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DEL.ICIO.USObama tries to make Georgia seem in play; it isn’t
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The presidential candidate of symbolism and empty phrases comes, symbolically, to a school in Cobb County on Tuesday to demonstrate that he attracts a crowd in a Republican county that’s commonly identified as “suburban.”
He will draw a crowd. Cobb, and especially areas north of I-20 to McEachern High School, where Barack Obama is scheduled, are drifting solidly Democratic. As with Obama’s decision to go to St. Paul, Minn., the site of this year’s Republican convention, to declare himself the Democratic nominee, it is all about symbolism.
The symbolic message here is that Georgia is in play.
Fat chance.
If Obama wins Georgia, he’ll occupy the White House.
He won’t, despite the surge in registration and the enthusiasm he engenders among Democrats.
Obama’s coming here despite the fact that Sen. John McCain’s leading by 10 percentage points in the latest poll, said U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson on Monday, because “obviously there are problems in Pennsylvania and Ohio.” Republicans are starting a television blitz in those two states and in Michigan and Wisconsin, other battleground states, pointing out that on energy, he has no new ideas or solutions.
The Rasmussen poll that Isakson cited “shoots holes in the rhetoric that Georgia is in play,” he said. “They realize how solid the South has been in the Republican corner since 1992, and they’d like nothing else than to crack a Southern state.”
By campaigning in a county routinely identified as solidly red —- and that does still have a Republican majority, though it’s shrinking, as it is in other counties close to Atlanta —- Obama makes a statement that he intends to challenge the GOP in the South. That would force McCain to campaign here, since he cannot afford to lose a single state in the region.
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is on the ballot for a second term this year, said Obama is drawn to Georgia both to raise money and because more Democrats than Republicans voted in the state’s presidential primary. Chambliss noted that Obama has routinely supported higher taxes. The higher capital gains taxes Obama supports would have affected 600,000 Georgians in the 2006 tax year, he said, while raising the payroll tax to fund Social Security, as Obama suggests, would have hit 800,000 small business owners in the state, Chambliss said. “Tough economic times is not the time to talk about raising taxes,” he said.
Unless McCain finds a way to alienate those who would otherwise support him —- that is always possible —- Obama’s positions on taxes, his desire to substantially grow government, his opposition to exploration for new domestic supplies of oil and worries about his national security credentials make him unelectable in Georgia.
For core supporters none of that matters. His eloquence, coupled with a promise to represent change, as every individual defines it, is sufficient. They cannot be shaken. Inconsistencies don’t matter. Facts of his inexperience don’t, nor do exaggerations, claiming, for example, that he passed legislation where he was actually a bit player.
But as Georgians come to know his record —- something Chambliss and Isakson are attempting to help McCain highlight —- they’ll peel away. Georgians are occasionally surprised by the leftward drift of politicians they elect, but they do not knowingly choose candidates with the ideological bent of Barack Obama.
So welcome to McEachern. Welcome to Cobb County.
Both will serve their purpose of providing a backdrop for a message.
It is for show, a symbolic incursion onto Republican turf, where he will be cheered wildly and long.
But that is all that will come of it.
He cannot win Georgia. Nohow, no way.
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By AJC/DNC Management
July 8, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
[TODAY’S MIKE LUCKOVICH[(http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/luckovich/index.html)
He was wearing a Hillary08 Inevitable t-shirt.
That’s a real nice symbol thee kult has put on the Obambi shirt, what is that, the sun setting on America?
How fitting.
Now go hide under your bed, mikey.
Coward.
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Living a lie, how typical for the dhimmokrat party:
Even the New York Times is mad at him, accusing him of false advertising. (“Mr. Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics, the man of passionate convictions who did not play old political games.”). For once it’s hard to quibble with the Grey Lady.
Obama has reversed course on everything from FISA to the Second Amendment to the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment to gay marriage to campaign finance reform. His Iraq policy is changing, or maybe it isn’t. Stay tuned. Even his biographical ads touting his leadership on welfare reform (which he actually opposed) and his struggle to work through school (which seems to only have amounted to two summer jobs) are being fact checked and disproved by the MSM.
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Watch the Urinal/DNC fall for propaganda meant for the rival political blocs in Iraq:
Iraq may set troop exit date-Urinal/PMS
Imagine that, last week all was lost, this week I guess Iraq went up the beanstalk and became a giant, eh, AJC?
The Iraqi leader also recognizes that American opinion has turned against the war and believes that his country should not wait for a U.S. decision to pull out troops, according to lawmakers from his Islamic Dawa Party.-Urinal/PMS
Hairy Reed doesn’t not set “American opinion.”
But them again, when the majority of Americans say they want the war to end what they mean is to end it with victory, and the libs ahve no idea what that means.
They think America loves a loser.
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For while the rhetoric about Uncle Sam’s global leadership tends to the harsh and negative, the record tells a different story. Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. has taken the lead on issues from combating malaria to breaking down trade barriers that keep the crops of poor African farmers out of First World markets. No one else is even close.
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Frisky sun worshipers are flocking to have sex on the beach in Provincetown - but are sending horrified family vacationers packing, officals said. One complaint, issued in 2007, was from a New Jersey family walking in the dunes who encountered couples and a large group of men having “sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open,” the Cape Cod Times reported last week. “The majority is gay,” Price said.
Aahhh, yes, “love” in Freakochussetts.
Opening soon at a freak show near your kid’s school.
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The coalition military led by incomparable US forces regularly wipe the floor with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. Insurgent losses may not yet exceed replacement levels mainly because local shooters can be hired for $50 a day, a sum well worth risking one’s life for in Afghanistan.
Gee, I wonder how the terrorists, America’s enemy, are able to pay that $50 a day?
Because we don’t drill for our own oil?
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Drownings in Lanier linked to low levels-Urinal/DNC
So the environmental terrorists that drained the lake are murderers?
By Analchord
July 8, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Obama 08: He leads.
McCain 08: He spills the soup.
Common Sense 08: You decide.
By TW
July 8, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this
You seem proud of your assertion, Mr. Wooten. Keep in mind, those states that stay red this Nov will stick out like a herpes flare-up.
Ignorant do as ignorant do…
By DT
July 8, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this
President Obama!!!!!
