Thinking Right

By Maniac is accurate

August 1, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

The name of this blog should be changed to “Thinking RIght and he Crowing Left.”

See below.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

The number one issue in America, our Do Nothing dimwitocrat Congress has swept it under the rug:

The House voted to adjourn for its August recess yesterday, but only by a vote of 213 to 212 as minority Republicans were able to convince over a dozen Democrats to break with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and support staying in session in order to deal with high energy prices. On the Senate side, Majority Leader Harry Reid broached the idea of an “energy summit” that would convene in September and consider more domestic drilling.

Normally, the spending hiatus would be a useful byproduct of Congressional bickering. But in this case the shutdown is malign neglect. Surging energy prices act like a huge tax increase on the economy, since energy demand is relatively fixed over the short term. The price spike is imposing genuine hardships on middle-income and working-class voters across the country.

Can it be any more obvious that the dimwitocrats place more importance on the mindless coddling of their junk science lobbyists then they do tending to the well being of the poor and needy?

And the middle class?

You get what you vote for.

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Theater of thee insane:

President Bush’s top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a long-running dispute between the two political branches. Congressional Democrats swiftly announced that the Bush officials who have defied their subpoenas, including Bush’s former top adviser Karl Rove, must appear as part of a probe of whether the White House directed the firings of nine federal prosecutors.-Urinal/PMS

There is no there there.

Thumb your nose at these spineless wonders, Repugs, they’ll cut and run.

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What happened to thee “quagmire” in Afghanistan?

Did the United States win, again?

Bwa.

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I despise anyone who drives a large SUV or pickup unless it has the name of a business on it.-Urinal/PMS Vent

I despise liberal bimbos in the throes of environmental junk science terrorism that are too stupid to verify the truthfulness of all the socialist BS fed to them.

I win.

Republican leadership is worried about losing a ton of seats in November and is allowing its members to vote their conscience. Guess what? They’re voting with Democrats! That means that Democrats do the right thing while Republicans normally do the political thing.-Urinal/DNC Vent

Congress voted on something?

Huh, I missed that one.

And by the way, it looks like you discovered all by yourself why these Republicans aren’t going to get reelected; They’re voting with Democrats!

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, duh.

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Who can keep up with all the world-ending threats? There was the so-called population explosion, death by pesticides, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, nuclear winter, global cooling, and now, the most audacious and successful hustle of all, global warming.

One can only wonder what the next hoax is that the liberals come up with.

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It’s true; Obama is black. And the person who keeps mentioning that Barack Obama is black most often is Barack Obama.

In fact, Obama has preemptively accused the entire McCain campaign of racism and the entire electorate of being susceptible to racism.

Well, well, a lib urinalist has nailed it, Lord High Dimwit, by saying that you are susceptible to racist stereotypes and beliefs, has accused the entire American public of being bigoted.

Are you not smart enough to see a campaign ad and decide on your own if it is discriminatory against race, creed or gender?

Why is Obambi speaking on your behalf?

By kitty

August 1, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

I almost spit out my coffee. Trust me, Jim, I don’t think anyone stereotypes Republicans as fiscal conservatives anymore. Puleeeze, you guys spend more than the Democrats ever dreamed while cutting taxes. Makes no sense but then that is why your party is struggling these days. You guys are hypocrites.

By Bad Brad

August 1, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

I don’t think we’ll see political foreskin on the blog today. Check out the most read stories list. I think he’s been detained along the TransCanada Highway.

By TW

August 1, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Of course McSame is going to attack Obama - that’s what you do when you stand for nothing…the classic empty corporate suit.

Why should we expect anything different from a guy who brags about being shot down and captured?

Because a loser is a loser.

WWJD?

By Maniac is accurate

August 1, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

speelin iss gud to lern.

The name of this blog should be changed to “Thinking RIght and the Crowing Left.”

See below.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress. On MSNBC yesterday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), breaking with his party, said he believes Rove should be forced to testify. “Let him explain his involvement, if any, in this Don Siegelman case.” When pressed on whether he was suggesting sending Rove to jail, Jones signaled that he supports this option

backround music….slip slidin’ away

Bachmann Lies: Claims Democrats Won’t ‘Pass The Tax Credit For Solar And Wind’ After GOP Blocked It

backround music…anything by earth wind and fire

Glenn Beck: Slavery apology is an affront ‘to the principles of Christianity.

back round music…..mahalia jackson singing go tell it on the mountain

But McCain may now be backing away from his pledge to regulate the industry. While still officially a sponsor of the Senate version of the latest tobacco bill, McCain has suggested that he “won’t commit to voting for it until he sees the final legislation” and regularly belittles government regulation on the campaign trail

backround music….jingle Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

The Bush era of energy policy has been one of contempt for the planet and the economy — all for the benefit of Exxon and its ilk. Now he wants to tie our future to even dirtier, deadlier, costlier fossil fuels. Today in West Virginia, President Bush declared his plan for a “sprint to the finish” of his tenure….This is a call for a “sprint to the finish” of civilization as we know it. The Wonk Room has explained how coal-to-liquids, oil shale, expanded offshore drilling would benefit no one but corporate polluters — and would dramatically worsen the climate crisis

backround music…. medley of it’s the end of the world as we know it, eve of destruction and it’s not easy being green

* Must-read editorial: “The Straight Talk Express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. Sen. John McCain has resorted to lies and distortions in what sounds like an increasingly desperate attempt to slow down Sen. Barack Obama by raising questions about his patriotism. Instead of taking the Democrat down a few notches, these baseless attacks are raising more questions about the Republican’s campaign and his ability to control his temper…. Virtually all candidates, including Obama, distort their opponent’s record. But McCain has gone beyond reasonable bounds. The self-described “happy warrior” in the 2000 presidential campaign has turned sour in 2008, and the candor and straight talk that once made him such an attractive candidate are rapidly disappearing*

backround music…heard it through the sour grape vine?

“Perhaps the only thing more outrageous than Exxon Mobil making record profits while Americans are paying record prices at the pump is the fact that Senator McCain has proposed giving them an additional $1.2 billion tax break. While Senator McCain’s plan has succeeded in helping his campaign raise over $1 million from oil and gas company executives and employees just last month, it won’t lower gas prices or end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Instead of an energy policy that reads like an oil-company wish list, it’s time to create a new American energy economy by investing in alternative energy, creating millions of new jobs, increasing fuel efficiency standards, and ending the tyranny of oil once and for all,” said Senator Barack Obama.

backround music…we cam work it out

I’m heartened that the President has decided to support this bipartisan bill that will help ensure that mortgages remain affordable for American families and to prevent hundreds of thousands home foreclosures. In the months since this housing package was announced, nearly a million additional families have faced foreclosure, and our economy has continued to deteriorate. We cannot wait for a million more foreclosures before taking additional action to help struggling families and strengthen our economy. That’s why I’ve also proposed a second stimulus of at least $50 billion with energy rebates for families struggling with high gas prices, relief for states facing budget cuts, and additional measures to protect homeowners from foreclosure

backround music….our house is a very very very fine house, with joe in the front yard…..

LOS ANGELES - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has made a promise to his kids: if we win the White House, you can have a dog. The Democratic presidential hopeful told a rally in California on Thursday that his two little girls were excited about the prospect of him becoming president but not so happy about moving to Washington. “They’re very excited, although my 9-year-old and my 6-year-old, I’m not sure they want to move. They like Chicago,” he said, answering a little boy’s question about his kids. “We promised them that we’ll get (a) dog.”

frankly, they ought to take those two sweet girls to pick out a pup at the local pound on November 5th…their lives are about to change so very much

backround music…..who let the dogs out

let’s all work for what’s best for america…starting now

By Cherry Picker Jim

August 1, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Nice bit of cherry picking on Obama Jim. A quote from one guy on the staff solidifies your ignorance. I should expect that from you since you did vote for Bush twice.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

THE American economy has often defied predictions of its demise. It has done so again. Official figures published on Thursday July 31st show that America’s GDP rose at an annualised rate of 1.9% in the second quarter. This would a respectable enough growth rate at the best of times. That this was achieved despite the considerable handicaps of a badly damaged banking system, a big jump in oil prices and the ongoing housing bust, makes it remarkable.

Not to mention the fact that we are also fighting two wars.

Will this deter Thee Doom and Gloom from their never ending, ceaseless, 24/7 tales of woe and whining and moaning?

Or will they start a crying jag on behalf of themselves, despite all of their hard work and efforts, the economy of the United States will jst not collapse like they long for it to do?

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I hope there is a conservative living in Garden City, wherever that is, to challenge the tobacco Nazi. Even if other similar leftist Republicans embarrass us from time to time, I am grateful for honest guys like Reps. Price, Broun, Linder, Deal, and Westmoreland. And Coburn and DeMint and Kyl and the handful of other honest guys from other states working in our true interests in DC. I would lament that we do not have similar Georgia folks in the US Senate, nor among our democrat brethren, but I don’t want to sound like a whiny leftist. Wonder if our Georgia state legislators are made of the same stuff as Linder and company, or whether they are more like Chambliss and Isaacson.

The Wiggins quote sounds to me more like the ravings of a sociopath rather than something sad or depressing.

I respectfully disagree with Jim on the Pelosi and Reid motives behind their mismanagement into the largest deficits in history. Wild spending is just something democrats do, it has nothing to do with any grand strategy.

Agree – abolish the US gasoline tax. The interstate infrastructure is in place, now it is up to the states to maintain those highways, as they are mostly used for local purposes.

One wonders why agriculture kills expansion of free trade. US farmers are surely the greatest beneficiaries of free trade in world history, yet if we talk about abolishing peanut or sugar subsidies, you get the impression that corporate welfare is now a legal right in the agriculture field.

