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DEL.ICIO.USObama’s disingenuous ‘change’ agenda
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It was “Patriotism Week” in the Barack Obama campaign, a time to strap on a flag lapel pin, frame the face in the flag and declare emptily that these darn Americans just haven’t been properly asked to volunteer to serve our country.
What a bizarre week it was, scripted as alas they all will now be until after November’s general election, when a nation, sufficiently inspired by the theme-of-the-week reintroduction of the new messiah, prompts us all to declare by acclamation that, indeed, we want “change.”
Oh, there will be a few of us troglodytes, the grumpy old gramps and grannies, resistant to the “change” that looks to us so vaguely familiar from the ’60s and ’70s we left behind. But by now we are grown accustomed to the reality that until the old hippies die, or until a new idea for governing burrows its way into the Party of Envy and Entitlement, “change” will always mean resurrecting yesterday’s solutions.
The Left persists in believing that the problem with Big Government is not that it saps the enterprise of individuals and cultivates dependency, but that they’ve just never had the right people in place to make it work, or if they did, their good efforts were thwarted by the insidious forces of obstructionism, as was the case with HillaryCare.
The lesson learned from that is not that the concept is flawed, but that the Left’s intelligentsia has to be more creative in getting back to yesterday’s solutions without arousing the inattentive masses to ire. One way is to claim that the pain of financing Obama’s Big Government agenda will be borne by “the rich.”
And while they don’t use the modern-day equivalent of “peace dividend” — the appropriate term now would be “surrender dividend” — to describe plans for a hollow military brought home from Iraq and reassigned to humanitarian and road-building projects in Third World countries, the Left’s view all along has been that war, for whatever reason, is a nettlesome distraction from more important domestic spending priorities.
But, inconveniently, the American public is not yet there. It’s not ready to lose, and it’s not ready to embrace socialism, however masked.
One other thing about the Left is that it is sometimes much too clever for its own good. At the start of the Obama campaign’s “Patriotism Week” performances, the too-eager retired Army general whose pronouncements offer cover to the Left on Iraq and national security weighed in on John McCain’s supposed advantage in the patriotism arena. Emoted retired Gen. Wesley Clark, quite bizarrely: “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is qualfication to be president.”
Now, this is spoken in support of a candidate whose primary qualification for public office was that he’d been a community organizer on the Southside of Chicago, service that came in lieu of any military commitment. Not incidentally, that chosen environment included a circle of friends whose lives and rhetoric, even in the context of latte liberalism, reflected a virulent anti-Americanism.
As it wound down — Obama respects McCain’s service and rejects Clark’s statement — the takeaway message is that there’s not much difference between Obama and McCain in service to the nation. It is an attempt to inoculate the Obama campaign from an assault they know will come on his Chicago connections.
This is equivalency, one of the Left’s favored tactics. “You ran a red light; I murdered a puppy: Let’s agree we’ve both committed crimes and not raise those questions again.”
As the campaign sailed into Independence Day, Obama defined patriotism as he always does: with a checkbook, drawn on your account. On the day before Memorial Day, he delivered an entire commencement speech on national service at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., without once mentioning the military option.
Last week he did, along with a new and expanded array of paid-volunteerism programs. Everything’s a checkbook.
It’s change, all right. But not change those who lived through the ’60s and ’70s haven’t seen before, and not change the working middle class can afford.
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By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
The Iraqis got rid of their terrorists:
Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
Major-General Mark Hertling, American commander in the north, said: “I think we’re at the irreversible point.”
When we gonna get rid of ours, the environmental terrorists?
It’s past time.
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Sick:
Military service not a guarantee for victory-Urinal/DNC
Is there no end of these liberals disparaging, disrespecting and belittling the service of our brave soldiers in their mindless pursuit of power?
They know that they can never turn their crack dealing, terrorist loving, America hating, dimwit into a patriot, so they have to drag down honorable sacrifice for your country to their scummy little level.
Any decent, dignified person would just accept the fact that it is what it is, but these liberals are hell bent not to lose this one issue, no matter how much they pis-s off the majority of Americans.
How stupid.
This is going to be your death knell, you candy as-s POS, not many people hate our soldiers the way you do.
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Yeah, like the Gloom and Doom isn’t ecstatic over this crying jag:
LAKE LANIER: Staying closer to the shore, Drought effect: Recreational boaters battered by high gas prices, low water levels are changing their habits at marinas.-Urinal/PMS
How do you like this, the liberals emptied Lake Lanier and drove up gas prices with their mindless environmental terrorism and now they get to whine and moan about it.
Insane, isn’t it?
First of all, you have to believe the libs are really concerned because people are not free to enjoy themselves, an exclusive activity of capitalism.
Or maybe this is a celebratory headline?
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Oh good, it’s “smog season,” something else for the Doom and Gloom to whine about:
What to know about smog. NOx + VOCs + Sunlight = SMOG. NOx: Nitrogen oxides: Cars, trucks and power plants contribute this pollutant.-Urinal/PMS
It’s a good thing that circulation at thee Urinal is plummeting, eh AJC, now we can get all those “news” paper delivery vehicles of the road, right?
And again, as usual, the pinkos take advantage of a problem that they help create, nuclear power plants have no NOx emissions but thanks to environmental terrorism, we are stuck burning coal and natural gas.
Sick.
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Talk radio seems to have decided the economy is great and we’re just a bunch of whiners. As a Democrat, I say the Republicans should go with that in the election.-Urinal/DNC Vent
Don’t you worry your little head; that is exactly what we have planned.
It’s well past time for us to call you whiny little puke liberals for what you really are: the most prosperous, pampered and lazy generation in the history of the entire world. You fat as-ses have more conveniences in your lives than all of our previous ancestors put together, you’re living a coddled life of luxury and all you can do is sit around like some colicky baby filling your diapers, incestuously whining and moaning about it.
You want more when you already have the most.
And what is really sick, you want the government to give it to you with out price.
These sorry as-s liberals have not only become a burden on our government, forcing it to deal with them and their mindless crying jags, they have also distracted it from tackling the real issues that every American face.
Not only that, I thought you wanted us to conserve? If you lavish more money on the fat and lazy, do tell us, what do you think they will do with that money? Stuff it under their pillows?
Contribute more to the capitalistic activities that you candy as-ses abhor?
Can’t you make up your minds, break this cycle of your vicious pinko circle jerk?
Insane, isn’t it?
While we are at the Vent section:
We environmentalists don’t like ethanol either. Ethanol is not environmentally friendly. It’s just another government giveaway to huge agricultural corporations with political connections.-Urinal/DNC Vent
Recently Obama has moved to the forefront on energy independence. He devoted speeches to it last September and last month, and has accused the oil industry of colluding against biofuels. He’s proposed “Health Care for Hybrids” legislation that would offer American automakers funding to help cover their health-care costs in exchange for investments in fuel-efficiency. With Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar (R), he’s cosponsored the “Fuel Security and Consumer Choice Act,” which would mandate that all vehicles sold in the U.S. be able to run on an ethanol blend as well as gasoline within 10 years, and the “American Fuels Act.”-PMSNBC 3/24/2006
The $307 billion farm bill that rolled through Congress is a perfect example of the pattern. Barack Obama’s vote for this farm bill may help him win Iowa, but it will lead to higher global food prices and more hunger in Africa.
