Thinking Right

By Lynne

July 19, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Georgia is in play, which is why you were so inclined to write up this to tell us its not. Please, those young people may be only inclined to participate in November (and they will, just like the primary) - but a vote is a vote is a vote. You can shout from the mountaintops all day long that they only care about rock-star Obama, but fine by me….that will just have to do. The fear in the GOP’s eyes is a beautiful thing.

By Road Scholar

July 19, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Jim, Just keep telling us this and you believing it. It could be a surprise in November!!!

Phil Gramm had it partially right. We do whine too much. The economic times are not apart of our imagination, but reality. Getting back to whining, Jim, you are one of the best!

By Tom Ga Hunter

July 19, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

GOP Reformers Face a Tough Fight July 18, 2008 The 11th commandment of politics is that elected officials shall not take sides in their party primaries. Then again, Missouri Republicans are burdened with so many sins, what’s one more?

For an insight as to why the GOP is down and out in Washington, take a look at Jefferson City. That’s where Sarah Steelman, the state treasurer, is running in an Aug. 5 primary for the Missouri governorship. And it’s where her reform campaign against earmarks and self-dealing is threatening the entrenched status quo, causing her own party to rise against her.

So bitter are House Minority Whip Roy Blunt and Sen. Kit Bond at Ms. Steelman’s attack on their cherished spending beliefs that last month they rallied the entire Missouri congressional delegation to put out a public statement openly criticizing her campaign against six-term U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof. Joining them in their support of Mr. Hulshof has been the vast majority of the state Republican machine. Ms. Steelman is clearly doing something right.

Her sin is in fact to belong to that new mold of Republican – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint – who know it’s no longer enough to simply hawk lower taxes. In 10 years as a state legislator and treasurer, her target has been the slothful political favor factory that’s led Republicans away from small-government principles and outraged conservative voters.

And, oh, the howls of misery. Ms. Steelman’s Republican colleagues were livid with her attempt to strip them of comfy pensions, annoyed with her “sunshine law” requiring them to be more open in their dealings, furious at her attacks on their ethanol boondoggles, appalled that she criticized GOP state Speaker Rod Jetton for moonlighting as a paid political consultant. The final straw was her temerity to make her primary race about her opponent’s Washington earmarking record.

For Mr. Blunt, this is also just a wee bit personal. His son, Matt, is the outgoing governor, and has been on the receiving end of a few Treasurer Steelman blasts. Last year she stopped payment on a $70,000 secret check his administration cut to settle a sexual harassment suit against an official. Her demand for transparency blew the case into the open, infuriating GOP colleagues.

There was also Ms. Steelman’s attempted cleanup of an ethanol program. The treasurer announced her office would no longer provide below-market interest rates for ethanol plants that counted state officials or their relatives among investors.

Among companies barred was Show Me Ethanol, whose shareholders included Mr. Blunt’s son Andy – one of the state’s top lobbyists – as well as Republican state Rep. John Quinn and his wife, not to mention the wife of Republican U.S. Rep. Sam Graves. Instead of thanking Ms. Steelman for ridding it of this conflict, in May the Missouri state senate voted to overturn her policy. It did so with a head-count vote, so as to avoid a written record.

Undaunted, Ms. Steelman has made ethics reform the centerpiece of her campaign. Mr. Hulshof has been able to tout his own history as an ethics reformer, though the fervor with which his party’s regulars have embraced him has undercut that message. His real weakness is that despite conservative credentials on taxes or social issues, he’s run wild with the GOP crowd that just won’t relinquish the pork. Which is of course why Mr. Blunt (who pioneered House earmarks) and Mr. Bond (who sits at earmark central, the Senate appropriations committee) love him.

Ms. Steelman’s ads have noted Mr. Hulshof’s support for the Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere, the Maine Lobster Institute, the Perfect Christmas Tree exhibit and the Woodstock concert hall. Their first debate last week centered on Mr. Hulshof’s spending record. In an interview with a local reporter, he felt so cornered that he asked the interviewer what earmarks have “to do” with being “governor” anyway.

Mr. Hulshof’s congressional protectors have proved equally amusing. In their statement, Messrs. Blunt, Bond and Graves, as well as Reps. Jo Ann Emerson and Todd Akin, told the public it was perfectly OK Mr. Hulshof had voted for earmarks – because they’d voted for them too!

Ms. Steelman has her own weaknesses – among them ties to the trial bar – which Mr. Hulshof is highlighting. He’s also neatly spun his establishment ties into a formidable campaign war chest. Despite this, polls show he retains only a modest lead, and 30% of likely Republican voters have yet to decide. The winner faces Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon, who currently beats both in polls.

If Ms. Steelman’s bid shows anything, it’s how determined a wandering Republican Party, both nationally and locally, is to hold on to the bad habits that lost them their reputation. Beware to the reformer.

By Road Scholar

July 19, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

By the way Jim, what is a “general time horizon”? Is this cut and walk? Is this a withdraw schedule based not on time but real achievements and milestones?

By Georgia Values

July 19, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

Jim thanks for the heads up, as a conservative Republican I will not vote for Barr, I’ll vote for Obama and Vernon Jones. We have got to reclaim our party.

By Taxpayer

July 19, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

“The primary point to be made here is that a gap exists between political hype and reality. We’re being spun. “

DUH! Are you just now figuring this one out.

By WFC

July 19, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Getting scared, Jim? You should be very afraid. The day is coming when “W,” Cheney and Rove will be VERY FAR from the White House!

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

No suprise here! A state that would elect Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson are proof of that. Districts that vote for idiots such as Westmoreland, Kingston, Gingrey, Linder etc are proof positive. The south is, and always has been about GAYS, GUNS, and GOD…not to mention being rascist.

But, the good news is that Obama will not need Georgia.

There are a number of red states that are now turning PURPLE to BLUE…Just to mention a few…Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, North Dakota.

Obama 08…without Georgia!

By Too Late, Baby

July 19, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Read the obits? The baby boomers are dropping like flies. Social Security is saved. Scary. I think it was the bogue brown acid at Woodstock, man. Whatever it was. My neighbor, a divorced woman in her 50’s died in her sleep this week. I’ve known her for 25 years. A few years ago, I saw two cop cars and a fire truck and an ambulance outside her house. After about an hour, she was accompanied to the ambulance, very shakey, very drunk, and very frail. She drank to forget that she was alone, divorced, and oh what a cruel world. So a few days ago, when I saw a fire truck and a cop car outside her home, I figured she got drunk again. Her daughter found her. Her ex called to inform me that she was dead. She was a very thin woman, Kate Moss thin. He divorced her and married this big juicy plump woman about 12 years ago. I hope he’s happy. But he left her to fend for herself, oh, he paid for her house and general living expenses, but she had to work menial secretarial jobs to make ends meet. She must have been so lonely. Toward the end of her marriage, she complained that her husband kept wanting to “do it” in front of the picture window, and then scolded me for being the same gender who might want to do such a thing. So it was the bogue brown acid at Woodstock, man.

Obama will win Georgia. Face it, and then stfu about it. The voter ID law is why only five people voted in Clayton County. Also, look when the polls close. The Working Poor can barely get to any poll by 7PM. It’s a fix, and it’s a travesty of democracy.

Those in power will soon find themselves on the outside looking in. Beware the Ides of November. Double Double toil and trouble. Damn the torpedoes. Caveat emptor. What you talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?

Obama 08: Voter ID blows.

By BFKaJ

July 19, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I can understand why our moonbats are beginning to fear November. The American public has turned hard against the democrats non-drilling policy of the past 20 years, and Bush’s veto of the “no net increase in leases” bill pushed by the Pelosicrats may lead to trouble for all of the conservative democrats elected in 2006. The air continues to leak out of the oil bubble, by coincidence or otherwise with the resurgent “drill, drill, drill” republican mantra. Obama is having to back off his hard withdrawal date, and is spared total humiliation on the issue only because the war in Iraq is essentially over, and he can now take down his website’s mindless anti-surge analysis. Being nailed on being so wrong hurts, and all of our leftists are now hurting.

Our friend Tom Ga Hunter highlights the ascending wing of the republicans, the conservative non0earmark republicans rising against the moderates in Missouri. The good news from the financial sectors yesterday, coupled with the collapse of the oil bubble, the broad public acceptance of conservative energy policy coupled with the happy laughter at the weak AlGore counterpunch (more of a counterslap I suppose), and the rise of a new generation of conservatives, all while Obama and the leftists are on the retreat (what else?) in Iraq, all point to a pretty good November.

Where are AJC/DNC and Rufus? They are the highlight of my Saturday morning.

By dusty

July 19, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Oh, I see the libs are at it once again this morning. Woe is me!

John McCain is the only one who can save our country, just like George Bush who has protected us and made this country safe from terrorists.

Got to run to the hen house for fresh eggs for Mr. Dusty’s breakfast. He is still in a huff over dinner last night (Stouffer’s spaghetti cheese bake.)

Toodle doo!

By Ray

July 19, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

With Brian, Katie and Charlie going with Obama on his trip, we will see he biggest hype circus in the history of American politics. Just imagine Katie interviewing Obama in front of the Brandenberg Gate, looking very presidential, with the right music in the background and an approving German electorate looking on. Made for TV and they will take full advantage of the scene to get this poor hapless sap elected to a job that he no credentials for and that he will fail to keep our country safe for it’s citizens. Add Pelosi and Reid to the mix with their single digit approval ratings for a hapless Congress and you have a built in failure to achieve anything but perpetuating the political dream for a lot of incumbents. The beat goes on and who suffers……. the average voter who thinks he is making a difference.

By Tom Ga Hunter

July 19, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

BFKaJ ..to call the RINOes fo Missouri moderates is to call Saxby a moderate, the facts are that they are crooks who are more interested in making theirself & family rich than in service to the country. Too bad Saxby & his lobbist son did not get a Real Republican as oppisition in the primary. I guess the question is who in Georgia is a Real Republican. Let’s hope 1 shows up in 2 years to defeat Jonnie Bail Out The Banks.

By AmVet

July 19, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Good morning all.

Of course, Georgia is likely to keep their favorite incompetent non-conservative conservatives, chickenhawks, pedophiles and Talibaptists in office.

This is news?

While the rest of the more intelligent nation OBVIOUSLY (and finally) recoils from the self-inflicted madness of the past 8 years, the “faithful” here in the Moron Belt clamor for even more.

And here in Dixie, they are bound to get it. The shameful, sycophantic and inept Suxtobeus Chambless is a shoo-in.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Fortunately, it matters not. The neo-cons have shot their collective wad and are as politically useless as t!ts on a bull now.

Look at the ratings for this bumbling, dishonest, blood stained Bushco for evidence. NO US President has a more abysmal record or ultimately, their final ranking. Not Harding, Hoover or Nixon.

