Thinking Right

By Redneck Convert

June 4, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Well, I guess it’s 8 o’clock someplace.

I don’t know what’s got into Wooten and picking what he’s going to write his piece about. On Monday he got folks so wound up they was ambalances going all over the place trying to tend to the sick and injured. Then on Tuesday it was like a mawsoleeum around here, with a cricket in the corner chirping after he followed the last widow in.

I reckon he’ll have em wound up again, saying that Clinton woman ought to keep on scratching at Osama. He just wants them to keep a-fightin’ so we don’t get half of one of Those People as president. Dang straight. Denver. Denver. Denver.

Well, have a good day everybody.

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

All one had to do was watch the speech McLame gave last night. Looking “pretty good” now Jim? WOW did that speech suck! Even FAUX news said so. Obama will tap dance all the way around McLame in every single debate.

I’ve NEVER seen you members of the GOP so defensive and so scared to death of a candidate before. Good reason to, you’re going to go down as the ones who ruined our country by voting for the Bubble Boy twice. Nobody wants four or eight more years of a geriatric Bubble Boy following up our country and it’s standing in the world by giving us more of the same.

This time the “fear” of gay marriage will not work, same with abortions. Your “talibangelical” poster boy (Bubby Boy) was your one shot at your demented “moral code” of ethics and gays are still having gay sex, and abortions are STILL being done to your teen daughters that are clueless due to their lack of sex education and the understanding of their own reproduction systems.

Bring on the ol’ bat…he’s toast…just like your party.

Step aside and let the man walk through….. ;-)

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

I just read the funniest story in the WashingAss Post (Truth: Cox owns both the ajc and wp). The great white hope of Cox was the Hyperlocal, and it is a Flop…The LoudounExtra.com was designed to be mostly written by the locals in Loudoun County just outside Washington DC…but in the first year of operations, it is a total failure, and the highly paid developers have moved on, leaving it in the hands of the WAPO’s equivalent of Woodenhead and Brookman….See, the plan was to take content from bloggers like us, and put some of it into the print for the local….Dusty could have covered the Right Wing Women for Fascist Government, while JMB could have covered Lawyers Stealing from Everyone…etc….Meanwhile, WaPo’s circulation has dropped some 19% since 2000….but locals still read it fer free online…could there be a connection? naw…the AJC is the poor cousin of the wapo, and a slow learner at that….TIME TO FIRE WOODENHEAD AND BROOKMAN, THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED….LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE AT AJC

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Obama is the best hope for freeing America from the WashingAss lobbiest and special interests….they have drained america dry over the last fifty odd years….time to fire all the senate, house, and administrative types….and limit new people to only one short term, no second terms allowed, ever….

By ron

June 4, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim,It looks as if the leftist elite and the black population of the U.S. has pulled it off.Their darling will be in the running.I should also say the media’s darling.Now it’s up to the Republicans to defeat the guy.Let’s see if they can do it.I see our boy,Jimmy,jumped in at the last moment.I had more hope for him than that.

Charlie Rose interviewed George Will last night and I happened to catch it.Very interesting interview.

Hillary for V.P.?I hope she stays above that rat trap.

By Redneck Convert

June 4, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Well, good to see that other Redneck Convert is up and about.

It was just a axident that McCain spoke to maybe 300 people last night and Obama drawed in 31,000 that included 18,000 inside and 13,000 outside that stadium. McCain will catch up some day. Anyhow, I sure hope us godly Republicans ain’t in for a real butt-whomping. If all those Obama people show up on election day we will need some KY jelly for the next 8 yrs. I’m mighty worryed.

Anyhow, I’m with Wooten. If we can keep the Clinton woman in the race we can keep the librul Democrats from turning their guns on old man McCain. I didn’t watch Obama speak last night on account of turning my back on people I don’t want to hear on Fox News. But I couldn’t help hearing. And when Obama said McCain ought to come with him to some cities where times are hard, instead of going to Iraq, the roars sounded just like those news clips of Hitler speaking to thousands in Germany.

And the worst part is Barr is liable to take thousands of votes away from McCain. I saw the Montana and South Dakota primary results and it looks like about 20% of the Republicans wouldn’t vote for McCain and went for Ron Paul instead. I figure the same people will vote for Barr in November.

Times are hard for godly Republicans. There’s a new poll that says the voters are ready to elect librul Democrats to Congress the same way they done two years ago. And they might could take McCain down with them. Anyhow, I’m putting every penny I can in the cement vault I built so they can’t get to it when they raise taxes on us rednecks. And I’m getting all my doctoring done now. I’m with Sister Dusty. I don’t want to have to wait in a doctor office while a bunch of trash is getting doctored ahead of me under this librul health care plan.

We need to swiftboat this Obama. Course, the libruls will come back with that picture of McCain with his arms wrapped all around My President. What a dirty trick.

Have a good day everybody.

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jim, Carter was one of the Pelosi gang who long ago promised their vote to whomever was ahead on the last primary day. So his support was totally planned and not a surprise, if you follow things, that is. Obama is already leading McCain in the polls and this campaign is just getting started. If I were a conservative I would be worried because McCain is a terrible campaigner and a terrible debater. Now he is trying to sell himself as the “agent of change” which will be tough after all his snuggling with Bush. Also, McCain needs to back off criticizing Obama for never joining the military. Obama came of age in a time of peace so this is not a valid criticism, also McCain has excused Cheney and others from military service during the Vietnam war no less. He does not need to look any more two-faced than he already does.

By WFC

June 4, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

I like and respect John McCain and would normally vote for him. However, I won’t.

The Republican Party must be punished for inflicting the glorified frat-boy-skater, “W”, and his henchmen, Cheney & Rove, on America for the last eight years.

Thus it is written, thus shall it be.

By jbmlaw

June 4, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I wish I had written Jim’s essay – excellent wit and gentle humor. On the horserace, I also think the edge is with Captain Queeg now. The hedgehogs are better presidents than are foxes, historically, so McCain’s good prospects bode comparatively well for the country.

I assume you all saw Dr. Sowell’s effective skewering of Hussein yesterday; turns out Father Pfleger is not a mere bystander: “…as a state senator Obama directed $225,000 of the Illinois taxpayers’ money for programs run by Father Pfleger. In the U.S. Senate, Obama earmarked $100,000 in federal tax money for Father Pfleger’s work. Giving someone more than 300 grand is not just some tenuous, coincidental association.” I had not previously heard the reporting on the earmarks. I guess bribes require reciprocation, even if the bribe is paid from stolen funds; nevertheless, Obama’s thievery is striking.

That is the real change Obama promises, from the honest and ethical Bush administration to the traditional corrupt actions of thieving leftists: diverting precious tax dollars into ideological boondoggles. (Note to conservative friends: I set that trap effectively – one of our brain-injured leftists will protest with the usual conspiratorial litanies about the Bush administration, then I will pounce and accuse the blogger of calling Hussein a liar when he promises “change.” The more things “change” the more they remain the same?) By the way, how is the carbon trading legislation going? Sure, that will help the price of gasoline, just like mandating ethanol from corn and prohibiting drilling in the ANWR desert. Why do leftists insist on imposing their “superior knowledge” onto the rest of us; surely they realize they are only screwing up our lives with their every action? If they would just do nothing, like during the Clinton administration….

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

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By Paul

June 4, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

No, we are not left with the two brightest and best candidates to choose from. However, we had best hope and pray that the American voters wake up and realize that this is not an election for Student Council President. The left is touting “change” but has told no one what those changes might be. Obama has THREE YEARS of experience, for goodness sake! I don’t care what color he is, but he needs to know his a$$ from a hole in the ground.

If I hear “4 more years of Bush” one more time I may throw up. The biggest concern of the right about McCain has been that he does NOT walk lockstep with the party. I don’t agree with all that he has done (McCain-Feingold is a disaster) but at least he thinks independently; isn’t that what we need?

We cannot place the keys to our government into the hands of a man who hasn’t taken drivers ed yet!!

By GatorBoyV

June 4, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

I must be missing something…I think there are others voting for Obama, not just blacks and librals. This country is in a MESS! We defenitely need a change….

By Pompano

June 4, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Hussein’s going to get killed in the general election. All those folks up in the North East will answer polls stating they’ll vote for the guy - but bottom line is that part of the country is more racist than the south.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

You know, if Hillary couldn’t even run a political campaign, how does she think she can run a nation of 300 million people? I bet even she does not know the difference between the Cox family and the Graham family…where are those cherry tree’s…ah gots the urge….

By ron

June 4, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

By hillbilly ragger

June 4, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Jim, your editor left some stuff out of your original copy—I’m putting it back. Original in quotes, the rest in ital…

“Fact is, Obama doesn’t grow on people” that I know, which is an aging, white, often vaguely racist batch of Confederate-flag waving cranks who like them some Rush Limbaugh, cling to the Fox News narrative when they’re feeling insecure, and believe in the Tax Cut Fairy.

Happy to help.

By Mid-South Philosopher

June 4, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

I suspect that the American people are so sick of the incompetence of the Georgie Bush Administration that, were the election held today, they, albeit by a small majority, would embrace the pig-in-a-poke change offered by Barack Obama.

If, over the next few months, the economy continues to erode, gasoline prices rise to $5.00 per gallon or above, and if the Rump Congress continues to demonstrate its dastardly, poor ability to deal rationally with the situation, Michelle Obama will be supervising the changing of sheets on the White House beds come January 20, 2009.

