Thinking Right

By Redneck Convert

July 3, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Well, I reckon some people got to stick their nose where it don’t belong to make theirselfs feel good. Like the old biddy two trailers down that keeps putting peoples names in for Red Cross drives and stuff like that. There’s always something in it to make them feel good about theirselfs. Jim Earl likes to tell the story about the fellow in the book that started thinking like that. So this fellow went looking for somebody to help. He looked and looked, and when he was thru he decided he was the one that needed help most, so he bought hisself a new pair of pants and walked away thinking people that always volunteer have got a belly full of green apples. That’s a good Conservative way of thinking.

Anyway, if this Obama wants people to get paid to help, let him put them in the Army where they can do some good. I imagine a couple years of fighting the towel heads will get their head straight and stop them from butting in to other peoples business.

We don’t need no Peace Corps and other guvmint boondoggles where people that can’t find or hold onto a good job can draw money from the guvmint to make theirselfs think they are something other than a bunch of librul bums.

Leastwise old man McCain don’t expect people to get paid to volunteer. He’s holding a spot open for anyone that wants to join the army during the next 100 years or so in Iraq. And he don’t go along with this stuff of paying for colledge for people that fight three or four years. Says colledge ought to be for people that stay in the army 15 or 20 years. That way they can be older than their professers when they get there. If they live, that is.

Anyhow, it don’t look too good for McCain. He ain’t even got in the ring yet and already he’s firing campaign people and shaking things up. He must be mighty skittish about running against this Obama. Sort of like this little 130 lb. boxer that jumps in the ring and then sees the other guy coming in and then jumps out and goes back to the locker room and fires his trainer and such.

Have a good day everybody.

By TW

July 3, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Never are the true colors of the wealthy right more vibrant than when they bristle at the thought of ‘work’. When it comes to work ethic, Obama over Inheritance McSame – hands down - stay away from that one, Jim, it’s a loser.

Discrimination was so much more respectable when it had the stones to call a shovel a shovel. But then, nobody’s accusing today’s right wing of having a pair.

Ironically, today’s rightwing, the supposed party of ‘faith, couldn’t be a bigger house of chickens…fearful, ignorant…

Real leadership quells fear, calms it so that wise decisions are made.

Are there words for elected officials who take advantage of one’s fears and patriotism for the sake of profit? Nothing appropriate for the children, I’m sure…

By Get Real

July 3, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Who would want to join the military knowing you may end up in Iraq, or Iran if McCain becomes President. Wooten can’t bring himself to admit that his party is gone down the tubes and it will take years to make the Republicans competitive. They have been hypocritical on everything that makes their party what it is:

• Conservative- Has run up a record deficit.

• Patriotic- Led us into a meaningless War, and Bush will just pass his mess onto the next President.

• Family Values- Craig, Vitter, Foley.

• Taxes- Lowered taxes of those making over $250K, while the middle class has suffered. Bush raised taxes during a time of War. Something no other President has done in our history.

• Religious Right- Pandered Evangelicals for their votes in 2000 and 2004, but has done nothing with any of the Faith-based Initiatives Bush promised.

Face it, Republicans have absolutely nothing to run on, so pandering talking heads like Wooten will only try to bring Obama down. He has yet to write anything on why people SHOULD vote for McCain.

By BFKaJ

July 3, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Good morning all, funny essay today. Jim’s light-hearted review conceals the Rube Goldberg-esque economics at the heart of Obama’s initiatives. For those who lack the benefits of economic training, I fill the gaps.

The heart of the problem: the democrats’s increase in minimum wage last year raised unemployment rates by a full point. The dislocated are all of those young, inexperienced workers who normally works at the low wage jobs primarily to obtain experience, to make themselves eligible for better jobs. While the government can compel employers to pay a higher wage, the government cannot compel employers to hire people they cannot use, or manufacture jobs that consumers will not pay for. So there are a lot of people out there squandering their “skills-acquisition years.”

For conservatives the weak economic market is not a serious problem. Patriotic types join the military, and generate a good “employment history” through honorable service to their country. The alternative for young leftists exists – the ancient Kennedy-era “Peace Corps” – but their work, like that of the military, is dirty and has long hours and low pay; young leftists simply are not emotionally-equipped to handle such deprivations.