So in spite of the reality-challenged and inane claims about the non-Republicans fearing this coming November, the near certainty is that this nation is again looking at…………wait for it!

Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election near you this November.

And the nation’s spirit’s soar in anticipation.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

BFKaJ “Where are AJC/DNC and Rufus? They are the highlight of my Saturday morning.”

BFKaJ…If that is the highlight of your Saturday mornings

Well, to be candid…You need to take up a HOBBY!

By AmVet

July 19, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

fearless,

When I was young I was taught that you can judge a person by the company they keep.

And lamenting the absence of the two most infamous, uber-enraged, irrational, bigoted bloggers in all of the southeastern United States is quite a testament to the exceptionally sad state of affairs amongst these rudderless, dispirited and misnamed conservatives.

But what great comedy…

By Mike K.

July 19, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

I’ll admit that I haven’t religiously read Jim’s blog, but I have yet to see an entry that tells me why I should vote for McCain. Whenever he blogs about the Presidential race, it always seems to be an anti-Obama entry. Its like the Intelligent Design idiots-they’re quick to tell you why they think evolution shouldn’t be taught in school, but they can’t come up with a reason why their religious belief is science.

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

How’s this for a reason, Mike K.: Because he’s not Obama.

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Well, happy morning to you jbmlaw @8:56..Good to read one with a clear view of politics without the perfumed haze of Obamaritis.(Excuse the ID THIEF @ 8:59. Nobody has fed him yet.) Going to be a good year for Republicans.

But poor blinded Captain Freedom has returned to scatter his breezy bogus bomblets on benighted bloggers. But Captain oh Captain, go ahead and cross the bar. Or stop and have a few drinks to cheer your ailing augmentation arts of liberality. But truly, I have missed your self important and similar suggestions of imagination. Do stay awile. We can take it!!

But back to Republicans…IN MISSOURI?? Let honor and ethics prevail. But I can’t get myself in turmoil over their politics. Harry Truman came out of that state. That’s a great reflection on any section to produce a man like Harry.

By TW

July 19, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Those states that remain red this November are gonna stick out like a herpes flare-up.

Funny that you would be proud of this, Mr. Wooten. Really shows your hand when it come to your real thoughts on America.

BTW - at the same moment Obama touched ground in the war zone this morning, McSame was still deep in slumber, giggling as he pushed last night dinner into his diaper…

Let him sleep.

Loser.

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

AmVet

Ones worst nightmare has just appeared.

Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 10:12 AM

Vidal…Rufus…and ajc/dnc! All the same rambling idiots!

Heard one..heard ‘em all!

By D

July 19, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

I found a wonderful quote I just felt was so appropriate for Jim’s column…..

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

And the best part about this is the author of this quote was none other than George Washington.

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I’m Vidal Suisun.

And if you don’t look good, you’re proably right.

By dusty's husband

July 19, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:13 AM

Dusty, you twit…Where are my fresh eggs!

After those god awful spaghetti-o’s last night, You my sweetie are treading on thin ice.

And, Now the final insult I find you here sucking up to that lawyer guy JBM while I’m starving!

I’m off to see Judge Judy!

By AmVet

July 19, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

harry, at the risk of using an oxymoron for perhaps the most “faithful” of the oxi-morons, a relatively insignificant nightmare.

The reason that Jim doesn’t extol the endless virtues and purity of the GOP’s nominee, is that like most of the far-right ideologues, THEY CAN’T STAND McCAIN

It is written in Mr. Rove’s stone. And so they obey.

So they pretend to jump on his bandwagon. And after all, he is a stark difference to the reviled mulatto.

For those fed up with these clowns (albeit deadly ones), it just couldn’t have played out much better…

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Leave it to TW to know all about herpes.@ 10:18

Glad to know that Obama finally got brave enough to go to Iraq. That’s the closest he has ever been to the military without a white flag. Hope he does not tell ‘em to “cut’n’run” while he’s there.

Oh, I forgot. He’s changed his mind. NOW the SURGE is WORKING!! Yes sir. He noticed after his advisors told him what was going on in Iraq. Maybe he will even find a few Iraqis babies to kiss while he’s there. This trip has got to prove SOMETHING other than Obama is a perilous politician, not a Commander -in-Chief.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

July 19, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Damn I’ll be glad when this election is over. Only bad thing about it is 2 weeks after it’s over they’ll start running for next time.

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Someone please feed the 10:32. The big phony is yapping and barking again.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:13 AM

“GOING TO BE A GOOD YEAR FOR REPUBLICANS”

Dusty if you believe that statement.

I have some ocean front property for sale, real cheap in Omaha Nebraska…

I believe it was Bruce Spingsteen who wrote “Blinded by the right, or was that light?”

By ilene

July 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Ah, yes. Georgia — still stuck in stupid.

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Hey, Obamadherents, Barack and John have been in a statistical dead-dead heat for five days running. So your guy just blew a 7-point lead. (In most campaign’s major staff changes result from such a failure.)

Four possibilities: either Obama’s been making the wrong moves; or McCain’s been making the right ones; or both; or else the general public is coming to know Barack a little better, and is increasingly disenchanted by what it sees.

So which heads do you think should roll?

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Dear fearless and foolish @10:43

Of course IT IS GOING TO BE A GOOD YEAR FOR REPUBLICANS. Why else would Democrats be running and squealing like a bunch of wild pigs? Spending billions to prove a diaphanous Democrat with the experience of a big butterfly is really a pillar of importance? It won’t work. Americans cannot be fooled. They know a butterfly when they see one.

Also Fearful, I am not surprised you have beachfront property in Nebraska. You probably bought it with your Fannie Mae mortgage. You keep it and enjoy watching the Republican tide roll in.

By judge judy

July 19, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Dear Mrs Dusty

You are herebye ordered to feed Mr. Dusty his ham and eggs!

Further dereliction of your wifely duties due to your addiction to this blog are complex, and I believe supervision under a doctors care is warranted.

Case remanded to Dr. Livingstone..and the law offices of JBM, shyster, Gonzales, and Mukasey.

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Dear fearless and foolish @10:43

In your wildest Dreams….

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

dirty hairy 11:20

Say what??

By AmVet

July 19, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

dirty h, thanks, but no thanks!

For proof as plain as the nose on your face vis a vis the ostrich mentality that still prevails among the least lucid here, read that utterly irrational GOP tide comment.

Of course, there is just one tiny problem with it - it flies in the face of the “Democratic sweep” of the 2006 elections, in which no Congressional or gubernatorial seat held by a Democrat was won by a Republican. Democratic candidates defeated six Republican incumbents: Rick Santorum (Penn.), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), Jim Talent (Mo.), Conrad Burns (Mont.), and George Allen (Va.).

And in the House the GOP results were even worse!

The final result was a thirty-one-seat pickup for the Democrats, including the pickup of the Vermont At-Large seat, previously held by Independent Bernie Sanders who caucused with the Democrats. Democrats defeated twenty-two Republican incumbents and won eight open Republican-held seats.

Republicans won NO seats - NONE, NADA, ZILCH - previously held by Democrats in either the House or the Senate for the first time since the party’s founding, and it was the largest seat gain for the Democrats since the 1974 elections.

Hysterical that some still cling to their demented hopes, no?

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

July 19, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

dirty hairy 11:20

Say what??

ok Dusty I’ll say WHAT!

I guess what I said is beyond your comprehension level…

In your wildest dreams will REPUBLICANS have a GOOD YEAR…

Get it?

Democrats are going to pick up seats in the house, senate and yes the next president will be democrat.

When the next election is over I hope you don’t suffer a major melt down! But I think Judge Judy has already remanded you to Dr. Livingstone…So I suggest taking the meds he prescribes…You are going to need them!

Now, go feed your husband before judge judy sends out a posse for dereliction of spousal duties.

By jm

July 19, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Regardless of who wins in November, the current occupant of 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue has set the bar so low that it would require a concerted effort to be worse.

By Matilda

July 19, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA IS IN PLAY!!! Mr. Wooten proves it every time his desperation compels him to pen a column insisting that it isn’t!

Mr. Wooten, what do you have against Democracy? Yes, I know this is a Republic, (hence my confusion at occupying other countries to spread Democracy), but why are you so upset? Let the people vote, let the votes be counted ! (This ain’t Florida, you know.) WHY IS THAT SUCH A PROBLEM FOR YOU? Why do you hate America, Mr. Wooten?

By Jay

July 19, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Do a little research from the 2000 Georgia Census and other sources and Mr. Wooten’s assessment holds some water. Ga population is approx 65% white and 29% black. Of those voting age blacks a sad reality is the disproportionent number who are not eligible to vote due to feloneous status as opposed to the white population. Assuming most blacks vote along racial lines as polls show, that is not enough votes to carry the state without unusually significant cross over from whites to the Democratic party. Throw in the mix Georgia’s large military population (current & veterans) who overwhelmingly will vote McCain, and that makes things even more difficult for Georgia to swing to the Democratic nominee.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

By george

July 19, 2008 12:14 PM

George; And your point is?

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

But george, I fear you’re being bitter. Ms. Dusty doesn’t like bitter. Especially in matters concerning politics.

Tsk-tsk, george. I’m afraid there’ll be no CSPAN for you tonight.

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

But george, I fear you’re being bitter. Ms. Dusty doesn’t like bitter. Especially in matters concerning politics.

Tsk-tsk, george. I’m afraid there’ll be no CSPAN for you tonight.

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

“By fearless fosdik”

“BFKaJ “Where are AJC/DNC and Rufus? They are the highlight of my Saturday morning.” BFKaJ…If that is the highlight of your Saturday mornings”

SOME of us have lives, liberal POS. I figured I’d check in for a short stop and see what’s happening. As usual, you DISEASES on the liberal left (who chastise me for being here spending ALL weekends) are doing just that.

But thanks for your memory of me. It helps reinforce knowing that I’m making an impact on your wretched liberal life. As far as AJCM, dunno. Maybe he has a life too and taking a vacation?

Liberal pigs.

By PacificGatePost

July 19, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

WHILE OBAMA IS TRAVELING, …..

HILLARY MAY BE ANTICIPATING A DIFFERENT OUTCOME AT THE CONVENTION

The Democratic convention is not over and done with.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-clintons-presidential-campaign.html

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Any moonbat liberal who thinks Obama even had a chance in Georgia, let alone carrying the South in general, is just that - a moonbat. The Atlanta Urinal Constipation’s wet liberal dream will not come true. I suppose the rest of us who don’t like Obama’s socialist politics are racists.

Anyway, moving along…

WASHINGTON - President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.