A senator from Illinois, one of the major corn and ethanol producers in the world?
Are you libs stupid or just naĂ¯ve?
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I want to live in an America that strives to live up to its ideals, that continues its journey toward a “more perfect union.” And if good patriots don’t point out its shortcomings, who will?
Call me a patriot.-Queen Pinko, Urinal
Yeah, O.K.
Say, if anybody has ever witnessed this lib point out a real problem with America and not just “issues” created from whole clothe designed to aid the mindless pursuit of power for the dhimmokrat party, please feel free to cite an example.
I won’t hold my breath.
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George Will understands that there is far more to it then “just riding a jet plane:”
Her husband, Lt. Col Jim Walton, West Point class of 1989, was killed in Afghanistan on June 21. This week he will be back in Arlington, among the remains of the more than 300,000 men and women who rest in the more than 600 acres where it is always Memorial Day. This is written in homage to him, and to Sarah, full sharer of his sacrifices.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
Obama 08: It’s about change. and isn’t it about time?
By Mid-South Philosopher
July 6, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
It is all true!
Obama is the candidate of the liberal left. His “change” is a revised edition of Tax and Spend, which has been so much a part of the Democratic Party dogma over the last 60 years.
On the other hand, John McCain supposedly represents the conservative right with just a hint of moderation thrown in…when it benefits the corporatist elements of the party.
Until George W. Bush, the Republicans were defenders of low taxes, controlled spending, and smaller government. When Bush arrived, the Republicans went on a spending drunk, and for six years, the President could not find a veto pen in any drawer in the White House!
Now, John McCain would have us believe that he will be a “change” from George W. Bush. We can hope.
The truth of the matter is that, regardless of whether it is Obama or McCain, who wakes up in the White House on January 21, 2009, the “change” we get will not be the “change” now being promised. The Presidency, like no other political office in the world, is not one for which a person can train. The reality of being President falls upon a person like no other. One literally goes from being an ordinary citizen to being the most powerful person in the world in an instance of the 20 or so seconds it takes to pronounce the oath of office. But with all that power come the awesome responsibility and brutal realization that one has now become accountable to history for how that responsibility is discharged.
Georgie Bush is about to face that historical accountability and that is why he looks so worried.
Whether it be Barackie or Johnnie in office, what we will get will be much different than what we see now.
By BFKaJ
July 6, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Change, to a leftist, means “more government thievery.” Nothing else.
I respectfully disagree with my friend Mid-South, however, on the likelihood of a “change” in the next administration. Even the Reuters leftist-apologist news service has begun cushioning the rabid left for Obama’s pivot on Iraq, a recognition that unilateral surrender (when the enemy is almost wiped out) may not be the most brilliant war strategy ever conceived. He condemned leftist judicial sympathies for child rapists, although he has not yet gone as far a McCain, and promised to appoint only conservatives of the Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts variety that produces intelligent results. He now backs off the lunatic “renegotiate NAFTA” trial balloon from three months ago, acknowledging the real economic progress to the US. And he is now publicly discussing what form of tax cuts will be necessary to prevent the economic disaster that would follow the lapse of the Bush tax cuts. As Ann Coulter aptly noted in this week’s column, it is Obama who is truly the Bush III candidate.
In the meantime, McCain struggles to get the traditional conservative voters - a self-imposed wound. It is nice to see all but the lunatic left coming around to conservative ideology.
By Wait and See
July 6, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Interesting that no one seems to be dealing with the reality that Bush has placed us in a no win situation … he has out spent any President in the history of the US, grown government to a huge large hulking beast - the bills must be paid at some point. Is your argument, Jim, that liberal just means tax and spend? Because by that definition we had a liberal President, congress, and senate for the last 7.5 years.
It is pretty sickening to read how people respond so typically as a right wing nazi or a pinko commie lefty.
BTW - patriotism is not blindly following like a lemming … a true patriot will ask the tough questions, raise issues, and say when we are wrong. The concept that if one does not follow the crowd or blindly support a war that we should never have started in the first place is simply idiotic. Under your logic, it is wrong for a campaign to address and correct inaccurate reporting like you dish out Jim. That would be really stupid not to correct perceptions of the ignorant.
“Everything’s a checkbook.” That’s right it is! Bush has made it so - our republican congress and senate made it so. The check book of the war is bankrupting the US and if we do not step back and make sure that we actually pay our checks, we are in serious trouble.
Find a problem that wasn’t created by the present administration that MUST be corrected by the next and then maybe you will be relevant. Until then you are simply a mouth piece of hate …. hey you haven’t written much lately about gay marriage … there’s one you can generate a ton of hate! You and AJC/DNC Managment are so classless Jim it is sad.
Questioning everything in the tone you do is just not repsonsible journalism (if you can really call it what you right journalism).
Why not moderate your tone and actually write facts? Is politics just a code word for hate now? Very very sad state.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
Obama 08: He didn’t rename his fries.
Obama 08: A Muslim? What do you think? Look, he only pretends 2B a smoker so he can have an excuse for having a lighter on his person at all times so that he can light his shoes at a moment’s notice, or, as president, he can lock himself inside the rooms housing our original founding documents and set the constitution on fire, laughing like a madman whilst he doth do it.
Obama not only doesn’t wear the flag pin, he didn’t rename his fries. He renamed his NAME!!!! Obama is Osama with a “B”.
By Jay
July 6, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Poll after poll says Barry will be the next president. Have you ever answered your phone and participated in a poll? Me neither because I pay extra for caller ID and also don’t have the time to do so. A person who does have time to participate in a poll, well that says a lot about them. Hence the high Obamessiah numbers.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
Wooten 08: Flipflop. Flipflop. He derides Obama’s flag pin now, but chided the lack of a flag pin before.
Flip.
Flop.
Obama didn’t rename his fries, either, Mr. Wooten, (flipflopper extraordinaire).
Are we supposed to rename our watermelon now? Johnny Appleseed must have been gay, according to YOUR logic. I think.
Wooten is deriding our political process itself, (like OBL would in his video messages, in fact, I see word for word translations in Wooten’s last 25 blogs).
Obama is guilty of campaigning for president.
Top Ten Reasons Y Obama should be our president: He didn’t rename his fries, but he knows that hamburgers have to be flip-flopped when you cook them.
Yeah, that Wooten is no pork chop, he’s US prime… flip flop..stick a fork in him, he’s done…never mind, he already speaks with forked tongue….
bwa
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Mccain 08: He didn’t just rename his fries, he stuck a flag pin in his McNuggets. Isn’t that voodoo patriotism?
McCain/McNugget: Voodoo Patriotism
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
McCain 08: Freedom Fries is only the beginning. Wait till you see where he sticks his flag pin……..in his McNuggets.
McCain 08: Voodoo Patriotism, just like Reagan, only better.
By @@
July 6, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Disingenuous indeed Jim.