If, on the other hand, the economy turns around, the energy mongols (both domestic and foreign) conspire to lower energy prices to the point that gasoline returns to somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.00 per gallon, or if there is another major terrorist attact on the homeland, John McCain’s vitamin tray will be on the night stand come January 20.

It is really a toss-up.

By HIDT

June 4, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

I’m looking forward to Bush vs. Clinton II: George P. and Chelsea face off in 2016.

Or it could be Bush vs. Clinton II in ‘12 if Jeb and Hillary tangle.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Hillary should be placed under house arrest immediately, along with Bill, with no contact with the outside allowed until, say, 2020 at the earliest….

By mike(NJ)

June 4, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

I have a question can Hillary run as a populist.And what’s the chances of maybe running with sen.Hagel as a third party.That’s the real kind of change Wash. needs.I’m really disgusted the way the press,Obama camp treated her. Especially in the ms nbc debate.I rather stay home than vote for either Mcsame or Obama.It’s so obvious that the far right voted for him,and the far left fell for it once again.

By MP

June 4, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

McCain is doomed and you know it Wooten. He has idoits like you and the beyond stupidity of George W. to thank for all the money he will waste in this impossible attempt. Shut up already. And Paul…George W. had zero years of experience and minus zero years of real life and holding and he made a real mess of the U.S. on our own soil and abroad. His own mother and father refuse to discuss him publically because they won’t lie about what is so obviously true…their son is the worst President in American history.

By William L. Fell

June 4, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten: You must have some intelligence to be writing in the AJC. I can’t understand anyone rooting for the conlicans after experiencing the outright damage done to this country by the conlicans during the last twenty-eight years. Have you no love for country or do you just plainly hate the United States of America?

By hogleg

June 4, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

obama gives great prepared speechs but is an awful debater!

By TW

June 4, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

America circles about the toilet today because we have been given bad advice - simple as that. Who has had our ear? Rush, O’Reilly, Hannity, and even little ole you, Mr. Wooten. Think of yourselves as a consulting firm that, this November, will oficially be fired.

Must, however, thank you childish, tax-cut bedwetters for giving us the first black president. Shame you had to needlessly kill so many of our troops in the process.

Who needs al qaeda when you already have the GOP?

Morons.

By macca

June 4, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw@9:16 Has Redneck Convert rubbed off on you?? “Honest and ethical Bush administration…”????? Give me a hit of that stuff you’re smokin’!!

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

ethics were the FIRST thing thrown out the door when Bubble Boy Bush was handed the keys. Like all the businesses he failed in before… sorry he was even given the key to the men’s room at the white house… as he sank and buried our nation just like he did with all the businesses he ran into the ground. Oh…except those that his daddy’s Saudi friends put him in “puppet charge” of…..

By Liz

June 4, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

My, my, what an interesting (?) article and very interesting comments. As an Independent American who definitely does not want to be tied to either party, I am sickened to hear all your comments. Party Politics make me sick. The fact that the 3 persons still in the running are politicans scares me.

I care about my country and what has happened to it especially over the passed 20 years. I am proud to be an American but I am somewhat sickened by this country’s governmental policies.

I want a healthy America again. All I heard in the comments and article were crude ugly remarks. I am a 68 yrs. young female who voted for John F. Kennedy in my very first election. I didn’t care if he was Democrat or Republican, I just knew he could stand strong for our country. I would love to see a famale president as soon as a really good candidate with no ties to past government can be found.

Why can’t we be “America” again? Let’s quite being blue or red and begin to fight to take our country back one senator and congressman at a time.

By Jeff

June 4, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Face it, Conservatism is not what the Republicans have practiced over the past 16 years. Deficit spending and no taxes for the wealthy is now what Goldwater practiced or envisioned. Devisive attacks are not compasionate, Goldwater was given several awards by Homosexual Activists for his voting record; which always included a pro civil rights pattern. Todays conservatives are hucksters, corrupt politicians and now the jig is up - $4 a gallon has put them out of power because the American people are smelling the coffee.

McCain is a breath of fresh air, the Arizona Republican is a true conservative like another Arizona Repulican, Barry Goldwater. As he said in his final interview on CBS; “A consrvative should be someone that knows how to save money and uphold the law. Todays Republican party is run by a bunch of kooks!”

By Thor

June 4, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Obama’s speech last night blew away McCain’s. McCain is going to have an uphill fight all the way.

By ###

June 4, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Jim, can you please share the text of Senator McCain’s speech last night? I fell asleep while he was speaking.

By Curious Observer

June 4, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Hey, jbmlaw. Don’t give macca all the good stuff. Save some for me! No wonder you lawyers can put up with all the drab details of your work!

By Glenn

June 4, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

I wish I coulda quit you sooner.

By dirty harry

June 4, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Macca…“Honest and ethical Bush administration…”????? Give me a hit of that stuff you’re smokin’!!

Please pass it on…I’d like to take a toke myself…Feel good..is good..mighty good!

By hotlanta

June 4, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I think that it is “DISRESPECTFUL for folks to hound Obama about a VP within a nanosecond of him getting the nomination. Let him enjoy this moment okay. Why should Hiliary be VP there are other people. I would not trust her on the campaign trail because she might have a flashback and think that she is running for President again. She will be running to Bill telling him everything. She insulted Obama from the beginning of the campaign by suggesting that he run as VP and her as P and he had more votes than she. Talk about entitlement at it worst.

By hotlanta

June 4, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I think that it is “DISRESPECTFUL for folks to hound Obama about a VP within a nanosecond of him getting the nomination. Let him enjoy this moment okay. Why should Hiliary be VP there are other people. I would not trust her on the campaign trail because she might have a flashback and think that she is running for President again. She will be running to Bill telling him everything. She insulted Obama from the beginning of the campaign by suggesting that he run as VP and her as P and he had more votes than she. Talk about entitlement at it worst.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

McClown’s speach: My Friends, bomb iran, bomb iran, bomb iran, thank you my friends…nap time…

By Maniac is accurate

June 4, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I hope that really is Glenn and not just PoFo funnin’ us. Glenn wears a wardrobe of wit that brightens up the joint. His intelllect soars above my own and I find it difficult to keep up, but his musings are often musical and I learn. Please, Glenn come back.

By zeke

June 4, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

NO!! NO JUSTICE FOR THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA IF EITHER HILLARY OR OBAMA ARE ELECTED!! SOCIALIST, MARXIST, FASCIST, COMMUNIST, so called PROGESSIVES WILL RUIN THE USA, OUR CULTURE AND OUR SOCIETY!!! PROGRESSIVE: THE NEW CODE WORD TO HIDE THE TRUE AGENDA OF THESE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, LIBERAL, MARXIST FASCISTS!!

By Rob

June 4, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Liz, who would you want to be running for politican office, if not politicans? You do realize that once your ideal candidate (your grocer? your doctor? your neighbor?) wins public office they become a politican? Are you then ready to throw them out and vote for someone else who is not a politician? Having said that, I admire your idealism.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Ah zeke, the income distribution (as in statistics) is skewed far to the right, with the top 1% stealing 40% of the nations income…that is why a depression is brewing, the lower 90% ain’t got no money or credit to buy anything….We need a normal (as in statiistics) distribution of income to make the American dream work….

By h

June 4, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

to Zeke @ 10:13:

Yeah, um check your history. Socialist is on the left, Fascist is on the right. Let me give you an example, right now our administration is fascist. If Obama is elected it will be socialist. Where does that leave america? I am gussing in the 7th Layer of Hell.

By Tom

June 4, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

This is my problem with Republicans and “the Right,” if there is a problem they pretend it doesn’t exist. The party is in shambles and seems predetined to lose? The Right says no way the “Darn Liberals” are too libral to win. The majority of American and the world hates Pres Bush? The Right says its just the “Evil Liberal Media” only reporting bad stuff and time will judge him to be a great liberator (a Republican friend of mine dared to compare him to LINCOLN of all people). The American economy is tanking? The Right says nah, if anything is wrong its those “Darn Liberals” somehow hijacked the government even though we were in charge – we simply have to put the power back into the hands of the selfish rich people and they will right everything themselves. Iraq is a mess? The Right says no that’s bull, we said “mission accomplished,” another surge of troops giving their lives for several more years will fix everything.

By Officer Mancuso

June 4, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

There was this one time where on an AJC blog a guy was using the screen name Ignatius. Sensing there was another “Confederacy of Dunces,” fan about, I wrote: “Ignatius, Myrna Minkoff says hello.” Do you know what happened next? I got an e-mail from the guy. Really, I did. But I don’t know how he got my address.

By Disgusted

June 4, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

The most refreshing part of Obama’s speech last night was his insistence that the Iraqi government take responsibility for its security.

As of March of this year, the Iraqi army had 180,000 soldiers—105 battalions in 13 divisions—more troops than the US ever had in Iraq. In all, the Iraqi army has 52 brigades—all trained by US troops.

The typical US Marine is combat-ready after three months of basic training and a month of advanced infantry training required of every Marine. Army troops don’t differ that much in their preparedness regimen. No one can tell me that two years of training for Iraqi troops is inadequate—unless it can be demonstrated that they are hopelessly stupid.

Yet, when it’s time to clean out Fallujah, we send a regiment of Marines. And when the Iraqi government sends army troops to Basra to fight insurgents, they cut and run.

If the huge Iraqi army, plus the tens of thousands of police we trained for them, can’t defend the Malaki government, there’s something wrong with that government. It is evidently incapable of inspiring any loyalty.

