Thinking Right

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

the State Department pressed a narrow interpretation of Department guidelines in restricting Foreign Service Officers in Berlin from any involvement in Sen. Obama’s visit to Germany (which I actually think was a good idea). But just last month Sen. McCain gave a political speech in Canada which was both attended by and arranged by the US Ambassador. … Late Update: And it seems McCain got the Foreign Service treatment in Mexico City too

I was working on a draft of a post digging into all the problems with Sen. McCain’s explanation of why he’s all for Maliki’s 16 month timetable for withdrawal and dead-set against Obama’s 16th month timetable for withdrawal. But I think that sentence alone illustrates how thin a strategic branch Sen. McCain is now standing on.

Scott McClellan admits to Chris Matthews that the White House made a deliberate effort to use FOX News commentators like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly to disseminate White House talking points.

David Letterman: “Can a case be made that George Bush’s administration is clearly guilty of war crimes?”

I’ve noticed that McCain, and the right in general, are latching on to Obama’s statement that he was speaking as a “proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world.” I see an attempt at cultural warfare in the making, and it should be squelched fast. The argument from the right appears to be that only some squishy leftist would call himself a “citizen of the world,” or that using the term suggests less than a full attachment to one’s own country (even if accompanied by a statement like Obama’s that he’s a “proud citizen of the United States”). A reader over at Politico has already noted that John F. Kennedy used the same phrase in his famous inaugural address in referring to his global audience.

I also did a one minute Google search – and I’m sure I could find more if I did a 15-minute Google search – and discovered that President George H.W. Bush used the exact phrase “citizen of the world” in presenting the national medal of the arts to Vladimir Horowitz, the legendary Russian-born pianist who became a US citizen in 1940. Was he insulting Horowitz as a lefty? I don’t think so. Also, Ronald Reagan introduced himself in a speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations as “both a citizen of the United States and of the world.” Do McCain and the right really want to start this meme?

Have you heard about the Fox News anti-aging work for John McCain? They make him look younger by using ten year old photos!

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank, the sixth and seventh bank failures this year as financial institutions struggle with a housing bust and credit crunch.

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

How many of the “major” media reported that there was a rock concert held on the grounds in Berlin before Obama spoke, thereby inflating the number of attendees, primarily younger ones?

One.

Fox News.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

“The failure of Senator Obama to understand the need to increase domestic production is just stunning, and that’s going to be a real hurdle for him to overcome, because everybody gets it,” said Nancy Pfotenhauer, a senior McCain adviser.

And then you get the answer from the dimwitocrats:

“Apparently, hundreds of thousands of gallons of spilled oil, dead fish and oil-covered birds aren’t ideal conditions for peddling a misguided plan for more offshore drilling,” said Cathy Duvall, the national political director of the Sierra Club.

Uh, so how does foreign oil get to the United States, Mrs. Dimwit?

On a ship like the one that spilled the oil?

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I never thought I’d hear the Doom and Gloom whine and moan about a prison not being built, but here we are:

$40 million hole in the sand- “It’s not going to be used as a prison,” said Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, whose office planned to release a report today detailing the litany of problems at the vacant detention center in Khan Bani Saad.-Urinal/ PMS

You libs won’t let us lock up the bad guys anyway, what’s the point of having a prison?

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Sounds like the British have their Cynthia McKinney’s too:

British lawmakers demanded an investigation Sunday into whether a senior army general and a top defense official lied to them in 2004 and 2006 about the British military’s use of banned interrogation techniques in Iraq. Use of hooding and stress positions was exposed by a legal case involving the abuse and torture of a hotel receptionist and nine other Iraqi civilians five years ago in the Iraqi city of Basra.-Urinal/PMS

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So, what would “common ground” on abortion look like in Obama’s administration? He answered that question later in the speech. “The first thing I’d do as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” he said, referring to legislation that would wipe out all state and federal abortion restrictions, even the partial-birth abortion ban supported by the vast majority of Americans.

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But Obama is no Huckabee, Giuliani or Romney. He is the most spectacular campaigner of his generation, with appeal well beyond Democratic ranks. That he lingers below the 50 percent mark is a mystery among politicians of both parties. It is particularly troubling to Democrats who recall past Democratic candidates taking a huge lead over the summer before being overtaken or nearly overtaken by a surging Republican opponent. In 1976, Jimmy Carter took a 33-point summer lead over President Gerald Ford and won in a photo finish. In 1988, Michael Dukakis led George H.W. Bush by 17 points after being nominated in Atlanta before he lost the election. Al Gore and John Kerry were ahead of George W. Bush in the summer.

Can you say Dukakis?

Clearly, Obama has not yet closed the deal with the people to accept a young, inexperienced African-American as their president. Obama had virtually clinched the nomination when white working men in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia poured out to vote and carried their states comfortably for Hillary Clinton. It was not because of unalterable affection for her.

Like I said before, Lord High Dimwit is the anti Klintoon vote getter.

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Got hope? Are my own neighbors’ lives so bleak that they place their hopes in Barack Obama? Are they impressed by the cleverness of a political slogan that plays off a rather cheesy (sorry!) campaign to get people to drink milk?

By BFKaJ

July 28, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all, and welcome back Jim. As to your final paragraph, the irreplaceable Paul Harvey always affirmed that his rare perspective was forged by his distance or remoteness from the Washington-New York political media axis.

So far as I can tell, Obama learned his political philosophy from Chauncey Gardner, and bears similar qualification for higher office. Taranto has been hilarious for his past three publishings, mostly mocking the MSM. I listened to Limbaugh one day last week, and he had a similar theme, the sexual attraction between MSM reporters and Obama. As Chris Matthews advised, Obama makes a chill run up his leg. Not that there is anything wrong with homoerotic “reporters.”

In any event, the big news is that Obama now believes the action in Iraq eliminated one of the great evils of the world, and he will not now meet with Iran without preconditions. He seemingly agrees that the European-led negotiations with Iran have been fruitless, and may require a more Bush-like action (my phrase, not his.) So I think he has abandoned Kumbaya as the basis for his foreign policy, and now recognizes the virtues of firm international leadership, such as was conducted by President Bush. Obama is now Bush III.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has stretched his lead over John McCain among national registered voters to seven percentage points, 48% to 41%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 23-25.

UPDATE OBAMA UP 9% CONTINUAL GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT

Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling. Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month — three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban — compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May.

Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks.

Top McCain Fundraiser Lobbying Bush Admin To Help ‘Quash’ Toxic-Dumping Case For Chevron

McClellan: Fox News Commentators Use The ‘Talking Points’ That The White House Sends Them

Mayer: Top DOJ Lawyers Spoke ‘In Codes’ For Fear Of Being Wiretapped By White House ‘Lunatics’

McCain Embraces 16-Month Withdrawal: ‘I Think It’s A Pretty Good Timetable’»

Holtz-Eakin: McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign on the economy.»

McCain Plan Could Leave Cancer Patients Without Coverage For Cancer Treatments

Yesterday, the Obama campaign acknowledged that it is already focused on transition planning. The retort from the McCain campaign was to call this an example of “poor judgment.” On the contrary, it demonstrates a campaign that really understands the complex world and pressures that the next president will face.

The NYT’s Bob Herbert makes a very compelling case today that Americans may not know Obama’s rival as well as they think they do. [W]hat we’ve learned over the years is that Mr. McCain is one of those guys who never has to pay much of a price for his missteps and foul-ups and bad behavior. Can you imagine the firestorm of outrage and criticism that would have descended on Senator Obama if he had made the kind of factual mistakes that John McCain has repeatedly made in this campaign? (Or if Senator Obama had had the temerity to even remotely suggest that John McCain would consider being disloyal to his country for political reasons?) We have a monumental double standard here. Mr. McCain has had trouble in his public comments distinguishing Sunnis from Shiites and had to be corrected in one stunningly embarrassing moment by his good friend Joe Lieberman. He has referred to a Iraq-Pakistan border when the two countries do not share a border. He declared on CBS that Iraq was the first major conflict after 9/11, apparently forgetting — at least for the moment — about the war in Afghanistan. In that same interview, he credited the so-called surge of U.S. forces in Iraq with bringing about the Anbar Awakening, a movement in which thousands of Sunnis turned on insurgents. He was wrong. The awakening preceded the surge. More important than these endless gaffes are matters that give us glimpses of the fundamental makeup of the man.

In June, McCain rejected the idea of a trial for Osama bin Laden, and thought Obama’s reference to Nuremberg was a misread of history. A month later, McCain argued the exact opposite position.

*the Washington Post, which cuts McCain every break possible, trashed McCain over his latest line of attack against Obama’s patriotism: This is not the “politics of civility” that Mr. McCain was promising as recently as last month. “What a welcome change it would be were presidential candidates in our time to treat each other and the people they seek to lead with respect and courtesy as they discussed the great issues of the day,” Mr. McCain wrote in a letter to Mr. Obama proposing weekly town hall meetings. With these latest comments, Mr. McCain falls short of the standards he set out. *

*It was laughable to watch journalists stamp their feet last week to try to push Mr. Obama into saying he was “wrong” about the surge. More than five years and 4,100 American fatalities later, they’re still not demanding that Mr. McCain admit he was wrong when he assured us that our adventure in Iraq would be fast, produce little American “bloodletting” and “be paid for by the Iraqis.” *

*A poll taken earlier this month on the on-line site for Military Industry Today (a news service for military industry professionals) had some startling results. Or maybe not. The question was this: Regardless of your general preferences, which U.S. presidential candidate’s Iraq policy do you support?John McCain: 38.72 percent Barack Obama: 54.32 percent Don’t know: 6.96 percent *

By Huff Much?

July 28, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

The bombshell you missed, Mr. Wooten, is that McCain spilled the genocide/civil war card about Iraq. Remember, the conservative position on Iraq is that no civil war exists, and no genocide is possible. The only enemy out there is Al Queda.

But now we’re supposed to believe, (or the terrorists win), that McCain’s surge prevented civil war, and genocide in Iraq. That’s his campaign’s only note, and it directly contradicts all official communique’s from the white house about the war.

McCain has unwittingly exposed the reason the GOP cannot win in November, no matter what happens in Iraq. Voters simply dont believe a word any conservative pundit says. You have cried, “Terrorists win” too many times.

And shame on you for killing truth, the first casualty of unjustified war.

You cant spin war seven ways to sunday and expect any truth to emerge. BTW: what is the mission of US troops in Iraq?

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Hey Mrs Godlesszilla, nobody pays any attention to your crap posts any more, and I am going to show you why:

By Mrs. Godzilla July 24, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this SHAME ON JOHN MCCAIN He said he’d run a civil campaign…. todays new ad puts Obama and Castro together. Sorry, fella’s but more and more I think than McCain is just a pig.

By Mrs. Godzilla July 24, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this NO PAUL, MY POINT IS McCAIN IS A PIG

By Mrs. Godzilla July 24, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this PAUL, RIGHT-O…..I HAVE NO FEAR IN ADMITTING THAT OBAMA IS A BETTER MAN THAN I. BUT I STILL THINK… McCAIN IS A PIG

By Mrs. Godzilla July 24, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this BONE HEAD Castro habría dicho, “cambie”. No “change”. Pero porqué no exactitud del tiro al viento. Con excepción de usar un mismo término - en un diverso lenguaje - fije por favor otras semejanzas. Si usted no puede, después usted puede verdad ser una pista del hueso

Literal (my)Translation: “Castro would have said, “change”. Not “change”. But porqué not accuracy of the shot to the wind. With exception of using the same term(end) - in a diverse language - fix please other similarities. If you cannot, later you can truth be a track of the bone. (WHO IS THE REAL BONEHEAD HERE???)

You have outed yourself as a vile little person, probably a government worker doing this on taxpayer time, with no class whatsoever. Might I throw in that your feeble attempt at correcting somebody with your “spanglish” also only veriifies your lack of intelligence. Try communicating in a language you can speak.

Now, I sit back and wait for your petty mindless insults to be tossed my way, because that is the true way of the left wingnut,,,when confronted by truth or fact, you cannot respond but in only three ways:

Have a nice day.

By Peter

July 28, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim,

This is what has been happening………

CNN) — Tens of billions in taxpayer dollars have been lost, wasted or remain unaccounted for in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some of those funds — and some missing weapons — have landed in insurgents’ hands, a U.S. senator alleged Wednesday.

Sen. Robert Byrd says lost taxpayer dollars have found their way into insurgents’ coffers.

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, leveled the accusations before the Appropriations Committee he chairs. He is calling for arrests and speedy trials for any contractors accused of bilking the U.S. and Iraqi governments.

In a statement released before Wednesday’s hearing, Byrd said the military’s inability to oversee its myriad contracts adequately has indirectly killed soldiers.

He did not elaborate except to say, “As a result of this lack of oversight, billions of dollars have been lost or wasted, bad contractors have been rewarded, and shoddy workmanship — some of which has resulted in the deaths of our soldiers — has gone uncorrected.”

Time to check into all those Cost Plus contracts……..

By John

July 28, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

If Obama does get elected you Obama supporters are going to be amoung the most disaapointed people around.

By BFKaJ

July 28, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Jim, I forgot one critical item I read – VPs of course normally make no difference. However, with Mitt as his running mate, McCain takes Michigan, big, against any Obama combination. That switch is more than Obama can overcome under any scenario.

By Ga Values

July 28, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Saxby Special Interest & Jonnie Bail Out The Banks have thrown in with Pelosi & Reid again to screw the taxpayer again.. Term Limits Here, Term Limits Now, Better Government.3

The only real limit on the Treasury’s authority is the new $10.6 trillion debt ceiling. There is roughly a $1.1 trillion cushion between the new limit and existing federal debt of $9.5 trillion.

Critics in Congress who voted against the housing bill warned that the government was taking on too much risk, and that government aid would only reward irresponsibility by corporations and individuals.

“This bill has moral hazard written all over it,” Representative Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said during the debate in the House on Wednesday. “We are pretending to chain a monster here, and we are, instead, letting that monster loose.”

Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, voted against the bill even though he had worked on many of its tax provisions. “This bill has fallen prey to the special interests on Wall Street and K Street at an unjustifiable expense to taxpayers and homeowners on Main Street,” he said in a statement.

Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, who also opposed the bill, said it should have barred the mortgage companies from spending millions to lobby members of Congress.

One little-noticed provision in the bill underscores the continuing pessimism about the state of the economy. The provision gives the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation the authority to create so-called bridge institutions for failing savings associations, mirroring a capability that has existed since 1991 for failed banks

By Peter

July 28, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

More news about the McLost campaign………

From Stein’s perspective, McCain has been running an uninspiring campaign — one that lacks a coherent message.

“Mr. McCain is running the absolute most pathetic campaign I have ever seen in my whole life,” Stein said in his unmistakable monotone delivery. “His campaign is just heartbreakingly pathetic. He is a very impressive guy. He is a brave guy, but he is running the most lackluster campaign I have ever seen in my entire life. I would have thought Bob Dole’s campaign would have set a record for poor campaigns, but this one is even worse. I mean it is shocking.”

Yes he truly is McLost !

The old Guy……better wake him up and wipe the dribble off his lips ! Time for cookies and a nap soon !

By Maniac is accurate

July 28, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Is the media the egg and Obama the chicken? Or is it the other way around?

A good portion of the public wants to hump Obama’s leg because of image. He’s JFK with the added appeal of being an ethnic minority. “Hey, world! We’re back! See, we’re voting for an attractive, black man. Aren’t we enlightened? Love us, please!” Whatever.

For Obama to say that, with the benefit of knowing it worked, he still wouldn’t have supported the surge is as wrong-headed and as dense as anything GW Bush has ever done.

I’m going to vote for whoever has the best plan for ensuring domestic prosperity and tranquility. And the key to that is making energy independence Job 1. That is also the key to prosperity and security. So far, McCain is in the lead on that one.

By R2D2

July 28, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

YES WE CAN!!!

And guess what America: WE WILL!!!!!

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

WOW BUD WISER - TESTY THIS MORNING ARE WE?

Did I hurt your feelings? If so I am sorry.

We obliviously disagree on politics and policy, but your response is a bit over the top don’t you think?

Oh, and I did use an english to spanish web translator….sorry if it turned out muddled.

Here’s a little something you might enjoy though - posted in the spirit of fun:

A decade ago, UC Riverside physicist John Baez developed the crackpot index to help when sorting letters sent to universities that promised to revolutionize science. His index (which was referenced in the Netroots Nation science panel by Ed Brayton) includes such items as 5 points for each mention of “Einstein,” and 20 points for comparing yourself to Newton….. To bring the same sort of order to the missives that arrive at this site each day, here’s the Daily Kos equivalent: 5 points Each use of “Democrat Party.” Each use of “liberal elite.” Each declaration that kos readers should “leave America.”……10 points Each use of the phrase “hate site.” Each mention of Nazis, Commies, Reds, brownshirts or stormtroopers. Each blind repetition of phrases provided by your close pal Bill, Rush, or Sean. For contending that liberals are aiding terrorists. Each time the writer insists that the recipient is “going to burn in hell.” Each physical threat to the recipient.

NOW BUD WISER - take a deep breath and calm down dude! We have 100 days to go and we surley don’t want you to pop a gasket! You have spent a great amount of time and effort complaining about me- DON’T YOU THINK YOU’RE TIME WOULD BE BETTER SPENT DEFENDING YOUR CANDIDATE?

More Later….

By Ga Values

July 28, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Donkey For Sale… >

Young Saxby, moved to Georgia and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.’

Saxby replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’

The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’

Saxby said, ‘Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey.’

The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with him?

Saxby said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off..’

The farmer said, ‘You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!’

Saxby said, ‘Sure I can Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.’

A month later, the farmer met up with Saxby and asked, ‘What happened with that dead donkey?’

Saxby said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898.00.’

The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?’

Saxby said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.’

Saxby grew up and now the senior Senator from Georgia.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

John,

Not nearly as disappointed as we have been for the past 7 1/2 years.

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

July 28, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Hooo-RAAAhhh!!

Bud Wiser, when one is attending a FREE concert, after the bands that you obviously have come to see have played, don’t you think you have a right to leave?? Or are you sublimally suggesting that Sen. Obama was JUST interesting enough for them to stick around and be used as propaganda? Should have stuck with just a six pack.

Jim, while you were out, Commandant McCain staggered Waaaaay off message. He was reported seen in a cheese aisle trying to explain to these non-combatants (you know, the American Public), what a insurgency (wait, I mean a Counter-Insurgency) was/is. People are still in the cheese aisle scratching their heads. Then the GOP poster boy admitted to the timetable set by Sen. Obama, PM Maliki, AND the White House, then tried to convince the American Public AGAIN that either Sen. Obama was a treasonist, Maliki was lying for policial gain, and the White House was a bunch of idiots. O.K. one out three ain’t soooo bad. But Maliki wants to take the reigns of his country back. Obama had suggested 16 months and they and the “Time Horizon” just magically happened to be about the same time. AGAIN, your Presumptive Presidential Nominee has tried to inform the American Public that this was HIS idea. Hmmmmm… (Now, I’m scratching MY head.)