Thus Obama, to cure the Congressionally-manufactured injury to the leftist base, has need to recreate the Roosevelt-era WPA (We Piddle Around.) The only available vehicle for such an expansion of government would be something like the Bush government initiatives for faith-based organizations. There the government could fund a huge number of make-work nothing jobs, under the guise of doing something beneficial for society. Given Obama’s long history of service to “community action” groups, whose primary purposes are to fan the flames of perceived racial injuries, a large ramp-up of government funding for marginal nonprofits would serve many psychic needs of the American left.

Over time, these same jobs would serve to bind people to the government, as their employees would be no more fit for private employment than those who go through other government work programs. Helpless dependency, maybe even compulsory service, in taxpayer-funded positions – the modern democrat party.

By Maniac is accurate

July 3, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Sounds like a New Deal jobs program.

By real redneck

July 3, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

convert: it is “fellers” not fellows.

get it right yankee boy.

By TW

July 3, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Bush administration officials told Hunt Oil last summer that they did not object to its efforts to reach an oil deal with the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, even while the State Department was publicly expressing concern that such contracts could undermine a national Iraqi petroleum law, according to documents obtained by a House committee.

A New Deal the republicans can live with!

Glad our soldiers and tax dollars could help out!

By Peter

July 3, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Wow Jim, have you read any of the news lately………..???

One would think you are REALLY AFRAID of the new positive change that will come to America after the next election.

Jim has all but FORGOTTEN about Bin Ladden…….I guess that is “Mission Accomplished”.

Today we have other great news………

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy shed 62,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate unexpectedly remained at a four-year high of 5.5%, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Payrolls have now fallen in all six months this year for a total job loss of 438,000, the strongest evidence that the economy fell into a recession.

This basically a report Card for Bush on the Economy……….

July 3 (Bloomberg) — When President George W. Bush went to his first Group of Eight summit in 2001, a dominant issue was the dollar — the strong dollar, that is. The U.S. currency was on a record-setting streak, and the free-marketeering president wasn’t going to stand in the way.

The dollar’s 41 percent drop against the euro during Bush’s term writes the economic epitaph of an administration that set out to restore American preeminence. Instead, Bush heads to Japan next week for his final international summit with diminished leverage as Russian and Chinese influence grows.

Bush represents the worst-performing economy in the G-8 after Italy, with growth of 0.5 percent this year set to lag behind 1.6 percent in the U.K., 1.4 percent in the euro area, 1.4 percent in Japan and 1.3 percent in Canada, according to International Monetary Fund forecasts.

By IfOnlyItWereThatEasy

July 3, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Now looky here yall. Hillbilly redneck talk caint be exactly put to paper ifn you know whut I means. It would require a new alfalfabet jest fer starters. So, cut folks that chooses to experment wit the written wurd a little slack and Grant em sum of what they calls “artistic lice sense”.

By BFKaJ

July 3, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 9:23, you republish a grammatical error. “Bush represents the worst-performing economy in the G-8 … according to International Monetary Fund forecasts.” Surely we all take as gospel the historically-poor forecasts of the leftists employed by the Obama-like IMF. However, if your information is based on forecasts, you must use a future tense verb, “Bush will represent” or “Bush represents what will be the worst-performing…” By the way, how have the ranks changed since the democrats began to work their magic in Congress, e.g., minimum wage, nonrenewal of Bush tax cuts, etc.?

By BFKaJ

July 3, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Dear Maniac @ 9:13, you used 333 fewer words than I, making the same argument. I praise your efficiency.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Hey By BFKaJ……Go ahead and give the Bloomberg writers a call……you can help them with their grammar!

Also you are FUNNY GUY today…….. blaming the economy and unemployment on the minimum wage hike……….. that is PRETTY FUNNY…..thank you for the JOKE !

Is there a single Right Winger out there that would like to see Bin Ladeen caught?

How about we punish him for his crimes against America?

By Get Real

July 3, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

BFKaJ, so you’re saying that increasing the minimum wage last year is the reason for the rise in the unemployment rate?? Gee, all the trillions of dollars we spent in Iraq and all the programs Bush implemented but failed to fund had nothing at all to do with it. The minimum wage was only increased by $.70, but it appears you’re opposed to that. You don’t want any government work/ training programs either.