Epstein overheard Chauncey Gardner say, “I like to watch.”

I have it figured out – the source of the salmonella outbreak is related to young black men in South DeKalb County. Or is that aids?

By The English teacher

August 1, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

TW one of your sentences was wrong. I corrected it. Here it is: Of course Obama is going to attack McCain. That’s what you do when you stand for nothing. Obama is the classic empty corporate suit.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

John McCain’s so old, the key on Ben Franklin’s kite was to his apartment!

By jack

August 1, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Guess we need to open that apology window for Jim. I remember when he was one of the most vocal supporters of the Republican Brand; lumping them all into one category as fiscal conservatives.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

*And here is McCain’s video showing how funny Obama looks on the $100 bill. Look at 18 seconds in. Can’t miss it. *

HERE

Busted, again.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Mornin ya’ll. Just enjoying a light breakfast consisting of biscuits and gravy, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, and chicken fried chicken. I don’t want to eat too much because me and Mr. Dusty is headed to Ryan’s for dinner. Can’t wait.

Oh yeah, W Still the President and of course, McCain ‘08!

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

John McCain’s so old, he needed a walker when Jesus was still in diapers.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

McCain: Britney & Paris Ad Parody

Careful, there is a dirty word in this….

By MADMOMMY

August 1, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Raise the tax on everything that people do that is bad for medicine. I watch what I eat and workout, so I should get a tax break since I am not eating crap or going through a drive thru anywhere. Grow up, let people do what they want to do, oh yeah. I forgot, this used to be a FREE COUNTRY!!!

Obama is an empty suit without real direction or the abilty to make the needed choices for this country. HE would just write another book on why he almost did this or almost did that. We need someone who isn’t afraid to make the needed choices and pull the trigger.

There are spenders on both sides, but at least one tries a bit harder to hold onto the money a bit longer than the others. Dems I am talking to you.

McCain- Let’s get the job done and start showing the world what you can do for our country. God bless you.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

John McCain’s so old, Jurassic Park brought back memories!

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

As much as these misnamed “conservatives” hate to admit it, the nation, including a gigantic number of those who once considered themselves one of their gang, is turning away from their Republican ideology of failure in droves. And for good reason(s).

(NO you idiots! It ain’t because “we weren’t conservative enough”!)

Over three quarters of the country now thinks that this nation, under this Republican administration, is on the wrong track. DUH!!! You think? (What is ironically laughable, is that so many of us knew this phony ANG hero of Alabama and his gang of Reagan cast offs and thugs was a train wreck waiting to happen since January 2001. Sadly we were right.)

Just like Bushco’s “approval” rating, an all time worst.

Approval of the Democratic leaders in Congress, meanwhile, is almost as bad: Thirty-six percent of those polled said Democrats are handling their job well while the overall views of Congress are even lower; 22 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job.

In other words for you reality/mathematically challenged Republicans, the GOP in Congress is pulling that number DOWN.

Another surprise. NOT.

Beginning with the California thespian and continuing through the era of Georgia’s own nutty, newty Contract on America author and ending with the worst president in history, the GOP is sadly in the toilet.

Is there any hope for the once Grand Old Party?

Yes. But not until all of these bungling clowns are replaced by a brand of Republican that thinks a helluva lot different…

By Mid-South Philosopher

August 1, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

A few thoughts:

Word comes that Bruce E. Ivins, who worked as a researcher at the biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has committed suicide. Seems he was about to be indicted for being the mysterious sender of the Anthrax letter attacks back in 2001, just after the September 11th attack. It seems as though the Justice Department and the F.B.I. took their own good time in arriving at the conclusion that Ivins was guilty. Typical of the Bush administration’s punctuality.

One has to “tip the hat” to Barack Obama. He is the only person I ever saw who could make racial statements about himself and lay the blame on someone else…in this case John McCain.

As the Surge winds down in Iraq and the local government gets ready to invite us to leave, we may need to make contingency plans for redeployment of forces into Afghanistan (where they should have been in the first place). We are not done with war just yet.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

DAMN I LINKED THE WRONG VIDEO….

Here’s McCain Britney Paris Parody!

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Pass spending caps? How about Glenn pop a spending cap in your azz, Wooten? See how you like it. So corporal glenn was in your unit?

Bush’s 8 years added over 3 trillion dollars to our national debt.

People who say we invaded the wrong country should have thought of that before Iraq had nothing to do with 911.

Afghanistan was an logistical nightmare for the soviets. With all those tanks, and air support, they couldn’t win. The problem is the terrain. One man can hold off hundreds, like they done at Thermopolyae. In fact there’s an account of a young Osama Bin Laden, when he was our ally and trusted friend, and role model for Reagan, who fancied himself as a warrior, and who used to reminisce about all his world war 2 exploits, (nobody had the heart to tell him that his memories were of the movies he acted in. I loved that silly old man, and forgave him for not being able to recall how he negotiated with the Iranians who held americans hostage), held off an entire battery of soviet tanks and a division of soviet regulars with just a sling shot, two goats and a burka covered scarecrow. True story. Osama was brave, daring, inventive, and really good with the sling shot, man. What a terrific ally he was for the GOP and the military industrial complex, you know, the folks what brung us vietnam and Iraq. Ditto Saddam Hussein. I wonder what Saddam knew about our CIA. Lets ask him….D’oh, we hung him…aw, the one guy who could tell us who the traitors are in our government…what are the odds.

It’s the terrain.

Afghanistan is no different for US troops than it was for Soviet Troops. We’ve ignored Afghanistan completely. Afghan is a labyrinth of unsolvable logistical nightmares. If men are willing to die, real estate will be very costly. It’s the terrain. With the Pakistani rebels using border sanctuaries to hit and run, the taliban is going to prevail there. We had them in 2002. Afghan could have been ours, with the right commitment of troops. Nobody cared, especially not bush, cheny, rummy or rove.

Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Rove. The Musical.

Scenes I’d like to see. I’d love to see Cheney hazing Obama for not wearing his flag pin, like in the movie animal house, when Nedermeyerr razzed Flounder on the parade grounds for wearing his pledge pin. I loved the way Nedermeyer spit out “Pledge Pin” at Flounder. Imaging Cheney spitting like that at Obama. “Where’s your Flag Pin?”

I’d also love to see Cheney’s balance sheet and income statement on Jan 1, 2001, vs Jan 1, 2009.

How rich has Cheney grown? What about Bush? Rove? Rummy?

Then, Two years from now, I’d like to see how much money those four combined have. I’ll bet it’s billions and billions.

We’ve been robbed. We’ve been had. These pirates have planned and dreamed about pilfering our treasury for twenty years.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By TW

August 1, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Thanks to the republicans for giving us our first black president. Shame they had to needlessly kill so many of our soldiers in the process.

King John McSame ‘08 BECAUSE BUSH CAN’T RUN AGAIN

Seriously though, is it not hilarious watching the faces of the rednecks while they fill-up their trucks? HA! What’s the matter, morons, starting to think maybe you weren’t part of the rightwing’s plan for prosperity? HA! Yeah, please vote for McSame, it’ll be a blast watching you ignorant rednecks beg for food. But, hey, at least you’ll still be able to say you’re a ‘publican’. I’m sure the real republicans will be appreciative of your vote while they tool around on their yachts…

Vote McSame…please…

By Georgia Legislators Are Criminals

August 1, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

I’m so pleased to see that Georgia is in a major fiscal crisis. The state of Georgia and many (or most) of its local governments are criminal regimes that deserve nothing but problems. I say that based on the fact that they have passed so many illegal “sex offender” laws and will continue to do so until it becomes even more completely, abundantly clear that the laws are worse than just worthless and not really about “public safety” or “protecting children” and too many decent people demand that the politicians utilize facts, respect reality, and stop passing the laws.

The vast majority of Georgia citizens love the lies of the pandering politicians who created these laws and they support them. Therefore, Georgia and most of its citizens deserve all the misery they can get. I pray the economic crisis worsens and devastates Georgia.

Our criminal governments have grown far, far too large and are doing far, far too many tasks that they have no business ever doing. The law enforcement enterprise of the Criminal Regime of Georgia similarly has grown far, far too large and just has way too much time on their hands. The “sex offender” laws cannot be controlled by working on Georgia’s legislature because they have proven that they will not utilize facts nor respect reality. I personally won’t even attempt to work with those criminals any longer.

Some of the methods of controlling the laws that are being employed are to use the courts, civil disobedience and conflict, and economic warfare. The last item has worked fairly well and I will work hard in the future to ensure that Georgia’s law enforcement agencies continue to not have the resources they need in order to accomplish their duties to any successful degree. Georgia’s legislature have woken up a problem that isn’t going to end. They have started a completely unnecessary war in exchange for no benefits at all.

By JDavid

August 1, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

By JDavid

August 1, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, his social security number is 1.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

*HOUSTON — There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. AP Researcher holds test tubes with separated HIV infected blood “We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said. Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren’t talking about just suppressing HIV – they’re talking about destroying it permanently by arming the immune system with a new weapon *

DAMN THAT PESKY SCIENCE

inside Hollywood sources have hinted that Britney Spears is in discussions with her legal team about a possible lawsuit against John McCain for the unauthorized use of her photo in a recent political ad. Expect to hear about this soon through the traditional media

Did you see the Britney and McCain love and support President Bush video! Seems Senator McCain copied the talking points from Britney’s paper!

Nasa’s Phoenix lander spacecraft has for the first time identified water in a sample of soil collected from the planet’s surface. Scientists will now be able to begin studying the sample to see whether the planet was ever, or is, habitable

Double Damn that science!

Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations

oh oh, Stratfor has competition! what’s next intelligence “r” us?