I’m at a loss here. The most incompetent House Speaker in U.S. history, Democrat OR Republican, is running her big mouth on Bush. This is the same woman who’s attention has been focused on those all important issues such as what types of organic food should be served in the Congressional mess hall. But don’t take my word for it. Has anyone heard any new great ideas from The Nanny since pre-election 2006? Nah, didn’t THINK so.

Top it off with a Congressional approval rating that is nearly HALF of Bush’s (yes, that means YOU Nanny), and it’s just a tasty treat to behold.

But keep b!tching lady, it’s really what you liberals do best.

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Get a load of this Gitmo apologist attorney. $500 says this asshat is a Democrat. Hey FREAK: nobody wants to see your shortcomings.

Aren’t most RAT politicians former lawyers?

Uh huh.

By george

July 19, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

fearless fosdik - George’s point is that crime is running rampant here in Georgia, and for the most part it is official crime by State Legislators, Hospial Administrators, Officers of the Court, the State Bar…and just maybe, President Obama plans to appoint some of these fakes to high guv office….lookie at what frank raines did to fannie…billy campbell did to atlanta….I demand a witch hunt of all the state boards for fake lawyers, fake physicians, fake registered nurses, and fake physicians…I will betch we catch a few fake docs out there, maybe they assumed the idenity of a dead physician…Medicare got scamed for years by durable medical equipment providers using provider id numbers for dead physicians to order expensive medical equipment that was billed to medicare…hmm, has anyone checked on obama’s alleged law degree???? how about michelle’s? Bill Campbell’s? Roy Barnes?….take a look, seek and ye shall find….

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

The Obamaniacs can erase YouTube videos and comments from their website(s), but they can’t erase the past.

If the McCain camp doesn’t capitalize on things like this, then he deserves to lose.

Some “leader” Obama would be, like most Democrats on Iraq (or elsewhere):

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s aides have removed criticism of President Bush’s increase of troops to Iraq from the campaign Web site, part of an effort to update the Democrat’s written war plan to reflect changing conditions.

By Vidal Suisun

July 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

But what Lady Speaker says is true: President Bush has failed across the spectrum all the way from the first thing she recalls to the second thing she can remember (for the obvious want of a third), even though these two are so unrelated in kind as not to constitute a spectrum, or continuum or range, of anything.

But at least she promises to know of “a host” of failings with run the gamut — or in this case, gambit.

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Well, what’s a blog post on a Saturday without the mention of the junkass Algore science of man-made global warming? Consensus MY A-SS, liberal fascist global walarming scaremongering nazis.

The below link is one of my favorite Tech blog sites by the by, so let’s see if any of you liberal geniuses can find out who I am there ($250 says you numbnuts on the left aren’t that smart). Don’t forget to read some of the comments there if you have time. Hilarious!

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

PoFo: that comment about The Nanny didn’t rub you the right way, did it? I see you completely ignored HER failures.

But that’s ok asshat diseased liberal, we expected nothing less.

Literally.

Still think I’m AJCM you cowardly liberal POS?

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Check this out. This is how the diseased liberals at PMSNBC.com work. Earlier this week they led off on their main page with a bait link titled “Springsteen brought down the Berlin wall.”

Now when you clicked on the link, which is below, the title magically morphed into “Did the Boss help bring down the Berlin Wall?” See how that works? Is the Atlanta Urinal Constipation staff running things at PMSNBC.com now?

But, enough of that. Just read this insanity of liberal revisionist history. JFK wanted the wall to come down and it was just a magical coincidence that it happened under Reagan’s tenure.

BERLIN - When Bruce Springsteen spoke out against the Berlin Wall at the biggest concert in East German history in 1988, no one in the crowd of 160,000 had the faintest idea that the symbol of the Cold War would soon be history. But now — 20 years after the American rock star went behind the Iron Curtain — organizers, historians and people who witnessed it say his message came at a critical juncture in German history in the run-up to the Wall’s collapse.

This is typical of the horsesh!t the sick pathetic liberals are teaching your kids in our public moonbat government schools.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Yes Ruffy…I still think you are one in the same…

You are either mentally ill..or just plain stupid!

And, such vindictive language Ruffy!!! Has not your mommy taken the soap to your little vile mouth?

Now your carriage (BIG WHEEL) awaits your presents in your MOMMY’s garage!

Off with you…you filthy mouthed little brat!

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Hehehe. Good ‘ole Charlie Rangel appears to be in a bit of a snaggle with the Washington Compost. I find it hard to believe a bunch of liberals at that rag would do this, but, like the universe, even black holes to the unknown exist.

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) fought back Thursday, ripping into the Washington Post, following questions surrounding his fundraising methods for pet projects. He’s now calling on the House Ethics Committee to investigate. No one can ever accuse Rangel, the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, of being a pushover. Days after he dealt head-on with a controversy surrounding his campaign’s use of a rent stabilized apartment, Rangel is now squaring up against the Washington Post. His bottom line: he’s willing to place himself under investigation in order to clear his name. “I want to see how much damn ink the Washington Post has,” Rangel told reporters during a morning news conference.

Oooooo aren’t we be being a little testy, hehehe.

If worth nothing else, liberals are great for the entertainment factor.

By getalife "rufus"

July 19, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

Hey stupid,

Your party has moved left and are now liberals.

Dumba-ss.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

It’s Saturday afternoon…Time to get off my duff and head out to the neighbors barbeque…Plenty of ribs, and cold, cold beer…Lord knows I need it after having read the same old tripe of Rufus and his various aliases!

Have fun writing to yourself Ruffy…Guess what? What….You are an IDIOT!

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

“Yes Ruffy…I still think you are one in the same… You are either mentally ill..or just plain stupid!”

Betcha IP addresses say otherwise let alone any 6th grader who can analyze differences in style, disease. But who cares, PoFo. You are nothing here. You know it. I know it. We all know it. You are a wasted comedy night reject left to rot in the misery of your own failures in life and forever committed to being a blog vulture against The Right.

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

“Have fun writing to yourself Ruffy…Guess what? What….You are an IDIOT!”

I expect to be called nothing less in your diseased liberal mind, jackass. You libs never really do have any counter to my posts, do you? Hell if I were severely limited to emotions in original thought like you liberals, I’d probably have the same mindless response.

But don’t fear, PoFo, you worthless liberal trashbag, my time today here is going to be short.

By Abomi Nation

July 19, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

From the Luckovich blog…..

By Andy January 13, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this Liberalism is a disease. These people will spend all of your money to make them feel better about themselves.

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Looks like Rufus just got smacked around again…Oh, when oh, when will he learn?

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

“Looks like Rufus just got smacked around again…Oh, when oh, when will he learn?”

Only in your diseased liberal mind. Thought you had a “BBQ” to attend to, liberal trashbucket. Lie again? Actually I really do have one. I’m outta here soon.

BTW: liberalism IS a disease. More than one individual knows that.

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Only in your diseased liberal mind. Thought you had a “BBQ” to attend to, liberal trashbucket. Lie again? Actually I really do have one. I’m outta here soon.

Wrong guy Rufus…If you would bother to read I never made that comment!

And, I doubt very much you have anything on your plate other than to seethe in your self inflicted torment!

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Crazy Mary - (geddit???) Who the F was talking to you? Having a rough day while I’m here, I see. Don’t worry liberal pooksie, I’m gone shortly, but I’ll be back tomorrow to REALLY torment you liberal left wing piles of trash.

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

*It’s Saturday afternoon…Time to get off my duff and head out to the neighbors barbeque…Plenty of ribs, and cold, cold beer…Lord knows I need it after having read the same old tripe of Rufus and his various aliases!

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of “fighting the last war” as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president. Two goals of his administration would be to secure all loose nuclear material during his first term and to* rid the world of nuclear weapons*, Obama told an audience before a roundtable discussion at Purdue University.

Awe. Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy all over like some candyassed liberal? Saviour Obama is going to tell Russia and Iran what the hell they can do with their nukes!

God help this increasingly mindless nation as liberalism spreads like a disease.

Hey paid no-life AJC liberal disease blog hack: the blog’s all “yours” again.

See ya tomorrow, liberal DimRAT pos.

By dirty harry

July 19, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

By Rufus

July 19, 2008 2:37 PM

You are one tormented soul…When I said I never said what you said you post this;

By fearless fosdik

July 19, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

If I’m correct chucklenuts which, I believe I am. I am not Fearless! Unlike you I don’t need 3 or how many aliases you use….

I really feel sorry for the people who invited you to their lawn party…but, know what…I think you are lying! There is no BBQ, there are no friends…Are there you social misfit?

By friedman

July 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

junk science - would that be similar to junk (aka voodoo) economics - where tax cuts increase … deficits?

By catlady

July 19, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

I do think Obama will take Ga, but whether GA is in “play” or not depends on how overwhelming his support is in other states.

I know about Obama’s lack of viable credentials. Can anyone list McCain’s viable credentials without mentioning his time in captivity?

By getalife "whiners"

July 19, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Being tortured should automatically disqualify him.

He is mentally unstable like w.

Kooks.

By BFKaJ

July 19, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Dear Catlady @ 3:15, I credit McCain for two credentials wholly lacking in Obama. (1) McCain voted for the Roberts and Alito appointments, and Obama voted against both. That makes McCain right on two no-brainers, and Obama inexplicably wrong on two no-brainers. (2) McCain now appreciates the virtues of the Bush tax cuts where he once opposed them. Obama does not yet understand well enough to support renewal.

By BFKaJ

July 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Dear Friedman @ 2:57, you have it exactly right - junk science, i.e., any pronouncement by a leftist on whatever evil man is doing to the earth, has no basis in fact just as the alleged “voodoo” economics of tax cuts reducing revenues. Just as leftists always prove wrong on their global warming / new ice age / population bomb / Amchitka earthquakes / Ozone hole and similar “the world is ending tomorrow due to the sins of man” pronouncements, the leftists are also always wrong in affirming that tax cuts diminish revenues. (I realize you used the term “deficit”, but that is a function of constantly increasing leftist spending, and has nothing to do with alleged insufficient taxation.)

By george

July 19, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Roberts and Alito - what a joke, the laurel and hardy of judges….if that is the best mcinsane has done, he is not qualified to be dog catcher….send him back to Charlie in the Hilton….

By getalife "whiners"

July 19, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

“Even though McCain thinks Social Security is a “disgrace,” that’s not gonna stop him from cashin’ in those checks.”

Lib ♥ welfare.

By friedman

July 19, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

To imply that tax cuts alone increase revenues is akin to saying that the sun rises because the rooster crows.

The same logic applies to climate change.