With all the good blue collar jobs being shipped out the country, what is someone to do to make a decent living with the costs of everything going up?

By Dennis

July 3, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, [Obama’s] call for service was part of the the campaign’s “flag week” effort to reposition himself as a God, country and flag-loving patriot.”

So that’s ok for George W. Bush to do, but not ok for Obama.

Right Mr. Wooten?

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

By Abundant Pundit

July 3, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

I wonder if Obama’s camaign will survive Wooten’s article today? As a liberal democrat on the jingoism-bashing lunatic fringe who thinks the ideal government would be a governmment so big that all citizens would be the president for 15 minutes at a time, because it would be my time now, and I am ordering our troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan where we will wipe out the taliban and station ourselves right up against the pakistan border and demand OBL be sent toward our lines, with his hands in the international sign of surrender, along with all his al queda operatives. You have 14 minutes. “But that would cause a certain coup in our government which could put radical islamists in charge of our WMDs!” You have 13 minutes. “This is ridiculous, you cant do this, we’re a soveriegn country. China’s on our side, if you launch, we’ll launch…” You have twelve minutes. “Somebody get Bill Gates on the phone! Donald Trump! Hannah Montanah. HELP!” you have eleven minutes. Send us OBL. 10….9….8….7…6…5…4…3…2…1…darn, my 15 minutes is up, that’s not fair, I wanted to attack pakistan. “na nana boo boo you cant use your voodoo”. Gads I hate Islam.

I’m so upset I’m gonna give up golf.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Hey Dennis………..Mr. Wooten writes, [Obama’s] call for service was part of the the campaign’s “flag week” effort to reposition himself as a God, country and flag-loving patriot.”

Look George Bush does this type of thing…..

BUT that is ONLY after letting BIN LADDEN GO SCOTT FREE………….

Remember ……..McCain said he would get Bin Ladden in his “FIRST TERM”…….Period!

So somebody tell me George Bush is actually a “True American Patriot”?

By Tired

July 3, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Can we go through an election without your hate filled diatribes Mr Wooten.

I am astounded that you consistently hold the course on using fear and hate to make political points.

Your tone calmed as President Bush took us down the road to ruin, but as we head into this election, here’s another absurd argument.

Maybe we should focus on the realities here - horrible economy, a war we can not win, and government focused so much on corporate entities that choices are made that hurt people.

Why not be balanced in your criticism of the candidates? Why not actually talk about issues. Your approach keeps bringing me back to why there is a grat divide in this country - Republican usually means - making choices for individual and corporate gain and Democrats usually means - caring about shared humanity.

“It’s to show America that while he spent most of his life hanging out with anti-American lefties, he’s a true-blue America-first patriot.” - is that really worth noting? Or rather … is your inference not pandering to the fear mob?

it’s so easy to wear blinders Mr Wooten - but a writer in a paper (so called) should really do a better job of trying to be accurate.

By The Anti-Wooten

July 3, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

My response to some more of Jim’s bleating, blathering and bloviating.

“”Leave it up to a liberal Democrat to turn the call for service to America into another Big Government spending program. Get used to it. It’s all Barack Obama and his wing of the party know.”“

After the last 7.5 years of George W. Bush and Jim’s wing of the hard right wingers that have taken over our government and given us huge deficits and an economy in shambles. Pot meet Kettle.

“”a “bastion of the religious right,” the Associated Press calls it “”

Given the current Fox News photoshop scandal, I’d have thought that a dedicated, professional journalist with integrity such as Jim Wooten would have taken that as a subject. Those in the profession should be among the people expressing the greatest outrage but not a peep from Jim other than an attack on AP for a descriptive used in an article.

“”It’s to show America that while he spent most of his life hanging out with anti-American lefties, he’s a true-blue America-first patriot.”“

If we’re going to throw around phrases like anti-American then let us have a discussion about that.
Bush has used illegal wiretaps to spy on Americans, that’s anti-American.

Bush started a preemptive war with intel that the adminsitration knew to be manufactured and false. That’s anti-American.

Bush has attempting with varying degrees of success to take powers for the Executive Branch in order to subvert the laws and intent of the laws and constitution of our nation. That’s anti-American.

Bush declared the US Constitution to be “just a g******* piece of paper”. That’s anti-American.

