Thinking Right

By Redneck Convert

May 19, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

Well, I went to WalMart yesterday to get a pair of socks for my monthly bath and there wasn’t nobody at the door to greet me. It just goes to show these old geezers want to set back and relax on my tax money when they could be out working for a living. The McDonalds next to the store was short-handed. Another place where geezers could work and stop being leeches on hard-working taxpayers.

If we just had jbmlaws Old Folks Army we could make the geezers do something useful and save alot of tax money too. I wouldn’t care if they wore uniforms at the doors of WalMart or McDonalds.

Anyhow, its too bad the librul Democrats won’t let us put part of our money in private accounts. Its sort of like getting the camels nose under the tent. If we could just get private accounts started pretty soon Social Security would be gone.

I know we made a promise to folks that Social Security would be there for them but times change and nobody with any sense expects politicans to keep promises.

This Obama is just the worst kind of politican. Scaring the old folks that way. Right now they don’t know they got a good reason to be scared about our plans for Social Security and we need to keep it that way till the program is on a slicky-slide and on the way out the door. They won’t hardly know what hit them.

Have a good day everybody.

By MADMOMMY

May 19, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Everyone has used SS as a tool in every election. It is a failed system and why and how it stil functioning is beyond me.
Oh and Obama is asking everyone to leave his wife alone on GMA. Hello, if she opens her mouth to talk she is open for debate, be it positive or negative. I wonder how he would react if it is more positive? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Sure you can trust the government, just as any indian.

By West Cobb Dad

May 19, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Question. When did he find the time to stand against this plan in the senate? Ever since he got elected back in Nov ‘06, he seems to have been running for president. Has he actually voted on anything?

By Troubled Tim

May 19, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Those numbers don’t seem right on the % over 65 in 20 years. Doesn’t seem to support his argument either.

Barak Hussein Obama and a democratic congress will move us light years toward a Euro-socialist state like France. God help us if he is elected.

By Mid-South Philosopher

May 19, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim

If Obama, Clinton, or McCain really wanted to help the American people, they would support the Fair Tax. The fact that neither of the two major political cesspools embarce the idea demonstrates its merit. Anything that both Democrats and Republicans agree on has to be suspect for the benefit of the American people.

As for Social Security, I have an idea, even if the Fair Tax is never enacted.

A. Continue to pay into the system with the expectation of the same benefits as those who are retired.

B. Accept a one-time payoff of the amount paid in up to this point and interest of 5% per year of conribution.

Note: Points 2 A&B and 3 could be paid for by a 1% sales tax to be ended when all accounts were settled.

Do you really believe that bunch of crooks in Congress or those prima donnas who would serve as President would seriously consider giving up the power that would be shifted from them to the people, if this were accomplished?

There is a greater probability of Hugo Chevez being named “Man of the Year” by the Cobb County Republicans!

By help

May 19, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Maybe the British will help free us from Obama and the Muslim Liberals? Hopefully, the old folk will Boo Obama off the stage. Where is a clone of Reagan. TAX cuts for the business owner to reinvest the capital into machinery and people. THAT is where you make up the deficit-more people paying taxes is better than some people paying a lot of taxes. The more people employed, the more tax money you get. But of course-Tax ocrats don’t get it. They just want to TAX the “Rich” who own the businesses that employee the non rich. then the Tax ocrats will say-‘Look-the rich are letting people go to keep the money fo rthemselves-let’s raise taxes on them again.” No you idiots! they are letting people go because they cannot afford to KEEP all those people employed. When was the last time you saw a poor person open up a business that was legit? And no, Donzels Drug Emporium and W******* House does nto count!

By help

May 19, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Maybe the British will help free us from Obama and the Muslim Liberals? Hopefully, the old folk will Boo Obama off the stage. Where is a clone of Reagan. TAX cuts for the business owner to reinvest the capital into machinery and people. THAT is where you make up the deficit-more people paying taxes is better than some people paying a lot of taxes. The more people employed, the more tax money you get. But of course-Tax ocrats don’t get it. They just want to TAX the “Rich” who own the businesses that employee the non rich. then the Tax ocrats will say-‘Look-the rich are letting people go to keep the money for themselves-let’s raise taxes on them again.” No you idiots! they are letting people go because they cannot afford to KEEP all those people employed. When was the last time you saw a poor person open up a business that was legit? And no, Donzels Drug Emporium and W******* House does nto count!

By Ray

May 19, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Socialists are a breed apart. The “rich”, the top 1% of American taxpayers earning in excess of $364,000/year paid over 90% of the income tax collected in this country in the 2007 tax year. The remaining 10% was paid by the remaining 99% of citizens. Over 43M people did not pay any taxes at all, including Al Sharpton and those like him that dodge the system. The “rich” are not the enemy. They are paying everyone else’s bills. If you doubt these figures, go to www.taxfoundation.org for confirmation. And Obama, as well as the rest of socialists would make the “rich” an even greater “enemy” than they already are. Wake up America.

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. We all realize that democrats think Social Security is the perfect government program, except that it constantly needs increasing amounts of government appropriation of private wealth to keep it solvent. For many of us, the size of the government take, and the rapidity of the increase, is the primary issue. The Bush proposal – to allow any of us to choose to privatize our social security contributions – represents a threat to the overlords, who cannot suffer to allow increasing freedom for individuals. My 401-k this year, supposedly in a time of market weakness, is up more than the 2% that social security returns. Obama is scary because of his Orwellian doublespeak; he opposes change, but claims that he advocates it. One should never expect any proposal from a Leftist unless it requires the government to diminish private wealth, or to diminish freedom otherwise.

By help

May 19, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Maybe the British will help free us from Obama and the Muslim Liberals? Hopefully, the old folk will Boo Obama off the stage. Where is a clone of Reagan. TAX cuts for the business owner to reinvest the capital into machinery and people. THAT is where you make up the deficit-more people paying taxes is better than some people paying a lot of taxes. The more people employed, the more tax money you get. But of course-Tax ocrats don’t get it. They just want to TAX the “Rich” who own the businesses that employee the non rich. then the Tax ocrats will say-‘Look-the rich are letting people go to keep the money for themselves-let’s raise taxes on them again.” No you idiots! they are letting people go because they cannot afford to KEEP all those people employed. When was the last time you saw a poor person open up a business that was legit? And no, Donzels Drug Emporium and W******* House does nto count!

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Well-argued MidSouth, I could buy that idea.

By StillbornDittos

May 19, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Cheney/Bush pilfered The Social Security Trust Fund and blew it all on Iraq. The mission of the Social Security Trust Fund is very clear.

What is the mission of Iraq? No, forget the troops, what is the founding declaration of the country of Iraq? Do we even know what were fighting for? To allow the Sunnis and Shia to continue their ritual bloodletting?

No. The Social Security Trust Fund has a clear mission. To save us from communism, because that’s the alternative to letting pirates call what they do “capitalism”.

Capitalism doesn’t really work without pirates, now does it? All that money just sitting there in a huge fund. Can you blame Cheney for grabbing it? Can you blame Hitler for grabbing Austria and Poland and Belgium and France? Can you blame Mussolini for grabbing all the beautiful women for himself?

Now I expect McCain’s pollings to improve, and the president’s too. I expect there to be a period soon when it looks evenly divided between democrats and repudlickans.

But make no mistake. America is not your dad’s country anymore. We’re diverse. We’re black. We’re brown. We’re yellow and white. We’re mostly working poor. We’re together. We wont suffer fools again.

911 changed everything. We’re all on the same learning curve, and that curve’s apogee was too late to stop Bush in ‘04. But I think we all get it now. Cheney must have classified any proof of his treason, but history will declassify it and expose him for the modern Benedict Arnold he truly is. Bush is just his stooge. Know that. I think it’s important to protect the innocent. Bush is just a bumbling stammering stumblebutt. An unwitting patsy for Cheney and Cheney’s flying monkey hoards.

Read Cheney’s bio. Read how he got his start and how the Peter Principle is actually Murphy’s Law’s twin brother. Throw in Rube Goldberg’s chain reactions and Newton’s for every action there’s an equally stupid reaction, and you get the bush administration, the price of oil, and the iraq war, and all the foreclosures.

Why were the brokers allowed to fraud the home buyers? Where was the supervision? What is this idea that a home buyer would know how to read the fine print? The fine print isn’t understood by veteran judges who would argue about the exact meaning for years and never reach a consensus.

Obama 08: there’s no argument.

By Chris Salzmann

May 19, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

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Tax cuts for businesses is fine as long as they are small businesses. What about corporations? What about those corporations who maintain fake addresses in the Bahamas (Halliburton, etc.) to avoid paying many US taxes? We’ve seen how well tax cuts for the top 10% have worked, haven’t we? The richer have gotten richer and the middle class has shrunk. You can dress up the pig all you want, you’re still going to get a pig. BTW, I’m white, 2.5 kids, live in Atlanta (intown) with a 6 figure income.

By Dave

May 19, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Old folks like you jim? Actually Obama came out looking like a rock star in OR. Even long time “older GOP voters” said they are going to vote for him or are leaning that way.

Here read it for yourself: “We just wanted to see him,” said Norman Yoshida, 64, of Portland. “We need somebody who can be inspirational, and he inspires.”

“Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing.”

“last week a surprising new name joined the chorus of praise for the antiwar Obama – that of Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century in the late 1990s, which called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Kagan is an informal foreign policy adviser to the Republican senator John McCain, who remains the favoured neoconservative choice for the White House because of his backing for the troops in Iraq.

But in an article in the Washington Post, Kagan wrote approvingly that a keynote speech by

Obama at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs was “pure John Kennedy”, a neocon hero of the cold war”

Even your neo-con architects and heros are leaving the GOP for Obama…get with it Jim and Co. What are you afraid of?

It’s time to admit that you’ve already lost the election this november. Focus on doing something good, being productive. You can spin all you want to. The people don’t care or believe you any longer. They realize they were had for the past 7 1/2 years.

Obama 08… it’s a “done” deal…period.

By Doggy

May 19, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

I have been diagnosed with cancer, and if it weren’t for Medicare, I would be living on the street now. Please don’t insult my intelligence by talking about the glories of a 401k as a substitute for Social Security.

And that $3,000 per month in Social Security benefits for my wife and me is a godsend. If we can both live nine more years, we will be able to get back the money our employers and we have put into the system. So much for the assumption that Social Security is just governmental welfare.

I wouldn’t trust a Republican to line the bird cage without also raping the bird, much less to engineer the retirement system. The Republicans have been fighting Social Security ever since FDR and a Democratic Congress initiated it. Whatever Bush III proposes won’t be good for old people who are no longer able to work, and it will lead younger people down the garden path to insolvency in their old age.

And you can take that to the bank or your precious 401k program.

By Dave

May 19, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Ahh..ANOTHER man with brains speaks up:

“Disagreements on the war have not stopped John Martin, a Navy reservist and founder of the website Republicans for Obama, from supporting the antiwar senator. He joined the military after the Iraq war and is about to be deployed to Afghanistan.

“I disagree with Obama on the war but I don’t think it is a test of his patriotism,” Martin says. “Obama has a message of hope for the country.””

By zeke

May 19, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Obama, Clinton and every other democrat should scre all voters regardless of age! All they, really all democrats, so called social, civil rights, gay rights, animal rights, prisoner rights, illegals rights, naacp, aclu, peta, sierra club and others want to do is turn the US into an image of the old soviet union, cuba, china and venezuela!