The governor hopes to cut state workers’ pay to minimum wage until he and legislators OK a state budget. Controller John Chiang, though, says he won’t implement Schwarzenegger’s executive order

I don’t really mind this idea…as long as the Governor and the state legislators are included!

The Liberal Thinker (103 posts)Wed Jul-30-08 07:25 PM Original message Holy XXXX, my neighbors are insane Republicans. Advertisements [?]So I was speaking with my neighbors and after telling me that Rush Limbaugh was right 100% of the time and that he’s the smartest man they’ve ever heard of, they told me these things. - Barack Obama badmouthed and insulted the United States in his speech in Berlin. (I haven’t seen the speech yet, I have to only assume this is not at all true?) - Barack Obama is not a citizen of the United States. - The Chinese are drilling offshore from Florida. - The Israelis should attack Iran with nuclear weapons right after our November elections. - We found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Then they pointed out that there seemed to have been no chaos after the Iowa floods, and that New Orleans was a city of sin… hint hint. I kept on telling them that these things are simply not true… But they yelled and got infuriated, telling me that I was just a puppet of the liberal media and that I should watch FOX news. Unfortunately, they’re such nice old folks, so I don’t want to give them a smackdown but…geez, this is what we’re up against, people. So my question, what is the craziest thing you’ve ever heard from a Republican?

For me it would have to be a Republican admitting to voting for Bush twice!

By Get Real

August 1, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Wooten, Republicans and being fiscally conservative don’t go together anymore. Has Bush ever passed a balance budget in his 8 years in office? I think not. The deficit would be much higher had he actually included the money for the War. Since we’re borrowing the money he doesn’t feel the need to put that in the budget. Don’t know how that works.

Please answer this question Wooten or any one of you Republicans. If the Bush administration has already said that the deficit will be $482M next year (and we know anything he says about money is wrong, probably over $500M), how can you justify cutting taxes even more? You’re already in the hole, and you cut taxes to bring even less money in? That in itself is being fiscally irresponsible, but McCain is either a) playing politics by saying he would increase the Bush tax cuts or b) really dumb. Thats the equivalent of being 3 months behind in your mortgage, and then you go from FT to PT hours thus decreasing your income. But I’m sure you Republicans have an answer to my question that doesn’t involve you stooping to childish namecalling. Just a legitimate question.

Oh, and Wooten does it again by slipping one in there about Wooten. But there is another article by a student of Obama’s at the time that totally refutes this article where Wooten hijacks one quote.

By fearless fosdik

August 1, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

The (In Jim Wootens World) iconic John Linder exiting a Washington pub…

It wasn’t his most graceful exit, we’ll put it that way. Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.) was carried out of Bullfeathers, a Capitol Hill bar and restaurant, Thursday evening, feet dragging on the pavement, as congressional aides enjoying happy hour looked on in amazement.

Too much Cuervo I would guess!

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Hold on about water on mars: The water comes from asteroids which pelted this solar system for billions of years. there’s water all over the solar system, even on the moon. All of our water was delivered here by asteroids.

I knew there was water on mars, if there wasn’t any, then my theory of planet formation is all wrong, as well as my theory of solar system and then galaxy formation.

I cant be wrong. I know all. I see all. I’m a democrat.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Tobacco Nazis?

And yet these American Talibaptists and politically aligned lunatic fringe just love “Pray for Rain” Sonny who considers a plebiscite on Sunday beer sales the equivalent of voting to legalize prostitution.

(But much more importantly and thankfully the Large One helped restore the treasonous secessionist element of the state flag.)

The southern white “conservative” male - the epitome of irrational hypocrisy.

They, more than any other element, of American society attempt to constantly legislate morality based on their mythology, and as such have no credibility whatsoever. (See former Justice Roy Moore.)

Sorry Reaganistas, Father Knows Best is not on TV anymore and try as you might, there is no returning to the 1950’s. Or reimplementing the 18th Amendment. Or sense in trying to silence Galileo, Darwin or any science you refuse to comprehend anymore.

You had your run, now just go sit in the corner and behave for a few decades, OK?

By Whatever

August 1, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

JDavid, are you aware that Bush expanded the government larger than any president in history? You know that large governmental elephant called Homeland Security. The one that doesn’t check shipments that come into this country, but has every citizen’s name on the no-fly list. Was nowhere to be found during Hurricane Katrina, and can’t keep the border closed. So does that make Bush a European Socialist as well?

Look what your free markets have done to the Banking and Housing industries. Let me know when you get back to reality.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

John McCain’s so old, when the police asked him for his ID, he gave them a rock.

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, that McCain parody blew. It wasn’t clever or funny and major mistakes in the voice over were made.

First, it said the “american economy” when it should have said the “bush economy”.

Aw, you know what, you democrats will still win, but you liberal hacks simply dont know how to respond to the right’s gaffs. You never did. Give me that assignment, and I’ll produce an ad that will destroy McCain, (for the entire length of voter’s 4 second attention span).

that’s Y McCain still has a 1 in 10 chance of winning in november: voters have a 4 second attention span, and what’s for dinner?

Here’s what Obama should have said: “I see McCain has a new ad comparing me with Paris Hilton. Well, that’s better than his last ad comparing me to Osama Bin Laden. I’m glad he’s taking the election so seriously. But I want to talk to you about healthcare. Healthcare is a right. If you’re sick, you have a right to see a doctor. We dont need middlemen in the way, diagnosing and prescribing for the doctor, do we? And who decided that dental care is not healthcare? When did teeth not become part of the human body? Or eyes?

It’s all healthcare, and lets quit spending on fantastic adventures in nation building and start spending on america.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By fearless fosdik

August 1, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Jim, You keep coming up with these daffy republican congressman…

LYNN WESTMORELAND; He who co-sponsored a bill to require the display of the Ten Commandments in the House of Reps and the Senate.

And then embarrassed himself when he could only name three of the commandments on the Steven Colbert show.

Linder has no notable legislation, I don’t even know who Broun is, but, you failed to mention my favorite LOSER Kingston!

Another victim of the Colbert show!

By Common Sense

August 1, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Hey BKrstuv,

When you post do you consider telling outright lies? What does a Democratic Controlled congress of 2 years have to do with a increasing budget deficit?

The Federal deficit has been climbing the minute GW Bush and the Republican controlled congress of 12 years from 1994 to 2006 has been in office.

I guess Jdavid this small government huh! Huge Deficits massive bail-out programs for corporation who already enjoy a hug tax break.

Dusty, Dusty,Dusty it must be hard to come up with something to say when the REPUBLICAN party is so bad!

I guess you believe that the White house staff and team is immune to the law. NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. It’s your time Karl Rove: Can you say strips?

By findog

August 1, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Dear Jim, The five gentlemen are bold indeed, especially since the two senators are doing the earmarks for them in their districts…

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Cable Political Hosts Caught Misleading Viewers….TPM put together a devastating video that stands as an indictment of the depressing incompetence and lack of professional standards of cable tv “news” hosts

surprise! surprise! surprise!

By Henny

August 1, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, when he was a kid the national bird was the bald terradactyl.

By findog

August 1, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Jim, Drive down any interstate and along every state border you will find cheep gas stations drawing sales from one state to the next. The national gas tax should be national transportation, as opposed to bridges to nowhere. State gas taxes should go to their infrastructure. And every expenditure should be based on need and not political opportunity, as is the case with earmarks in congress and rural road improvements on the back of Atlanta’s commuters.

By "Charles", The Original

August 1, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health didn’t have the courage to tell us who’s killing young black men and why. They can’t stomach the blowback/harassment of the gatekeepers that’s charged with keeping the truth in the dark.

The homicide/genocide occurring in the black community is the result of forty years of indoctrination following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Other ethnic groups directed the so-called educated integrationist Negro leaders to teach black boys and girls to love every ethnic group on the planet at the exclusion of their own ethnic group. This perversion has resulted in tremendous confusion and pain throughout many American households. And there is plenty of money to be made by misleading the masses of black and white people.

Joseph Lowery has been a lifetime proponent of hypocritical perverted interracial love that’s caused confusion and pain throughout American households. Unfortunately, Chiman Rai, a former professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university, paid a stereotypical black man to murder Joseph Lowery’s grand child because of a perverted interracial marriage. And according to Chiman Rai, that kind of perversion is not permitted in the Indian culture. It would cast a stigma on his family in caste-conscious Indian society.

Chiman Rai’s son, Rajeeve “Ricky” Rai, is presently happily married to a beautiful Indian woman.

By doctor do right

August 1, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Dusty..

My advise is to lay off the BISCUITS and GRAVY! They are bad for your cholesterol, not to mention OMAR THE TENT MAKER charges a fortune for his new fashion creations!

By Just Nasty and Mean

August 1, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

G’Mornin Jim, et al,

While I applaud and praise the Republican legislators that refuse to participate in the deplorable and scandalous earmarks scam, I am afraid it is a bit like spitting into the ocean…No real effect. Therefore, the only real losers are their constituents who continue to fund other congressional districts by this system…without benefit. Any notion Congress will ever do away with this slimy underhanded way to pile up pork? NOT A CHANCE!!

Well, anybody could have predicted it…. The Georgia legislature and Governor failed to pass a tax cut bill and kept the $1Billion surplus in state coffers. Now, all of a sudden, we need that money and it suddenly disappears. Shocker! This surplus will dissolve quicker than you can say “Sonny’s Buddies Get Rich!”

Jim, is there any way we can keep people like Mrs. Godzilla and AJC Management from using your blog to post their own blog—totally off the subjects you present, blabbering about ANYTHING that enters their mind (not other readers— mind you), .and basically using your forum to run their own forum. It stifles discussion about the subject(s) you introduce.

It is perfectly clear these inconsiderate yo-yos don’t even read your column before they create and post their list of what they want to say. It’s like listening to two dozen conversations at once.