Jim, Lieberman has NOT been seen around your candidate. Please send an all points bulletin out immediately and have him placed at the hip of Sen. McCain. Call all your GOP movers and shakers and get the good Senator out of the media and create a mask and place it on Romney’s face. (I’d suggest using a gace pic and cut out his eyes and mouth, but the American Public is juuuusssssttt a little faster than that).

Oh, and Sen. Obama proved that HE is the next President of the United States and the Leader of the Free World….

Jim, your team is on life support. GO OBAMA ‘08!!

By Get Real

July 28, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser, if Fox was the only news outlet to report it then I would take that with a grain of salt. There are many news organizations (AP, for one) that do report news from an objective point of view.

People like Wooten are so afraid that their way of life will change if Obama is elected, that they close a blind eye to what Bush and the Republicans have already done. See what happens when oilmen draft energy policy. Reports show that McCain is more Conservative than Bush. Face it Wooten no matter what you say or how bad you try to scare the Republic, we ain’t falling for it this time.

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

No need to scream, Mrs Godlesszilla, I can read. Also, I did not complain about you. I merely pointed out what garbage you post online. And the spanglish thing; what exactly were you trying to prove there? Do you think that you are the only person with access to a translator? Do you think it makes you look smarter to talk in another language, maybe to impress the trailer park trash and ghetto rats that comprise your Democratic constituency? You know, trying to come off as some sort of smart guy , or elitist, doesn’t really impress anybody.

To top it all off, you complete your descent into lunacy by posting some sort of left wingnut ‘grading scale’ used by far left America haters Netroots Nation and the Daily Kos???? What was that? You know, a famous person once said (and I paraphrase) “Why not stay silent and let others guess how stupid you are, instead of opening your mouth and confirming it.?”

I believe that you have consistently shared with this readership what side of the Bell Curve you occupy.

Have a nice day

By Tray

July 28, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser is right, though. Obama only had so many supporters because of the concert…

Oh, yeah, let’s not forget his cancelled visit to the wounded troops, because that showed so much care and concern.

Obama has no clue how to run this country, he’s too young, too ignorant (because of his lack of tenure, not because he’s black idiots), heck, he doesn’t even know the jobs of key players in the White House.

When push comes to shove, all that will show will be a big box marked “CHANGE”, and in that box will be nothing, it’s all empty promises.

By AmVet

July 28, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Go ahead Republicans - rag on the mulatto.

It will not save you from the second consecutive electoral disaster that looms for the scandal-ridden Party of Failures.

And should McCain choose that faux conservative Mormonologist, it will cost you flat-earth nuts the White House as well.

Off to keep America’s economic engine humming. And to pay for Bush’s occupation.

Enjoy your summer of suffering…

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser,

I hope you know that by reporting a band played before Obama’s speech and that some how increased the crowd numbers demonstrates the elevation of desperation of the wingnut crowd.

Are you really that scared of him?

By Ty Cobb

July 28, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Actually, Mr. Wooten missed nothing. One poll shows Obama with a double digit lead, then the next day they’re even.

The media has to sell coca cola and soap. They can only do that if they invent polling data so voters think there’s drama.

The danger here is that the media will not be trusted by any voter. We’ll simply stop listening. Who remembers the big campaign crisis of two weeks ago? Three weeks ago?

Each week there’s like fifty crises where it’s either over for Obama or McCain’s secret strategy is gaining traction or some other such, “OMG! I better tune it to this report” nonsense.

The round tables are insufferable. They all say, “Well see”. Then they simply summarize campaign itinerary or speech bullet points. Nothing’s happening. Nothing. They even ran the video showing McCain’s applesauce-gate more times than the Zapruder film.

There just selling soap to voters. (and apple sauce?) I read where apple sauce sales are way up!

We’re morons, and we deserve 16 more years of George Bush. (Excluding me, no backs no vice versas no changies).

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Tray,

And if Obama had visited the troops, wouldn’t you be screaming that he was using them for political gain?

also, can you provide proof of your intimate knowledge in that Obama doesn’t know the jobs of the key players in the White House?

In other words -

Got hyperbole?

By DT

July 28, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Obama ‘08

By tiem for the truth about black hippety hop thugs

July 28, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Hundreds of thuggish yoof black scumbags rioted at a mall in Raleigh NC over the weekend. NOT WHITEY - but black yoofs and as usual the NATTIONAL pandering leftist media is (seemingly) sullenly silent about just WHO perpetrated this!!

As one poster wittily observes some of the black thugs arrested may have some difficulty pronouncing their own names correctly.

• Tyrell Eugene Brantley, 18, 1609 E. Lenoir St., charged with inciting a riot and disorderly conduct, $5,000 bond;

• Darryl Anthony Bobbitt, 18, 1411 E. Lenoir St., charged with inciting a riot, second-degree trespassing and resisting an officer, $5,000 bond;

• Christopher James Gamble, 17, 4031 Northstone Drive, Apt. 102, charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and inciting a riot, $35,000 bond;

• Laquavis O’Neal Jordan, 16, 1701 E. Lenoir St., charged with inciting a riot; released on $5,000 bond;

• Ricky Ladd Williams, 16, 3321-101 Quail Ridge Road, charged with inciting a riot; engaging in an affray; held on $10,000 bond;

• Javonnie Nicholson, 16, 512 Bradkin Court, charged with inciting a riot, misdemeanor assault on a law enforcement officer, second-degree trespassing, $7,000 bond.

It is beyond pathetic that only six of these thuggish black scumbags were arrested!!

What right do black gangbangers/ hippety hop thugs have to terrorise folks in a public shopping centre and force the early closure of public shopping facilties?

Why does the media ALWAYS slither away from ROBUSTLY identifying just exactly who the criminals are? Undeniably hundreds of black thugs rioting in a mall is a big deal!!!

Contrast this story and the low level coverage of hundreds of black yoof criminals caught in the act to the INNOCENT WHITE DUKE lads a while back who were nearly lynched for doing NOTHING WRONG!!!

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1156386.html

By version

July 28, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

One must not cleave to one’s bosom all that Obama is in order to happily cast a vote for him in November, one simply must be grateful for all that he isn’t, which includes he radiant facts that he is neither John ‘insane’ McClain, nor George ‘two-term worst president ever’ Bush.

Regarding media coverage, at it’s most basic level, Mr. Obama is actually ‘news’, as in new, as opposed to ‘old’, which is the first adjective that comes to mind when mentioning Mr. McCain,, and the media (except for Fox, which of course is not journalism anyway) prefers new over old.

I myself am no Obama acolyte, only late and grudgingly coming to him after it became apparent that no better candidate would emerge, but like the rest of the citizens of the world, am anxious to put our 8 year national/international nightmare behind us, and take our place with the upstanding humans of planet earth.

The religious fundamentalists (Christian and Muslim both, there is no difference) can return to their medieval superstitions and let the modern world revel in science and education and art and tolerance.

Mr, Rove can begin his terrorist campaign while the poor and underprivileged can begin to regain some of the meager advances that have been cruelly denied them these last 8 years.

To reiterate; no one is perfect, and Mr. Obama is proving himself far from so each succeeding day, but the giddiness of some of his supporters, the eagerness of the media to cover him, the cautiously but definitely optimistic attention the world is giving him is in large part a reaction against the darkest horrors of Mr, Bush, every one of his supporters, and every word and action of theirs that has so far been unclassified.

That which is not a reaction against the above is receiving a favorable mulling over because in general it is a ‘good’ idea; for example finding a way to end our unconscionable invasion of Iraq, resuming in earnest the alternative energy hunt that Mr. Carter funded and that Mr.Reagan un-funded, and ESPECIALLY civil rights like universal medical coverage , same-sex equal rights (here Mr. Obama falters grieviously, but still is ahead of current Republican values), promoting racial and ethnic tolerance, and raising education to the status anywhere close to that enjoyed by the NFL, Hollywood, Classic Rock and the corporate/big business world in our culture.

In order to raise the level of the campaign to ideas and meaningful discourse, please Mr. Wooten remember that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Clinton are viable performers any longer, the number of people who actually believe that Mr. Obama is a Muslim are fewer than those who believe in UFO’s, a supernatural god or an earth-centered universe, and that every time you mention that Mr. Obama may not carry Georgia you drape animal skins on our backs, add long hair all over our bodies, change our apartments into caves, and generally give the lie to changing Georgia’s flag (embarrassingly late), at least in the eyes of our fellow humans throughout the world.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share my opinions with your readers.

By MrLiberty

July 28, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

The Obama love fest is just another example of how truly messed up this country has become.

The founders never envisioned parties yet now most americans can’t think past the party affiliation to examine their candidate in any critical light or heaven forbid vote for someone that actually believes in what they do.

The actions of Nixon and Clinton pale in comparison to the willful mass murder of Afghanis and Iraqis that has been perpetrated by this administration. Add to that the illegal spying, torture, and kidnapping and we have more that sufficient grounds for impeachment. Yet when we turn to the opposition party we find bloodlust and complicity - a party too concerned with getting re-elected than caring about why they were elected in the first place. On the republican side we have so many war hawks with no grasp for history or its effects, it is any wonder these clowns ever made in through college, let along got elected.

Then we have the overwhelming collectivist mindset that has befallen this country. Blacks all vote the same, women all vote the same, you can’t speak ill about another member of your “team,” no matter how bad their decision, and no individuals are to blame for anything, it is all collective failure that we must all share the burden for. Add to that White Guilt, and you get Mr. Obama.

Clueless to figure out how the free market has elevated everyone over the years, democrats line up in droves, wringing their hands, doing everything they can to help out the black man. They have no idead how anything they do helps anyone, but they cannot alter their position - having been beaten down into it by such magnamimous types as Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. Socialism (you are not capable alone), Minimum wage laws (you are not worth what they are paying you), and welfare (nobody would help you if it wasn’t for us) have become the key elements of their agenda.

Secretly they know that Central Planning can’t work, but they are too afraid of a process (free markets) they know nothing about. They would rather believe in a Messiah that can magically turn debt into riches like some no-money down program. The only problem with this one is that the only person spending none of this own money is Obama.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” - HL Menken

How true and just look at how much we are going to get it after this abomination is through.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

BUD WISER - your reading skills are not in question you big silly boy! it’s all about comprehension!

that said, you complain about me - no wait - what or how I post - then you complain about my sources - and still nothing supportive to your candidate or his stand.

We are here to help you Buddie….just lighten-up! No need to be so wound up!

By Just Nasty and Mean

July 28, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

G’mornin Jim. Welcome Back!

Ms. Godzilla

It is clear you are a hired political hack from the Obama campaign sent to infiltrate the blogs with your pre-set bilge and to supress opposition.

Like most of Obama’s high-paid Manchurian Madison Avenue campaign staff, you have overplayed your cards by cut/pasting from the DNC and Obama talking points list-of-the-day.

Mx/ Godzilla, Take your pre-packaged punditry somewhere else and let other free-thinking people have an intellectual exhange and not be blasted by your contrived crap.

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

July 28, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Tray,

Uhhh, he cancelled the trip to the troops because he did not want to cause any flack about the misuse of campaign funds/instruments. They were flying in his campaign plane. The Pentagon has verified that his visit would have caused a problem. No one said anything when McCain went, why?? Because nobody cared. But he went with cameras. When Mccain went to the other foreign governments and spoke, the US Ambassador there arranged for Foreign workers to be present. Funny how the State Department barred those same Foreign workers from attending Sen. Obama’s speech in Berlin, and how McCain used the military gym (where Obama addressed soldiers assembled there) in his latest attack ad. Feeble, old, pathetically tired, GOP practices. What’s worse is that you GOP’ers see it and stand for it. That’s scary…..

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

“By Bosch

July 28, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser,

I hope you know that by reporting a band played before Obama’s speech and that some how increased the crowd numbers demonstrates the elevation of desperation of the wingnut crowd.

Are you really that scared of him? “

I am not scared of Obama. This country survived Truman (the only President to use nukes in a war), the Nixon Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter (if you can survive the worst President in history, that says something for survivability), Clinton/Monica, and Bush/Iraq.

The really scary thing is knowing that there are numbers of people out there, good smart people, who cannot, or will not, see beyond this shiny tooth veneer and slick talking Illinois politician, who are actually going to vote for this man.

Hating George Bush, or Republicans in general, is no reason to vote foranybody. Frustration with an impotent Congress, political corruption, pandering, etc., now those are real reasons to be angry, they are more reasons than just hate. This guy (Obama) has less experience at leading anything than a 16 year old does at driving a car, and you want to put him in charge of leading this nation? I have just two words to put that reasoning in perspective - Jimmy Carter. THINK, man!

And McCain? What are the Republicans thinking? It is a sad day for America indeed when these two are the best the 2 parties can come up with.

Oh well, we shall see in November I guess.

Have a nice day.

By K-Chub

July 28, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

The reason the press is all over Obama is because he drives their ratings. Jim - you of all people should know and accept this and not just because you are a republican either but because you work in this business. It’s all about ratings and Obama brings it in…so according to the invisible hand doesn’t that mean the consumers (in this case voters) have spoken about what they want and the press is simply delivering?

McCain is a grumpy old man and is yesterdays news. He is running a reactionary type campaign where he lets Obama take the lead and all he does is respond. He is hoping for an Obama slip-up (it’s his only chance) and when he sees an opportunity (and sometimes he creates them) he jumps all over it in the hope that it will stick. More often than not he comes across looking foolish, but when has looking foolish ever hurt a repubican? In any event what he is and what he is doing isn’t very exciting and it doesn’t drive up ratings.

So Jim I think you should just accept the fact that the press (rightly or wrongly) is just acting like any business and is trying to make money.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

July 28, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

We’re in a hell of a mess and I don’t see the election doing anything to change that.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

So glad you are back. This place has been very dull without you. And now you bring us the total truth with some fire and brimstone. Keep it up. Obama’s face is getting more coverage than Clinton’s during HIS fiasco. Obama is the Britney Spears of politics. One wiggle and he’s on the front page.

Adore Obama?? Never, my friends. He is a political freshman trying to act like a President. It doesn’t work. Good act but wait ‘til the fat lady sings. All the goodies will be gone and he will remain a freshman senator which is possibly the only place suitable for him.

By DawgBoy

July 28, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Who cares about that idiotic SURGE!!! That seems to be all John McCain and his camp has been talking about….How about Obama was against this STUPID war in the first place. Over 4,000 deaths later…..This guy keeps talking about winning the WAR! What exactly did we WIN???? McCain just doesn`t get it….If you close your eyes and listen, sounds like GW Bush all over again…so sad.

By kitty

July 28, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

I will vote for Obama because McCain can’t find Czechoslovakia, thinks Iraq shares a border with Pakistan, says Putin is president of… Germany… and yet says he is the foreign policy candidate, his healthplan will leave me a cancer patient without coverage(…guess he figures it is cheaper if we all die off…wait, isn’t he one, too?…yeah, but he has the Senate coverage, ain’t that precious….) and he will nominate more Supreme Court justices that deny people held by the US Habeaus Corpus rights. No thank you. I have had enough of the GOP myself. Want to go down the slippery slope to dictatorship…vote GOP.

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Mrs Godlesszilla,

Please list any meaningful legislative accomplishments in your candidate’s history…

uh, still waiting…….

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..

got anything yet?

what time is it?

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

To all of the idiotic Democrat party voters: I found this AP release this morning. IT SAYS THAT WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ! APOLOGIZE! Kiss it! Kiss this right wing republicans arse democrat voters. Kiss it! Kiss it good!

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jzxqARN0Huv38n5pgDfdBRwuoiZgD925HT7G0

By lava

July 28, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

McCain is a grumpy old man and is yesterdays news. He is running a reactionary type campaign where he lets Obama take the lead and all he does is respond WELL SAID BUDDY! a decayed old dotant McCain is….and boring to the core..even Jim and BFKaJ have nothing good to say about their candidate..proof,the space that is given to Prezident Obama on this Thinking right blog…Shouldnt we now call it Thinking Left now! About time….

By SaveOurRepublic

July 28, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

AmVet @ 9:14 AM EDT - You’re all too correct about the faux “conservatives”/Neocons/Globalist puppets of “McAmnasty” & “Mutt Robthee”. These two RINOs are an extension of the “Skull&Bones” Bush reign. However, “Bacrock Obummer” is not the answer & is controlled by the exact same Globalist Elite ma$ters!

In my estimation, much of this supposed adulation of “Obummer” is largely contrived via his handlers & (controlled) “mainstream” media. It’s a not-so-subtle marketing ploy meant to dupe left-leaning sheeple. Look at the commonalities “Bacrock” has with “McAmnasty”…both against immediate withdrawal of our troops from the Middle East, both for amnesty/open borders/North American Union, both have put the Bill of Rights in their cross-hairs…”McAmnasty” vs. the 1st Amendment (see “Campaign Finance Reform), 6th & 7th Amendment (Patriot Act, Warner Defense Authorization Act) & Obummer vs. the 2nd Amendment…ie - constant attack on right to bear arms). Plus, just look at all the CFR members in each of these two Globalist’s camps. A comparison between “Bacrock Obummer” & “Juan McAmnasty” may seem like comparing apples to oranges, but there is more to these two (sides of the same coin) than meets the eye!

http://thenewamerican.com/node/8574

By Ty Cobb

July 28, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Iraq is like jello. The USA is like a jello mold. We simply stay in place until the jello cools down, we remove the mold, and Iraq forms the shape of our umbrella. Victory in Iraq is a jiggling, quivering blob melting in the sun.

The Iraqis say: “Obama had us at Goodbye”.

I say: “We aint never gonna git outta Iraq.”

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla and DawgBoy, You’re both MORONS! We are winning in Iraq and your “messiah” is going to eat it very soon. Your candidate is nothing but an empty suit disguised as a black man. Your democrat party SUCKS! I can not wait for November when your savior LOSES just like your loser democrat party.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser,

Yes, we shall see.

Maybe the people who will vote for Obama look past the hyperbole and rhetoric propaganda machine of the right and actually look at what the man wants to do with this country.

Maybe they like what they read. Maybe they like what they see in the message.

Have we gotten used to incompetence? Yes, but every four years we have the chance to vote for who we think will be the best candidate.

As I see it, each candidate can say this and say that, they’ll do this and they’ll do that, but until some key things change in Washington - lobbying for one, partisan bickering for another, there will be little change.

But vice versa to what you said about hating George Bush and Republicans - it’s also not a good plan to vote against someone as well - i.e. Obama.

I think McCain is actually a great choice for the Republicans. People are very tired of the uber-right underhanded politics of the Bush administration. Even though I feel McCain has sold his soul to the Republican power machine of the far right with this election, prior to this election, I liked him as a politician - and would have voted for him for President back in 2000 if Bush hadn’t won the nomination (by what I consider very unscrupulous means).

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Did you know that your precious savior used Blackwater as security? I thought Blackwater was evil? Guess that makes your democrat party a bunch of hypocrites.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/7/25/blackwater-got-the-gig-securing-obama-in-afghanistan.html

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

SInce the AJC website isn’t up to 2008 technology I guess an entire web address can not post on this site. Here is the Obama Hussein Blackwater debacle from US News and World Report.