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Dear Friedman @ 5:51, while I agree that the effects of tax cuts are filtered by human psychology, it is a pretty reliable psychology. Higher taxes always work as a disincentive on whatever is taxed - income, sales, property ownership, whatever. The psychology is that with each incremental increase a larger portion of the population says, “it is not worth it, the government makes it not worthwhile.” Lower taxes work as a stimulus, but with a lag.

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Dear George @ 5:06, I suppose we can mark you down as one of those leftists who favored the leftists protecting the lives of child rapists, and who favored the leftists allowing the government to take property for private developers, and who supports the leftists is requiring civilian court procedure for prisoners of war (“the Constitution is a mutual suicide contract.”) Most rational people prefer the perspective of Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Dear Friedman @ 5:51, one additional argument on the psychology of lower taxes, when tax rates are unreasonably high - admittedly as subjective as each individual - individuals are more willing to “cheat”, or otherwise take extraordinary steps to avoid taxes. When tax rates are “low” - also highly subjective view - such tax avoidance efforts hold less value.

By Too Late, Baby

July 20, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

First, Friedman’s 5:51 simile is idiotic. The analogy is ruinously vague. Second, BJk swings at everything, and extends the unfortunate deductions to the overstretched envelope of lurker patience.

By John Nail

July 20, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, the senior political writer for the AJC wrote a piece today saying Obama will never win GA and all the talk about it is simply election year spin. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2008/07/18/despitehypeobamawontcarry.html

My analysis and response is below:

Jim, I am a bit of a student of history and in essence your position is - the past here predicts the future - so let’s ignore the facts of 2008 and not even examine them as a point of interest. Nice reporting.

Since you won’t do the work let me see if I can lay out some facts.

• There are already 800,000 more registered voters than 4 years ago. • We have a black candidate in a state that is roughly 28% African American and nearly 500,000 of them unregistered and for the last 3 months the Obama campaign has been working this group hard. • GA gave Obama one of his most decisive primary wins with huge turnout despite the number you reference in turnout. The primary was early and had it come later as the Obama enthusiasm grew it would have been even more so. • With 245 Obama fellows in GA this summer and now a full campaign staff in place to push voter registration thru the deadline on 10/5 these folks will be registered. The work they are doing to organize the community is terrific. • McCain has and will not have any organized team here. They are relying on the state party and the regional HQ in Jacksonville (per Macon paper this week) • Bob Barr will get some amount of the vote here - 4% + and McCain is in real trouble. • Enthusiasm for McCain is tepid at best in all polls. • Your old adage that young folks don’t vote has not and will not apply this election year and the polls are showing that this is not the case. • GA full time staff – I reiterate this as the 150 staffers and the army of committed volunteers they are organizing statewide will drive the results and get the vote out as never before – if you need to see impact of the ground game ask Hillary.

All of the above are facts some from your own comments others from local and national sources.

So let’s summarize for the fact challenged: 1) Voter registration is already up and growing as the campaign pushes registration 1A) African Americans will turn out in record numbers to vote and vote for Obama as they did in the primaries 2) Obama has a large, organized team here and lots of volunteers to drive above, canvass and GOTV - McCain has nothing 3) Ad money will flow here to support the ground game 4) Obama has huge enthusiasm - McCain can’t wake people up. 5) Bob Barr is going to get enough of the vote to push thus into the margin of error at least 6) In a close race the enthusiasm, staff and volunteers will get the Obama voters out just like they did across the country in the primaries. Think Rove and Ohio in 2004. 7) If the late national polls show an Obama lead ( a decent bet) unenthused McCain voters will stay home while the well organized Obama GOTV teams will do their jobs.

By late October McCain will wish he had put money and org. into GA as it will be too late then to reverse the momentum and save the state.

Lets compare notes on Nov. 7th and see whether my analysis vs. your same old same old view is right.

I’ll bet you a Bruster’s ice cream cone I’m right.

By Eli

July 20, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Everyone should know what they are getting with Obama’s much hyped “Change”. Barack Obama is now sponsoring US Senate bill S2433. “Obama’s S2433”, if passed will cost American tax payers an additional 845 Billion dollars in taxes over the next few years. This S2433 money will be given to the corrupt United Nations, specifically for the “UN Global Poverty Act”. The money will then be distributed to third world dictators. Google: (Obama’s S2433)and read how Barack Obama plans to use the UN to redistribute your wealth. Barack Obama has also vowed to double the capital gains tax and this will drive investors away from the housing market,plunging it into further depression. Obama has vowed to eliminate the reduction on the death inheritance tax that President Bush implemented. Remember who to curse when y Obama’s government takes your inheritance from you. Michelle Obama says we Americans will have to get used to less,sadly, I believe her if Obama gets elected. Obama is not about hope,he is about pessimism. I smell the ghost of Jimmy Carter around Barack Obama.

By Wooten Troll Posse

July 20, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

BAMA WORSHIPPERS,

We appreciate the attempt but please come up with something more original. Your 10:57 has been done 1,005 times. This is the Wooten blog and us trolls demand more than a high school troll blogging level.

Perhaps this blog is not the right place to start your troll life. The Woman to Woman blog would the perfect place for you to practice and gain the experience necessary to bring your trolling to a level that is acceptable to our high standards.

Have a nice day!

By Wooten Troll Posse

July 20, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

BAMA WORSHIPPERS,

Study the troll post expertly delivered at 11:05. That post by ‘None Too Soon’ is an excellent example of a superior troll post.

Very original, he exhibits no insecurity thus no need to use all caps, its to the point, (we don’t like long winded posts) and most important it was clever.

Don’t despair! A few months in the Woman to Woman blog should bring you up to the Wooten Troll level, you did show some talent.

Good luck!!

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Dear Too Late @ 9:25, actually I take advantage of every opportunity to elevate economics education. As the twig is bent, yadda yadda.

By D

July 20, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Good try bamaworshipers but Allah is just the Muslim name for the same god that Christians and Jews worship.

And just because I like the quote so much, I am going to repeat the George Washington quote I posted earlier….

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

Yep, that was the one and only George Washington who said that….. I cannot tell a lie :)

By Vidal Suisun

July 20, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

John Nail:

There are some big IF’s in your analysis. Bob Barr won’t poll that well, even in GA, but if Obama doesn’t stop moderating and flip-flopping, Nader will peel progressives from Obama. To win GA Obama will have to peel conservatives — which isn’t going to happen here. Jim’s right: the last several cycles show that you can get more young people to the ironing board in the Quad but you still can’t any but the usual too few to the polls; they just don’t show. Finally, Obama just blew a 7-point lead and is now in a statistical dead-heat with McCain.

By AmVet

July 20, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

D, good stuff.

On both points.

Islam is to most of us, just another failed, ludicrous mythology. Though the details vary, it is In this regard, no different, and no worse or better, than Christianity. Both have a proclivity for murderous conquests.

Hopefully, they will both be virtually irrelevant in a few more decades. The signs around the world are already strongly indicating this At least they will become impotent politically, and certainly as a weapon to bludgeon the infidels/unsaved/shiksa & shkutz.

GW was brilliant. And very much a liberal. Like virtually all of the founding fathers. Only the myopic lunatic fringe of the GOP has failed to grasp the obvious - this is a liberal nation. It always was and always will be.

The pasty thirty years of “conservative” Republican nonsense are an aberration that is soon, VERY soon thankfully to the unparalleled ineptitude of Bushco, to become burnt toast.

And the crowd goes crazy…

By The Forgotten Messiah.

July 20, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

The forgotten Messiah.

I found a parable from antiquity. It was written by one of the hundreds of christs that showed up before the real one, claiming to be the messiah. They preached using a crude form of the parable that the real Christ perfected. Here is this parable from the Forgotten Messiah (#138). The title is called “The DH”.

A stranger and his entourage approached a groom in the middle of a wedding ceremony and objected that the bride was actually his runaway wife. The groom was unimpressed until witness after witness testified that the stranger was correct. The bride used the distraction to slip away and hide, knowing she would be stoned to death for adultery and about a hundred other local and regional decency statute violations.

The groom, convinced and vindictive, set his servants out to offer a large reward for the return of his bride, dead or alive. The whole town, now a vigilante mob, searched house to house, street to street, like a posse surge. The bride, donned a sheep-wool covering and hid in a flock of sheep in a nearby field.

A wolf pack happened on the flock of sheep and the noise of panicked sheep soon alerted the townspeople and they hurried to save the flock. The sheep all managed to stave off the wolves, except for the bride, who was surrounded, bitten and about to be eaten.

Then, the townspeople arrived and drove off the wolves, saving the bride. When they saw that their saved lamb was really the fugitive, they gathered stones and began to pelt her with them. The groom, moved by the irony and more than a little turned on by the sight of his bride covered in all that wool, forbade anyone from throwing any more stones. The mob, smelling blood and also more than a little turned on by the woman in wool, continued the barrage, and smashed her to death. They demanded payment from the groom, who refused. They stoned him to death too. Then, they all got drunk on the wine that was still available at the wedding site. A pagan orgy broke out. The wolves came back and devoured many sheep.

In the morning, roman soldiers pieced together what had happened and crucified the hung-over mob to a man and woman and child to restore order. And so I say to you this day: There will be order or there will be no empire. Love to be loved. Hate to be hated. Drink to get drunk. Forgive to be forgiven. and will someone tend the cotton picking flock of sheep? DO you all have to get drunk? Cant there be one designated herder? (DH)?

Okay, see how this guy almost gets parables right, but he still misses by a mile? Interesting history I’ll bet you never knew.

The Forgotten Messiah.

By Jackie

July 20, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

It appears that Repubs and becoming apprehensive about the prospects of stopping Obama in Nov. Wonder what depths that will drop to to “win?”

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Dear D @ 11:52, I agree with the quote, since I know that Big George meant “less constrained by government” when he used the term “liberal.” Not like the leftists who purloined the term to put perfume on their ideology.

By BFKaJ

July 20, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

BERLIN (Reuters) - European fans will cheer on U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama as he visits Berlin, Paris and London this week, but governments wary of his inexperience and evolving policies fear the euphoria is overdone. … But in the German Chancellery a few hundred meters away there is unease with the Illinois senator’s cult-like following and skepticism about whether he can live up to the hype.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2047833920080720

Not that Europeans are smarter than Americans….

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Ok, it is apparent the disease of liberalism thinks Obama is going to carry Georgia (see the 10:44AM from the liberal blog porn star, aka, “John Nail.”) This factual individual (and I don’t dispute those from the porn star’s post at all) conveniently leaves out two things: 1), Georgia once put a Democrat as president in the White House and helped put him in there only because he was from Georgia (one of the greatest disaster presidencies in U.S. history), and 2), I suppose the silent majority doesn’t mean much these days to the mindlessness of liberalism, because Georgia voters kept John sKerry out of the White House in 2004 by a LARGE margin, way more than by any minority margin, or more importantly, margin that could have been drawn by the young and ignorant first time voter bloc who mindlessly vote RAT.