I even suspect Mrs. Godzilla is a paid staffer for Obama—or the like. It is clear her material is being “manufactured” for her and not her writing. Your blog is just a free billboard for Obama.

I am not suggesting everybody agree with you, but for goodness sakes—-can we talk about the subjects you introduce and flesh out a decent dialog without listening to everybody’s schizophrenic helter-skelter ramblings on who knows what—or who know who—-writes on what subject.?

If not, I am ready to cash it in. There is nothing to be gained with the way this is going/

Nothing personal, Jim. But this is ridiculous.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Cheney Wanted To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them To Get His War With Iran

Cheney plays dress up with grown men?

EEEEEEEK!

By Ray

August 1, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

GMan,

Your ignorance is showing again. Someday you will be 71, maybe, if you don’t get killed in some drug bust. Nome sayin”?

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Common Sense, BUT this is my FIRST post today as I am busy.

Id Thief@8:41 STILL up for adoption. Needs rabies shots. Contact obama.com for more information. Hurry

There’s plenty to say, Common. I don’t have time today to spread sensibilities to fatuous fools aka loose-lidded liberals. Are you related to Mrs. Godzy??

By macca

August 1, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Hey Mrs G: while i sit (mostly) on your side of the aisle, give it a rest. Your posts are just as annoying as ajc/dnc’s.

STAY HOME ‘08 - WE DESERVE BETTER

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

McCain 08: A chinaman. A Chance.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By hotlanta

August 1, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Let’s talk about how Bush is now aopting the same plan to get outta Iraq and putting troops in Aghanistan the same WAY that Obama had said that he would no. Iheard that on the news last night and I started ROTFLMAO. That squirrel on the View keeps harping on him not having enough experience but the old head is taking points from the young heads. McWhiney got the nerve to compare Obama to Britney/Paris two of the dumbest people in the world who are known for being dumb when he is EDUCATED. Paris has a GED. Britney can’t spell GED. McWhiney kept saying that America need a President to appeal to the world and he DID that now he is p**.

By hotlanta

August 1, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Let’s talk about how Bush is now aopting the same plan to get outta Iraq and putting troops in Aghanistan the same WAY that Obama had said that he would no. Iheard that on the news last night and I started ROTFLMAO. That squirrel on the View keeps harping on him not having enough experience but the old head is taking points from the young heads. McWhiney got the nerve to compare Obama to Britney/Paris two of the dumbest people in the world who are known for being dumb when he is EDUCATED. Paris has a GED. Britney can’t spell GED. McWhiney kept saying that America need a President to appeal to the world and he DID that now he is p**.

By Bosch

August 1, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Mrs. G. @10:01,

That’s how Hitler started his war with Poland.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Just Mean and Nasty and Macca

sorry can’t help ya’

By Soothsayer

August 1, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

The War in Iraq Costs

By Beau L. Chevik

August 1, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

If Obama is elected, I sure hope I can get me a job on one of the collective farms. At least, I’ll have something to eat.

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

McCain 08: The 30% solution.

By JK

August 1, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

THIS MAILING WAS PREPARED, PUBLISHED, AND MAILED AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.

Ah there you go again, Mr. Wooten, singing the praises of your little buddy Dr. Tom Price (R-weasel). Would you like to explain the bazillion large, full-color glossy pieces with his picture on it that I receive in the mail every year? The lastest is 8.5 x 11 inches, folded in half, 2-sided, and full color. Half the real estate on this mailer contains photos: Dr. Price’s smile imposed over a large gas pump nozzle, and the words “Energy prices are rising. That’s why Tom Price is working to bring them down.” As if (a) I needed to be told about energy prices and (b) his photograph was a necessary part of delivering this information to consitutents.

Mr. Wooten, why is your good friend Dr. Tom Price USING TAXPAYER MONEY in his campaign for re-election? The whole thing is “vote for me again!” propaganda! Will you please ask him what this costs the taxpayers of the 6th District and print THAT in your column?

By Ray

August 1, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

McCain’s recent video comparing Obama to Paris/Brittany would be funny if not so true. These two bimbos are products of a gullible American public that, according to the now deceased Ernie Kovacs, would watch a dog fart the Star Spangled Banner on the Ed Sullivan show. Paris and Co. are products of TV shows, teeny magazines and hoopla to sell denture adhesives and car insurance. The media has it down pretty well. Katie works for a network that is accountable to it’s share holders and when stories about the wonder boy are flashed adoringly to a gullible public that swallows all of that crap, he becomes untouchable and an icon, a messiah for all of the downtrodden and an answer to all of our woes. Unlike Paris and her ilk, this media contrived “genius” is running for president of this great country. Paris can be as ditzy as she wants, it only confirms what we already know. But the wonder boy? Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

By george hussein washington

August 1, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Time to move all xom assets and wealth out of america…Obama is gonna gut american oil companies….Act now to save yourself, move money, equipment, and manpower out of America….To Abu Dhabi, like Haliburton…Especially valuable are drilling rigs, with off shore platforms at the highest premium…xom must act now to preserve it wealth for its shareholders,not for the gawd damned fat buted american public….move, move, move…”$1,000 “emergency” rebate to consumers to offset soaring energy costs.

Obama says the rebate would be financed with a windfall profits tax on the oil industry.

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Latest Headlines: Obama proposes $1,000 rebates funded by Big Oil
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“This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday at a town hall meeting in the crucial swing state of Florida.

Obama had earlier said the rebates should be part of a larger tax relief package. But now he says the slumping economy demands they be put in place immediately.

Obama’s remarks coincide with the release of the latest unemployment figures, which show 51,000 jobs lost last month.

Critics of a windfall profits tax point out that the oil companies would simply pass the taxes along to the consumers in the form of higher prices.”

By NewsFlash

August 1, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Apparently, the Republican party stands for whatever it takes to get a vote. Of course, that’s hardly a News Flash nowadays. As you point out, Republicans certainly are not conservative by any stretch of the imagination. They are liberal with their dishing out of wars, liberal with war spending, liberal with bailing out financial institutions, liberal with prescription drug programs, liberal with “stimulus” checks, liberal with their re-defining of the constitution, liberal with blaming Democrats even though Republicans had complete control for years and still have control of half of the Senate plus final control over all legislation via Bush. Yet, Wooten would try to paint a different picture. A picture riddled with half-truths and obfuscation. Tell me, Mr. Wooten, what does it mean to be a Republican? Do Republicans believe that the end justifies the means even though they cannot possibly know that the “means” will produce the desired “end”. I mean isn’t that the standing argument that the Republicans use regarding such issues as global warming or whatever else they don’t have faith in. Please let me guess. Our Republican politicians get e-mail messages from an all-powerful being telling them what means to use to get the desired end. Now there’s some “right thinking” that I can believe. By the way, you’re a real hoot, Mr. Wooten, sometimes.

By Stan

August 1, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Since they closed the ML blog it seems as all the nut jobs form there have come here to spew their regurgitated, copied/pasted, mindless trash here, rendering this blog unbearable to me.

I’ll keep checking from time to time to see if they’ve been cleared out but till then I’m done reading blog.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Obama is so brave he barked back at his poodle yesterday.

Obama is so brave he would not wear his tutu at ballet practice.

Obama is so generous he gave all his wild onions from the community garden to charity.

Obama was so good as “community organizer” he got TWO free checkerboards.

Obama is a military genius who won every battle with his toy soldiers.

Obama is so open minded that he will not speak without a neutral teleprompter.

Obama loves Germans so much his new FIFTH car is German made.

Obama conserves energy by changing his flashlight batteries to candles.

Obama is so color conscious he won’t even buy Crayolas.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

With this in mind, I noticed that the Wall Street Journal ran a 1,400-word article today, under the headline, “Too Fit to Be President? Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback.” It’s not just a fluff story about a slender candidate; it’s a lengthy news article about voters’ possible discomfort with a slender president.

Is this all they got?

By george hussein washington

August 1, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Stan: the mindlessness permeates all of the ajc….go to the Financial Times for the last remaining intelligent newspaper on Earth…The Morlock has destroyed the quality of the wsj over these last off months…

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Hats off the new generation of Joe McCarthy’s here who still fear the pinkos, commies and socialists.

I really thought that given some inkling of world history, they would realize that the Red Card was no longer in play.

But these ever creative “conservative” wordsmiths (and Reagan Democrats? HA HA!) still inanely try to keep it relevant.

Kudos to you stalwart warriors and the progeny of Blacklisters who fend off the Red menace!

Ready! Fire! Aim!

By "Charles", The Original

August 1, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health didn’t have the courage to tell us who’s killing young black men and why. They can’t stomach the blowback/harassment of the gatekeepers that’s charged with keeping the truth in the dark.

The homicide/genocide occurring in the black community is the result of forty years of indoctrination following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Other ethnic groups directed the so-called educated integrationist Negro leaders to teach black boys and girls to love every ethnic group on the planet at the exclusion of their own ethnic group. This perversion has resulted in tremendous confusion and pain throughout many American households. And there is plenty of money to be made by misleading the masses of black and white people.

Joseph Lowery has been a lifetime proponent of hypocritical perverted interracial love that’s caused confusion and pain throughout American households. Unfortunately, Chiman Rai, a former professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university, paid a stereotypical black man to murder Joseph Lowery’s grand child because of a perverted interracial marriage. And according to Chiman Rai, that kind of perversion is not permitted in the Indian culture. It would cast a stigma on his family in caste-conscious Indian society.

Chiman Rai’s son, Rajeeve “Ricky” Rai, is presently happily married to a beautiful Indian woman.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Obama is so thin, he is just a shadow of his former minister.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Stan of the 20%,

Get used to it. It’s happening all over America.

Uncommonly senseless, corpulent (thanks Mrs. G!) “conservatism” has thankfully, suffered a fatal stroke.