Wake up voters! DO NOT ELECT LIBERALS! DO NOT ELECT ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE PROGRESSIVE! PROGRESSIVE IS THE NEW BUZZ WORD TO DISGUISE TRUE AGENDAS OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM!

By Jeff

May 19, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Hey Ray! Not sure if you have looked at your tax bill lately (maybe you don’t have one), but mine is quite high. And I don’t quite believe your figures (90% of all taxes are paid by the top 1% of income earners). Can you provide a link to those stats? My research on taxfoundation.org shows the top 1% of income earners paid 39.4% of income taxes. Anyhow, the richest of the rich pay a significantly smaller percentage of their income to taxes than the middle class does (aka, Warren Buffett p** that his rate is lower than his secretary’s). That’s reality, my friend! It’s time for tax reform, no doubt! No one will argue with you on that, but that reform should benefit the middle class—not the upper class nor the lower classes (who usually don’t pay anything).

By randygrenier

May 19, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

I’ve lost thousands of dollars of my retirement funds in my 401k recently. Under Republican voodoo economics, nothing could be less secure than a 401k retirement plan. Social Security can easily be funded by stopping the corrupt war contractors from robbing us of countless billions.

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Jim,

You’ve made it so easy to go after your commentary today that I just don’t have the heart to do it. You didn’t take Sunday off and clear the mind, did you? By the way, the rumor on the street is that John McCain likes to see the following at the end of these advertisements:

“I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”

All right. So, I did take one cheap shot at you. What can I say — I’m not perfect.

By the way, did you hear the one about the fear-mongerer that was campaigning in Florida in front of all those weak, old people. Wait a minute — just how old is “old”, Jim? I bet I could take you in two out of three with one hand behind me while hopping on one leg. I’ll show you what old and weak is. Bring it on, you wussie. Bring on your choice of weapon and we’ll meet at high noon. OK. Just don’t let it be Tasers. Those two idiots in Colorado have already shown us what that outcome looks like. That’s got to be really embarrassing, too. Don’t you think. Of course, it seems like nothing embarrasses some people.

By Craig

May 19, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

hey “help” you might want to do something with your opportunity here to do something other than parrot Boortz, three times.

Doggy, good luck to you and your family.

By hewhoasks

May 19, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Gee, Jim, you might mention that when Bush proposed personal accounts the Republicans dominated both the House and the Senate. THEY never took up Bush’s plan.

Of course maybe when you blame the Democrats what you mean is that all those Republicans who were in control deferred to the Democrats just that once. Uh huh.

But I see your sleazy way. First you say the Democrats reacted then as they do now and then say Congress never took it up. The way it’s worded it seems like the Democrats were the reason it was never taken up. No, the apparent reason Congress never took it up is that not even the Republicans in Congress were convinced by Bush’s propaganda tour. Perhaps they, like the country, liked the idea less and less the more Bush talked about it.

“Personal accounts” for a general retirement plan are a bad idea. A colossally bad idea. Obama understates how bad an idea they are.

(Yes, a con-man’s argument for them can be made - and often is. Con men never let you see the details. That’s how the “personal account” pushers operate. They’ll mumble lots of things about how they might be structured, about how they might work - but never show the details. Bush and his backers in the Congress never even submitted draft legislation. Bush wanted to sell the scheme first and then have Congress rush through a plan before anyone could look at it. Fortunately on that scheme the Congress didn’t let Bush get his way by bullying.)

By StillbornDittos

May 19, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Obama is a hypocrit.

He’s a politician, aint he?

Archer Danials Midland gives to both democratic and repudlickan candidates. If you take money from ADM, you’re a hypocrit.

By Republicans for Obama

May 19, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Are you people for real? Or are you just clingling to the old racist, can’t trust anyone sentiment? Need I remind you, that W. promised much and we’re now in a war that rivals Viet-Nam. Our economy is in the pits. Social Security does not cover much these days, and our medical care for us older citizens is even more frightening. We’re blaming Obama, when we’ve HAD a Republican that WE PLACED in office who DID NOTHING but watch as we suffered. I thought the entire platform of the party was to work hard make sound investments and live free. Instead we’ve worked hard, been screwed at every corner and turn, and are slaves to a deaf President. I am completely incensed that you “Great Americans” are willing to continue this facade further. McLame has already stated that his Presidency will be “MORE OF THE SAME.” Hello…did you miss that clue? After reading your closed minded (limited minded is a much more accurate phrase), I will move my party affiliation to Dem. You guys are so hardline that you’re applauding political suicide. CalaHannity, Rush, and the Republican party can kiss my….y’all have a great day.

By Fred Fep

May 19, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

I read these comments and tehy seem of two types. Regurgative Republicans who make no sense. McCain comes up with “new” legislative ideas every day it seems, he has been in the Senate long enough to have ripped off our banking system long enough ago for it to have been forgotten. He never proposes any legislation in last 7 years counter to his obstructionist party, never once introduced any of this slightly liberal-tinged legislation he proposes now. NEVER. Het you say Obama hasn’t?

Give me a break. Now, whether tehse are Republicans or just Hillary supporters who seem Republican in their philosophies or at least rhetoric today is hard to know.

You Republicans better be worrying because if McCain wins all you will have is him and not many more of your backwards thinking unprogressive Neanderthal oddballs around anymore (I mean Republicans)

You make us laugh, so keep the moronic self-aggrandizing comments coming. Too bad you don’t believe in evolution, your coming extinction proves something when related to the fossil arguents you guys continue to use. You led, you failed, you privitized and it was one big ponzi scheme destroying just about anything good in the govt., replacing it with nothing but decay and collapse. A hearty congrats to you Know-Nothings!

By Shawn

May 19, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Jim,

You are the one that is scared……Scared of change ! The United States is changing before your very eyes and you can’t handle it. The Republicans and the Bush administration have resulted in one fine mess ! It’s time to fix this.

By Just Nasty and Mean

May 19, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Hello, Jim. Great to meet you last weekend.

Obama—-and the democrat party— have little reservation and absolutely no compunction to whip out anything necessary to terrorize old folks, blacks and minorities, disabled, unemployed, overworked, middle class, women, low income people into SCARING them into voting Democratic.

It like admitting “We don’t have any new ideas on how to fix social security, so let’s just scare hell out of everyone into voting for us by dreaming up wild-assed scenarios Republicans might come up with.

The solution to all Democrat problems is to raise taxes on *SOMEONE”.

By Thor

May 19, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

I hear all partisan junk - nobody is addressing the problem. The Baby Boomers are promised their SSI and we don’t have the money.

• raise taxes to give the Baby Boomers their money (and they never saved either)
• cut thier benefits (which won’t work because old geezers vote)
• do both

Privitization sounds really nice, but the bills are coming due.

There is too much partisan hogwash on this blog and not enough reality. Where do you people get your news? Do you read anything of substance?

By Peter

May 19, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Obama is a hypocrit. Wow Jim, Such mean words first thing on a Monday morning.

Gee and George Bush is NOT ?

HA HA HA Jim, was there Weapons of Mass Destruction or not?

Also you think the younger generation is not scarred of the Republicans ?

HA HA HA…….

Yes Jim the younger generation, the one that will be around after all the mess the Republicans made of this country of ours.

By Thinking with some sense

May 19, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

McCAIN SCARES YOUNG PEOPLE!!!

Wooten has no other choice but to scare up votes for Republicans, as they have no platform to run on this year. He too also believes that you shouldn’t even talk to your adversaries, even though the Republican’s Idol- Ronald Reagan- did exactly that with the evil empire. Obama was only being honest about Social Security and not telling voters what they want to hear, like the Repulicans. He could’ve added that Bush has so damaged SS that changes do need to be made, and that too would be the truth. Someone ask the AJC why don’t they have a progressive editorial on their website everyday to counter Wooten’s doublespeak? Or is this just a conservative-leaning paper. Ask why Sonny trusts “law-abiding” citizens to walk around in public with handguns, but can’t trust adults to buy their own liquor on Sunday!

By Road Scholar

May 19, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Well said Zeke! Let’s elect the Repubs who usually make more money but take deductions that most Americans can’t take (fair share?), the righteous who have affairs, children beyond their marriage, molest kids, and those who pillage companies while taking a HUGE retirement payment. That’s the American way… family values!

Let’s pass a law that limits only payouts from government programs to those who do not whine about how they are wronged. This include the rich who own vacation houses on the coast that get bailed out when a Hurricane hits, banks that get greedy and give bad loans based on no pre-screening criteria, parents who complain about public schools who do nothing about working with their school to raise expectations and the standards, people who complain about transportation congestion who do not want to invest in transportation solutions,etc.

It is sooooo easy to whine and not propose solutions that work!

By Jeff

May 19, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Republicans for Obama—-AMEN! We are all tired of the republican lies and their lining the pockets of their rich friends, including themselves, with war money from the blood of our brave soldiers and the innocent Iraqis that have lost their lives. The last seven years have been a colossal failure to the average American anyway you slice and dice it, and no one can point fingers at the Democrats for any of it. It’s time for a change!

By Spanky

May 19, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Guess who else scares old folks.

Here is a hint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eXNClwV5AM

By Fulton

May 19, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Name calling, small-minded people scare me…

By StillbornDittos

May 19, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Y-y-yeah! Do you p-p-people read anything of s-s-substance?

By Enron

May 19, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..privatize social security? How idiotic.

By Enron

May 19, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..privatize social security? How idiotic.

By Enron

May 19, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..ENRON..privatize social security? How idiotic.

By Southern Democrat

May 19, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Dear Readers,

Please substitute “Republicans” for “Obama”; “Social Security” for “War on Terror” and clean up grammatical mistakes. Like sentence fragments. A Jim Wooten favorite. You will then have a NY Times OpEd piece.

Sadly, though, neither of these columns have added a single piece of relevant information to our continuing political debate; they have simply demonstrated extreme partisanship.

By wlbill

May 19, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

You are all a bunch of losers. Face it, get use to it. You are all going down in November. We old geezers didn’t fall off potato trucks yesterday. We will vote Democrat and run you money boys with your runny noses, whining mouths,hairless pimple faces back to the International Corporations and Financial markets to which you cling and owe your souls. What! no bibles! How bitter!. By the way, yes, you are right, there will be no social security for you when you retire. Who cares???

By Southern Democrat

May 19, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Dear Readers,

Please substitute “Republicans” for “Obama”; “Social Security” for “War on Terror” and clean up grammatical mistakes. Like sentence fragments. A Jim Wooten favorite. You will then have a NY Times OpEd piece.

Sadly, though, neither of these columns have added a single piece of relevant information to our continuing political debate; they have simply demonstrated extreme partisanship.

By Thor

May 19, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim,

Would you want the 25 year old customer service rep at the AJC managing your retirement investments? No? Then why would you want him to do it alone?

I bet the majority of people on this blog cannot tell me how well the markets are doing YTD or their performance last year - even college educated people probably don’t know. I think many are in for a rude awakening with their 401ks as they know nothing about investing, they know nothing about the stock market but have blind faith.

I follow the markets, but too many people do not and I fear they will wake up at age 55 with nothing.

By Fix-It

May 19, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

The problem with Social Security is not that it does not work, it is prevented from working. One simple change could fix it, how about when the money goes into SS that nobody touches it until the person that put the money in needs it. Wow what a concept, do not use social security as your government piggy bank and it would work. Social Security only pays on the average of 2% what a lame investment that is any way.

