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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Barack Obama’s now within a hundred delegates of securing the Democratic Party nomination to fulfill the legacy of George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore.
John McCain’s spokesman Tucker Bounds set it up:
“This election is fundamentally about who Americans can trust to secure peace and prosperity for the next generation of Americans. Without a doubt, Barack Obama is a talented political orator, but his naive plans for unconditional summits with rogue leaders and support for big tax hikes on hardworking families expose his bad judgment that Americans can ill-afford in our next president.”
What he neglected to say is that four members of the U.S. Supreme Court are likely to retire over the next eight years. And since Democrats control both the House and the Senate, a left-lock on the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court should be enough to complete the march to the welfare state.
The stakes this November, then, could not be higher.
Throughout the primary season, the end-of-day story in every state has been how blacks and whites voted. It happened again in reporting exit polls in Kentucky and phone surveys in Oregon, the two states voting Tuesday.
Here are the first two paragraphs of an Associated Press report on those results:
“White voters played a decisive role in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lopsided victory Tuesday in Kentucky’s Democratic presidential primary. Barack Obama got the victory in more liberal Oregon, where race and the hard-edged rivalry between the two embattled candidates was muted.
“Nearly nine in 10 of each state’s voters were white, surveys of voters showed, but there the similarities ceased. Kentucky’s less educated, less liberal, poorer and more rural population fit the profile of states where Clinton has done well, while Oregon’s better schooled, more affluent and urban residents more resembled those that have delivered for him all year.”
Spare me the Southern stereotypes here, but the story went on to note that Hillary Clinton won the support of 63 percent of the white college graduates who voted Tuesday in Kentucky. Obviously the “better-schooled” and presumably more affluent Southerner did not prefer Obama.
Is Obama’s race the explanation? You can believe that if you also believe that the better-schooled or the worse-schooled Kentucky voter would have chosen McGovern, Dukakis or Kerry.
The left is determined to make this election a referendum on white racism. But the fact is that a majority of this country has not and will not now elect a president who runs as far to the left as Barack Obama.
It is essentially over. Obama will be the Democratic nominee. The party has what it has, a candidate who in Kentucky failed to win the votes in a Democratic primary of all age groups and incomes, the college-educated and those who aren’t, and those who described themselves as liberal,moderate and conservative.
By the convention this is a party that will have buyer’s remorse. They’re getting themselves another McGovern.
Comments
By jbmlaw
May 21, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
“If Barack Obama had given a speech on bowling, it might well have been brilliant and inspiring. But instead he actually tried bowling and threw a gutter ball. The contrast between talking and doing could not have been better illustrated.” Dr. Tom Sowell.
I am comfortable that in his face to face meetings with the Iranian mullahs Obama will handle them as well as he handles a bowling ball. And his pretty words may delay the Iranian nuclear attack on Israel by five minutes. The good news, Obama’s tough talk with Iran will live up to the legacy of Jimmy Carter, who used the same strategy. And after eliminating the Bush tax cuts, when the economy runs aground, I assume we will get a Malaise speech: “”We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.” Thank goodness democrats cured the oil crisis with corn-based ethanol, instead of drilling in the ANWR desert. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Who’s blind and ignorant?
Obama is such an odd bird. He is willing talk to terrorists who run a country – Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela – but he will not talk to terrorists who run a movement – Hamas, Hezbollah. I suppose if he never does anything but talk, however, the terrorists will take over their countries, and then qualify for US concessions, like the state-sponsors of terrorism. And pulling out of Iraq will help lots.
In contrast, I can live with, “Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran.” Kinda sounds like “I’ve signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.” I have no illusions about Captain Queeg’s limitations, but between these two, this race is not a hard decision. My only decision is whether there might be a meritorious protest vote I can cast. Since the only libertarians still around – Bob Barr, Ron Paul - are wrong on the one big issue, I doubt it.
Those dastardly Tennessee republicans – they dare to show videotape of Mrs. Hussein saying stupid indefensible things, things that cause a normal person to question her patriotism. Why that’s almost as bad as questioning her patriotism. How dare they use her words against her! Truth and logic are unfair to democrats, and should be outlawed. And with this Congress, the odds are pretty good. We can always count on leftists to criminalize political differences. Yes, we can!
By HIDT
May 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
Obama was easy to market (young, hip, looks good, sounds good) and that’s what has gotten him to this point. He is not a man of towering intellect and selfless dedication to the public good. He is an excelllent politician. He’s skilled in running for office. No more, no less. He still will have that to sell come November and I hope voters won’t buy.
By Anyone But Hillbama
May 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Let’s hope so - 49 states for McCain in November, 1 for Obama - just like McGovern.
By jm
May 21, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
I wonder which is worse, being compared to a man who ran for president 36 years ago or being compared to the one sitting in the White House for the last eight years. I wonder when Mr. Wooten will wirte a column praising the virtues of John McBush.
By Thor
May 21, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
The Bush Administration is speaking with Iran, Hezboloah and Hamas - but you right wing party hacks don’t read newspapers do ya? Just let Hannity tell you what to think. Get comfortable on your couch as you want a war with Iran, playing flip the channel to watch American Idol. You’re a tourist. Let some other kid get blown up as Bush cats around with Iran, it won’t effect you.
Southern right wingers think the rest of the country is like them - its not. You guys are on the hard right.
By Cyrus "Lackey" Guitar
May 21, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
I may be all the way up in Nashville but I shore do appreciate your columns, Mr. Wooten. This one’s perfect!
By tracher
May 21, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
A scary thing about educated racists is that they know how to lie about being racist. Don’t give Kentucky so much credit. I agree with the McBush comment. You are focusing on the wrong things here, Mr. Wooten, but it only shows your insecurity in the strength and brilliane in a man like Barrack Obama. Maybe you should move to Kentucky. You’d fit right in with all of the college educated racists.
