes around them….Already in my upper middle class neighborhood, there have been at least seven 40 to 50 something executive types who have lost their jobs in the last three months…these are MBA’s, stinking lawyers, and executives in what should have been the peaks of their careers…Meanwhile, the lying scum bags in the guv are using slick willie and easy Al’s lies to fake the CPI at 3.9% when it truth it is running at ~12%. Saves the guv money on social security and guv pensions, but at the cost of letting inflation gain a strong foothold, not to mention cheating the retiree’s, but that is ok with woodenhead, as long as he and his pals ain’t cheated. Everyone, take one step to protest the lying cheating woodenhead - Cancel any and all subscriptions to the ajc, NOW.

By Redneck Convert

May 14, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Well, we had a good time at the trailer last night. The Rev. Jim Bob Buice dropped by and talked with me and Jim Earl and Joe Bill. The Rev. Jim Bob can’t come by too much no more on account of the state won’t let him be around kids. They still hold it against him just because he was trying to rescue that nekkid boy and took his clothes off so they wouldn’t get dirty in the bushes. Anyway, my dotter had took little Sonny Zell George on a trip so no kids were at the trailer.

I see even this Clinton woman looks good to WV people compared to this Obama guy. It just goes to show that when people get in a voting booth the ones with any sense won’t vote for one of Those People. Just wait and see, people will vote for McCain over Obama even if McCain is a librul. Leastwise his skin is white, what part of it don’t have cancer or liver spots.

I’m downright ashamed of the people of MS. What kind of prevert would vote for a Democrat when there’s a godly Republican on the ballot? People let little things like high gas prices and no jobs and high food costs and the war costs turn them against Republicans. Like Sister Dusty says, they are all Traders.

Have a good day everybody.

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Jim, a humble suggestion, for the evening and overseas editions: go with your original heading, “Hillary Says a True Thing”.

Aquagirl isn’t doing a very good Aquagirl today.

Just heard that a second cyclone is headed for Burma, this one of windforce coup de grace.

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

The wsj is spreading lies today — they want the traitor johnathan pollard released from his prison cell….they claim he only gave israel intelligence information they were legally entitled to have….what they do not say is that pollard stole a complete list of all american spies in the former soviet union, and gave this list to the Mossad for 50,000 dollars and a promise of more to come. The mossad then sold the list of our spies to the KGB in exchange for allowing a few russian jews to immigrate to israel. All of our spies, and every member of their families were arrested, tortured, and executed. After that got out, NO one was willing to spy for us in Russia, for any amount of money. Pollard should be hung, as should all Israel’s who helped him, and to be fair, every member of their family.

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi

By Reid Wilson

In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.

Voters cast ballots for the fourth time in three months for the seat, vacated when Republican Roger Wicker was appointed to fill the remainder of Senator Trent Lott’s term. After winning the primary and the runoff election, Childers came within 410 votes of winning the first round of the special election against Davis on April 22, beating the Republican by a 49%-46% margin.

Last night, Childers, a conservative Democrat, again outperformed Davis in many rural counties. Childers did better than in April in eighteen out of twenty four counties, while he underperformed in just two counties. Childers held steady in three of the remaining counties, while Winston County produced just ten votes. Most importantly, Childers held firm in Lee County, the district’s largest and home to Tupelo, winning 58% of the vote, while improving his showing in DeSoto County, Davis’s home field. Childers won 25% of the vote in DeSoto County, better than his anemic 17% showing in April.

The results came despite national Republican efforts aimed at winning the seat. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, former Senator Trent Lott and Governor Haley Barbour campaigned hard for Davis. On Monday, perhaps as an unfortunate measure of how Republican the district really is, Vice President Dick Cheney held a rally for Davis. Closing the gap in DeSoto County, said Childers pollster John Anzalone, was crucial. “All we were looking to do was to cut the margins there,” he said.

The loss has already shaken establishment Republicans in Washington. After losing special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, the House GOP conference already expects a bad year for their party. But those two districts voted for President Bush by eleven and nineteen points, respectively, not by a whopping twenety five points. “People are going to want change,” said a top aide to a leading House Republican. “The excuses, that [Davis] didn’t have the resources or that he wasn’t from the right part of the district, that’s just not going to hold up.”

In the earlier special elections, Republicans blamed their candidate — businessman Jim Oberweis in Illinois and former state legislator Woody Jenkins in Louisiana — for the party’s loss. As polls showed Davis losing to Childers, national Republicans began to signal they would blame Davis for being from the wrong part of the district.

But instead of blaming Davis, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole issued a surprisingly blunt statement about his party’s own chances, coming a week after a national poll showed Democrats leading Republicans by a wide 50%-32% margin on generic congessional ballot tests. “Tonight’s election highlights two significant challenges Republicans must overcome this November,” Cole said. “First, Republicans must be prepared to campaign against Democrat challengers who are running as conservatives, even as they try to join a liberal Democrat majority. Though the Democrats’ task will be more difficult in a November election, the fact is they have pulled off two special election victories with this strategy, and it should be a concern to all Republicans.”

“The political environment is such that voters remain pessimistic about the direction of the country and the Republican Party in general,” Cole continued. “I encourage all Republican candidates, whether incumbents or challengers, to take stock of their campaigns and position themselves for challenging campaigns this fall by building the financial resources and grassroots networks that offer them the opportunity and ability to communicate, energize and turn out voters this election.”

Still, losing heavily Republican seats in the Deep South is a big blow to the Washington GOP. “To lose two Southern seats in two weeks, I mean, oh my God,” the leadership aide said. The aide told Real Clear Politics that something new is going to happen at the NRCC. “People look at Cole, and they say, ‘What are you going to do to change?’ And if he doesn’t want to change, change is going to be forced on him.”

A top adviser to a Republican incumbent who has a difficult race in November already says his boss is not looking to the NRCC for the same help he got in 2006. “This chairman badly underestimated how important it is to have top-flight staff,” the adviser said, adding that some NRCC staffers are “toiling” under supervisors with less campaign experience. “We had been planning all along to operate without much help from them.”