By Dennis

May 19, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Regarding Obama, Mr. Wooten writes, ” Takes the high-horse to complain about the politics of division and diversion and resorts to the only game Democrats running nationwide know: Scaring the daylights out of grandma and grandpa, the vulnerable, weak and confused.”

You damned Republicans have done the same scare tactic under Bush by claiming there will not be enough money in the future to pay for social security.

And then, you’ve tried hard as hell to make sure that social security goes under.

But this old fool knows that what you want Mr. Wooten is to privitize social security so that your private investment buddies can make money off of other peoples social security investiments.

And maybe add to your portfolio, too.

This old fool ain’t buying it Mr. Wooten.

If social security goes down the drain it will be because Republicans like you made damned certain it did.

But over the long haul, your family will be caught in the same web of no social security too.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By StillbornDittos

May 19, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

here is the math that can save social security: (o)<=3

do the math

By Donovan K.

May 19, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

So what are the Republicans going to do about Social Security? I seem to remember the Republicans stating Social Security needed a major overhaul…even questioning the existence of it. So who is scaring whom?

By Thor

May 19, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

LBJ started all the problems when he took SSI and placed it in the general fund.

Its a good idea - take the trust fund off-line. The deficit would explode and you would really see how far in the red we are.

Remember when the GOP stood for fiscal discipline?

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

How can anyone reasonably expect to see meaningful changes in government without actually making meaningful changes. How will that happen? with the people who are elected. If you really want meaningful change, you cannot get it by voting Republican or Democrat. In Georgia, the politicians toggle between the labels so freely, you cannot help but conclude that the two labels are synonyms — for power-crazed, free-loading, politician. Vote for Ron Paul, vote for Bob Barr, vote for SpongeBob, just don’t vote for more of the same.

By fearless fosdick

May 19, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

By Thor

May 19, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Thor…You are factually incorrect.

For your edification and anyone else who thinks LBJ moved the SSI Funds to the General Fund. Please read this.

There has never been any change in the way the Social Security program is financed or the way that Social Security payroll taxes are used by the federal government. The Social Security Trust Fund was created in 1939 as part of the Amendments enacted in that year. From its inception, the Trust Fund has always worked the same way. The Social Security Trust Fund has never been “put into the general fund of the government.”

Most likely this question comes from a confusion between the financing of the Social Security program and the way the Social Security Trust Fund is treated in federal budget accounting. Starting in 1969 (due to action by the Johnson Administration in 1968) the transactions to the Trust Fund were included in what is known as the “unified budget.” This means that every function of the federal government is included in a single budget. This is sometimes described by saying that the Social Security Trust Funds are “on-budget.” This budget treatment of the Social Security Trust Fund continued until 1990 when the Trust Funds were again taken “off-budget.” This means only that they are shown as a separate account in the federal budget. But whether the Trust Funds are “on-budget” or “off-budget” is primarily a question of accounting practices—it has no affect on the actual operations of the Trust Fund itself.

I hate to copy and paste but I thought this little tid bit would be of help

By W

May 19, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

My current fellow believers and soon-to-be McCain believers,

It has come to my attention that there may be some politicians out there trying to scare the voters. I want to ease your fears right now. Let me start by explaining to you how social security works. You pay me and I provide you with social security. It’s that simple. You don’t have to worry about no stinking terrorist nation such as Iran or North Korea or Libya or Egypt or Saudi Arabia or Syria or Iraq or any of them because that’s what you hired me to do. Now Johnny and me, I mean, I, may have had our differences in past elections, but that’s a thing of the past because I can’t run for office again. John is going to take over the social security program and keep those terrorist nations at bay because I said so and you know that you can trust me — no matter how old and weak you are.

Thank You, Your Leader, W.

By Fulton

May 19, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I think Dennis said it best..”You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.”

NUFF SAID!!

You all just continue clinging to the same old, tired catch-phrase-buzz-words; librul, communists, blah, blah, blah…You’ll have plenty of time on your hands in ‘08.

The rest of us will focus on addressing the actual issues!

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten,

Whatever coffee you drink, I want a barrelful of it so’s I can write like that. It ain’t easy being breezy, and this column’s a really excellent example of the form. Compliments.

HOWEVER, you spoke ill of The O. One shalt not do that, Columnist Man. You know that very well, and yet here we have you doing that very thing—-several times over! Mend your ways, I beg of you. Before it’s too late. To denigrate (hm-m-mm) a presidential Hopeful is the Old Way, Mr. Wooten. It’s a part of That Which Must Be Changed.

And change it we shall, if only you’d join our quest for Change. It’s a quest to change criticism of The O. It’s a quest…to change criticism of The Spouse of The O. But more importantly, it’s a quest to change criticism of The O’s criticism of THIS GREAT NATION.

That’s what change is, Citizen Wooten. Come join us, won’t you?

God bless America.

By mamaj

May 19, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Funny what topics are considered to be blogged on!!

By dirty harry

May 19, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Obama was in town today for a rally at Waterfront Park that ended up drawing 75,000 people according to the Portland Fire and Police. This includes 60,000 inside of the park, past the strict security, and 15,000 outside the park watching and listening on the street.

Seems to me Jim Obama’s not scaring enough people! Needs to ramp up on the rhetoric don’t you think?

By Morningstar

May 19, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

By Fix-It May 19, 2008 9:53 AM The problem with Social Security is not that it does not work, it is prevented from working. One simple change could fix it, how about when the money goes into SS that nobody touches it until the person that put the money in needs i

It’s one of the most successful programs ever enacted, and one that has relieved the misery of countless Americans (still does). The problem is corupt leaders who delve into the fund to support that for which it was not intended. The IDIOTS who think it’s a failed program, know little or nothing about rural American or any average American household for that matter.

By vninja

May 19, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama is such a hypocrite.

Talk about blanket journalism. Hopefully they don’t pay you too much for your awful rhetoric. Don’t get me started on McCain’s flip flopping on pulling troops from Iraq, Hamas, land deals in Arizona, etc. It’s amazing people have so much trouble formulating an opinion via research and independent thought, rather than candidate talking points, press releases and ludicrous opinion fluff like this article.

Support your candidate by taking the time to objectively analyze all candidates strengths and weaknesses, not just the crap that is being regurgitated in the media.

By Oh My

May 19, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Oh Glenn. May I call you OGlenn. It’s the latest craze. You see, you just take an O and stick it wherever you can. If it doesn’t fit, push harder. Oh My.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Ah, liberals, they make the normal republican look like a well educated, self sufficient, hard working American.

Anyone that is going to expect Social Security to care for them in their old age is an ignorant fool.

Prepare now for your retirement.

Next, Neither the President nor the Vice President can touch and funds in Social Security, only Congress has that power. And Congress has been raiding it for a very long time.

Next, taxes on Corporation. Who do you think pays the Corporate taxes? The corporation doesn’t, it passes it on to the consumer. Raise taxes on the Corporations and the cost of items will increase. This is Finance 101. Even the kids working at the local burger palace knows this.

Personally, I can not think of one good reason to vote for either the witch or BHO.

By halstoon

May 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

You are so out of touch, sir. The old people have nothing to fear. They are locked into the system; it is their grandkids for whom their vote matters, and it is a fact that McCain will raise the retirement age or decrease benefits. If you don’t raise revenues, you have no choice but to do one of the two. What is your answer? Continue to let the system go broke? Because that’s what happens when you don’t increase revenues or decrease payments. By making those who earn more than $100k pay FICA on more of their income, we can at least make sure people don’t have to work until 75 to get benefits.

Personal ownership may sound nice, but will we really tell grandmas and grandpas who stunk at the stock market that they don’t get any benefits? Can we guarantee that benefits won’t be effected by a recession?

Finally, the GOP has mastered the scare tactics game. They try to convince us that electing Obama will lead to WWIII with nukes flying all across the globe. That is the truly pathetic game of fear. McCain is the true hypocrite. He is the one who said we must deal with Hamas two years ago, but now insists doing so would be ‘appeasement.’ He is the one who wrote McCain-Feingold, but now insists he shouldn’t have to follow it and wouldn’t sign it again as president.

Indeed. It’s a good thing your blathering is open to comments. Someone has to put your myopic worldview into perspective.

By AmVet

May 19, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

As anyone who visits this blog, even infrequently, knows, it is generally replete with much partisan bickering back and forth.

Some of which is very informative, cogent, relevant and sometimes most entertaining. And then a lot of it is…well…none of the above.

And other than the most inane and insult-filled hyper-partisan posts, that is generally a healthy thing in this country.

But I sense an enormous shift in today’s column.

Usually our esteemed columnist is not quite so brazen in his one-sided attacks. His modus operandi has historically been subtlety and covert innuendo rather than the much more obvious and sophomoric in your face rhetoric.

But not today.

The party that absolutely MASTERED fear tactics now complains about the very topic.

I believe this signals yet a new level of desperation among the “faithful” who now can no longer run away from the facts regarding this administration and its enablers, their agenda and the likely consequences this November. Again.

And there are still nearly six more months for this identity crisis laden anxiety to manifest itself.

It should be good viewing…

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Yes, Jim Wooten, Obama scares the old folks. He also scares a lot of younger ones too. That he might have a chance at running the USA is the worst nightmare ever for a majority of Americans.

I am counting on the intelligent approach of “old folks” and the smart younger ones to give us a president who has the good sense, good experience and old fashioned patriotism to be our leader. That is NOT Barack Hussein Obama.

See you at the polls, Republicans. We are not slackers to let this country fall into socialism, high taxes and loss of pride. All of us, including “old folks,” will celebrate a McCain victory for the preservation of great American values.

By Copyleft

May 19, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Boy, it’s a good thing the Republicans have never relied on blatant fearmongering to win elections, huh? Because otherwise, Wooten would be a blatant, shameless hypocrite.

You’re just whistling in the dark, Mr. Wooten. President Obama has already won, and the neocon cause is DEAD. Welcome back, America! Yee-haa!

By Pine Knot

May 19, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Ask not what your country can do for you? The Democrats have forgotten this, and it seems the new Republicans also. All I hear is what will the newly elected will do for me. This is sad.

By StillbornDittos

May 19, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

I think Wooten left out a cliche or two. Lets see, he’s covered under the bus, sacred cow, used the word spooked for what a black man said, did a stilted variation on “so five minutes ago” , insulted all senior citizens as vulnerable weak and confused. So all he missed was, “freedom fries” and “or the terrorists win”.

Wooten’s patriotism can be found in the bottom of a sack of a supersized happy meal. Those french fries almost, almost let the terrorists win, but Wooten rose the the occasion like all sunshine patriots who keep their loyalty where the sun dont shine, (irony rules again), and called those rascally french fries what they should have been called from the beginning. If Wooten hadn’t done that, then not only would social security go broke, but the terrorists would win.

Thank you, Mr Wooten patriot kind sir.

Freedom fries. I wonder if Sen Craig was offering freedom kisses in that men’s room?

ew

There is a pathos that’s growing in most conservative thinking… it’s starting around the fringes but definitely working it’s way to the center. We are at the mercy of these desperadoes in their last throes. What dirty trick will they play as they exit? What part of our constitution wont be scorched earth when they leave? Hey, there’s another cliche Wooten left out!

bwa

By Goober

May 19, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Calm down Jimmy!! I guess now that Hillary is out of the running, you are refocusing your callous partisan attacks on Obama? You are shameless, and entirely transparent.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

halstoon,

Talk about being out of touch. At the age of 60, I am fully prepared NOT to be dependent on SS checks every month.