To quote Bill Murray, “In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, ‘Au revoir, gopher”…

By TW

August 1, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers trimmed jobs once again in July and the unemployment rate hit a four-year high, according to a government report Friday that showed the seventh straight month of job losses.

Isn’t that great?!!

King John McSame ‘08 BECAUSE BUSH CAN’T RUN AGAIN

FINISH THE DRILL

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

LOL! DUSTY!

You are so funny! I never knew satire like that was possible!

ROTFLMAO

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Obama declared himself EMPEROR because someone called McCain a king.

By getalife "whiners"

August 1, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

The suspect in the antrax case took the easy way out. Another dangerous wingnut.

“What about the black community Obama” the hecklers asked him in Florida. Obama responds by studdering and calling them misinformed.

He wants the oil companies to pay us $1000 rebates. McCain wants to give big oil more tax breaks, give them more opportunities for oil spills and more drilling rights. McCain ♥ big oil after the millions of campaign donations.

I guess they stiffed Obama. Man, do these two failed Senators suk.

Geez.

By findog

August 1, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

macca,

You’re 100-percent right on Mrs. G Time was you could keep a thread of thought running through the blog

But she feels that the rules allow pollution so it’s ok for her to pollute, just like GE did to destroy the Hudson River and many others did likewise to other lakes and streams

Too bad we can’t get Jim to pull a Nixon era CWA to block her paid political pollution of this formerly intelligent blog…

By george hussein washington

August 1, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

The best news of the day is that the new york fat cat financial types are being fired by the thousands…750,000 fat cat jobs to be TERMINATED this year…Wall street law firms are firing lawyers too,, ha ha ha…die scum die

By Maniac is accurate

August 1, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

I with the AJC would put Wooten, Bookman and Cindy Tucker in the Hair-O-Nator game.

By KnowItAll

August 1, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Obama is so skinny, if he stuck out his tongue, he’d look like a zipper.

Obama is so skinny, he has to run around in the shower to get wet.

Obama is so skinny, when he takes a bath and lets the water out, his toes get caught in the drain.

Obama is so skinny, he had to stand in the same place twice to cast a shadow.

Obama is so skinny, if he had a yeast infection he’d be a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

Obama is so skinny, I could blind-fold him with dental floss.

Obama is so skinny, his nipples touch.

Obama is so skinny, he can see out the peephole with both eyes.

Obama is so skinny, if he had dreads I’d grab her by the ankles and use him to mop the floor.

Obama is so skinny, instead of calling him your parent, you call her transparent.

Obama is so skinny, he uses Chapstick for deodorant.

Obama is so skinny, he uses a Band-Aid as an adult diaper.

Obama is so skinny, he inspires crack w******* to diet.

By Copyleft

August 1, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

You’re right, Dusty; President Obama shouldn’t say he’s a king or emperor.

He should announce he was “appointed by God,” the way Gee Dubya did. Would that make you happy?

By Jay

August 1, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

The quote about Obama :” Richard Epstein: “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.”, is about his not being affected by the overwhelming conservative staff at the university he taught at. It said nothing about decision-making. It spoke of thoughtfulness and learning. Mr. McCain seems to be a decider in the mode of our current President and we certainly want four more years of that.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Obama is so funny, we all get a laugh.

By Jay

August 1, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

The quote about Obama :” Richard Epstein: “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.”, is about his not being affected by the overwhelming conservative staff at the university he taught at. It said nothing about decision-making. It spoke of thoughtfulness and learning. Mr. McCain seems to be a decider in the mode of our current President and we certainly want four more years of that.

By Ray

August 1, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Newsflash,

We’ll let Jim off the hook and I’ll try to answer your question about being a Republican.

Believing that the 43M people who do not pay a dime of income tax in this country are a burden to the tax paying public and we are getting tired of paying their bills.
Believing that the individual is more important than the collective and that ingenuity, hard work and responsibility are at the core of a successful life.
Believing that life is more important than someone’s “right to chose” and that murder of innocent people is a crime. Believing that keeping what I earn from the fruits of my labors doesn’t belong to someone else, just because he is lazy and does not want to earn his own living. Believing that the laws of this country, passed by the Congress, should be upheld and enforced by our courts and our law enforcement agencies. Believing that service to your country in the military is an honor and one that we are willing to give the ultimate sacrifice if it will keep our country strong and free.
Believing that honor, responsibility, honesty, integrity and the dignity of the individual will win over whining, excuses, laziness, handouts and just plain ignorance every time. Believing that “political correctness” and its consequences are killing this country and our birthright to tell it like it is is more important than “hurting someone’s feelings”. Believing that we work and live on a level playing field and that preference due to race, gender or age or political affiliation hurts our country and destroys initiative.
This will get us started, Newsflash. Please don’t answer with a bunch of anti Bush diatribe. He isn’t running in November.

By Vernon

August 1, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Teenage mutant Jalapeno peppers are killing young black men in Dekalb county. We won’t know why until we can catch one and turn the heat up on him.

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

McCain is so old, even his stunt double has liver spots.

By Jay

August 1, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

The quote about Obama :” Richard Epstein: “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.”, is about his not being affected by the overwhelming conservative staff at the university he taught at. It said nothing about decision-making. It spoke of thoughtfulness and learning. Mr. McCain seems to be a decider in the mode of our current President and we certainly want four more years of that.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Findog

Perhaps you should review posts at 8:05, 8:07, 8:08 (x2), 8:10,8:15, 8:18, 8:41, 8:55,etc etc etc

Looks like there were some very interesting individuals here before I made the move.

AGAIN, it’s best to stick to facts dude….

By @@

August 1, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

So Ron Stephens devises a vice tax that’ll squeeze the poor. ‘Tis predominantly the poor who smoke - is it not Jim? I’ve seen dems turn the very same vice.

Locally grown pork is at the top of a politician’s menu. I suspect that among them all, they say Trick-ah-knows-sis is good for THEM, not us. To be fair, during the 2006 mid-term elections, the Democratic Party actively sought to run Blue Dogs. Moderation IS the key to success. Fiscal responsibility is a must.

Democratic party leaders deny that they had an official strategy to plant right-wing candidates in vulnerable Republican seats as a way of winning over voters. But Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the campaign to win back the House of Representatives, has said that when they searched for candidates with the best hopes of winning, they ended up with several with a moderate approach. “As a group, they are moderate in temperament and reformers in spirit,” he said.

Here’s a closer look at the Clinton surplus the democrats like to claim as their way of doing business. It never existed in reality…only on the campaign state, and in the minds of those dim voters who are so easily duped.

Obama, the Thinker? There was an article at the “International Herald Tribune” Obama muses on need for time to think It’s a child’s tactic used to hold attention.

CAMERON: Do you have a break at all?

OBAMA: I have not. I am going to take a week in August. But I agree with you that somebody, somebody who had worked in the White House who — not Clinton himself, but somebody who had been close to the process — said that, should we be successful, that actually the most important thing you need to do is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking. And the biggest mistake that a lot of these folks make is just feeling as if you have to be …

OBAMA: Right. … In 15 minute increments and …

OBAMA: And, well, and you start making mistakes or you lose the big picture. Or you lose a sense of, I think you lose a feel…

Notice how Obama let’s someone else finish his thoughts for him?

Isn’t he just soooooooo cute? Isn’t he soooooo endearing? I don’t tolerate the practice in children, and I certainly won’t tolerate it in my candidate for President.

PoliFore:

I read yesterday where you had me down as The Most Depressing blogger. A word of advice…..

Never let anyone, much less an anonymous blogger, impact your emotional well being. It makes you appear fragile. HOPE is yours and yours alone. It cannot be delivered by me or a political candidate.

Depress that if you can?

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Dear Jack @ 8:39, I think your memory must be filtered through a drug haze. Jim Wooten has never had a kind word for RINOs. Jim has always advocated for conservatives and conservatism. Too often unworthy people claim that mantle. If the democrats were receptive to conservative thought – acknowledging they are receptive to neither - we would be democrats.

Dear Get Real @ 9:18, “If the Bush administration has already said that the deficit will be $482M next year (and we know anything he says about money is wrong, probably over $500M), how can you justify cutting taxes even more?” Deficits are a function of spending, not of taxes. How can you justify spending a dime you don’t have?

Dear Common @ 9:41, but for the fact that the democrats are even more worthless – have you heard a peep out of them advocating cutting any of that wasteful nonmilitary spending? – I would agree with those like Whatever @ 9:20, who criticize President Bush as a big spender. Leftists, give me an intelligent reason to join you, a believable promise that you will cut nonmilitary spending as much as necessary to produce a deficit of $0. I thought not – you lying leftists are all talk and no useful action, just like Chauncey. Also Common, your silly argument regarding Rove – you really don’t know what Article 1 Section 8 says, do you. Hint: there is no Congressional power to quiz the President or any of his minions. Turns out the White House and its components are immune to the Congress. Good luck to Congress trying to get the Executive branch to enforce that one.

Dear HIDT, I assume that was you @ 10:44. Funny stuff.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Obama announced today that he can’t be appointed by God because he is ALREADY First Poobah of the DimDem Empire.

By Gary

August 1, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Oh Amvet!(9:24) You’re against God n Geesussa n Reagan n McShame n all thangs Republicun n all thee sucksess thee Bushies have brought us n your against intellectual southern men with Bibles n long-guns n crazed killer-eyes n right- wang voter prefrunces n patriotism and, well, all thee really good stuff! You be carefull n stick to the Jim script here. Else God’ll git chew!!

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

For all of you people whining about the various off topic comments here’s some free advice.