By College student
May 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Good morning, everyone! I would like to point out that ex-President Richard Nixon, that shining example of a politician and the anathema of everything bad about American politics, won that race.
The same Richard Nixon who helped cover up a wiretapping scheme, the same Richard Nixon who covered up secret funds, the same Richard Nixon who resigned before being impeached. The same Richard Nixon who, despite being vehemently anti-Communist, went to Red China for the first time and recognized China as a country over the previous administrations’ recognition of Taiwan as the legitimate government of China.
I’m not defending Obama here, I’m just saying that your stone age political references (I mean, REALLY OLD! The early 70s! I don’t even remember the 80s!) have no relevance to today’s contests. Especially when you consider what the victors have done once they’ve reached office.
By fearless fosdik
May 21, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
By HIDT
May 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
HIDT…Are describing George Bush, or OBAMA? Leave out the the “sound good” and one has the perfect caricature of George the stupid!
By Tiredof Ignorance
May 21, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
I make a little over $100K per year and 2 associates of mine grossed well over $1 million last year. I paid almost more taxes as they did. Please, jbmlaw and Mr. Wooten, tell me more about Bush’s Tax Cut and how you benefit from it. Unless you two have salaries such as my associates, you don’t benefit. I pick through everything before I eat. So, go and feed that crap to someone else. Just in case you are typing this blog from planet MARS, we here on earth are suffering financially thanks to your RIGHT-WINGED Party leaders who are raking in the money from LIGHT, SWEET CRUDE OIL at $130 per barrel. We need a President for the United States of America that will create jobs here and enhance our status as a world economic power. Instead, your Mr. Bush seems more like the President of China and India for he has help boost their ecomony expeditiously by sending them all of our jobs. But hey, that is just my opinion!
By Dave
May 21, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Seems a better example would me more like John “dubya-dick” McCain…which = MORE OF THE SAME!
By Eric
May 21, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
The DNC with Dean, Pelosi and Reid at the helm have put the party in a no win win position. If Obama doesn’t get the nomination you would take the black vote away in the general. Obama gets the nomination and all the swing states with the white vote don’t go his way.
The loss of either voting block spells doom for the party and you can lay it right on Deans lap. At this stage of the election most people have made up their minds on who they will vote for. Even if a small portion of the people here say they won’t vote for Obama, it is enough to swing a state like Oh, Ky, Fla or Pa.
Obama has an uphill struggle to change peoples mind to vote for him. While both Obama and Clinton say they both have the same political agenda on health care, war and the economy, the Clinton supporters will still not vote for him and that is a deal breaker.
The radical left of the party must ask themselves just what is it that the other HALF of the party find objection to with Obama? You just can’t call everyone racist that doesn’t want to vote for him, there has got to be something else where he is not connecting.
It is a sad state of affairs the democrats have put themselves in and now it comes down to nominating someone who has already lost the GE.
signed: Independent African-American
By Get Real
May 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
At this point, I think I’d rather have McGovern than the illustrious George W. Bush. Not much to talk about on the Republican side huh Wooten? So you’d rather resort to name calling. YOUR guy has already turned this country into a police state. Tapping phones, accessing bank accounts, keeping innocent people from bording planes with that great terror watch list. YOU GUYS have screwed this country up, and this is the only article you can think of? Nothing of substance? You’re doing a great job Wootie!
By Spence
May 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Speaking of summits with rogue leaders its being reported today that the Israeli’s are engaged in peace talks with Syria. Oh the humanity!
And this “…support for big tax hikes on hardworking families expose his bad judgment that Americans can ill-afford in our next president.”
Is this some kind of a sick joke? Is the national debt healthy for this country? What this country can ill afford is 20% of the budget going to interest payments, mostly going to China. What this country can ill afford is a continued war in Iraq wasting billions monthly.
Wake up from your Fantasyland dream, everyone knows it became a nightmare. Continuing the Bush path will be a disaster.
By ron
May 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Good morning.One can only hope that Obama turns out like McGovern.I certainly don’t want to see him as President,backed up by the likes of Reid and Pelosi.That would be an unmitigated disaster.
Ted Kennedy sees Obama as his flag bearer for future liberalism.That should tell voters something.More taxes are a given.Carbon tax anyone?Not for any reason,just because they can.
Dr.Sowell?Bob Barr and Ron Paul,jbmlaw?Libertarians are going nowhere fast.Why does anyone dabble in the fringes during an actual election?A libertarian’s best bet this time is surely McCain.Same with Conservatives.
By Copyleft
May 21, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
More wishful thinking, Wooten. “Another McGovern”? Maybe in that he’s RIGHT on all the issues, and that conservatives hate him.
But no, you’re pretending that Obama will LOSE. (snicker) How pathetic. He’s already won, you ninny. The Democratic primary is where we choose the president, and so far Obama is the clear winner. McLame isn’t even a factor.
Funny how “the stakes couldn’t be higher” in every single election, isn’t it? The atmosphere of permanent panic, of eternal emergency, is what drives the neocon mindset. Fearmongering is VITAL to whip the followers into line. They have to believe the entire American Way of Life is at stake every time election day rolls around—otherwise, they might consider the actual ISSUES and what’s best for themselves and the country, rather than reflexively panic-voting against this year’s phantom menace.
So what will it be this time? Gay marriage? Willie Horton? Or “then the terrorists win”? Maybe they’ll cook up a variant of “Democrats want us to become a caliphate, with every American required to bow to Mecca five times a day!” (snicker)
This is entertaining to watch as the GOP goes down in flames. Denial is a funny thing!
Don’t you worry, Wootenites. President Obama will make it all better. Liberalism will rescue this country, even for those backward fools who hate and fear it.