BTW, you sound just like those whiners on PMSNBC, whining about the boogy man.

Wake up, what McCain said was sooner or later we will have to deal with Hamas. Yes, we will have to deal with them, like we deal with ants, termites and lefties. I do not think in that tense, we are talking about a repeat of ‘39 and Peace in our time. And I hope Israel was listening to our President when he brought that up. Trading land for peace was tried and Chamberlain found trading parts of Europe to Hitler for peace did not bring ANY peace in his time.

By gadawg

May 19, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

I’m not sure why all the conservatives are up in arms. Let’s face it, Obama will win in 08. Then he will crash and burn just like Carter in 76-80. Then finally, REAL conservative leadership like Reagan will come in and flush out the sewer that is Washington. Don’t worry. Liberalism is as American as French escargot. Once the brain dead masses stop fawning over him. The most liberal voting record Obama will fall faster than a comet and they will turn on him just like they turned on Hillary. Let them enjoy this one. We will come back in 2012 stronger than ever

By Thor

May 19, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Old geezers vote. When the Baby Boomers retire you will see a tremendous shift in resources supporting old folks - not preparing or investing for the future, but taking care of the old who don’t provide anything for America except to vote.

The Baby Boomers are going to suck us dry, and they will vote.

By Scoreboard

May 19, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

We should allow people to invest their Social Security into Certificate of Deposits.

That would have earned a worker about 2.5% the last eight years. The Stock Market on the other hand, a not so good 1.8%.

By dejavu

May 19, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Put some of your money into private accounts? SSA in not insurance, so there’s none of your money to invest! Today’s taxes go directly to support today’s retirees.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Scoreboard,

Not to sure about that, so far this year my return on investments is a little over 6%.

A good money market account will get over 3%.

By Thor

May 19, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Inflation is running at over 3.5%. With a CD, you are loosing money.

Most people cannot understand the markets but yet a 401k is their ticket to ride. A lot of people are going to wake up at age 55 and realize they will be working until they die. The stock market is great, if you pay attention to it and know what’s going on but most people just don’t have any interest.

By ThinkAboutIt

May 19, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Old folks are a perpetual bunch. There is a fix for that though. Death and taxes.

By carry on

May 19, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Kay Summersby. That’s who got us all into this mess. The Military Industrial Complex must have had photos of her and Ike. that’s why all he could do was make that vague warning about them instead of crushing them like he should have.

FDR also had a Monica, and that’s how only Social Security got past instead of Healthcare, like it should have been. The repudlickans must have had photos of FDR and his monica. I mean, who carries a camera with them everywhere they go? Just bad luck I tell you. Just bad luckeroo, buckeroo.

And now all we got is Iraqi sand and we dont even have that.

By getalife

May 19, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Oilbama finally takes the lead on something:

Obama to GOP: “Lay Off My Wife”

And he said be nice to Clinton supporters.

What a leader.

Geez.

By Sharon

May 19, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

You guys are so right you are falling off the earth WRONG.

By Asian doctor

May 19, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

barack hussein will be the worst president ever. anti american firends of obama farrah khan and rev wright will be eating break fast at white house every weekend.

AMERICANS ARE SO NAIVE TO VOTE FOR THIS IDIOT

By mad a h**ll

May 19, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

everybody on this blog including the person who wrote the article are narrow.minded, racist idiots!!

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Thor, I tend to agree with your statements about people not interested. The question is why are they not interested. It is because they are too lazy and expect the lefties to take care of them. about 50% of the working folks have made little to no preparation for retirement. This is a sad state of affairs.

But like most lefties they are lacking in common sense.

By AmVet

May 19, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

To expound upon my earlier post, I also sense that even die-hard Republicans, at least the more realistic ones, finally realize that the party needs a MASSIVE make-over.

And in reality, a collective epiphany.

The current GOP’s decidely non-conservative agenda is based on planks in a platform that are no longer recognizable as remotely conservative. Except among the most fervent of the right-wing fanatics and apologists who will still continue to lobby for an ideology based on past failures.

And here’s the rub - many of these now repudiated ideas actually started with Reagan’s odd notion of conservatism. Think Ed Meese.

If they really do try that agenda of legislating morality again, for example, I can almost assure the faithful, they will be the minority party for a long, long time once again…

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Why don’t you liberals go back to bed? (You too, PoFo.) So far you’ve tried to trash the President, McCain, Jim Wooten and your grandparents while swooning over the ever questionable Obama.

Go ahead. Make an antiwar neophyte a hero. Then castigate a thoughful American patriot who has served and suffered for his country. Forget about his military service and torture, his legislature experience and make lies and insinuations about him. Show us the full range of despicable liberal politics in Democratic distress.

Oh sure, undermine the country and the patriots with free speech. Free speech is a guaranteed freedom. It was not in the Constitution to undermine the loyal and the patriotic or the country.

Yep, go get a yellow ribbon, libs. Don’t put it on a tree. Put it down your back where it belongs.

By Thor

May 19, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

America is going down the drain, Rome is on fire, but people are still stupid enough to believe in their party as the savior.

Government doesn’t suck - the people suck.

New campaign slogan in 2008: The people suck!

By Atl Downtown

May 19, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

80,000 people on the banks of a river in Oregon have a message for you and your cohorts Jim. Start working your lips so that they can get a little practice saying….

“P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T…..O-B-A-M-A”

By Atl Downtown

May 19, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

80,000 people on the banks of a river in Oregon have a message for you and your cohorts Jim. Start working your lips so that they can get a little practice saying….

“P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T…..O-B-A-M-A”

By fearless fosdick

May 19, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

By Asian doctor

May 19, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Sorry Asian doctor, the title “WORST PRESIDENT EVER” Has already been spoken for. I believe he’s still in the white house!

By TW

May 19, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.” Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda “confession”. He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he would later write, “I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.”

Nobody, nobody, has anything but respect for McCain’s service. Why would this woman fabricate something like this? Why would this woman insult McCain by suggesting his record needs to be falsified to be substantiated?

The problem with liars is that they sometimes get to where they don’t recognize when they don’t have to lie…

Liars and trash - make way for the big November dump truck…

By Thor

May 19, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

People are not interested in the NYSE because its complicated, and hard to learn. Look at the average American - the auto mechanic, bus driver, waitress - I doubt they even understand the stock market.

Congress recently passed a law where 401k funds can now provide advice to working people’s retirement investments, which is good.

I think its ignorance and a belief that they will wake up at age 60 with all this money and will retire well. Sadly I think so many will be suffering.

By deegee

May 19, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

MADMOMMY@8:29 - The reason that SS functions today is because there are still more people paying social security taxes than those receiving social security payments. Three quarters of American taxpayers pay more in social security taxes than they do in federal income taxes. This dynamic is estimated to change around 2014 when social security recipients will outnumber social security tax payers. If you divert social security taxes paid by young people to private 401Ks then we will accelerate the collapse of the system. Just feel good about the fact that you helped your parents and grandparents afford some of the things that they might not have been able to afford without social security income.

By Cooter

May 19, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

John McCain should scare everybody!

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Thor,

It isn’t that complicated. if this old person can understand it, than any Georgia graduate can understand it.

BTW, there has always been advice available for the investors for there 401k’s.

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Obama’s whole campaign is based on fear tactics.

According to Obama, if you don’t vote for him the middle class will disappear, the earth will boil over and we will all be living in a totalitarian regime.

Selling fear (along with relentlessly negative campaigning) is the cornerstone of Obama’s strategy. The media will continue to give him cover by painting him as a victim, of course.

By David Strong

May 19, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Obama hasn’t thrown his grandmother under the bus and neither will he do so with the American people. Pay attention Jim and maybe clean your glasses so you can see clearly also.

By rmilton

May 19, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

By Atl Downtown

May 19, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Wow! He managed to get 80,000 people outside on beautiful Sunday afternoon. Will any of them make it to the polls?

By Cooter

May 19, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Yeah, and if we don’t vote for McCain, we will all be speaking some other language and/or killed by the terrorists.

By Speakeasy

May 19, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Senator Obama may scare old folks, but what scare me are republicans. So far my 401K has tanked, the value of my home has dropped by 20% and I can barely afford gas in my crossover SUV. All of this under a republican president. If I have to suffer under another republican president for 4 or even 8 years, I will be joining those folks in the food stamp line. I think what most people should consider when voting are these: Have my standards of living improved; Are jobs readily available for those seeking employment; Is healthcare available and accessible; and is government responsive to its citizens’ needs and concerns. Owning a gun and banning gays from marrying in no way helps to pay the bills or get a job (unless you use your gun to rob a place of business). Yet, thousands of Americans use these reasons to vote. Casting Senator Obama as a hypocrite does not endear voters to Senator McCain, who has been found to be a hypocrite on numerous issues. Our economy is on the verge of collapse. I will take my chances with an African American as President. We have had a buffoon for president for 8 years.

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

By Cooter

May 19, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Yeah, and if we don’t vote for McCain, we will all be speaking some other language and/or killed by the terrorists.

Your liberal ignorance is showing. McCain is quite liberal on immigration issues.

McCain sponsored the comprehensive immigration bill with Ted Kennedy. Obama the “Great Uniter” played no role at all, as it might be politically dangerous.

McCain bravely supported a compromise solution that has led the hard core paritsans on the right to call him “Juan McCain”. They may be partisans, but at least they know what they are talking about.

You are too busy swallowing the stereotypes put out by the AJC and other liberal activists.

By time for the harsh but fair despise leftists truth

May 19, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

GREETINGS worthless leftist surrender monKKKey pondscum and my resident leftist despising conservative chums. This my first post on here for many months. I have cheerily noted on very occasional fleeting perusals that some sad anal loser has posted pretending to be yours truly, which hilariously shows us just how pathetically lonely and inadequate the anally unfunny should have been aborted aborted foreskin is!!

Watching the vile big eared half-black racist BaracKKK Hussein the magic negro loser inexorably ditch the venal lying, ever more desperate HiTllarybitch has truly been fabulous fun. Even funnier will be seeing how the white boy demoncrat scum will continue to lie like Klintons to liberal pollsters about how they’ll vote for the half-black far left surrender monkey Hussein Obama in the autumn and then DON’T!!!

Which means that McLiar the worthless pandering lefty GOP candidate will win. A tragedy for all real Americans, but infinitely better than the election of an elitist nonentity mohammedan sleazebag from the most virulently racist black church in the “US of KKK A” (snigger snigger).

I suppose the leftist racebaiting filth on here have NOTHING to say about the black racist hypocritical hatepig Wright’s million dollar golf course house nestling amongst upper class white folks, his two $140,000+ Mercedes cars and his $10 million line of credit to buy a cross burning business or whatever he chooses to. So much for all the empty hollow vainglorious anti-white black power puke about rich white folks and poor oppressed blacks!!! SNIGGER - SMIRK - SNIGGER!!!

I see poor old inbred rednecKKK was awake first on its state mental hospital ward this morning … some things just never change!! Have a ritalin flavoured Moonpie on me inbred!!

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

By Speakeasy

“Senator Obama may scare old folks, but what scare me are republicans. So far my 401K has tanked, the value of my home has dropped by 20% and I can barely afford gas in my crossover SUV. All of this under a republican president.”