By "Charles", The Original

August 1, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Some people say that he did it all by himself; and the minister should be castigated for his deeds. But if I had awakened from a drunken stupor, and discovered that I had married a runt, a midget, a mongrel, I would seriously think about sexually harassing every Negro woman in the church too.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Obama announces he has NO interest in Britney Spears and will soon return all FIFTY of her photographs.

Michele announces that Obama has finally found something he likes in America.

Michele announces that Obama is wearing a flag pin right where she put it.

By Blogfather

August 1, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

McCain is so old, he still wonders why we didn’t invade Iraq after Pearl Harbor.

By Paul

August 1, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla 9:13

[[Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army]]

I wouldn’t say Stratfor has ‘competition.’ They’re pretty good at defining and distinguishing between ‘mercenaries’ ‘armies’ ‘contractors’ ‘security services’ and not mishmashing them together.

The author could’ve made his point much better (although it wouldn’t have been the partisan “Bush-Blackwater” link) if he would’ve done a book on the high-ranking US retired military (plus some of our allies) and ex-special ops types who market themselves and are functioning as actual mercenaries, often in support of despicable dictators. Now there’s a real, sickening story.

The Chinese are not ‘drilling offshore from Florida.’ I believe they’ve exploration rights granted by Cubans. Which could very well lead to drilling. Near Florida. Was your poster serious that Limbaugh said all these things? Please tell me there’s an embellishment or two there. Then again, he’s the farright’s version of Olbermann. Remember, 20- 25 percent will believe anything –

Get Real 9:18

One can justify anything. But as presented, it’s probably not a good idea. A not-mentioned option is to cut programs and bureaucracy. How about the TVA? How about n percent of EPA employees not directly involved with environmental oversight? (Yes, EPA has a bunch in that category. Kinda like the 90 percent of military who never get near a battlefield). But back to no tax cut. How much more are you willing, personally, to pay?

Blogfather 9:12

[[Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris]]

And Britney. Don’t forget Britney.

AmVet 9:24

Tobacco Nazis = modified Baptists?

Do you think it’s possible the people passing laws to tell others how to live (as with the no more fast food restaurants in a section of Los Angeles) are just possibly of the liberal persuasion?

GMAN

You oughta send some of this stuff to Leno. Good money in it.

Bosch

[[That’s how Hitler started his war with Poland.]]

Hitler dressed up Navy Seals?!!?

Mrs Godzilla 10:49

I read that article this morning. If it’s true, it’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? I was gonna ask if people can really be that shallow… or petty… or jealous… but I won’t.

BTW – this is going to get worse for Democrats – talk about being on the wrong side of public opinion. While I don’t think the domestic drilling case should be made on whether or not prices will rise or fall, many people see gas prices high and say “let’s use our own and not buy from Middle Eastern oil sheiks.” This video is getting large play – yesterday Rep Senator McConnell wanted a ‘trigger’ for offshare drilling – if gas got to a certain point. He’s answered “NO” on every proposal by Dem Senator Salazar – even if gas hits $10 a gallon!

That’s not the way for Dems to show the “average guy” they’re looking out for them.

Link: Dems – no drilling offshore even if gas is ten bucks a gallon

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

How ironic that now some are calling the liberal-hating conservative who shot up a childrens play a few days ago…..wait for it…….a liberal.

Never mind that he read books by O’Reilly, Hannity and Coulter.

Never mind that he had a “stated hatred of the liberal movement.”

So how could any rational person think he was a liberal.

In this day and age of Republican lies as truth and failure as accomplishment, it’s easy.

Because he was unemployed and on food stamps, he couldn’t be a conservative, right?

Because he admitted he was “confused by the Bible”, he couldn’t be a conservative, right?

Wrong.

That overused, misused phrase “conservative” is now officially dead…

By "Charles", The Original

August 1, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Some people say that he did it all by himself; and the minister should be castigated for his deeds. But if I had awakened from a drunken stupor, and discovered that I had married a runt, a midget, a mongrel, I would seriously think about sexually harassing every Negro woman in the church too.

Like Aretha Franklin said, she’s got to give me something that I can feel. Then I’ll know that your love is real.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

WSJ editorial by Daniel Henninger

Check out the title!

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Obama announced that he is against offshore drilling because he swam out there and didn’t find a drop of oil.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Lord High Dimwit, Thee Grandest (Moron-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”

Who would turn right around and raise prices of gasoline to pay for Thee Grandest Obambi’s idiotic idea, getting all that money back just as quick as the dimwitocrats could print the thousand dollar checks.

I wonder where thee dimwits wonder where Big Oil gets it’s money?

From their behinds?

I heard somewhere this guy is a dunce.

By "Charles", The Original

August 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health didn’t have the courage to tell us who’s killing young black men and why. They can’t stomach the blowback/harassment of the gatekeepers that’s charged with keeping the truth in the dark.

The homicide/genocide occurring in the black community is the result of forty years of indoctrination following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Other ethnic groups directed the so-called educated integrationist Negro leaders to teach black boys and girls to love every ethnic group on the planet at the exclusion of their own ethnic group. This perversion has resulted in tremendous confusion and pain throughout many American households. And there is plenty of money to be made by misleading the masses of black and white people.

Joseph Lowery has been a lifetime proponent of hypocritical perverted interracial love that’s caused confusion and pain throughout American households. Unfortunately, Chiman Rai, a former professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university, paid a stereotypical black man to murder Joseph Lowery’s grand child because of a perverted interracial marriage. And according to Chiman Rai, that kind of perversion is not permitted in the Indian culture. It would cast a stigma on his family in caste-conscious Indian society.

Chiman Rai’s son, Rajeeve “Ricky” Rai, is presently happily married to a beautiful Indian woman.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, his birth-certificate is in Roman numerals!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

I wonder where thee dimwits think Big Oil gets it’s money? (-;

Geez.

By @@

August 1, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Paul @ 11:53:

The video you mentioned SHOULD get a lot of play, right alongside the interview where Obama said….and I paraphrase here I don’t have a problem with gas prices going up. It’s just that they went up too fast.

And btw, 51% of Californians are now on board with drilling off their shores. 51 environmentally conscious CALIFORNIANS?

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Obama announces that HE never accuses liberals of shooting people or reading books.

By Jaybird

August 1, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Nancy Pelosi keeps preventing even a VOTE on offshore drilling. Does the Democratic party stand for one woman substituting her judgment for the will of an entire nation? Why is she getting a pass on this undemocratic arrogant abuse of power. Who made her the Queen?
Did she fail her civics lesson about the legislative branch and it’s role? Notice that the local democratic pols are verwy, verwy qwiet on this one. They know what she is doing is wrong but they are such spineless lizards that they are saying NOTHING.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, they’re just lining up to read what dimwit Pelosi has to say:

BOOK BOMB: FIRST FEMALE SPEAKER CHARTS #1,457 ON AMAZON SALES…

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Obama admits he supports BIG OIL but ONLY when the five limousines need an oil change.

By The BlogFather

August 1, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old. How old is he? McCain is so old he washes his Viagra down with castor oil…….and suffers from premature evacuation……ew.

I dont know what that means. Now I’m frightened.

By Whatever

August 1, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Um, isn’t that what people having been saying about Bush and the Iraq War for 5 years jaybird?

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Jon McCain is so old, he has has Adam & Eve’s autographs!

By @@

August 1, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

I want the liberals here to find the lie and liar if you can:

“The American people are rightly frustrated by the failure of the Democratic leaders in Congress to enact commonsense solutions,” the president said, even while acknowledging that access to oil and natural gas in off-limits coastal waters would be a long-term solution and would not lower today’s soaring gasoline prices.

“The president has failed in his economic policy, and now he wants to say, `But for drilling in protected areas offshore, our economy would be thriving and the price of gas would be lower,’” Pelosi said Wednesday. “That hoax is unworthy of the serious debate we must have to relieve the pain of consumers at the pump and to promote energy independence.”

It’s easy if you wanna try.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Obama announces that Pelosi’s book is very good and is the best door stop he has ever had.

By Heeso

August 1, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Jim, your last talking point avoids mentioning black on black crime. Being a caucasian I care. Political correctness won’t let me mention it tho. Is that why you didn’t?

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Did you really mean to equate someone on the right with an audience of twenty to thirty million with one on the left with an audience of twenty to thirty?

Not to mention that your construct would indicate that Limbaugh came along to counter balance Olberman.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

@@, I noticed that you did not quote the president actually saying, “access to oil and natural gas in off-limits coastal waters would be a long-term solution and would not lower today’s soaring gasoline prices.” Is there a reason? ME THINKS ITS BECAUSE HE DIDN’T SAY IT AT ALL!

Now whose the liar?

John McCain is so old, vultures constantly circle his house!

By nascar logic

August 1, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

McCain is so old, he thinks Michael Vick’s dogfighting conviction stemmed from unfair piloting techniques using a Sopwith Camel.

By The good side

August 1, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

To Ajc/ray/jay you guys are really the dummiest of all Americans.

You really believe you understand the control that big oil companies have on American energy policies! All three of you need to be shipped out of America to Cuba.

Since you believe in supply and demand how about reducing demand first like in the next 2 years losers then gas prices will decrease not on speculation of drilling that will not yield oil for 7 to 10 years. And don’t send me any stupid quotes from oil companies about taking only 2 years to find oil. Chervon just took 10 years to start producing oil from drilling the Gulf of Mexico.

If you all had passpart I would by each one of you a ticket straight to Russia!

You communist!

By Bad Brad

August 1, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Whatever happened to that Lt. Freedom chick? Haven’t seen her skank self around here lately?

By @@

August 1, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla:

This isn’t the same link that Paul put up (Oops!) on Blackwater, but it was close at hand and from Stratfor. Scroll down to read.

The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater

And Mrs. G! I have no idea why Paul tried to link the article. Did you make mention of mercenaries. Like many others here, I’ve quit reading your far left-wing excerpts.