By BFKaJ
July 8, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I doubt that even our most rabid leftists believe Obama will take Arkansas, the most-democrat state in the South. And we all note that Obama is making noises about taking Montana (which, despite consistently electing leftist democrats to Congress, seemingly always votes republican in the presidential election). The most evenly divided states in the last election were Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I see Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as toss ups, but Michigan and New Mexico should be solid democrat. Washington state is another potential pick off for McCain, one that a true conservative would be unable to take. While Wisconsin and Minnesota were drifting toward conservatives over the Bush years, those now seem to be Obama country due to the under-25 voters; in contrast, the bitter people of Pennsylvania and Ohio perhaps see Obama for what he is, putting those within reach for McCain, whereas they would have been cake walks for Hillary.
I think Novak’s last review called it a dead heat, electoral vote advantage for McCain, despite a large popular advantage for Obama. Jbmlaw forecast: Colorado will be the difference.
Second forecast: even though a horse race column like this makes all opinions equal, our leftist friends will still spew nothing but epithets, with no analysis.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 8, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
Wooten may be right, but I suspect it will be very close until the end.
In 2004 41.4% of the vote went to John Kerry. Those voters will go Obama.
Most of the newly registered will go Obama.
Most of the Independents will go Obama.
Lot’s of the GOP will go Barr or stay home.
Then there are the Obamacons…..
It’ll be close.
By Goldie
July 8, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this
Too bad Wooten and his ilk have hooked their wagons to Bush and his failed presidency for too long — America wants no more of the Republikkkans for a few decades to come. And we’ll see if GA is on the side of the 21st century along with the rest of the country… we’ll see.
By rick
July 8, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
the simple fact is that republicans don’t deserve a third term. they have failed at taking care of their own nation. it’s disgusting how they have abandoned New Orleans, DISGUSTING and UNAMERICAN. Cheney and Rumsfield did succeed at what their true agenda was to invade Iraq and cut taxes for the rich. vote for John McCain at your own peril, just disgusting.
By Copyleft
July 8, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Despite Wooten’s increasingly desperate-sounding denials, Georgia may very well be in play this fall.
Not because Georgians have suddenly wised up enough to vote for President Obama, but because of near-universal disgust with the current, failed Republican administration and strong distaste for McCain among far-right conservatives. Such Georgia conservatives are likely to either stay home or vote for Barr (the Libertarian candidate), splitting the once-reliable GOP base in this state.
Really, the only question is what role Georgia will play in President Obama’s landslide—-contributor, or speed bump.
By hillbilly ragger
July 8, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
Interesting bit buried in here, Jim:
The higher capital gains taxes Obama supports would have affected 600,000 Georgians in the 2006 tax year, he said, while raising the payroll tax to fund Social Security, as Obama suggests, would have hit 800,000 small business owners in the state
Please. You knew when you typed this screed that these numbers are flat-out lies. You knew that Saxby probably got his numbers by taking the total number of Georgians who have some kind of stock/mutual fund investment and pretending that Obama’s proposals would affect them adversely.
You know this, and yet you posted it and printed it anyway.
Shame on you.
By Corey
July 8, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
No, not in a state that is populated by people who want disclaimers in science text books, xenophobic, Bibile thumping, anti intellectual, preface everything with God regardless of lack of logic, bigoted, homophobic, minority bashing, hypocritical sheeple.
By American War
July 8, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Goldie, it’s not that Wooten has to unhitch his wagon from the Bushy tail. It’s that conservatism no longer feels obligated to call themselves Americans. They’ve basically disowned us, effectively transferring their fear during 911 into hatred for other Americans, not the 911 conspirators. They’ve allied their cause to OBL’s fugitive status, which they must protect at all cost, or they will wilt like the landscaping in a drought.
Conservatives have forged new santuaries. Their newest mansions look like diplomatic embassy compounds in hostile far away countries. The windows are small and would make perfect gun ports. I even saw one clown attaching a cauldron for boiling oil on his roof. He said it was to deep fry turkeys on his balcony……..sure.
This is nothing new. The status quo always resents the new face of America. The Irish in New York had it bad, until they became the status quo and then the Germans had it bad, and then the Dutch, and then the Puerto Ricans, etc….
What is new is that the entire country’s demographic is an offense to entrenched sensibilities. Conservative die-hards think Americans have cooties. They act like that too. They have no idea who to vote for. They probably wont vote.
We are in as dangerous a time for our Union as we were in the civil war. Then, we could simply set up a line of cannon then, and the conservatives would line up and march right into the field of fire, and we’d win. (every battle ended up that way. Yankee cannon became rebel magnets).
Now, however, the conservatives have foreign powers on their side. The Confederacy begged England 2 fight for them, you know. (Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation shot that down quick. Notice how justice kills tyranny, fascism, and evil?)
Conservatism is aligned with Global Oil. (read saudi royal family).
Do you trust the Saudis with our consitution? Our army?
I dont. I dont trust Wooten any further than I can wipe my behind with his column everyday, (you have to wet the newspaper first).
The masses will be without fuel, without food, and without shelter. We will be herded and driven like Kurds. Put on reservations, (without casinos). Unless we elect one of our own.
Obama 08: America4Americans.
By Manny
July 8, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
…and I’m going to vote for Obama anyway.
By ann
July 8, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
yep, voting for Obama, and with Bob Barr, Wooten is right. Obama will be in the whitehouse. Go OBAMA
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
No Obama Nation
By CHANGE '08
July 8, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
Fortunately Mr. Wooten, for the good of the country and the world you may be proven very wrong. How is it that republicans don’t see what they are doing and have done to this country. Gas and groceries are outrageous, the economy sucks and the only people that won’t acknowledge a recession are the ones in control, the Republican White House….Are you people living under a rock or should I say your own Stone Mountain.
And everyone talks of these polls that are always being taken who are you calling your own family members, no one has ever called and asked me what I think or who I will vote for and why. I think that the republican media just answers their own polls and never polls anyone.
So with that said, here’s my answer to your next poll, Anybody BUT a republican in ‘08, but my preference iS OBAMA….
By hillbilly ragger
July 8, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
As for the main topic of Wooten’s piece, well yeah. GA will probably go to McCain. The GOP will rally their base by claiming (falsely, as always) that the Democratic candidate is “pro-abortion”, and that if you don’t vote GOP you’ll make Jesus cry.