Sen. Barack Obama has not been a fan of private police like Blackwater in war zones, and some news outlets even reported that they were spurned for his trip last week to Afghanistan and Iraq. But Whispers confirms that Blackwater did handle the Democratic presidential candidate’s security in Afghanistan and helped out in Iraq. What’s more, Obama was overheard saying: “Blackwater is getting a bad rap.” Since everything appeared to go swimmingly, maybe he will take firms like Blackwater out of his sights, the company’s supporters hope.

Guess he is indeed a hypocrite.

By K-Chub

July 28, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

DawgBoy, The Surge is one of the few tricks McCain has up his sleeve and it’s the only thing that is getting him time with the press these days. McCain thinks Americans are dumb enough to believe him when he starts phrasing the argument about the Surge being successfull because violence is down. He is counting on people forgetting that decreasing violence in Iraq was only half the reason for doing it in the first place - there still isn’t political stability.

McCain isn’t going to win this argument and once the debates start tired old McCain won’t stand a chance against Obama.

By george hussein washington

July 28, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

dirty stinking lying repukes and neoScum will tell any lie, betray any friend, attack any country to remain in power…they will even put lipstick on a pig…like mcCancer Face, aka McInsane…to control the office of president….may they all rot in hell…with you know who…

By Copyleft

July 28, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Back to raving and howling about President Obama, I see. A right-wing hack’s work is never done!

Oh, and what was your guy’s name again? John McSomething or other…?

You know, the guy you’re TERRIFIED to actually talk about, for fear people will take a close look at him and see what the GOP has to offer?

(snicker)

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC,

Are you really so blinded by your wingnut ways that you think ALL Democrats want to lose in Iraq?

It’s not about winning or losing, when you think in those terms it shows a really narrow ability in cognitive functions.

It’s about what was the cost vs. benefits of the war.

Find an article on that, there are plenty out there.

Apologize? For what? Can you tell me what it is exactly that we’ve won?

By Peter

July 28, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Jim here is what is going on….

MORE WASTE BY REPUBLICANS OF AMERICAN TAX PAYERS MONEY !

Bowen estimated up to 20 percent “waste” — or more than $4 billion — from the $21 billion spent so far in the U.S.-bankrolled Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. It’s just one piece of a recovery effort that swelled beyond $112 billion in U.S., Iraqi and international contributions.

The Wrongs here should look in the mirror before exclaiming Democrats raise Taxes.

The unbelievable waste by Republicans with the COST PLUS CONTRACTS is Killing America !

By Tray

July 28, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Yes, Bosch, inded I can provide proof that OBAMA doesn’t know the key players

About 3 weeks ago, he stated publicly that he would (and i quote) “Call upon the Joint Cheifs of Staff to end the war and bring the troops home”

Oh, but wait, The Joint Cheifs is an Advisory borad with absolutely NO POWER in decision making. ie: THEY CAN’T BRING THE TROOPS HOME!! basically, they give sound military advice, that’s it!

Which means that no matter how many times Obama asks them, they can’t do it.

Do you need any other examples of his ignorance, there are literally hundreds…

And if he did see the troops, i wouldn’t have called any kind of political B.S on it!!

In my opinion it would have been nice for him to stop by and share sorrow with the people who are in pain/wounded because they fought (and died) for his right to run as president!!!

Tell me where the politics are in that…

By catlady

July 28, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

I find it funny that the Republicans charge that Obama is getting kind treatment by the press, when their president and his cronies have had pretty gentle treatment over the last 7 years.

Obama looks so good because of the s&%$ we have had lately. McCain sure doesn’t look like an improvement. Sad, but true.

When your girlfriend is butt-ugly, anyone else looks pretty hot.

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Tuffy,

There isn’nt a single true statement in your 9:34.

You’re blowing smoke.

By JustDroppedBy

July 28, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

I just decided to make a random visit to Wooten’s blog and what do you know — still nothing to say about McCain. Well, like my dad would say, “If you can’t think of anything good to say about someone, then don’t say anything at all.” Did your dad tell you the same thing, Mr. Wooten?

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Copyleft, Your precious savior only thinks he is president. He’s delusional. The guy is so delusional he went to the wrong country to give speeches. Too bad he can’t remember that it is the US that votes. Not Germany, France and the UK. His expensive education went to waste. The guy also thinks that there are 57 states. Copyleft, your guy is a genius. By the way, make fun of Mccains cancer all you want. It’s all you idiot dems have on him. Its going to be fun watching Obama Hussien stu-stu-stutter his way in to losing this fall.

By K-Chub

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

CommunistAJC,

Just because you are angry and self-righteous doesn’t make what you are saying correct. I am sure I can dig around the Internet and find all kinds of stories that contradict every weak point you are desperately trying to say. You are a classic republican - you think that somehow being angry and beliving a situation is different than what it is makes it that way. Once again the old saying about those who scream and shout the loudest are usually (if not always) the one’s who are the most wrong.

By Peter

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

More Huge LIES from The REPUBLICAN in office…….

“The report underscores how the price tag has been gradually rising for the war in Iraq, which began in March 2003. In late 2002, then-White House budget director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.”

Yes the WAR won’t cost too much HA HA HA……..

What will it cost ????? 1. something TRILLION……….

REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTING…….. don’t keep track of anything JUST SPEND !

By CommunistAJC

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

Bosch, I’m BLIND? Are you kidding me? How many damn times have we heard EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT say they want out of Iraq because we can’t win? It is about winning or losing. Wow, I’m shocked that you can actually type on a keyboard. With your way of thinking we’d still be living in caves. If you can actually read then you’d have read where WE ARE WINNING THE WAR! Moron.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Tray,

And you can provide a transcript of this - um, proof?

Seriously, don’t you people get tired of nit picking every word a candidate says and use such analysis as a means to say for absolute certainty someone is experienced/ competent or not?

Say, for instance, couldn’t I do the exact same thing with McCain or any of the other candidates? Let’s see, how many faux pas could we pick to death from George Bush.

Hundreds? Thousands? Millions?

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

catlady, You’ve just made my points about democrats being uneducated. Obama looks good? Are his looks going to solve problems? Is his blackness going to end terrorism? Are his looks going to fix the economy. Bush received special treatment from the press? Where have you been the past 8 years? Probably in your cave in Pakistan. Please do us all a favor and just stay home and continue to smoke your crack.

By TW

July 28, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

The official said Monday the deficit was being driven to record levels by the sagging economy and the stimulus payments being made to 130 million households in an effort to keep the country from falling into a deep recession. A deficit approaching $490 billion would easily surpass the current record deficit of $413 billion set in 2004.

Ah, those record setting conservatives…

Alas, as the rich ride into the sunset, it becomes painfully obvious to all that ‘w’ soiled the GOP far worse than he did the rest of the country.

It’s over, Mr. Wooten. It’s over and you and the rest of your ilk, rushanitty etc., are as responsible for the death of the right as anyone. And thus, you bare the blame for the impending liberal tsunami.

Perhaps you have been a closet liberal all along?

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC @ 10:08,

Um, didn’t McCain visit the same leaders a while back - to the sound of crickets by the media?

Where was your outrage then?

Didn’t McCain say that Iraq and Pakistan shared a border?

Get my point?

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

K-Chub, What did I say that was incorrect? Self-righteous? Nope, I just have common sense and enough education to see right through morons. Go ahead and find an article that contradicts mine. But it better be recent and not from 4 years ago. At least my articles are current. By the way, who is shouting? We’re typing. You might need to see a doctor.

By getalife "whiners"

July 28, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Well, we just learned the wingnut that killied two at a church did it because he hated gays and liberals.

Time to lock up all wingnuts in Gitmo

They are terrorists

No lawyers, no trial and waterboard them

By TW

July 28, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Suicide bombers struck Kurdish protesters in Kirkuk and Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 48 people in one of the deadliest series of attacks in Iraq this year.

Somebody tell McSame he’s gonna have to move the pool party to tomorrow…

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

In March, in his first major address on foreign policy, John McCain stated his intention to kick Russia out of the G-8. In rather belligerent tones, reminiscent of the Cold War, McCain blasted Russia and suggested the country is no longer a democracy.The policy always seemed like a very bad idea, and the foreign policy establishment couldn’t imagine what on earth McCain was talking about. What’s more, it wasn’t just an unscripted response at a town-hall meeting; this was McCain reading from a prepared text in a high-profile speech.In June, the McCain campaign said the senator no longer believes what he said. A McCain adviser told McClatchy that the candidate’s policy on Russia and the G-8 as “a holdover from an earlier period,” adding, “It doesn’t reflect where he is right now.”

Media Fails To Fact-Check McCain Claim On Troop Visit

DID YOU KNOW MCCAIN FLIP FLOP LIST IS UP TO 70! GOOGLE IT DUDES!

More backlash on McCain’s “churlish” attacks — from the GOP … One GOP strategist with close ties to McCain’s campaign said the new line of attack reflected the operation’s “schizophrenic” nature. He said that tendency was also on display last week, as McCain spoke at length about media coverage of Obama rather than sticking with his plan to focus on the economy. “They couldn’t help themselves,” the strategist said, adding that the ad over the hospital visit is “churlish and unlike McCain, and hardly will resonate with the swing voters who are going to decide this election.” The strategist continued: “They’re doing it because the candidate, and the campaign, is not happy with where they are and they’re lashing out.” If McCain hopes to win the election, the strategist added, “he needs to be a happy warrior

Over $4 billion in failed rebuilding projects for Iraq … So where has McCain been when this was collapsing? Iraq is his pet project, so let’s hear what he’s been doing to protect American taxpayers and make sure that our money is spent wisely in Iraq. The Republicans can’t stop telling everyone how well they run the economy but the facts say something radically different

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Bosch, Not saying Mccain is perfect but at least he knows how to win a war and not appease our enemies. And, at least he is an American. You’ve just stepped in it my friend. The media is all over Obama. That was one of my points about how democrats and republicans differ. The media is in the tank for Obama. America is skeptical. Why then, has he not broken 50% of America in the polls. He is neck in neck with Mccain. Obama is going to stumble big time when the debates hit. Mccain is going tocall him out for the idiot that he is.

By SaveOurRepublic

July 28, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC @ 10:08 AM EDT - You’re allusion to “Bacrock Obummer’s” recent International pandering only further proves he’s a Globalist core beneath his quasi-populace (lip service) rheotric (ie - alluding the the (valid) shortcomings of NAFTA, yet stopping short of vowing to repeal it). However, “McAmnasty” has also demonstrated this via the Kennedy-McCain Immigration Reform (aka - amnesty for illegals) bill and his embrace of NAFTA, GATT & the WTO. These so-called “free trade” agreements have been very detrimental to the U.S. manufacturing base via mass outsourcing & insourcing of 3rd rate, cheap H-1B visa workers (taking American jobs)!

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By Marcus

July 28, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

I’m just curious: I hear all of this anti-Obama rhetoric from your conservatives, but no one mentions any pro-McCain talking points. Are things really that bad on your side of the fence. Somebody…anybody…give me one reason to vote for McCain.

By Tray

July 28, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Bosch, You may be able to point out ignorance on McCain’s part, just like people can do with Obama. The Difference is that McCain knows who does what in the White House, and that is something gained from EXPERIENCE, which Obama has near none of. So yes, I will find Obama’s quote just to prove you wrong, but remember-no matter what you can say about McCain, he has the experience, and Obama doesn’t.

I will stand before God and our Lord Jesus Christ and say that Obama will be a great candidate, in about 15 more years when he gets his feet wet some.

Right now, his lack of OJT (on the job training) is his biggest fault, and I’m sorry, but when it comes time to get in the white house, I’d rather someone who can start working immediately, as opposed to someone who will have to take months to train and learn jobs, names, and who does what.

What will be happening to America while Obama learns how to run America??

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

SaveOurRepublic, Like I said, not defending Mccain. I despise a lot of his positions. Not sure who to vote for. So far its going to be for libertarian candidate.

By Casey

July 28, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

of course we should love obama, for one reason only, he’s not bush and cheney and he’s not a republican. those scumbags could make a porcupine look huggable! these past 8 years have been hell for this country. losses of freedom, complete and total mismanagement based on greed and incompetency. the same people that say we don’t need taxes are now going to bring us toll roads. i don’t like taxes either, but they are necessary within reason and the money should be spent wisely on only u.s. citizens. vote for anybody that isn’t a republican, this country can’t handle any more of this crap caused by devils that hide behind the cross, the flag and children, what shameful cowards.

By getalife "whiners"

July 28, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

time,

You are a terrorist and have the same rights as an enemy combatant.

You will get locked up, tortured, and no trial.

You should go back to your country before they get you.

All pundits like jim, rush and hannity will join you in Gitmo.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Research 2000 for KCCI-TV, KCRG-TV, WSBT-TV, The Concord Monitor, et al. July 25-27, 2008. N=1,100 likely voters nationwide. MoE ± 3 (for all likely voters). “”If the election for president were held today, who would you vote for if the choices were between Barack Obama, the Democrat, John McCain, the Republican, Bob Barr, the Libertarian, or Ralph Nader, an independent?”

Did somebody say Obama hasn’t broke 50% yet…..OOPS! HE HAS NOW!

continual gradual improvement

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Marcus, The whole reason we conservatives go after Obama Hussien is because the media sugar coats this guy as Jesus Christ. We know Mccain and all of his faults. If only one reason I could give anyone a reason to vote for him it would be judges and the fact that he was right about Iraq. Other than that, i think Americans need to send a message to Washington and vote for third parties. Screw the democrats and republicans. We need more third parties.

By Abomi Nation

July 28, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Today in Iraq…..57 killed, 300 injured in 2 different car bombings. We are still spending 2 billion dollars a week there.

Time to fold up that MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.

Again.

By Mr. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

I am sorry people my wife has been off of her medication for a while. When we find her we will put her back in San Francisco with the rest of her friends.

By catlady

July 28, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Markus and Honky Tonk: McCain’s message/platform is: I am not Obama. (It was gonna be “I am not Hillary” but he had to flip flop it.)

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC,

One last reply before I run out for a bit, maybe we can continue later, but

isn’t Bush now agreeing to talk with Iran? Do you consider that appeasement?

Are you implying that Obama isn’t an American? He was born in Hawaii in 1961, and at that time, Hawaii was part of the U.S., and his mother was a citizen.

If Obama didn’t meet the qualifications to run for POTUS, I don’t think he’d be running, do you?

Is it possible for you to stay on topic?

But, arguing with you about these points is pointless because they are all rhetorical nonsense continually brought about by the scared uber right.

Next, you’ll probably say something like Obama is a space alien - in disguise and sent here to spy on Earth who relays messages up to the mother ship to help plan an attack and destroy all of humankind.

Tabloid fodder. Desperation.

Also, is it possible for you to debate a point without calling someone a moron/idiot, insult their intelligence, or argue a specific point that you didn’t read in the tabloids?

Later.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Tray,

Really, you don’t have to stand before God AND your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to do that just for me.

But I anticipate your transcript upon my return so we can discuss.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Mr. G…..love of my life….you handsome devil you!

Did you pick up the prawns from Whole Foods yet for Number 1 son’s B-day dinner tonight?

Did you tell all your buddies about shootin’ a 78 Saturday!

OH wait….that post really wasn’t from you. It was just another silly attempt to hurt my feelings by a poor unfortunate unable to state a case for his candidate!

By Peter

July 28, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Jim, here is what is happening…….

The REPUBLICAN’S again lied about money and what the deficit would be ……the American public was told Bush was balancing the budget, instead we find out he will leave office with the LARGEST DEFICIT IN US HISTORY !

Bush administration official: 2008 will set record By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A senior Bush administration official says the budget deficit for this year will set a record in dollar terms, approaching $490 billion.

The official said Monday the deficit was being driven to record levels by the sagging economy and the stimulus payments being made to 130 million households in an effort to keep the country from falling into a deep recession. A deficit approaching $490 billion would easily surpass the current record deficit of $413 billion set in 2004.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the new deficit estimate had not been formally released. Bush administration officials were scheduled to do that at a news conference later Monday.

ALL LIES by the REPUBLICANS in Office !

And you WRONGS want more of this with McLost !

By Paul

July 28, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Tray 10:05

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military advisor to the President.

The operational chain of command to the US combatant commands (such as Centcom) goes from the Pres to the SecDef to the combatant commander.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff functions within the chain of command by transmitting to the Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands the orders of the President or the Secretary of Defense.

It may seem overlapping or contradictory, but it really isn’t and it’s the way it’s spelled out in DoD Directive 5000.1

Link: DoD Organizational Structure

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Oh gee, Wooten is back and all the Democratic fabricators are back too. These Democrats cannot remember that Obama is a freshman senator of short record whose only contribution to America is a good speech and a bad record of his past activities.

On the other hand, McCain is a decorated war veteran, a retired officer in the US Navy, a senator from Arizona of long standing who has served as Chairman of a big committee in Congress. He has had NO association with the use of drugs,with radical Weathermen, with racist Farrahan, with racist Jeremiah.

McCain’s “community service” (politics?) has happened in many ways but not as a full time job for many years as the record of Obama shows.

McCain has been to Iraq many time to support the troops. His son has also served in Iraq.

McCain has supported the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and has never been ANTI-WAR like Obama who is now trying to CHANGE his previous protests and statements. McCain stands firmly in his commitments.

With the short term memory of Democrats and their proclivity to change facts, their choice to “cut’n’run”, their poor record of leading Congress, we can only expect loud screams of vindication when their inexperienced junior senator loses.

So get ready, Republicans. We have a good man for President and we are going to give the country a strong man to run it. Hurrah, McCain, a man of strength.

By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

For those who needed proof of the Obama uote about the Joint Chiefs and how he doesn’t know what they do, here it is:

[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/14/obama-doesnt-understand-role-joint-chiefs-will-msm-take-note-0]

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Did one of your ugly children create that poll? Looks like a kindergarten student put that site together. Please get your poll numbers from a legit polling site. Would make your rhetoric look more legit.

By findog

July 28, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten,

Major Wooten as I recall.

Rather strange coincidence that you were out of pocket when Senator Obama was out of the country.

Admit it; you were not out of the loop but used your PA-Det connections to camp out with the wounded warriors in Germany thinking you’d get a first hand look at the ONE.

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

You know, I’m going to open this up to the whole crowd now, and not just Mrs Godlesszilla….

Can ANYONE list any meaningful, or any legislation whatsoever that Obama has sponsored, written, or co-written since assuming duties as a United States Senator?

tic toc tic toc

(still waiting)

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..

i thought not.

By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Peter, how do suppose the Dems want to fix that budget??

BY TAXING THE HELL OUT OF US!! I understand the budget is blown, we’re fighting a freaking war!!

You think Obama with his lack of experience could do better??

I’m glad Obama gets all this press coverage, it just gives the world a better opportuninty to view his shortcomings (see above referenece to joint chiefs)!

We need someone with knowledge to fix this hell Bush has caused, and people actually think Barack has it…?

Sad, truly sad…

By Rosco P Coltrane

July 28, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Just more JEALOUSY aimed at Barack Obama.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser, I believe Mr. Obama Hussein has voted present more times that he has actually voted. He voted against the Iraq war. Something that is coming back to haunt him. That is why he is focused on Afghanistan and not Iraq. He can’t admit that the surge worked and we are winning. Have been for a long time. But then again, democrats are all about doom and gloom. They are happy with us paying high taxes and high prices at the pump. They get their votes from felons, dead people and stupid people.