You idiot liberals are in for a rude awakening, and all the media and hyped up bullsnot of fainting infatuation with a media-generated presidential candidate isn’t going to change that.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Of course, the liberal mainslime media is always willing to lend a hand to a liberal RAT candidate for president. Republicans always have this battle to fight as well. I’m telling you, the media love sensation with Obama is nauseating. If I wanted to watch a bunch of jackasses try to mount what they find attractive, I’d watch Animal Planet after 11PM. I’m just shocked the New York Slimes even caught on to this.

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last March was a low-key affair: With a small retinue of reporters chasing him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on Mr. McCain’s visit there from New York, including it in the “in other political news” portion of his newscast. But when Senator Barack Obama heads for Iraq and other places overseas this summer, Mr. Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two network evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Mr. Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Mr. Obama on successive nights.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

“Not that Europeans are smarter than Americans….”

Well BFKaJ, what else do you expect from a bunch of mindless government dependent liberal socialists? And we wonder why America is dumbing down too….

I love Europe, but thank GOD I am an American and sure as hell not a mindless liberal.

Don’t you just love taking that night stick and rattling the cages of the mindless moonbat liberal apes?

By Jay

July 20, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

How many Obama’s does it take to change a light bulb?

Three

One to change the bulb. One to give a speech about the “Change”, and One to say he was against inserting the bulb from the start.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

“…if you think pork and beef are expensive now, just wait a few months….milk, eggs, and chicken too….slap a republican in the face for this outrage…”

Just when you think you’ve read all the dumb@ssed diseased liberal comments, along comes this assclown with more liberal trash brilliance.

Hey jackass - just about EVERYTHING you just described is the result of government “solutions”, and in this particular case that I picked out, “alternative fuel” based on corn that you idiots on the incompetent wretched emotion-driven left concocted up.

EVERYTHING the disease of liberalism has EVER laid its filthy paws on has been a DISASTER, from welfare to Socialist Security.

By AmVet

July 20, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Thanks to the insane conservative ineptitude of this worst president and administration in American history and the deadly stupidity of the hijacked Republican Party, conservatism has gone the way of the National Socialist Party.

C’mon ostriches and chickenhawks, is it really ANY wonder, at all, that you screwups, dipsh!ts and scumbags on the political right are getting your collective heads kicked in at EVERY turn?

Why do you conservative butt-wipes not acknowledge this? (there is a mountain of evidence over the past two years including a historical floor wiping of the Republican Party in 11/06)

Why do you pretend it isn’t happening? (Fear? Gutlessness? Dishonesty? All of the above?)

Why do you have to be so wrong on almost all of the issues? (Pick one)

Why do you act as if you deadly bungling conservatives have a snowball’s chance in h&ll of not getting totally decimated nationwide AGAIN this fall?

The vast majority of this great nation knows full well that it is almost certain that another 2006 GOP a$$-whipping will happen to you morons again this November.

Bet on it, Bush apologists…

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Dunno what’s funnier: a resident blog liberal disease bragging about the Republicans losing Congress in 2006, or the FACT that The Nanny-led Congress (led by LIBERAL RATS mind you) is the most incompetent in history. Well, what the F else do you expect from a bunch of mindless candyassed socialist neo-Marxists who’s entire focus has been on two things: 1) plant and food issues in the halls of Congress, and 2), going after everyone in the Bush administration for “payback” of “stealing” the election in 2000. Too funny indeed.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

This liberal moonbucket just won’t go away, will he? The minute this liberal weirdo clown leads by example and stops flying around the globe and give up his mansion and SUV entourage, perhaps real thinking people will listen. But, like a typical hypocritical liberal, he won’t. Bank on it.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

What an IDIOT. And this moron came close to being our president? Good God.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Wednesday to triple spending for a much-acclaimed program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The 80-16 vote committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched by the United States.

Is this what we would call a war against disease? Liberals don’t believe we have a war on radical Islamic terrorism, so perhaps this is something they can truly believe in, like that mindless emotional farce known as man-induced Global Warming, of which they also want us and our companies to mindlessly shell out billions for.

I do not EVER want to read another comment by a diseased liberal who wet her pants over Republican spending.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Another story of a home owner who uses a gun against criminals. I just adore these stories and mindless over emotioned anti-Second Amendment liberals hate them. Boo freaking hoo.

Too bad this lady missed.

OCALA – Firing a .357-caliber handgun until it was empty, an Ocala woman chased two intruders from her home in the 3800 block of Southeast 68th Street on Wednesday morning.

“…from my cold, dead hands…”

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

“On Monday’s “Hardball” Chris Matthews was so upset about the New Yorker’s cover, depicting Barack Obama in a turban and Michelle Obama toting an AK-47, because he feared “the right will be using that as t-shirt material within the next couple of weeks.”“

Nah Chris, we aren’t that mindless like you liberals. What we will do is pass out bumper stickers titled “No Bama.” Get yours here.

If you do choose to put one of ^^those^^ on your vehicle, at the very least keep a baseball bat handy for close encounters. The mindlessness of diseased liberalism is very volatile and hostile.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Hillary: the biggest failure of a presidential campaign in the history of America. The Nanny: The biggest failure of leadership in the history of Congress. Both: Dimwitocrats. Coincidence? Methinks not.

Leadership: With oil hitting $147, Nancy Pelosi finally admits energy is a problem. But instead of drilling for it, she’s cooked up a new drain-the-reserves scheme. It’s pure politics at a time of crisis. She ought to resign.

Preach on, sister. Even Dirty Harry “Vegas land sham” Reid has opened up to drilling. For a mindless liberal Dimwitocrat, that’s amazing.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

This is priceless. PMSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and a writer for the Washington Compost said that mainstream America is not “sophisticated” enough to understand they underlying theme of the Barack cover painting in the New Yorker. For you slow wit liberals in Midtown, Barack’s patriotism being questions by neocons was the inspiration behind that satirical cartoon.

But for the ultimate in liberal arrogance, the Composts’ Jonathan Capehart said the following:

“The folks at the New Yorker are very smart, very learned, learned people, but once you get outside of the confines of Manhattan and the Upper West Side, you sort of begin to wonder if anyone— if there was a conversation around the table about how will this be viewed by people who won’t necessarily get the joke.”

There is nothing more entertaining than watching the disease and arrogance of liberalism eat itself up. Amazing.

By NRA member

July 20, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Hit the Deck, Rufus!

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

Recently the disease of mindless neurotic liberalism told us that the junkassed Algore science of man-made global warming causes kidney stones (forget about not drinking enough water and/or drinking too much milk).

Now these same liberal dumpsters on the left are attempting to tell us that eating meat is bad for the globe, and hence, I presume, our kidneys. Tell ya what liberal econazis: you keep your damned fascism out of MY LIFE.

Ask most Americans what causes global warming, and they’ll point to a coal-plant smokestack or a car’s tailpipe. They’re right, of course, but perhaps two other images should be granted similarly iconic status: the front and rear ends of a cow. According to a little-known 2006 United Nations report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions (measured in carbon-dioxide equivalents). That’s more than the entire transportation system! Unfortunately, this incredibly important revelation has received only limited attention in the media.

Time to throw another steak on the barby…

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

She might be a Democrat and former Kookakis campaign manager, but she knows reality when it’s in front of her - an extreme rarity for a liberal - as evidenced on this blog day in and day out by the moonbats.

The polls make me nervous. Not desperate, not hopeless, not resigned, but nervous. Barack Obama should be ahead right now. Way ahead. Not even close is how it should look, even though I wouldn’t for a minute tell you that if it were that would seal the deal. But the fact that my old candidate Mike Dukakis was running better 20 years ago against George Bush than Obama is today against John McCain makes me nervous. It should be a sign to some of the whiners on my side, still worried about whether Obama is liberal enough or whether he’s doing enough to help Hillary, that it’s time to stop whining and start working. Otherwise, it will be hello President McCain.

By D

July 20, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

I wonder why conservatives attack liberals for wanting to uphold the entire Bill of Rights but then go up in arms (no pun intended) when they feel the second Amendment is threatened….

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

D must be for dumba-ss: you show me ONE Amendment that the Republicans are against. JUST ONE! Then of course we have you asshats on the filthy diseased left who are just SO for free speech that you feel you nasty pathetic cretins have to have a “Fairness Doctrine” set up.

Please. This is an intellectual blog for the Right. Keep your mindless disease of liberalism where it belongs - in the sewers of kook liberal websites like Daily Kos.

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

“GW was brilliant. And very much a liberal. Like virtually all of the founding fathers. Only the myopic lunatic fringe of the GOP has failed to grasp the obvious - this is a liberal nation. It always was and always will be.” - Shamvet

Founding Fathers liberal. Laughable!

Sure, this nation is such a bunch of liberal pantywastes that even your saviour Obama has to NOT run on a liberal platform.

I find it hard to believe you asshats on the diseased left actually believe what you post here. Then again, not so hard to believe…

By Rufus

July 20, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this

Why do you conservative butt-wipes not acknowledge this? (there is a mountain of evidence over the past two years including a historical floor wiping of the Republican Party in 11/06) - by Scramvet

And amazingly, all these problems we are experiencing have come about SINCE that election when your pathetic liberal RAT pack took over. What a* NOT* a coincidence…

Worthless liberal.

By Yucho

July 21, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

Uh…Jim??

Didn’ t you post a blog on this just a couple of weeks ago???

AJC. Should dock you an hour or two of that $6.75 they’re wasting on you. You old bitter coot.

You know it’s over, you know the truth, but YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!!

By candide

July 21, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

The South is not about to vote in a black president. Why not face the truth for a change.

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Obama 08: The Neocons dont like him. That’s all you need to know.

By Glenn

July 21, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Neither me, or anyone I know has been polled, so I can’t speak as to where the numbers currently stand so all I can say regarding Georgia is that I am a middle aged Caucasian living in Cobb County who is voting for Barrack Obama, as are most of my friends and family.

Senator McCain’s greatest claim to better qualification for the Presidency over Senator Obama was his proficiency in National Security and Foreign affairs, and recent events in Iraq seem to reinforce that Senator Obama’s stance has become the norm, being accepted by the Iraqi’s as will as our Current Administration, leaving Senator McCain the odd man out.

Couple that with Senator McCain’s obvious total misunderstanding of the economic crisis our country currently faces, there is a clear choice as to who I am voting for, as well as my family and friends.

By the way, I have voted Republican for a number of years, and my Brother-in-Law is currently an elected official representing the Republican party here in the State of Georgia.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Wake up the old GUY ……… McLost……tell him he still has a shot down here in Georgia.