But it won’t be a 17 point margin as in 2004; http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ currently projects the McCain margin at 8.1 points, and that sounds about right.
By Luckobama aka Luckosama (Mad As Zell)
July 8, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this
NO WAY IN HELL that America is going to elect a black commie pinko ISLAMAFACIST animal to the White House. Its called the WHITE house for a reason. Only white CHRISTIAN AMERICAN men have the qualifications, the demeanor, the faith and the experience to be President. Osama is neither a CHRISTIAN, an AMERICAN or of the RIGHT skin color or political temperment to be elected to the office of President. The Defeatocrats, the anti-American leftist political party of the “that-time-of-the-month” feminine bleeding and year-round itching and odor, just doesn’t have what it takes to get into the WHITE house! McCain’s 10+ point advantage in polls is just a reflection that Americans have decided that its time to get down to business and have stopped “MONKEYING” around with the likes of BaRAT Hussein Osama. Ramadan is over. Demoncrap party black muslim extremism loses out big to homegrown Christian/American Patriotism in November!
By Dusty
July 8, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
…and I am going to vote for McCain anyway…no matter what Obama’s paid ‘volunteers’ say here.
Yep, McCain is a decorated war veteran with absolute security clearance. He has served many years in the US Congress. His pretty wife loves America. His son has served in Iraq. He will keep taxes LOW. He and his family have long served the USA.
Yep, I am voting for McCain just like most of Georgia’s citizens, the finest people you can find anywhere.
By TW
July 8, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
American War - great post.
The line is between those who care about this place and those who don’t.
Those who are willing to sacrifice for this place and those who won’t.
Crying about taxes during a time of war is tantamount to treason.
At the same time families in this country are losing loved ones over there in the sand, those who got us there have the audacity to complain about their yacht furniture budget.
Who needs al qaeda when you have anti-American government republicans right here at home?
By Anyone But Obama
July 8, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
I agree that the Republicans probably don’t deserve a third term and they should be taught a lesson, but, my God, this is not the time to teach them that lesson and Obama is not the candidate to elect. An Obama presidency would be horrible, just horrible - it’s inconceivable that anyone would think this would be good for America. Let’s just get through one more term with a Republican president, then consider a change in the future. Hopefully, Obama will just slither away after this year and never be considered a serious candidate ever again.
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
CHANGE ‘08,
Yes, both parties have done little in the last 40+ years to ease our dependence on foreign oil.
So now the cost of fuel for the trucks and trains that deliver our goods are going up, little surprise there.
So, what will BHO do? Nothing. The trains need diesel or electricity to run, well BHO will not drill for more oil, will not support coal, gas or nuclear power plants. So where will we get the power to run our supply infrastructure?
The no drilling mantra from Congress has gotten us no where. We not only import oil, but refined petro products.
Imagine how we look to the oil exporters. Here we have a nation with massive amounts of energy, but we will not use it. We have more oil than we can refine, but we won’t refine more. We tell the exporters we don’t want to dirty up our views of the ocean, we don’t want to create more jobs, we don’t want windmills off Martha’s Vineyard(Teddy is opposed to the windmills)
The democratic “NO” seems to be working. No to improvements, no to innovation, no to cutting down on foreign imports. Yes to taxing profits, yes to socializing medicine, yes to socializing the oil industry, yes to not letting you keep your money, someone has to pay for all this. Keep it up and we won’t survive.
By hillbilly ragger
July 8, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Hey LuckoTroolz! (Both of you.)
Welcome! maybe you can pile in enough copy/pasted crap from right-wing sites to make this place unfit for human habitation as well!
Because the last thing you want is for rational people to feel free to exchange ideas and challenge one another’s assertions, right?
Oh, and I checked Luckovich’s new site. Same 75-80% approval among actual readers as always, I see. Doesn’t it suck that you LuckoTroolz were NEVER able to change that? Man, that always made me laugh.
By American War
July 8, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
Okay, Justice lovers listen up. Look at the tone of Wooten’s column lately. If they really believed their own phony polls, (showing McCain with a lead anywhere has got to be a lie), then they would write with more confidence.
Instead, they are writing like frightened little baby bunnies. They know they’re going to get creamed.
They can phony up the polls all they want. Truman. Remember truman in 1948. A monster had come out of World War 2. MacArthur. Mac was the most dangerous man our republic had ever seen. He came close to dooming america to endless war with chinese communists. It was a damn near thing, too. Only there was this ridiculous little democrat who stood in his way. He was a funny looking, harmless little turtle of a man. A david against mac’s goliath.
Then a peculiar thing happened that saved the world: Truman’s wife fancied herself an opera singer, and actually performed arias from Mozart’s “Figaro” in front of the entire congress. Well, just like in the movie, which came first, “Citizen Kane”, the diva took a dive. It was a social catastrophe, and the Washington post reviewer was cruel in his restraint in the morning’s review. Truman fired off a letter, like a comment in a blog today, which actually threatened to punch the reviewer in the nose. The Post printed that letter and Truman was the laughing stock of the country.
Now, all this was occuring when MacArthur was waving his fist at Chairman Mao, and insisting we nuke China, oh, just a couple of nukes is all we’ll need, maybe three or four, but no more than ten, for sure, and china will see things our way, and Korea will be united under the flag of democracy.. Hooray!
Truman, needing a miracle to save his lame duck presidency, fired MacArthur in a move that Tailgunner Joe called “treason”. After the ticker tape parade, the Monster was gone. Macarthur just faded away….
Just like conservatism will do: Just fade away. Conservatism has become our military arm, at least the contracting and funding part of our military, so, in a sense, conservative are soldiers, and they must now just…..fade…….AWAY!!!!
By MADMOMMY
July 8, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
I can’t wait for people to wake up from this popularity contest and see that this is REAL and will EFFECT OUR LIVES!!!
Wake up, this is not American Idol!!! We need someone who will do the job, who has experiance and is willing to make the tough choices, not just the “popular” choice.
Obama, go home to your mama.
McCain is more of what we need, and less of what we don’t.
By GOPs got to go
July 8, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Well Mr Wooten, I guess I plan on being one of your anomalies. I plan on voting Obama. Let’s see how I differ from the hole I should be pegged in to.