I am sick of seeing us throw away so much blood and treasure in propping up a corrupt Shiite government that refuses to reach any political accommodation with Sunnis and Kurds. There is still no Iraqi legislation on a division of oil revenue and other matters crucial to ensuring peace in Iraq.

What we get in return for our sacrifice is the hugs and kisses of the Shiite government for officials of Iran. Obama is right. Either the Malaki government grows a pair and starts defending the country, or that government can fall.

By Lily Toad

June 4, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

I find it annoying when bloggers post articles, but today I’m doing it. This is from “American Banker” a periodical from the Banking Trade. The reason I’m sharing this is to dispute Jim’s accusations of empty campaign slogans. Whether you agree with him or not, Sen. Obama is a smart guy, as shown below:

Obama and Regulation, an Insider’s Perspective Foreclosure fund, bankruptcy reform among his proposals

American Banker | Wednesday, June 4, 2008

By Joe Adler

Bankers should have no illusion about the direction Sen. Barack Obama would take financial services policy if he were elected president.

The presumptive Democratic nominee backs a detailed list of programs aimed at protecting consumers and clamping down on lending practices, from an interest rate cap on high-cost loans to a foreclosure prevention fund paid for by lenders.

“There is no question but that a President Obama will be substantially more with consumers than President Bush has been, because in effect this administration did nothing to protect financial consumers during its time in office,” said Daniel Tarullo, an economic adviser to Sen. Obama.

A veteran of the Clinton White House and the State Department who now teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center, Prof. Tarullo said industry executives may be more receptive to Sen. Obama’s consumer-minded approach in light of the turmoil in the credit markets.

“If you’re sitting as a banker right now, you cannot be entirely happy with the end to which this unregulated environment has led,” Prof. Tarullo said in an interview May 23. “Banks and all financial institutions are suffering as a result. The harm has trickled up in this case. Sound consumer regulation can make for very good business and make for good, prudential practices.”

He characterized the senator as a quick study on financial services, citing his early support of efforts by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank to empower the Federal Housing Administration to help struggling homeowners.

Sen. Obama’s $10 billion foreclosure prevention fund, designed to help troubled borrowers sell their home or restructure an unaffordable loan, would be funded by penalties on lenders who commit fraud. He envisions new disclosures that would help borrowers compare mortgage products, and he would confront mortgage fraud by beefing up reporting, increasing funding for enforcement, and raising fines.

The Illinois Democrat would let bankruptcy judges modify mortgage terms, and he would encourage banks and credit unions to make short-term, small-dollar loans to provide underserved consumers with alternatives to payday lenders. His proposed 36% rate cap is directed at the payday industry.

Prof. Tarullo said financial institutions should not fear an Obama presidency, since the candidate would consider the trade-offs involved in any policy choice.

Bankers “may or may not agree with a position” taken by Sen. Obama, “but they can be assured that he will have an understanding of the costs and benefits of any particular approach,” the adviser said.

To illustrate the point, he cited a March 27 speech at New York’s Cooper Union in which Sen. Obama spoke at length about reforming the patchwork of financial regulation. The speech, delivered four days before the Treasury Department released its blueprint for reform, went further in some areas than the administration did.

For instance, Sen. Obama proposed giving the Federal Reserve Board clear supervisory authority over any institution that borrows from the central bank, extending its capital and liquidity rules to investment banks. The Treasury plan, by contrast, would establish the central bank more as a monitor of market stability than as a direct supervisor.

Sen. Obama also would create a public-private commission of experts to warn Congress and the White House about emerging systemic risks in the markets.

The Treasury blueprint “is thinnest on some of the substantive regulatory issues,” Prof. Tarullo said. “It doesn’t talk at all about capital and liquidity regulation, which are at the heart of the problem,” and it “appears not to contemplate ongoing regulation of systemically important” nonbanks. “There’s an implication that somehow you can just have monitoring of some sort.”

Sen. Obama has advocated having the United States adopt the Basel II international capital standards, an unusual topic for a campaign speech but an area of expertise for Prof. Tarullo.

“The fact that he focused” on regulatory reform and “talked about things that one normally doesn’t see presidential candidates talk about reflects his commitment toward change” in the regulatory system, the adviser said. “I frequently find, and not just with bankers but with people in industry generally, that one of their biggest concerns is that the position they’re in in the markets is not understood by regulators or political figures or others. As I have learned with Sen. Obama … he is both an incredibly voracious consumer of information about all things, including the economy, and a very quick study.”

Prof. Tarullo also discussed what Sen. Obama has not said; to ensure credit does not dry up, the candidate has been careful to advocate a moderate approach to imposing higher capital standards on nonbanks.

“He did not call in his Cooper Union speech for nonbank financial institutions immediately to have to meet any new capital requirements,” the adviser said. “Although it’s good for capital to be raised, if you can’t raise capital, the other way you meet an increased capital requirement is by stopping lending” and getting assets off the balance sheet. “That was not something that would be helpful in a credit crunch and economic downturn.”

Sen. Obama’s likely rival in the general election, Sen. John McCain, opposed broad government intervention in the mortgage market in a speech March 25, but the Arizona Republican shifted gears April 10 and backed a lighter version of the Frank-Dodd FHA plan.

“McCain initially said that he didn’t think that anything should be done. He then reversed himself a couple of weeks later, and so far as I can tell, I haven’t heard anything since from him,” Prof. Tarullo said.

“But if what people are looking for, and I think it’s what they should be looking for, is to say, ‘Which candidate … focused on these problems early, and stayed with the problems and continued to try to identify what the priorities are?’ I think there’s a big contrast between Obama and McCain.”

By GayGrayGeek

June 4, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

macca @ 9:54 - The Esquire ain’t smokin’ anything. All the Republikkkan Kool-Aid he and his ilk (the DustBuster, Jim Who-ten, etc.) have drunk over the past 7+ years has rotted away more in their heads than just their teeth.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Piggy Mancuso: the insiders at the ajc blog away all day on these inhouse blogs…Ignatius was no doubt one of them…that is why the urinal is such a poor paper, too much time wasted on the internet, not enough work do in the field…kicking in doors, taking names, you know, like you guys do in the APD….shotting little old ladies on trumped up charges….and whining when granny shoots back…hmmm, you must be neocons, the same thing is happening in iraq, we are kicking in doors, shooting people, and crying like babies when people shoot back…..

By GMAN

June 4, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Paul “We cannot place the keys to our government into the hands of a man who hasn’t taken drivers ed yet!!”

The comes a time when the elderly shouldn’t be handed the keys. That time is now for Mr. McGoo! THe country lowered the bar for president 8 years ago and will not allow it to stay there or go lower. Therefore, the old man will be beaten to a pulp in November if he lasts that long.

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Well, a fine “tongue-in-cheek” piece by Jim Wooten. Justice for Hillary?? I guess one of those great conspiracies wiped it out, the one she mentioned when Bill was in trouble. Put her on the ticket with Obama and America will be presented with the greatest fiasco ever placed before a voting public. It would be the Democratic “Change to Catastrophe” ticket. It will be that, even without Hillary.

I commend jbmlaw for his fine report and observations on the safe- guarding of America by the honest and ethical George W. Bush and our military. We, who appreciate the greatness of America, thank them for their loyalty and their sacrifices.

John McCain will carry on this tradition of loyalty and logic as he has always done. There is no one else in this race who has anything worth serious consideration.

By Copyleft

June 4, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Denial is all that’s left to the dwindling number of Republican faithful… I suggest we leave them to it.

By AmVet

June 4, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

So they’ve chosen the weaker candidate. Bring him on.

The hilarity of commonly senseless neo-conservatism never ceases to amaze!

The Wootenheads were practically drooling at the prospect of Sen. Clinton running for the Oval Office in November.

The Republican’s next Karl Rove (Saxby?) must have been positively agog at the near endless slimey possibilities.

And it was the one possible tiny, non-Christmas miracle in an otherwise horrific ongoing nightmare for the neo-cons.

But alas, the mulatto stole their thunder and their only shred of hope.

So the spin now goes that he is somehow preferred as the weaker candidate by the “faithful” “base” in the GOP’s over-represented lunatic fringe.

And perhaps that is true here in the 1940’s Moron Belt.

But not having Hillary around is going to make an already ghastly summer even worse for the once Grand Old Party.

Need proof?

And put her on the ticket, too.

A rational, reasoned American could not have painted a more satisfying scenario.

01-20-09 The End of an Error

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

You know my friends… I was just thinking…after watching Mclames speech last night… I’m not sure…but he just might be: retarded!

bring on the debates! ;-)

By getalife

June 4, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Clinton’s “concession” speech last night was hilarious. Heads exploded all over Obama’s blogs.

McCain’s speech was just awful but the gop have this:

“For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on “whitey”, and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that’s when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who’s seen this.

The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity’s site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.”

The Obama’s hate whitey.

By Maniac is accurate

June 4, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

I’ve been making a living writing for 25 years, why do I do this crap for free? I hate the flippin’ AJC dope peddlers.

By ghost rider

June 4, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Oh yea McCain! Here is a guy who stated he doesn’t understand economics! A guy who was against tax cuts before he was for it! A guy who doesn’t know the difference between the Sunni and the Shia! A guy who was against MLK day, before he was for it! McCain the MAVERICK who voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007. McCain who recently has said that Rumsfeld badly mismanaged the war. But, in 2003 Said “I’m a Great Admirer of Secretary Rumsfeld.”

The list is endless of this man’s misconstruction of his positions on issues…Not to mention the Ol’ Keating Five Scandal!