By Paul W

July 28, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Random observations-

• I am shocked hear of the rock concert before Obama’s Berlin speech; that lack of reporting is true journalistic malpractice (which is impossible because America’s journalists are no longer professional.)

• Most bloggers apparently don’t care enough about their contry to give this race more thought than they would a ctudent council election. God help us.

• The Godzilla freak thinks that capital letters make her words stronger. She apparently lacks meaningful things to do with her life.

• Barrack Obama has less experience than Jimmy Carter, and look how that turned out. Frightening, id the love affair contunues until November. We need adult leadership. I don’t think my generation is ready, and I am older than Barrack Hussein Obama. That Irish boy needs to get some more experience and come back later.

By findog

July 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

DawgBoy, You know, that crap about Obama being against the war is truly bogus. John Edwards at least admitted his vote was a mistake. Obama was not asked to vote, and if he were based on his propensity to triangulate a position, he would have voted for it to remain a viable CINC. His too frequent changes of position after he became the presumptive nominee have relieved him of what standing he had against the war.

By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Paul, I know how it works, i was trying to show others that one of two options exist for Obama:

1) He is running for president, and has no clue about key positions in the White House. (which you would think one would know when trying to become their boss)

or…

2) Assume he knew their role, and just ‘talked down’ to the American public because he assumes we’re all stupid. (which he does quite often talk down to people because he thinks he’s God’s gift-or else people wouldn’t want to cut his balls off)

Think about that, just think about his general lack of experience…especially when the job is a big as the one he wants.

Is he ready, can you honestly answer that to yourself people?? Maybe in a few more years, but not now…

By Paul

July 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Tray 11:04

It doesn’t have anything to do with operational control of in-country forces.

The services train, equip and organize. When war comes, they provide forces to the unified commander in charge. He runs the war. The service chiefs (members of the JCS) come up with the plans to rotate units in and out of the theater.

So in the same manner, the Pres would go to the Chairman, JCS and say “here’s what I want you to do.” There’d likely be a parallel instruction to the Centcom commander through the SecDef. The Centcom commander would then have to adjust his strategy in light of the forces drawdown. He would recommend to the service chiefs what units he would want to hold onto until when, but the services would set in motion the drawdown plans.

It’s rather the same dustup as occurred when Gen Franks, past Centcom commander, stood up the gov’t, said staffing it (military personnel) was the Pentagon’s problem and essentially washed his hands of the matter. He was essentially correct - he was the commander, stated what he was going to do, then it was up to the Pentagon and the services to get him the resources. Of course, Gen Franks retired six months into the war. I have to believe it was more than a burning desire to go play golf -

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

I don’t know who makes me smile the most, Mrs. Godsy or Bosch.

Mrs. Godsy aka IN THE NEWS from Democratic HEADQUARTERS tries to “put on the dog” while giving us her little reprints. Her reports on her cuisine are as cute as a button. Her Dem news is dull and routine.

Bosch, whose political thinking is based on Bsttleship Galatica and the ale he is drinking, usually involves blind loyalty to Obama (his Captain) and his fictitious reports on Iraq & Afghanistan, Bosch reminds us that HE IS NOT VOTING FOR BUSH. Carter is his first choice.

What a twosome!! Even PoFo cannot beat such jokers.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

NOW NOW BUDDY WISER do you have to ask for this every week! Please print out a copy and put it in your purse!

Obama Accomplishments here

By Peter

July 28, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA…………..By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Peter, how do suppose the Dems want to fix that budget??

BY TAXING THE HELL OUT OF US!! I understand the budget is blown, we’re fighting a freaking war!!

Gee I guess they should have figured out all the “Faulty Intelligence”……… but hey that was just another LIE !

Maybe a broke country should not be spend it’s resources that way………

Bu wait a minute the USA was NOT Broke before Bush took over……that”s correct we had a SURPLUS !

Anyone in office would be better than the Crooks in the White House today !

HA HA HA HA HA …….TAX US……… HA HA HA HA ……….heck the Republican’s can’t even ACCOUNT for the money they spend !

HA HA HA HA …..Democrat’s will tax us……….

HA HA HA…………..

The Republican’s will BILK US !

Republican = ZERO Financial Responsibility !!!!!

Don’t start with the Taxes Tray….. you tell me how the Republican’s will get us out of the mess they created ?

Can Lemming think ?

By SaveOurRepublic

July 28, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC, I’m glad to hear you’re leaning towards a 3rd party candidate. I wish more folks would awaken to this bogus smokescreen of the “Left vs. Right” paradigm. That’s simply a control mechanism of the Elite to con the lemmings into thinking they have a real choice…when both “mainstream” sides are controlled by the same “puppeteers”!

The LP nominee Bob Barr is outstanding on defending the Bill of Rights & fighting the growing police-state. However, due to his past Neocons leanings (signed the so-called “Patriot Act”), I’m supporting Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin. Dr.Baldwin is an avowed paleoconservative & strict-Constitutionalist who’s platform is more in line with Ron Paul & Pat Buchanan. That being said, a vote for Barr is infinitely better than one foolishly cast for Globalist coin side A (“McAmnasty”) or side B (“Obummer)!

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

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

@ Vidal -

By Paul

July 28, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Tray 11:20

Thanks. I had the same reaction when I first heard it - had more to do with how it was presented, I think. Sen Obama does have some high-level military advisors, among them a former Air Force chief of staff as a co-chair. That’s the problem with ‘sound bites’ - but it’s the nature of our system.

I’ll go more into this next week, but for now, the entire ‘experience’ issue will become very interesting in light of certain vice president choices. People are being considered with no Federal government experience…. or one or two terms as a governor….

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

To Communist:

I have a question can you tell me what war we are winning in Iraq?

We invaded Iraq because of Saddam Hussien and Al-Queda followed the Americans their who actually started the war with Iraq!

So who are we fighting against the Shia or Sunni? The Muslim or Jihad? Al-Queda or the Taliban?

Who actually are we winning the war against?

By Peter

July 28, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA………..All you folks that say Obama does not have a clue……

Well after 8 years of Bush………what do we have…….

Record Defici………, 2 wars……… NO Bin Laden……… the Economy in a mess……..Tax payer bailout for Corporate America……….. cost plus contracts for Bush, and Cheney’s buddies, so America is getting Ripped off and Bilked………..Finally Republican’s can’t even figure out where they spent the money !

HA HA HA……… tell me Bush had a clue ?

Well if Bush had a clue………. then give me someone without a clue !

Not the OLD GUY………McLost…….. give America what it needs……..

REAL LEADERSHIP !

By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Peter, I never once suppported Bush or his broke White House, so you can laugh all you want at that, while I’ll laugh that the best thing the Dems can give us id Barack!

Funny how when i point out bad about Obama, no one comes up with good to counter it. This discussion is about him, not bush’s failures. All my posts have been about him, or Dems upping taxes to fix everything (you can’t put out a fire by throwing money at it)

Laugh all you want at bush, in 5 months, he’ll be gone, and if Obama is elected, your laugh will become a cry…

By Joe Schmoe

July 28, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

since the oil companies always use the summer driving season as a way to increase prices and profits and their politician buddies always find a way to lower gas prices right around election time, why don’t we move elections from November to July and screw both ‘em?!

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

New Report Concludes Bush’s Justice Department Engaged In Illegal Hiring Practices

The Disabled Veterans of America have revoked Vice President Dick Cheney’s invitation to speak at its convention next month because “the group felt his security demands were Draconian and unreasonable

On ABC’s This Week, McCain reversed himself and came out in support of Ward Connerly’s attempt to end affirmative action in Arizona.

John McCain’s campaign has been operating under a similar framework for quite a while now. Under McCain’s version of Pinata Politics, the senator and his team swing wildly in every direction, hoping to hit Barack Obama. There’s no real consistency to the attacks, and there’s even less honesty and integrity backing up the attacks. But McCain appears to be blindfolded, allowing Karl Rove’s operation to spin him in circles.

ABC News has learned that two former administration officials for President George W. Bush will appear with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, at an economic meeting today, having signed up to be Obama economic advisers.Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill former Securities and Exchange Commissioner William Donaldson .They aren’t your run of the mill Neo-Con Spend and Burn GOP types… these are two rogue former officials now out of favor with the GOP who certainly know what went wrong, from the inside, and likely know ‘where the bodies are buried’. This is nothing short of a coup by Obama’s team in positioning his team/perspective. He’ll now hopefully gain new fresh insights in how to critique the BushCo economy and its failings.

McCAIN’S REMARKS ABOUT A NEW VA MISSION SENDCONFUSING MESSAGE — residential-hopeful calls forVA to get out of the business of “routine” healthcare.

By findog

July 28, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Tray, The reason the next president will have to TAX THE HELL OUT OF US is because Zell Miller, the GOP, and President Bush decided to: cut taxes, increase spending, expand Medicaid, half-heartily engage in a necessary war, and start a war of choice. SO, go sit in the corner with Mrs. Godzilla until you return to sanity. -peace

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten,

What you missed is what the Demstream Media missed:

• Obama arriving in Iraq, bounding down the gangway to his formal reception on the tarmac, all the while chewing a wad of gum with his mouth open.

• Obama being received officially in Prime Minister al-Malaki’s baroque parlor, and then inviting the Premier to take a seat in his own residence.

• Obama before a crowd of young, anti-war Germans (free beer and music), declaring himself a “citizen of the world” by plagiarizing a Bono speech that went, “This is our moment; this is our time.” “Our”?

• Obama discovering, after he’d planned at length to bring his flying circus to the wounded U.S. troops recuperating in Germany, that as his tour was a campaign function and not a Senate one, only he and Senate staff (of which he’d brought not one), would be permitted to visit with the wounded. When he learned this, and that Army reg’s called for pictures to be taken only by government (and not campaign) photographers, upon the request of the wounded soldier, a nice workout at the Ritz-Carlton seemed suddenly the better option than visiting privately with wounded troops.

• Obama, upon returning stateside, immediately stabbing his beer-swilling German peaceniks/props in the back by advocating Germany’s participation with the combined forces in Afganistan.

• Obama’s inability to remember the name of the Commanding General of Combined Security Transition Command, Afghanistan, immediately after the two had met. (That would be Maj. Gen. Robert W. Cone.)

On balance I would describe the Media’s handling of Obama as “hard sell”.

Incidentally, I understand that while you were away a major broadcaster took to referring to this as “the year journalism died”.

By thogwummpy

July 28, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Ahm…we actually already won the Iraq War—-news reporters/activists (same thing) mis-lable Reconstruction; which tends to follow conflicts. We won the war against Saddam’s regime (and if you don’t think he was a threat, you should read the “open letters to America” he published within days of 9/11, aligning his grievances with the events of that day…HE brought war down upon Iraq; historians aren’t going to forget that).

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Common Sense, Which question do you want me to answer? You said you have one question but you asked me three? Can you count?

By Peter

July 28, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Hey Trey………By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Peter, I never once suppported Bush or his broke White House, so you can laugh all you want at that, while I’ll laugh that the best thing the Dems can give us id Barack!

Come on now……… Republican’s have given us a OLD GUY for President……. out of touch with America.

McLost……… gotta love a guy who probably killed more American’s in the Vietnam War than the enemy !

Yes he is perfect follow up for a guy who has spent MORE money than any President ever, and has driven America down, while allowing his buddies to get flat out Rich………..how you say ?

By BILKING AMERICA………..

Got to love a President that allows for the Bilking of American Tax dollars……. Boy that sounds sooooooooooo Patriotic !

Where is Bin Laden Trey ! ? !

By Tray

July 28, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

So even though Obama doesn’t know the ‘job’ of the Joint Chiefs, i guess he could ask them to get him a taco, too becasue he’s hungry. While it’s not their job, they will see that it gets done, after all, he’s the president.

But still, that’s why there are specific jobs, and what is more efficient, asking the right people to do the job, or asking the wrong ones who have to continuously pass your message along to the right people??

Here’s my tagline:

McCain for President, because the other option just doesn’t know…

(in no way does that state McCain is the best pick, but it does state he’s better than what’s avaliable!)

By KnowItAll

July 28, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

**We all are perfectly aware that you are a hired Obama staffer and your endless cut/paste from the Obama “talking points of the day” and by the fact you don’t respond to any comments to your inane points.

*Your posts are out-of-context to the discussion, which shows you don’t give-a-damn about what others say—just your mind-numbed self-centered hell-bent directive to spread slanted Obama propaganda and endless McCain slams with no supporting documentation. *

You are harming your cause by these blitzkrieg tactics.

And besides that—you make me sick

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

July 28, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

“Knoxville’s police chief says the man accused of a shooting that killed two people at a Tennessee church targeted the congregation because of its liberal social stance.

Chief Sterling Owen IV said Monday that police found a letter in Jim D. Adkisson’s car. Owen said Adkisson was apparently frustrated over being out of work and had a “stated hatred of the liberal movement.”

If we were all this motivated against liberalism, we wouldn’t be whining about Obama, or Hillary or Ted Kennedy or any other lib.

Now take Mr. Adkisson’s example and get your shotguns and do something besides sittin’ around and typing.

I hope that the GOP convention has a moment of silence for this great American martyr for the cause of conservatism.

I know that Rush and Hannity are smiling somewhere because they know they helped kill these God-less liberal scumbags.

RWNJIFG

By Reality

July 28, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Mrs Godzilla, Banks failed because they made poor choices and out all thier money in one area because they loved the income, and now they lost. Also with the number of community banks that opened up in Ga alone what do you expect. They do loans bigger banks stay away from. I did a google research like you said, and found that your information is from left wing nut jobs and have no credability. Is that why you bold them?

By Copyleft

July 28, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Bud Loser: Thanks for demonstrating right-wing hypocrisy and stupidity with crystal clarity in your very own posts!

I quote:

You have outed yourself as a vile little person, probably a government worker doing this on taxpayer time, with no class whatsoever… Now, I sit back and wait for your petty mindless insults to be tossed my way, because that is the true way of the left wingnut

HILARIOUS stuff! Thanks for keeping the sensible, sane patriots (i.e., us LIBERALS) laughing with your pathetic displays. Gets the week off to a great start!

I hope you’ll be this entertaining throughout President Obama’s time in office.

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

Yes Tuffy, the entire statement is false, ill-informed and misleading.

Please excuse my typos, as my left forearm is out of commission owing to a thick cast covering several broken bones; so I’m having to relearn the hunt-and-peck with my right index finger.

Not only have I read the platforms, I’ve coauthored one or two of their predecessors. They’re always crap, and Obama’s keeps changing. Basically, Obama’s platform is: more money; McCain’s is: more spine.

By Medea

July 28, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

who can the media make the most money off of for the next 4 years? Obama or McCain? who will sell the most newspapers? who will sell the most magazines? who will create more website hits? who will cause more folks to tune in to TV and radio? we still live in a capitalist society - Obama is a cash cow, McCain is an afterthought even in his most shining moment

By Peter

July 28, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA Trey…………

Here’s my tagline:

McCain for President, because the other option just doesn’t know…

Gee like BUSH knew !!!!!!!!!

HA HA HA………….

By Tray

July 28, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

It’s funny how when i make an attack against Obama, all I get is BUSH in return…Is running against Obama??

Dems will not need to raise taxes to get us out of the debt Bush put us in!! Shows how much the above knows…

They just need to not spend as much on pointless wars.

however, the Dems will raise taxes, and tell the public they need to for us to relieve the debt. They’ll raise them through the roof, and we’ll all be broke then, too!

By catlady

July 28, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC: It is so, so sad when someone does not understand that words have multiple meanings, and can only think of those his limited vocabulary includes. Perhaps you need to read more widely.

Use the more subtle (#2), instead of the first grade, meanings (# 1 and 3). C’mon, you must have an IQ of at least 70 to type.

I never disparage fellow bloggers, but you make it so easy.

What I said was that compared to Bush (and McCain) Obama seems to be a freakin’ savior. I am not saying Obama is great, I am saying he appears to be a much better choice. ‘Course, so does my Golden Retriever, except she does not speak as well as Obama.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Is it posssible that Peter doesn’t know that he sounds like an ignorant political liar trying to downsize a man who stood for America all his life including four years as a POW?

A man who has served many years as a senator in the US Congress?

That John McCain is an “old man” when “old men” are serving their countries around the world as leaders?

Is there another country trying to elect a junior congressman of a few years to run their country? I don’t think so.

Americans are a great people who try to give everyone a chance. I prefer that we not act like fools to show that freedom of speech is a right given to all Americans.

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Medea, you’re right about Obama, but as for McCain, consider Eisenhowers two pleasantly bland terms. Sometimes the folks tire of flashy grandstanding pols, and just want a get-it-done type who’ll watch their backs while they work, sleep and play.

By Peter

July 28, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Hey Dusty, let’s talk about McLost for a moment……..

He killed More American’s during the Vietnam War than the Enemy……….

Was a lousy pilot so he got shot down…….. then spent 5 years or so in a WAR Prison…….

So yes that makes him a Hero……..Killing American’s mush have got him over the hump to be a Hero !

Now at an AGE most America’s want to retire…he wants to be President……….yet his thinking is so slow, he can’t keep up with questions from the media !

OLD GUY For President !

More of the same from REPUBLICAN’S………

Just maybe the Republican’s can totally wipe out ALL of America’s wealth…….. well except for a few……..you know, like McLost’s Wife for instance……… the Blackwater executives, Halliburton Executives…….all the President’s buddies !

OK Dusty let’s here something GOOD the Republican’s have done in the last 8 years…….. and compare that to the havoc they have caused !

Why don’t you actually pull out something like Facts for a change ?

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Bud Wiser @ 8:35— I read Mrs. G thoroughly, even the links. I know it must drive you wrongists nuts that she has a policy — MCCAIN IS A PIG — that has consistently proven right. The reason is the soundness of her thinking. You’re the one I gloss over because I am tired of whiners.

By Capt. America

July 28, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Obama looks like a car salesman who smiles, pats you on the back and keeps telling you your car is in bad shape, then tries to sell you one that costs a lot more, runs a lot worse and won’t keep you safe at all.

By Capt. America

July 28, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Obama looks like a car salesman who smiles, pats you on the back and tells you your car is in bad shape, then tries to sell you one that costs a lot more, runs a lot worse and won’t keep you safe at all.

By Capt. America

July 28, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Obama looks like a car salesman who smiles, pats you on the back and tells you your car is in bad shape, then tries to sell you one that costs a lot more, runs a lot worse and won’t keep you safe at all.

By Attn: AJC Hall Monitor

July 28, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

HELLO!!! AJC Hall Monitor!!! Are you there???? The same dingalings who write books, i.e. blog, are off meds again. Bookman kept them straight. Where are you Hall Monitor? Time to surface!

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Goodling Passed Over Experienced Counterterrorism Prosecutor Because Wife Was A Democrat

McCain Offers Top Social Security ‘Privatization’ Advocate As Surrogate

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 346 July 28, 2008 Supermarket Sweep Edition

Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration. The presumed Democratic nominee, who was in Washington to speak to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, slipped into the facility shortly after 9 a.m. without stopping to speak to the small group of reporters who follow him. The visit wasn’t on his public schedule.