White: check. Female: check Catholic: check Middle Aged: check Top Tax Bracket: check College Graduate: check Native Georgian: check Military Link: check
Voting for McCain: NOT!!!
And I am quite sure that I am not an anomaly sir. I believe that Obama has a very good chance of carrying Georgia. Apparently so does, he and many others, who started lining up at 0430 this am to listen to him speak. It does give me pleasure knowing how much that scares all you GOP lemmings ready to jump off the Bush cliff.
By Peter
July 8, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Yes Jim, we see with the wonderful leadership from the Republicans here in Georgia……”Pray for Rain” …….. kind of stuff going on, that all folks are just NOT Peachy with what has been going down.
The South with the almost lack of education here as you say, will probably pull out it’s redneck vote for the lynching of the “Black Guy” attitude………..
But Jim forgets we have tons of Mexicans, as Bush has let them all in, and more en-powered Black folks today than ever.
Jim, you may eat your words, as MANY folks of ALL Color are JUST SICK and Tired of where this country has been going with a Lawless leader, who just is in it for the RICH !
Jim, please remember we have had many Black leaders elected in the South………… and it can happen again……….. with the results of the last 8 years being so in the FACE and Pocketbook of all Americans !
By MADMOMMY
July 8, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
I can’t wait for people to wake up from this popularity contest and see that this is REAL and will EFFECT OUR LIVES!!!
Wake up, this is not American Idol!!! We need someone who will do the job, who has experiance and is willing to make the tough choices, not just the “popular” choice.
Obama, go home to your mama.
McCain is more of what we need, and less of what we don’t.
By TW
July 8, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Dutchman - Reagan said if government would stay out of it, the private sector would take care of all this.
Still waiting.
BTW - might want to check how the price of gas is set before you hang your hat on drilling here at home.
Somebody tell McSame he can leave the tax if he’d just shut the Enron loophole…sad he wants to take from our infrastructure rather than pinch it from the inside trading profits of his campaign team…
By GOPs got to go
July 8, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Well Mr Wooten, I guess I plan on being one of your anomalies. I plan on voting Obama. Let’s see how I differ from the hole I should be pegged in to.
White: check. Female: check Catholic: check Middle Aged: check Top Tax Bracket: check College Graduate: check Native Georgian: check Military Link: check
Voting for McCain: NOT!!!
And I am quite sure that I am not an anomaly sir. I believe that Obama has a very good chance of carrying Georgia. Apparently so does he, and many others, who started lining up at 0430 this am to listen to him speak. It does give me pleasure knowing how much that scares all you GOP lemmings ready to jump off the Bush cliff.
By tom ga hunter
July 8, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Has Saxby Special interest Chambliss ever told us the truth. Well just for a few days about amnesty for his Mexicans..Term limit Saxby…
By Jason
July 8, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
“The higher capital gains taxes Obama supports would have affected 600,000 Georgians in the 2006 tax year.”
We won’t have to worry about capital gains taxes at all with McCain in office, as there won’t be any gains to tax. I’d rather pay 28% of something than 15% of nothing.
By ron
July 8, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Good morning Jim,You are right,Obama won’t carry Georgia the way he is now,but five minutes from now he may be more conservative than McCain.He’s becoming more Republican every day.He may out flop Kerry.I don’t believe thes lefties know who they are when they get up in the morning.Every day is different.
By Fred Flintstone
July 8, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
Lets continue to dumb down this country with idiots. More Bush please.
Obama is too intelligent
McCain can’t spell the word computer
Now thats more like it
By lava
July 8, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
when Mccain loses in Nov,u sure are going to find plausible reasons why he lost,but a loss it will be.Obama’s coming here despite the fact that Sen. John McCain’s leading by 10 percentage points in the latest poll ohhh,give me a break! What does that mean at all in real terms.10 pc is nothing when we are in July.By campaigning in a county routinely identified as solidly red —- and that does still have a Republican majority, though it’s shrinking, thanx for the concession that the majority is shrinking coz Obama is going to exercabate that shrinkage,smart politics i must say.and worries about his national security credentials make him unelectable in Georgia. continue drinking that cool-aid because that fact is imbedded in u and ur cohorts minds,unfortunately,uts not shared by most in GA
By sharon
July 8, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Barack want win Georgia for one reason and one reason only and that’s because Georgia is Redneck country.
By TW
July 8, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
Peter - don’t count out the white guy with the pick-up at the gas pump who has been watching the republican yachts begin to set sail - without him. Even the reddest of necks are starting to understand that they weren’t part of the plan.
Vote for the white half…
By sharon
July 8, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Barack want win Georgia for one reason and one reason only and that’s because Georgia is Redneck country.
By Dusty
July 8, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Ho Dubya, Oh Dubya, Oh Dubya,……I Mean Bubba, Oh Bubba, Oh Bubba.. Oh, My Pork Chops are BURNING!!!!!!!
By The Commieknocker
July 8, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Obama the centrist-moderate my left butt cheek. A phony is a phony is a phony. And sheep are sheep are sheep who support this phony:
Obama’s Voting Record Complicates His Shift to Political Center
In 2005, his first full year in the U.S. Senate, Obama earned 100 percent ratings from the AFL-CIO labor federation and Americans for Democratic Action, according to Congressional Quarterly. Those ratings were 93 percent and 95 percent in 2006. Obama also favored restoring habeas corpus rights to suspected terrorists, while opposing the confirmations of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, and a constitutional amendment prohibiting flag burning. Obama, who has campaigned as a politician who can bridge partisan divides, voted with his party an average of 96.7 percent in his three full years in the U.S. Senate, according to Congressional Quarterly.
Raising taxes on corporations, raising taxes on households of the so-called “rich” who make over $250,000/yr, etc. etc. Yep, stifle corporate growth and stifle investment by the private sector. Watch jobs REALLY disappear and be replaced with government dependence and intervention. Just what the dirty far loon left wants for this nation. What an absolute phony.
And only a phony is delusional enough to even think he’ll get a Southern state besides Democrat KKK Byrd’s West Virginia. But, there are dumb people in the South who vote Democrat and depend on government just like everywhere else in this nation, so go figure.