The leadership aide suggested that a former NRCc chairman, Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, could take on a larger role in the coming months. Davis, who is retiring after this session of Congress, ran the committee earlier this decade and currently serves as chairman of the NRCC executive committee. The adviser suggested, instead, that the wounded NRCC presents an opportunity for other members of the caucus to help out their fellow Republicans with political action committee donations, setting up future advancement for themselves.

While Republicans faced a renewed crisis of confidence Tuesday, Democrats celebrated what they said was another failed GOP angle of attack. “These are districts we have no business playing in,” said Anzalone, who polled for Democratic winners in both Louisiana and Mississippi. “In ten days, you have two candidates who were attacked at high levels with [Barack] Obama and [the Rev. Jeremiah] Wright, and Nancy Pelosi and all that, and in neither place it worked.” National Republicans ran advertisements slamming Childers for associating with Obama, forcing the conservative Democrat to respond with an advertisement asserting he had never met the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

Both parties spent heavily on the district. The NRCC spent at least $1.29 million on the seat, according to Federal Election Commission reports released yesterday, while the DCCC expended $1.84 million in the same race. Democrats point out that, as reported on Politics Nation earlier this week, Freedom’s Watch, a group that backs Republican candidates, spent another approximately $500,000 on the seat. Adding insult to injury, Davis, the losing Republican, outspent Childers by a little less than a two-to-one margin. Through April 23, Davis had raised $876,000 and spent $803,000; Childers had raised just $485,000 and spent $419,000.

With more than $44.3 million in the bank after the end of March, Democrats can afford that kind of expenditure in a special election. But with only $7.2 million on hand, the NRCC will not be able to sustain that kind of spending in the future. After spending millions in the three losing special elections, the NRCC is likely to face seriously disappointing fundraising reports for the next several months.

As Childers heads to Washington in the next several days to take the oath of office, Republicans now find themselves at a 37-seat disadvantage in Congress. And with a difficult election coming in November, one in which they will likely find themselves financially and politically outgunned, national Republicans are already making plans for the future. No one, though, is likely to try to force leadership changes before November. “I don’t imagine anyone running against Chairman Cole,” the adviser to the endangered Republican said. “Because Who would want this job?”

By Lily Toad

May 14, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Scrappy Lad(y) wins hardscrabble state. Suddenly Wooten is a Hillary supporter. Go figure.

By Pagan Poster

May 14, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Very humorous that Jim refers to a “broken record” when most folks haven’t listened to vinyl in decades. Jim IS just another broken record destined for the junk pile or local Goodwill store. From the tone of some posters, they long for the dinosaur days, too.

Welcome to the 21st Century ya’ll! I like to look at the dinosaurs at Fernbank, but don’t find them very relevant in my day-to-day life…kind of like broken, scratched, and not-very-good-to-begin-with broken records like Wooten. Go wrap yourself up in confederate flag, loser.

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the Chandra Press Office at 617-496-7998 or e-mail mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu. Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

The object is a Black Hole, and it was discovered at 1600 Pennsavania Avenue, and goes by the name CONDI

By getalife

May 14, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

gop are 0 for 3 in the reddest districts in this country.

Its the change they deserve.

Losers.

They should go the way of the whig party.

By Peter

May 14, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Gee “Global Warming:” is REAL according to Bush……

Wow the guy woke up fell off the bed on the WRONG side, and realized he has been lying to US all along!

Gotta love this administration, he probably did more to ruin the environment in 8 years, and now he is saying “Global Warming” is real!

HA HA HA…….. and you WRONGS believe what he says…..

Yes Jim, The message for the general election: Think Right, Move Right.

WRONG JIM!

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Not really, jbm, my friend. I’m a cheap-seat fan of conservative Democrats. Wish they’d field more of them. (It occurs to me that conservative Democrats come by their “identifications” at least as honestly as Barack Obama comes by his.) It’s the Democrats posing as this or that whom I can’t abide.

For that matter, fully 98.9 percent of us voters can’t abide les poseurs, of any political identity. That great scientific discovery—-for which, as we know, The American Pie Institute shares Nobel honors with L’Institut Poseur—-has yet to revolutionize “The Media”, however, and quite understandably not: in the face of this breakthrough discovery, “The Media” would have to craft something like the notional “Press”, of which the Founding Fathers sometimes spoke, to distinguish for voters the real from the fake; and since, as we see, “The Media” are in the business of fakery, who worse to ask?

But seriously (as the preceeding paragraph was of course mere jest—-hoo-hoo, ha-ha!), I just really think that the powers that be in the Democratic Party have no real idea what conservatism is, and therefore regard it, when they really, really have to, as either (a) the understandably primitive and yet unenlightened state of their own parents or grandparents, or else as (b) a pollster’s datum which sometimes must be acommodated in the longer-term interest of the Rule of Superior Expertise. Meaning liberalism.

By V Racer

May 14, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Sure, some democrats will not vote for Obama because he is black. Others will not vote for him because of his ties to bomb throwing Ayers. Many will not vote for him because of his 20 yr advisor, the looney Rev. Wright. Untold legions of women will not vote for him because of the Hillary feud. Those aware of Illinois coruption and Renko will walk away. Those concerned with our national security will not vote for this white flag tosser. The list goes on and on. Democrats are too smart to put party before country.

By dirty harry

May 14, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Several days ago DUSTY the soothsayer made this brilliant assertion..

“But you are typical of the twisted left. Still sulking over your losses, still losing, and set up for another loss.”

0-3 Dusty and still counting!

Oh! How sweet it is.

By Copyleft

May 14, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

If you want a real laugh, GWashington, go check out the Luckovich blog.

A right-wing headcase there is actually trying to claim that the Republicans’ LOSS in Mississippi is actually a WIN for the GOP—and that the Democrats would be better off if they’d lost! LOL!

I hope they cling to that sort of rationalization when lose everything this November; it’ll help to pretend that they “actually won.”