By Anyone But Hillbama
May 21, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Hey - college student: Thanks so much for reciting your latest history lesson to those of us who are old enough to have lived through the Nixon administration and remember its achievements (and embarrassments) - you taught me so much (insert sarcasm here). We didn’t have to read a blurb in a college history book - we were there. You, sir, with your smart-assed “I’m in college so I know everything” attitude are the one who has no relevance here. And - anyone who takes history classes in college is usually a loser with no idea what to major in and on the 5 or 6 year plan.
By getalife
May 21, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Clint Eastwood was dead right about Clinton.
He said she is a fighter that deserves our respect. They say Ted Kennedy is the last lion of the Senate but Clinton will step up and lead when he gets treatment.
She deserves the nomination but Americans have drank the kool aid again and chose the one who gives good speeches but has done nothing to deserve the nomination.
When will Obama step up and lead? He will do nothing but give speeches.
We get what we vote for.
By Scholar
May 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
If the Democrats want any chance of winning this thing it will have to be an Obama-Clinton ticket.
And if life is so good under right-wing Republican leadership, then how come things suck so bad right now? Oh yeah, the Democratically controlled Congress, that must be it. Give me a break.
By Will
May 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this
Dear Mr. Wooten:
Although most of the attention has been understandably on the democrat primaries, have you noticed that republicans continue to vote in primaries for someone other than Senator McClain? Last night, one in five republican voters in Oregon and one in four republican voters in West Virginia chose someone other than Senator McCain.
Nationally, about one in five republican voters have chosen someone other than Senator McCain since he wrapped up the nomination.
If one in five republican voters do not vote for Senator McCain this November, I don’t think he will carry any state other than the Old Confederacy, Arizona, West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and possibly one or two other Rocky Mountain/Midwestern states.
Do you think republicans are suffering from “buyers remorse”?
By Copyleft
May 21, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Hey, that’s a good reminder! Where’s your column praising the many virtues of McLame, Mr. Wooten? Surely you’d like the chance to crow about what a WONDERFUL candidate McLame is, and how he’ll make a GREAT president that every right-winger will be proud to call Lord and Master, right?
Right?
We’ve been waiting for that column for quite a while… what’s taking so long?
By deegee
May 21, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
You bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran folks need to wake up and smell the coffee. Then read the international news. You will find that Israel is holding indirect talks with Syria, Turkey being the mediator. Qatar helped broker a deal in Lebanon between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. There is a need for diplomacy in the Mideast. Apparently the US lacks the confidence to be a part of the diplomatic process. A new administration headed by Barck Obama may help the US regain trust in the region.
By Peter
May 21, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Jim has become like the rest of the Lemmings here……
A name caller…….which gets us back too…..”More Family Values”.
Why is he not saying all the wonderful things Bush has done for America?
Why……. because there isn’t anything positive he has done.
Ok Bush did started a WAR, and gave away a bunch of ridiculous contracts to Dick Cheney’s buddies….declared it WON, and will leave office without a conclusion.
Has Jim mention the debt the country is in?
How about the state of housing, or the inflation we are now going through?
Has Jim mention after 8 years of abusing the ecology, King George has now stated that “global Warming” is real?
Faulty intelligence I guess!
Gee Jim, why don’t you talk about something positive the Republicans have done?
Is there any positive you can SPIN Jim, or are you going to continue to resort to your negativity as usual?
Also Jim….. what if Clinton gets in not Obama….. are you going to pull out the Female and Male card then?
Jim is a racist we see…..”More Family Values”!
By dirty harry
May 21, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Mark McKinnon, the former chief media adviser to George W. Bush, and A top aide to John McCain’s presidential campaign, admitted that he liked Barack Obama so much, he didn’t want to work on the campaign running against Obama and he wouldn’t create negative ads against the Illinois senator if he became the Democratic nominee.
The rats are beginning to jump ship!
By W
May 21, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Dear Mr. Obama,
When it comes time to beg and plead in order to extract a favor or two from a mideast country — or, any country for that matter — just follow my lead. I’ve got years of invaluable experience at it now. By the way, if you are in need of an experienced goodwill ambassador, please keep me in mind.
Thank You, Your Leader, W
By Glenn
May 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Hi deegee. Let me just tell you straight out, that isn’t the way I see it at all. The international news this week—-excepting the oil inflation—-is all favorable (for a change) to the Administration. The “bomb, bomb, bomb” thing was more than five years ago, and guess what: Iraq did wake up and smell the coffee. And Iraqis know from coffee. They also know, now, the best practices of the present state of the art of warfare—-so nobody had better try to amend their borders, so to speak.
Why would assume that Turkey was moved of its own accord to sit the enemies at the table?
Come on, deegee. This week just doesn’t plug into the election dynamics. Better luck next week…
By George Washington
May 21, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Anyone who trusts the entrenched WashingAss power structure is either a Traitor or a Fool, and in Dusty, JMBLAW, and Glenn ‘s cases, both. The pro israel crowd have gone to great trouble and great expense to made danmed good and sure Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies, even to the point of destroying the career’s of anyone who would make peace between america and any one of israel’s many and completely understandable enemies. If that is the way you people want to live your lives, then be well aware that we will all pay a very high price to benefit the pet country of less than 2% of Americans, especially in the areas of oil, and dead and horrible maimed misguided young americans who foolishly volunteer to serve the demands of these TRAITORS. The zionist’s puppets already hide the body bags returning from Iraq, too bad LBJ and Tricky Dick didn’t think of that in the 60’s, or we could still be enjoying the joys of endless war with little brown brother, and just maybe we would never ever have heard of little jimmy woodenhead except if we happended to read his name on the now 10 mile long black wall in WashingASS. How long will the Iraq Wall be?
By The Truth
May 21, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
in response to tired of ignorance - There is much to consider in the upcoming election and this is just one facet. Regardless of who you are leaning towards, you might find the following to be quite an eye opener.
Granted, at the moment its all “campaign proposals” and would need to be “enacted”, but if it were… Just how would it affect you?
Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN 15% (no change)
OBAMA 28% CLINTON 24%
How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN 15% (no change)
OBAMA 39.6%
CLINTON 39.6%
How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton become president. The experts predict that “Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.”
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes) Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500 Single making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 60K - tax $9,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
CLINTON (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA keep the inheritance tax
CLI N TON keep the inheritance tax
How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA
New taxes on retirement accounts and last but no t least….
New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
Can you afford Clinton or Obama? I can’t!
In case you want more information on Obama’s tax and spend agenda:
If Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced With Financing $874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term:
Updated February 14, 2008:Obama’s National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank Will Cost $60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal To $6 Billion A Year And $24 Billion Over Four Years. Obama: “I’m proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 b illion over ten years.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks On Economic Policy, Janesville, WI, 2/13/08)
Obama’s Health Care Plan Will Cost Up To $65 Billion A Year; Equal To $260 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama] campaign officials estimated that the net cost of the plan to the federal government would be $50 billion to $65 billion a year, when fully phased in, and said the revenues from rolling back the tax cuts were enough to cover it.” (Robin Toner and Patrick Healy, “Obama Calls For Wider And Less Costly Health Care Coverage,” The New YorkTimes, 5/30/07)
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost $150 Billion Over 10 Years, Equal To $15 Billion Annually And $60 Billion Over Four Years. “Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissio ns coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 25)
Obama’s Tax Plan Will Cost Approximately $85 Billion A Year; Equal To $340 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama’s] proposed tax cuts and credits, aimed at workers earning $50,000 or less per year, would cost the Treasury an estimated $85 billion annually.” (Margaret Talev, “Obama Proposes Tax Code Overhaul To Help The Poor,” McClatchy Newspapers, 9/19/07)
Obama’s Plan Would Raise Taxes On Capital Gains And Dividends, And On Carried Interest. Obama’s tax plan includes: “[i]ncreasing the highest bracket for capital gains and dividends and closing the carried interest loophole.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama: Tax Fairness For The Middle Class,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/8/08)
Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package Will Cost $75 Billion. “Barack Obama’s economic plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy by getting money in the form of tax cuts and direct spending directly to the people who need it most.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan To Stimulate The Economy,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 1/13/08)
Obama’s Early Education And K-12 Package Will Cost $18 Billion A Year; Equal To $72 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s early education and K-12 plan package costs about $18 billion per year.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan For Lifetime Success Through Education,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 11/20/07, p. 15)
Obama’s National Service Plan Will Cost $3.5 Billion A Year; Equal To $14 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s national service plan will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is fully implemented.” (Obama For America, “Helping All Americans Serve Their Country: Barack Obama’s Plan For Universal Voluntary Citizen Service,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 12/5/07)
Obama Will Increase Our Foreign Assistance Funding By $25 Billion. “Obama will embrace the Millenn ium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal.” (Obama For America, ” The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 53)
Obama Will Provide $2 Billion To Aid Iraqi Refugees. “He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own country can find a safe-haven.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 51)
Obama Will Provide $1.5 Billion To Help States Adopt Paid-Leave Systems. “As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a $1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states offset the costs for employees and employers.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 15)
Obama Will Provide $1 Billion Over 5 Years For Transitional Jobs And Career Pathway Programs, Equal To $200 Million A Year And $800 Million Over Four Years. “Obama w ill invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 42)
Obama Will Provide $50 Million To Jump-Start The Creation Of An IAEA-Controlled Nuclear Fuel Bank. Obama: “We must also stop the spread of nuclear weapons technology and ensure that countries cannot build — or come to the brink of building — a weapons program under the auspices of developing peaceful nuclear power. That is why my administration will immediately provide $50 million to jump-start the creation of an International Atomic Energy Agency-controlled nuclear fuel bank and work to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” (Sen. Barack Obama, “Renewing American Leadership,” Foreign Affairs, 7-8/07)
By Peter
May 21, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Hey Jim…… You Republican’s talking about this…… “More Family Values”
Associated Press Published on: 05/16/08
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.
Hearing a loud noise and interrupting his speech, Huckabee said: “That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He’s getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he — he dove for the floor.”
Yes this is just what Republicans like to talk about…..
Of course it doesn’t make for great relationships within our America, but hey are Republicans really trying to unite America?
By Glenn
May 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
First, thank God for Richard Nixon. That’s right. Do it. You’ll rt
U be a wiser and better person for it.
Second, “tracher”/Teacher @ 9:03 hits the high mark for the day with the irrefutable (as in go ahead, try it) observation that “A scary thing about educated racists is that they know how to lie about being racist.”
That’s essentially what Jim did in his remarks on Sen. Obama’s reception in Oregon. And now, Teacher’s Challenge: Can you explain why and how?
By George Washington
May 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
With all due respect deegee, Israel is the problem, not the solution.
By Dave
May 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
Great posts Peter and Dirty Harry!
Seems to me reading the posts over the past 2 or 3 days…even THIS neo-con cheerleading blog has had WAY more of us that want real change. Liberals and a few few former GOP fans that know we can’t have more of the same…That THIS is the “deepest and darkest” our nation has ever become…and it happened because of the GOP and values voters. You know those that vote based on “fear”… fear of “the make believe”….
GOP is TOAST for ANOTHER 40 years… yet sad to say…it will probably take longer than that to fix the damage that Dubya and Co. have done.
My only hope is that they are put on trail before the world…for ALL to see. From the war crimes they have committed, to the abuse of our constitution and amendments, and for the laws they have broken….
Thanks to ALL you LIBERALS (and those that continue everyday to switch parties)! LIBERAL=Badge of Honor! Keep calling us that…nothig could make us prouder!!!
By Sean
May 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
I enjoy the healthy debate this forum allows. I am a Conservative and will vote for the most conservative candidate (McCain) this Fall.
Here is a little advice to all of the transplant liberals here in Atlanta: If you want to make your B.O. vote mean something, you better move to another state. The state of Georgia will never elect a Facist Liberal like Barry.