Tell him to come for a nap down here………

He might be able to read his speech here……… or stumble through a town meeting.

After His election defeat, he will be able to retire in peace.

Poor Rufus……looks like he needs to go back to his chew.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 21, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

DEMS voting in 2008 Presidential Primary

1,060,851

CONS voting in 2008 Presidential Primary

963,541

Difference

Obama plus 97,310

The question is - can the GOP KEEP Georgia?

By Peter

July 21, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Hey Jay………..How many McLost’s does it take to change a light bulb?

Know one knows……… wake him up from his nap so we can all see if he has the legs to get on a ladder.

Poor old Guy probably forgot what a light bulb was.

Gramps coming to change a light bulb, should be interesting………

By Peter

July 21, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Hey folks here is some funny stuff………..

“The American public has turned hard against the democrats non-drilling policy of the past 20 years”

You mean George Bush Sr’s Law about drilling so his son could win Florida ?

HA HA HA……….. Wake up the Old guy, see if he remembers to vote……..Gee does he know what sate he is campaigning in today ?

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 345 July 21, 2008 McPain Edition

By Ms Cherry

July 21, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Doesn’t surprise me at all that GA will vote Republican. GA is a racist state, hiding their racism in the denouncement of the poor. It has nothing to do with who is best qualified; heck GA voted for Bush and he has destroyed this country and tried to bury it.

Besides, the education system in GA is near bottom and it is a fact that people with more education and more intelligence are more likely to vote Democratic.

But, if McCain does get in I bet he surprises all these conservatives. He is not a conservative, he’s just wooing the vote and will lead according to his heart and conscious, not his politics; just like before he decided to run for office.

With Cheney and Co. leaving Washington with their tails between their legs, this country will be able to get back to pride and glory, better foreign relations and an improved economy.

By Hmmmmm

July 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

This would be funny if it wasn’t so ABSURD! AmVet, just get some HELP! You can’t possibly believe all the horse crap you are spewing! The state of Georgia will never vote Obama! This country will NEVER vote Obama! This will be a landslide win for McCain.

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

any poll showing McCain tied with Obama anywhere except in the cave in Tora Bora are diebold fraud polls.

Obama wins. Justice prevails. America takes over.

and the conservative girlie poopers can hide behind their gated driveways and indoor swimming pools.

But Americans will have America back!

Put………America………Back!

By Hmmmmm

July 21, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

This would be funny if it wasn’t so ABSURD! AmVet, just get some HELP! You can’t possibly believe all the horse crap you are spewing! The state of Georgia will never vote Obama! This country will NEVER vote Obama! This will be a landslide win for McCain.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 21, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

McCain on Today show

By Expose McExposerson

July 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Because of the penchant for monstrous IDs, I conclude Mrs. Godzilla is actually Devastator, fka Apocalypse after learning to link, rather than post long strings of leftist propaganda. Evolve on. Still hope your guy loses.

By Get Real

July 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Wooten is using the Clayton Co School Board election as proof that Republicans will still carry Georgia. He has yet to use his waning influence at the AJC to state why anyone should vote for McCain. Most political hacks tend to spew whatever rhetoric they can to get voters to vote FOR their candidate. You have loyal Republicans (28% of the country) saying that Bush has kept us safe and McCain will do the same. Doesn’t that mean that he will carry out the same delusional policies as Bush?

Obama may make the race for Georgia close, but I doubt he will win. with the low educational ranking and redneck factor here, some will choose to vote for the Republicans just to keep ‘those people’ from being in office.

Forget that anyone with an (R) behind their name has done nothing while in office but run up a record deficit, cause the unemployment rate to increase, high inflation, healthcare has skyrocketed and wages have decrease when inflation is taken into account. No money for nothing but more wars. What was the price of gas when Bush took office again? They can try and blame Democrats now, but Republicans ran the Legislative and Executive branches of government for 6 of the last 8 years. If offshore drilling was so important and Republicans are the party of ideas, they would’ve seen the train coming and passed legislation for drilling in the continental shelf then. Anything said now is just political bolstering.

Vote for McCain if you want, but you people are rewarding mediocrity. I will vote for Obama. Although he does not have as much experience as McCain, I believe he will govern more effectively and be more open-minded than McCain. Maybe I’m blaming McCain for the failures of Bush, but I believe we can’t afford another Republican who ignores diplomacy and rather go to war. Someone who admittedly doesn’t know much about the economy, and their senior economic advisor believes I’m a whiner because everything has increased except my paycheck. You may call Obama a flip-flopper, but I don’t think you could compare his to the major reversal of McCain. He wants to keep Bush’s tax cuts and dole out $300 billion more to corporations. You Republicans can namecall and spout Wooten’s talking points, but facts are facts.

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Just read an article from Eurabia (europe overrun by muslims for all of you idiots on this blog), and several reports show that Obama is their choice. Funny thing is, it goes on to say that NO ONE can really name what Obama stands for. “Change” can not be defined even by the Euros, who according to John F. Kerry, are smarter than Americans. There will be a lot of disappointed people in this country and abroad once he becomes president. Not only will he be a complete failure, he will be the second coming….of Jimmy Carter. Hello 1976!

By Peter

July 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Vote Republican……

Welfare for corporations….bail outs with American Tax dollars after deregulation doesn’t work !

Vote Republican bigger Government…….. Bigger Deficits…….. Devalued Dollar……… More Unemployment……..Higher costs at the Pump, and in the Grocery store.

Vote Republican……we Make up WARS !

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Get Real, I’m not defending Mccain at all but to say that Obama Hussien will govern better is beyond retarded. Obama has NEVER governed anything in his life. He can’t even govern his own family let alone the country. The guy has voted “present” more times than he has actually voted. By the way, explain what “open minded” means. Does that mean he will be open minded about fighting a war on our own soil? Does that mean he is open minded about raising our taxes and putting everyone on the street? I still love it how you people play the race card because someone doesn’t vote for him. Democrat party = party of racial divide and stupidity.

By Will

July 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

If Obama wins, we should all be very scared for our lives. The world as we know it will be over. Every person in a major city in the USA should be thinking the worst. He won’t protect us, he has no experience, he is a RACIST, his wife is the biggest RACIST, he doesn’t care about America, his wife isn’t proud of her country (until now) B***!, he wants to raise taxes, he doesn’t want to drill for oil, he wants to talk to people the Iranian President, who is the biggest terrorist in the world, if he does win all the people who voted for him should be ashamed of themselves because it will be you who cost us our freedom and our way of life. To be honest, the blacks are only voting for him because he is mostly black. If he was white the blacks wouldn’t even care. He will be the worst president of all time for any country and the USA will never ever recover from his poor judgement and bad political agenda. God helps us! McCain ‘08 is the only choice!

By Peter

July 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

By Will…….talk about calling the kettle Black……wipe the drool from McLost’s mouth, so he can wake up and protect us !

Old Guy for Protection……… hey Will ………at what age will you retire ?

Do you really want a “Liberal” McCain running America ?

By jim d

July 21, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Will,

He will be the worst president of all time for any country

You really think he could trump Carter?

By Josh

July 21, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Why isn’t anyone calling Rev. Jackson racist for using the N-word and making fun of Obama? Whenever anyone makes fun of Obama, they’re racist…but not Rev. Jackson…come on people!

By Dawn Ross

July 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Great comments citizens of Georgia !! A lot of you are so smart & intelligent compared to these old farts who write up this crap. Obama in ‘08 !! These so-called conservative advocates need to be “Changed” for something fresh and different. They obviously have never had an original thought - all they can do is complain & spin; then they get paid a hefty $ for the same ole comments - where’s your concrete ideals, solutions or suggestions to making America the Leader of the free world. Oh, yeah, let’s just look after only a few, the less than 5% top-earners who line their pockets. And most of the fools that follow these conservative guys don’t make a fraction in $$ for supporting and buying in to these clowns who pump people up with their idle and spinned comments. Think for yourselves - choose to be intelligent !!

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Obama’s landslide victory will be embarrassing for the GOP. Watch as they shift left on Healthcare for the 2010 elections. Watch as the GOP sez they were more liberal than Carter all along and that Obama is a third term of Bush and Reagan and everything.

Watch them change into fembots, gay priders, anti-fencers, science advocates and truth respecters.

Even if Conservatism rises again it will only be as a liberal conniption of the extreme right.

Obama 08: America’s America.

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Dawn Ross, Choose to be intelligent? What the hell does “change” mean besides being different from George Bush? I have yet to see him offer a clear strategy to win wars, lower gas prices or fix the economy. Tell me what they are and I might consider voting for him. If not, forget it. I don’t vote based on my feelings. I vote based on records of the candidate and where they line up with my beliefs.

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Obama 08: Socialisms America.

By jim d

July 21, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Will,

McCain ‘08 is the only choice!

What’s BOB BARR? Chopped liver?

By Jeff

July 21, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Do you know something we don’t know, Jim? Are the 08 elections going to be fixed like the 02 elections?

From Raw Story.com: “A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.

Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies. At a little noticed press conference in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, he discussed his investigation of a computer patch that was applied to Diebold Election Systems voting machines in Georgia right before that state’s November 2002 election.

Spoonamore is one of the most prominent cyber-security experts in the country. He has appeared on CNN’s Lou Dobbs and ABC’s World News Tonight, and has security clearances from his work with the intelligence community and other government agencies, as well as the Department of Defense, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber-espionage.”

By Manny

July 21, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Uh, Jim Wooten’s right! If only 1 in 5 voters went to the polls in Clayton County, and that “Pass-the-Buck” mentality continues, then you will get more of the same!

With this post, I agree with Jim Wooten. Georgia is not in play, as long as voter turnout is low in demographics that would vote for Obama.

By Lily Toad

July 21, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Josh, don’t you know the n-word is used by many blacks as slang? That doesn’t make them racist, because they are using it amongst themselves. I find it offensive no matter who uses it, but it’s not racist. If a white person refers to blacks using the N-word is IS racist because of the way it is used. Racism is attributing certain factors to people based on their race, typically by a member of a group with power against a race that doesn’t have much power. So, if I refer to my friends as “d**,” I’m not being homophobic. If we’re walking along the street and a man yells out the window, “You bunch of d**,” he’s being homophobic. Get it?

By Peter PipeHer

July 21, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Josh.

Simply using the “N” word doesn’t make you a racist, it is rather one’s attitude that one’s race makes one superior to another based on color or ethnicity, and the actions carried out to try and bolster that belief.

Now Jesse Jackson is a d@mNN fool and a jealous b@st@rd for what he said. That IS what he is. What more do you want?

Oh…divide and conquer?? My bad.