The Military-Industrial Complex It’s Much Later Than You Think……………Although Eisenhower’s reference to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning against its “unwarranted influence” has, I believe, largely been ignored……The military-industrial complex has changed radically since World War II or even the height of the Cold War. The private sector is now fully ascendant. The uniformed air, land, and naval forces of the country as well as its intelligence agencies, including the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), the NSA (National Security Agency), the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and even clandestine networks entrusted with the dangerous work of penetrating and spying on terrorist organizations are all dependent on hordes of “private contractors.” In the context of governmental national security functions, a better term for these might be “mercenaries” working in private for profit-making companies……

By Peter

July 28, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Hey Trey……..however, the Dems will raise taxes, and tell the public they need to for us to relieve the debt. They’ll raise them through the roof, and we’ll all be broke then, too!

Tell us the PLAN to reduce the deficit ?

Republicans spend, spend, spend………. then when the deficit is currently at an all time RECORD High….as today…..

What do you, and the Republican’s do to get America back running in the Black ?

No clue I am sure….but don’t raise taxes………..let the next few generations pay for OUR mistakes !

Got to love the total lack of responsibility by the Republican’s !

Hey let’s let OUR Kids and Grand Kids pay for our Mistakes !

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Capt. America,

Your triple post is more or less the plot of “The Music Man”. Blow into town; trump up a pathology; sell the cure; take the money and run.

That brilliant musical play reveals the essence of the Democrats’ liberalism.

By Mr. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Mrs.Godzilla, who needs a case? Obama has 143 day experience as a junior senator and defend him like he is on American idol. You spend your time promoting him but that will never change his total lack of experience to be president. I would vote for Mickey Mouse before I would vote for Obama. Isn’t that what keeps us together honey?

By Concerned Citizen

July 28, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

By Bud Wiser July 28, 2008 9:39 AM am not scared of Obama. This country survived Truman (the only President to use nukes in a war), the Nixon Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter (if you can survive the worst President in history, that says something for survivability), Clinton/Monica, and Bush/Iraq.

Scuse me, but sniff, sniff. Boo Hoo. That big bad Clinton. He lied about (being the moral person I am, I can’t even talk about this). Cough, Cough. Aaahummmm. Lookeee you dimwits, how many died from Clinton’s little lie about (sorry, I’m to moral to talk about this).

Jimmy Carter is another godawful story. Why did he LIE about what would happen if we didn’t heed to the oil problem ? (1977 speech dingbats, if you can read).

Nixon..Oh well, poor Nixon, he had the nomination in the basket, so to speak. He didn’t have to resort to “Watergate” tactics. Read about Nixon, dingbats, and see what he did to destroy careers etc. etc. Ohmygosh, no sex stories, so it must not be true!!!! You poor little dweebs!

Truman..So bad we don’t have anyone with the guts to tell it like it is like Truman. I’m sure Bushie would have done it different.

Scuse me, but I have to make an exit to ..

By Mr. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Mrs.Godzilla, who needs a case? Obama has 143 day experience as a junior senator and defend him like he is on American idol. You spend your time promoting him but that will never change his total lack of experience to be president. I would vote for Mickey Mouse before I would vote for Obama. Isn’t that what keeps us together honey?

By Concerned Citizen

July 28, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

By Bud Wiser July 28, 2008 9:39 AM am not scared of Obama. This country survived Truman (the only President to use nukes in a war), the Nixon Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter (if you can survive the worst President in history, that says something for survivability), Clinton/Monica, and Bush/Iraq.

Scuse me, but sniff, sniff. Boo Hoo. That big bad Clinton. He lied about (being the moral person I am, I can’t even talk about this). Cough, Cough. Aaahummmm. Lookeee you dimwits, how many died from Clinton’s little lie about (sorry, I’m to moral to talk about this).

Jimmy Carter is another godawful story. Why did he LIE about what would happen if we didn’t heed to the oil problem ? (1977 speech dingbats, if you can read).

Nixon..Oh well, poor Nixon, he had the nomination in the basket, so to speak. He didn’t have to resort to “Watergate” tactics. Read about Nixon, dingbats, and see what he did to destroy careers etc. etc. Ohmygosh, no sex stories, so it must not be true!!!! You poor little dweebs!

Truman..So bad we don’t have anyone with the guts to tell it like it is like Truman. I’m sure Bushie would have done it different.

Scuse me, but I have to make an exit to ..

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

To Dusty,AJC and Tray,

Please tell me what meaningful legislation Mr. McCain has actually passed?

See a decorated war hero, a senator who visits troops or a senator who states I came-up with the surge strategy when the vote on the war was wrong in the first place does not make me feel warm and fuzzy when you are put 24 years in the senate and make a statement that I do not know much about the economy tends to worry me!

Face it Americans we are going to pay higher taxes now or later. We need a real person who is not pandering to the American public about drill,drill nukem,nukem we need someone who can put together a great team to lead this country out of DEBT,DEBT,DEBT.

YOU KNUCKLEHEADS think we can continue to spend money towards occuping a country and survive you are really lost!

By BS Aplenty

July 28, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

I would put the media’s lovefest-meter at the “adoration” stage with an option to “fawn” over the next 3 months.

But let’s not give the media all the grief. France’s very own Nick Sarkozy (empahasis on the “-kozy”) was drooling for a chance to spoon with Obama in front of the French media. That is one sick frog. There’s plenty of that sort of fawning to go around.

Nevertheless, Obama showed his true strips when he failed to visit the injured troops at Ramstein AFB. Again, as in the Jeremiah Wright debacle, as in the failure-to-wear-a-flag pin incident, he shows decidedly poor judgement in these important areas, maybe the most important area, of his foreign visit. You know, the area where he says that I’m on foreign soil but I’m always an American. Possibly someone on the campaign staff dropped the ball ‘cause Obama can’t seem to remember these fundamental items on his own. I’d call it immaturity.

McCain ‘08 - he spent a lot of time on foreign soil and never forgot he was an American.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

catlady, Your faith and trust in Obama Hussein will let you down. Oh, I feel sorry for you.

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Thanks vuidal (or however the heck you misspell it). With you rapier quip about Obama’s gum chewing, you prove that the media does not purposely make him look good. Get real, AJC Hall Monitor, you don’t really expect Wooten to work, do you? Has anyone seen any proof today that he actually is reading what we’re writing? How does the Bush administration know that it was the incentive plan — as opposed to, say, our most recently monthly check to Black Water — that REALLY drove the deficit into the ionosphere. If nothing else, I hope America has learned in the past 8 years that a business degree from Yale isn’t worth beans. If the AP is right (fat chance) and we’ve won in Iraq, what kind of fool would want to stick around? Speaking of “pansy arsed,” I see, Commie, that you’re still not having any luck finding the man of your dreams. As I advised, try niceness.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Mr. Godzilla (the fake)

If your case is your percieved lack of experience on the part of Senator Obama… well, I am just devastated! I am weeping now!

Oh, and what keeps the real Mr.G and I together….humor, compassion, home grown vegetables, Joe the dog (couldn’t have him coming from a broken home now could we?), respect, my great gravy, love and 2 televisions!

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Also what kind of person would say the oil prices decrease because Bush sign the executive order to begin off-shore drilling when everyone knows the CONGRESS has to lift the ban also.

McClain is saying anything to get elected and you dummies are o.k. with the lying?

American are driving less and putting almost 1 million barrels of oil back on the market. China is no longer stock piling oil therefore the 2 biggest oil users usage is down almost 1.2 to 1.5 millions barrel per day. That is one of two reasons and the US Congress is looking into oil speculation!

C’mon Dusty,Tray and AJC quit hating!

By grneyedmustang

July 28, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

You don’t like either candidate? Then just don’t vote in November, it’s that simple.

Obama ‘08!

By Honky Talkin'

July 28, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Can someone please tell me what John McCain’s platform is? All I hear is Obama bashing….does he have a message?

Does he talk about what he would do as president? I’m even watching Fox News to find out, but they can’t even make something up.

Please help!

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

The biggest news of the week, Jim, was the discovery of the giant hole at the center of the GOP. I’ll let Frank Rich explain, since he was the masterful sleuth who uncovered this mighty shortcoming, in a lovely little essay titled “How Obama became acting president”: “We have one president at a time,” Mr. Obama is careful to say. True, but the sitting president, a lame duck despised by voters and shunned by his own party’s candidates, now has all the gravitas of Mr. Cellophane in “Chicago.” The opening for a successor arrived prematurely, and the vacuum had been waiting to be filled. What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them. Mr. McCain could also have stepped into the leadership gap left by Mr. Bush’s de facto abdication. His inability to even make a stab at doing so is troubling. While drama-queen commentators on television last week were busy building up false suspense about the Obama trip — will he make a world-class gaffe? will he have too large an audience in Germany? — few focused on the alarms that Mr. McCain’s behavior at home raise about his fitness to be president.

Rich’s full essay is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=frank%20rich&st=cse&oref=slogin

By dusty

July 28, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

Wahoo…Mr. Jim wooten is back and writing with sensibility and verve!

This weekend without Jim’s blog was a weekend that didn’t seem to end…

I don’t care what PETER says I skip right past his LIB views.

John McCain is a true american hero who has been tortured, and has always stood tall and straight. Never, not ever has he wavered on any of his positions.

I’m late for lunch “pastrami and rye” See you later!

By AmVet

July 28, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

I’ve noted that there is much back and forth regarding Senator Obama’s “experience”. Or lack thereof.

But after enduring the past eight years of arguably the worst president in American history, things have changed.

To wit, MUCH was made of George’s “experience” back in 2000. Personally I viewed it as a gigantic negative, fraught with failures, bankruptcies, questionable morals, etc…Combined with the obvious fact that as presidential material he was a mental midget with exceptionally little intellectual curiosity. But apparently there were a lot of other people who either did not see it that way or blindly chose to ignore it.

And so for me, those inanely misnamed “conservatives” on the political far right who voted for this disaster twice, seemingly now could not properly identify valuable experience from a trail of messes, if this nation’s life depended on it. So their judgment in this matter is to be gravely doubted. And explains why theytare getting thumped at almost every turn.

And even more significantly, lost in all of this “experience” talk, is the much more important matter to me, of character.

Again IMHO, Bush has consistently demonstrated an enormous lack of it. And also again, his “faithful” either pretended he didn’t, or simply denied that he misled the nation so as to cook the books and get his way regarding regime change, for example among many other little lies.

Now, ironically (or not considering the bungling nature of this ideology), it has backfired and the GOP is on the VERY short side of regime change.

And I personally have reservations about Senator Obama’s character in comparison to Senator McCain. Like W, he seems to have a penchant for surrounding himself with complete jerks. But to be fair, I guess most politicians do.

And Save Our Republic is absolutely correct when he asserts there is virtually no difference between a Democratic and Republican corporate w*******/plutocrat.

Both of these candidates are bought and paid for. And almost none of you partisans have the brains to see it or the guts to admit it.

Yet a GOP president who has demonstrated a willingness to actually lead, rather than just be a right wing ideologue and intransigent bully, along with a Democratic Congress, bodes well for a return to SOME semblance of sanity and effective governance in this nation.

But no matter who wins in November, the best news of all of course, is that it is still another humiliating defeat for the fake conservatives, neo-traitors and chickenhawks of the Republican Party who have brought disgrace upon this greatest of all nations.

01-20-09 The End of an Error

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

M. Hussein Smith,

Nobody in the Media so much as noted Obama’s Billy Carter behavior. They saw his boorishness, but preferred to regard the Emperor as splendidly arrayed. “Elegant!” “Graceful !” (!) “Kennedyesque!”

It’s some kind of mass psychosis. Somewhat like reelecting FDR in 1944 by willfully pretending that the plainly dying man was the very picture of health.

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Dusty, I know Jay says we should go light on you because of your mental challenges, but Mccain perfected the backstroke last week, ending, of course, with his acceptance of something Obama has said at least 1000 times since his long campaign began: 16 months depending on conditions on the ground. Don’t forget some mustard or horseradish sauce, or you’ll never get that pastrami down.

By Mrs. Godzilla

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

Mike Hussein Smith: That Frank Rich piece was great!

(Love your middle name! It’s so Presidential!)

Dusty…actually he has changed his position 70 times list availablehere

oh, and before y’all wimper about who’s compiling the list, why not put in the effort to disprove it.

By Vik

July 28, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

How funny…. The same people who have idolized that useless leader GWB, for 8 years are now complaining because people are excited about Obama.

Conservatives can dish it out all day long, but not one of them is man/woman enough to take it when the pendulum swings the other way. What a bunch of mouthy, whiny, sad little children.

By hotlanta

July 28, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

I am ROTFLMAO when the reporter said that the medis coverage on Obama was embarassing. I was like DUHHHH wasn’t the coverage on OJ SIMPSON embarassing 24/7. McCain was sounding like an orphaned child saying he felt left out when Brother Obama was overseas. He was the one who dared him to go over there in the first place. He probably grabbed his wife pills now. Where is his flag pin Wooten.

By hotlanta

July 28, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

I am ROTFLMAO when the reporter said that the medis coverage on Obama was embarassing. I was like DUHHHH wasn’t the coverage on OJ SIMPSON embarassing 24/7. McCain was sounding like an orphaned child saying he felt left out when Brother Obama was overseas. He was the one who dared him to go over there in the first place. He probably grabbed his wife pills now. Where is his flag pin Wooten.

By Copyleft

July 28, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

That’s why the pathetic whiners of the right are losing, Vik. They’re hypocrites, and America knows it.

I know Dusty would never DARE read one of those horrible “LIB” posts—after all, she’s afraid that thinking for herself would lead to disloyalty! But I loved this bit:

Never, not ever has he {McLame} wavered on any of his positions.

For example….? Can you actually NAME any of Johnny-boy’s positions, Dusty? Do you know where he stands on tax policy? environmental issues? Iraq? campaign finance? illegal immigration?

Don’t feel bad… NEITHER DOES HE!

(snicker)

By findog

July 28, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

By Mike Hussein Smith, You twit, Mrs. Godzilla doesn’t have any sound thinking, she is posting other peoples sound thinking. Ditto heads are a waste of bandwidth whether they are “ or ”

By @@

July 28, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

So where were you Jim? With a heading like You simply must adore Obama. You must. one would think you spent the week with a bunch of liberals at indoctrination camp.

Fill you in on what you missed?

Well………it’s simply not to be believed - unless, of course, one is inclined to believe any nuances That O’Nancy wants to deliver.

HE’S re-packaged Bush’s Middle East policy and is now calling it HIS own. HIS new and innovative one to boot.

The best quote of the week comes from General Petraeus:

With violence in Iraq at reduced levels, Petraeus told McClatchy some commanders “have so many good weeks, (they think) it’s won. We’ve got this thing. Well we don’t.”

He noted that violence in the past two-and-a-half months was at the lowest level since March 2004.

“Well that’s encouraging,” he said. “It’s heartening. It’s very welcome. But let’s keep our powder dry. … Let’s not let our guard down.”

HE went over to Iraq seeking advice from commanders on the ground and General Petraeus told him TO KEEP HIS POWDER DRY lest he get diaper rash.

Go sit in the corner Senator Obama.

By gary

July 28, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

So the media is fawning over Obama? When Dumbya was running back in 2000 didn’t Hoax(Fox)News and conservative hypocrites like you do the same thing. I find it now that since you had a bunch of incompoops running for president on the Republican side you can’t find a so-called “media darling” like Obama. Oh, but in a couple of years you will be able to fawn over Bobby Jindal, an indian who can’t even use his real name to run because it will scare “color conservatives” to death. Frankly, we have seen through you long ago. If McCain wants to be a media darling he has every chance to be in front of the cameras. In fact, why don’t you give HIM some ink instead of ranting about Obama.

By Honky Talkin'

July 28, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Can any of you “Right Wingers” tell me what McSame’s agenda is? I’ve been asking for weeks (even on fox.com) and nobody knows. We know he doesn’t like Obama and we know he doesn’t use e-mail or the internet.

Anyone…anyone…

By Tori

July 28, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

What I know is that I voted for Hillary to try her hand at riding out the armeggedon to come during the next 4 years. I’m still a supporter of Hillary, I will never vote republican again if we continue to get the same person in a different package every time, nor can I vote for obama alone due to his inexperience. Should he get his story straight and put Hillary in the VP slot, he may have a chance, not only to win but perhaps to make some kind of a difference in the way our country is skewing off track. mccain has no chance to even survive much less bring about a change that his predecesor stumbled and studdered himself and our country into. I hope for the best, but dispair over the lack of choices.

By Ga Values

July 28, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

U.S. Says Contractor Made Little Progress on Iraq Projects

By Dana Hedgpeth and Amit R. Paley Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, July 28, 2008; Page A02

The U.S. government paid a California contractor $142 million to build prisons, fire stations and police facilities in Iraq that it never built or finished, according to audits by a watchdog office.

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) said Parsons of Pasadena, Calif., received the money, part of a total of $333 million but only completed about one-third of the projects, which also included courthouses and border control stations. The inspector general’s office is expected to release two detailed audits today, evaluating Parsons’s work on the contract, which is worth up to $900 million.

“Far less was accomplished under this contract than originally planned,” the inspector general wrote. “Millions of dollars in waste are likely associated with incomplete, terminated and abandoned projects under this contract.” Auditors did not give a dollar figure of how much had potentially been wasted, but they said Parsons got about 10 percent — or $11.3 million — of the $108 million of award fees it could have received.

Parsons said in a written statement yesterday that it had “some serious reservations about the conclusions” in the audits, saying the company was hindered by the violent and unstable security situation in Iraq. One of Parsons’s subcontractors was shot and killed at close range while in his office, the company said.

Parsons’s work is emblematic of other troubles in the $50 billion U.S. reconstruction effort, in which there have been widespread problems of contractors doing poor work, being late and overspending on projects. Those issues combined with bad record-keeping, lack of oversight by overworked government managers, and high personnel turnover for both the government and contractors in an unstable war zone have created millions of dollars in waste, according to the Iraq inspector general. But SIGIR conceded that Parsons’s “failure to complete some of the work was understandable because of its complex nature and unstable security environment.”

The office, which is charged with finding waste, fraud and abuse in U.S. spending, said a contract of Parsons’s size should have had 50 to 60 contracting officers and specialists working on it, but it only had 10.

Parsons won its lucrative deal in 2004 to do security and justice work in Iraq, as part of a dozen other big reconstruction deals. Of 53 construction projects in the Parsons contract, only 18 were completed.

Auditors gave Parsons a scathing report on one of its biggest projects — a multimillion-dollar prison in Diyala that was to house 1,800 inmates and help alleviate overcrowded facilities — calling it a failure and wasteful. The U.S. government fired Parsons from the prison contract two years ago, saying it was late and over budget. It paid Parsons $31 million, and then paid other contractors $9 million to keep working on the project.

But now the prison — known as Kahn Bani Sa’ad Correctional Facility — sits unfinished and dilapidated. Local residents have derisively nicknamed it “the whale.” At one of the buildings, the second floor is without a roof. Gray cement walls jut up in the sky. There is no plumbing or electricity. Windows have not been put in, and walls are unpainted. Roads in the complex remain unpaved.