By MV7
May 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
No way can Obama win the south, without the south you can’t be president. Like it or not it’s racial. No one will admit that in an exit poll but KY primary shows exactly what the dems fear the most. While McCain isnt a strong candidate in many conservatives eyes, he wins hands down in big Northeast states (NY, PA) while winning the south (exception maybe VA). It will be fun to watch the liberal crowds wailing and gnashing of their teeth when their savior loses by a large majority. Without the hanging chads, what else can they blame?
By The Truth
May 21, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
in response to tired of ignorance - There is much to consider in the upcoming election and this is just one facet. Regardless of who you are leaning towards, you might find the following to be quite an eye opener.
Granted, at the moment its all “campaign proposals” and would need to be “enacted”, but if it were… Just how would it affect you?
Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN 15% (no change)
OBAMA 28% CLINTON 24%
How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN 15% (no change)
OBAMA 39.6%
CLINTON 39.6%
How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton become president. The experts predict that “Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.”
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes) Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500 Single making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 60K - tax $9,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
CLINTON (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA keep the inheritance tax
CLI N TON keep the inheritance tax
How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA
New taxes on retirement accounts and last but no t least….
New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
Can you afford Clinton or Obama? I can’t!
In case you want more information on Obama’s tax and spend agenda:
If Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced With Financing $874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term:
Updated February 14, 2008:Obama’s National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank Will Cost $60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal To $6 Billion A Year And $24 Billion Over Four Years. Obama: “I’m proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 b illion over ten years.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks On Economic Policy, Janesville, WI, 2/13/08)
Obama’s Health Care Plan Will Cost Up To $65 Billion A Year; Equal To $260 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama] campaign officials estimated that the net cost of the plan to the federal government would be $50 billion to $65 billion a year, when fully phased in, and said the revenues from rolling back the tax cuts were enough to cover it.” (Robin Toner and Patrick Healy, “Obama Calls For Wider And Less Costly Health Care Coverage,” The New YorkTimes, 5/30/07)
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost $150 Billion Over 10 Years, Equal To $15 Billion Annually And $60 Billion Over Four Years. “Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissio ns coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 25)
Obama’s Tax Plan Will Cost Approximately $85 Billion A Year; Equal To $340 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama’s] proposed tax cuts and credits, aimed at workers earning $50,000 or less per year, would cost the Treasury an estimated $85 billion annually.” (Margaret Talev, “Obama Proposes Tax Code Overhaul To Help The Poor,” McClatchy Newspapers, 9/19/07)
Obama’s Plan Would Raise Taxes On Capital Gains And Dividends, And On Carried Interest. Obama’s tax plan includes: “[i]ncreasing the highest bracket for capital gains and dividends and closing the carried interest loophole.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama: Tax Fairness For The Middle Class,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/8/08)
Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package Will Cost $75 Billion. “Barack Obama’s economic plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy by getting money in the form of tax cuts and direct spending directly to the people who need it most.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan To Stimulate The Economy,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 1/13/08)
Obama’s Early Education And K-12 Package Will Cost $18 Billion A Year; Equal To $72 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s early education and K-12 plan package costs about $18 billion per year.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan For Lifetime Success Through Education,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 11/20/07, p. 15)
Obama’s National Service Plan Will Cost $3.5 Billion A Year; Equal To $14 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s national service plan will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is fully implemented.” (Obama For America, “Helping All Americans Serve Their Country: Barack Obama’s Plan For Universal Voluntary Citizen Service,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 12/5/07)
Obama Will Increase Our Foreign Assistance Funding By $25 Billion. “Obama will embrace the Millenn ium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal.” (Obama For America, ” The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 53)
Obama Will Provide $2 Billion To Aid Iraqi Refugees. “He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own country can find a safe-haven.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 51)
Obama Will Provide $1.5 Billion To Help States Adopt Paid-Leave Systems. “As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a $1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states offset the costs for employees and employers.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 15)
Obama Will Provide $1 Billion Over 5 Years For Transitional Jobs And Career Pathway Programs, Equal To $200 Million A Year And $800 Million Over Four Years. “Obama w ill invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 42)
Obama Will Provide $50 Million To Jump-Start The Creation Of An IAEA-Controlled Nuclear Fuel Bank. Obama: “We must also stop the spread of nuclear weapons technology and ensure that countries cannot build — or come to the brink of building — a weapons program under the auspices of developing peaceful nuclear power. That is why my administration will immediately provide $50 million to jump-start the creation of an International Atomic Energy Agency-controlled nuclear fuel bank and work to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” (Sen. Barack Obama, “Renewing American Leadership,” Foreign Affairs, 7-8/07)
By Dusty
May 21, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Oh, another great column by Wooten. He sees the picture so clearly, it obviously makes liberals here shiver. They feebly cry in quavering tones “Obama is our next president.”
God bless America and save us from such a fiasco.
If I wanted a “charmer” with good kharma, I’d vote for Obama. I want more than that.
Fortunately, I will be able to vote for a statesman, a military man of valor. a patriot with a set of ethics by which he lives. John McCain has already shown these values. I will vote for him to lead our country. He is our only hope for the future.
By deegee
May 21, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
And John McCain is still living in the ’60s when it comes to Cuba. While he was pandering to the Cuban “exiles” in Miami yesterday he had this to say about opening up talks with Cuba and partially lifting the embargo:
“These steps would send the worst possible signal to Cuba’s dictators — there is no need to undertake fundamental reforms, they can simply wait for a unilateral change in U.S. policy. I believe we should give hope to the Cuban people, not to the Castro regime.”
Cuba recently had a peaceful transition of power from Fidel to Raul. What are the chances of the Cuban “exiles” that are driving Republican politics in Florida, of returning to Cuba?