John McCain is 98% aligned with Bush in everything he says and does, so if you want to start down that particular rathole, by all means, go right ahead.

“”That is, if you don’t read local newspapers or pay attention to the military services’ on-going appeals for recruits. “”

I think Forrest Gump’s fictional mama said it best with “Stupid is as stupid does”. The fact that the armed services of our great nation are having difficulty with sufficient recruitment is a linear result of the disastrous policies of your President Bush. Not only have the armed services had to resort to taking anything breathing as a recruit but they’ve outsourced part of the recruitment process. That policy, of course, has resulted in some breathtakingly bad results and abuses.

””“Loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July.” (Has it ever meant that to anybody outside the Obama circle? )”“

It’s truly a shame that someone with the lack of proper education to understand the use of hyperbole in a political speech is in a position to write tripe like this and get it published in a major daily news outlet. I guess I’ll just refer to my earlier point about professional and journalistic integrity.

“”His solution is to expand national service programs to the tune of $3.5 billion a year”“

What absolute gall to object to $3.5Billion to create an actual program that has value to American’s when we waste many times that each month that this war of choice continues. Jim’s grasping at straws would just be pathetic if not for the fact that he’s just another purveyor of the evil that’s been foisted upon our great nation ‘lo these last years.

Jim, your intellectual dishonesty is staggering. The blind faith in the Republic Party that you and those of your sort continue to push out on unsuspecting Americans borders on criminal.

By Copyleft

July 3, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten does seem especially angry and snide today, doesn’t he?

I guess he’s reluctantly confronting the reality: that America is becoming more liberal, and President Obama is leading the way.

By Abundant Pundit

July 3, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

The campaign has been so long that I think the candidates are immune from swiftboating. So many outrageous charges have been leveled against either side that the voters are numb to any real lasting effect.

I think Obama will win because the Conservatives will start buying on wallstreet to make everythihg look like a rally and boom times. the stock market soared today on news that……another big day on wallstreet…..

The american people will see this as the conservatives getting richer while the voters get poorer, and we will vote like lemmings on election day and Obama will win in the biggest majority in our history.

That’s why the vitriole from wooten, dont blame him. He’s got to write for the right, he sold his soul to conservatism long ago, and cannot change now. Conservatism has served him well. One election either way isn’t going to hurt him or his. Obama could be a one termer like Bush Sr. Obama is still a little strange looking. He isn’t the white haired, fat round headed grey suit wearer that Ike, Nixon, and reagan were.

Forget W. I think he looks like Alfred E Newman. Separated at Birth. Check it out. You’ll die.

I dont think W screwed up at all. I think his entourage did. Cheney and Rummy dragged their feet in Afghanistan. Imagine if we’d have destroyed Al Queda and OBL. W would serve three or four terms. We’d change the constitution just for him! Gladly! Ticker Tape parades! Fireworks!

But that’s like saying conservatives aren’t what they are: War for profiteers.

War for profit. Think about that. Wouldn’t you take the money? All you have to do is go along and keep your mouth shut and take the orders for your bullets and bombs. think about that.

You would’ve done the same as Cheney. So dont condemn conservatives, or dance like snoopy after a scooby snack on conservatism’s grave.

Accept what we are as human beings. then try to change that as Americans.

Obama 08: A man. An American. A President.

By Dennis

July 3, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Hey!, Mr. Wooten!

“Remember when gangsters used to be called the mafia, and now they’re called Republicans?”

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

By Retire Wooten

July 3, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Wooten, based on the responses of your recent posts I think its safe to say that you’ve lost your base. The majority of comments today are in opposition to your biased, half-hearted, misleading sonnett. How about you be less hypocritical in your words, and actually give reasons why we should vote for your candidate.

By The Anti-Wooten

July 3, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Copyleft,

You need not worry about Jim. After he has an opportunity to digest the facts of “President Barack Obama”, 56 Senate seats in Democratic hands and a greatly expanded majority in the House of Represnetatives he’ll have an ample supply of targets for his vitriolic nonsense for the next 8 years. We don’t need to have pity or sympathy for Jim, Rush, Sean, Ann or any of the other talking headcases.

By findog

July 3, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Could not be any worse than Speaker Gingrich’s deal to pay kids to read books.

I wish the two candidates would both debate how they are going to stop the bleeding deficit in the current budgets and pay off the trillions we owe.