Al al-Mayahi, who said he was one of the subcontractors on the project, said that when the floors began to collapse because of poor materials used in their construction, the Americans refused to pay one of the Iraqi contractors on the deal and the man fled. In the past two years, al Mayahi said, nothing’s been done on the project. “I’m disappointed with this entire project,” said al Mayahi, who said he was also owed money on the project.

About 400 Iraqi soldiers have been camped out at the site for about a week to prepare for a major military operation in Diyala, according to Lt. Col. Ali al-Suaidi. He was horrified at the state of the building.

The U.S. government says it turned the project over to the Iraqis in August 2007, but a spokeswoman for the Iraqi Justice Ministry said yesterday that it was not under their control.

“It hasn’t been completed yet for it to be handed over to us,” said spokeswoman Fayhaa Khudir.

The Iraq inspector general said “at this point the entire amount disbursed for this project may ultimately be wasted because the Government of Iraq currently has no plan for completing or using this facility.”

By Mr. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

I am not fake

By Bob

July 28, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

The “AP” is about as neutral as Cynthia Tucker.

I don’t like either one of the candidates, but I guess I will have to vote for McCain to keep the most liberal US Senator out of my wallet.

By VOTE FOR OBAMA

July 28, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

PLEASE LET OBAMA WIN. THEN MAYBE WE CAN STOP ALL THIS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EVERYONE WILL BE TREATED EQUAL, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CREDENTIALS THEN YOU DO NOT GET THE JOB BECAUSE OF YOUR RACE. IT WILL BE A GREAT THING FOR WHITE PEOPLE IF HE DOES WIN WE WILL FINALLY BE EQUAL IN THE JOB FORCE AND THE GOVERNMENT CAN STOP GIVING TAX BREAKS FOR HIRING PEOPLE OF COLOR. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Copyleft

July 28, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

The AP is the most respected name in journalistic integrity, Bob… no wonder you hate and fear them. Reality and truth are like Kryptonite to conservative ideas.

By dusty's husband

July 28, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Folks…

You have to understand that Mrs Dusty almost had a major MELT DOWN this weekend without Wootens column.

And, guess who SUFFERS?

And to boot the pasta salad she presented at the Sunday potluck SUCKED!

Anyone got a bottle of “Dewars”. I’m going to need it tonight!

PASTRAMI! Can you say GAS!

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

This is so sweet reading all the mindless garbage from the left wingnutz, and knowing exactly where it is all going to end. Let me remind you:

It appears that recent history is not too much on your side when one of your far left politicos gets in position to reach the White House. Kind of like rehashing the Braves 14 consecutive division titles, with 1 World Series title, isn’t it? And a black man at that? America may be ready for a black President (Colin Powell comes to mind), but not that guy as President. Hell, even Queen Oprah walked out of Jeremiah Wright’s church rather than be caught up in that trash. She knows what side butters her bread. And he expects the average Joe to believe that he sat in those pews for twenty years and never heard one inflammatory remark? I already know he thinks Democrats are stupid enough to believe that, but certainly no one else with a functional brain does.

You may try to portray conservatives as rednecks, racists, whatever, in advance to try and downplay the potential effect of the ‘silent majority’ showing up at the polls, but know this; show up they will. You know it. I know it. Right or wrong, they will be there, because it is that black man and his record, and what he promises to do with taxes, lose the war, etc., that will get them to the polls.

Thanksgiving Day will be special this year because America will be proud to have voted down this fraud called Obama. I will be laughing my a$$ off at you freaks and fools that are soooo in to him here, only once more to see your champion shown the door. I have faith in the American people that the right thing will be done and Obama can go back to whatever in the hell he was doing before.

And you can keep on whining!!

hahahahaha

By Joe

July 28, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

‘mccain has been steadfast in his commitments’, is that what we want? that’s exactly what we got from idiot george, the decider. you know what decider really means? the dictator. and ol’ george is so dumb and so stubborn that when he makes a decision, no matter how much things change down the road, he doesn’t adapt and change with the them, because that’s flip-flopping and that would be horrible. it’s not horrible to re-think a decision, and change if necessary, it’s called intelligence. and as much as i like mccain personally, we don’t need another republican supporting the rich in this country that seem to always forget they are supposed to be trickling down. john mccain served his country, but is not a hero just for getting shot down and doing something that was forced upon him, like pow time. i feel for the guy, to me it takes more to really be a hero. and with all the talk about how republicans love the military, they can’t give you a good reason for what they did to colin powell, john kerry or the tillman family just to list a few, hell, it took a news team to get them to finally fix walter reed medical center, after a general first claimed everything was just peachy there. i see the story of the ramblin’ raft race and think about just how much freedom we have lost over the years by blaming drugs, liberals, tree-huggers and terrorists. always trying to create a boogeyman to scare us with and always trying to divide this country. we don’t need anymore republicans. and if republican voters would just look around and open their eyes and be able to admit they made a mistake, then they would even realize that the republican party isn’t who they said were.

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

You Simply Must Adore @@. You Must.

By brian

July 28, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

one correction. You should go ahead and start calling him President Obama, rather than Senator Obama.

he heh heh…

all you conservatives are going to be SOOOO upset. A black liberal as our President. oh boy, i can’t wait.

Brian “the liberal”

By Chuck

July 28, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

You don’t have to adore Barack Obama. Just don’t lie about him. Don’t tell people he might be Muslim (he’s not), he was schooled in a Madrassa (he wasn’t), he’s an Ivy League School elitist (he’s not), he’s unpatriotic (he’s not) or he’s unsupportive of the troops (he is supportive.)

It’s funny, if we didn’t want to elect a President who went to an Ivy League university, did not serve in the military, had no foreign policy service prior to being elected and was only known as someone who could read a good speech…..then why did we elect George W. Bush? Bush went to Yale, avoided the military, didn’t know the names of foreign leaders when asked in 2000 and is much better at reading a teleprompter than speaking off the cuff.

By Tori

July 28, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Thank you Joe.

By brian

July 28, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

one correction. You should go ahead and start calling him President Obama, rather than Senator Obama.

he heh heh…

all you conservatives are going to be SOOOO upset. A black liberal as our President. oh boy, i can’t wait.

Brian “the liberal”

By Billy

July 28, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

if you voted for George ‘the Greedy Meathead’ Bush the second time, you have no right putting any other President in history down! even Carter, who took over an awful mess left by Republicans. if you voted for George in 2004 you knowingly did something that would hurt America, but you didn’t care, you did it anyway. because you didn’t want to admit you were wrong, scared about losing face, even if America suffered, that was ok. anyone that voted for George in 2004 can not truly call themselves a patriot and has no leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing any other President in history. at least Carter cared about this country. all George cares about is the oil industry and huge profits for his friends and family. and it just hurts to think about all those mothers and fathers of children in our military that have died in Iraq just so Bush and Cheney can reach their goals of having more money that they can ever spend in their lifetime. Judgement Day is going to be swift and harsh for both of those scumbags.

By Ty Cobb

July 28, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Obama 08: America4America (copyright 2008)

By AmVet

July 28, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

“And a black man at that?”

So Obama’s white mother is just a petri dish to these “color blind” “conservatives”?

Senator Obama is NOT BLACK.

He is a mulatto.

Sorry to rain on your parade, bigots…

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

brian “the brainless”, I’ll keep calling Hussein Obama for the time being. You can keep calling him president as I’m sure that is what you still call ALGore after he LOST the election in 2000. Don’t care about his skin color. It’s his lack of experience, accomplishments, judgment and his “religion” that I don’t like.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Joe,

Your post reminded me of the cartoon from

Bowling for Columbine

I know, I know, it’s Michael Moore, so yuck yuck yuck if your a righty, but the message is a good one even if you disagree with the content.

I see Tray still doesn’t have a transcript.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

AmVet, Then why does Obama Hussein himself keep bringing up his “blackness?” I keep hearing from ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC and other stations that he could be the first black candidate. I could care less about his skin color but it is the democrats who have made race an issue. NOT CONSERVATIVES. Please get your facts straight.

By dirty harry

July 28, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

By Bud Wiser

July 28, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

BUD WISER…and what would you be reminding the readers?

That Nixon was a CROOK

RONALD REAGAN.. By the end of his term, 138 of his administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations.

That Bush 41 was a good president..”Read my Lips” It’s the economy stupid!

And that Bush 43 who lied the US into war, and simply without question is the WORST PRESDENT EVER!

So BUD what are you reminding the readers here?

A bunch of SAD SACKS who vote republican or reminding us of what a SAD SACK you are?

I notice you left out Bill Clinton…any reason?

By Willie

July 28, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Obama is the Anti Christ! He will be the best thing for 3 1/2 years then the bottom falls out. Be an American! B**ch slap a liberal.

By Tori

July 28, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Al didn’t lose the election, you remember what happened, you just don’t chose to remember it correctly, just like almost all the other brainwashed republicans. Many of those same people are the ones mentioned in Billy’s section. Poor brain damaged people.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, Bill and Hillary were too busy burning the Rose Law Firm documents, getting blow jobs from high schoolers, raping women, and pardoning felons. Does that answer your question? Oh and I forgot, selling secrets to China and having Foster killed.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Tori, And 911 was an inside job, we never landed on the moon and bigfoot is real. Right? AlGore lost. Why did he just give up? If he’d won he’d have had every chance to debunk the Supreme Court decision. Maybe he should have focused on doing an AlGore documentary on 2000. An Inconvenient Loss, or An Inconvenient Decision. Brainwashed? I don’t remember being brainwashed by anyone. Besides, the media was in the tank for ALGore so how could I be brainwashed?

By Tray

July 28, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

ANYONE ASKING FOR A TRANSCRIPT OF OBAMA NOT KNOWING THE JOB OF THE JOINT CHIEFS, PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING:

Go to the top of this blog, and hit ctrl+F

(that’s find)

Search for ‘Tray’

Eventually, you will find the link…

If you are a DEM, please re-read the above directions one more time to find the link…we knoe you need a little help…

By dirty harry

July 28, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

COMMUNIST .. Are you still buying into that Arkansas Project nonsense that Richard Mellon Scaife financed?

And what high schooler did Clinton get a B.J. from? Bet you have no answer!

Right wing neo cons just make stuff up as they go along…

Anyone we know COMMUNIST?

By getalife "whiner"

July 28, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

o is the acting President like he was the acting nominee before he won.

Interesting strategy and he has already done a better job than w.

By Dan

July 28, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

The Obama-bias is nothing but typical right-wing B.S.

Here are the facts, Jim:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia27-2008jul27,0,712999.story

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, Monica ring a bell? She was a 19 year old kid and dont even play the she was an adult card, because she was still a teenager. And yes, it is well-known that Vince Foster didn’t commit suicide. And yes, Billy Bob is a known womanizer who has been known to rape a few women in his time and uses the Hildabeast to intimidate the women he seduces.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

getalife “whiner”, If we use your presidential ACTING logic then I guess Martin Sheen, Harrison Ford and Geena Davis are better presidents than Obama Hussein. They had actually won the election in the land of fantasy. Your precious savior has yet to win anything. Obama has done better than W? Really, cause last time I checked a candidate has to WIN the election. Not play one on tv.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

I’ll give McCain credit. He’s old enough to have fought in the Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam. However, he can’t remember any of them. This guy is so old he poots dust!

By dirty harry

July 28, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, Monica ring a bell?

COMMIE…As you say Monica Lewinsky was 19 years old…But, you said HIGH SCHOOLERS! Making stuff up?

She was hardly a high schooler .. She was an intern, and of legal consensual aid.

You’ve been listening to Billo and Hannity too long..Sorry pal, but the nonsense you are spewing here is just that NONSENSE!

By SaveOurRepublic

July 28, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

AmVet @ 1:22 PM EDT - Outstanding analysis. We can only hope/prayer that more folks will awaken to the massive fraud that is the bogus “Left vs. Right” paradigm!

Mrs. Godzilla @ 12:33 PM EDT - Accurate allusion to the “Military Industrial Complex”. Eisenhower did Americans good when he called them out. However, it’s MUCH larger than just military & industry now…it now encompasses puppet governments (figure-heads), the “mainstream” press, the “Sheepletainment” industry, & Madison Avenue. Whether referred to as the Military Industrial Complex, the Globalist Elite, the New World Order, etc…the agenda remains the same…creation of a One World Government, quasi socialist dystopia via the elimination of all sovereign nations (especially Constitutional ones) via multiple methods (false flag attacks, endless created “wars”, a police-state, crashed economies (via the Central Banking Cartel & their fiat currency), etc.

I strongly suggest all Americans read “The Brotherhood of Darkness” by Dr.Stan Monteith & “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G.Edward Griffin. Also watch the following documentaries (free on YouTube & Google video)…“America - Freedom to Fascism”, “The Money Masters” & “EndGame - Blueprint for Global Enslavement”!

http://www.prisonplanet.com

By What the "Right's" all about

July 28, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/ChurchShooting.html?cxntlid=homepagetab_newstab

First Timothy McVeigh, then Robert Eric Rudolph, now this..

And they are so quick to talk about “radical Islam”?? Right wingers are totally nuts. Trust me, if they had it their way, the South would rise again and slavery would be a thing of the future. Oh wait a minute!!!.. the middle class is slowly disappearing…

By Oh My

July 28, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

GW even does a lousy job acting as president on TV. Cheney doesn’t like to let GW come out in public but he has to let him come out occasionally for the sake of appearances. Fortunately for the US, Cheney decided not to run for a third term. Unfortunately for the US, Cheney was in charge for the past two terms. Bush was just the equivalent of Dunham’s Jalapeno on a stick.

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Hey Dusty,Communism and Tray

Mr. Honky wants to know Mr. McClain’s agenda can you please tell him since all of you are supporter Senator McClain.

It hard to believe a person can be a senator for 24 years and really don’t have much of a resume.

NEWS FLASH: JIM WOOTEN WAS SPOTTED IN GERMANY AT SENATOR OBAMA SPEECH WITH A I LOVE OBAMA TEE-SHIRT ON!

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Liberals!!! They are like people who tell the same joke over and over..Boring!!

But first..ID Thief @ 1:14 (see what I mean) and the phony husband report…same ol’ stuff. Yawn..and Jay doesn’t like you. Jay who? Who cares?

OF COURSE, I will vote for McCain. He can think without a prompter. He has experience making decisions. He is a graduate of Annapolis and served in the US Navy as a pilot. Stood steady as a POW over four years.

Now he serves in the US Senate and has for many years. He served as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. He helped form the McCain Feingold Bill and has tried to rein in “pork barrel” expenditures and Senate filibusters. He has no use for anti-Americanism in any form.

Although a staunch Republican, McCain sometimes does not follow a straight political party line if he does not think it is the right thing to do. In other words, McCain is a experienced, ethical, well educated, intelligent man of strong principles. (I REPEAT ALL THIS BECAUSE LIBERALS HAVE SHORT MEMORIES AMONG OTHER THINGS SHORT.)

So..elect a junior senator as President???? Surely you jestors only jest?? Go McCain! You are a WINNER!

By The Love Hack

July 28, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Communist, you’re making amazingly quick, rapid fire comments that display the full extent of your mental prowess and blogging acumen.

It’s very impressive and I’m sure Jay Bookman and Wooten BOTH will let you be the blog host next time they go on vacation.

Hey, Commu, use the Double secret code variation number six to get the real message hidden in my 2:33 with the navajo code breaker overlay.

Intay oilfay athay.

By Tray

July 28, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

I’d rather have an old dust farter running my country than some ‘new kid off the block’ who doesn’t know squat!!

LOOK AT THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE OF THE CANDIDATES!!

If I were hiring someone to RUN my business, I’d still pick the guy with experience over the guy full of ‘new ideas’.

New ideas doesn’t mean you can run a business…it means just that, new ideas.

If Obama takes the presidency, he won’t know how to run the country!! While he has many new ideas, he needs to do the same thing as everyone else who is a senator-bring the new ideas out in the open, and vote on the ideas. (Hey DEMS- that’s called democracy!)

Oh, and on the topic of his ‘ideas’ ie: change (It’s time for a change), WHAT THE HELL IS THIS “CHANGE” EVERYONE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT??

What change??

anyone??

(crickets, crickets…)

VOTE EXPERIENCE THIS TIME AROUND!!!

By Frederick Douglass

July 28, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

According to an AJC article, Cindy McCain is simply flawless ( hidden meaning, blonde and blue eyed), Obama and his Old Lady can’t trump that. Take it from me, the fix is on, the only change we’ll see for the next four years is no change. If it weren’t so morbid, I’d invest in a body bag company.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Tray,

Are you are referring to that right-wing blog garbage you posted earlier?

That’s not a transcript. I listen to what the candidates say, not what people tell me they said.

That’s so middle school.

And I think Paul, the blogger, worked that issue out for you earlier, unless, of course, you didn’t understand what he was talking about and would rather spin a couple of words in a feeble attempt at making Senator Obama look bad.

Now, do you have a transcript of those comments or not?

Simple question.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he’s the guy waiting tables at the last supper!

By buster brown

July 28, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

DUSTY…Was it the Pastrami Sandwich that sent you on this rant?

Poor Mr. Dusty!

Plunk your magic twanger froggy!

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, And in your world a 13 year old is legal, right? Better watch your laptop.

The Love Hack, I’m shocked that you can even type. Your hands and mouth must be so tired from all of your glory hole experiences at the Circle K mens room.

By Larry

July 28, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Dan, Don’t confuse Jim with facts. This is a man who wrote that Bush would go down in history as the ‘greatest President ever’.

By fearless fosdik

July 28, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

By Tray

July 28, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Tray…And, what would that business be?

Delivering the AJC?

By Larry

July 28, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Dan, Don’t confuse Jim with facts. This is a man who wrote that Bush would go down in history as the ‘greatest President ever’.

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Can you believe Senator McClain scored on a woman like Cindy McClain. Boy did he hit the JACKPOT! The headlines should read McClain wins the Lotto!

Commu I see comedian in your future!

Dusty serving on a committee does not mean anything what did he pass.

Did he pass a bill to gather up nuclear weapons, did he pass a bill to provide health care for children.

Once again what has he done!

Most of his bills don’t pass because he does not get along with most of his fellow senators.

Wake-up and smell the smog in the ATL!

By Jim

July 28, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Who the hell would vote for someone with the name Hussein? Democrats really have no clue of what they stand for. Who wants higher taxes? Great idea! Dumb @$$

By dirty harry

July 28, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, And in your world a 13 year old is legal, right? Better watch your laptop.

SEE COMMIE…Just making up stuff as you go along!

Just like Billo..Kristol..Hannity and the rest of the right wing nut jobs!

When you started out it was 19 now you are down to 13.

Since you can’t prove your point which you lied about, now you are trying to obfuscate the facts.

I stated 19 was of consensual age…nowhere..And, for your little mind I reapeat nowhere did I say anything about a 13 year old minor!

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, his nomination acceptance speech will be in hieroglyphics!

By McWho

July 28, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Jim,

I beg you to give me something to talk about or think about with John McCain. I have heard no vision, no plan (other than status quo). I get email all day from Republican friends, Barack this Barack that…

Can you write at least something interesting or provocative about John McCain. He is running his campaign as poorly as John Kerry did.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, You really have no sense of humor or logic do you? I think I can hear the little yellow school bus on it’s way to pick you up.