By JK

May 14, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Haha! Good point, Peter!

Actually, I was going to suggest to Mr. Wooten that he and his fellow enablers of disaster and failure MOVE OVER. Step away from the car and climb in the trunk. You’ve jumped enough curbs and slammed us into enough trees; you don’t get to drive anymore.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Well. What a morning. I started off my day with another nice relaxing walk through the woods (no gas required since the National Forest is about 500 ft away from my house) so I could enjoy nature and forget about the things in life that suck. Then I had to go and spot a tick crawling on me. That sucked because it reminded me of the world’s blood-suckers. Those are the really greedy folks in the world — the ones that just never seem to have enough. Of course, that line of thought led me right to our elected officials, as usual. These are the people that pretend to care about others during election campaigns. Once they get elected, they commence with their normal ways — sucking, blood-sucking, that is — until there is just nothing left to suck. Even after there’s nothing left, they want more. So, they devise a plan to feed their greed. They call this plan the “Economic Stimulus Plan”. Our elected officials borrow money to fund their plan, spend a fortune telling us all about this great stimulus plan, send out checks or direct deposits of $0.01 to $1200.00 a month after most hard-working people just finished forking over the same amount to the IRS, send out another letter telling you about why you got what you got, and then go on an advertising binge nationwide telling us about the great stimulus checks while simultaneously telling us that the economy is resilient or great, or going through a rough patch, etc. Well, I’m rightly thinking that the right move for me is to not vote for any more stinkin’ Democrats or Republican unless they have been pre-approved by someone like Ron Paul or Bob Barr. After all, I can get all the blood suckers I can handle by just walking in the woods, free of charge. I think I’ll pack up some of those ticks in with that quart of blueberries, once they get ripe, before I send them over to Dusty’s workplace. That’ll be a lot easier than trying to keep that family of black bears calm enough to transport.
In the meantime, our elected officials need to sit back and recollect a basic lesson passed on primarily as a side note from parent to sibling while the school of hard knocks was in one of it’s sessions — you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.

You all have a good day and remember to avoid hiking along creeks during times when they may be more prone to flooding.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 14, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

That’s a pretty funny spin, but here’s what really happened in Miss: Another politician won by pandering to the base. Yawn.

Anywho, if you want an interesting read, check out Maria’s blog today about the transportation policy lunch at gppf. The bottom line, delivered to a crowd of pavers, was that they aren’t the solution…and that they are basically the problem.

The solution is mass transit, and increased mass transit funding. Unfortunately, Atlanta has been suffering through a major lack of vision and leadership on this topic over the years. It’s unfortunate, but it’s what we got.

Sorry Jim. Hope your commute was good today.

By Curious Observer

May 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Wooten and his supporters still don’t get it. They think that somehow voters are looking for even stronger conservatism than we have now. In their minds, astronomical gas and food prices, millions of jobs shipped overseas, and a useless war that is draining our treasury and forcing us to borrow hundreds of billions have nothing to do with voters’ preferences this year.

They had better get used to being on the losing side. When 80% of voters say this country is on the wrong track, the sensible response is not to keep the throttle wide open and continue to head down that track. Voters are looking for a change in direction. Republicans are resisting that change. By January 2009, there may even be a veto-proof majority in power.

Keep whistling while you’re walking through that cemetery on a dark night, Wooten. Ignore all those Democratic ghosts scrambling out of those graves.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 14, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

Nice post…but I’d check your support of Barr if I were you.

Libertarians wouldn’t have national parks…they’d be privatized. That park would either become a mining operation, industrialized, be littered with billboards and Wendy’s, or ringed with fences and toll stations (then you’d be paying cash to get bloodsuckers on you)

I dobut that would happen (that Barr will get elected or that the US will be struck by a sudden urge to go Libertarian), but you should know just the same.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Cherry Picker has done gone and made my morning even worse than it already was given those images of blood sucking elected officials. He had to go and talk about mass transportation. Now I have images of of blood sucking elected ones like Cagle and Chambliss (to name just two) attaching themselves to unsuspecting commuters on a rail line running from the State Capitol to Athens to Gainesville and on to DC after transferring MARTA to Amtrak. After all, it’s those people that give mass transportation a bad name.

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Oh my goodness, dirty harry is at it again. I wish someone would “make his day” ‘cause he hasn’t had a good one in a long time.

Twisted left still sulking, yep. Poor old Gore of the Clinton Club. He lost and the Dems put on sackcloth & ashes, recounts, Supreme Court decisions and THEY STILL LOST. Then the poor losers attacked Bush.

Comes the next election, with pitiful Democrat Kerry, the flip flopper, purple ribboned, medal thrower and enemy cotalker. Of course he lost the election. More tears, excuses, Bush bashing and lamentations by Dems.

Now appears power driven Hillary and Obama of the bad companions & no experience. They propose “change” to wartime desertion, higher taxes, and every give away program a liberal could dream up. LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO LOSE AGAIN.

So, Harry, you asked for it and there it is. Don’t bother with “I know a bad Republican”. Who cares? You’ve got Spitzer among others.

Buzz off, baby!! Here’s a Kleenex.

By Lily Toad

May 14, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Untold legions of women will not vote for him because of the Hillary feud Wrong! Women who support Hillary, unless they are racist, will vote for Obama. I know this because I fall in Hil’s demographic. The white women I talk to who prefer Clinton will all vote for Obama in the fall, except for my mother who won’t vote for a black man.

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

By TW

May 14, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Think Right, Move Right

Uneducated old white folks have done enough, Jim, the least of which is ‘think’.

Yesterday’s inbred chorus from West Virginia carried the same sounds that have given us eight years of ‘w’.

Keep doing what you’re doing, keep getting what you got…

Stupid is as stupid does…

etc. etc.

By Mid-South Philosopher

May 14, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Good mid-day, Jim,

Sorry I didn’t get on here sooner, but I am doing my part to shore-up the Bush economy. Grandma has to have some gas money…second mortgage looming!!!