Until you do those two things don’t come out with anything new; at some point no matter how great the idea our government is going to have to live within our means…

By George Hussein Washington

July 3, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

THE LAW OF THE GUN: Shoot First, Shoot Accurate, Shoot a lot…..

To drop a big sucker with one shot, aim for the pelvis….No one can walk with a bullet thru the pelvis….and it is a big target, much bigger than the head….

By George Hussein Washington

July 3, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

and while the big sucker is down, advance with your hatchet for a little up close and personal work…..

By Ga Values

July 3, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Thank God that during the 6 years that the RHINO party had control of the Federal Government, they amassed a large surplus by cutting waste that Obama can now throw away a little money.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Today Jim’s Post makes me laugh……BIG GOVERNMENT?

Someone tell me what we have today?

A small government? How about a Small debt?

When is Jim going to write about the misery in the Economy caused by Bush ?

By Joseph Stalin

July 3, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Excellent!

By Vladimir Lenin

July 3, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Marxism didn’t work in the Soviet Union - maybe it will work in the U.S.!

By Peaches

July 3, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

The “misery” created under the republicans will be a pale imitation of what the democrats will cause. Stagflation is the best possible outcome of the democratic economic policy. We are in for a much nastier time if Obama, Reid and Pelosi are running America together.

By Abundant Pundit

July 3, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Wooten’s article today is like the ending to “Inherit the Wind”, the Scopes Monkey Trial. The outdebated and outwitted William Jennings Bryant, ended up mumbling to himself, and spouting off scripture and the names of the books of the bible, in some defeatist’s stupor.

Thus Wooten and the Right are mumbling the conservative bible, low taxes, small government, big oil, photo ID, freedom fries….liberals are commies…..abababahhhh…..

And it’s kind of sad to watch. They really dont know what to do or say about Obama and they’re simply mindlessly mouthing matras from the vaguely-remembered party line.

I dont dance on the grave of conservatism, I dont feel good watching Wooten implode like this.

I didn’t want this, but they pressed it. What we had here was a failure to communicate. Now I dont like seeing this any more than you other boys. But Mr. Wooten wants it, so Mr. Wooten gits it. Get your mind right, Mr. Wooten. You got you mind right, Mr. Wooten?

Yeah, let’s all invade Iraq to avenge 911. Lets let the supreme court pick our president. If this were 1860, Mr. Wooten would be imploring, “Lets let the slavery trade decide our foreign policy about Africa”. (same as Iraq situation now). George Washington himself would have marshalled up the militia to stop conservatism as it stinks today.

That’s 4 sure…that’s 4 DANG sure.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Yes Peaches……… the “Misery” can get worse…..the Republicans have set up America for Failure…………

What will we do about the “Debt” ?

Since you believe the Repubs will work this out……. What is that GREAT PLAN……. now we are going to be a Trillion dollars in the RED thanks to Bush and the WAR ?

By Copyleft

July 3, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Peaches, you’re the perfect embodiment of the sour-grapes attitude of the doomed right wing. You’re actively HOPING for President Obama’s tenure to be disastrous for America.

Now, dooesn’t that seem a bit pathetic? Wanting bad things to happen to our country as “punishment” for America picking our candidate over yours? (What was his name again? You guys never seem to mention it….)

By DaveD

July 3, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Jim, (and ALL who voted for Bubble Boy). I just want to thank you…for all you’ve done good for both our country and the world. The rocking stock market, housing prices making people rich, the employment rate continuing to go up and up, gas prices making us happy, huge windfall profits for the big 3 auto manufacturers, cleaner air, crime being eliminated, and most of all…this world wide peace you blanketed the planet with. Give those Saudi’s a big kiss from me too OK?!

By Big Deal

July 3, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

I don’t see what the big deal is.When I was in college I got paid to voluntarily handout infomation supporting George W. Bush. NOW it’s not fair come on people wake-up.

By What Independence Day?

July 3, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

They should get rid of the 4th of July celebration after Obama gets elected and change the holiday to January 21 for Dependence Day; the day this nation gave up its independence and self-reliance and turned it over to complete socialist, near Marxist liberal Democrats for complete dependence.

Welcome to the New America. Change we can believe in!