PS: I can’t wait for you to reply ” I didn’t say anything about school buses. Now you are bringing up 7 year olds.” Oh the humanity. What a moron.

By The Love Hack

July 28, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Obama 08: Insert America Here.

By tray

July 28, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Common sense,

You can’t believe in 24 years he hasn’t done much….?

I can’t believe Obama seriously thinks he’s qualified after 6!!

You can’t tell me someone can be an employee of a company (the govt) for 6 years and know what it takes to be CEO, can you??

DIDN’T THINK SO!!!

After 24 years in a company, you may not have to do much, BUT YOU KNOW A LOT!!!

I’d rather a president who knows the system than a kid who doesn’t even have his feet wet.

And i will state that while i am not a huge supporter of McCain like people think (COMMON SENSE), MCCAIN IS THE BETTER CHOICE OVER OBAMA!!

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

dirty harry, What did I lie about? 19 years old is STILL IN TEENAGE YEARS! NINETEEN. See? TEEN. Not TY or DRED. TEEN. Why do you keep bringing up Hannity? Should I start calling you Chavez or Stalin?

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Devastator, And Obama Hussein’s speech will be in some form of code because I don’t know anyone who can translate his platform or ideas. Maybe his speech writers should do a better job in telling him what to say. God forbid he ever use his brain to tell America what he wants to do.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Same old stuff. Thank you, Buster Brown. Summer school out for the afternoon?

GMAN is so old he forgot to wear his GSTRING!.

Bosch is so muddled he even likes Michael Moore. Well, almost as much as Battleship Galactica.

Larry (& Curley & Moe),Jim Wooten is correct. George W. Bush will go down in history as great as Truman and as strong in war as Lincoln. He has protected American citizens at home and given freedom to two Mid Eastern countries. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Frederick Douglass,

Cindy McCain is a beautiful lady but she is not flawless. None of us are. But Mrs. McCain does NOT go around saying that she “finally found one thing in America that she likes” which is what Mrs. Obama said. Distaste for the USA is what you call a real FLAW.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, Aliens borrowed HIS technology.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, I’ve seen stale rasins with fewer wrinkles!

By Common Sense

July 28, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Tray McClain does not get anything done!

Hey I like Senator McClain after all he was able to marry Cindy who is worth at least 6 billion dinero!

But senator McClain just plain simply comes up short in terms of ideas and how to implement anything. He is a good guy, just not the right person to run this country at this time.

On a softer note JIM WOOTEN was sighted at Senator Obama headquarters making calls to get out the VOTE!

Dusty YOU ARE A FAVORITE keep posting even though the posting are kinda weak!

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he took his drivers test on a dinosaur!

By CJ

July 28, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

The Official John McCain Flip-Flop List is up to 70 items and growing.

Enjoy.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

GMAN,

McCain is so old, When God said let there be light, McCain said ok.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, you better not tell him to act his age because he’d die!

By getalife

July 28, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Bush Leaves $482 Billion Budget Deficit To Next President… Violated Congressional Mandate By Leaving Out War Costs.

Any dem by default.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Yeah Dusty,

She’s too stoned to talk.

By lava

July 28, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he took his drivers test on a dinosaur he just came outa hosp,they sliced his face again..by the time we get to Nov,he will have half a face…

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, when God said let there be light he flipped the switch.

By Honky Talkin'

July 28, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Jim,

If you make over $250,000 a year, then you should pay higher taxes.

By Bosch

July 28, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Oh and Dusty,

I like Battlestar Galactica WAAAAYYYYY more than Michael Moore.

So does Paul, why don’t you ask him about it?

By @@

July 28, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

AmVet @ 2:27:

He is a mulatto.

Senator Obama is NOT A MULATTO.

He’s a globetrotter.

Vidal @ 2:13:

You Simply Must Adore @@. You Must.

Not really! But if you must, it won’t cost you a thing.

Off to VBS where today I will play the part of a Roman soldier, and tomorrow a maiden in distress. Haven’t yet read the script for day 3, 4 or 5.

By RW-(the original)

July 28, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Question:

Which candidate just adopted the policy for Iraq that any withdrawal will be based entirely on conditions on the ground?

.

.

answer

So is Obambi running for Bush’s third term?

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, his social security number is 1.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Devastator is so old that AARP said WHY BOTHER when he applied for membership.

GMAN is so old he set the markers for Stonehenge.

Obama was just awarded a new playpen in Congress for correctly guessing the number of states in the USA.

By dusty

July 28, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Oh, one last thing before I have to rush off to take care of my precious Mr. Dusty

All you naysayers who question John McCains distinguished military service…How dare anyone question what he has been through…One only has to look at Randy “The Duke-Stir Cunningham to see what the libs rumors and lies created…An honest man, a true patriot sent to prison!

The pity of it all

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, his birth certificate is expired!

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, when he went to school there was no such thing as history class.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, when he reads the bible, he reminisces.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Dusty is so fat, when she goes camping, the bears have to hide their food.

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Stop the presses, or whatever it is your say these days. I actually agree with Commie on something: the absolute stupidity of the MSM telling us umpteen times a day that Obama will be our first black president. Of course, it is not true: he is black & white — he looks a lot like his mom’s father, particularly in left profile. The AP is, like all of journalism, scraping its buttocks across the floor. Journalism began rotting away when the bean counters arrived in the ’60s, then became even more putrid with the massive influx of state-sanctioned college grads who wanted to be Woodward and Berstein, or at least Redford and Hoffman.

Meanwhile, here’s something from Time magazine to ponder. It’s by Michael Sheerer, who might be the only friend McCain has left on the Double Talk Express:

You already know the old argument: Republicans cut taxes, Democrats raise them. Except it’s not true, at least not in the way that it seems. But don’t take my word for it. Here is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s chief economic policy adviser. “I used to say that Barack Obama raises taxes and John McCain cuts them, and I was convinced,” he told me in a phone interview this week. “I stand corrected [about Obama’s plans].”

That’s because unlike sound bites, the policies proposed by Obama are actually complicated. He would raise taxes on those who make more than about $200,000, in some cases by significant amounts, through increases in taxes on capital gains, dividends and regular income. But Obama has also proposed a whole range of tax cuts, for health-care expenses, poor seniors, working people, homeowners, parents and even renewable energy. The net effect, according to experts in both campaigns and independent analysts, would be a reduction in government revenue over 10 years. In other words, a tax cut.

Here’s the full story, for those of you brave enough to read it:

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1826219,00.html

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You’re so fat, when you stood in the middle of the street, I swerved and ran out of gas.

By Pimpin Ken

July 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I wanna know who in the hell thinks Cindy McCain is “flawless”?? Have you noticed all the nasty pits in that dog face of hers??

How “knifed up she is”? How much pancake makeup she has to wear to conceal all that ugly.

Puhleeease. Fred Douglass I can agree that is subliminal language but even halfway attractive she is not. Well maybe in a “meth head” sort of way…

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old he was in charge of the life jackets on the Ark!

By Ghost of Vince Foster

July 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

This year’s election script was stolen right under the nose of Fox’s American Idol. The American public will vote for anyone glib, camera ready, and who can hold a tune…. strike that… make a sweet soundin’ speech. Edward Gibbon wrote about such when he said “a slow and secret poison is introduced into the vitals of the empire” which saps ” a love of independence, a sense of national honor and physical danger… and the habit of command ” necessary to maintain it. This of course was written about the Roman Empire, but seems so appropriate to our situation today.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he has a picture of Moses in his yearbook.

By buster brown

July 28, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Dusty is so fat, when she goes camping, the bears have to hide their food.

LMAO!!!!

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old that when he went to school there were only 4 elements on the periodic table!

By TW

July 28, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (July 28) — An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday.

Not his fault - just part of the disease. Where they once disgustedly said Jew and Ni gger, now they say Lib.

Dreadful disease - hate, hate, hate…waste of life - no doubt.

By Famuan

July 28, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Unless you think The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason Univ is some sort of covert liberal operative in the tank for Obama, then you’ll find their study on media coverage with regards to the candidates for POTUS interesting: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia27-2008jul27,0,712999.story

Oh..and you guys really need to get better talking points…that silliness that a rock band was the draw for the 200,000 in Berlin is no more credible than it was when you used that excuse for why Obama got 75,000 in Oregon. You should really think for a second before you put that nutiness out there. No local rock band anywhere is getting thousands out unless they are opening for someone major….so unless you want us to think U2 or The Stones were playing, I suggest you just give that lame excuse up. There’s a reason only Fox said that bull, and there’s a reason why they won’t KEEP saying it…because even they know how dumb it is…but then, they know their audience, they only had to say it once.

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he owes Moses a quarter.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Dusty is so ugly, when she goes to the beach, the tide won’t come in.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old hos first immigration debate was with Pocahontas!

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Republican Sen. John McCain said Monday he had had a small patch of skin removed from his face and biopsied as part of a regular checkup with his dermatologist.

“She said that I was doing fine,” McCain, a three-time melanoma survivor, told reporters on a presidential campaign visit to an oil rig where he spoke briefly about his proposed energy plan. “She took a small little nick from my cheek, as she does regularly, and that will be biopsied just to make sure everything is fine.”

The Arizona senator underwent the procedure in Phoenix during a checkup he undergoes every three months. He sported a small bandage on his upper right cheek on his campaign plane but had removed it by the time he spoke with reporters. A small, dark spot stood out on his face.

McCain urged people to stay out of the sun and wear sunscreen, particularly during the summer.

“If you ever have any slight discoloration please go to your dermatologist or your doctor and get it checked out as soon as possible,” he said.

Asked if his doctor was confident the problem was nothing serious, McCain replied, “Sure, sure.”

The fair-skinned Arizona senator, who suffered severe sun damage from his 5 1/2 years in Vietnamese prison camps, gets an in-depth skin cancer check every few months because of a medical history of dangerous melanomas.

By CiCi

July 28, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

I just laugh when I see people trying to pin Obama with the “lack of experience” label. He will do a much better job than georgie boy.

Oh, and Obama is “mixed”. There is a growing population of “mixed” Americans and they are very proud of him. It has been hard with a foot in 2 camps and he is a real mentor for them. My daughter is mixed; that means she is not just “black” and not just “white” and she is very proud of both her heritage and Obama’s.

By Famuan

July 28, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Unless you think The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason Univ is some sort of covert liberal operative in the tank for Obama, then you’ll find their study on media coverage with regards to the candidates for POTUS interesting: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia27-2008jul27,0,712999.story

Oh..and you guys really need to get better talking points…that silliness that a rock band was the draw for the 200,000 in Berlin is no more credible than it was when you used that excuse for why Obama got 75,000 in Oregon. You should really think for a second before you put that nutiness out there. No local rock band anywhere is getting thousands out unless they are opening for someone major….so unless you want us to think U2 or The Stones were playing, I suggest you just give that lame excuse up. There’s a reason only Fox said that bull, and there’s a reason why they won’t KEEP saying it…because even they know how dumb it is…but then, they know their audience, they only had to say it once.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten is so stupid, he sold his car for gas money!

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Paul acts like he has good sense.

Obama has been awarded a new wiffle ball for his 30% attendance record in Congress.

Hollywood has written a role for Obama in their new movie “FLIPPER”.

GEICO wants Obama to replace the little lizard. They need a bigger one.

BurgerKing wants Michelle to speak for them with “I have finally found something I like in America.”

History Museum wants Obama to pose for their new portrait of Napoleon.

Obama has requested two million absentee ballots to be sent to Germany.

Obama was tutored NOT to cut’n’run while in Iraq.

Did Obama tell Pres. Karzi he once used some good poppy stuff from Afghanisten?

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 28, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old….

By last November, John McCain’s presidential campaign was broke. To survive, he offered his fundraising lists as collateral for a $3 million line of credit from a local bank. But obtaining the loan required an unusual extra step: He had to take out a special life insurance policy in case he did not survive the campaign.

That’s the truth dudes!

By RW-(the original)

July 28, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

About that 200,000 number

If you read the last paragraph you’ll see that either Obambi’s crowd was wildly overestimated or that the crowd for the anti war demonstration was wildly underestimated.

As the Berlin-based writer Christian J. Heinrich notes: “During the big anti-Bush demonstration after the fall of Baghdad, there were 250,000 people. And it looked totally different from yesterday. Then, you couldn’t move all the way from the Brandenburg Gate to the Technical University [on the western side of Tiergarten park, another kilometer beyond the Siegessäule].”

By GMAN

July 28, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old he sat behind jesus in the third grade

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

George bush is so dumb, he called the cocaine hotline to order some.

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Come on, guys, lay off Dusty. One pastrami and rye does not a zeppelin make.

By Maniac is accurate

July 28, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Speaking of which, where can a guy such as myself go to get a really good hot pastrami sandwich? Do I have to go to NYC?

By Famuan

July 28, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Please give it up RW…the German police estimated the crowd at 200,000 - they are the official barometers, period. Really, get better talking points because the “the crowd wasn’t that big!” and the “Obama hates the troops” rhetoric is too easily debunked.

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

RW’s breath smells so bad, when he exhales, his teeth duck!

By Tori

July 28, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Wow commie, gman, devestator, and others, what are you 12? Degenerated into a childs brawl.
Any way you look at it, we are screwed.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Obama’s medical records are never told by his medicine man.

Obama’s knees got blisters from his prayer rug when he attended a Muslim School.

Obama would represent ALL people including his white grandma he threw under the bus.

By Abomi Nation

July 28, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

About that 32 number

If you read the last paragraph you’ll see that either McBush’s crowd at the Sausage Haus was wildly overestimated or that the crowd at the sausage bar was wildly underestimated.

As the Ohio food writer Franz Snausage notes: “During the big sausage demonstration after the fall of Der Weinerschnzel, there were 35 people. And it looked totally different from yesterday. Then, you couldn’t move all the way from the Sausage Bar to the Sauerkraut table [on the western side of Sausage Haus, another few feet beyond the beer taps].”

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Your jokes are about as funny as Carrot Tops anal warts.

Here’s one: Obama is so inexperienced he had to ask his wife what a blow job was.

Q: Why are there so few real Barack Obama jokes? A: Most of them are true stories.

Q. Why did Barack Obama decide to be a lawyer? A. He didn’t want to have to work for a living.

Q. Why did Barack Obama register to run for office as a Democrat? A. The Communist Party doesn’t have enough voters.

Q. Why is Barack Obama jealous of Hillary Clinton? A. She the one with the cojones.

Q. Why does Obama Messiah wear his hair so short? A. So it won’t get tangled in his turban.

See Ms. Godzilla? Jokes can be fun.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 28, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo:

The man accused of a mass church shooting this morning was described by his Powell neighbors as a helpful and kind man, but one who had issues with Christianity.

“He had his own sense of belief about religion, that’s the impression I got of him,” said neighbor Karen Massey. “We were talking one day when my daughter graduated from Bible college, and I told him I was a Christian, then he almost turned angry.

“He seemed to get angry at that.”

Why must you lie?

By Devastator

July 28, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten is so dumb,when someone told him it was chilly outside, he ran out with a spoon.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Tori, Screwed? You’d know all about that on a personal level.

By AfroDawg

July 28, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

To Dusty, Cindy is probably “flawless” to John, especially when he’s reviewing that $100,000,000 portfolio. These folks are phoney as all get out, wake up and smell the embalming fluid.

By RW-(the original)

July 28, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Famuan,

You can read can’t you?

By Paul

July 28, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Hey Bosch

The other day I was discussing the Sen Obama birth certificate ‘issue’ with a couple of bloggers. First I went to factcheck and they had a copy of the certificate. Well, then another issue about authenticity came up and talk of Hillary in the wings and an October surprise. I said, geesh, pretty soon people will say Obama wasn’t even born, that….

….then I had an epiphany.

I know who the 12th Cylon is.

You really should watch, Dusty.

By catlady

July 28, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

AJCommunist, I don’t have “faith and trust” in Obama. At the moment, he is the lesser evil. I at least HOPE he will turn out all right. I have no hope for McCain, no matter how many f-f’s he does execute before November. (Could we get him to go out for the Olympics in some sort of acrobatics? The rest of the Republican party can do synchronized swimming.)

By aramat

July 28, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Whoever wrote earlier about the drilling for oil in the US is totally missing the point — they wrote

““Apparently, hundreds of thousands of gallons of spilled oil, dead fish and oil-covered birds aren’t ideal conditions for peddling a misguided plan for more offshore drilling,” said Cathy Duvall, the national political director of the Sierra Club.

Uh, so how does foreign oil get to the United States, Mrs. Dimwit?

On a ship like the one that spilled the oil?”

HELLO!!! The point is to ONCE AND FOR ALL work towards RENEWABLE AND CLEAN energy sources….what’s with the addiction to oil? Some hot-shots that make all their money in the oil industry call the shots for this country and that MUST stop. McCain has already supported the continued use of oil and they (oil companies) inturn are supporting him BIG TIME financially —this is NOT OK. How can he sleep at night?

And whoever wrote about McCain being the one to promote energy independence is clearly not doing their research.

By dirty harry

July 28, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC

Commie is so stupid he watches “The Three Stooges” and takes notes.

By Mike Hussein Smith

July 28, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

I’m told that Jim Wooten is such a hopeless right winger that when he was a news editor, he refused to work on stories that would appear on the even-numbered pages.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

catlady, Sure you do. He is your lord and savior. When kool aid was passed around you drank the entire pitcher. Hope all you want. I don’t put my faith and trust in any politician. I don’t like Mccain one bit and that is why I’m voting libertarian. Talk about the lesser of two evils.

By CommunistAJC

July 28, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Mrs.Godzilla, Here is a new poll. It asks why is Obama not doing well in the polls.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/28/america/obama.php

dirty harry, That was retarded. But then again, you’re used to being called a retard.

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

Pimpin Ken:

You touched us all with you heartfelt interrogatory at 4:30: “I wanna know who in the hell thinks Cindy McCain is ‘flawless’??”

The answer is that she is flawless according to the exact same standard applied by the Demstream Media in univocally declaring the Obama trip “flawless”.

By RW-(the original)

July 28, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

This one’s for you Mrs. IN THE NEWSZILLA,

The Friday-Sunday poll, mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his much-publicized overseas trip and released just this hour, shows McCain now ahead 49%-45% among voters that Gallup believes are most likely to go to the polls in November.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 28, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

By aramat July 28, 2008 5:07 PM On a ship like the one that spilled the oil?” HELLO!!! The point is to ONCE AND FOR ALL work towards RENEWABLE AND CLEAN energy sources….what’s with the addiction to oil? Some hot-shots that make all their money in the oil industry call the shots for this country and that MUST stop.

O.K. arafat, since we don’t have any “renewables” ready to replace oil, change my question to “which region of the United States do you wish to economically choke to death?”

Pull your head out of your behind, homey.

You and your dimwitocrat butt buddies are hammering the poor and the elderly.

Have you no compassion, stooge?

By buster brown

July 28, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Sens Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed appeared on “Face The Nation” Sunday to talk about their recent trip overseas with Barack Obama, and although they may hail from different political parties, both senators agreed that John McCain’s latest misleading ad is divisive and inappropriate.