By @@

August 1, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

GMAN:

Take it up with your Associated Press

“The American people are rightly frustrated by the failure of the Democratic leaders in Congress to enact commonsense solutions,” the president said, even while acknowledging that access to oil and natural gas in off-limits coastal waters would be a long-term solution and would not lower today’s soaring gasoline prices.

By Fred Blassie

August 1, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Andy, did you hear about this one? Obama was out walking his dog and some leftist groupies came up, and while petting the pooch said, “Cool, we’re really proud of our country for the first time, too.”

Get it?

BFKaJ, that was either really Dusty or some other devilishly clever ID thief. My money’s on Dusty.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Big oil? What Big Oil/

You sure have to travel down that chart a ways to get to Exxon Mobile so if Big Oil is the problem then perhaps we should let Little Oil drill for some of our own.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

It is lunch time and Obama proudly promises a vote for me means free hamburgers in every pot.

By NewsFlash

August 1, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

You keep telling yourself that Ray. You make such a cute little Republican soldier. By the way, when does your next tour start. Bush needs more people like you to keep him safe in his bunker. By the way, Ray, does a government employee really pay taxes? Think carefully about that one and let’s see just how much of a conservative you really are. If you think you got that answer correct, then try this one: Do the economic stimulus checks really count toward the GDP? And, don’t even get me started on whether creating government jobs really counts as job creation or if removing all bans on drilling for oil — wherever — does anything positive for the average person.
So, whatcha say, Ray. Tell me more today, OK?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

@@

That’s ok…..

I never expected to change your way of thinking.

Like many others here also, I keep your radical right stuff at arm’s distance…. I know it’s not “catchy” but I prefer to be associated with real Americans!

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

Obama announces sadly that one of his followers found a “true American” but it wasn’t him.

By @@

August 1, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G:

Please be more specific when you refer to my radical right stuff.

I’ll wait….

And define a real American while you’re at it. Leftists were very critical when Bush proclaimed you’re either with us or against us. Are you taking up what leftists call his divisive nature?

Just wundrin’ is all.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Breaking news! The Pelosi-Reed team have expressed doubts in the validity of bringing back the telegraph.

Paul,

True, there are some liberals who would also like to unduly legislate THEIR morality on everybody else. Not nearly as many as the Reaganistas, but still…

But I believe GWB has forever proven that their “getting their instructions from god” faith needs to be of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” variety!

And especially in light of the ever-dwindling relevance of the far right wing in this country, Limberger/O’Liely/C**/Inhannity are, to me, just ongoing radio-porn..

But it is true that just like most sensational and vacuous punditry/entertainment, it sells VERY well. (Especially to the liberal-haters in Knoxville!)

By Ray Sr.

August 1, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

I’d like to apologize for my son, Ray@11:24, being a real d!ckhead. You see, it’s really all my fault. I drank alot when Ray was young, and being that his Mama was never really there either, little Ray just never learned about things like compassion, or being a team player. I think probably the fear he grew up with as a result of me not protecting him is what led to his feeling of entitlement, and perhaps even the delusion that the playing field is even. Because we no longer speak, it looks as though he is now in the throws of the bottle, and I can only pray that his ‘philosphy’ does not further harm our country any more than it already has.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

But BY @@, you can’t have it both ways! You can’t choose to believe a source only when it is convenient for your argument.

John McCain is so old, he ran track with dinosaurs!

By NewsFlash

August 1, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

By the way, Ray, your beliefs in what the Republican Party should be (because it obviously does not satisfy any of your beliefs now) will require more hope and change than even Obama can muster up. Good luck with those fairy tale beliefs. One other side note, I don’t think you actually speak for Mr. Wooten, do you? After all, that would make you one more swelled-head Republican, wouldn’t it.

By Mouth Breathing Liberal

August 1, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.” Details are in this six-page policy paper. The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall.

Yeah that’s right Marxist, tax those big oil companies to death. They only make about $.07 on every dollar of gross sale, but go ahead Messiah, if you liberals want to keep gas prices high, tax ‘em baby, because oil companies aren’t going to suck it up. They WILL pass it along. And another thing, at what income levels will these tax “breaks” be levied to? Anyone who doesn’t even own a car perhaps yet makes a decent living and uses public transportation? You betcha. Like the Messiah and his mindless desciples will take the time to decide who should get this money from Big Evil Oil. This is nothing but utter socialist liberal feel good mindlessness.

By Sallied Parry

August 1, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Wooten is so old, that he thinks nobody noticed how he juxtaposed the Obama blip next to the story about young black homocide victims.

This blog is wasted on you Mr. Wooten. None of your supporters get you at all. They’re blog simples. But I get you. I read you loud and clear. Houston, we have a pro-blemish.

Hey RW, what unit in the Ga. National Guard were you in? Corporal Glenns?

bwa.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Poor Mr. Wooten.

What an unenviable position. To have been a loyal foot soldier (read dupe) in the southern strategy’s arm of the Reagan army for lo these many years only to finally come to the conclusion that these Republican “conservatives” were anything but.

And twice in the past week he has had the courage to broach this subject.

Granted, it has taken an amazing succession of stunning failures from the Bush administration on down to finally “see the light”.

And better later (by a few decades) then never.

Good on him…

By batleac

August 1, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Nice language and argument @12:59, Amvet. Do you write children’s books? Democrat pig.

By The good side

August 1, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

The last I check the most Europeans countries were doing fine! Germany is doing fine, France is doing ok.

The Euro is has gained a lot on the dollar.

Europeans are buying vacation homes in America and they have high taxes!

Tell Bad Breath breeding Liberal why are the Europeans do well?

America is sinking fast massive lay-offs, unemployment rates climbing.. We need instant infrastructing rebuiding and more money toward renewable energy right away that will create good jobs that will last.

Major oil companies investment in the past 5 years total 20 billion dollars. By back of shares 30 billion we know why they want to drill.

Also Mr. Capitolist they will want a tax break you want to give them a break. I want to break them-up!

46 million dollars to a oil CEO!

By yankee

August 1, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

If McSame drops dead before the election who runs?

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

And then it was tied

Does Obambi know that as a Senator he can introduce bills in the Senate rather than issuing policy papers?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

@@…..

Glad to help you out sweetie.

Do you still support the Presidency of George W. Bush?

That’s radical right stuff, dear.

Will you please now unleash some snark on me? My Friday afternoon just wouldn’t be complete without it.

I’m waiting……

By findog

August 1, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla,

The facts are that you post an enormous amount of spin from the Obama campaign. Fact is your only input is to either add a pithy little schoolgirl blurb at the end of your posting other people’s work, or to try to defend your behavior. Fact is that because others may pollute the waters you feel free to pee all day in the pool. Fact is you have nothing to add to an intelligent conversation and the only reason this post is to you is you responded to a post I sent to macca. Fact is that when Dusty call you out about a month ago she nailed it. And while I do not share many of her beliefs at least she has some of her own.

On the positive side I guess you working for the Obama campaign means you are not destroying a company or government institution with your incompetents.

By @@

August 1, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

But BY @@, you can’t have it both ways!

And why is that GMAN? Have you seen McCain’s campaign ad Both Ways Barack?

Bush uses phrases like This will take time. It will inevitably reduce the price at the pump. It has the potential to reduce prices at the pump.

Let’s all sit around dimbulbs, and think about solutions while ignoring the public outcry for offshore drilling.

When polled, the majority of Americans have said they don’t expect it will immediately impact the price of gas. Unlike your dem leaders, Republican leaders don’t operate on the assumption that voters are stupid.

Dana Perino, White House Spokesperson has said in press conferences that it would not immediately reduce the price of gas. For whom was she speaking GMAN?

Intelligent Americans and the Oval Office in which sits?

By fearless fosdik

August 1, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

All one has to do is ask oneself..Am I better off then I was 8 years ago?

Yes=McCain No=Obama

Your choice!!!

Zogby’s latest poll has New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia republican senators at risk of losing their seats.

And, Colorado is starting to lean left!

People are starting to get the picture, and understand what’s at stake!

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Dear Good Side @ 12:40, “Since you believe in supply and demand how about reducing demand first like in the next 2 years losers then gas prices will decrease not on speculation of drilling that will not yield oil for 7 to 10 years.” Dazzling display of economics book-learnin’ there. Answer: Easily done. We will execute all leftists who try to buy gas for the next 2 years. That prohibition will sufficiently reduce demand, consistent with the techniques preferred by leftists.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Findog

What a delightful man you are! Just all full of love for your fellow human beings!

You don’t know me from Adam’s housecat, but you are able to make pronouncements as to my character and ideals. WOWWEE KAZOWEE

I’m so glad I got the opportunity to blog on the same blog with a guy like you who is so omniscient!!!

Can you change water into wine too?

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Dear Good Side @ 1:26, “The last I check the most Europeans countries were doing fine! Germany is doing fine, France is doing ok. The Euro is has gained a lot on the dollar. Europeans are buying vacation homes in America and they have high taxes! Tell Bad Breath breeding Liberal why are the Europeans do well?” Although Berlin is bankrupt, you are generally correct, that Germany and France are recovering nicely, now that conservatives govern those countries. The Euro is actually flat against most currencies other than the dollar; if the Federal Reserve would abandon Keynesian theory, as the rest of the world has, the dollar would have a chance. The Fedidiots still think there is validity in the Phillips Curve, but everyone else in the world learned differently courtesy President Jimmy circa 1978. Vacation homes are certainly currency dependent. But when you want to see the engines that really chug in Europe, check out Slovakia, Ireland, Estonia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, and contrast their tax rates and growth rates with those of “Old Europe.”

By In other news....