It’s almost incomprehensible that this nation at one time was comprised of hard working adults who pulled themselves up from the boot straps when the going got tough. There is no way in hell today’s increasingly liberal government dependent America would have survived WWII, the Great Depression, and the movement Westward in the 1800s. No way in hell. We are losing our character. Thank you liberals and Democrats.

By BFKaJ

July 3, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter and Copyleft, hypothetical question for you, if Obama pivots on Iraq and endorses continuation of the surge, will Pelosi and Reid then renew the Bush tax cuts?

By liberal little red wagon

July 3, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

By Copyleft “July 3, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this Peaches, you’re the perfect embodiment of the sour-grapes attitude of the doomed right wing.”

Laughable. How many times have we heard that from the pathetic angry mob left? Hey peaches lib yourself, ask Rush about his new record setting contract for getting paid to slam the left if he really cares what you misery infested left wingnuts think about the so-called “doomed” right. I’m not Rush, but I damn sure don’t care, nor do all those I know on the right. Because we aren’t going anywhere, peaches.

By Not *My* President!

July 3, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

That’s what non-Obama voters should say to the Obamaniacs should he win the election. Let’s return the flavor the hairy apes on the wacked out liberal left dished out for eight years against W. And it’s still a BIG IF he wins the election, numbskull leftists.

By RANFAST77

July 3, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Uh, Not My President: let’s not do that. Conservatives and Republicans are the adults, not the bed wetters like liberals and Democrats. Conservatives and Republicans do not attempt to shut down and censor voices of opposition; Conservatives and Republicans do not complain when Sunday morning talk shows are overrun with left wingers; Conservatives and Republicans do not wet their beds and wish to shut down tax payer funded NPR which heavily tilts left of center and cry for fairness doctrines; Conservatives and Republicans do not complain that the AJC is overwhelmingly comprised of liberals. No, that’s a bad idea what you wrote. Liberals like Barack know that most of America is not liberal, which is why he is now doing an about face on many things and pseudo-shifting to the center/moderate vote.

By findog

July 3, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ, Your challenge of Obama continuing the surge is a little off; the surge was to be a short-term effort to give those who hate each other more than the regulars here (Iraqis) time to get there act together.

I think the correct proposition would be: would he be willing put the required number of combatants into the theatre to win, if he had them of course.

By Jim is an ostrich

July 3, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

UH, What Independence Day, who was president during the Great Depression and what methods did he use to try to bring us out of the Great Depression? Any ideas? Any original thoughts?

By Rhino

July 3, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

When will everyone realize it’s not about RIGHT and LEFT…..it’s about RIGHT and WRONG???

By Noelle

July 3, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

You know, it would be nice if just one right-wing extremist would demonstrate the ability to discuss problems they have with Obama’s proposals without launching immediately into a string of personal attacks. I used to think you were more thoughtful than the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter, Mr. Wooten, but you’ve proven me wrong.

By fearless fosdik

July 3, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

By RANFAST77

July 3, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

RANFAST.. OH, I see the “Conservatives and Republicans do not attempt to shut down and censor voices of opposition;”

Uh, RANFAST, do you read ??

Cheney..Secret meeting with the oil companies prior to energy policy enactment!

Torture at Gitmo!

EPA falsifies information…SECRET!

Secret meetings with Jack Abramoff, Ted Haggard and Kenny (Boy) Lay…

The list is so endless, and I don’t have the time to list all the malfeasence of this administration, but, believe what you will!

By Rhino

July 3, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Noelle: Here’s your reply:

1) His energy policy. He has no plans to approve further oil drilling. He has clearly stated that HE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH CURRENT GAS PRICES - HE JUST WISHES THAT THEY HADN’T INCREASED QUITE SO QUICKLY. He is against nuclear energy. He has NO plan to get us off foreign oil.

2) His idea of taxing the “windfall profits” of oil companies. Yes, it sounds good, but if you have ever been in the business world you would understand that a tax is a COST OF DOING BUSINESS…and costs get passed on to the consumer. What that means is that we will be paying higher prices for gas - the oil companies will still be making their same % gain, but the added money we will be spending will go to the government for them to spend.

3) Obama has NO experience. He’s been in the US Senate for 2 years - most of that time he’s been running for President. He has no record of achieving anything in the Senate or leading others.