This guy is as corrupt as Bush and Cheney!

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Maniac is accurate - you call this a living….if all i had to look forward to was reading the ajc in the morning…ah thing ah would take up drinking in a serious manner so ah could sleep till 3pm…

By GMAN

June 4, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Oh Dusty! I see you’ve purchased new batteries for your “GOP companion” and are having a great morning. But your party and its candidate will fade into the sunset in November.

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

You know my friends… I was just thinking…after watching Mclames speech last night… I’m not sure…but he just might be: retarded!

bring on the debates! ;-)

By Kelly Edmond

June 4, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Hilary lost! She needs to concede. The delegates have spoken. The point is Hilary didnt factor in Obama when she was making these plans for the presidency years ago. She lost.

Now she has purposedly split the party and is trying to hold her supporters over Obamas head as to GIVE her the VP slot. Who does she think she is???

Obama is the DEMOCRATIC NOMIMEE..point blank, and Hilary is a sore loser.

Her actions have tarnished all the good done during President Clintons term.

She represents the HARD WORKING WHITE AMERICANS?? So blacks arent hard working yet our votes were good when we supported her husband in both his terms.

She lost..get over it!

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

You know my friends… I was just thinking…after watching Mclames speech last night… I’m not sure…but he just might be: retarded!

bring on the debates! ;-)

By Christopher

June 4, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Well, it looks as if Rev. Wright will have his prayers answered (God da*n America) if Obama becomes president!

God help us all!!

By ghost rider

June 4, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

“I commend jbmlaw for his fine report and observations on the safe- guarding of America by the honest and ethical George W. Bush and our military.”

DUSTY…With this type of moronic comment one has to wonder is JBM sharing his stash with you?

By Taxpayer

June 4, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Ron Paul in 2008. He is a muche better choice than the Democrats, Obama and McCain.

By White Beeetch.

June 4, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

I agree with Hotlanta! It would be DISRESPECTFUL to ask Hillary to be VP after more Americans voted for her in the primaries. Give him the nomination. After all, HE IS ENTITLED, isn’t he? (It’s the black man’s turn, so shut up and sit down, beeetch!) Yes, Hotlanta, that would be disrespectful.

Hillary should go of vacation now, and BEST WISHES to Obama in his efforts to win over 51% of the American voters (er, electoral college actually). I hope he trounces McCain. Call and remind me which day to go touch the screen if I’m not too busy.

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Ron Paul? errrrr…he’s the loser you “talibangelicals” love so much…give it up…

let it go…

he as the “very same chance” of being the leader of the “new third world country” that the USA has become….as I do…

yet…I’d do a better job…

All I would hire would be gays and abortion doctors! ;-)

By THE CATHOLIC HAMMER

June 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Need I remind everyone that Barack Obama is half-Black, and that >51% of the Electoral College votes come from states that are <10% Black?

By nominating Barack Obama, the Democrat Party is conceding that “winning” is nominating a Black man, and winning the presidency does not matter.

If they wanted to have won the presidency, they would have nominated John Edwards; clearly, the people that control the Democrat Party don’t care win the presidency, but to nominate racial minorities for a national office.

By Adam

June 4, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

“The old guy is looking pretty good…” Please! Put politics aside and try to view the situation from the perspective of the ordinary swing voter.

Agree with his politics or not, Obama gave a speech which had a staduim full of people, with 15,000 more outside, worked into a frenzy.

Pundits compare him to JFK, but he reminds me of Reagan in ‘80 with a perfectly polished message and scores supporters screaming for change.

McCain gave a reactive speech in front of a hideous green backdrop and a couple of hundred people. He did not put forth his own message, but was reduced to mocking Obama’s. “That’s not change you can believe in,” he weezed through his drooping posture and sarcastic smile. He reminded me of my grandfather calling me “dog” in an attempt to sound cool.

McCain was frail, sarcastic and looked utterly lost. And, he has the baggage of $4 gasoline, foreclosures everywhere (9,000 in GA alone yesterday), 4,000 dead American soldiers, a recession (which is a practical reality today and will be a technical reality by Nov) and an incumbant who refuses to acknowledge that the word nuclear only has one “u”.

Be objective - do you honestly believe that voters are going to separate McCain from Bush?

The old guy looks pretty good… are you delusional?

By the way, Mr. Wootenm in response to your critque of Sen. Obama’s strength as a candidate… we had another president from Illinois once and the history of his candidacy may be enlightening to you.

Before he took office the guy had one failed 2 year term in the House, spent a lot of time in the Illinois legislature and had a failed campaign for Senator. Sound familiar? Kind of makes Obama look like a seasoned political vet.

But what he did have was moral clarity on the most significant issue of his day. And, he had the ability to inspire people to greater things while his opponent ran on a pragmatic platform of the status quo.

There is now a monument on our National Mall to that inexperienced state senator from Illinois who became our greatest president.

Who do you think people are going to vote for in this election? Lincoln or Douglas? Kennedy or Nixon? Reagan or Carter? Clinton or Dole?

If you thought last night was a moment in history, just wait until January 20th.

Conservatives have had the last 8 years and blew it. Bush was the punishment for the immorality and embarrassment of Bill Clinton. Obama is the punishment for the brash, thoughtless isolationism and stubborn partisianship of Bush.

The pendulum is swinging and John McCain can’t stop it.

By Abomi Nation

June 4, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Jim says Obama’s change “is a return to yesterday’s agendas, programs and foreign policies.”

Where exactly will McCain’s “change” lead us? What is McCains message of change all about?

McCain mentioned “change” a total of 26 times in his speech last night. Sounds to me he is running as far away from Bush as he possibly can.

The current President is a Republican. Why is Republican McCain so obsessed with change?

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Getalife@10:41

You finally posted something worth reading. Read Michele Obama’s recorded speech and then picture her spitting on every Caucasian entering the White House. She is doing it verbally now.

Prejudice is not pretty and it is hard to keep under cover. The Obamas can’t seem to hide it.

By GayGrayGeek

June 4, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

DustBuster - AFEES Is Still Waiting For You.

Put Up Or Shut Up, Darlin’. Either serve the country you claim to love, or just STFU.

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, DUSTY?

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Dusty… read about your “morals” president doing blow and passing out drunk while p** on himself…and how every single business he ran failed…until daddy had his Saudi friends (you know…the ones 100 times worse than Saddam) put up some shell companies for him to run…as he never even showed up to work…as “others” ran those companies for him…yet he ONLY failed in 6 companies he started before Daddy and the Saudi’s stepped in…

teach us ALL about how Billions go missing every month in Iraq… that could help us over here…

how it was HE thatwas our “leader” when 9-11 happened.. how he sat there…as a TRUE leader…not even reading…sitting looking blind in the headlights…while people jumped out of buildings…ALL b/c of “the children”….that a TRUE and REAL leader would have only had to do or say this: “sorry kids…I have to go..It was great meeting you all, but I have some things to take care of”…nope…instead…he sat there… like the IDIOT he is, always was..and ALWAYS will be…yet YOU…voted for him TWICE!!!

Know WHY you voted for him? Because you thought you would have no more Gays or Abortions in the USA…

well…”values voters”…gays are STILL gay..and ABORTION is STILL legal…

and every single day…your teen and preteen daughters get pregnant b/c they have NO IDEA how their own bodies work! You say; “don’t teach them sex-ed in school”…and you don’t teach them at home either…yet they are HUMAN…which means…they have SEX!!!

McCain looked like an IDIOT last night talking in front of 200 people… bring on the debates…

even here in GA…Obama brought out record crowds… yet McCain brings out idiots on the verge of hospice care… a few hundred “hand selected” at most… Obama brings out 76,000 in OR…31,000 last night…

go move to the middle east…and follow your backwards religion over there with the “other talibangelicals”….as your logic…is ALWAYS faulty at best…

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Ghost rider,

Since I wasn’t raised in a slum, I am not familiar with”stash”. Is that illegal money, drugs, food stamps, or subsidized housing? You obviously know the meaning of all those “things”. Tell us about it.

DavidD,

While I was reading your posts, a sudden realization came to me. DavidD is RETARDED. Sorry, bub. It’s not your fault.

Adam, baby,

The President of the USA has to do more than give a good speech. Do not vote for one whose only attribute is a “good speech”. That’s Obama, little one.

GMAN,

Doea that “G” in GMAN stand for “goofy”? It must. “Old goofs never die. They do dabble duty with daffy Democrats.”

Dump the dabble on us, big G!! We expect no less.

If I missed anybody, I apologize. See you in several hours…maybe.

By Dan

June 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

I am really bothered by the Democratic Primary Process. We as Dem’s often point to the Republicans as manipulating the polls. What ever happened to one man one vote. After this process the Democratic Party should condider changing its name to “The Incredibles”. Everyone is a “super” except the voters. Or it might even be called a Democratic Junta by the Power Elite of the party. You could argue this by either candidates point of view. Whatever you call it its not Democratic nor working class. I guess too many powerful people believe things should be decided by someone other than the voter. If we are going to “change”, lets start with this primary process.

By ###

June 4, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Let’s be fair Dusty. If you’re going to bring up the Michelle Obama tape, then you have to talk about the video of McCain kicking a little black child. What? There is no such video?! But I just posted it on the internet so it must be true, right? Right?

By Knot Getinany

June 4, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Catholic hammer has the Democratic Party nailed. Their best chance to win was John Edwards. But they wanted to make the statement that they could nominate a woman or racial minority, more than they wanted to win the White House. And now, more than likely, they won’t. Fine by me.