And as a cherry on top, the communist parties and Che worshipers in this nation have endorsed Obamania for el presidential. Frauds.
By American War
July 8, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Conservatives can phony up the polls all they want. Truman. Remember truman in 1948. A monster had come out of World War 2. MacArthur. Mac was the most dangerous man our republic had ever seen. He came close to dooming america to endless war with chinese communists. It was a damn near thing, too. Only there was this ridiculous little democrat who stood in his way. He was a funny looking, harmless little turtle of a man. A david against mac’s goliath.
Then a peculiar thing happened that saved the world: Truman’s wife fancied herself an opera singer, and actually performed arias from Mozart’s “Figaro” in front of the entire congress. Well, just like in the movie, which came first, “Citizen Kane”, the diva took a dive. It was a social catastrophe, and the Washington post reviewer was cruel in his restraint in the morning’s review. Truman fired off a letter, like a comment in a blog today, which actually threatened to punch the reviewer in the nose. The Post printed that letter and Truman was the laughing stock of the country.
Now, all this was occuring when MacArthur was waving his fist at Chairman Mao, and insisting we nuke China, oh, just a couple of nukes is all we’ll need, maybe three or four, but no more than ten, for sure, and china will see things our way, and Korea will be united under the flag of democracy.. Hooray!
Truman, needing a miracle to save his lame duck presidency, fired MacArthur in a move that Tailgunner Joe called “treason”. After the ticker tape parade, the Monster was gone. Macarthur just faded away….
Just like conservatism will do: Just fade away. Conservatism has become our military arm, at least the contracting and funding part of our military, so, in a sense, conservative are soldiers, and they must now just…..fade…….AWAY!!!!
Dont let Lady Liberty tongue-lash your sorry behinds on the way out……ew.
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
American War,
Wake up, don’t try to show off your Georgia history education. Truman never ran against MacArthur, and MacArthur’s demand that we pursue the Korean war into China would have been a disaster.
And in 1952, the Republicans had a choice, The Supreme Commander in Europe or the Supreme Commander in the Pacific. Personally I liked Ike. MacArthur was a bit too imperial for me.
By lava
July 8, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
Oh Wooten, iam waiting to hear u say Obama monkey becoz we know thats what drives u pple’s politics…….
By Dusty
July 8, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Well, the liberal INCITERS have posted. Mad as Zell and RedNeck Convert have done their duty to make every race and rambler angry enough to vote for Obama.
You know how it works, folks. The poster names a conservative candidate and then acts like he supports that candidate with racial epitaphs, phony ignorance and other insults. That makes everybody reading such trash associate it with the very candidate named. The ‘inciters’ also throw in a bit of truth to disguise their purpose.
Incite means to provoke or goad among other things. These namecallers are trying to get you to say “I’ll show him and his discrimination!” and vote for Obama to prove it.
Don’t fall for the trap. It is an old one but still works. It is being used by liberals.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 8, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
cbs46.com will cover Obama live in Powder Springs shortly…..
By JW
July 8, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
The higher capital gains taxes Obama supports would have affected 600,000 Georgians in the 2006 tax year, he said, while raising the payroll tax to fund Social Security, as Obama suggests, would have hit 800,000 small business owners in the state,blah blah blah blah. Next you will be saying that McCain will balance the federal budget. The fact is, the GOP has blown it. They wasted a majority in COngress by doing absolutely nothing to benefit America or the state of GA. Among these grand numbers you toss around are some Obama supporters who are not afraid to sacrifice a little for a lot of good. At least Obama is willing to try.
By Obama08
July 8, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
This is why I dont buy nor read the AJC. How could they let a story be pressed by an employee who supports one side. People the newspaper has an agenda. Democrats stop buying this paper if this is the case. Hate to tell you this but Obama will win Georgia your in for a shock. Laughing.
By Curious Observer
July 8, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
From Monday’s Zogby poll:
Zogby: Obama has electoral college majority; Barr has 6% support. Nick Juliano Published: Monday July 7, 2008
A new nationwide poll shows Barack Obama securing a majority of electoral college votes over Republican opponent John McCain in a new state-by-state poll.
The Zogby Interactive online survey also shows Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr shaping up as a substantial factor in this year’s election, pulling 6 percent of the vote. (He was substantially outperforming then-Green Party candidate Ralph Nader at a similar point in the 2000 campaign)
The poll was conducted June 11-30 among more than 46,000 likely voters.
If the election were held today, Obama would win 273 electoral votes, enough to hand him the presidency, according to Zogby’s tally. McCain would receive 160 electoral votes, leaving 105 up for grabs. Obama is the choice of 44 percent of voters surveyed, compared to 38 percent who prefer McCain. Other projections, like the one being maintained at FiveThirtyEight.com, have Obama winning with as many as 308 electoral votes.
Pollster John Zogby said Barr “could really hurt McCain’s chances,” pointing to the former Georgia Republican’s 7 percent support among conservative or very conservative voters, 43 percent support from libertarians and 11 percent showing with independents.
Liberal gadfly Nader, now running as an Independent, is polling at less than 2 percent in the latest survey.
Obama’s campaign has been paying attention to Barr, saying he could help them in states like Alaska and Georgia.
Most observers blamed Nader for siphoning votes from Gore in 2000, especially in Florida, handing the White House to George W. Bush.
The Zogby poll released Monday shows Barr is now well outperforming Nader at a similar point in the 2000 campaign. A June 2000 Zogby poll showed Nader receiving about 2 percent of the vote, just a third of Barr’s level of support.
Be afraid, Georgia knuckle-draggers. Be very afraid.
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
American War,
Wake up, don’t try to show off your Georgia history education. Truman never ran against MacArthur, and MacArthur’s demand that we pursue the Korean war into China would have been a disaster.
And in 1952, the Republicans had a choice, The Supreme Commander in Europe or the Supreme Commander in the Pacific. Personally I liked Ike. MacArthur was a bit too imperial for me.
By Dusty
July 8, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Well, I see the liberals have arrived PHONY ID @ 9:24. Not the real Dusty. Just a liberal ID thief.
By AJC Hall Monitor
July 8, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Take your meds!!!! Take your meds!!! Those with meds problems didn’t improve by switching from Luckovich’s blog to this one!!! Meds are still required, AND TAKE THEM TIMELY!