By B
May 21, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
What this all boils down to is that we have a Black man that’s willing to literally die for this country. You and I both know that a Black man with enough power to move a nation is a threat to white men everywhere. This presidency could very well be a death sentence for Obama, a fact that he and his family, as well as everybody whose not in denial, already knows. Knowing this, he is still running. Wanting to represent a country that still has issues with dark skinned people. A country where they care more for animals than they do people. A country that has a history of horrible race relations, all which are still prevalent today. White, insecure men, like Jim Wooten are the majority and the problem. You let your insecurities get the best of you. Threatened by black men when it comes to your women, threatened by the Latinos and Mexicans when it comes to your jobs. Keeping Haitians and Mexicans out of a country that you STOLE yourself. Such hypocrisy!!!! You republicans stole the elections and you have paid dearly for it. Losing control of the House and Senate and losing the trust of your people. Mr Bubba Bush has so much blood on his hands. The Iraqi War, twin towers, etc. Why didn’t we launch impeachment charges against Mr. Bush??? Barack is going to have to play clean up man both locally and internationally. Other nations don’t trust us, we don’t trust us. Thanks Bubba Bush!!!! You’re leaving us in a greater position than we were 8 yrs ago!!! Lowest presidential rating ever, again Thanks!!!!
By John Q. Public
May 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
I am not a Democrat, nor do I plan to vote for Obama, but it seems to me that McCain’s mouthpiece might want to think before speaking. When the GOP took over in 2001 (Bush & Co.), the US enjoyed “peace and prosperity”. It has only been through the failures and flawed decisions of the current administration that we now enjoy neither peace, nor prosperity (save ExxonMobil and Haliburton). Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the Bush administration has failed. I don’t know if Obama is the answer, but I know McCain is not. He’s Bush ver 2.0
By Frustrated Conservative
May 21, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
Copyleft-
I can’t speak for Wooten, but I can speak on behalf of myself, a McCain voter.
I am not thrilled to vote for McCain. This is a truly uninspiring and depressing nominee the republicans have come up with. Is this the best they can do?
However, as bad a canidate as McCain is, he is still 100 times better than Obama. There is no way, no how, an extreme and controversial liberal like Obama can win the general election, no matter how bad the republican nominee.
That is what is funny about this. How bad the Democrats are blowing an opportunity of a lifetime. The republicans are just begging to get beat this election, just like they were in 2000. But instead of learning from history, the democrats are refusing this gift by trotting out unelectable losers like Kerry and now Obama, who is much worse than Kerry. When it comes to battling the GOP on a national scale, the democrats are truly idiots.
History shows that the only Democrats that are capable of beating a republican for President is one who looks and talks like a moderate, or almost like a Republican. Clinton and Carter were good ole Southern boys who seemed moderate on the issues and were people the swing voters in the red states could be comfortable with. But instead of nominating a canidate who is electable, the democratic party allows it’s far left liberal elite faction to decide.
This is a truly awful election. But the democrats will lose again and it will be their fault. The republicans are so stupid its almost like they want to get beat. But, fortunately for them, the democrats chose Obama. LOL!!!!
By MikeB
May 21, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
Obama has oratory, and the timing is right for his message, but because of his track record/lack of experience (or lack there of I should say) he is the wrong person to carry it forward. Would GE hire a person with his experience to replace Jeffery Immelt? Would GM hire him if Rick Wagoneer were to retire? No way….. Not nearly as seasoned as he needs to be for either of those posts, much less being President of the United States of America. Now if Colin Powell was waving the same flag, I would give him every consideration. That said our federal govt. needs to be focused on a very few specific key objectives moving forward. The Fed does not need to be all things to all people.
The Federal Govt. needs to focus on national security, economic stimulation of our free market economy, maintaining federal highways, protecting jobs/ability to innovate here, and taling care of the elderly, mentally retarded and children as long as they are citizens.
Anything else is a waste of their time. The guy in this race who is closest to this agenda, is John McCain. He’s not perfect, but who is……
By dirty harry
May 21, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
By Glenn
May 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this By Glenn
May 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
GLENN, you post this “The “bomb, bomb, bomb” thing was more than five years ago.”
I hate to tell you this Glenn but your math is not very good!
McCain made that rant on April 20th, 2007….
By Glenn
May 21, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
First, thank God for Richard Nixon. That’s right. Do it. You’ll rt
U be a wiser and better person for it.
Second, “tracher”/Teacher @ 9:03 hits the high mark for the day with the irrefutable (as in go ahead, try it) observation that “A scary thing about educated racists is that they know how to lie about being racist.”
That’s essentially what Jim did in his remarks on Sen. Obama’s reception in Oregon. And now, Teacher’s Challenge: Can you explain why and how?
By Dusty
May 21, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Oh, wish I could stick around today and get more laughs from liberals.
Peter-uh oh —-he found a “bad” Republican. That setttles it. Vote against family values. Vote Obama.
George “Cherry Pit” Washington—”Israel is the problem.. Yeah, let’s arm up against our ally in the Middle East.
Dave (living in free and protected America) —”This is the deepest and darkest our nation has ever become.” Cheer up, Dave. Democrats are going to LOSE!
dirty harry—“The rats are beginning to jump ship.” If liberals are aboard, let ‘em jump. They usually cut’n’run.
Copyleft (biggest joker of them all) tells us that Obama has already won and “Liberalism will save this country! Oh, please, please, do “save” me with high taxes, socialized medicine, terrorist appeasement, inexperience and anti-American confidants. Whoopeeeee and I can learn to be an anti-war protestor.
Liberals! I never thought they would be comedians but they surely do make fools of themselves.
By B.W.
May 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Perhaps its time to note that Hillary may be on the verge of the greatest “I told you so” in the history of politics…… Here’s hoping that after the general election, she gets to say it.
By dirty harry
May 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
A tribute to Dusty….