McCain lying Again!

By AJC/DNC Management

July 28, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

If this is a repost, apologies, but I ain’t ready through all of that^^, geez:

“Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged today that he had failed to understand how much violence would decrease this year in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and Sen. John McCain, the Republicans’ presumptive presidential candidate, had made the same mistake.” Well, the difference would be that the surge was even more successful than McCain anticipated. Not really the “same mistake” as trying to do everything to prevent implementation and completion of a successful strategy.

Did RW mention that this guy is a dunce?

By Vidal Suisun

July 28, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Hold your breeches there, buster. I bet neither of them dared explain in what way the ad was “misleading”, and no self-respecting Independent is going to give a damn whether a negative political ad is “divisive”; that’s the whole point. The military has provided a description of the aborted visit to the wounded very different from the description Sen. Obama offers. Either the military is lying or else Obama is lying. I’m thinking probably it’s the young politician on the make whose got a long red nose.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Paul@5:06

I know the last hurricane was Dolly but have no idea about the name of 12 Cyclone!! Hmmm… That is too far out in space for me.

I still like Masterpiece Theatre. Love those Jane Austen reruns. Can’t quite figure what makes the charm but they certainly have it.

Good to have Jim back so we could all go crazy again. Everybody has been doing their part. Yes!!

By RW-(the original)

July 28, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Is Face The Nation even still broadcast anywhere?

By The Love Hack

July 28, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

What if Wooten and Bookman really did meet in the azores for a bit of co-counseling?

I’d say they’d admitted to themselves that they really have been outmarooned by me.
Anyway, they’ve already tagged teamed me since Luckovich closed his blog. They must have had a knock down drag out about me. Lucko quits and wants nothing to do with Bookman and Wooten’s intrigues.

Notice the change in frequency? Anyone? There’s been a total shift in the AJC. A new paradigm has been instilled by someone, gee I dont know who it coulda been, nobody comes to mind…..wink. I wonder what Cox family people think of me: someone who will never work in this town again! They made me. And I betrayed them. So now, I gitz it worse than Adam and Eve. Banned from the garden of feeble forever.

Well now you listen, Cox. I’ve totally taken over. There’s only one voice left with any credibility, and it’s mine.

I didn’t sell out. The internet makes me the automatic winner of Cox’s, “So you think you can blog” contest. The prize is: I have your undivided attention. You have been living lives where your soul’s mission is to act Christian. You do exactly as that god-given little voice in your head tells you to do: Find a devil. Destroy him. Find another no good devil, and destroy him. Find another no good, dirty, lyin’ devil, and destroy him. I say to you now, you are the monster. Your entire approach to news is medieval.

The Bible itself has made us ridiculously cruel. We look for a bad guy and attack. We play God then. Presuming we know who the bad guys are. We fail at every level of our consciousness. A new era of biblical translation is upon us. Grow with the globe, and share the globe with the growth.

I have a voice: I see now why this blog reads the way it does. Today is especially poster child. (And across such a broad spectrum of clamidial snatches. I’m sure God will understand, so dont worry about bein’ sent to hell for conspiring to shape destiny, okay?) This is not fire and brimstone. God loves all humans no matter how tiny a vestige remains after a birth occurs.

People do need leaders. It’s not the man himself, its whether the people trust the man himself. People are afraid and they wont listen to sellouts anymore. Cox, you’ve only created sellouts, and you’ll never be believed. Not in this new world. Not anywhere truth or justice prevail.

Obama has a near certainty to become an unpopular president if he keeps shadow-boxing the spin machine.

This is the new era. The era of the Bible Bubble.

The kingdom of heaven is at hand. You’ve but to touch it and it is in you. Prepare for a global consciousness link to every person on the planet.

JK lol

Yeah, Wooten and Bookman both clobbered me pretty good, and there’s really nothing left of me. It’s not good when you’ve been humiliated, your credibility ruined, and your spirit disengaged by well placed psycho-torpedoes. I guess when you’re doubleteamed you’d bound to take a couple of hits. Lets just say I wish I had remembered to duck, but I love Marietta, I definitely wouldn’t rather be in Philadelphia, kind sirs.

But of course they both realize that this means war. The war of journalism: Who can narrate destiny? Notice how different the tone and syntax of Wooten vs Bookman. Not just in word choices, but in tamber and pitch. Both have fatal weaknesses in their different approaches to reporting. These weaknesses stem from the same conjugational bling, (undisciplined egos).

Give me 12 disciplined men. I’ll get it done.

By The Love Hack

July 28, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

Your face is broadcast manure.

By The Love Hack

July 28, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

That was only a test.

By Dusty

July 28, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

RW (the original)

I think Face the Nation comes on right after “Leave it to Beaver”. The last poll showed that “Leave it to Beaver” got the most votes. Hagel and Reed will appear on “the Beaver…” next for fairness in broadcasting.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 28, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Polly: In relation to these AJC blogs, you are no better than IN THE SNEEWZE/ Duhzilla, you are comment polluter, mainly because serious people having a discussion angers you and you are mentally incapacitated to the point of non participation.

Your mindless schtick is so…………McOld.

You should consider joining the human race.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 29, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Look at the depraved pinko media working in tandem with the POS al Qaeda terrorists:

The attacks also underscored that despite an overall drop in violence, the raw passions and anger fed by Iraq’s deep ethnic, regional and sectarian divides can still instantly ignite, blah, blah, blah.-Urinal/POS

Funny how I don’t remember all the editorializing in the news accounts of the India bombings last week that killed just as many people.

Why isn’t India, Pakistan, Britain or the United States, all sufferers of Islamic terror, countries that are riven with deep ethnic, regional and sectarian divides?

There is only one reason for these attacks, it is 7th century religious extremism, and the candy as-ses at the Urinal are too much a bunch of mealy little pus-sies to call the killers on it.

It’s too easy for these yellow bellied scum to blame the good people of Iraq.

~~~~~

You should read this whole article to get the sense that these pinkos get angry when one of theirs gets whacked by the good guys:

Bush hails partnership with Pakistan’s new leaders- Among those believed to have been killed in the attack, evidently carried out by a pilotless aircraft operated by the CIA, was an Egyptian identified as a senior Qaida trainer and weapons expert, according to residents and officials in the area, as well as U.S. officials. The operative, identified as Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, appears on the State Department’s list of 37 most-wanted terrorists, with a reward of $5 million for his capture. He is said to be the man who designed the explosives that Richard C. Reid, the so-called shoe bomber, hid in his sneakers during a failed attempt to blow up an airliner on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001.

Bushie is going to defeat the terrorists before the libs have a chance to surrender to them.

Hahahahahahahahahaha, POS.

~~~~~

Look at these sicko liberals taking an attack on religion in general and making themselves the victims:

Police: Man targeted liberal church-Urinal/PMS

Really?

“He had his own sense of belief about religion, that’s the impression I got of him,” said neighbor Karen Massey. “We were talking one day when my daughter graduated from Bible college, and I told him I was a Christian, then he almost turned angry.

“He seemed to get angry at that.”

According to Massey, Adkisson talked frequently about his parents who “made him go to church all his life … he was forced to do that.”

Sick, AJC, sick.

~~~~~

This should be pretty easy to understand:

“President Bush this morning accepted the recommendation of the Secretary of the Army to approve a sentence of death for Army Private Ronald A. Gray, affirming the sentence that resulted from a general court martial for multiple charges of murder and rape committed while serving as a member of the Armed Services. While approving a sentence of death for a member of our Armed Services is a serious and difficult decision for a Commander-in-Chief, the President believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted. Private Gray was convicted of committing brutal crimes, including two murders, an attempted murder, and three rapes. The victims included a civilian and two members of the Army. Because additional legal challenges are expected in this case, we will decline to comment further. The President’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous crimes and their families and all others affected.”

Now go look at the picture of Bush that Politico.com chose to print along with the story.

There is an inbred sickness in the American media these days, they have their ideas to what is right and what is wrong and we have ours.

Two totally different ideas.

When a man has the courage to do the right thing, and in this case death is the right thing, he does not need to be portrayed as a monster by an unaccountable pack of scumbags, the lowest form of life, filthy mofos who would stand on the side of murderers and rapists.

Does this not sum up the last 5 years of our history, Bush doing the right thing in defeating the Neanderthal terrorists of the Middle East, while the pinko media whined and moaned the whole time?

Who in their right mind can argue with the fact that we took the fight TO the same POS that killed 3000 of our innocent countrymen?

The same degenerates that go on crying jags because a murderer and rapist is getting what he full well deserves?

~~~~~

Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, said the statistics should serve as a reminder of the particular obstacles that Obama faces.

“Here’s a 46-year-old African-American with a narrative that is very unusual and that few other Americans can relate to,” he said. “Add to the fact that he has had four years in the United States Senate and very little international experience. That’s a large leap for the American public to make.”

Notice how a dimwitocrat cannot even be honest with themselves?

Has four years passed since Lord high Dimwit was elected to the Senate?

Uh, no.

Now let’s factor in that he has spent the last two years running for the presidency.

A lib’s life is nothing but a lie, they lie to themselves about the environment, about the economy, about the war.

And about their candidate.

Will you be living the lie with them?

P.S. There is a reason why Lord High Dimwit cannot get pass 50% in the polls: most Americans are not stupid enough to live the lie.

Enjoy your orgy.

~~~~~

The fact that people turned out in Berlin to hear Obama sing a couple of choruses of “We Are the World” only demonstrates that Europeans, who have long since lost the taste both for liberty and for hard work, have a lot of time on their hands and are not very discriminating in the entertainment they choose. For a long time it has been no secret that Obama and his brand of socialist, pacifist politics have been very popular in Old Europe. Perhaps it’s time we traded Obama to the EU for two croissants and a used Volvo. (It would be one of those trades that benefit both teams. Europe would get a guy they adore, and we would get something of value.)

~~~~~

President Bush’s recent decision to lift the longstanding executive ban on offshore drilling implies that we, as a nation, are more concerned with prices at the pump than with the health of our coastal economy and environment. Apparently we’ve forgotten how critical these areas are to our state, national and global economies.-Urinal/PMS

You know what is funny, where are all the pictures and evidence that off shore drilling “harms the environment?”

It should be easy to show us, shouldn’t it?

~~~~~

Pelosi: ‘I’m trying to save the planet’ Aren’t we all so lucky?

~~~~~

The only way a pinko liberal can increase their numbers in Congress is by electing wingnuts, and it is killing them to do it:

At the moment, the Blue Dog contingent is dominant in the Democratic caucus and drives much of what the caucus does. The more Blue Dogs there are in the Democratic caucus, the more dominant they will be. Changing the face of Congress requires, first and foremost, that the face of the Democratic caucus change, that its strategic incentive scheme be altered. Until progressives make Democratic leaders pay a price for their allegiance to the right’s agenda — the only price that politicians recognize: having their power diminished and jeopardized — then none of this will change. It will only continue to worsen.

What other choice do you sickos have?

“Hope” that America becomes a bunch of perverts like you are?

Your ideology and agenda are cultural rot and depravity, that is exactly why you cannot get elected running on it, look at Lord High Dimwit running from your sickness just as fast as he can.

You should be embarrassed.

By BFKaJ

July 29, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Looks like Jim’s current essay will not have a separate link.

Private employers have effectively abolished defined benefit retirement plans – “pensions” – substituting defined contribution plans in some cases, and 401Ks in many more. We understand that elected “managers” don’t normally have the economic skills necessary to survive in a competitive market, so the public failure to seize the same methods as the private economy is unsurprising. Dr. Sowell today offers a couple of arguments, in a slightly differing context, that exactly describe the learning deficit that infects Atlanta leadership:

“What is amazing this year is how many people have bought the fundamentally childish notion that, if you don’t like the way things are going, the answer is to write a blank check for generic “change,” empowering someone chosen not on the basis of any track record but on the basis of his skill with words.”

“Although most of the mainstream media are still swooning over Barack Obama, a few critics are calling the things he advocates “naive.” But that assumes that he is trying to solve the country’s problems. If he is trying to solve his own problem of getting elected, then he is telling the voters just what they want to hear. That is not naive but shrewd and cynical.”

By Copyleft

July 29, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Now now, people… it’s not nice to point out how ancient and decrepit Insane McCain is.

After all, he’s in excellent shape for his age (Bronze Age, I believe). He gets lots of exercise doing backflips over the issues every day!

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 29, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Great day to be an American ain’t it!

Blackwater received millions in small business contracts — but it’s not a small business.

Bush forced Maliki to back down on withdrawal in 2006.

In January 2007, the Washington Post reported that Bush also rejected a Maliki proposal for U.S. troops to “withdraw to the outskirts of Baghdad and let Iraqis take over security in the strife-torn capital.”

Gates: War With Iran ‘Would Be Disasterous,’ It’s ‘The Last Thing We Need

Forgetting His Vote To Allow Waterboarding, McCain Says ‘We Could Never Torture Anyone

Earlier this month, conservative pundit Larry Kudlow caused a stir when he reported that a “senior McCain official” told him that McCain was off cap-and-trade, his signature greenhouse gas reduction plan. The McCain campaign quickly responded that the notion the Senator may be backing off cap-and-trade is “totally false.” But Kudlow may have been right after all. Last Friday, McCain adviser Steve Forbes told Glenn Beck that McCain’s environmental plan is not going to “get very far” under McCain and will be abandoned as “people start to examine the details.”

EPA Gags Staff: ‘Do Not Respond To Questions’

Senate Conservatives Vote Against Low-Income Energy Assistance, Push Oil Drilling Myth

John McCain flip flops on taxes, feels heat from the right

Obama will meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani tomorrow in DC, the campaign confirms. It will be a closed meeting.

Club For Growth: McCain’s Social Security Position Is “Shocking”

McCain Aide Called US Attorney Scandal “Nonsense And Politics”

McCain Adviser: McCain’s Cap-And-Trade Plan Won’t Get Far

Congressional negotiators agreed Monday to a ban on a family of toxins found in children’s products, handing a major victory to parents and health experts who have been clamoring for the government to remove harmful chemicals from toys…..White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that President Bush opposes the ban

By AmVet

July 29, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Look well at this man’s picture.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/28/church.shooting/index.html

He is the poster boy of your typical enraged Southern white “conservative” male who hates that THOSE people have some freedom now , women can’t be kept home, barefoot and pregnant and those damn qu&&rs can’t be strung up in public. And that as much as he loathes it, this is a liberal nation.

Violent, gutless, unemployed and stupid. And solidly in the Republican camp.

The next one of these murderous scumbags could well come from this blog. There are a handful here who fit the profile perfectly and we all know who they are.

So welcome to this GOP’s new “conservatism”.

Jim David Adkisson told investigators all liberals should be killed and admitted he shot people Sunday morning at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WBIR.

Also, a four-page letter police found in Adkisson’s vehicle indicated he was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job, authorities said Monday.

By Bosch

July 29, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Hey AmVet,

How’s it going this morning?

Yesterday, I was very disturbed by a blog post from a blogger who wrote that (not quote) Obama could count on two less votes because of that shooting.

By Paul

July 29, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

Lotsa topics this morning. Lannie Davis was on tv this morning, said altho he was opposed to the Iraq war from the start, he and many of his opinion have to admit the surge worked. He still likes Obama’s end game for Iraq better than McCain’s. In the same interview (facing off against a Rep strategist) he said altho governors may oppose offshore drilling, Pickens has it right and we need to develop our own resources, including offshore, in conjunction with strict environmental controls.

I’ve a feeling Spkr Pelosi choked on her coffee -

CopyLeft 8:29

Now that was clever!

BJFaJ

Notice how about the only defined benefits plans left are for gov’t employees? They used to be considered a “makeup” inducement for years of service at less than comparable civilian wages. That’s no longer the case. While some local govt’s have had wage freezes, many haven’t, the Feds have annual cost of living adjustments and pay parity with the civilian workforce is the new standard.

Add to that the practice of many local gov’ts basing the pension on the last, highest three years’ earnings and you get police and others going absolutely bonkers with overtime - read one article about Houston changing their pension fund to do that and the number of retiring cops whose last years’ work was well over $100k a year.

Mrs. Godzilla

[[Great day to be an American ain’t it!]]

Yup - same as every day!

The EPA link - it wasn’t just in response to Congressional questions, it was also in response to the EPA’s own Inspector General!

AmVet

Welcome back. Nice bit on partisans yesterday.

“New conservatism”? I hope not. More like the throes of the outliers of the old conservatism, I should think.

BTW - “Jim David Adkisson told investigators all liberals should be killed” - did you happen to see some of the postings on the Daily Kos when Tony Snow died? Such sick pronouncements are the product of extreme ideologues - at either end of the spectrum.

By Paul

July 29, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Well, we’re not playing “I’m here, you’re not” finally.

My 5:06 pm from yesterday was for you.

Re your post: some people have zero sense of empathy or propriety.

By Bosch

July 29, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Good morning Paul,

Last Friday I saw your Cylon (everytime I type the word “Cylon” I make a mistake and type “Cylong” - it’s frustrating) theory on Friday and earlier.

Sorry I couldn’t get back to you about that.

Maybe we can get Dusty to start watching BSG - funny how she only makes fun of ME for watching it. I wonder why? :-)

By Paul

July 29, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Don’t know the answer to that other than her (not too serious, I think) response. I do think she’d like it - it’s really up her alley - political issues, military issues, social, too - plus sacrificing the greater good to short-term political advantage. Something for everyone.

That’d make a good Leno or Jimmy Kimmel clip - the Cylons and BSG crew coming into a huge room, light emanating - and there’s Obama!

Then cut to McCain holding a light saber with a puzzled look and Yoda saying “use the Force….”

out for a while -

By Bosch

July 29, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Paul,

I like it!

On another note for when you return -

I saw the new President/PM whatever he’s called of Pakistan yesterday in an interview.

He didn’t seem too pleased with the recent bombing in Pakistan - said it was their war - and the U.S. must not act unilaterally. That situation is troubling. They have WMDs - and while I don’t think they would use them on us, it’s always a good thing not to p*ss people off that have them.

By GOPs got to go

July 29, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

It is crystal clear why Obama is covered more than McCain, he has much more charisma. People in Europe recognize that, as some Americans do also. Yes, I know you think he is not qualified. But I do, as do many others. I almost wish he had waited to run in 2012 so all the nay sayers would not attack him as much. It is quite shameful to insinuate he is a Muslim and the magazine cover was almost as bad as the Monkey reference from Cobb County.

Ultimately, the people will choose.

I for one want a leader who can be respected through out the world, not an embarrassment like Bush is.

Your article comes across as sour grapes to me.

By Frederick Douglass

July 29, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

I’m a little perplexed with one aspect of the Jim Adkisson ordeal, he was apparently upset about losing the right to collect food stamps. I was under the impression that conservatives, especially WASP ones,eschewed hand-outs like that. What’s the world coming to when good honest hard working real Americans (wink, wink) have to resort to such measures.

By Ms. Tucker If Ur Nasty

July 29, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Mr. Godzilla @12:41, you stated that you’d vote for Mickey Mouse before you’d vote for Obama. Mickey Mouse has been in office for nearly eight years, and he’s barred by the constitution from serving more than two terms.