By Bosch
July 8, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Hey Mrs. G!
Long time no see. I thought you had moved or something. How’s the family?
Thanks for the post, I’m going to watch now.
You have to wonder about Obama’s chances in Georgia when you have a store owner in Paulding comparing Obama to a monkey. That’s real good for our image here in the state. And, way to go news outlets for bringing it to the mainstream. Idiots like that don’t need the attention.
Later!
By moonbat spaceport
July 8, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
“Obama supporters who are not afraid to sacrifice a little for a lot of good. At least Obama is willing to try.”
You miss the point, dumbas-s socialist lib. It’s not Obama’s money to “sacrifice.” It’s the PEOPLE’S money. Let the PEOPLE decide what to do with THEIR money. You liberal fascists on the loon left are pathetic.
Ever notice how the loon left has become more angry, more fascist, more domineering, more vitriolic, and just flat out more moonbatty over the last few months? I wonder what the jackals on the left are going to do with themselves when McCain wins after Obama gets exposed for who he really is. Commit mass suicide let’s hope.
By American War
July 8, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
Conservatives can phony up the polls all they want. Truman. Remember truman in 1948. A monster had come out of World War 2. MacArthur. Mac was the most dangerous man our republic had ever seen. He came close to dooming america to endless war with chinese communists. It was a damn near thing, too. Only there was this ridiculous little democrat who stood in his way. He was a funny looking, harmless little turtle of a man. A david against mac’s goliath.
Then a peculiar thing happened that saved the world: Truman’s wife fancied herself an opera singer, and actually performed arias from Mozart’s “Figaro” in front of the entire congress. Well, just like in the movie, which came first, “Citizen Kane”, the diva took a dive. It was a social catastrophe, and the Washington post reviewer was cruel in his restraint in the morning’s review. Truman fired off a letter, like a comment in a blog today, which actually threatened to punch the reviewer in the nose. The Post printed that letter and Truman was the laughing stock of the country.
Now, all this was occuring when MacArthur was waving his fist at Chairman Mao, and insisting we nuke China, oh, just a couple of nukes is all we’ll need, maybe three or four, but no more than ten, for sure, and china will see things our way, and Korea will be united under the flag of democracy.. Hooray!
Truman, needing a miracle to save his lame duck presidency, fired MacArthur in a move that Tailgunner Joe called “treason”. After the ticker tape parade, the Monster was gone. Macarthur just faded away….
Just like conservatism will do: Just fade away. Conservatism has become our military arm, at least the contracting and funding part of our military, so, in a sense, conservative are soldiers, and they must now just…..fade…….AWAY!!!!
Dont let Lady Liberty tongue-lash your sorry behinds on the way out……ew.
By Peter
July 8, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
I remember another Republican Who made this statement………
“Read MY lips I won’t raise Taxes”……..
And what did he do…he raised Taxes……… Duhhhhhhhh
McCain….he is a flip flopper in the same mold……..
Jim……….. Why don’t you try to spin something positive for a change ?
Tell us about all the “wonderful things” BUSH has done for America so we all WANT to vote for another 4 long years of PAIN !
By Chuckling out loud
July 8, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Oh Dusty, So glad to see we have your pork chops burning again.
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
American War,
Wake up, don’t try to show off your Georgia history education. Truman never ran against MacArthur, and MacArthur’s demand that we pursue the Korean war into China would have been a disaster.
And in 1952, the Republicans had a choice, The Supreme Commander in Europe or the Supreme Commander in the Pacific. Personally I liked Ike. MacArthur was a bit too imperial for me.
By Donna P.
July 8, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
In watching the election coverage on CNN and Fox News, they show the electoral maps and I am shocked that both stations’ “experts” predict that Obama will not take any Southern states. The majority of black voters are in the South. P.S. I’m sick of all this election coverage!!!
By JK the regular chick
July 8, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Oh, Mr. Wooten… there there.. breathe now…. there there…
Don’t you know the Democrats are out getting photo IDs for tens of thousands who need them, and coordinating caravans to make sure EVERY POTENTIAL DEMOCRAT in Georgia makes it to the polls?
Or are you privy to some super secret plan the Republicans have to keep Georgia “out of play?” Tacks on the roads to flatten tires, perhaps? Or will Karen Handel be borrowing strategic maneuvers from Katherine Harris and Kenneth Blackwell? A much-needed “purge” of the voter rolls, perhaps? A reallocation the machines?
Remember, you’re a “JOURNALIST!” It’s your sworn duty to tell us what you know! (Heh heh.)
By Duluth
July 8, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
In today’s AJC it says that Obama is making his nomination acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium in Denver, on the anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech anniversary…..
How pathetic.
McCAIN 08!!!!!!!!
By Sex is 4 Sexual Sexists
July 8, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Conservatives can phony up the polls all they want. Truman. Remember truman in 1948. A monster had come out of World War 2. MacArthur. Mac was the most dangerous man our republic had ever seen. He came close to dooming america to endless war with chinese communists. It was a damn near thing, too. Only there was this ridiculous little democrat who stood in his way. He was a funny looking, harmless little turtle of a man. A david against mac’s goliath.
Then a peculiar thing happened that saved the world: Truman’s wife fancied herself an opera singer, and actually performed arias from Mozart’s “Figaro” in front of the entire congress. Well, just like in the movie, which came first, “Citizen Kane”, the diva took a dive. It was a social catastrophe, and the Washington post reviewer was cruel in his restraint in the morning’s review. Truman fired off a letter, like a comment in a blog today, which actually threatened to punch the reviewer in the nose. The Post printed that letter and Truman was the laughing stock of the country.
Now, all this was occuring when MacArthur was waving his fist at Chairman Mao, and insisting we nuke China, oh, just a couple of nukes is all we’ll need, maybe three or four, but no more than ten, for sure, and china will see things our way, and Korea will be united under the flag of democracy.. Hooray!
Truman, needing a miracle to save his lame duck presidency, fired MacArthur in a move that Tailgunner Joe called “treason”. After the ticker tape parade, the Monster was gone. Macarthur just faded away….
Just like conservatism will do: Just fade away. Conservatism has become our military arm, at least the contracting and funding part of our military, so, in a sense, conservative are soldiers, and they must now just…..fade…….AWAY!!!!