4) Besides that - we don’t know much about his proposals because HE HASN’T COME UP WITH ANY. All he says is “Change” and “A Better America.” He offers no solutions except a bigger government - which leads to more corruption, more government waste, and more taxes.

By It's not going to matter

July 3, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

The Rapture is going to happen on Nov. 3, Obama will then be elected unanimously and those who remain can endure the tribulations together while I turn cartwheels in Heaven. Ah, good times.

By fearless fosdik

July 3, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

By RANFAST77

July 3, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Sorry RANFAST…forgot to mention all the barricades, and arresting of people who wear T-shirts in protest of this incompetent imbecile!

If this is not censorship than you need to get a new dictionary!

By Jay

July 3, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Instead of paying people to volunteer, how about asking that all those living in public housing or receiving welfare assistance volunteer just 1 hour per month to their community in return.

By Rhino

July 3, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Jay - that is an EXCELLENT idea!!!! Those who are on the government payroll ought to give something back. But it will never happen. So many of those living in government housing or on public assistance think they are entitled to it…..that’s why they never try to work for themselves…they’re so used to getting a handout. Keep working, Jay - millions on welfare are depending on you and me to keep them alive. Leeches of society…

“The quickest way to lighten your burden is to pick up someone else’s.”

By May

July 3, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Jay, you are a pantywaist leftist. Why not make them put in 40 hours of hard labor in the public interest? Maybe going, oh, I don’t know jobs in the “renewable energy” field.

By hillbilly ragger

July 3, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Jim, this from your second graf is just weird:

*Colorado Springs, Colo. — a “bastion of the religious right,” the Associated Press calls it *

Are you saying it’s not? You’re aware that this is home to the SpongeDob Prayerpants / Focus on the Phallus empire, right?

By hillbilly ragger

July 3, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

wow, Rhino @ 2.13, in your four points, you almost stuck to the truth in one of them! Congratulations, for a conservative, that’s what passes for stone-cold sobriety!

As for your items 1, 3, and 4, they’re demonstrably false. Should I bother?

1) “He has no problem with current gas prices.” I don’t know where you’re getting this, maybe you think you can read minds? And the only way to “get off foreign oil” is to stop using so much damn oil in the first place. We’re never, ever, going to be self-sufficient in that regard so long as we are an oil-based society.

3) No experience? Two years in the Senate? Sheesh, you can’t even count!

4) “All he says is ‘change.’” um… here are his energy proposals, boiled down to an eleven-page fact sheet.

You want to take issue with that, take issue with that, but don’t whine and say he doesn’t have a plan.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

July 3, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter and Copyleft, hypothetical question for you, if Obama pivots on Iraq and endorses continuation of the surge, will Pelosi and Reid then renew the Bush tax cuts?

BFKaj, I think the current tax cuts for folks in the mid level tax brackets need to be held to current levels.

I also think we need to get the heck out of Iraq, as they don’t want us there……….

Why would you think he would continue the surge anyway?

What would you do, about the rebuilding of Iraq?

By ron

July 3, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon Jim,Are chain gangs considered to be paid volunteerism? I was paid to volunteer for the Army.Does that count? Have a good Fourth of July everyone. Hey,Redneck!!Is everyone stocked up???? Somehow,I’m going to take a day off from retirement tomorrow.

By @@

July 3, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

A little snip here, a little snip there…..

the call for service was part of the the campaign’s “flag week” effort to reposition himself as a God

SNIP

Obama sees a service-to-America gap arising because we’ve not been asked aggressively enough

SNIP the mustache is gone.

By Peter

July 3, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I read today McCain says being a “Patriot” is putting America or your country first.

My question to the Right Wingers here is what happened to God, then Family, then country?

Why would anybody support the current government we have today……… the Iraq policies have been created through “Faulty Intelligence”.

Since when would free thinking Americans support that type of “Faulty thinking”, and support this government over supporting family first?

I guess McCain has that Lemming thinking………like the German’s followed Hitler, and the Japanese killed themselves as kamikaze pilots!

Seems Like McCain has that same old philosophy of the Right Wingers………follow us to the end, no matter what we do………

If you don’t you are NOT American…….. oe Patriotic…..

McCain has forgotten American’s have a proud History of free thinking and FREE SPEECH!

Another BUSH Clone!