By Get Real

July 21, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC, I’m sorry but what has McCain actually governed? How can’t Obama govern his own family? Is calling his wife out her name governing somehow? And I haven’t said that someone who doesn’t vote for Obama is racist, THOSE people who will not vote for him due to his race have. Being from Illinois myself, I can go to the State of Illinois website and look at ALL of Obama’s votes he ever made in Springfield and see that he hasn’t voted present more times than he voted at all. Republicans in Illinois have actually used that ‘legal’ manuever more than Democrats. So that Republican talking point is debunked with a little investigation to find the truth.

Open-minded means looking at all points of view and not trying to MAKE our adversaries do what we want them to. If we are as strong a country as we say we are, why are we afraid to actually sit down with Iran and get them to end their nuclear program through diplomacy, instead of saying we won’t sit down with them at all until they do? Any businessman will see there is no incentive for them to do anything we want. And we look crazy to the rest of the world, being that we’re involved in a war on their doorstep. What if they invaded Canada and told us to end our nuclear program first? And as far as fighting wars on our doorstep, how will that be? Oh yeah, bin Laden is still on the loose. Guess that will be Obama’s fault too right, since Bush has kept us safe? Just because there hasn’t been another attack doesn’t mean we’re safe. The Most Wanted man in the world is still out there somewhere, and hasn’t been caught in 7 years. With all this military capability and technology we have, something is strangely wrong with that. But if a democrat were President I’m sure you would be saying the same thing right? Sure.

As to refute your other point, aren’t wages going down when inflation is taken into account, and people are being put out on the street anyway beacuse their losing their homes? Under a Republican President nonetheless. But I guess that is ALL the homeowners fault, and speculation and scrupulous lending practices is not part of why the housing market is in a free fall. Unemployment went up .5% last month, the highest one month increase in 25 years. I’m sorry Commie, but the Republican platform of lower taxes, smaller government is a complete farce now thanks to your guy Bush. And at this point, I along with some other Independents are willing to give this ‘inexperienced’ Senator a chance. Bush had the most experienced Cabinet in history and look how that turned out.

By Whatever

July 21, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Will, can he trump George W. Bush?? I doubt it

By GaLiberal

July 21, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

For once Moron Jim has it right, but not for the reasons he espouses. The true reason Obama will not carry GA or any other southern state is because (drum roll please) there are too many closet racists in these states. When it comes right down to casting a vote, there are too many whites (not me of course) that will NOT cast a vote for a black man to run their White Anglo Christian country. Hilliary would be much more acceptable. All the hype about Obama being a Communist, being a closet Muslim, abandoning his church, he hasn’t been to Iraq/Afghanistan, refusing wear a flag lapel pin (McCain doesn’t wear one but that’s ok because he’s some sort of war hero), and all the other crap lies are just excuses these people use to justify their racism.

Now I know you good little Rethuglicon bobble-head boot lickers will all scream about my claim. Buts that’s to be expected since you all believe you’re enlightened and Obama is all these other things. But when you vote against someone because of their race, that makes you a racist no matter what excuse you use.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And the closet racists are living proof.

By Mr. Bush

July 21, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

O.K> Replublicans,

Let’s not put to much on recent polls!

To the 2 dusty’s and JMB let’s not look for something good to look for because of our weak candidate Mc. McClain once he gets Mr. Stone face as vice-president Milt Romney) the south will ride again!

I mean the Replublican party will continue the dominance of US politics.

I hope my fellow Republicans don’t mind my adminstration having meeting with the Iranians and blewing the war in Aftganistan.

You know we are not getting much oil from Iraq. Even if we could get oil from Iraq the national oil companies will sell to the highest bidder! Thank goodness for Capitolism.

My family will be set for centuries!

By Chicago

July 21, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Republicans are so worried about raising taxes, but under Bush’s economic policy you will lose your job and won’t have to worry about paying ANY taxes.

By IT Guy

July 21, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

You guys want to know how easy it really is to rig a voting machine to cast a vote for one candidate when you actually selected the other?

A simple CASE or DECODE statement…or map a variable for one candidate to the attribute of another..or a million other ways. Any programmers or database developers or administrators care to chime in??

That’s how easy it is. This is why they don’t want to provide paper trails on these machines people!!

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Lily Toad. Your trolling is forgiven. Go and troll no more.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

July 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Jimbo how come Bookman writes 3 times as many columns as you do?

By Peter

July 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Vote for McCain……… he will continue to keep in play the

“Bush Terrorist Protection Program for Bin Ladden” !

By Truth Hurts

July 21, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

One more thing your government and the good puppy press don’t want you to see.

By BOPrez

July 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

It was not hard to imagine WILL shaking in his boots while reading his comments about Barack Obama. It’s hilarious. Take a chill pill, boy. If you are so afraid of a African-American (he definitely fits this description) being President of the USA, leave the country. We don’t want you here anyway. GO!!!!

By Ms. Cherry

July 21, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Will, honey, we already have the worst President of all times sitting in the White House now. Either McCain or Obama will be better.

By Ender

July 21, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

It is time for this s**t to end. I am so sick of hearing the politcal parties bashing each other, when very few of you have any idea of what is going on. If people out there are too stupid to understand that both sides have good points, then you don’t deserve to help decide the fate of this country.

I once had a teacher that said,”Anyone who calls themselves a republican or a democrat is an idiot.” The more I think about that quote, the more I believe it. Call yourself liberal, call yourself conservative, call yourself a hermaphrodite I dont care, but stop trying to tear down the infra-structure of this great nation. And I have to say that both sides are guilty of this crime.

Let me address the problems and positives of both sides. “Republicans” are too stuck in their ways. They think everything is fine the way it is, that everything will work out eventually. News flash, that’s not a good idea. We are not in a good place as a nation right now, but we are the strongest nation on this planet, we can fix this. “Democrats” are never happy with anything. There are parts of this government that are solely in existence to please you, and yet your party is the one screaming for change. Be careful what you change, cause it’s always 20/20 hindsight, and you may screw us in some of these ultra-friendly policies.

Next time I post I will discuss the top people in each party, their flaws, and their good ideas.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Please wake up McCain……….let him know it is Monday !

Please let him know his food is waiting………… they have already cut it up for him !

By Lily Toad

July 21, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Moi, un troll?

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

McCain08: He’s not continuing his campaign after Viagra-gate, is he?

McCain 08: A deer. A headlight. a collision of deadpan with bedpan.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Gotta love a Republican…….. they are sure good at cutting EDUCATION SPENDING !

Gov. Sonny Perdue asked every state agency to trim 3.5 percent from their budgets, but University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis told colleges to cut 5 percent. For UGA, that would mean about $20 million.

No wonder Georgia is one of the worst Education States !

Vote Republican……… we will cut your kids Education budget !

By BFKaJ

July 21, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. Clinton apologist Lanny Davis is one of those guy whom I love to dislike, but I have to admit my opinion of him is higher today than ever. http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/07/21/confessions-of-an-anti-iraq-war-democrat-memories-of-a-purple-finger/

By RamblinLonghorn

July 21, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

It doesn’t matter if Georgia is in play or not. Obama is collecting so much money, that he can afford to throw some at states like Georgia and make McCain respond in kind.

By AmVet

July 21, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Whether it be Jimbo Wooten himself or the desperate, enraged lunatic fringe of the GOP’s right wing as represented here, their opinion on who is the better man for the job in November is as useless as t!ts on a bull.

Fess up you gutless right wing nuts - you voted for GWB twice, didn’t you?

DIDN’T YOU?

The most incompetent, deadly and worst president in our long history and you voluntarily put him in the West Wing for 8 years.

Your ability to recognize a man/philosophy who can provide effective governance much less actual leadership is pathetic. And your inability to evolve mentally, socially and philosophically as human beings is dangerous to this nation and the rest of the world.

But no worries. You know you are being emasculated every day and are now virtually insignificant. As you should be. That is why your self-righteous and inane “conservative” opinions are irrelevant.

Get ready to have your heads kicked in for a second consecutive election this fall. All over this great country. (Excluding here in the Moron Belt of course).

You Republican screw ups deserve it…

By SaveOurRepublic

July 21, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

“Ender” is all too correct. The GOP & DNC are two sides of the same Globalist Elite contolled coin. There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between International shill A, “Juan McAmnasty” & shill B, “Bacrock Obummer”…they will both continue serving their Elite ma$ters (like “Skull & Bonesman” Bush & “Sick Willie ClinTAX”).

I’m not sure if Bacrock can/will carry GA, both it doesn’t really matter as both these pawns will continue to betray our Republic & We the People! Too many lemmings are totally deceived by the bogus “Left vs. Right” paradigm used to keep the sheeple pacified. In all honesty, no informed American who care about saving the last vestiges of our Constitutional Republic will cast a vote for either “McAmnasty” or “Obummer”. The best remaining candidate (since patriot Dr.Ron Paul dropped out) is Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin! Bob Barr is solid on defending the Bill of Rights, but has past Neocon leanings on foreign & fiscal policy.

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By lava

July 21, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Georgia is not in play, the hype notwithstanding You are obviously very worried,otherwise you wld not post 2 similar topics in a space of a month.You said so 1st time,we got it,so why the worry. Tell us why Mccain is a good choice.For now, we dont see the reason why he is even running to extend a Bush term. OBAMAMANIA IN GA..

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

How many believe any of the voter registration data Wooten relied on for this piece?

Those numbers are never correct, ever.

McCain 08: A deer in headlights, and he gets run over by his own straight talk express. A bedpan for a deadpan.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Vote Republican……

You to can have a Part in the “Bin Laden Terrorist Protection Program”………

Brought to you by George Bush !

By Time to Tighten the Moron Belt

July 21, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

The Executive Committee of the “All Powerful Union of the Most High & Benign We Don’t Give a D@mn What You Think” has today voted, with quorum present, to tighten The Moron Belt.

ScamVet, consider this your “pink slip” from The Moron Belt.

Delta gets you there, Bubbatard.

McCain ‘08 - just for the freedom of it !

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Get Real, Mccain has never governed anything. Never said he did. If you read my earlier comments I said that I was not a fan of Mccain but I’d take him over Obama. I currently live in Chicago and can tell you that Repubicans do not exist here. As for sitting down with Iran. I believe we have been doing that for years. Talking. They don’t listen! If you knew anything about these people then you’d know they will not give up their nuclear weapons. Didn’t Clinton talk to North Korea for what, 8 years? Look where that got us. We had to get rid of Saddam to make him listen. Now, you want to talk about taxes. Good, the Bush tax cuts were great for this country. How can you dispute that? Fact is democrats are the party of high taxes. I live in Chicago and I can vouch for that.

AmVet, Having flashbacks of Nam are we?