Dont let Lady Liberty tongue-lash your sorry behinds on the way out……ew.
By Crackey!
By Hillbilly Deluxe
July 8, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Obama won’t carry Georgia. Atlanta is not Georgia.
By GMAN
July 8, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
I’m not impressed with McCain’s credentials. I don’t see how crashing a plane on a carrier deck, getting shot down, wrestling with old men like Strom Thurmond, using the f-word liberally, dumping a cancer-stricken wife in favor of a rich one and committing adultery, engaging in the Keating Five scandal, making propaganda videos for the enemy, and telling his captors what they wanted to hear after being tortured qualifies him to be president. Oh, how the list keeps growing!
By jeed
July 8, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Wooten: Obama can’t win Georgia
Kinda like he couldn’t beat Hillary?
By Southern Democrat
July 8, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Bob Barr may be 2008’s Ross Perot. I have not seen any accurate polling data regarding Georgia, but would guess that it will still sway for McCain, though closer than in 2004.
My friend Jbmlaw gets in his not-so-subtle dig on my friends to the left of me, positing that there will be an absence of analysis. I would point him, however, to the column to which we are responding. The “no, he can’t” and strawman argument was attempted by Sen. Kerry; it doesn’t work.
Finally, while I should not take joy in the misfortune of others, I could not suppress a small squeal of delight at the article today where the leaders of Milton complain about how goshdarn difficult it is to provide superior services cheaply.
As I used to tell anyone in North Fulton who would listen when they talked of incorporation, be careful what you wish for. Those of us who are somewhat familiar with Fulton politics and taxation over the years know that the property taxes collected on the mansions in North Fulton do not greatly exceed (if at all) the revenues collected from Fulton Industrial Blvd. Thus, by telling Fulton County to shove off, Sandy Springs, Milton, Johns Creek, etc., have cut off their noses to spite their faces. Somehow I don’t see the residents of Windward or Country Club of the South volunteering to allow warehouses and heavy trucks on Old Milton to make up for the lost revenue from Fulton Industrial.
By Truthifier
July 8, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten is exemplifying exactly what is wrong with American politics. He (Wooten) is displaying a cynicism that says that elections are all about polling data and have nothing do do with leadership or statesmanship. How about giving Obama some credit for coming down to Georgia and asking people for their vote? Will he win in GA? Probably not. But at least he is showing enough respect for Georgians to let them know that he’d appreciate their support. Obama, McCain, Barr and Nader should all be in GA campaigning.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 8, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Bosch….
Nope….just busy helping Obama get elected.
I sat thru the piece you described the other night with my lovable but racist mother in law…..
She was shamed by it. I think that’s the reaction most Georgians had.
It’s sad, she won’t vote for Obama, but she won’t vote for McCain or Barr this year. She’s sitting this one out.
By Daedalus
July 8, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Georgia has always been 20 years behind the rest of the country — and Wooten is right — Obama won’t win the state in November.
Not because he’s a democrat, but because he’s black and the GOP will play the race card — why? It works.
Although he’ll lose in Georgia, he’ll win the election. Why? Because the rest of the country is not Georgia and they are ready for a non-white male to be President.
But not down here in Dixie. Some things just don’t change.
By Disgusted
July 8, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
Then a peculiar thing happened that saved the world: Truman’s wife fancied herself an opera singer, and actually performed arias from Mozart’s “Figaro” in front of the entire congress.
Ah, Georgia’s fine education system shines through.
It was Truman’s daughter, not his wife, who was the aspiring singer, and that had little to do with election results.
And firing MacArthur was an act of courage, not an act of political desperation. MacArthur was extremely popular.
Finally, Truman’s victory over Dewey should not have been a surprise. It was so to many of the ignorant purely because all the pollsters were using telephone polls to predict the election outcome. And guess who could afford most of the telephones? Yep! Wealthier Republicans, most of them Dewey supporters.
By Morningstar
July 8, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this
By Anyone But Obama July 8, 2008 9:06 AM Let’s just get through one more term with a Republican president, then consider a change in the future.
Anyone, what future? The country is a mess. Have you been following the stock market, the housing market (when the construction industry collapses, it all follows eventually), unemployment, the price of gas, food, the health care situation?
Perhaps you are one of those fortunate enough to retire before your company kicked you out ‘just in time,’ thus retaining your insurance and benefits.
Or, perhaps you have a trust fund. Any child should carefully pick their parents, ensuring that a trust fund or a decent inheritance will come available to them, before deciding to be born.
Or, perhaps you are fortunate enough to be in a job (blue collar or professional) that will probably not be effected by the continuing downward plunge in the economy. Physicians and Federal Government workers come to mind.
Four more years? I’m not crazy about either candidate, but four more years of Bush & Co? Don’t think so!!!
By TW
July 8, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
At the same time that President Bush accuses Iran of helping terrorists and harboring nuclear ambitions, U.S. exports to that country have grown more than tenfold during his administration.
uh…..what???
By Republicans are Diseased Filth
July 8, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Hey Jim:
Why don’t you just go ahead and say what you know you want to say:
The N-word.
Because that’s what’s obviously in your heart.
You don’t think Obama can win Georgia because he’s black. That’s what you really think. It comes through loud and clear in your racist screed.
Your Obama hatred is actually the manifestation of your hatred of all black people. Too bad for you President Barack Obama will soon be elected, and you and your racist Republican buddies are going to be cast into America’s political wilderness for the next 100 years.
By Dutchman
July 8, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Daedalus,
As a very conservative person, the only folks playing the race card is the Democrats, again.
It is a very popular thing for the Democrats to do. It almost guarantees a story in the AJC and it makes them look righteous.
Most folks with some education and real life experiences have grown past any notion that races is anything but a minor item. In todays society we see all ranges of skin pigmentation from pasty mid-towners to the darkest that India, Australia or Africa can offer.
In the 21st Century, the race card is a loser. It is a weak and lame play. I do wish the Democrats would stop it.
By Peter
July 8, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Hey Dutchman……..the guy with the Obama is a monkey sign…..he is Democratic?