Why don’t you explain to me why Bush is responsible for your 401k going down, the value of your home going down or the price of gas. Be specific.

The stock market jumped from 10k to 12.5k during the Bush admin. The price of gas is due to increased global demand and your house dropped in value because you made a bad investment.

This is just typical whining of liberals with their culture of blame and lack of personal responsibilty.

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

time for the harsh-

You should do some more name calling in your posts. It’s really convincing and doesn’t reflect poorly on you as an individual.

Just curious,do you call people names to their face? Or do you just do it when you are anonymous?

By Thor

May 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

And under Bush the debt has exploded from $5 trillion to almost $10 trillion, helping to push the dollar to new lows. How about a war our children are paying for?

Don’t worry - if your 55 or older you won’t pay for it, your kids will. Vote Republican - cut taxes, blow more money, and charge it to your kids and grandchildren to pick up the bill.

By ron

May 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

401K? Better have a more secure system than that for retirement.Mine didn’t come out as well as projected.

By AmVet

May 19, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Mike, trust one who has been there. It is futile to attempt adult reasoninf with those on the VERY far edges of the lunatic fringe.

The best indicator is their utter dismay that no fringe candidate could win the GOP nomination.

The enmity is ramped up to be sure, but the enjoyment of watching the show is worth it…

By Redneck Convert

May 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Well, I see they let TFTT out of jail for the same thing they arrested the Rev. Jim Bob Buice for.

And just in the nick of time too. Us conservatives are going to need all the help we can get. These Obama people are about to take over this blog.

So welcome back, TFTT. We need your help. It don’t matter if they won’t let you around kids any more.

By dirty hairy

May 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

By time for the harsh but fair despise leftists truth

May 19, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Harsh….”My Friend”, I strongly urge you to take your meds, and a long nap!

Now, nightie night!

By Copyleft

May 19, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty, you’ll have the right to complain about “insulting veteran war heroes” just as soon as you can prove you voted for Veteran Kerry and Veteran Gore over AWOL Bush.

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Thor -

The points I brought up were in direct response to someone who was making a bunch if incorrect assertions. That being said…

For all of your hyperventilating, you are ignoring the fact that the two biggest items in our exploding debt are Medicaid and Social Security. Bush tried addressing these, but the partisan Democrat Congress was more interested in playing games than in trying to solve the problem.

I am as disgusted as you are with the debt problem. However, the notion that it is all Bush’s fault or that the Dems are really going to be any different is absurd. If anything Obama wants to increase entitlement spending.

By Karen Stevenson

May 19, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Obama- an Antichrist We Can Believe In

Consider his sexual rockstar status among young voters, his ability to continuously lie without impunity, his connections to mob members and terrorist both real and wannabes. His strong and unscrupulous desire for raw power, at any cost, regardless what it does to others, (he became senator simply by disqualifying his opponents). His empty words and changing promises, his desire to be friends with those who wish to destroy us. His wife Michele has expressed her hatred for this country and has publicly announced her husband as the messiah.

The voodoo of this all is that Teflon Obama remains unscathed by all his nefarious connections and thug like history. He is worshiped not only blindly by the mindless masses, but by the fearful media.

I am not very religious, but I think Nostradamus got it right again. What is God going to think of all the lemmings that follow a man of darkness?

By Thor

May 19, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Bush and his GOP Congress increased non-defense spending by over 50% in the budget. It was the gravy train. Bush blew it out, hands down. Look at Saxby with all his farm bills!

By Mike

May 19, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

“By Copyleft

Dusty, you’ll have the right to complain about “insulting veteran war heroes” just as soon as you can prove you voted for Veteran Kerry and Veteran Gore over AWOL Bush.”

Well, gosh. From you statements, I can only assume that you are voting for McCain over Obama. I mean Obama didn’t serve, so by your logic, voting for him “insults war heros.”

Do you believe anything you are saying or are you just spouting empty rhetoric?

By Mike

May 19, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

“By Thor Bush and his GOP Congress increased non-defense spending by over 50% in the budget. It was the gravy train. Bush blew it out, hands down. Look at Saxby with all his farm bills!”

And you think Obama is a better candidate to change that than McCain? McCain has spoken out against excessive farm aid. Obama has not because it is politicaly risky to do so.

For all of Obama’s empty rhetoric, where is his plan to cut spending? Where will he cut it?

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Ron Paul for president. There’s no empty rhetoric there, is there.

By carry on

May 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

McCain served in the military, except he was on the Vietcong’s side. name a more effective Vietnamese offensive campaign that wrong way McCain setting fire to that aircraft carrier?

I mean, if you want the truth be very careful sir, because the truth will expose you as a traitor and a liar and no good dirty yellow skunk. (and a terrorist enemy of our state).

Shame on you for being all those things and worse.

Obama 08: he’s not Osama, okay? (morons)

By time for the imperiously witty I hate lefty scum truth

May 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

I see poor old inbred rednecKKK is again projecting its sick and twisted Hall County trailer park child molesting pathologies onto its conservative betters. And (one naturally assumes) aborted foreskin as ever gutlessly hiding behind its 10,000th anally gutless id pukes up an envious thinly veiled deathwish for yours truly.

As for the always execrable arsehole vet and the new take me seriously I’m a serious wanker Mike … been there done that … nuff said!! Just missing the illegal Cuban greaseball getaturd and I’ve gotten the complete set for today!!!

wanker MIke … please explain to me how legitimate, wholly factually descriptive prose is “name calling”!!

We don’t no dissembling liberal twonks like U in Dixie!!

By carry on

May 19, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

McCain served in the military, except he was on the Vietcong’s side. name a more effective Vietnamese offensive campaign than wrong way McCain setting fire to that aircraft carrier?

I mean, if you want the truth be very careful sir, because the truth will expose you as a traitor and a liar and no good dirty yellow skunk. (and a terrorist enemy of our state).

Shame on you for being all those things and worse.

Obama 08: he’s not Osama, okay? (morons)

By Allen Alex

May 19, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

THE SCARY REPUBLICANS

If anyone person feels scared by Obama’s good intentions, you can never be as scared as the extreme scared feelings I have about Republicans and their wild policies, and Jim Wooten’s hateful writings.

I have no job because of Republican wild policies, we are 9-trillion dollars in debts because of Republican wild policies, we have lost dear love ones at war because of Republican wild policies. I believe you do not feel the pain, because you have lost no one yet. A war that should not have been waged anyway.

We need to stop preaching hate and see GOODNESS in TRUTH.

WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE TRUTHFUL, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HATEFUL. Beyond here we pride ourselves as a Christian nation. What a hypocritical rhetoric

By Thor

May 19, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

The WSJ reported last month that all three candidates budget proposals will generate huge deficit spending.

I don’t think any of you have woken up to how bad the deficits will be with these Baby Boomers. It’s unlike anything America has ever faced. We are broke.

By Nick

May 19, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

I think I could’ve fixed social security 100 times over with all the money we’ve needlessly spent on Iraq.

By carry on

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

You know something? Karen is RIGHT! Nostradomus DID say, “A leader who looks like a cartoon monkey will emerge curiously victorious, from the Hister River. Vote not once, but twice, the robed justice will sullenly rage. The superdelectable caged bird howls at midnight foresaking the likely choice, for know that the curious monkey sprouts wings of the flying witch brigade. The wizard of the west and east shall not better the sister of the north and east….(then it goes on to say a child king will ruin the New City by talking like a moron, but who knows what that means….D’OH!)

Now I’m scared 2.

By dirty harry

May 19, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

By time for the imperiously witty I hate lefty scum truth

May 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Harsh or whatever…

Seriously, you make no sense in other words you sound like a raving maniac!

Now, for your own health GO TAKE YOUR MEDS!

By Copyleft

May 19, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Mike: Not at all! Just pointing out Dusty’s simpleminded hypocrisy… which is, of course, like shooting fish in a barrel.

But it’s still fun to drive her crazy reminding her that REAL Americans don’t worship Bush like she does.

By time for the imperiously witty I hate lefty scum truth

May 19, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

expose Hussein Obama as a traitor and a liar and no good dirty yellow skunk. (and a terrorist enemy of our state).

Finally a half decent description of the racebaiting half-black elitist vacuous big eared hate pig from IL!!

huge I hate lefties smirk

Funny how Hussein Obama the magick negro whines and whines about his sullen hateful snotty wife being exposed by the TN GOP. If this anti-American sullen black shrew can continuously campaign and puke up her worthless opinions and bile on Hussein’s behalf then she is a wholly LEGITIMATE target for honest campaign ads!!

By Copyleft

May 19, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

And what would TimeForMoreLies know about honesty? Or legitimacy, for that matter?

“President Obama.” Get used to it, loser.

SMIRK

By Mary Ann

May 19, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

I would like to say that I FULLY support Barack Obama. He is the best candidate. I know that there are some people who do not agree with his ways, but it is time to face the fact that Obama WILL BE the next President of the United States of America. We don’t need a republican or anyother person like Bush in office any more. It is time for a CHANGE in America! Its time for us to move forward and rebuild our economy and country. Obama is the man for the job, despite all of the IMMATURE attacks against him and his family, He will still prevail against all EVIL. In GOD we trust and no matter how simple minded some people may be, OBAMA will rise and be the leader that the U.S. so desperatly needs!!!!

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Copyleft,@12:48

I talk about verteran’s experience, not their sanctity. Kerry’s military experience included talks with Vietnamese enemies in France and throwing his medals over the White House fence. I did NOT vote for him.

Gore’s military experiencee was OK but his Clintonesque criteria was something we did not need again. I did NOT vote for him.

McCain’s military experience included great sacrifice and torture for his country. His experience in the Senate has shown resolve and independent thinking. I will vote FOR McCain.

You will vote for Obama for political reasons only. There is no other apparent reason. He has little experience in ANY field. He is an anti-war proponent during war time. The people closest to him are anti-American anti-white confidants. That is OK with you because he is a Democrat. It is not OK with me.

Mike,

You analyze very well and come to logical conclusions. Most liberals voice “empty rhetoric”(as you mentioned) but little else.

As to the Farm bill, the name should be changed. You probably know, only one third of the allotments in the bill go to “farmers”. The rest is social welfare such as food stamps, etc. That is seldom mentioned. Any blame mentioned is only in the name of “farmers”.

By Speakeasy

May 19, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Wow, does anyone monitor this blog? Magick negro? I heard of Magic Johnson. Sullen, hateful, snotty — sounds like Paris Hilton.

By fearless fosdik

May 19, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

By carry on

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

CARRY ON…I think Nostradamus also said something like this.

In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:

“Come the millennium, month 12 In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.”

What a prophet!

By carry on

May 19, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Do you see the vermin that forms the vestige of conservatism and their vile product on these pages? They’re finished and they know it.

victory. Victory.

VICTORY!!!!

Also notice how the right is trying to spin the last seven years like they didn’t drink the koolaid?

bwa

By Joshua

May 19, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Obviously Jim Wooten got scared by Barack Obama’s statements. As an obvious senior citizen he is probably concerned that the young people of this country will not give him a blank check that he can draw upon until he dies or until someone throws him under a bus. Social security is an antiquated and outdated system that has proved that it is a failure. Grow old and die on your own dime geezer.

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Oh well, the liberal agenda… personal insults, no reasoning, blind obedience to political party, change ( whatever it is), Bush hate, no apparent patriotism, bigotry, anti-warism, tolerance of terrorism, promoting cancer as a political weapon, insulting older Americans……the list goes on and on.