With respect to this ridiculous election season, I keep having a sickening suspicion that Hillary Clinton will pull-off an upset in the final stages of this primary campaign! It seems impossible, unless you consider that she is the same woman who made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in the stock market, identified a vast right-wing conspiracy when the rest of us thought that Monica’s dress held all the essence, and succeeded in getting Ann Coulter to switch from the Republican Party (wink, wink, nod, nod).

The bottom line is this. George W. Bush has been such a cluster …disaster that the Democratic candidate, whoever that may be, will saunter into the White House next January 20….unless…there is another significant fanatic Islamist act of terrorism on the homeland prior to November 4!

McCain is the real loser in all of this. He was cheated out of the primary nomination by Georgie in 2000, and, it looks like that Crawford, Texas excuse for a cowboy will get to “gore” (pardon the pun) Johnny one more time.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Well, Cherry Picker. Are you just set on ruining all my thoughts for the day. You see, I thought that one of the few good things the Republicans did was to shift more of the cost of park use on to those that use them. If you’re telling me that the Libertarians are going to sell off the parks to the oil companies or something (I thought that was a Republican philosophy), then I’m going to need to have a long talk with Mr. Barr. But, if you’re telling me that the Libertarians and Republicans agree that the park services, like camping, dining, fishing, etc., should be privatized, then I’m OK with that — as long as none of them gets in my way while I’m picking blueberries. After all, I don’t expect other folks to pay for me to have fun just like I don’t want to pay for them to have fun. When I’m looking to have fun and I’m also paying for it, I find that I have more fun when I pay less for the fun I’m supposed to be having. Hiking is fun.

By Aquagirl

May 14, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

What do the Clintons have on Obama? Plenty, I’m sure. Rezko is a creepy dude with abundant ties to all sorts of politicians.

What do they want because of it? Power, they’re politicians. Was that a trick question?

How will the DNC…etc. blame its disclosure on the GOP? I’m not sure it’s the DNC doing the blaming, I think it’s more Obama supporters. Somehow, covering Wright’s nutty meltdown became an anti-Obama plot. The Trilateral Commission will surely be mentioned next.

Was that a little more aquatic for you, Glenn?

By dirty harry

May 14, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Dusty, The supreme court stopped the recount and awarded the most incompetent buffoon who’s ever graced the cover of “Mad Magazine” the presidency of the U.S.

and what is all this GIBBERISH…

“Comes the next election, with pitiful Democrat Kerry, the flip flopper, purple ribboned, medal thrower and enemy cotalker”

Remember this…Kerry did his tour…Your incompetent Buffoon went AWOL, did not take his annual flight physical and was removed from flight status. Only his daddy saved his sorry butt from being court martialed!

As to Spitzer a governor; I’ll raise you four. Could do more but for now how about … Mark Foley, Vito Fosella, David Vitter, Newt Gingrich.

And last but not least

The score is still 0 to 3…and, come November your party will be STEAMROLLED!

By Dickens on Wooten

May 14, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?

By Peter

May 14, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Bush has “FLIP FLOPPED” on Global Warming Folks…..

Now I wonder what data he is changing from our national scientists, about Global Warming ?

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Lets all hope Woodenhead and his ilk git to enjoy the benefits of the work house up close and persoanl like….

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

More aquatic; buy not much more girlish than your 9:48 use of “pantywaist” as an adverb.

So do you think the Clinton play is (a) to shake down Obama for VP in exchange for silence; (b) to shake down the Party for Sen. Leader in exchange for melting away; or (c) to get the donors to keep Hillary in the nomination wings until Obama can be taken out as soon as the Clintons manage the disclosure with sufficient cut-outs, proxies, surrogates, AJCs, etc.?

Which is to say, instead of having columnists keep saying “how” she can stay in (today, in view of W. Va), let us ask, why is she staying in?

Power? What power? Which power?

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Dirty Harry@12:09 we know. We know. The Supreme Court was wrong, the voters were wrong, Democrats are angels and Republicans are crooks,nobody served in Viet Nam but Democrats, Bush didn’t fly a National Guard plane, and best of all.. Dem politicians et al are pure as the driven snow. Whoopee!!

Somebody said “There’s a fool born every minute” and most of them grow up to be liberal Democrats.

By Blain W.

May 14, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

I celebrate the arrogant libs calling hard-working americans redneck racists. It’ll do your presumptive candidate in come November.

In Arizona, Clinton won the white vote by 53-38 (she won Latinos 55-41.) In Florida, Clinton won whites by 53-23 (she won Latinos by 59-30). In Indiana, Clinton won whites 60-40. In Massachusetts, Clinton won whites 58-40 (she won Latinos 56-36). In Rhode Island, Clinton won whites 63-37. In New Jersey, Clinton won whites 66-31.

Face it! It’s the white democrats who are the racists.

Simply put, arrogant libs are against hard-working americans. Libs want to feel better about themselves. The dem party heaps loads of guilt on their voters, and they, in turn, eagerly give to the government seeking absolution.

Hard-working americans are against arrogant, guilt-ridden libs AND the government.

Enough said!

By Peter

May 14, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Dusty the thief is stealing time from her government job, and expressing her Lemming desires…….so let’s ask her a question…..

Go Dusty…….Please tell us what you think about BUSH “flip Flopping” on Global warming.

Have you got a lemmings insight to why he claimed it wasn’t real before, but now says it is REAL ?

By dirty harry

May 14, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Dusty…Dusty…Dusty…

Calm down…No one is saying what you said @ By Dusty

May 14, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

What I said is Bush did not take his annual flight physical..Now, why don’t you ask JBMLAW what would happen to “THE ENSIGN” if he chose not to show up for his physical.

Your other point about the supreme court.

I Thought you were a STATES RIGHT republican..So how can you be for the Supreme court stopping the Florida recount and awarding the “INCOMPETENT” the presidency?

By the way the voters did make their voices heard by a 500,000 majority GORE was elected.

I’ve got better things to do then argue with an air head like you.

BYE!