From Obama’s speech October 12, 2007:
I think the American people have had enough of politicians who go out of their way to look tough, who say one thing in a caucus and another in a general election. When I am the nominee of our party, the choice will be clear.
Oh really?
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama. In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.
In early June, 22 percent of Clinton supporters polled said they would not vote at all if Obama were the party’s nominee, now close to a third say they will stay home.
In another sign the wounds of the heated primary race have yet to heal, 43 percent of registered Democrats polled still say they would prefer Clinton to be the party’s presidential nominee.
That number is significantly higher than it was in early June, when 35 percent of Democrats polled said they preferred Clinton to lead the party’s presidential ticket.
Obama won 59 percent of support from registered Democrats polled in June; now he garners 54 percent.
Many conservatives would say Go ahead……make our day Barack!! Cave on Hillary too. She’s looking for a V.P.
See ‘ya at the polls in November.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
McCain 08: He didn’t just rename his freakin’ fries, folks, he stuck a flag pin in his McNuggets. Say hello Voodoo Patriotism. Just like Reagan, only better!
Paid for by the committee to rename watermelon and prove that johhny appleseed was gay.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
John McCain 08: He didn’t merely rename his fries. He stuck a flagpin in his McNuggets: Say hello to voodoo patriotism!
Obama 08: If you change just two letters in his name, you get “Al Queda”. He smokes and carries a lighter. How long before he lights his shoes?
McCain: Freedom Fries, and Voodoo Patriotism. America can stay stupid. It’s up to you.
By Just Nasty and Mean
July 6, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
G’mornin Jim, et al,
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize Obama is modifying his positions from the primaries on guns, abortion, Iraq, national security, FISA, telco immunity, faith-based groups, lapel pens (they sickeningly~~ but predictably~~ came out this July 4th week!) and literally dozens of other issues.
Even the NY Times, unabashedly “in the tank” for Obama, is admitting so. It’s driving the far left wing Obama supporters bonkers! He can no longer appease his loonie left wing and still have a hope to win.
Can Obama be trusted? What are his REAL positions? What does he feel in his heart? Every time he gets off the teleprompter, he “steps in it” and finds himself at odds with earlier positions.
Clearly, Obama is a Manchurian candidate of Madison Ave. marketing.
Liberals need to face the fact Obama is just another politician whoring for votes by saying whatever is needed to win.
Obama’s not about “Change”. He’s all about WINNING.
By NYJoe
July 6, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Good commentary. Linked to this article through Link:www.polijam.com site allows me to link to interestign news and commentaries away from my area. Does Obama have any principles? He appears to be the typical politician saying what seems to be useful at the moment.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Thank God, or Allah, that no US deaths were reported by the pentagon in Iraq this week, for the first time since the war began.
No US deaths in Iraq this week. (3 in afghanistan).
By Jim
July 6, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
Major Gen. Anthony Taguba, the Army officer appointed by Rumsfeld to investigate the scandal at Abu Ghraib, now believes that in light of ongoing disclosures, “there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
By getalife
July 6, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
Both Senators are failed Senators and should not be in the Senate let alone president.
We are screwed 08.
By KnowItAll
July 6, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
As we all know, there is little to no evidence of “Abu Ghraib like” torture from the Taliban or Al Queda. That is because they simply lopped off the heads of the men, women, children of Christians, subcontractors, press (Daniel Pearl), Shiite/Sunni, and of American soldiers they ever captured.
How come you anti-war socialists never criticize that?
By catlady
July 6, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
I am afraid I agree with General Clark. Being inept (not just what got him captured, but the other stuff) is not a good reason to make him president. I do appreciate his service, but, coming from a long line of menfolk who served their country, I don’t think that is such a big deal. And I hate what he suffered at the hands of his captors. I know something about that: my dad was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and carried it with him for 60 years afterward.
I have serious concerns about Obama, too. I think he may be a victim of magical thinking.
All in all, neither of them are good candidates for me. And we won’t even talk about Bob Barr!
No matter who gets elected, flip flops will become the national shoe!
By Doggie Style
July 6, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Obama would throw his own grandmother under the bus to win the election…..
Oh yea. He’s already done that!
By Scholar
July 6, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
“Oh, there will be a few of us troglodytes, the grumpy old gramps and grannies, resistant to the “change” that looks to us so vaguely familiar from the ’60s and ’70s we left behind.”
I am very proud of you, Jim. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
By really?
July 6, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Yes all, please explain to us again how wonderfully the last eight years has gone. Regale us with tales of how unfettered capitalism has rescued us all and made us all rich. Continue to write articles and blogs full of hate and fear-mongering, we appreciate it so…for obviously, fear is what our nation is founded on.
By @@
July 6, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
Getalife:
We are screwed 08.
I’m beginning to think you’re engaged in a perpetual orgy down there in Nawlin’s.
By getalife
July 6, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Gullible Americans were punked three times in a row.
w twice and now the fraud of Obama.
They tossed the opportunity to know and get back the good ole Clinton economy and peace and rolled the dice on Obama.
It came up craps.
You lose.
Again.
You get what you vote for.
By TW
July 6, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
Did somebody say war crimes?
I mean, if your gonna cheat, at least win the freakin’ thing.
Losers.
If there’s one thing worse than a weak kneed lib - it’s a loser. And if there is one thing of which we are now sure, it’s that the republican party is a loser.
Nobody likes a loser.
Seriously though, did bin laden take ‘w’ to school - or what?! How embarrasing! The supposed leader of the free world get’s taken out to the wood shed by a guy who lives in a cave. Anybody who doesn’t have a problem with this ought not call themselves a proud American.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: Had enough, America?
By will
July 6, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Dear Mr. Wooten:
President Bush, after talking with our communist enemy, has agreed to work with the North Koreans if they promise to get rid of their nuclear weapons. He also says that it would hurt the Communist Chinese feelings if he did not go to the Communist Chinese Olympics next month.
Do you think the republican radio, tv and newspaper commentators and writers would be as quiet about working with the communists if President Clinton had done these things? I am old enough to remember when President Nixon opened up relationships with the communist Chinese and remember hearing that if a democrat president did that sort of thing, the democrat president would be considered either an appeaser or soft on communism.
Do you think we should be working with two of the most ruthless and godless countries in the history of the world, two countries were millions of innocent citizens have been murdered?
I thought we went to war in Iraq partly so to free its citizens from a ruthless despot who had murdered thousands of his own citizens and was suspected of having WMD. The only difference with Iraq and communist China and communist North Korea is that we don’t suspect they have WMD, we know they have these weapons.
How do you choose which murderous despot do you go to war with and which murderous despot do you talk to and trust like President Bush has done?
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
Heh, I was fixing to water the flauna and flora with the jet pump/ rain barrel AJC Management water department, which I installed after I realized that the local government was captive to the whims of the environmental terrorists and therefore unable to provide a basic service like water, and shazam, a rain shower popped up that the National Weather Service had no freaking idea was coming, maybe they’re too busy forecasting Gloom and Doom into the middle of this century, who knows, but whatever, I am now free from the mundane chores of suburbia.
Somebody up there likes me.
And would rather have me spend my time dogging liberalism.
Is that you, Jesse?