By Get Real Wootie

June 4, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

“The Democrats found themselves in a situation where they couldn’t deny Obama the nomination, lest a major constituency walked.” And what constituency would that be Wootie? Maybe its the millions of white voters that have cast their ballot for Obama. And today has to be the first day you’ve ever come to the defense of Hillary. Hey, when your party has no platform whatsoever to run on, what else can you do. Did you see McBush’s speech last night behind that terrible green placard, oh my. And Obama destroyed every premise of McCain’s policies in one speech. Admit it Wootie, you guys are finished. I’m glad I have other things to do than read these incredibly horrendous posts you’ve been providing the last couple weeks. Time you and More McWars retire, and go off into the sunset. You suck Wootie!

By Get Real Wootie

June 4, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

“The Democrats found themselves in a situation where they couldn’t deny Obama the nomination, lest a major constituency walked.” And what constituency would that be Wootie? Maybe its the millions of white voters that have cast their ballot for Obama. And today has to be the first day you’ve ever come to the defense of Hillary. Hey, when your party has no platform whatsoever to run on, what else can you do. Did you see McBush’s speech last night behind that terrible green placard, oh my. And Obama destroyed every premise of McCain’s policies in one speech. Admit it Wootie, you guys are finished. I’m glad I have other things to do than read these incredibly horrendous posts you’ve been providing the last couple weeks. Time you and More McWars retire, and go off into the sunset. You suck Wootie!

By Just Nasty and Mean

June 4, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Hello Jim, et al.

Indeed, Obama is a good speaker—much better than McCain. But when you get him off the teleprompter—he turns into a one-man gaff machine. This explains why he does so poorly in debates (Hillary KILLED him multiple times). They guy rarely says a word that is not scripted—and when he does—he “steps” in dog squeeze. It happens over and over.

His inconsistency on free-form dialog comes from not having a core belief. Obama is tiptoeing through a minefield to accommodate his patchwork of constituents glued together with chewing gum (“change”) that has no nutritional value.

I listened to Obama’s speech last night until I was about to puke. I lost count of the bumper-sticker platitudes and 30,000 ft. positions (We can do better!) void of any specifics. Folks—-*This is a joke! *

This is McCain’s strength. He can speak free-form and not step in it. (Aw! co’mon! Shiite/Suni is an easy mistake). It is because he has a solid core from which to speak.

To believe a majority of the American public sucks down Oama’s empty swill as the gospel is worse than sad—-it is terrifying.

By Blind Homer

June 4, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

It’s a rare day, Dusty is actually right on this one. Obama’s not the problem, but alone, at home at night, you just have to know who wears the pants in that family! It’s almost unfathomable that a woman who benefitted so much from affirmative action turned out to be such an extreme racist. We just thought it was dangerous having Nancy’s astrologer making decisions for senile old Ronnie. Michelle Obama-mama will mzke Nancy look like Mother Theresa.

By ghost rider

June 4, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

You weren’t raised in a slum! Well guess what? Neither was I.

If you don’t know what a stash is then you are the most ignorant person on the face of this earth.

Tell you what Dusty…Ask your hero GWB what a stash is .. he knows! He did enough of it back in the 60’s when he was so HIGH he didn’t show up for his flight physical. Get my drift?

By "Charles", The Original

June 4, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

It’s difficult to educate the average Joe who has been dumb down via education. Because of his/her hubris, they are served with chronic blindness. But you all know my history, against the odds, I’ll attempt to deprogram the average person; and that is a reference to you. I’ll give it the old college try.

Through their political machinery, The New World Order Elites have decided that Hillary Clinton, John McCain, or Barack Obama will become the nation’s 44th President. It’s quite obvious that neither of the three would be a good President for the average American voter; and that is a reference to you. Their allegiance to the Constitution or the Republic is highly questionable. These candidates are servants to the rich, or the super-rich.

In the general election, my first choice will be Ron Paul. If there is momentum building in the Chuck Baldwin camp, he will get my vote. Even reformed Bob Bar is a better choice for the average American voter than any of the New World Order Elite’s favorites.

Without question, my choice of candidates have pledged allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and to the Republic. And they are not highly regarded by the New World Order elites or their minions.

Yall feel me?

By deegee

June 4, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

My 82 year-old mother is concerned that if Obama becomes POTUS then black people working at the grocery store won’t be nice to her. Apparently there are quite a few people out there that share her anxiety. BTW, today’s Wootang editorial was one of the funniest ever. Every paragraph gives me a chuckle. Funny stuff.

By Right-leaning moderate

June 4, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

WooTan Clan, As a 2x voter for W - you idiots don’t get it.

The problem with McCain is this: -Not inspiring and the definition of anti-charismatic. -Bereft of any scent of a proposal to arrest the worst economic slide in 30 years. -Promoting a ‘stay the course’ in the least popular military engagement since Vietnam.

If you notice this would align McCain more closely with the following candidates over the last 30 years - Carter; Bush Sr. (well - during 2nd term); Dukakis - in tank shot aside; Bob Dole; Walter Mondale.

Now which candidates have campaigned on soaring rhetoric - with widely panned, but popular and sweeping policy proposals? Kennedy; Reagan; Clinton; Far-left; Middle-Right; Middle-Left.

So there is your problem Wootie and Clan. You can swear up and down that the independents voting for Obama were simply trying to torpedo Hillary. But the reality is that in November the vote will be on the economy, a plan to leave Iraq and the desire to change direction.

Having voted for the ‘winner’ (and it hasn’t always felt that way later - see Bush and Clinton) - though undecided now, it seems to me the moderate vote would probably tend towards Obama today. If John M makes the same mistake as Hillary’s campaign team - all kinds of havoc could occur on the electoral map. States with large black populations and stronger anti-war sentiment than you want to admit - like Georgia, NC, SC, Ark, Tenn - could all be in play.

At a minimum - likely to be a real horse race this time.

By Petey

June 4, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Looks like John Smoltz will be available for Obama if he wants to go that way. He’d balance the ticket philosphically and pick up support from white Southerners.

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

McCain gives terrible speaches, both prepared and off-the-cuff and he is an awful debater. I agree debating is not Obama’s strongest hand but he is far better at it than McCain. I hope Obama welcomes the opportunity to embarrass McCain in ten debates. It should be fun. Also I heard today that McCain is contemplating C.Rice or Jeb Bush as a running mate. HAH!! Good luck selling yourself as the agent of change with a former Bush admin. member or, better yet, his brother standing next to you. What a douchebag!

By Susan

June 4, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Man I hope some of you really take time to read up on Obama’s actions and not his words. Hes for illegals, hes for higher taxes, hes for more and more government control, hes for spending money on his pets, hes for taxing and taxing and taxing. Oh hes not, then go look at his VOTING record. Actions speak louder then words and his actions are not good for America, you or I. Count on a battle.

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Just Nasty? show’s how much YOU know…Obama…was not…using a teleprompter last night…it was shown over and over. he’s a LEADER…not a “follower”… But I guess when you watch over and over McLame…talk to 200 “hand picked people”…you thing HE is the rockstar in the crowd.

The debates…well bring them on…

McLame sounded like a bumbling fool…and to be honest…i LIKE him. Yet he has NOTHING to say…nothing he can bring to the school yard… he’s been in W.DC too long! yes…he at times reaches over the lines…but he’s done…he’s toast…

Obama… the ONLY thing that can put us on the right track…yet the train left so very long ago…b/c of you “values voters” that got NO VALUE for your money… (did I say before how I LOVE as a straight man that gays are STILL gay)?…. the Mclame will look like an old washed up dish rag (think Porky pig)…vs. super man…

Your party…your votes…have only moved up the empire’s ruin by 20 or so years…it was “bound” to happen…yet…you just can NOT let go..

that’s OK…the world CONTINUES to laugh at GA…and for how they vote…

hey everyone…let’s WATER our lawn during a record, historic drought! Sod lawns are MORE important than drinking water!!! YAY!!!!

as I ALWAYS say: Gays are STILL gay! Abortions are STILL legal…and your daughters…need to ABORT your seed!!! ;-)

NY, CT, Mass, etc…are moving in to GA every single day…it’s GA’s ONLY hope! Get that sticker off your SUV, get onto MARTA AND FACE IT…. YOU Bubble Boy…he’s an IDIOT!!!

By Susan

June 4, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Man I hope some of you really take time to read up on Obama’s actions and not his words. Hes for illegals, hes for higher taxes, hes for more and more government control, hes for spending money on his pets, hes for taxing and taxing and taxing. Oh hes not, then go look at his VOTING record. Actions speak louder then words and his actions are not good for America, you or I. Count on a battle. The American people are saying enough. And I for one am too.

By Steve-O

June 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Wow!! I can’t remember the last time I saw Republicans so scared and angry. Hey, I can’t blame you. If my candidate had the uphill climb that yours does and was facing a candidate as powerful as Obama, I would be pretty defensive, too. I wonder why McCain did not allow cameras into his fundraiser last week? Was it because Bush was the keynote speaker? Is he the candidate of “change” or is he snuggling up to the “base”? I don’t think he can make up his mind. Hmmm…I wonder if folks will note his many, many contradictions, like voting against making the Bush tax cuts permanent and now saying he is for them? How ironic that Bush sabotaged his campaign in 2000 by calling voters in the south and asking them if they would vote for McCain if they found out he had an illegitimate black child and NOW he has to run against a black man. Oh, irony! McCain is McScrewed!