By Mid-South Philosopher

May 14, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

One of the news channels just reported that Barrack Obama stated that he has visited 57 states during this campaign (not counting Alaska and Hawaii) and has one more state to go!

A follow-up report alleged that Obama attributed his error to exhaustion.

Godfrey Daniels!!! If the man can’t keep up with the number of states in the Union, how in the he*l is he going to keep up with the numbers and letters in the nuclear launch code!

McCain may be old, but I bet he isn’t that tired!

By HECKler

May 14, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Aquagirl has been reading “The Smirking Chimp.”

The Board Game Conspiracy.

Too convoluted to be believed.

By Aquagirl

May 14, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Glenn, I believe you’re right, I’d pick (b), personally as the main reason Hillary is still in the race. I’m not sure she’ll be shaking anyone down for top spots, they tend to go to those with power. Like it or not, she’s had a lot of people vote for her, that translates into political power, even when you don’t win.

I would agree with (c) but it presupposes the Clintons are behind dirt thrown at Obama. There were questions about Rezko and Wright long before this campaign. Obama stepped into the spotlight, increased attention from all directions is perfectly normal, not a vast Clinton conspiracy. It’s not a bad strategy for her, or the Democratic party for that matter to wait and see if Obama strangles himself. Against a more seasoned political opponent it would make less sense.

I personally like “pantywaist” as a modifier, it conveys the absolute fragility of some PC types.

By DebbieDoRight

May 14, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Interestingly in West Virginia, half of the voters polled believe Obama shares, to some degree, the views of the Rev. Jermiah Wright. Six of seven of those voted for Hillary.

Which just goes to show you that what they say about that coal dust affecting brain cells are correct.

Obama was raised by a white woman; with white grandparents in Hawaii and Kansas. People love to point towards the amount of melanin but not the most important fact — his character.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

I’m still amazed at the number of people that still use the “Republican” and “Democrat” labels to describe people and their beliefs. That is just plain silly. I mean there are liberal, gay, atheist Republicans and fiscal-conservative, pro-business, Christian Democrats out there. Then, there is Dusty. Some say she is a missing link. I think she’s a missing chain. GW is just plain confused. One day he wants to bridge the party divide and just get along, the next day it seems like there’s no one left for him to put on that list of the Axes of Eevillll. He just needs to make up his mind — get in the closet and shut the door or come on out. One or the other. Enough with the lame attempts at compromising. Stand on one side of the door jamb or the other before someone slams the door in your face and you get hurt. At least, that’s my interpretation of that old saying my mom would use after a little fuss -“Don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out.”

By JK

May 14, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Mid-South, I have a question for you: Do you think it’s possible for any human being to run for national office in this country (where it takes months or years longer than in some places), campaining steadily 16-20 hours a day, seven days a week for months on end, changing times zones, sleeping little, eating on the run, and giving literally THOUSANDS of interviews and speeches, and NOT SAY SOME STUPID SH-T at some point? Personally, I don’t think it’s possible, nor do I remember a serious presidential candidate who didn’t. Can you name one?

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Well, as Dirty Harry fades into the Dem sunset and Peter Rabid discovers Bush is NOT running again, I am delighted that Mid South Phil has discovered that McCain is not that old.

McCain is old enough to have good sense and good experience! I am expecting MidSouth Phil to vote for him. There will be no other nominee to compete with those qualifications.

By DebbieDoRight

May 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

In Arizona, Clinton won the white vote by 53-38 (she won Latinos 55-41.) In Florida, Clinton won whites by 53-23 (she won Latinos by 59-30). In Indiana, Clinton won whites 60-40. In Massachusetts, Clinton won whites 58-40 (she won Latinos 56-36). In Rhode Island, Clinton won whites 63-37. In New Jersey, Clinton won whites 66-31.

Blaine: Three quick points. a) Where did you get those demographics from? Faux News? b)Did you ever notice that there are more people in America than white people? c)Ever notice how the majority of Latinos vote democrat — and how they are incredibly loyal to the party?

C U in ‘08!!

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

I wonder how many women dusty has murdered by marking their pap smears “normal” so she could hurry back to this blog to post her right wing hate speach….Dusty: Thief and Murderer

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Dear Taxpayer@1:30

Have no worries. I am pure gold aka a righteous Republican. It doesn’t get any better than that and I am proud to be one.. A rose by any other name will still be a sweet conservative.

By the way, you can relax about President Bush. He isn’t running again. The news must be a little slow up there in the mountains.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 14, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I think you have a pretty common point of view on that, but what you’re doing is equating value with people’s willingess to pay.

Does that mean that Fifty Cent or Snoop Dog are of more value to our society than Yo Yo Ma or the ASO? The rap stars sure make more money.

Or are Six Flags and Disney to be valued more than Yellowstone and Mt. Pisgah? The theme parks make more money.

Bratz dolls make more money than the Girl Scouts, but what’s the more constructive option for young girls?

Societal value cannot be bottom-lined by who’s willing to pay. There are things in our society that we all benefit from, but that we might not be inclined to pay for on an individual basis. If that were the case, your park would most certainly be more profitable if it were being logged and stripped of it’s resources. Casual use fees like hiking could never match the true value of those natural resources.

By George Washington

May 14, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

I have been to west virginia: the people are OLD, poorly educated, religious to the extreme, and dirt POOR. No wonder they are wowed by slick willie’s wife…she uses big words and talks about giting them stuff for free, like health care, food stamps, SSI, welfare, and unemployment benefits. The hag cannot deliver on any of these promises, but she sounds good to the ignorant mountain folks…..If you think rural Alabama is bad, you will think west virginia is Alabama after world war III….a junk car in every yard….

By Peter

May 14, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Well, as Dirty Harry fades into the Dem sunset and Peter Rabid discovers Bush is NOT running again, I am delighted that Mid South Phil has discovered that McCain is not that old.

McCain is old enough to have good sense and good experience! I am expecting MidSouth Phil to vote for him. There will be no other nominee to compete with those qualifications.

Qualifications include picking the right people to work with…..