Bwahahahahaha, suckas-ses.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
For the first time since the Iraq War began, there were no US deaths in Iraq. (3 in afghanistan)
That’s significant.
By Jim
July 6, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
George Jr. - John McCain
*Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction found - 0.
Al-qaida links before Iraq invasion - 0.
Al-qaida links after Iraq invasion – MANY.
American Iraq invasion casualties (Pre Invasion - Bush) NONE.
American Iraq invasion Deaths – +4,000 and growing.
American Iraq Permanently Disabled – 28,385 and growing.
Estimated Cost of Iraq invasion (Pre Invasion - Bush) $50,000,000,000. To be paid with Iraq oil $. Estimated toatal Cost of Iraq War (GAO)- $2,000,000,000,000. To be paid by current U.S. Taxpayers AND their children and their grandchildren.
Taxpayer $ which can’t be accounted for $1,500,000,000 *
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Like I said, there were no US deaths in Iraq for the first time in the war.
If you dont like it, sir, then Y dont U go join the Al KaKa Gay Men’s Choir. Yes, I said the Al KaKa Gay Men’s choir. they’re looking for a few good p-holes. (and a-holes)
By white house
July 6, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
Jim @1:25- So what? What’s your point? Those who really matter have prospered under our administration. You and the rest of the middle class need a tissue? Toooooooooo bad :)
By Barack Husseim
July 6, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
HI,my real name is Barack Husseim Obama,and naive americans I NEED YOUR VOTE.This is my credentials,My father was a muslim from Kenya,my mother was also an excristhian,who followed my father muslim faith,when my beloved father left her in 1963.(was not many muslims in the sixties in the US)she fell in love with another muslim man from Indonesia,she loved Islam,and she took me with my new muslim stepfather to Jakarta,Indonesia,There they enroll me against my will in a famous Muslim School,against my will I was forced to read the Koran daily and pray to ALLAH,and attend the mosque 5 times a day for prayer,but americans I say today that I am not a MUSLIM.You need to believe what I said TODAY,I am a cristhian OK!,I SMOKE,I SUPPORT ABORTION AND LATE LATE TERM ABORTION,I SUPPORT GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHT TO MARRY,GAYS IN THE MILITARY,and I also have a beautiful name BARACK an arabic name that means “blessed by Allah,the muslim and Arab almighty god” I ALSO PROUDLY HOLD BOTH AMERICAN AND KENYAN CITIZENHIPS,AND I hope you vote for me in November,IAM THE AMERICAN MESSIAH,CHANGE,CHANGE,I WILL CHANGE EVERYTHYNG,THANK YOU DEMOKRATIC VOTERS.CHANGE,CHANGE,CHANGE
By Bluebonnet Belle
July 6, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
You read my mind, and wrote exactly what I was thinking. Yes, I lived through those years (my husband served in Vietnam and was cautioned that in order to avoid abuse, he should not appear in his uniform on the way home on public transportation), when those now aging hippies sought to destroy our country and its institutions through their violent protests and Marxist ideas. Yes, I am one of those grumpy grandmothers who fear for the future of my country and my grandchildren if enough of us are naive enough to elect a puppet figure who looks and sounds good, but who is promising everything to everybody. But as you said, he can only deliver on his promises by taking more and more out of my teacher’s salary and my pension. Then of course, like all good leftist, he’ll take what I would like to leave to my grandchildren after I’m gone with the death tax.May God have mercy on us if he is elected.
By Wait and See
July 6, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Barack Husseim and Bluebonnet Belle - you are both incredibly silly. You elected Bush - you think ANYONE could do anything worse thatn this idoit redneck has perpetrated on our country.
Like most republicans, you sound like you are afraid of life and mostly afraid of losing your hard earned money.
Obama can actually speak - unlike the moron you elected.
Obama can actually think - unlike the moron you lected.
Obama actually cares about everyone in the nation .. not just the richest or most ignorant - unlike the moron you elected.
Obama cares about our standing in the world … not just in rednceckville texas - unlike the moron you elected.
Obama wants to bring the US back to be a world leader - unlike the moron you elected who has made us the laughing stock of the world as we unilaterally attack countries for our own monetary gain.
It would not matter to me to pay higher taxes because I look at my life differently than you do. My life is about serving others. If I have to pay higher taxes to make up for Bush’s mistakes (THE MORON YOU ELECTED) I AM READY AND WILLING TO MAKE SOME REAL SACRFICE IN MY LIFE.
Unlike people like you - you cry about the possibility of losing a few dollars. how sad to be so fixated on cash that you are willing to watch our country go down the road of ruin that your party so adamantly defends.
I guess it’s time for you to pay for forcing the most ignorant, silly, stupid human being that has ever been elected President on us and the world.
But just stay in your little bubble of a world, screaming and crying like a little baby because you might not get your way this election. The world will not end - seriously. Did you really think this country could go on into debt and never ask the citizens to pay? Maybe you view that chore like everything else - either make someone else pay for it or let the poor struggle and pay for it.
You know the war is still going on even though you prbably are sitting at home watching tennis or cooking a nice meal. There’s still time for you to put your money where your mouth is … volunteer to serve in the armed forces over-seas. That’s an idea! Since all the republicans seem so scared of what Obama will do - maybe all the republicans should show REAL support rather than just saying words - you can all go fight the Iraq joke war.
Get a life and find ways to be a positive force in the world other than through money and whining - maybe you should follow these bright words - you might find more joy in life:
True Joy of Life
This is the true joy of life. The being used for a purpose Recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature Instead of a feverish, selfish Little clod of ailments and grievances Complaining that the world will not Devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life Belongs to the whole community And as long as I live, It is my privilege to do for it Whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly Used up when I die, For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch Which I’ve got hold of For the moment And I want to make it burn As brightly as possible before Handling it on to future generations
Your way of living is to read things in your politico/pundant misinformation world that you never confirm or actually take the trouble to find the truth …. plus you could never follow the words above because they come from a man who lived in England, George Bernard Shaw - plus he was a known socialist. As you know - there is never any truth to be found in the wisdom from other cultures or ideas about life.
BTW Bluebonnet Belle - if you really want to leave money to your grandchildren, consult an estate lawyer. You might be surprised the lopholes and laws we rich white people have created to protect that class structure system in America! Should be no problem at all.
Lastly - all you republicans who attack most democrats, keep on using christianity as your corner post. It is so appropriate that you use Old Testament writings to attack others and separate yourself while you forget that Christ said his life and eath brings with it a new covenant - just keep making yourself feel superior by using religion to justify why you are so hateful (remember “Love thy neighbor as thyself”).
Yes this one extremely self-righteous entry - well that’s what you get when normal human beings have edured BUSH because of YOU. Get used to it - ou asked for it and voted for it TWICE. Unbelievable - enjoy your money and your thoughlessly self-centered life.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
By Wait and See July 6, 2008 3:02 PM Obama can actually speak - unlike the moron you elected.
Uh- huh:
Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. … I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”
Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.
Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Perhaps you need a teleprompter too moron?