Well, I wus lookin’ everywhere for them gol-darned Terrorists. I got up in the mornin’ ‘n’ looked under my bed, Looked in the sink, behind the door, Looked in the glove compartment of my car. Couldn’t find ‘em …
I wus lookin’ high an’ low for them Terrorists everywhere, I wus lookin’ in the sink an’ underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl. They got away …
BOB DYLAN….
By Glenn
May 21, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Andy, Calamari, Anyone:
Any thoughts as to whether Atlanta might get it’s newspaper back were Cox News to eat you-know-what and die?
How about the UGA J-school making amends by taking back journalism from The ME-dee-yuh by entering into a public/private partnership with AJC? To show how Old School Journalism is done, and to spearhead a resurgence of the Press in America?
I’m dead legally serious about this. Whaddya say?
By B.W.
May 21, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
Perhaps its time to note that Hillary may be on the verge of the greatest “I told you so” in the history of politics…… Here’s hoping that after the general election, she gets to say it.
By The Truth
May 21, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
That’s Barack Hussein Obama Bin Laden McGovern.
By B.W.
May 21, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Perhaps its time to note that Hillary may be on the verge of the greatest “I told you so” in the history of politics…… Here’s hoping that after the general election, she gets to say it.
By Ralph McGill
May 21, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
As Henry said in The Paper: “It’s not gonna happen.”
By Republicans for Obama
May 21, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
My dear Friends of the GOP…we got us a boy here, don’t we. He don’t think like we do, he don’t do like we do. He’s a liberal whinny nosed kid trying to run the country. What he don’t realize is we don’t kindly to his kind… Sound familiar? I think this would apply to the majority of hate mongers and RACIST on this blog. In my opening line, I have heard this, as I’m sure most of you have, either from our friends or OUT OF YOUR OWN MOUTHS. During Dubya’s Presidency, I’ve come to realize that this treatment of people is flat wrong. To make these off based and often horrendous statements about people of color and those that are not like us IS WRONG. I had a black man ask me a few years ago “WHY DO YOU HATE US SO MUCH?” That answer still eludes me. So I ask you hatred filled Republicans…”WHY?” It’s frightening were our country has gone, and even more frightening when I consider the future if we continue like this. John McCain represents all that is now wrong with our country, and he embraces it. You fools are lining up with him because he is white. The Red Dems are lining up with him because Sen. Obama is black. Look at us!!! Instead of doing what is right for OUR country, we are letting the Wootens, Hannitiy’s, and Rush’s of the world determine our future. It’s an embarrasing and ugly dead end, and like cattle, we are stampeding towards the end. Patriotism is not Racism and Hate. Or did I miss that? God Help Us.
By ron
May 21, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Glenn,The AJC,sans Cox,could be a viable newspaper depending of course on the owner.If you were to own it,everything in it would be to your liking.If I were to own it,sameoh.It takes a special kind of person to run an unbiased newspaper.Know anyone that could print plaudits about Obama,Hillary and George Bush with equeal aplomb?I’m not sure I do.I would like to see all the big boys gone from the publishing business though.Ever read the Brattleboro Reformer?That’s a name I picked up from Fox News.Very left wing owner.Now imagine the AJC under the auspices of Cynthia Tucker.Or Jim Wooten.Slanty news anyone?
By jbmlaw
May 21, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Dear Thor @ 9:14, are you telling us that Obama is proposing the same policies as Bush? I thought this was all about “change.” Oh, the agony!
Dear Tracher @ 9:30, if I read your post correctly, anyone who opposes Obama calling him a “leftist” is a racist, but those who support him without regard to his politics are not? Why does that cause me to identify with Inigo Montoya? I think our friend Glenn nailed your inconsistency @ 10:55.
Dear College @ 9:31, when I argue that “those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it,” I am trying to send you, in particular, a message. Study up. Learn what strategies, both domestic and foreign, were tried in 1977-1981, and analyze their success. Then contrast those policies with the offerings of Obama. Doing the same unsuccessful things repeatedly, all the while expecting different results, is the democrat platform for 2008.
Dear Tired @ 9:46, your problem, with all due respect, is your world outlook: “It’s all about me.” I understand that rich folks control the government and run it primarily for the benefit of rich folks, and when the multimillionaire Obama takes over that fact will not change. The beauty of the Bush tax cuts is that is lessens that which the overlords control. By leaving more resources with real people, instead of vesting those funds with the overlords, we have less market dislocation and more growth overall. Leftists don’t care about efficiency or growth, both of which always directly result from tax cuts. And, of course, the great joke is that the Bush tax cuts were only cuts in rates, with no real effect on revenues. If you do a google on Obama’s, words, you will discover that he now understands that the elimination of the tax “cuts” will actually diminish tax collections. Law of unintended consequences. Leftists always assume people with substantial resources will not do tax planning; the leftists are mostly wrong about that, too.
Dear Dave @ 9:46 and Get Real @ 9:50, I think you both accurately state the issue. 2008 is Jimmy Carter vs. George W. Bush. Pick your poison. I’ll go with the one who pushed tax cuts and building up the defense program. Tax cuts always help the economy, and cutting defense spending always hurts the US’s international relations. Oh, and Get Real, a police state? Dick Cheney told me to tell you to remove your tin hat, today is “free brain waves” day.
Dear Ron @ 9:55, I regretfully agree with your argument. (Although, don’t disparage Dr. Sowell – he’s not an isolationist like Barr or Paul.)
Dear Copyleft @ 9:58, “Liberalism will rescue this country…” Right, that is how the overlords justify an abomination like Kelo. Kelo is the legacy of leftism.
Dear Scholar @ 10:02, I would like to argue that nothing sucked until the democrats started putting corn in our gas tanks and raised unemployment by legislation (minimum wage.) I would like to argue that nothing sucked until the cowards starting undermining our now-successful efforts in Iraq. I acknowledge the Nixon simile is valid. President Bush will have a strong foreign policy legacy for rebuilding the military and waging war against Islamists, but his domestic agenda will cause historians to scratch their collective leftist head. How could a purported conservative favor increases in agriculture (code for welfare), centralized control of education (NCLB), steel quotas (a sop to organized labor), and a weak dollar policy (W. J. Bryan was firmer in his support!) Only the tax cuts and the court appointments showed any intelligence in the domestic policy.