John McCain says he’s a defender of democracy. But the folks running his campaign have been playing for the other team.

Two of John McCain’s senior campaign staff were forced to resign this week after revelations that their lobbying firm was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to represent Burma’s brutal military dictatorship.

And it gets worse—turns out this goes all the way to the top. Charlie Black, McCain’s campaign chairman, ran a lobbying firm that represented brutal dictators like Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire—along with terrorist rebel Jonas Savimbi in Angola. Together, these men have been responsible for massive human suffering.

And for good measure, Charlie Black has represented war profiteer Blackwater Worldwide and Iraqi fraudster Ahmed Chalabi.

Yes he is the guy we want Bilking America, as the next Republican President…… WRONG !

By ncgreybr

May 14, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Don’t ya just love it when a Democrat wins and Jim tries to spin it so that it’s a Republican victory!

By candide

May 14, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

The only thing Obama can do is to make a basic change. He cannot change his race but he can change his gender.

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

George Washington@1:45

I’m beginning to think YOU need a Pap smear. Something is amiss.

Hate is a bad word, George. I don’t hate you. You are just a plain old dunce. That only inspires compassion.

Now, hang in there. As Jim Wooten wrote: Think Right! Move Right! Don’t get left behind.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Cherry Picker,

I’m not sure I follow where you are going with your comments. I live next to the Chattahoochee National Forest. As far as our mis-use of land goes, it’s got quite a history. First of all, most of the land was logged. The really old trees are rare but there are a few left. Then, of course, there was the gold rush. The 17 acres that I own still has remnants of one of the smaller scale train tracks that ran alongside the branch that cuts through our property. The whole area around us was “mined” for gold. Chunks of quartz were blasted out using dynamite and water and the remnants were mounded up with the washed out clay to form many of the rolling hills. Mercury was used by the tonne to strip out the gold fines that could not be more economically extracted using other methods and spillage was left to settle into the ground and water. The raped land is slowly recovering and is still logged but not as heavily as it once was. It probably just isn’t as profitable as it was back when there was an abundance of readily accessible old-growth trees. The profitable minerals — gold, silver, copper, asbestos, etc. — are either long since mined out or are no longer considered worth extracting. You didn’t really think that a truly valuable resource would be left as a national forest though, did you. Give it a few more hundred years to heal itself first. This is just a sampling of how land has been “utilized” over the years. There’s a lot more to the whole story as Mr. Paul Harvey would say.

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Peter Rabid@1:57

You are on shakier ground than central China when you start talking about crooked political co-workers.

The Clintons have no political shadows? OOOwhee..only for eight years!! Obama’s closest companions and advisors look as good as the KKK!

You’d better stick to carrots, Peter Rabid, before you get stuck in the mud.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 14, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

Sure. That was hundreds of years ago. We have much more advanced ways of wringing value out of land these days. I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff to be mined and chopped down…or just completely blown apart like Massey Energy is doing in West by God Va.

And that’s not to mention the development potential: condos and strip malls and industrial parks, oh my!

If you can get an estimate of what it takes to operate that park annually, there is no dobut in my mind that I can make 10 times that amount annually some way other than letting people just walk around in it.

So how are you going to pay for that beautiful piece of prime real-estate?

By bill

May 14, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

All hail the wet lady, Democracy works best when set like a finely tuned clock. On an even keel with the pendulum swinging gently left and right. Too far in one direction and the equilibrium required for optimum performance is lost. Not enough movement and it will eventually die. Too many credit the greatness of our whole’s work to just their side; with still others urging that complete abandonment to their ideals will advance us to utopia. Flaying away in just one direction, left or right, stymies the device and it cannot advance the mechanism that records the seconds. Again denied movement it dies. What hope is left for US? That moderates like Aquagirl should prevail…

By Hillary Clinton

May 14, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Almost heaven, West Virgina, take me home to the White House, where I belong.

By jbmlaw

May 14, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Dear Bill @ 2:36, a representative republic works best when flown like a high speed aircraft, in one direction, with a purpose. Pointless redirection strains the craft and wastes resources. A decision to jettison fuel should be made only when there is a risk of crash and burn. Rather than allow government fiat to control that which makes American great, we are much better served by keeping that useless entity on the ground.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Cherry Picker,

I’m what some might call a dying breed, a Ron Paul of sorts, a true fiscal conservative. Before I retired, the land was paid for, the house was paid for (even though it wasn’t built), the retirement account was adequately funded (leave it to the politicians to try and mess that up though), the pension check was analyzed (although I didn’t expect to see inflation climb so much so fast), life insurance taken care of, a stock fund started for our daughter’s college, cars paid for, etc. I was working on being debt free probably before Dave Ramsey was known by anyone other than his mother. It’s called living a simple life style and planning for the possibility (if not a high probability) of a future. Now get rid of all that wasteful government spending so my plans will have a chance of lasting me the rest of my life. Oh yes, and quit messing with interest rates. My retirement accounts need an average of 8% annual return to reach my target by time I expect to need to start withdrawing money. I don’t want to be forced to greet people at WalMart after I get to retirement age and find out there’s no Social Security money left for me.

By Tom

May 14, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Please please please Dustrag, explain to us again how Bush isn’t running for President, but Jeremiah Wright is.

By jbmlaw

May 14, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Humorous commentary:

You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states. You heard this? And everybody chalked it up to, “Well, he’s tired.” You know, this is a Dan Quayle moment. I mean, Dan Quayle goes out there and misspells potato, and we still get jokes about it. Barack Obama says he’s gonna go out and campaign in 57 states, he was just tired, you know, it’s been such a long campaign, he’s been so many places, he probably thinks there are 57 states. Well, I have here a printout from a website called the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins. “Every year from 1999 to 2005 the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states presented a resolution to the United Nations commission on human rights called combating —”

Obama said he’s going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic states. There are 57 Islamic states. “Every year from 1999 to 2005, the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states,” this is from the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And the title of the piece here is, “How the Islamic states dominate the UN human rights council,” and there are 57 of them. So did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen? Obama’s 57 states, not just a simple gaffe. He might have been thinking of the 57 Islamic states when he said he was going to campaign in all 57 states.