By Chris
July 6, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Let us also not forget that one of Obama’s changes in his campaign is to bring more equalization to the media. This means hello “Fairness Doctrine” and hello censorship (Which no doubt the AJC supports since it will not print this on their vents.). Obama’s calls for balance and fairness is nothing more than that from Karl Marx’s 1848 book The Communist Manifesto which has one of its tenants as complete control over communications (newspaper, magazine, Internet, telephone, telegraph, television, radio).
Obama and the rest of his Democrats (including some in the media in and that counts most of the AJC) have more respect toward The Communist Manifesto than the First Amendment of the US Constitition and that is a damn shame.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
Wordy… that Shaw, no?
McCain 08: Voodoo patriotism. McCain not only renamed his French Fries, a fast food staple, but he pierced is McNuggets with a flagpin.
McCain 08: Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
By hmmmmm
July 6, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
The Fairness Doctrine does not equate with censorship - Obama’s accurate views can be read here:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Come on Chris - you are living proof of why anyone might even consider such a bill.
Really what we need is less posturing and misinformation and accuracy in news.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has cancelled almost $7 billion of debt including interest and arrears payments owed by Baghdad, becoming the first Gulf Arab country to forgive all of Iraq’s debt.
Over the past three years, about $66.5 billion of Iraq’s overall $120.2 billion foreign debt has been forgiven. The Paris Club cancelled $42.3 billion, including Russia’s $12 billion.
Non-Paris Club members have cancelled a total $8.2 billion. A total $16 billion has been cancelled by commercial creditors.
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Iraq to open consulate in San Diego, The facility will assist Iraqis with documentation, passports, visas and other consular services. If Iraq has turned the corner on security, as Abbawi believes, tourism should follow. “We hope the day will not be too long where you’ll be able to come and have a walk in Baghdad quite freely,” Abbawi said. “I hope this will not be long.”
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“The delegation led by McGuinness praised the efforts that the Iraqi government and political leaders had taken to achieve national reconciliation and to improve the security situation,” it said.
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But, the commanders say, they could do a better job if they were able to obtain modern equipment denied to them because of sanctions and if they received cooperation from the U.S. military.
Peace is breaking out all over the place.
And there ain’t nothing you libs can do about it, except whine.
By Laughing Hard and Long!
July 6, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
Obama wants to instate the Fairness Doctrine - are you joking Chris? That is outright … right wing misinformation.
Let us remember that Bush is the master of amnipulating the media - remember having staff pose as press and ask planted questions?
If you want to be taken seriously Chris get your facts straight.
By Fairness
July 6, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/26/obama-does-not-support-return-of-fairness-doctrine/
By getalife
July 6, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
“Ten years ago, Bin Laden demanded barrel of oil should cost $144:
The real price of a barrel of oil should be $144, bin Laden demanded in 1998.”
Mission Accomplished.
“Jason Burnett, Bush Official Who Just Resigned, To Aid Obama.”
Hiring a bushie is ignorant.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
These sick degenerate liberals know for a fact that for them Iraq is a lost cause, so now they turn their wormy attention to Afghanistan:
The Taliban can also afford to lose battle after battle because its main bases and top commanders are mostly across the border in Pakistan, where NATO and Afghan troops cannot follow them. Since the Pakistani army struck a de facto truce with several Pakistani Taliban leaders in February, those bases have grown stronger. So even another increase in U.S. troops — which President Bush and both presidential candidates have promised for next year — won’t be effective unless the Taliban’s own ability to escalate from Pakistan can be disrupted. If the cycle of incremental increases continues, Afghanistan within a year or two will have more Western soldiers and more casualties than Iraq. In that case, the divisive debate in Washington over whether the mission is worth the cost could migrate to that theater, as well.
These POS libs are just itching to surrender to somebody, anybody.
By Barack Husseim
July 6, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Thank you my naive and blind supporter wait and see how I CHANGE,CHANGE,CHANGE AMERICA FOR WORST.This is my continuation of my credentials for US President,in 1988 I was so tired of praying to Allah daily,and getting no answers to my prayers,that I discontinued reading the Koran and the teachings of Mahoma,so I was looking for a wonderful christian church in Chicago,I prayed to Allah one more time and one sunday morning I found a beautiful church close to my apartment,OH God, beutiful Trinity Church,inmediately I enjoy the beautifuls antiamerican sermons that gave new life to my muslim faith,I invited my new girlfriend Michele to Trinity and she was in state of extasis,joy and happiness with me clapping adorable Reverend Wright sermons,so that very first day we decided to get marry in 2 months in that incredible church,so Rev. Wright married us,and gave a prophetic word,that I am blessed by God(allah) and in the future I will be the new MESSIAH,the solution for American problems,so I believed him and enjoyed his antiamerican sermons for 20 years,so I asked If i should change my arab name for a christian name like Barry,and Dr.WRIGHT SAY NO,YOU ARE BARACK,BLESSED BY ALLAH,so I ask also PRECIOUS rEVEREND AND ADORABLE LOUIS FARRAKHAN,of Nation of Islam to be my consultant,and he said no Barack,you are Barack brother ,and you are going to be the solution for this country,I will be your menthor,so he said that I need to comeback to Kenya,Africa to be baptized again as a muslim and wear the traditional garbish clothes that I hate for 3 days and 3 nights,Against my will again I traveled to Kenya and proudly I SHOWED MY KENYAN PASSPORT,welcome home bARACK and hundreds of muslim brothers escorted me to my granparents house,and a muslim prophet from Mecca,Arabia told me that I will be THE MUSLIM MESSIAH,that will deliver the infidels americans to the HANDS OF allah,but that I need to be an undercover muslim till I get the Presidency,and lie,promise,promise and that the magical word bill be change,change,change,change,change,change,and that this 666 words change means that Im the blessed of Allah,and the apocalipsis figure of 666 the anticrist that will destroy America,and bring back America to our beutiful Islam the religion of peace,and that I will deceive many millions including christians,JUST WAIT AND SEE ME IN INAUGURATION DAY WITH LOVELY PATRIOTIC REVEREND WRIGHT AND MY BLESSED HUSSEIM BROTHERS HOLDING THE KORAN AND THE BIBLE .PLEASE NAIVE AMERICANS VOTE FOR ME,CHANGE,CHANGE,CHANGE,CHANGECHANGECHANGE AMERICA TO THE ISLAM WORLD!!!VOTE FOR ME,
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
The nation, it seems, now favors developing new sources over “saving the planet” by a hefty 3-2 margin.
And get this: The biggest shift came among - yep! - liberals.
Seems sanctimonious tree-huggers and caribou-coddlers have their price: $4 gas.
The percentage of those on the left who see energy expansion as the bigger priority more than doubled, from 22 to 45 percent, in just the past four months.
We wonder how many tree-huggers will reach for their chainsaws if gas hits $5 or higher. (At six bucks, it’ll be every caribou for himself up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.)
Bwa.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
If any of you uberpudwits dont know it, Wimbledon men’s finals is in it’s final throes in the greatest tennis I’ve ever seen played by the two greatest players I’ve ever seen.
Dont miss what’s left of this even match.
By Wait and See
July 6, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this
Wow - your response is amazingly stupid BH.