Dear John @ 10:44, can you cite any particular failure and flawed policies of the Bush administration that caused the “absence” of peace and prosperity? The economy is growing, and there is no fighting in the streets (this is not exactly 1968) but I suspect the leftists are too old for that now.
By time for the liberals are worthless scum truth
May 21, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
This nauseating fawning over the brain tumour of the gutless alcoholic vehicular homicide killer of Mary Jo Kopechne is as despicable as it gets!!
- The mysteries of the case continue to haunt Ted Kennedy as well as the authorities who investigated them. Charges of ineptitude and lack of diligence abounded, as did insinuations that the machinery of justice crumbled beneath the power and prestige of the Kennedy family. George Killen, former State Police Detective-Lieutenant, and chief of a never-revealed investigation, lamented that the failure to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion was “the biggest mistake” of a long and distinguished police career.
Senator Kennedy, he said, “killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger.”
From ~ Senatorial Privilege by Leo Damore
The real truth about the drunken killer Kennedy and the shameless Assachussetts cover up is well worth revisiting.
http://www.ytedk.com/intro.htm
The scumbag Kennedy has had almost FOURTY years of life that he denied to Mary Jo. After he ran away and hid and sobered up like a typical demoNcrat, drunk as a skunk to salvage his worthless political career. Kennedy paid NO price for his selfish reckless behaviour that deprived one of the “Boiler Room Girls” of her life”. Funny how the leftist filth in America rarely if ever actually comment on this and unequivocally condemn Kennedy, or remind folks of this stark Kennedy cowardice.
Yet in 1973 Kennedy puked up this odious hypocrisy:
” Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? ” ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
By Brian Walker
May 21, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this
Jim
Enough. Screaming liberal all day will only get you so far. The fact is that 6 of the last 8 presidental terms have been served by Republicans. There are serious issues in this country right now and I simply cannot support the party who has not gotten the job done. We are all Americans…that doesn’t change because we lean left or right of center. The problem with the Republican party is that it is no longer the party of Reagan, it is the party of Bush…and the message of conservatism has gotten seriously off track behind “national security” and the “cure-all” of lowering taxes. I think this country is truly ready for a change…whether Barack Obama is the agent of that change remains to be seen. I do know that as low as the common working person’s pocket continues to hurt with high gas prices, stagnant salaries, continued outsourcing with jobs that replace those outsourced paying lower salaries the party is charge will suffer an image problem and that party right now is the Republican party. I find it interesting that obtaining advanced degrees to is equal to elitism when any working class parent aspires to send their kids to college. I find it interesting that people who have never served their country are so eager to send our soldiers into harm’s way over what amounts to ideology. I find it interesting that talking now equals groveling. Rhetoric is one thing..it will inspires certain factions to vote a certain way but the fact is compromise is a way of life. Israel deals with autocratic, terror harboring regimes not because it wants to but because it’s necessity of life being surrounded by nations that don’t like it. Our leaders must challenge its citizens to think objectively rather than continuing to polarize with wedge issues that no amount of legislation will eliminate.
By Brian Walker
May 21, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Jim
Enough. Screaming liberal all day will only get you so far. The fact is that 6 of the last 8 presidental terms have been served by Republicans. There are serious issues in this country right now and I simply cannot support the party who has not gotten the job done. We are all Americans…that doesn’t change because we lean left or right of center. The problem with the Republican party is that it is no longer the party of Reagan, it is the party of Bush…and the message of conservatism has gotten seriously off track behind “national security” and the “cure-all” of lowering taxes. I think this country is truly ready for a change…whether Barack Obama is the agent of that change remains to be seen. I do know that as low as the common working person’s pocket continues to hurt with high gas prices, stagnant salaries, continued outsourcing with jobs that replace those outsourced paying lower salaries the party is charge will suffer an image problem and that party right now is the Republican party. I find it interesting that obtaining advanced degrees to is equal to elitism when any working class parent aspires to send their kids to college. I find it interesting that people who have never served their country are so eager to send our soldiers into harm’s way over what amounts to ideology. I find it interesting that talking now equals groveling. Rhetoric is one thing..it will inspires certain factions to vote a certain way but the fact is compromise is a way of life. Israel deals with autocratic, terror harboring regimes not because it wants to but because it’s necessity of life being surrounded by nations that don’t like it. Our leaders must challenge its citizens to think objectively rather than continuing to polarize with wedge issues that no amount of legislation will eliminate.
By dirty harry
May 21, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
Dusty, you are the most flippant, shallow person who posts on this blog.
You wear blinders and refuse to acknowlege what alomost everyone in this country has come to realize… That Bush and his sycophants are an abysmal failure.
I know you’ll come back with some BS reply, but to you I say…
“BLIND FAITH IN BAD LEADERS IS NOT PATRIOTISM”
By The good side
May 21, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten West Virginia is calling you to come home!
It’s amazing that you have not mentioned anything about the current Replublican Adminstration and our current terrible situations in this country!
By the Truth! Everyone knows if you stay in your house for 2 years you get to exempt a huge portion of the proceeds from Capitol Gains. You need to realy speak the truth.
Can someone tell me what experience does John M. has! Or what has he done?
This country needs to work together but yet we are fighting over if an African American woman is proud of her country when she has experience possibly racism and hatred all her life. A White roommate moved out of the dorm room becuase her mother and grand mother did not want her their!
Are you kidding me! What kind of people are you!
I get it CONSERVATIVE does not mean CHRISTIAN! Treat people like you wold like to be treated!
By Sarah
May 21, 2008 12:17 PM |