By Sex is 4 Sexual Sexists
July 8, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
So that’s what IKE realized when he reviewed Truman’s presidency. Ike thought deeply about things when he was president. He realized that if Dewey had won in ‘48, then when MacArthur was calling publicly for the use of nuclear weapons against Red China, that Dewey, being from the conservative war machine, would not have stopped MacArthur.
This is almost proof of a God. Suppose a lunatic like MacArthur had gotten his wish. It’s unthinkable. Only one man available in politics could have had any chance of stopping him. Truman, behind in the polls by double digits on election night. (phony polls, like today)
That’s what IKE meant. He saw it. I just did too.
OMG! Conservatism is evil. With conservatism, and Iraq, we can expect the Mayan Calender to end in 2012, people. Conservatives could unleash their flying monkeys at any time.
Party. ParteeeeeeeY! You’ve dont have to fight for the right.
Just party, for tomorrow, the repudlickans will destroy the world. for their greed and nothing more. (and the fact that MacArthur proves all conservatives are sociopaths, lunatics, and self aggrandizing ne’er do wells.)
The fate of Julius Caeser proves that a republic can never tolerate a monarchy. One man should never have all the power. Nor should one party. there should always be oversight, checks and balances. A governing triumvirate was working, until the supreme court committed mass treason and annointed Bush as our prez. That wasn’t in the founding brochure! I dont think americans understand what a radical act the 2000 election was. Listen to Scalia’s explanation about the supreme courts role in Bush’s victory. I’ve never heard more frightening words. He said all the wrong things.
If I were elected prez, I would publicly demand that the entire 2000 supreme court resign. I’d appoint unsold justices in their stead.
If I were elected, I’d tax all income over 50 million dollars at 90%. No man should have any more money per year than that. Sorry, fatcats, this is a country, not a golf resort.
if I were elected, I’d give healthcare to the unhealthy. Education to the uneducated. Roads and bridges to the unpaved and crumbling pathways.
I’d force the auto industry to make every car a hybrid. That should lower the price. SUV hybrids can get 30 mpg.
If I were elected I’d outlaw soft money, hard money, and all the money in between. We’d elect a prez on the basis of Public Television debates. Period.
The Lincoln/Douglas debates proved that’s all you need: fair and honest debate!!!
Not swiftboat music videos and paintings.
Conservatism is dead. Stallwart GOP stall wart Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at halfmast.
By Not a proud Republican
July 8, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Wasn’t McCain too old to run for president eight years ago?
By Lauren
July 8, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Wooten may be right and he may be wrong. Only time will tell. If he is wrong I guarantee you he will take a vacation starting the day after election day. He always runs and hides after election day so he can dodge all the “I told you so” emails from the opposition. Coward!!!
By Dusty
July 8, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Daedelus,10:03
Sooo…Georgians won’t vote for Obama because he is black. If that is true, then most of Atlanta won’t vote for McCain because he is white. Most of New Orleans, the Chocolate city, won’t vote for McCain because he is white. That is the way you show your own prejudiced view.
I think you are about fifty years behind and still talking the old”stuff”.
Do you really think Obama’s qualifications are adequate to be president of the USA? I don’t. That is why I will not vote for him. If I lived in southern California I would still feel the same way. Wake up and think. That is better than dreaming up prejudice.
GMAN@9:52
Must you post the same exact erroneous post three days in a row on several blogs? STALE..stagnant …stupid…
C U later….
By The Anti-Wooten
July 8, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Poor Jim just doesn’t get it, as seems to becoming more and more the norm with rightards.
While it’s a pretty long shot to think that Obama could win in Georgia the possibility exists. But of greater import is the simple fact that Obama is in Georgia, listening and hearing what we have to say. This forces McBush to actually work for a state that he’d ordinarily have been able to take for granted.
Since McBush has decided to break campaign finance laws the he helped author and the RNC is complicit in these illegalities it’s going to be an interesting year. Ultimately, you Republic’s are done for.
I hear that the latest plan for the Great Revival of the Republic Party is to take as many gubernatorial seats as you can in 2010. That will allow you to enact the Rove/Delay Grand Old Gerrymandering Scheme. The problem is, you’re not going to have the political capital to pull it off.
Rethuglicans are going the way of the dinosaurs and that’s gonna generate all the grease…err…oil that the nation needs.
By getalife
July 8, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Well, the ones who bought into the fraud of Obama need to get up off their a-ss and take voters to get ID’s to vote.
Then pay for the ID’s and bribe them with his millions, the gullible fools gave O.
It does not matter, they are both corrupt Senators and the election is much ado about nothing.
Nothing will change until lobbyists are banned and both parties are disbanded.
There is your movement.
By Mads
July 8, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
George W Bush III or Jimmy Carter II. The choice is clear for me. How many were around in the late 70s?
By Charles
July 8, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
“I will stand with (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
…… enough said
By why is this so hard to understand?
July 8, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Corporations don’t pay taxes..WE(their customers) do.
if YOU want to pay more taxes, YOU can. Just write the check and send it in.
increased min. wage causes the price of everthing to go up to cover the increase.
ALL politicians make promises they can’t/won’t keep.
The system is broken.
By Get Real
July 8, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
Wasn’t Mission Accomplished on an aircraft carrier a symbolic backdrop??
By Politics Aside
July 8, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
So that’s what IKE realized when he reviewed Truman’s presidency. Ike thought deeply about things when he was president. He realized that if Dewey had won in ‘48, then when MacArthur was calling publicly for the use of nuclear weapons against Red China, that Dewey, being from the conservative war machine, would not have stopped MacArthur.
This is almost proof of a God. Suppose a lunatic like MacArthur had gotten his wish. It’s unthinkable. Only one man available in politics could have had any chance of stopping him. Truman, behind in the polls by double digits on election night. (phony polls, like today)
The fate of Julius Caeser proves that a republic can never tolerate a monarchy. One man should never have all the power. Nor should one party. there should always be oversight, checks and balances. A governing triumvirate was working, until the supreme court committed mass treason and annointed Bush as our prez. That wasn’t in the founding brochure!
I dont think americans understand what a radical act the supreme court committed in the 2000 election. Listen to Scalia’s explanation about the supreme courts role in Bush’s victory. I’ve never heard more frightening words. He said all the wrong things. “We did the right thing. What else could we do? I’d do it