Liberals certainly do show their true colors in all shades of rot.

By time for the imperiously witty I hate lefty scum truth

May 19, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

LMFAO … too funny too funny

ex KKK Klansman Byrd endorses Hussein Obama. Oh the puke making irony!! WV where few working class demoNcrat white folks have any use for Hussein Obama. Couldn’t even get close to carrying the state!!

Will KKK Byrd repeat his despicable infamous Fox News Sunday comments about “white ni.. ggers” in his uber tedious lengthy vainglorious fawning puke? Funny how NO congressional demoNcrat said anything critical about that back then!! Same Old Hypocritical Liberal Scum!!

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Dear Doggy @ 9:09, interesting choice of language: “I wouldn’t trust a Republican to line the bird cage without also raping the bird, much less to engineer the retirement system,” especially in an argument where you praise democrats for raping the productive of our society to fund those who aren’t. I suppose the beauty of “rape” depends on one’s perspective; I hold the view of the victim, who suffers without benefit.

Dear Thor @ 9:52, only leftists would want a bureaucrat, government or otherwise, managing one’s retirement funds. I suspect Jim Wooten would like for Jim Wooten to be managing his retirement funds. I can understand why so many democrats think they are not competent to manage their own monies, as they are not. However, that is not an intelligent reason for them to enslave the rest of us. Your 10:01 is on target, fairly reflecting the democrat malice and republican cowardice.

I look at my 401k about every six months, coming up again in another month. I think the “daytrader” mentality is an error, one is likely to lose long-term perspective. But I did take a peek last week, and I am up around 2% for the year, not as good as Dutchman, but I am ok with that. Thoughtful investing helps. After the democrats passed the ethanol bill and the minimum wage increase, I decided to move my investments to international funds instead. Smart bet: always bet against leftists in power. (Democrats were not always leftists – Bill Clinton moved NAFTA during his administration, for a striking example.) If one assumes the leftists will continue their efforts to choke the economy with regulations and will crush it later by refusing to renew the Bush tax cuts, one would do well to stay with commodities and foreign non-US-dependent stocks (i.e., avoid Japan and Taiwan and China, as they export all to US.) France may be a smart place to move some money, as they are poised for growth in their efforts to unleash some socialist straps. UK may turn conservative in the next election, so their growth potential looks good. I still see India moving the right direction, albeit slowly. On the other hand, the leftist US congress spells doom for South America.

Dear Donovan @ 10:01, the term you seek is “unfunded liabilities” a phrase created by ERISA, but a concept from which the government specifically exempted itself.

Dear fearless @ 10:16, your cut and paste was good, but it confirmed Thor’s argument, that social security funds are often used to mask general budget deficits. That accounting technique is a convenient scam for the overlords, since social security is cash rich but holding long-term massive unfunded liabilities.

Dear Fulton @ 10:30, “You’ll [meaning conservatives] have plenty of time on your hands in ‘08. The rest of us will focus on addressing the actual issues!” It is painfully obvious that leftists have not yet considered actual issues, so focus already.

Dear Dirty @ 10:35, agree, it reminds me of grainy European newsreels of the 1930s.

Dear Morningstar @ 10:39, “It’s [Social Security] one of the most successful programs ever enacted.” Politically you are correct, but economically it is closer to Enron in its success.

Dear halstoon @ 10:45, although I agree with portions of your argument, you seemingly cling to the big brother view (“people are too stupid to be responsible for their own affairs.”) I deeply disagree with one of your lines: “They [conservatives] try to convince us that electing Obama will lead to WWIII with nukes flying all across the globe.” Obama does that himself, with his “appeasement” promises, then decrying people who call him an “appeaser.” Either he is planning to meet (without “preconditions”) with those sponsoring killing of our noble military, or he is not. Meeting without any particular agenda sounds like Kum-ba-ya to me. Certainly there is precedent for that facile attitude, “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” Sen. William Borah, R-Idaho, 1939. In contrast with Obama’s view, a military man saying we have to “deal” with someone (such as Hamas) has an entirely different meaning, and perhaps Captain Queeg retains sufficient spine to mean what he said; I think Dutchman has it right @ 11:00.

Welcome back, TFTT @ 12:28. As you already see here today, I regret to advise that many of our leftist friends are stylistically unchanged during your hiatus, although the names have changed. You will find plenty to fling back into their faces. For awhile I tried a t**-for-tat response to the more egregious leftists, but have since reverted to my former position, merely ignoring the unworthy. Have at them. (And I think you read Mike too harshly – his subsequent posts have substance.)

Well argued Mike @ 12:50 and immediately thereafter. As to TFTT, he is a unique character and has been around for a long time. He mostly selects the least rational leftist on the blog and fires repeatedly, broadly using the same style used by the leftist-target. Your posts are outside the ambit of TFTT’s interests, I suggest you just skip them, much as I skip AmVet. On occasion, instead of just “having fun” as he calls his attacks on the moonbats, TFTT posts an argument of stark brilliance and insight, the best on the board, roughly once or twice per month.

By time for the imperiously witty I hate lefty scum truth

May 19, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Joshua … you gutless yellowbellied AIDS ridden anally unfunny leftist TURD

You just puked this up: Jim Wooten … “As an obvious senior citizen … give him him a blank check that he can draw upon until he dies or until someone throws him under a bus”

Is that a death threat/wish? … abortion bucket escapees like U need to be dunked in liquid nitrogen or oxygen until done … snigger!!

Just wittily mirroring back your obsessive Bush derangement hate!!

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

A word of praise for TFTT. I have always admired intelligent use of the language. Read his last paragraph @ 1:31. Had I written that same idea, it would have said something like: “Sen. Obama’s lament, over exposure of his wife’s questionable campaign style and form, misfires. She makes herself a fair object of exposure with her harsh world-view, much as did Theresa Heinz-Kerry.” Now re-read TFTT’s paragraph, and tell me which is better written. It is not even close, his is a far better command of the language, and much more interesting. Same thought, different use of the language.

By Nelson Scott

May 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

I’m 65 and he doesn’t scare me; in fact, I’ll be voting for him

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Karen Stevenson,

Would you [please] divorce me?

AmVet,

You say, “brazen”

And I say, “breezy”.

You say, “craven”

And I say, “cheezy”.

“Brazen”,

“Breezy”,

“Craven”, “Cheezy”—-

Let’s call it all Jim’s Fault!

By time for the truth

May 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Alright jbm?

Trust U and yours are well. It really doesn’t ever change on here does it? Effortlessly goading these worthless leftist scum is fun, but it gets tedious every damn day!!

One of these pinKKKo dogturds actually just talked of killing/harming Wooten - throwing him under a bus. Such ‘symmetrical’ psychosis is so typical of leftist hate pigs!!

The wife and I will ONLY vote for McLair if it looks like GA will be close. Which it won’t be. Happily half-black elitist racebaiting traitors aren’t popular in Dixie!!

Nice to see the hilarious Operation Chaos under Generalissimo El-Rushbo Limbaugh is doing so well and having such an effect in some liberal vermim infested states.

Cheers for now mate and cheers again for the kind words.

time for the everlasting truth snigger

By Politcal Foreskin

May 19, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Hey, what about me?

By 180

May 19, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

McCain scares the young folks

By Dave

May 19, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

This just in: “US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president”

“FRANKFURT (AFP) - Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies”

Hmm….I guess he knows nothing about money, finances, or the stock market (which has ALWAYS performed better under a democrat administration vs. a republican one…that’s a FACT…there is no disputing it)…

So…if McCain is the “conservative”…? Why would Buffett want a “liberal” to run this country? Because he knows that “conservative” spending and policies only hurt the country…and it hurts his pocket book. Even if Obama raises the taxes on the RICHEST people in the country…he will STILL make more money (Buffett that is)…trickle down Reaganomics do not work, nor did they ever. ALl we got after 12 years of Reagan/Bush was a deficit and a recession…kind of like what we have now. It was Clinton?gore that gave us the surplus…and it took less than 1 year for Dubya and Co. to take it, use it up, and put our nation into the greatest debt it has ever known. McCain offers more of the same…

Do what WARREN does…support and vote Obama 08!!!

By Thor

May 19, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Georgia is not in play in 2008; its a solid red state.

I also think if your a Southern, white male born 1950 or earlier, odds are you won’t vote for Obama - primarily due to race because of how you grew up. You’ll cloke it in policy, but I bet its because of race.

By mkr17

May 19, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Young folks are too ignorant to be scared - that’s why they get killed in auto accidents so much.

Obama quote:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

Oh yeah Obama? WATCH me, fascist socialist. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let some corrupt overseas government DICTATE what I drive or keep my thermostat on.

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw,

Perhaps..if you take a swallow of tabasco before you post..you will be well on your way to TFTT tactical touches. But, nevermind. I like the way you are.

He IS fun!!! I get the satisfied feeling of liberals getting their much needed whacks. Yes, sir, TFTT is good!! An anecdote for awesome ignorance.

By Who

May 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

needs crap with all this fertilizer.

By mkr17

May 19, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

The UN is going to investigate the US for “racism” it appears, hot on the heels of Obama’s election. Everyone saw this coming: a vote that’s not for Obama is a racist vote, and if you don’t vote for him because disagree with his liberal socialist near Marxist views, that’s irrelevant - YOU are a racist. One wonders, is this the same UN that sits on its collective a$$ about Rwanda? You just have to love the left around the globe. By the way, isn’t Obama half white? The left seems to forget that little factoid.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Thor,

Nice broad statement. Untrue, but your paining with a very broad brush.

You seem to forget that 2 fine folks in the Bush administration have garnered very little criticism. One was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs during the first gulf war, then Sec’y of State, who was followed by a female, fluent in 5 languages.

No, the right has no problem with a black running for office, as long as he/she has a record to run on.

By fearless fosdik

May 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

By Thor

May 19, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Thor, I agree with your assessment.

But maybe, just maybe the prophet Bob Dylan got it right back in 1964 when he wrote “THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’”. One can only hope.

By stanton

May 19, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Dave: for every liberal economist like Robert Reich that says Reagan trickle down economics didn’t work in the 1980s, there is another economist that says it worked. Personally, I don’t care what you believe. The economic growth numbers and income growth numbers are out there. The deficit was largely due to defense spending and congressional spending (you do realize Democrats had a large stick in congress under most of Reagan’s term, do you not?). Since yo want to talk about a recession, perhaps you’d like to explain the Clinton recession of late 1999-2000? That’s ok, don’t let facts tip your liberal soap box. You may now return to your propoganda.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

180,

Obama, scares the thinking class.

Hillary, scares the working class

McCain, scares the lazy.

By dirty harry

May 19, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Dutchman you write this…

Thor,You seem to forget that 2 fine folks in the Bush administration have garnered very little criticism. One was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs during the first gulf war, then Sec’y of State, who was followed by a female, fluent in 5 languages.

No, the right has no problem with a black running for office, as long as he/she has a record to run on.

DUTCHMAN.. I hate to point this out to you. But, Powell and Rice did not run for office they were appointed!

By Thor

May 19, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Its not the right or left which has a problem with race, its age and experince encountered growing up.

The younger generations are more tollerant. Show me a Southern white male (and woman) over the age of 58 and odds are they have problems with anyone who isn’t white. Its how they grew up, what they experienced.