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

neocons prefer senile old men, or retarded dry drunks, the easier to manipulate….

By Copyleft

June 4, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

President Obama has yet to be sworn in, but that’s just a formality.

Finally, the REAL (liberal) America is back! And the Wooten nutjobs, in their pathetic impotent rage and despair, can’t do Thing One about it.

Life is great for true patriots—-that’s why the Bushies are so angry and frightened.

By hillbilly ragger

June 4, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Susan @ 1:03, what is this “hes for” thing you write of?

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

You are so RIGHT Steve-O…they are soooooo scared….too bad they can’t pull the abortion and gay marriage issues out this time…it;s not even about Iraq (are Bush’s daughter’s ther fighting yet)? Nope…people NOW care about crap like deficits (as Bubble Boy was handed a surplus), and $3 loaves of bread…$4 and $5 a gallon gas…

McLame…should just BEG at this very time…to be VP…

Even though he WAS a war hero…it has NOTHING to do with running a country…nor does the amount of time one spends in our Gvt…it has to to with being…hmmmmm…SMART…at Bubble was not…nor is Mclame (though I like him)…it ONLY has to do with having a BRAIN and get this “logic”….

Logical people don’t mant more of the same…

They don’t CARE about gay marriage (though they should have that right)…they don’t CARE about abortions)…they CARE about: IMPORTANT stuff…like health care, our economy, and our standing around the world…about the many more terrorists world wide we have created because of our “big d!ick” attitude around the globe…

McCain is a done deal… all one had to do…was watch HIS speech to 200 people last night…and Obama’s to over 31,000….

Change? yup…too bad it’s too late…as Bubble Boy gave ALL of our money…and “borrowed” money to his buddies around the world…

Higher taxes under obama you say? Once again..it show’s that giving tax breaks to the biggest companies and those with the most wealth…do NOT lead to “trickle down” economics…

sad that too many watch FAUX news …and get their “info” from them….

just ask around the world…as to how we are thought of…looked at…

Clinton was the one that had flowers handed to him…Bubble Boy…sat for 7 minutes stuck like a lost deer in the head lights….and HE was the LEADER…that the majority of GA voters elected…

ONCE AGAIN: GA…last in education and showing it every single day!

By Abomi Nation

June 4, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

For the debates to be fair, they will have to schedule them to start at about 3pm. That way McCain can take his hour long afternoon nap at 1pm and be up and alert by 3.

Any debate starting at or after 8pm would be a disaster for McCain. I guess McCain could let a late start be an ally. He could pretend to nod off when asked about fellow Republican, President George W. Bush, probably would be better than lying.

I can see this as a great debate question….”Sen McCain, how would you react to a late night phone call that needed your urgent attention?” I for one would like to know how McCain thinks he would react to that 11pm phone call.

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

I, for one, am not going to be lectured on fiscal responsibility by anyone who voted for Bush. Geez, do you people think we haven’t been paying attention? We figured out already that you all are only against big government until you get into office and then you go crazy. It’s just rhetoric. We also figured out that you are all a bunch of corrupt liars. Just in case you were wondering.

By BARACK OBAMA HIMSELF

June 4, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

I get so tired of you people who refuse acknowledge my commitement and definition of CHANGE so let me break it down for you:

It’s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush ninety-five percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

It’s not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college – policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain of debt.

And it’s not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians – a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq, while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn’t making the American people any safer.

So I’ll say this – there are many words to describe John McCain’s attempt to pass off his embrace of George Bush’s policies as bipartisan and new. But change is not one of them.

Change is a foreign policy that doesn’t begin and end with a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged. I won’t stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what’s not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years – especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored.

We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in - but start leaving we must. It’s time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future. It’s time to rebuild our military and give our veterans the care they need and the benefits they deserve when they come home. It’s time to refocus our efforts on al Qaeda’s leadership and Afghanistan, and rally the world against the common threats of the 21st century – terrorism and nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease. That’s what change is.

Change is realizing that meeting today’s threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy – tough, direct diplomacy where the President of the United States isn’t afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for. We must once again have the courage and conviction to lead the free world. That is the legacy of Roosevelt, and Truman, and Kennedy. That’s what the American people want. That’s what change is.

Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it. It’s understanding that the struggles facing working families can’t be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a tax break, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation. It’s understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was President.

By ron

June 4, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

In 2004,Obama was elected to the senate.In 2005 he was the 32nd most liberal.In 2006 he was the 16th most liberal.In 2007 he was the most liberal member of the Senate.No wonder he’s running for President.He has no where else to go but down.Think about all the Senators passing bills to increase taxes and make the government grow.This guy’s the best at it.Number uno.I hope they shove this record right down his throat.

By ###

June 4, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Susan, who are these American people who are saying enough? Are they the one’s who don’t bother to show up for a McCain speech? Are they the one’s who are not contributing to the McCain campaign? Please, tell us who these supposed Americans are.

By Steve-O

June 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

DaveD, what these hatemongers don’t realize is that they are a dying breed. The younger generation, which largely supports Obama, does not have a problem with gay marriage. Those old ways are on their way out. If you like to old school, hate-filled ways then vote for McCain, the rest of us will wave to you from our rearview mirrors as we pass you by. Gay rights is a civil rights and all those who oppose them will be written in history the same way folks like Lester Maddox and George Wallace have been— as people on the wrong side of an issue. That being said, this campaign is not about gay marriage because that is going to happen no matter who is elected. When gas is over 4 bucks a gallon, groceries are skyhigh, people are losing their homes by the thousands, we are bogged down in a pointless, endless war and our reputation is mud around the world, I don’t think voters will be so distracted by usual smoke-and-mirrors campaign tactics that have worked for you in the past. Who gives a rip about gay marriage when I can’t afford to fill up my tank without a bank loan!

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Great post Steve-O!

By BusterCherry

June 4, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

McCain? McCain! Is that the best you guys could do? He is really terrible. This is going to be a tough one. I think you all are about to have your butts handed to you on a platter. With all that is going on in the world and with how very badly Bush has screwed everything up all you guys can crow about is taxes? Do you really think hauling out that old chestnut will work this time around? I don’t know but I think you guys have kind of lost your minds. I realize that there are about 30% of the voting public that will vote for Republicans no matter what they do and ya’ll are really proving that now. Because, my God, was Bush a disaster, but you are still defending him. Amazing. Well, the rest of us see through it, so why don’t you turn around and preach to the choir because the rest of us think you are crazy.

By "Charles", The Original

June 4, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

This is the disposition of the average American voter; and that’s a reference to you. “It doesn’t concern me if a candidate for President has pledged allegiance to Freemasonry, The Illuminati, Knights of Columbus, The Bilderberg Group, Club of Rome, Order of the Bull’s Blood, Skull and Bones, Committee of 300, The trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, etc. I’m voting for the best person that represents change.”

Because of the hubris of most Americans, they have been served with blindness. American voters can’t perceive that members of secret societies have betrayed/deceived governments and average citizens throughout history. Most of the candidates running for President of the United States are members of secret societies.

How do you confront this problem? Your hubris will likely influence you to ignore it at your own peril/demise.

By h ryder

June 4, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

My opinion on the current situation is that should Mrs. Clinton be selected as VP running mate the odds of that ticket winning is two to five or less. The reason being that all anti-Mrs.Clinton voters will be certain to vote. Not for the Republican, but to insure that she is not even a heart beat removed from becoming president, that is how deeply people believe she should never be the holder of either of the only two nation wide elected offices.

By Termite Queen

June 4, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

The Termite Queen has successfully drilled through the teeth and into the cranium of blogland’s Gorge Washington and found…Nothing…Emptyland…Echoville.

Alas, like most lower forms of life, the body of Gorge still sqwirms while his brain waves have flatlined.

By Virginiaca

June 4, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

I wonder if the social policy right wingers will mind that McCain cheated on his first wife with Cindy? Nah! I forgot, they only care about morality when talking about Democrats, they don’t mind if their guy is a rutting pig. And speaking of Cindy McCain, WTF is up with her face. I mean was her plastic surgeon a democrat? She looks weird. Also, I wonder if those anti-elitist Republicans think it is elitist to own 9 homes. Because the McCains do. Just curious. Let the hypocracy flow!

By Taxpayer

June 4, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Well, Mr. Wooten,

The race between the so-called “Democratic” and “Republican” candidates can begin now. So, are you going to start telling people why they need to vote for McCain or will you continue to tell people why Obama’s followers should not vote for him. I personally can see no reason to vote for either. Ron Paul is by far the best candidate out there for President.

By AmVet

June 4, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

neocons prefer senile old men, or retarded dry drunks, the easier to manipulate…

George Washington, Zeus bless ya!

That is one funny assessment of our current prez!

Lauren, well said.

That is one of the numerous critical failings of this “new” “conservative” GOP.

Rather than focus on effective governance, and demonstrating that they were actually the party to get things done in DC, they took advantage of their reprieve from those forty years in the political land of nod to first and foremost, extract revenge.

Boy, was that a dumb idea!

Hating liberals is not a substitute for actually running the country effectively.

Fortunately, like the Third Reich, they barely made it past 12 years…

By "Charles", The Original

June 4, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

I’ve got to sign off everybody; duty is calling. As always, it’s good talking to you.

Remember, no backstabbing! Always confront individuals face to face. I hope to engage you’ll tomorrow; God willing.

By JK

June 4, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Charles the Original writes: “Most of the candidates running for President of the United States are members of secret societies. How do you confront this problem? Your hubris will likely influence you to ignore it at your own peril/demise.”