The real funny thing……….in the end the Right is about business, and screw the guy in the way………that is about as “ANTI PATRIOTIC” a way as we have today………

Right wingers screwing Americans for Profit……..very Patriotic of them !

Republican white man speaks with forked tongue as usual…….!

By Steve-O

July 3, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

No one has grown the size of the government like the GW Bush administration! I am so sick of these stupid right-wingers telling us to fear the left and their big goverment while they are the biggest sinners in the room. Haven’t we learned that they only say they are for less government during election season and as soon as they get into office the government and the national debt balloons? We have had two terms of that idiot twerp and what have we gotten for it? A hugely expensive, failing war, 4 dollar gas (and climbing), housing market collapses, scandal, lies, dollar not worth wiping your butt with, and a reputation in the crapper. Obama cannot do worse than those idiot liars who have been in office for 7.5 years! I am so sick of hearing about how much they love God and country. Such BS! Can’t you people see that they just tell you what you want to hear? They love God and country about as much as they love a raging case of VD. What they love is themselves and their bank accounts.

By Disco Nap

July 3, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

I wonder if it ever occurred to Wooten that, technically, in its current state, the US military is paid volunteerism. You volunteer and they pay you. They pay you a salary, they pay for you to go to college. Paid volunteerism, pure and simple. However, if you elect John McCain that will stop. No sir, to do all his wars we will most definitely need the draft.

By George Hussein Washington

July 3, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Paid Newspaper Editors to be Thing of the Past: LA Times to cut 250 positions, merge print and online departments, print 15 percent less pages

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper’s editor said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT

The decline in advertising, fueled by a weak real estate market, has boosted the copy-to-ads ratio above the industry target of 50-50, giving readers more stories than they can digest, while the paper competes for attention with the Internet and TV, editor Russ Stanton said.

he he ha ha

By George Hussein Washington

July 3, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Where are the congenital asss kissers of authority today? woodenhead is taking more of a beating then he usually suffers without jmb, dirty ball, rw, and the rest of the asss kissers ranting and raving their support of guy authority to draft our asses, and steal our wealth via real estate frauds….

By Abundant Pundit

July 3, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

an all william’s wimbledon. Power tennis uber alles!

By Tom

July 3, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

I don’t think anyone else pointed this out, and I realize that facts don’t make a bit of difference to Jim Wooten, but Obama couldn’t have delivered his dreaded talk while “speaking at the University of Colorado” if the same speech at the same time was also delivered “in Colorado Springs, Colo.” Uh, Jim, the University of Colorado is in Boulder, quite a few miles to the north of the Jebus-adoring bastion of Focus on the Fairies, Colorado Springs, home of Elmer Gantry…..uh, “Dr.” James Dobson.

By thogwummpy

July 3, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

No one in the media is going to ask Obama if he rejects the failed and abusive principals of Karl Marx. If they did (on the caveat that Obama answers honestly), his campaign would be dead in the water. Socialism, is a form of slavery. From those who do, to those who don’t. I can’t STAND the idiotic stench of Obamunists!

By The Devil You Say

July 8, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Of course, Wooten’s column about Barak Hussein Obama’s (oops, I used his middle name) appearance in Cobb county is right on the mark. Obama will not carry Georgia. He will win. He will receive 48% of the popular vote and 297 electoral votes to McCain’s 48% and 241 electoral votes, a vertible landslide compared to the 2000 election. The fact is that the Republicans have a very weak candidate. So do the Democrats. This creep is an empty suit. The ‘change’ that he is promising are the failed big government policies of the 1930s - 1970s. It will be a Dummy Carter redux with high taxes, double digit inflation, 20 + percent interest rates and a pie in the sky energy policy which will hit the poor the most. The perfect European model!!!

You libs have fun on election night. All of us will suffer for the next four years. However, the Republicans, as usual, will be there to pick up the mess after they swamp the Social Demoncrats in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

By Alfred Hussein Neuman

October 5, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

I love Obama. He’s going to use the government to take money from people who earned it to give to those who didn’t. That’s fair. Why should I have to give up my right to the pursuant of happiness by being responsible? All of you right-wing nuts who have worked hard and succeeded are going to pay! The hollywood people have it right - middle class conservatives are ruining this country.

“Income Redistribution - it’s a Marxist thing. You wouldn’t understand”