Do you think these people really got religion and changed their views? No way.

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Dear Dave @ 2:44, you are correct in all you write about Warren Buffet, but there is colorful information you ignore. He, like George Soros or Ted Turner, consistently votes left and prefers big government. The business world has two differing general views of the proper role of government. One, the traditional conservative, believes that government taxes and regulations cause the great economic engine to bog down, and the best government is the least government. The other, a modern leftist captain of industry view, is that by controlling the government business can inflict injury on its competitors via regulations and targeted taxes, or can derive benefits from corporate welfare. It surely has not escaped your observation that Warren calls for larger estate taxes, to impoverish those who have less than he, while insulating his family via “foundations.” For Warren, it is all about “control.” Perhaps he suspects he could not control McCain.

By AmVet

May 19, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Glenn, very clever.

I know you’ve palled around with Hollywood elites (not elitists!) and other cultural icons.

But did you miss your true calling to be the next Gershwin?

And don’t be too obvious in letting the TRUE conservative and erstwhile patriot know that you and I can converse civilly despite our numerous philosophical and political differences.

She’ll view that as unseemly and you as just another detestable liberal.

Speaking of demented, the fact that the most unhinged of all here, finds me abhorrent is VERY gratifying.

I would have grave doubts about my own basic humanity if we were remotely similar…

By jbmlaw

May 19, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Dear Stanton @ 3:05, I disagree in part. Fewer than 10% of economists argue that Reaganomics were ineffective. All of the growth (and the occasional dislocative pain) in the 1980s is attributable to diminishment of the tax effects on the economic engine. Reich is wrong.

Dear PoFo @ 2:31, I still think you are the funniest guy on the board. Beware, nobody respects my opinion, so you will still have to go out there everyday, slaying new humorous dragons.

By Steve

May 19, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

I’M SURPRISED CYNTHIA DIDN’T PROOF READ YOUR COLUMN PRIOR PRINTING, AND MORE SURPRISED SHE HASN’T REPLACED YOU WITH ANOTHER LEFT WING LIBERAL. KEEP IT UP AND YOU’LL HAVE SOMETHING ELSE IN COMMON WITH BILL O’REILLY.

By Dutchman

May 19, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, wake up, the point of that post was

-No, the right has no problem with a black running for office, as long as he/she has a record to run on.

If Obama had 10-20 years experience, he might not be so scary to some of us. Personally, his 2 years in the Senate is not that great of a resume.

Colin Powell and Condi Rice both have long resumes and are both well established with great credentials.

But, then again, there are not running. Now If J.C Watts was a VP candidate, that would be a real winner. With his 4 terms in Congress, he has the resume.

By time for the truth

May 19, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Here’s an early picture of the Arkansas rapist i.e. Sick Willie Klinton for folks to snigger at:

http://poetry.rotten.com/dog-knowledge/

Cheers for the kind words Dusty. Despising treasonous liberal vermin is one of the most important duties and responsibilities of a citizen… its also an enjoyable privilege which all true patriots should spend a little time on every day. Such are the joys of character building!!

By hotlanta

May 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Shame on you Jim. I wanna talk about Huckaberry Hound making that comment about a gun being pointed at Obama. If Rev. Wright had said anything about pointing a gun at ANYONE you will be having a field day.

By Devastator

May 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

Rain scares the old folks!

By hotlanta

May 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Shame on you Jim. I wanna talk about Huckaberry Hound making that comment about a gun being pointed at Obama. If Rev. Wright had said anything about pointing a gun at ANYONE you will be having a field day.

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

I am amazed to find that there are still people out there who believe that there is a difference — other than label — between the Democrat and Republican parties. Simply, amazed. Vote Ron Paul if you truly want to see some change. Vote for Bob Barr if you want. Don’t vote for the Republican or Democrat candidate. They will deliver more of the same.

By dirty harry

May 19, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

DUTCHMAN..

Watts has been critical of the Republican party’s 2008 presidential candidates because they “don’t show up” for black voters. Kind of shoots your theory down…doesn’t it?

He may have the credentials, but he knows in the south he would be dead meat!

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Is there any one thing that Barack Obama recognizes as greater than his ambition? Any g******* thing?

Then frigging NAME IT. Right here. Right now. Do. We’re waiting.

Because all I see is a half-suave young man who will sell out ANY f*** principle to advance himself.

Call me racist, and I’ll call him much worse. I don’t oppose the man, but I HATE his campaign.

Buncha stupid bustards’ll get fired anyway, first time he runs into the McCain wall.

By Brian

May 19, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

The only thing more tired than dems scaring old folks over social security is the GOP invoking visions of socialism if the dems are elected. A little intellectual honesty would be nice, Jim. Name 1 GOP President who has presided over a reduction in our national debt since Ike. You can’t.

The retardicans rob you blind just like the dems do.

Ron Paul in ‘08.

By Dave

May 19, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Stanton, Please explain why it is that under Clinton/Gore the added 240,000 jobs per month for their 8 years, VS. Reagan/Bush who added 167,000 jobs per month. Also you and I know that the recession in 2000 was NOTHING compared to what took place when Clinton was handed the keys.

Anyway here are your FACTS: “The Clinton-Gore Economic Record: The Longest Expansion In History And Over 22.4 Million New Jobs”

*”November 3, 2000 The Clinton-Gore Economic Record: The Longest Expansion In History And Over 22.4 Million New Jobs Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Released a New Employment Report Showing that Over 22.4 Million Jobs Have Been Created Since January 1993. In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected President, the American economy was barely creating jobs, wages were stagnant, and the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent. President Clinton’s bold, three-part economic strategy has focused on three objectives: fiscal discipline, investing in education, health care, science and technology; and opening foreign markets. This strategy has helped create over 22.4 million jobs and contributed to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

22.4 Million New Jobs Created Under the Clinton-Gore Administration. Since January 1993, the economy has added 22.4 million new jobs. That’s the most jobs ever created under a single Administration — and more new jobs than Presidents Reagan and Bush created during their three terms. Under President Clinton, the economy has added an average of 240,000 jobs per month, the highest of any President on record. This compares to 52,000 per month under President Bush and 167,000 per month under President Reagan.

92 Percent — 20.6 Million — of the New Jobs Have Been Created in the Private Sector. Since President Clinton and Vice President Gore took office, the private sector of the economy has added 20.6 million new jobs. That is 92 percent of the 22.4 million new jobs — the highest percentage since Harry S. Truman was President and presiding over the post-World War II demobilization.”*

Now show me YOUR facts from a named source…I will be waiting…having a few beers….I’m sure I’ll be p** drunk and fall asleep when I see that you come up with nothing…

By TW

May 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Daggum, Glenn. I think the problem is the hypocricy you espouse, what with having sat our your backside and said nothing as ‘w’ held our country’s book upside down for eight years. Know what I mean? Now you choose to frown on ignorance?

Some people aren’t allowed to call other people stupid - those who voted for the reelection of ‘w’ and the guy who thinks NASA’s trip to the sun will have to be at night so it won’t be in their face to name a few…

By doctor do right

May 19, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

GLENN..You are not serious about your last post are you?

If I had the time and inclination I would list all the FLIP FLOPS of McCain.

This guy could be an acrobat in the circus for all the somersaults he has performed on the positions he has taken.

By Randy

May 19, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Jim, is that all you can come up with???

By Believer

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

Yes sireeee. When Huck delivers a sermon, you better be listening and providing the appropriate response.

Do you believe? We believe

I said, DO YOU BELIEVE? WE BELIEVE

“I Can’t HEAR YOU!” was the pointed response from the aroused speaker. Why, you could almost see smoke coming from his ears with each statement that he fired off in the direction of the non-believers.

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Yes, I’m quite serious, but YOU, unfortunately, are a case in point. You can’t NAME OBAMA, so therefore you DEFLECT.

Just keep quiet and watch the campaign for a couple of months, and then decide.

Maroon.

By HIDT

May 19, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

I would like to see McCain pick Colin Powell to be his running mate. He’s smart, experienced, principled and would be attractive to independents and the Republicans who aren’t thrilled with McCain.

Welcome back tftt. Your witty, accurate descriptions and mirroring back is an art I could never hope to imitate (and I’ve tried). Although the Petula Clark thing a couple weeks ago was pretty funny.

By Oh Please

May 19, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

There seems to be plenty of “bitter blue-collar workers” in here. I say give those bitter folks what they want either with Hillary or McCain. After 4 years of the nonsense they would bring may knock some sense into those bitter folks of America. But until then keep on being helpless angry bigoted hate mongers while watching the world change around you.

By George Washington

May 19, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Those stinking old geezers have much to fear…their past membership in the kkk will come back to haunt them…ah plans to make all mah overseers on the plantation african american, and all mah wage slaves former upper class white folks who have fallen onto hard times with the end of cheap and abundent oil….beats em silly, boys

By Oh Please

May 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

There seems to be plenty of “bitter blue-collar workers” in here. I say give those bitter folks what they want either with Hillary or McCain. After 4 years of the nonsense they would bring may knock some sense into those bitter folks of America. But until then keep on being helpless angry bigoted hate mongers while watching the world change around you.

By Oh Please

May 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

There seems to be plenty of “bitter blue-collar workers” in here. I say give those bitter folks what they want either with Hillary or McCain. After 4 years of the nonsense they would bring may knock some sense into those bitter folks of America. But until then keep on being helpless angry bigoted hate mongers while watching the world change around you.

By doctor do right

May 19, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

GLENN…You are the one who stated; Obama is selling out his principles. Not me.

Tell me what these principles are, and your source.

Then I’ll give you a whole host of McCain’s principles where he is a sell out.

I think like DAVE I’ll have a few beers while I’M waiting for your answers.

By Oh Please

May 19, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

There seems to be plenty of “bitter blue-collar workers” in here. I say give those bitter folks what they want either with Hillary or McCain. After 4 years of the nonsense they would bring may knock some sense into those bitter folks of America. But until then keep on being helpless angry bigoted hate mongers while watching the world change around you.

By Steve

May 19, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Clearly Mr. Wooten has no idea what he’s talking about here. This article can be safely disregarded as drivel.

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

May 19, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

And now for the final nail in the conservative coffin: I will vote Red State in November if someone can tell me what the mission of US troops in Iraq is…….

By ghost rider

May 19, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON — Whoever wins the presidency this November, it’s all but a slam dunk they’ll be working with a Democratic Congress. And it probably will be a stronger Democratic majority with more votes than it has today.

Even normally optimistic Republicans conceded in recent days that the landscape is stacked against them after losing their third special House of Representatives election in a row, all in what had been safe Republican districts.

“A large segment of the American public doesn’t have confidence in the Republican Party,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the party’s chief political operative for House races.

I wonder why?

By UncleTom

May 19, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

Just a quick question for you Obama bone heads, what has he ever done, and what has he said he would do, besides ruin healthcare? Heck he can’t even control his cracker hating wife, how will he control a country?

By Thor

May 19, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Oh! I know the answer!!!! The red state people tell me we are fighting over there so the bad guys don’t come here! Oh, but wait… they also told me they are fighting for my freedom! (that makes me feel warm and fuzzy, especially when I don’t see the body bags coming home). Its certainly not about oil, gee… that wouldn’t go well when I’m listening to Lee Greenwood.

The true acid test: if you have an 18 year old boy, would you send him to Iraq? Not me.