Go hide your head in the sand - unbelievably laughable!
By Thad J.
July 6, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
Grassroots activists whose energy and donations have helped to propel Barack Obama towards the White House are suddenly choking on the bitter pill of disillusion.
DAMN STRAIGHT WE ARE!
Mr Obama’s aides say that he has always been a centrist politician seeking to unite America rather than divide it.
They suggest that some of the disappointment being felt is a consequence of the Left “projecting their own values” on to him.
Excuse me MR. REFINED MESSAGE. I guess you think it’s over my head. Too complex for a simpleton like me.
F*** you obama!!!! I’m done with your egomaniacal b******.
He’s not the only game in town Wooten.
Nader is looking real good right now!
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his fries. So what? That’s nothing. He also pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin. Obama didn’t. Obama wouldn’t. ‘muff said.
By bARACK HUSSEIM OMAMA!!
July 6, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
Wait and see me winning a landslide victory NOV. 4 in Washington,d.c.change change change change change change your mind stupid and naive wait and see you crying.Only winning Washington,District of COLUMBIA,JA,JA,JA, MORON.
By GaLiberal
July 6, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Moron Jim said: It’s change, all right. But not change those who lived through the ’60s and ’70s haven’t seen before, and not change the working middle class can afford.
First off Jim, change is neither bad nor good. The effects of that change are what you the rest of the noecon Rethuglicon bootlickers whine about. The “change” of the ’60s had it’s roots in the children of the repressive ’40s and ’50s. They wanted to challenge the ‘Father Knows Best’ mentality that was pervasive. Of course, there were people like Moron Jim that decried any loosing of the noose. They wanted to keep things the same; women at home wearing dresses and high heels, having babies, and cooking, blacks in the ghettos and out of white neighborhoods and schools, men bringing home the paycheck and beating their wives or having affairs, and union busting so companies didn’t have to pay decent wages or provide benefits. No wonder Moron Jim lusts for the good ol days.
Another thing, what the hell does Moron Jim know about the ‘working middle class?’ He’s the associated editor for a major newspaper and probably pulls down 150,000 per year. Working class my a*. What Moron Jim fails to tell you is that the ’60s and ’70s were very friendly to the working class. Wages went up and move many that were just getting by into the middle class. Homeownership, only a distant dream for many, became a reality with government loan programs. A lot more people were able to attend college again to do government loan programs. So Moron Jim runs his mouth and instead puts up a false strawman.
It’s only lately that economic conditions have been bad. Raises over the past 5-6 years haven’t kept up with overall inflation resulting in many people using credit cards to make ends meet. Businesses shedding their under-funded pensions for employee-financed 401ks and reducing benefits. Retirees getting their pensions cut in half and losing healthcare insurance. Big corporations falsely declare bankruptcy to void union contracts and reduce pay and benefits so they can artificially keep their stock prices up. All because the Rethuglicons are pro-business and have abandoned the workers to the junk heap. The already uberrich get richer while the rest of use struggle to just maintain a standard of living. whenever the Democrats try to right this obscene wrong, the Rethuglicons either filibuster the bill or Bush threatens a veto. The Rethuglicons used to complain about Democrats being obstructive, but they don’t seem to mind when it furthers their pro-business, pro-rich, anti-worker agenda. I’ll remember in November.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And the economy is living proof.
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
By THE WIRE
July 6, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
Japan - Though leaders of the world hid their amusement over the President of The United States showing up in a ninja suit, they still made him sit at a card table, separate from the grown-ups. As usual.
By George Hussien Washington
July 6, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
I agree fully with Mr. Kerry’s opinion that John McCain does not have the judgement to be president….The fool McCain wet started (allowed fuel to pool) his jet on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in order to shoot a stream of flame out the tail pipe, just to scare the pilot behind him….that pilot was so starlted that he accidently fired a missle, setting off a string of explosions that killed dozens of American sailors. Gee, do ya think President McCain might try wet starting a nuclear war, just to scare other world leaders?
WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president. If that’s the case, then it’s probably a good thing McCain rejected overtures from Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, to form a bipartisan ticket and run with Kerry as his candidate for vice president.
Kerry had no kind words his Senate colleague Sunday, accusing McCain of poor decision-making on everything from backing tax cuts for the wealthy to making support for continuing the U.S. military presence in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
“John McCain … has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he’s made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shia violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves,” Kerry, who supports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“If you like the Bush tax cut and what it’s done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove,” the Massachusetts senator added, echoing an Obama campaign talking point.
Kerry later said the McCain of 2008 isn’t the McCain he courted in 2004.
“John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising, and frankly upsetting. It is not the John McCain as the senator who defined himself, quote, as a maverick, though questionable,” Kerry said. “This is want-to-be president John McCain. The result is that John McCain has flip-flopped on more issues than I was even ever accused possibly of thinking about.”
McCain adviser Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said McCain was the one who stood up to the administration and urged President Bush to send more U.S. troops to Iraq to help control violence. Obama did not support the addition of troops.
Violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level in more than four years as a result of the 2007 buildup of forces.
“We’re winning because John McCain understood Iraq better than anybody else,” Graham said. “The surge has worked. The political, economic and military progress in Iraq is undeniable.”
Not too long ago, Kerry might have described McCain, a fellow Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, as a bipartisan ally who could provide guidance on national security issues.
McCain came to Kerry’s aid in March 2004 after Bush and his campaign tried to paint the Democrat as weak on defense. He rejected the suggestion in broadcast interviews and chided both parties for waging such a “bitter and partisan” campaign.
The two senators also discussed the vice presidency several times before McCain finally rejected Kerry’s overtures to form a bipartisan ticket. Kerry ultimately selected then-Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., to join the ticket.
For the record, Kerry is not among those being mentioned as possible running mates for McCain.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Aahhh, yes, 79 degrees in Hotlanta in July.
Must be “global warming.”
By George Hussien Washington
July 6, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management - You confuse weather with climate…a common mistake amoung the less well educated….
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
Gee, let’s see here, if thee climate is getting warmer, shouldn’t thee weather get warmer too?
Which climate are you talking about, dimwit?
Planet Moonbat, maybe?
By stupid obama supporter
July 6, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
Good thing our leadership didn’t listen to the moronically pathetic liberal Marxist left like their Messiah, Obama, who now has switched positions on pulling troops out of Iraq:
American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul. A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10. Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
Ever notice how so many of the enemies of America want Obama to be president? Hell I’d switch positions like a schizophrenic too.
Say hello to your next president, John McCain, and First Lady, Cindy McCain.
There’s always another country you worthless slugs on the left can go to if you don’t like it. FO.