By lava

July 21, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Obama tries to make Georgia seem in play; it isn’t

THAT WAS JULY 08.Are the GA rednecks who vote republican so dumb u have to repeat urself like that in a month so as to convince them not to vote OBAMA??????????????? Unfortynately for u,they are getting squezzed economically like the rest of the liberals u so hate with a passion.Glad they have an educated alternative.

By AmVet

July 21, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Dorknuts, aka hmmmm aka gutless aka whatever,

Taking the adjectives personally?

Excellent.

if the foo sh!ts…

Must make you talibaptist crazies on the far right just spit thinking that because of this non-conservative conservative clusterf&ck you find yourself in, you have to support the RINO.

What a hoot…

By Peter

July 21, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

McCain ‘08 …….. But can he remember what he voted for ?

By SaveOurRepublic

July 21, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

AmVet, “McAmnasty” is a RINO/Neocon at best, and (truly) a Globalist puppet at worse. The Keating 5, McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, Kennedy-McCain amnesty legislation are just the tip of the iceberg if this Globalist shill get elected.

P.S. - “Bacrock Obummer” is NO better, and selecting the “lesser of two evils” is a sham…still results in electing evil!!!

By AmVet

July 21, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

ChickenhawkAJC,

Like most of these never-served, never-will, non-conservative conservatives/neo-cons, you seem particularly obsessed with my time in uniform.

Let me guess, Dickhead Cheney fan - you had other priorities than military service.

Or maybe 4F? (Moral turpitude?)

Who cares.

Only if Nader does not get on the ballot here in Ga. and only if Sen. McCain doesn’t make the fatal flaw of choosing as a running mate some dork like Romney, or ANYONE connected to this administration philosophically, I’ll vote for the RINO. And against every other POS conservative like Suxtobeus Chambless…

BTW Obama is, to me, simply style without substance and completely unworthy of being the commander-in-chief.

What you abortions on the far right have yet to admit to yourselves is that unless and until you have a massive political epiphany you are looking dead in the eye at another forty years in the wilderness.

SOR, I agree with your position.

The Democrats blow chunks and not so amazingly the Republicans are even worse. MUCH worse.

None are remotely interested in changing a system that primarily protects their self-interests and keeping the money and power to themselves…

By snow

July 21, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

every one seems to think the choices are vernon jones and saxby….JIM MARTIN is a great man who if you look at his record has done more for Georgians for health care than jones. Jones just lines his pockets and has questionable rendevous with women—Jim Martin is a respectable state legislator,has experience in making laws, represents teh poor and the disabled well….why waste a vote on vernon jones who will never win….give us some integrity not a womanizer/with accusations of forced relations….

By snow

July 21, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

every one seems to think the choices are vernon jones and saxby….JIM MARTIN is a great man who if you look at his record has done more for Georgians for health care than jones. Jones just lines his pockets and has questionable rendevous with women—Jim Martin is a respectable state legislator,has experience in making laws, represents teh poor and the disabled well….why waste a vote on vernon jones who will never win….give us some integrity not a womanizer/with accusations of forced relations….

By SaveOurRepublic

July 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Suxby Shambliss is also a Neocon, Globalist puppet, as demonstrated by his intial support for the Kennedy-McCain “immigration reform” (aka - amnesty) legislation, NAFTA, the North American Union/SPP and Globalist empire-building/foreign entanglements. Although Shambliss & Isackscum are Neocons, there’s no way I’d support a shell-liberal like Vernon Jones either.

By fearless fosdik

July 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten: Are you on vacation? Don’t have any idea what to write about next?

You’ve been running this same column since Friday. Enough is enough!

By Anita

July 21, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Georgia also carried Bush and you see where that has gotten us. It is amazing that racism is so alive today that most people would not vote on a candidate because of the candidate’s race.

I am sure that Obama would do a great job and he will definitely not do any worse than Bush but the people in Georgia will not give him a try because he is a black man. That is why most countries hate the USA because we are bunch of arrogant, bigoted, rude, closed minded, sexist and racist people.

By Damn

July 21, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Damn Jim are you God? Do you have the numbers for tonight’s lotto?

Can you write about another subject other than Barry O?

I am waittiong for the lotto numbers?

folks make sure you do not apply for a ss# for your kids. never do this.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Obama ………… a President Iraq will be willing to work with.

Go Obama………..clean up the Bush Mess !

By SaveOurRepublic

July 21, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Again, far too many folks been totally duped into this phoney “Left vs. Right” paradigm! Apples to Oranges? How do the front-running (2 sides of 1 coin) candidates compare when the rhetoric is peeled away? A comparison between “Bacrock Obummer” and “Juan McAmnasty” may seem like comparing apples to oranges, but there is more to these candidates than meets the eye…

http://thenewamerican.com/node/8574

By GetReal

July 21, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

The only votes Hussein Obama will get in Ga. will be inside I-285. The rest of the state has some sense.

By C

July 21, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

So correct - Obama will not carry Georgia Nov 2008 election. Folks best think about a man with only 3 years experience in government. And no hyped overseas tour is going to give him instant insight into foreigh policy by any long chance. And also someone who flip-flaps constantly. Charm & personality, no matter how deep, creates a capable leader.

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

AmVet, Just messing with you. No harm intended. I’m not a Mccain fan at all. Neither am I a fan of Obama. We are all in serious trouble with these two. I look back at our former candidates from years past and wonder how in the world this came about. Anyway, thanks for serving.

By CommunistAJC

July 21, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

whoever says that media bias doesn’t exist needs to read this. media is totally in the tank for obama hussein.

http://drudgereport.com/flashnym.htm

By SaveOurRepublic

July 21, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC - You’re mostly correct, as the “mainstream” media is controlled by the Globalist Elite. However, in order to keep up the facade of having a “choice”, the also trot(s) out “Faux” News, the Neocon propaganda outlet with GOP waterboys “Pawn Vanity” & “Bull O’Liely”. Not only does the Elite control the “MSM”, but also the puppets on “Crapitol sHill”, the internationalist Corporate World (no longer Corporate “America”), Madison Avenue & the “Sheepletainment” industry/”Hollyweird”. With that, we must be watchful of Globalist propaganda (Global Warming, pushing multiculturalism (ie - socialism), endorsement of the police state (via bogus “terror” threats), etc.

http://www.prisonplanet.com

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Obama acting like a president already. We haven’t seen leadership like this ever before. We are indeed graced with this man, and America will be America for the American People like never before in the history of American People.

Obama 08: America for Americans.

McCain 08: America for Iraqis.

See the Diff? Vote the Diff!

By hillbilly ragger

July 21, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Rufus @ 1.23, why do you think the Berlin wall came down “under Reagan’s tenure”?

By hillbilly ragger

July 21, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Commie @ 3.31, there isn’t a soul anywhere, on the planet, that “needs” to ever read the open sewer that is the Drudge Report.

If you happen to be referring to McCain’s latest whine that the meanie-head New York Times won’t publish his whiny “TEH SURGE IS WORKING!!!!11!!” screed, it’s being covered by actual journalists, if anyone’s interested.

By CommunistAJC

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

hillbilly ragger, Ok, so the most viewed internet page doesn’t need to be read by anyone on the planet. Keep telling yourself that my friend. Latest whine from Mccain? Where have you been when Obama Hussien has been whining about the cover of the New Yorker? Or about how he doesn’t like to be called dumbo for his big ears? Or how about how no one can say bad things about his wife, church or background? That is WAY more whining than Mccain. At least Mccain has done something for his country instead of b*** about white people.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

(CNN) — The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy.

Seems he had zero to say !

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

You can tell that Obama will win Georgia by looking at the conservative trolls here. This blog is a bunch of nobody’s talkin’ ‘bout nuthin’. The worst bunch of mealy-mouthed pudwitry and petti-bloggery I’ve ever seen. It’s like MySpace has a special chatroom spud-wits and finger twists.

Spudwits! bwa.

I am the forgotten Messiah. There are many para-parables to explain why Obama will win in Georgia. Especially para-parable #98. that’s a good one. I will enclose it here soon.

Dont forget, that I am the Forgotten Messiah.

By Peter

July 21, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

McCain……behaving more senile every day !

The main premise of McCain’s ad — that opposition to drilling is responsible for high gas prices — is disputed even by McCain allies. In arguing for an end to the offshore moratorium and for drilling in the Alaska preserve, President Bush said that these steps “will take years to have their full impact” on energy costs.

HA HA HA….get him some milk for his NAP !

By Mr. Bush

July 21, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Now Jim,

I am a little disappointed by you as a writer! You have yet to refer to Senator Obama as Senator Obama.

I understand the blogger on this page with their limitations, but you disrespecting a fellow politician is down right awful.

Now Jim if he get’s in office you should run for the Georgia hills because Obama, I mean Senator Obama might send the secret service to deal with you!

By Vidal Suisun

July 21, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

The “Obamaphiles’ Mantra” [To the toon of “Spam”, by Mssrs. Python]:

[A-HEMM.] Right, then…

“Spend spend spend spend, we like spe-e-end. Spend spend spend spend we like spe-e-end…”

By getalife "whiners"

July 21, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Did Jim get laid off. He should retire anyway.

Speaking of old guys:

“We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border”

Um, will somebody give the old guy a map. Not only does the mentally unstable, tortured old coot have no idea about the economy, he has no idea about foreign country locations.

This should not even be close.

Geez.

By @@

July 21, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Where you at Jim?

Will Obama carry the anti- war lefts’ water or will they deem it an honor to carry HIS?

Either way, somebody’s principles will be flushed.

By Vidal Suisun

July 21, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Neverending Ender, kindly end it. At least you’re not one of the perennial sophomores brought to proclaim the original discovery that “We have a one-party system, with no real distinction between the two.” That burnt chesnut got to be so acrid, cycle after cycle and decade after decade, that at some point Republicans took to buying up the remaining inhabitable bits of Canada just for the purpose of reaming American Democratic diaspora in the (usually likely) event that the Democrats should lose. Instead, it was always and ever the Republican investors who, having won the elections, would lose their Canadian investments from no-shows.

Your idea of someone cherrypicking the ideas of one party or another has been put into practice in the past, notably during the Progressive Era, but always the fruit basket was presented in the name of a single party, and not on behalf of a multipartisan coalition. That would be Parliamentarianism.

But my greatest question about your suggesting that we take what’s good about “both parties” is: what would the Republicans find worth taking from Mr. Obama’s ever-changing “ideas”? (vide website.)

By The Forgotten Messiah

July 21, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

WHy do you pudwits have to look any further than the deer in the headlights McCain and the Viagra ambush from that female reporter? He froze. He is not presidential material. Period.

The American people may love John McCain, but they wont vote for him any more than they’ll vote for their own grandpa.

McCain 08: A bedpan for a deadpan.