By MissionImpossible

May 19, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

The mission of the troops in Iraq is…no, no wait, that was last month, the mission of the troops in Iraq is… no, that was last year’s, the mission of the troops in Iraq is…wait a minute, this mission is impossible, Jim. Why, it could self destruct from all the WMDs in a matter of seconds. I say we just let it explode and take out all those terrorists for us. Then, we can come in and take all that free oil. Besides, that likeness of HW is no longer there for anyone to step on. Did I miss anything important.

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

May 19, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

It’s still early. Bush was visiting Saudi Arabia and Bush had some private moments with the Saudi Royal Family. Was he making a deal with OBL? His only way to communicate with OBL is through the Saudi Royal Family.

SO maybe an October surprise? Some scary attack to be thwarted at the last moment by Bush’s homeland security efforts. Maybe even have McCain using his concealed weapon to hold off a sleeper cell trying to blow up a Sealy Posterpedic Factory, or something equally stupid that the voters will fall for.

I dont put anything past Bush.

By time for the fair and menacing truth

May 19, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

thor, god of the thunder bucket, I thought your prediliction is for boys younger than 18. Don’t you have a NAMBLA meeting to get to?

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Dear HIDT

I had thought of Colin Powell as Vice President. He has always seemed like a fine thoughtful citizen. But he has been all military and McCain is thought of in more military ways than others. That may be more military personalities in power than voters would like.

Then there is Condi, a great person in so many ways. Both of them would be ideal but I do not think they want the office. Maybe they tire of politics.

How about Sessions of Alabama(or is it Mississippi?)? He seems very smart and straight forward. I think McCain would like him and also voters when they get to know him.

And HIDT, I can’t always tell you from PoFo. Perhaps you could give me a clue word or something. There are so many mixed IDs, who knows what. R U dirty Harry, for instance? RedNeck Convert I or II? Fearless Fosdick? We need a directory.

By dusty

May 19, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

We are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight the terroists here!

Oh well, I need to get the liver on the grill. It was such a glorious day until all you unpatriotic libs started with your hate and lies.

Ta Ta…

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Whatever. Whatever. I’m buying.

But while you guys iz lappin’ it up, let’s agree on one thing: since I don’t like the Brand Obama and you do, it’s incumbent upon you and yours to play the game of NAME OBAMA.

Betcha can’t!

Bet I can!

Betcha can’t!

Yes I can!

You can’t!

I can!

Yeah? I dare ya…

By mai tai mike

May 19, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Obama? What has he done? What did he vote on? Where is he going? Usually when someone comes out of nowhere, it usually because they are a flash in the pan. This country should wise up. We don’t need another flash. I don’t know who I’m voting for as of yet. But, you can bet it’ll be someone who’s been around more than a decade that I can pick apart, analyze, read more that an autobiography, and then still have a solid thought about decision to make. So whether you are McCain or Clinton, I know what you’ve done. Obama, not so sure.

By mai tai mike

May 19, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Obama? What has he done? What did he vote on? Where is he going? Usually when someone comes out of nowhere, it usually because they are a flash in the pan. This country should wise up. We don’t need another flash. I don’t know who I’m voting for as of yet. But, you can bet it’ll be someone who’s been around more than a decade that I can pick apart, analyze, read more that an autobiography, and then still have a solid thought about decision to make. So whether you are McCain or Clinton, I know what you’ve done. Obama, not so sure.

By doctor do right

May 19, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Whatever. Whatever. I’m buying.

GLENN: Does your mamma and daddy know you are playing with their computer?

I seriously suggest you spend more time on your ABC’s and less time playing with the big boys!

Now, go jump on your big wheel and tear around the trailer park.

By HIDT

May 19, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Sessions is from Alabama. I could support him. I am not dirty harry or fearless fosdick, but am the funnier of the two Rednecks. Sorry, but I cannot supply a directory, because keeping them guessing is three quarters of the fun. Have a great rest of your day.

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

OK Thor and misc. other losers. 4:36.

Just because you are too dumb and scared to support your country, don’t brag about it. It is not a proud bit of cowardice you possess.

Young men and women don’t need your permission to fight for our country. They volunteer their service which means they care more about your freedom than you do.

I get so tired of lazy lugs sittting in the best country in the world, babbling away like Osama idiots. Don’t endure any more of your agony. LEAVE!!

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Another idiot @4:50. ID thief…not Dusty

Ta ta!…phew…that’s real cute, sweetie…

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

PoBullmastif,

Ain’t you got nothing better to do than to p!ss on your employer’s blogs all day and drive off the curious visitors?

That Jim Wooten must be a champeen weenie to put up with an even teentsier weenie like you for his protection…

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

All the politicians want to keep this election focused on picking one of the three Democrats — Obama, Clinton, or McCain. Don’t take the bait. Don’t listen to those who only try to distract you with meaningless rhetoric. Don’t vote for four more years of wasted time with these Democrats and Republicans. There’s not an ounce (substitute gram if you prefer the metric system) of meaningful difference between them. Vote for Ron Paul or Bob Barr or even SpongeBob. Don’t vote for the career politicians any more. Vote for real change instead.

By TW

May 19, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this

Q: Why would a rightwing site, during an election year, not discuss the qualities of their candidate?

A: Because they don’t have one.

Making this a referendum on Obama gives the right a shot.

Obama versus McSame is a loser, and the right knows it.

McSame ‘08 BECAUSE ‘w’ CAN’T RUN AGAIN

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

NOTE: The previous post was brought to you by Citizens for Undifferentiation, who say, “At Citizens for Undifferentiation, We Believe in the Politics of What the Hell!”

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama: He’s Not Butter!

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

TW,

Put up or shut up, my friend: NAME OBAMA

By Political Foreskin

May 19, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this

Ah say, I know you are, but what am I?

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

TW@5:17

McCain is a well known veteran, POW, senator and statesman. His record is clear.

Obama is a… errr… senator for a few years. He NEEDS discussing because nobody is sure WHAT he stands for other than the nebulous “change”. One “change” would be the first time a Commander-in-Chief was an anti-war protestor. Yes, we NEED to discuss Obama.

By Nostrasomethingvulgar

May 19, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Yeah? Yeah?? Well, whaddabout YOUR political idols and objects of sensuous veneration and intimate wooooo?

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

What the hell is Glenn talking about anyway. Vote for Ron Paul. Break out of that rut and vote for real change. There is no need to settle for more of the same.

By BL

May 19, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

This article and related comments are a prime example why Georgia is considered and rightly so a back woods hick state. Wake up people a new day is coming!

By Daphne da Dumfah

May 19, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

That’s all very well and good. (I GUESS!)

But all I care about is selecting the best candidate for the Office of President. (Did I say “best”? I guess now it’s down to “better”, huh?)

And what I’m saying is the same exact thing that I was saying last night, which is—-or was—-

…what, exactly? Um-mm-mmmm…

Oh yeah. Barack Obama!

Barack Obama,

He’s Our Man!

If he can’t (something…something…)

Oh hell. Just vote against the White Male Oppressor dude.

By BL

May 19, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

This article and related comments are a prime example why Georgia is considered and rightly so a back woods hick state. Wake up people a new day is coming!

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

May 19, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

Obama be our president. That’s a resume stuffer, eh?

By doctor do right

May 19, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

By Taxpayer

May 19, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

What the hell is Glenn talking about anyway.

TAXPAYER..His mamma and daddy have been contacted at the local Wal-Mart (where they work) that LITTLE GLENN is once again on their computer and next will be surfing the PORN sites!

By Demojob

May 19, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Let’s play *Name That Democrat!”

Welcome folks, and today on Name That Democrat! we have an unusual challenge for y’all.

That’s right! BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!

Are y’all ready?

Are ya?

‘Cause here we go. Now folks, con-cen-trate…and…

NAME BARACK OBAMA!!!!

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

NAME BARACK!

By TW

May 19, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Glenn - you prove my point.

Dusty - what about the lobbyist he was banging? What was her name? Or the SNL slime he rubbed elbows with to screw us in the 80s? How about his eight year kneeling job in front of the worst president in the history of the US? He flip-flops more than Kerry (probably due to Alzheimer’s, but still)? He’s more amnesty than Kucinich?

Not to mention the fact that he’s a Republican. And in this day and age, a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama could get elected before another Republican.

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

NAME BARACK!

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

NAME BARACK!

By anthony

May 19, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

The two biggest taxes increases during peacetime was during the rights patron saint Reagan.imagine that.

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

TW, look. I sh!t you not…

NAME BARACK!

You see?

By Barack (the aitch is silent)

May 19, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

I know, I know. Many people have asked me that very question. And I understand. From one corner of this great…land, to another…I UNDERSTAND. But what you fail to realize is that in the back of The Bird is a—-ACH! (gurgle-gurgle went Peter Lorre…)

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Fu@#ing name Obama or STFU, you DANGEROUSLY stupid Democrats.

By Glenn

May 19, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Just name your man, a*******holes. He’s too cheap&cheezy to name himself, so it’s incumbent on you even though you don’t like it.

By Dusty

May 19, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

The crazies are back, brought on by Obama fever. Keep the children inside. Tie up the dog. Avoid the drooling ones! They have lost it!!!

By Mary Davidson

May 20, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Before you go shooting off your mouth about Mr. Bush never saying he wanted to privatize SS, you should consult lexus nexus (or what ever you use for research) so that you don’t come off looking uninformed. He DID want to, said so and got shot down. Here’s the lnk: file:///C:/DOCUME~1/OWNER/LOCALS~1/TEMP/www.washingtonpost.comwp-dyncontentarticle20060207AR2006020701865.html

By RWP

May 20, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Corporations are out for their profit and would destroy social security just as they have destroyed our environment, our health, and the lives of people around the world in blood for oil wars.

Wake up fellow senior citizens! The dollar is about to tank and McCain wants more war! Obama may be young but he’s wiser than his years and he knows the difference between Heaven and Hell.

By RWP

May 20, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Corporations are out for their own profit and would destroy social security just as they have destroyed our environment, our health, and the lives of people around the world in blood for oil wars.

Wake up fellow senior citizens! The dollar is about to tank and McCain wants more war! Obama may be young but he’s wiser than his years and he knows the difference between Heaven and Hell.

By RWP

May 20, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Corporations are out for their own profit and would destroy social security just as they have destroyed our environment, our health, and the lives of people around the world in blood for oil wars.

Wake up fellow senior citizens! The dollar is about to tank and McCain wants more war! Obama may be young but he’s wiser than his years and he knows the difference between Heaven and Hell.

By RWP

May 20, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Privatizing SS would only work if we had a stable economy and corporations could be trusted. Fat chance. Corporations today are out for their own profit at the public’s expense. They would destroy social security just as they have destroyed our environment, our health, and the lives of people around the world in blood for oil wars.

Wake up fellow senior citizens! The dollar is about to tank and McCain wants more war! You really want to gamble your future on the stock market. Obama may be young but he’s wiser than his years and he knows the difference between Heaven and Hell.

By Jimbo

May 21, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

The government can take their ponzi scheme/overdraft fund and shove it.

If the baby boomers wanted social security benefits they could rely on, they should’ve had more children.

I don’t need any reimbursement on what I’ve paid in thank you, just let me opt out.

By Ramona

January 18, 2009 6:48 AM | Link to this

Greeting. It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. I am from China and also now am reading in English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “Tips, hints, and advice on how to perfect that kiss for that special person in your life.”

THX 8-), Ramona.