For the sake of discussion (and because the notion has some basis in what we know), let’s say I am not blind to this “fact” and am willing to set aside my hubris. (I never thought Kerry wanted or tried to win, BTW.)

What do you suggest? I could vote Libertarian or Green Party, but this will have zero affect the transition of power of one such entity to another. Most of us vote the “lesser of the evils” as we see it, at least some of the time.

What exactly is your suggestion to remedy this, the substance of your continuing dire warnings?

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Do any of you remember back in 1992 when Clinton was running against the fist Bush and the whole campaign was about CHANGE and then Bush started trying to say HE was the candidate for change…and he was the incumbant…that was hilarious. McCain is not much different. The fact that most of the country clearly wants change and he does not seem to realize that he is part of what they want change from is kind of pathetic. Instead he’s like “oh, yeah, me too, I am the guy for change. Now ‘scuse my while I go felate Bush” See ya!!

By Thor

June 4, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

I think McCain is a good guy but I have a question:

At age 72:

I have never met any old people who are visionaries for the future - have you?

At age 72 the brain starts to slow down, no doubt.

His age will be an issue.

By CHANGE

June 4, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Jim can you tell me where you buy your dope from before you write this B.S. Oops… Stupidity is you supplier almost forgot that. You and the people that share your views have been privileged racists in denial for over 200 years and NOW its truly time for “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”… The last shall be first and the first shall be last and that time has arrived. Obama has a cake bake for all you non-believers.

P.S. I found your name in the dictionary WooWoo Jim -(a belief that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.)

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Hey! JBM, Dusty and co.! Global warming is FAKE! it;s a “liberal” thing…not a “world wide” thing! So..get this…if we drill in ANWAR…ALL the world will be better for it…oil prices will drop back down to when the Bubble Boy took the keys to the WH: $27 a barrel! YAY!!!!

Start drilling…this guys/gals figured it out!

Hold on a sec…

Can I STILL get my teen prostitute an abortion? If she needs one that is? She’s out of school for the summer…but she’s busy today…posting naked pics of herself on myspace…in her Dad’s over-sized house in East Cobb…well..not just her..all her friends too…

they look SOOOO HOTT~~~!!!!

Thanks Bubble Boy for keeping sex ed out of the classroom and in our kids rooms…where it BELONGS!!! ;-)

By Charles

June 4, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

I really must sign off everybody. Duty is calling. I can’t afford to enter the employment line.

Below is the first step to remedy the problem.

www.radioliberty.com

By Disco Nap

June 4, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Charles, you sound like you had a big plate of crazy for breakfast. Perhaps you should back off the Ron Paul juice for a while. Just a suggestion.

By AmVet

June 4, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

JK, here are my two cents worth.

If your heart tells you to vote Libertarian or Green party, DO IT!

And though I feel like Homer in that episode of the Simpsons where Kang the alien, laughs at him and say, “Go ahead, throw your vote away on a third party”, I have and will likely do so again.

We are all free men and can make our own choices. Irrespective of the wishes (demands?) of the power brokers in the Republican and Democratic Parties.

Change comes from within and with one person at a time.

This self-serving duopoly in American politics will do anything to avoid their ultimate demise (or at least keep their ruthless control intact), but I think (hope?) it is futile.

In large part thanks to Ralph Nader and the others like him that are certain to follow.

The entrenched crooks in both parties have had their innumerable chances to change their ways, but have ultimately just screwed the pooch…

By Can't let that one pass

June 4, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Charles the original, the contraction of you all is y’all. You’ll is the contraction of you will. Therefore your assertion: “I hope to engage you’ll tomorrow” is nonsense, just like most of what you write.

By Virginiaca

June 4, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

I saw McCain’s speech last night and what surprised me most was that he removed his head from Bush’s poopshoot long enough to make one.

By And So It Came To Pass

June 4, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

I had a big bowl of beans for lunch, Y’all.

By "Charles", The Original

June 4, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Can’t let that one pass,

I thank God for the correction. I am multitasking and really pressed for time. Forgive me for the simple mistake.

I noticed that you were not specifically critical of any of my comments; just the simple mistake in grammar.

Nevertheless, I must sign off. I can’t afford to enter the line seeking employment.

I’ll see everyone tomorrow; God willing.

www.radioliberty.com

By JK

June 4, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

AmVet, thanks for your freedom-loving response! I’ll vote Democratic and hope we do go in a better direction as a result. Charles needs to offer more than “be afraid!” if he wants to be taken seriously. No plan = no plan, but hey, that doesn’t stop most folks from believing in something these days.

Today’s News

The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases in Afghanistan was awarded to the Attock Refinery Ltd, a Pakistani-based refinery owned by Gaith Pharaon. Pharaon is wanted in connection with his alleged role at the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the CenTrust savings and loan scandal, which cost US tax payers $1.7 billion.

Nice job Bush s-ckers and McCain stumpers! Please explain again how denying college money to veterans and medical care to poor kids is necessary given our current budget. Quick! There’s a Mexican! Point the finger of blame away from the Saudis and their little monkeys in the United States Federal Government!! Traitors.

By Steve-O

June 4, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Charles, you have now signed off for a third time. Can you not tear yourself away or what? Get going already!

By Peter

June 4, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA Dusty….this comment is so “Wrong” it is funny !

I commend jbmlaw for his fine report and observations on the safe- guarding of America by the honest and ethical George W. Bush and our military. We, who appreciate the greatness of America, thank them for their loyalty and their sacrifices.

There is NOTHING ethical in the Bush Administration…… and he does not even follow the laws of the land.

Wow the Blind are still blind, and the Lemmings are still wiling to jump !

HA HA HA…….. HA HA HA…….

Vice president apologizes for inbreeding joke after state officials express outrage.

WASHINGTON - Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based “one-stop shop” of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.

WASHINGTON - The government may house disaster victims in trailers this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of high levels of formaldehyde found in trailers used after the Katrina catastrophe.

At least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003. It has cost taxpayers about $500 billion and estimates of the final tab run far higher. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglizt and Harvard University public finance expert Linda Bilmes have estimated the eventual cost at $3 trillion when all the expenses, including long-term care for veterans, are calculated.

Beyond 2008, working with “best-case” and “realistic-moderate” scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion — or more — by 2017.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

By alan

June 4, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Justice for her will be for ALL THE CLINTONS TO LEAVE QUIETLY AND GO AWAY !!!

Alan

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Amen, Alan!

By tyger

June 4, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Dream Team: Mclain - Clinton - two old bitter women

By Carlos

June 4, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Barrack, Hillary or Mcain?

Paraphasing Shakespiere. “First kill all Polititians”

By Blind Homer

June 4, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Peter - Good points, but don’t think that gives Obama the ethical high ground by comparison. After all he started out as a bag boy (precinct captain) getting out the vote for the Daley machine on Sickago’s south side, work for which his wife, racist scum that she is, was rewarded with at least her last two jobs. That’s the way politics works, the scum rises to the top. But you wouldn’t really want it any other way. Probably the most ethical president in recent history was Carter, but his presidency was a disaster.

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Question fer woodenhead: Is poopshooter a gooder word than as s? Your better half deleted my comment fer using the word washingAss, would it have been better to say washingPoopshooter?

By Jeez

June 4, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

FYI Carlos - the Shakespeare line you’re paraphrasing begins something like “How do we create chaos… First kill all the lawyers.” It always annoys me when people misuse this quote. And that’s everytime someone uses this quote.

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

‘NIX’ the ‘76

The rude, the crude, the muddled brood,

Can sqawk and clamor, lie and stammer.

Proclaim all bad and sky-falling sad

and all who disagree are mad.

The bumpy blues and crybaby balks

Have clearly defined Obama’s faults.

The man is clearly out his range

With only a cry for “Change! Change!”

The mindless mutter is brainless

clutter.

McCain’s too old so we are told.

The age of wisdom is not gold.

Youth is wise, the ‘old’…Despise!!

(Some parents should be dumped,

Because they raised these braindead

clumps.)

Goodbye, Obama, the dawn is here.

You and Michele have made it clear,

No “whiteys” will YOU hold dear

Just as ol’Jeremiah did declare.

As for the Presidency of the USA,

Obama laughs..”It was for play!

A pretty speech is all you need

And I will ‘nix’ that ‘76 creed.

Yes, indeed, I want you to know,

I will give you a MANIFESTO.”

By George Washington

June 4, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

The idea of killing all the lawyers is just so exciting and right, we always fergit the rest of the quote: what do ya call one thousand dead lawyers floating in yer swimmin’ pool? A good start….1500 would be a gooder start….

By Taxpayer

June 4, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Oh, George. You say the silliest things. You know full well that no standard issue swimming pool will hold 1000 dead sharks, much less 1500. You have to move up to an Olympic size pool for that many of them critters. The next thing you know, you’ll be telling folks that they won’t eat their own in order to survive.

By Blind Homer

June 4, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

I thought that was supposed to be why are lawyers like a sperm? They both have a one in a million chance of becoming a human being!

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Does anybody know any jokes that are funny?

By GayGrayGeek

June 4, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 5:07 - The best joke I know to show you is to have you look in a mirror.

By ron

June 4, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

I tend to liken politics to a septic tank.Certain things float.

Must fly now ,children.Have a good evening.

By Taxpayer

June 4, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

There is this blogger named Dusty,

Whose rants have gotten really Rusty,

She needs to give it a rest and pack that keyboard away,

For we have heard enough from her on this otherwise fine, sunny day.