By The Grudge
July 6, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
You little girlie red diaper doper baby libs can take your climate change by mankind and run it up your collective as-ses with a piping hot meat skewer. I’ll cook a damned hamburger or steak if I want to - smoke and all - you fascist left wingnut bedwetters. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=216>1=45002&page=4
By Weather
July 6, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management - like most republicans, you fail to understand that global warming causes odd weather patterns in areas around the world. In addition to raising the overall temperature of the globe, El Nino is causing a temporary cooling in some areas
You might want to read this, educate yourself. Claiming a scientific fact doesn’t exist is typical Bush-league stuff.
http://www.opensecrets.org/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
By Obambi Thee WarMonger
July 6, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Greetings, fellow dimwits-
It has come to my attention that many of you mouth breathers are angry with me because I revealed that I am a closet NeoKKKon and a warmonger. Allow me to ask you, how many extremist Muslim terrorists do you know that do not love war? How do you figure I would be different? Ever since I was a wee little laddie, me Islamic pappy would read the Koran to me at beddy bye time, oh, how a loved those days before he abandoned me and mommy. He was just a typical (edited, hahaha.) man. But those stories from thee Koran, I will always remember thee great pleasure and enjoyment that they brought to me. Especially the ones where we get to beat on and stone thee women, shhhhhh, don’t anyone tell that big mofo, Michelle, I don’t need my a* whooped again today. She’s always angry, spewing hate about this injustice and that hardship and how hard it is to balance thee checkbook with all those big, large numbers in it. I know better than to pis-s off that monster.
Besides which, you stupid, sullen dullards, when I say I’m going to bomb Iraq, I mean that I’m going to bomb thee American soldiers in Iraq, bwa, won’t they be surprised? And how will they fight back against their own Air Force, we all get lots of laughs seeing them being napalmed, won’t we?
How could you ever doubt that I hate America and do whatever it takes to slay her, I thought we were on thee same page here? Will you be mad at me because I am now a gun nut? How else can we kill infidel Americans if we don’t have any guns? See, am I not thee Super Smart and Exalted messiah as I have told you?
And no, I am not a Jesus Freak like I told those people in Hickville, I just need to get into their churches so I can plant thee bombs.
One step ahead of you morons, ain’t I?
So get your ignorant beady eyed perverted as-ses back out into the heartland and spread thee propagandas about McBushie getting drunk and setting the Pacific Fleet on fire, er, or whatever nonsense party headquarters wants us to spread.
Seig Heil!
By Weather
July 6, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Besides - it was 86 today in Atlanta. Where do you live that it was 79?!
By The Grudge
July 6, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Don’t know about you, weatherhack, but where I am in the general Atlanta vicinity, it’s 81 in the shade. That is still way C-O-O-L for this time of year, idiot liberal blog hack. And take your junk science with you, Demoncat jackal.
By The Grudge
July 6, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
Ah yes, the stupid liberal moonbat blog hack breaks out some GW links. Back at you, fascist lib punk:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3061015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070315&articleId=5086
By Abundant Pundit
July 6, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 6, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
By Weather July 6, 2008 5:47 PM Besides - it was 86 today in Atlanta. Where do you live that it was 79?!
Must you liberals always lie?
http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KMGE.html
79 when I posted that, just like I said.
So where are you getting 86 at, dimwit?
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By Andy is a moron.
July 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: Yeah, he renamed his French Fries. So what? He pierced his McNuggets with a flagpin too. You trying to make something out of it? Voodoo Patriotism is it’s own reward. It sure beats that sleeper cell planted Al Queda operative shoe lighter Obama. Did you know that if you change just two letters in Obama’s name, it spells, “Al Queda Loser”?
Vote 4 McCain. Fat and Stupid aint so bad.
Obama 08: You wont have to rename anything.
By The Grudge
July 6, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
Liberals lie because they are absolutely worthless pieces of S. Same reason those side show skirt wearing powder britches on the worthless left vote Democrat: they live in a delusional world.
Good news though: Word is getting out about Michelle Obama in Conservative and Moderate land and who she really is. The media isn’t picking up on it, oh but mainstream America is via the internet. The Obamaniacs can’t shut that down. The liberal hemorrhaging abortion bucket Obamaniacs on the left are going to be in for a real October surprise.
By Tom Ga Hunter
July 7, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
Ultimatum to the GOP
By Robert D. Novak Monday, July 7, 2008; Page A13
When House Republican leaders left Washington for the Fourth of July break, they felt good about having outwitted the Democratic majority. The feeling was not shared 3,000 miles away, where conservative California Republican activists were drafting an ultimatum. The Lincoln Club of Orange County is telling the GOP leaders of both the House and Senate that it is too late to repent. They must go — or else lose big money.
The message: “Come Nov. 5, should the current GOP leadership in either house survive to lead in a new Congress, the Lincoln Club of Orange County will review the financial backing of all congressional Republicans, and we urge others to do likewise. A GOP caucus that would re-elect such leaders is not one we would likely continue to support. Because, simply put, we refuse to support a permanent minority.”
The Lincoln Club estimates that its nearly 300 members will together contribute $1.5 million to federal causes and candidates in the 2008 election cycle. The club is spreading its message to angry Republicans throughout California and around the nation. The ultimatum finds responsive members of the House (if not the Senate), who even now are preparing a housecleaning after the additional loss of seats in this year’s election.
House GOP leaders were triumphant June 27 as Congress recessed for a week. They had passed war funding and telephone surveillance bills with solid Republican backing and minority Democratic support. Chairman David Obey had just shut down the Appropriations Committee process so Democrats would not be forced to vote on Republican oil-drilling proposals. Republican leaders congratulated themselves that they were winning the debate over whether boosting production or curbing speculation is the proper response to runaway gasoline prices.
Unfortunately, say Republican reformers, it looked like a case where the operation was a great success but the patient died. Popular though expanded drilling may be, Republicans are blamed for $4 gasoline. Away from the party leadership table, members blame a negative Republican image created by the leaders.
That’s the view expressed in the Lincoln Club paper signed by Rich Wagner, the group’s president, and Chip Hanlon, a board member. It deplores the refusal by party leaders to support a one-year moratorium on earmarks, whose 285 percent growth when Congress was under Republican control is “the perfect symbol of the GOP-led profligacy that drives us crazy still.” Earmarks “epitomize the fiscal recklessness that led to Republicans becoming a minority in 2006… . It’s no wonder the Republican leadership continued to fail on … entitlement reform and a reduction in federal spending.”
The Lincoln Club blasts conservative Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, whose personal earmarks totaled $83 million last year, for defending his pork as “being entrepreneurial about bringing something home.” It also assails conservative Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan, a member of the leadership who has opposed earmark reform and voted on the floor against only one earmark. With his annual earmarks totaling $22.5 million, McCotter declared a year ago, “I will not unilaterally disarm my donor state.”
On June 25, however, McCotter apparently felt enough heat to disarm unilaterally, with a surprise announcement that he had requested no earmarks this year. It may be too late for the 42-year-old third-termer, threatened with losing his House Republican Policy Committee chairmanship after only two years if the Lincoln Club of Orange County gets its clean sweep.
“We urge other Republican donor groups to reinforce this important beginning,” read the club’s ultimatum. It went on: “It is not credible to ask the American people to return Republicans to the majority when all we offer them is the same group of leaders and policies they so recently rejected.”
The statement asserts that these leaders “have no idea what we say when we get together” and are “still oblivious to the source of our discontent.” Now, if these contributors have their way, it is too late for the leaders, at least in the House. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who began his campaign for re-election in Kentucky by bragging about his earmarks for the state, probably has more to worry about from his Democratic election foe than insurgent Republican senators. But House Minority Leader John Boehner, who sponsors no earmarks himself but has not backed reform, faces an all-too-serious challenge.