By Hillary Clinton

May 14, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Thanks, J-Law, call Fox News. New talking points — Obama — giggle — Hussein — giggle— is referring to the 57 Islamist states. Brilliant! I have a staff position for you if you’ll repay some of my debt.

By Blain W.

May 14, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

@ DebbieDoRight - Where did I get those figures? My pleasure to share.

Page 3 of 6 breaks the vote down to by race. Pick a state. Any state I listed.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 14, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

More power to ya. The only debt that I have is my house, and we saved for 10 years to put down 20 pct to avoid the pmic.

So I’m fiscally conservative too. But I think the folks on talk radio and in these blogs who get the rabble all stirred up about wasteful government spending, etc…are only telling the part of the story that suits their cause.

Fact is that all politicians are corrupt, not just the ones they like to talk about. And not because they’re bad people, but because they’re in a system that is broken.

So when people like Barr and Paul start talking about privatizing things, what they’re talking about is people who are single mindly focued on profit taking over systems (like parks) that have intrinsic value other than what they’re potentially worth on the free market. I don’t want every sqare inch of natural resource in this country developed or industrialized because someone who gave a congressman thousands of dollars thinks he can make millions of dollars off it.

Check out Bob Barr’s platform sometime and see what his plans are for national parks.

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

What’s your beef. I mean the sooner the US converts to Islam, the sooner we can put the threat of terrorist attacks behind us, right. Is that not the ultimate solution to ending the threat of future attacks. I mean it’s not like the oil-rich nations don’t own us already. Getting a known Islamist in the White House is just a formality at this point.

By Blind Homer

May 14, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Jim - The loss of the congressional seat is a disaster for the Republicans, not good news. West Virginia means little to the national picture and the presidential race should be very close unless one of the candidates implodes.

By arman d

May 14, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

57 states? Big deal. A gaffe? How about McCain confusing S** and Sunnis. I understand that most of you don’t think there is a distinction, but I can guarantee you that over 30,000 american wounded and killed would say otherwise. No matter, you guys are doing your part cheering them on and bashing liberals. Go America!

By Curious Observer

May 14, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

There, there, jbmlaw. You’ll feel better about yourself once the tax cuts expire and you start paying your fair share to support the country.

By ron

May 14, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

I am given to understand that Obama wore a flag lapel pin in West Virginia.Some politicians will do anything for a vote.Even compromise their principles.

By ghost rider

May 14, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

By jbmlaw

May 14, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Humorous commentary:

Outside of a bunch of right wing commentary I cannot find anywhere where Obama made this statement. Please enlighten me to where and when this was said and if there is a video.

Just because Michele Malkin said it, and Sean Insannity said it…It does not make it true!

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

I hear you, Cherry Picker. I don’t think there is a perfect solution. As far as the Democrats and Republicans go, it’s like picking between “Death by a Thousand Cuts” or “Death by Massive Hemorrhage”. I’m ready to send a message that the two-party system has been in bed together for far too long and they’re just getting a little too comfortable with each other at our expense. That leaves the Libertarian Party as the only other viable choice unless I vote for myself or SpongeBob.

By @@

May 14, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

I read that 57 Islamic states too. Twas funny! What’s even funnier is watching Obama say it.

Some believe the Turks have yet to resolve a deep-seated crisis of identity kinda like Obama, so they speak about him in a language that’s common to them.

When talking about John McCain, they speak American/english?

That’s just weird.

Anyhoo, on to your column Jim. I tried to make that same point about Childers at Luckovich’s. The leftists over there just didn’t get it. Maybe they didn’t want to get it, but get it they will - leftists be gone “doggone it”.

The Democrats basically told those from the far-left to butt out early on. No place for them in the party, but they just won’t exit gracefully.

Oh well…..

By @@

May 14, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Oh, and I love the Obama image used in the Turkish sites.

Goofy!

By Mid-South Philosopher

May 14, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

To JK @ 1:35P.M.

Sorry I am just getting back to you, but I am working to pay for the tax rebate for those that didn’t pay any taxes this year, but filed so they could get the economic incentive. Go…Wal-Mart and Joe’s Liquor Store!

I admit that Presidential campaigns are grueling, and I yield that Presidential candidates, being by their very natures the victims of the delayed mental gene malady; however…”57 states…not counting Alaska and Hawaii, with one more to go“…?

Now, Barrack Obama is NOT stupid and he is NOT ignorant!

He IS, and this scares the living h*ll out of me, CARELESS!

God forbid that Hillary’s 3:00 A.M. telephone rings, a Commander-in-Chief can’t be too tired to take the call!

By Southern Democrat

May 14, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Wow. I thought the Clintons were the masters of spin, but after reading this column, I’m beginning to think that Mr. Wooten and his far-right fellows are vying for the title.

The country is moving to the right? Please. The country is moving to the middle where it belongs. I welcome my brothers and sisters, the Rockefeller Republicans, back to the fold where we will be called upon to compromise and lead from the middle with dignity, sensibility, and purpose.

Those on the fringes need not apply.

By Southern Democrat

May 14, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Wow. I thought the Clintons were the masters of spin, but after reading this column, I’m beginning to think that Mr. Wooten and his far-right fellows are vying for the title.

The country is moving to the right? Please. The country is moving to the middle where it belongs. I welcome my brothers and sisters, the Rockefeller Republicans, back to the fold where we will be called upon to compromise and lead from the middle with dignity, sensibility, and purpose.

Those on the fringes need not apply.

By @@

May 14, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

I’ve heard many Obama supporters say that what they appreciate about him is his contemplation on the issues. Let’s watch that video again.

He “contemplates”….

He shoots “57 states with ONE more to go”…..

He sinks the eight ball!!!!!!

Oh my! I’m so impressed….what a schtick!!!!