What do you say, Dusty,

Are my rhymes too crusty?

Surely, they show more spunk,

Than those lame lines of yours that I’ll just call junk.

Now isn’t that funny. After all, it is just a joke.

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Yeah Dust Rag…Bubble Boy Bush is funny… Imagine a country where a complete idiot who can barely construct a complete sentence can be King?…ummm…sorry that’s more of a nightmare than a joke…yet it’s true…which in itself is a NIGHTMARE!

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I hate to tell you….

You are worse than I am

Which is really a slam.

In case you haven’t noticed….

This blog gets as dull as dishwater

So I give you no quarter.

Besides you are liberal

With whom I quibble

Because liberals are no joke.

They are dim ‘til they croak.

I hope your taxes will go sky high

If U vote for U know who..now Bye Bye.

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

There once was a Daved

Who knew not A from B.

He thought he was cute

But that I dispute.

He’s only a liberal scribbler.

By Lauren

June 4, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

I hope all you people here crying about Obama raising taxes are really rich because that’s the only people he will raise taxes on. As for this middle class panic about Obama raising taxes it is just misguided, but that’s all y’all have got so I guess you have to scream about something since your candidate is so very weak in every way. Did you see McCain’s speech last night? Beyond pathetic. It was amateurish and embarrassing! Obama will cream him and you know it! Also, Carlos, you don’t even know how to spell Shakespeare mush less quote him properly. You must be a Ron Paul supporter.

By ron

June 4, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

whatever happens to hillary it’s self-inflicted,she brought about the sexism charge by initiation it herself.she interjected racism in the campaign by using the W-word. it’s very obvious that hillary is not mentally fit to be president,it’s there for anyone to disect and analyze.she has too much political baggage and would be a loose cannon on the campaign trail.hillary needs no involvement in the obama campaign,not even an endorsement.

By Jim

June 4, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Mission Accomplished 4,000 + W - The President

Four more years 8,000+

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

Yeah…all the dems do is raise taxes right? That’s why the biggest economic expansion in US history happened under Clinton/Gore.

trickle down economics (like under Reagan/Bush do NOT work… nice looking in theory and on paper…yet it has NEVEr worked that way. The rich only got richer, the poor got poorer, and the middle class added more to the “poor” list.

Here ya go:

*”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.

The Unemployment Rate Was 3.9 Percent in October — Nearly the Lowest in Three Decades. The unemployment rate stayed low at 3.9 percent in October — nearly the lowest in three decades. The unemployment rate has fallen for seven years in a row. It has remained below 5 percent for 40 months in a row. For women the unemployment rate was 3.9 percent — nearly the lowest since 1953.”*

And yeah Lauren…McLame’s speech last night…was sorry…sad, and in fact mind numbing… unless you’re part of the AARP crowd…who he will also srew over, just like how he wants to continue screwing over our Iraq war veterans…by trying to keep them in the military by holding over the complete funds for college they were promised when they signed up…

Sorry if they need to resort to games to keep people in the miltary. Kids don’t want to sign up unless they have no other options available…and because of this economy…it looks like they’re getting their way on that end as well….

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

DaveD…oh whoopee

You can quote the longest with the leastest.

You think DNC news is the sweetest.

But please refrain.

You’re already a pain.

Being concise is still the neatest!!

By DaveD

June 4, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Show me the numbers…the economic expansion that has occured under Republicans dust rag….

I’ll be waiting… but you never do quote “facts”…you only spin…just like Jim here, and Rush, and Hannity, and O’rock head…etc…

Show me some hard numbers that say that dems raise taxes on the middle class… or that the economy does worse…it’s just the opposite…

the stock market also has always performed better under dems… that too is a fact I’ve posted here before…with the charts and statistics to show what I wsay to be true. All I ever see is “talking points” that are from fox news from you repulsivicans…. fear…

Know what fearful and FRIGHTENING?! That you gave the keys to the white house to Bubble Boy…kept in there a 2nd time…and STILL don’t see how far he has dragged this nation down…

Sorry… there’s a crisis going on, so I guess it’s time for me to go read “my pet goat”….

By Rosetta Perry

June 4, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this

Are you for real? Hillary had all those votes because a racist told the republicans to cross over and vote in the democratic primary?

My My My, what would the vote be if that happen. 1 million?

By Taxpayer

June 4, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

Oh Dear Dusty. Are your rhymes meant to thrust me,

Through the heart. Your aim needs repair,

For your stabs could barely cut the air,

Or, was it the gas that passed from thee.

By Souldrift

June 4, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Why is Ed Schultz not carried on the radio in Atlanta, when instead we get the annoying neophyte Herman frickin’ Kane?

Demand Ed Schultz.

By Clem

June 4, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this

QUESTION: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?

ANSWER:
None. Feminists can’t change anything.

-

By Barack Obama

June 4, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

Hey Guys,

I think you’re all forgetting something.

None of the things that you’re saying are important. I won. So now, I’m in the driver’s seat.

Just thought I would remind you.

Warm Regards, -B.O.

By Jack Bauer

June 4, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

Dear Sen. Obama,

Please win, start a division called CTU, and call me so I can get my job back.

Thanks,

Agent Jack Bauer

No seriously, how cool would that be?

By donald

June 4, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

Jim, why does AJC keep you employed? Surely can’t be due to the fact of you intellect! I was for Hill at first, but changed course after Iowa. Why? Because in Obama I saw a person who has the fortitude and intellect to move this America into the 21st century. In a nutshell, you, Bush and your jerk neo(con)artists buddies FAILED OUR COUNTRY, plain and simple. Now you’re asking us to again put a new bunch of nincompoops in office. The last time I looked, Dumbya’s approval ratings are shooting through the roof at 28%!! Please, you and your silly cohorts can’t fool the people any longer. It is time for idiots like you, Hannity and Limbaugh fade into the dust bin of history and let someone with common sense and new ideas take the lead. McBush is more of the same and Hillary? In the end “Miss Inevitable” turned out to be a “drama queen”. The last person who will be left standing will be Obama because of his organizational, creativity and team building skills. It time we expose you for who and what you’ve always been - A COMPLETE DIMWIT!!

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this

So it goes into the night,

Nonsense noodling from the not so bright.

Promise libs anything, all for free,

Healthcare, everything for me,me,me.

The rich got rich by using their head

So tax ‘em and give it to me, libs said.

No war, no defense, they’ll talk terror to death.

That will be big CHANGE, if there’s anybody left.

Now one lib signed his personal writ.

Name suitable for all..COMPLETE DIMWIT!!

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this

Oh dear, Taxpayer, I forgot about you.

And that is what I will continue to do.

By donald

June 4, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

To dusty

I laugh at con artists like you. The deficit is sky high as you cling onto your neo(con)nonsense. People stopped listening to you idiots long ago. The liberal thing is just another neo(con)scam to hide your failures. The fact is you dweebs have screwed up America and now we have to come back and clean up your messes. You fools pur your faith in a boozed up, coked up oil man. Look at the facts, call me liberal all you want, but nothing can hide the facts that you conservative fools are a bunch scum sucking complete failures.

By Mike`

June 4, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

Wooten, your a* is mine

By Dusty

June 4, 2008 11:29 PM | Link to this

Donald@10:54

Besides the lies, the misconceptions and pure stupidity, you express yourself like a two bit back alley bum.

You cannot appreciate what this country has given you. Now you want to elect somebody with no experience and why? Because he can make a good speech.

Now that is smart. Right in line with your borderline abilities. The only clean up you’ll ever do is mopping floors. Then your liberal leader will take half your paycheck for taxes if he is elected. If you are lucky, McCain will run this country. If not, all of us will be in deep trouble.

Good night, DimWit.

By Steve

June 5, 2008 3:33 AM | Link to this

Jim stick to writing about how the Republicans are going to get trounced this fall and leave the Democrats alone.They really don’t need your help. Stick to explaining how 8 years of a conservative President has been a complete failure!

By Tool of the neo-cons in consort with those evil BushCoMcChimpyHalliburtonCheneyHitler warmongers

June 5, 2008 7:10 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I have determined to change my blog-handle, inspired by the writings of various of our leftist kooks. Chairman Ann today posted an amusing essay on the topic, “Obama was selected, not elected,” a clever contrast between the 2000 general election and the democrat primary. I commend it to all, even our leftist friends.

By Taxpayer

June 5, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Dusty likes me. She does. She tried to forget about me but my poems were just too appealing. It’s OK, Dusty. It’s OK to remember me.

By Copyleft

June 5, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

You’ve renamed yourself most appropriately, Tool. Anyone quoting a screeching lunatic like Coulter is doing a lot more to destroy the Republicans than Obama and I could ever hope for.

Thank you for admitting the obvious! (snicker)

By Corey

June 5, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Warning to all you Obama haters, “Change” will resonate around the world. Just you wait and see. Just as MLK inspired people around the world to engage in the struggle for social justice so will Obama inspire millions around the world to seek change. Is there anyone out there willing to bet that a worldly cry for change will not resonate with others around the world?

By candide

June 5, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Justice for Hillary: exorcise her or burn her at the stake!

By The Change Master

June 5, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

I told my wife the other day that I wanted CHANGE in my life. Maybe a new woman on the side, if you will.

She clubbed me in the head with a cast iron skillet and asked me how’d I like the new flat spot in my skull.

CHANGE is not always a good thing.

By femme

June 5, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

It’s Senator Clinton, Jimmy.