By Copyleft
July 7, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Man, Wooten’s really in a bad mood now that he’s noticed President Obama’s inevitable victory, isn’t he?
Obama is the candidate of the liberal left.
I should certainly HOPE so. That’s what America desperately needs to halt, and maybe even start reversing, the slide toward fascism that BushCo was promoting for so long.
By SaveOurRepublic
July 7, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
The bogus “change” mantra has been ran into the ground by windbag politicians over the decades. Like “Juan McAmnasty”, “Bacrock Obuma” is a controlled puppet of the Globalist Elite, and will simply continue to implement their agenda of tearing down U.S. sovereignty & enabling Big Government growth. Ron Paul would have engineered MAJOR change to the good of our Republic..starting with abolishing the private Federal Reserve & their (un-Constitutional) collection agency the IRS. Don’t vote the “lesser of two evils” folks…it’s still voting for an International pawn! Vote CP candidate Chuck Baldwin or LP candidate Bob Barr!!!
http://www.jbs.org
By Bluebonnet Belle
July 7, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Dear Wait and See,
I think it your goals of serving and helping others in the community are noble ideas. The greatest thing about this country is that we have a choice. We can pick the charities for which we work and to which we contribute. No doubt, because of this, the US citizens are the most generous people in the world.
You said I didn’t realize there was a war going on. As a matter of fact, I do, since my son just got back from Iraq. Before that he was deployed twice by Democratic President Bill Clinton to Kosovo where he and other Americans put their lives on the line to stop the slaughter of the Muslim Kosovars by the Marxist Serbs who at the time had the third best armed army in the world. My son and our family feel very much like stopping genocide is a terrific way to serve the community. Of course, the US military had already been Democratic President Bill Clinton) when the Marxist Serbs were filling mass graves with Muslims and Croatians in Bosnia.
, however, I can certainly agree with. The return of the death tax will surely increase the cash flow of the tax attorneys. People will always want their “hard earned” (your term, but true—I’ve always tried to work hard as a middle school teacher) money to go to the needs of their own families first. Its a human always result in the attorneys getting the first bite out of what people leave. The last time those of us of the older generation feared the death tax was under President Bill Clinton, an Ivy League educated lawyer, whose wife was also an Ivy League educated lawyer. Perhaps you can understand why we once again are wary of another rich Ivy League educated lawyer also married to an Ivy League educated lawyer. In the first place, death taxes benefit those in the legal profession, while the lawyers themselves have the professional expertise to protect themselves.
Americans from the beginning have flourished when most left alone by the govenment. When the government decides it knows what is best for us in every aspect of our lives, our achievement is limited.
My best to you in deciding what causes you wish to serve as part of this amazingly wonderful US community.
By Bluebonnet Belle
July 7, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Dear Wait and See,
I think it your goals of serving and helping others in the community are noble ideas. The greatest thing about this country is that we have a choice. We can pick the charities for which we work and to which we contribute. No doubt, because of this, the US citizens are the most generous people in the world.
You said I didn’t realize there was a war going on. As a matter of fact, I do, since my son just got back from Iraq. Before that he was deployed twice by Democratic President Bill Clinton to Kosovo where he and other Americans put their lives on the line to stop the slaughter of the Muslim Kosovars by the Marxist Serbs who at the time had the third best armed army in the world. My son and our family feel very much like stopping genocide is a terrific way to serve the community. Of course, the US military had already been Democratic President Bill Clinton) when the Marxist Serbs were filling mass graves with Muslims and Croatians in Bosnia.
, however, I can certainly agree with. The return of the death tax will surely increase the cash flow of the tax attorneys. People will always want their “hard earned” (your term, but true—I’ve always tried to work hard as a middle school teacher) money to go to the needs of their own families first. Its a human always result in the attorneys getting the first bite out of what people leave. The last time those of us of the older generation feared the death tax was under President Bill Clinton, an Ivy League educated lawyer, whose wife was also an Ivy League educated lawyer. Perhaps you can understand why we once again are wary of another rich Ivy League educated lawyer also married to an Ivy League educated lawyer. In the first place, death taxes benefit those in the legal profession, while the lawyers themselves have the professional expertise to protect themselves.
Americans from the beginning have flourished when most left alone by the govenment. When the government decides it knows what is best for us in every aspect of our lives, our achievement is limited.
My best to you in deciding what causes you wish to serve as part of this amazingly wonderful US community.
By Bluebonnet Belle
July 7, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Dear Wait and See,
I think it your goals of serving and helping others in the community are noble ideas. The greatest thing about this country is that we have a choice. We can pick the charities for which we work and to which we contribute. No doubt, because of this, the US citizens are the most generous people in the world.
You said I didn’t realize there was a war going on. As a matter of fact, I do, since my son just got back from Iraq. Before that he was deployed twice by Democratic President Bill Clinton to Kosovo where he and other Americans put their lives on the line to stop the slaughter of the Muslim Kosovars by the Marxist Serbs who at the time had the third best armed army in the world. My son and our family feel very much like stopping genocide is a terrific way to serve the community. Of course, the US military had already been Democratic President Bill Clinton) when the Marxist Serbs were filling mass graves with Muslims and Croatians in Bosnia.
, however, I can certainly agree with. The return of the death tax will surely increase the cash flow of the tax attorneys. People will always want their “hard earned” (your term, but true—I’ve always tried to work hard as a middle school teacher) money to go to the needs of their own families first. Its a human always result in the attorneys getting the first bite out of what people leave. The last time those of us of the older generation feared the death tax was under President Bill Clinton, an Ivy League educated lawyer, whose wife was also an Ivy League educated lawyer. Perhaps you can understand why we once again are wary of another rich Ivy League educated lawyer also married to an Ivy League educated lawyer. In the first place, death taxes benefit those in the legal profession, while the lawyers themselves have the professional expertise to protect themselves.
Americans from the beginning have flourished when most left alone by the govenment. When the government decides it knows what is best for us in every aspect of our lives, our achievement is limited.
My best to you in deciding what causes you wish to serve as part of this amazingly wonderful US community.
By Weather
July 7, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this
The grudge - the 20/20 abc article is so packed with science that I must admit you are right - wow - you are one pathetic nazi right winger
By JW
July 7, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
You can say whatever you will about Obama and the Democrats; you and other deadhead Republicans can cut, slice, dice and fry them anyway you please; you can hang them in effigy and you and your cohorts can call them anything your heart desires but you won’t be changing my mind. Come November I will be pulling the lever for a Democrat. Why? Because after the shafting that this country’s middle class has experienced under this administration - the worst President and Vice President in our nation’s history - there is no way under heaven or in hell that I will ever vote for another Republican, especially a Bush clone.
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January 6, 2009 3:10 AM | Link to this
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By Personal Injury Lawyers
January 25, 2009 7:04 AM | Link to this
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By Wrongful Death Lawyers
February 7, 2009 1:39 PM | Link to this
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