By JK

May 14, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Hey Mid-South! I appreciate that you’re scared. There’s a lot going on that scares the heck out of me too. It seems to be going around. If I line ‘em all up, McCain scares me the most of the three, but we’re each entitled to our feelings.

My point was that they ALL say stupid stuff when their mouths are running 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, and I don’t think anyone could avoid it under the same circumstances. “I didn’t inhale,” should have been, “I wasn’t a smoker, but someone passed me a doob at a party, so I pretended to hit it and passed it on because I wanted to fit in.” Or, “I was under sniper fire” should have been “I was in a place where snipers shoot people and was thinking how scary that was and how I should hurry back to the car.” How about “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we” or “The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”… well, you get the idea.

I don’t think that stuff is nearly as meaningful as the GOP and pundits on the Faux News Channel will make it out to be tonight. But that’s just my opinion.

By AmVet

May 14, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

SoDem, I just love the “argument” that the reason this version of the GOP is in such deep shiite is because they weren’t “conservative” enough.

I know that many who advocate such a position don’t have the greatest grasp on reality, but I swear in a Miller’s Analogy test they would equate it with the “reasoning” that the Berlin Wall failed because it wasn’t “high” enough.

By just me

May 14, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Jim, I am so happy to see so many Republicans and conservatives interested in the welfare of Hillary Clinton. Your ability to reach out to her to keep going in the Democratic primary is….laughable at best. You guys can’t even hide your true motives very well. Republicans have destroyed the surplus, made the US debt intolerably high, and you’re worried about spending pennies on a few social programs that will help people who are not CEO’s. Before you namecallers get on your high horse, I am a CEO, a proud American, but unlike some of you, I have a heart.

By Dusty

May 14, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

@@ 4:24

Obama is going to have plenty of time to contemplate in 2009. Maybe he can return to Harvard and teach “Contemplation” or “How to Contemplate for 20 Years of Bigoted Sermons”. Michele will have time to take a course in “American Appreciation”.

Yep, both of them will have plenty of time for much needed contemplation. And I plan to help them get it.

By Auntie Kepila

May 14, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Our haolie son of the Islands siad that he had visited 57 states, not counting Alaska and Hawa’ii, but that he had only “one state to go”. That is so sad for us, because once again even our sisters and brothers in Alaska are remembered, but still Hawa’ii is left out. Every day we think the Sun will bring our Barry back to us. But he forgets. He always forgets.

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

JK,

McCain scares you the most? Come on.

Beijing scares me the most. Which is why Barack is next on my list of scarecrows.

By jm

May 14, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

57 - hmmm, wasn’t that the number of communists in the Department of Defense in “The Manchurian Candidate”?

By Devastator

May 14, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Sen. John Edwards finally endorses Obama!!

DEARBORN, Mich. - Democrat John Edwards has given his long-awaited endorsement to Barack Obama. It’s a major boost from a former presidential rival as Obama tries to shrug off Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is determined to press ahead.

Edwards was to appear with Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., as Obama campaigns in a critical general election battleground.

The endorsement comes the day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than 2-to-1 in West Virginia. The loss highlighted Obama’s work to win over the “Hillary Democrats” — white, working-class voters who also supported Edwards in large numbers before he exited the race.

Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and the 2004 vice presidential nominee, dropped out of the race in late January.

By AmVet

May 14, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

“You smell that?”

“Do you smell that?”

“Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalmed neocons in the morning.”

“You know, one time we had RNC Hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ neocon body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory.”

“Someday this war’s gonna end…”

By @@

May 14, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

So if Obama has visited 57 with one left to go but wasn’t “allowed”? to visit Alaska and Hawaii, that would have made it 60 states.

Whoa is me!

Whoa is we!

and for that total, he had to contemplate.

Dusty:

Senator Obama was nowhere near ready to run for president yet he let Chicago’s corrupt politicians convince him otherwise. I’d like to think that he knows he’s in over his head but alas, who could have guessed? Certainly not him. He’s been “told” afterall.

If, on the oft chance, (highly unlikely) he’s elected and screws up? Watch ‘em devour him. Democrats eat their young.

By NewsFlash

May 14, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

This just in off the wires — GW has declared Obama as one of the Axis of Eevilll. On a side note, Dr. Evil said that GW should not quit his day job — whatever that is.

On the lighter side, the White House said that just because the price of everything that people need on a daily basis is up, it doe not mean that inflation is up. They said that the drop in housing prices is keeping inflation down. Man, I sure am happy to hear that. I was worried how I was going to pay my bills if net prices of the things that I use daily started to increase. On a side note, reporters at the White House claim to have heard that the President now believes in aliens because the Pope said it was OK. However, the President said he thinks that these aliens could at least learn how to speak English while in our country.

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Dare I say it, AmVet? You on losing side, GI.

Besides, Charlie Surfs Now!

(I should know, dude.)

By Devastator

May 14, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

@@,

You know that was a speaking error on Obama’s part. Don’t be so trivial.

By Glenn

May 14, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

jm, grand slam! outta da park!

By @@

May 14, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

(((By AmVet @ Wooten’s May 14, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

“You smell that?”

“Do you smell that?”

“Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalmed neocons in the morning.”

“You know, one time we had RNC Hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ neocon body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory.”)))

Now I’m laughing. It’s AmVet’s “exhausted” fumes “dangling” over at Wooten’s.

I must say….

you are a source for my amusement AmVet!

Oooooooh me.

I’m off to see what’s up in the Middle East via Stratfor.

By AmVet

May 14, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, but Duvall is the one laughing, Glenn!

He won his second Academy Award nomination for the role, and was named by the Guiness Book of World Records as the most versatile actor in the world for creating one of the most memorable characters ever assayed on film, and gave the world that memorable phrase.

And to hell with the dinks. They can have that stinkin’ place!

We’ve moved onto smoking the sandies…

By Taxpayer

May 14, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Charlie surfs now. The shock. The enemy blends right in with the regular folk during the daytime. But, under the cover of night….they can be seen dancing with Paris Hilton in all the local hangouts.