August 1, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

The dollar is performing very well against the nickel.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Apparently, CNN decided that they didn’t have enough video of rioting in their recent story on unrest in Belgrade, Serbia, so they decided to add in footage of rioting in Budapest to sexy up the story. I have to say, if the Kosovars intend to make the cut with CNN in the future, they’d better start rioting to the satisfaction of CNN’s video editors. Either that, or CNN can start showing us all some truthful video with their stories. Whatever the case, CNN’s misstep doesn’t just make them look bad, it makes all Americans look bad.

Kind of like the way they show mountains and streams when they discuss drilling in ANWR.

Naturally, since the original airing and posting on the Internet, and since people began to ridicule CNN for the melding of video of riots in different countries, CNN has removed the video without comment. Making matters worse, many now see a conspiracy where they originally just saw incompetence. A screen shot of the original CNN page clearly shows a snapshot of the video compilation.

It’s still available on youtube though

By Paul

August 1, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original) 12:26

Naw, I didn’t. I’d asked Mrs. Godzilla if those items in fact came from Mr. Limbaugh or were what somebody thought Rush had said. Or was just off the wall stuff somebody wanted to attribute to Mr. Limbaugh (rather like Dems attributing actions or statements to McCain or Pres Bush then saying “can you believe he said/did that?”). Stuff that is inaccurate. Such as Sen Obama is not a citizen. The Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida. Israel ‘should’ nuke Iran. If it was outlandish, inaccurate, a gross distortion made to pander to an audience – that’s where the Olbermann comparison came in.

Olbermann has 30 viewers? The MSNBC staff who produce his show?

@@ 12:42

I don’t think I tried to link to the Stratfor article. I was taken by the title – the confusion of terms such as “mercenary and army” in relation to Blackwater. Unfortunate, as there’s a larger story out there about no kidding mercenary groups that’s still pretty much under the radar.

AmVet 12:59

Yeah, and if it’s somebody on the Right getting instructions from God telling me how to live or someone on the Left who thinks they are God telling me how to live, it’s still someone imposing their sense of morality/social responsibility/rightness on me. I’m pretty much a libertarian in that regard, as we’ve discussed. If people want to do dumb things, heck, let’em do it. I know some want me to take care of them after they’ve acted stupidly – that bugs me, too. Hey RW – if we just let those people alone to make their own choices AND let the consequences shine through, wouldn’t the long-term results validate Darwin as these people removed themselves (and therefore, any future offspring) from the gene pool?

Back to you, AmVet – regarding the “selling well” – the other day I repeated (again) the interview where O’Reilly criticized Ann Coulter and how she got her message across. Her response was “change? Forget it. Every time I say something outrageous like that my book sales go up and I get more speaking engagements.” At least she’s honest about it.

Vacuous. I like that word. Especially in relation to some pundits.

By george hussein washington

August 1, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Raise Jim Wooten’s taxes to 95%, its the right thing to do, and it is good for america….

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Paul,

It would tend to validate the portion of Darwin’s theory concerning survival of the fittest, but it doesn’t mean the slugs of society would actually turn into slugs.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Lights out on lower gas and energy prices for 5 weeks, the libs are off to spread around some more kkkampaign promises they’ll never keep:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

“This is the people’s House,” Rep, Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) said. “This is not Pelosi’s politiburo.”

Democratic aides were furious at the GOP stunt, and reporters were kicked out of the Speaker’s Lobby, the space next to the House floor where they normally interview lawmakers.

And imagine that, the Repugs stayed and fought for We The People.

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Note to all conservatives, Drudge has a link to the transcript of the telephone call from the Bush family to Rush today, and a second link of Chairman Ann writing about Rush. Both well worth reading.

By Vidal Suisun

August 1, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

How Right thou art, O Wooten-sensei. Obama hosted an “economic townhall” down in St. Pete this morning, replete with podium and teleprompter. Sho nuff: first half, fluff; second half, spend, keep on spending, spend more.

I don’t like spending caps. To Democrats they are targets to be met. Fiscal discipline or bust!

It should be mentioned that the two goats Osama exposed to Soviet fire were his two favorites from what is said to be an extensive harem. And it is certainly true that Ivan took quite a bleating.

Bye, Stan! Come back sometime whenn you can’t stay so long!

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

My error – Drudge does not have the Chairman Ann link, here it is: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27819

By @@

August 1, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Snark Mrs. G?

I have always wanted to let loose with some snark, the likes of which no one here has ever seen from me. It’s hard to resist at times.

Self-discipline is key to my life and profession.

I support Bush’s efforts to reign in terrorism.

I support Bush’s health savings account initiative.

I supported Bush’s AND NOW Obama’s faith-based initiatives.

I support Bush’s drive to reform Social Security.

I support Bush’s drive to hold educators accountable for their failing students.

There’s probably some other policies I support, but they’re not coming to mind right now.

In other words - I support policies, not individuals. I expect them to support themselves.

Do you support Obama when he says this:

we need a “tax policy making sure that everybody benefits, fair distribution, a restoration of balance in our tax code, money allocated fairly—we’re going to capture some of the nation’s economic growth… and reinvest it.”

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Have you heard the new McCain ad – “The One”? If you thought Chauncey freaked out at the Paris Hilton ad, wait until this one gets play. Linked @ Drudge.

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Gallup says Captain Queeg and Chauncey Gardener are now tied, a sharp drop for Chauncey in the past week. jbmlaw instant analysis: Chauncey screwed up. He had six months to erase the blank slate America saw when looking at him, and he did not. McCain is effectively defining him as a pedant and elitist. He is toast.

By Midori

August 1, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

what did Bush say to Rush?

giving him some tips on where to score drugs, young boys, or both?

By Sallied Parry

August 1, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

The polls are frauds. Obama has 65%, McCain has 35%. That’s never changed.

The problem is how the poll is conducted, and who gets asked what.

the advertisers wont allow the truth to be broadcast, because ratings will suffer.

People wont watch if it looks like a landslide.

McCain is so old that he washed down his viagra with castor oil, and suffers from premature evactuation……

bwa

By Common Sense

August 1, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

To @@ and BKLMPOQUV,

Your post are so weak, both of you dimwits stated when Mr. Bush rescinded the off-shore drilling measure oil prices decline.

Well now the DEMOCRATIC Congress says no to drilling! Answer me this wonder twins!

Why hasn’t the price oil increased since DEMOCRATIC Congress made the announcement?

Why because speculation and outright cheaters are running the oil markets.

Oil is dropping because demand is going down and it will continue to go down. China is no longer stock piling oil. Asian countries cannot maintain the oil subsidies. Demand will continue to decrease dimwits!

On a softer note! McClain is jealousy he really wants Paris Hilton he is just slighly letting her know he wants to be her daddy!

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

On a lazy Friday afternoon I decided to wade out into the fever swamps for some entertainment.

Did you know the Celebrity ad was really a secret call for assassination?

No wonder you moonbat(ic)s® are such loons.

By Mrs. Godzilla

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

@@

Do I support a tax policy making sure that everybody benefits?

Damn right I do? Do you support one that benefits no one? Only Rich? Only Poor?

Do I support tax policy assuring fair distribution?

Damn right I do. Do you support one that makes unfair distribution?

Do I support a restoration of balance in our tax code?

Damn right I do. Do you support one that creates imbalance?

Do I support having money allocated fairly?

Damn right I do. Do you support having money allocated unfairly?

Do I support the concept that we capture some of the nation’s economic growth… and reinvest it?

Damn right I do! Do you support squandering the nations economic growth?

@@, sweetie,

I suspect you really do support those things Obama spoke about, you just don’t want someone with a perspective different from yours to draw the lines and set the limits…..YOU want to be the one to draw the lines and set the limits

and @@

that I do not support.

Hope you have a nice weekend.

fair distribution, a restoration of balance in our tax code, money allocated fairly—we’re going to capture some of the nation’s economic growth… and reinvest it.

By Sallied Parry

August 1, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

RW you must be proud of your service in the Ga Gaurd. What unit were you in?

R U ashamed to tell us? Don’t be. We support all the troops, even veterans.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

August 1, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Regardless of who gets elected the only change will be a different herd of hogs feeding at the trough.

By Paul

August 1, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

BKFaJ 2:29

I’ll hazard a guess that even McCain supporters, let alone undecideds, are going to get more and more turned off, then disgusted, by these kinds of tactics and there’ll be a backlash. This is not the kind of “respectful’ campaign on the issues they were led to expect. Many McCain supporters who take their religion seriously are going to have a hard set to their jaws watching the mocking tone and the religious imagery combined. This could well turn to Obama’s advantage.

By Common Sense

August 1, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Well oil prices went up because of the fear of the Iran stand-off to stop nuclear ambitions.

I GW Bush does not have as much power as you loser Replubican think!

Conservation is conservative is that not correct. Well it’s time to do renewable energy and conserve.

By Paul

August 1, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Sallied Parry 2:53

[[Obama has 65%, McCain has 35%. That’s never changed.]]

Do you happen to have a source for that?

By Bosch

August 1, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Reading through the thread - looks like the same old stuff.

One thing you have to give Obama credit for - and one thing I consider a huge accomplishment for those who are keeping tabs:

He beat the Clintons.

A relatively unknowned Junior Senator beat the powerful Clinton machine.

I also was impressed with his trip abroad (groans from the right). Many here are of the opinion that it doesn’t matter what the world thinks of us - I disagree.

We live in a global economy now, and in the business world, image is everything.

Paul,

On a side note: from what I’ve heard, German soldiers dressed up as Polish soldiers, and attacked.

I wasn’t there to witness it of course. :-)

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Paul,

When Obama goes around saying things like

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

and saying that he has become a symbol for the world, it kind of begs to be mocked. How long before he throws down the race card again in response to this ad?

By the way, a while back I was telling you about a clip where Obambi said he never questions himself after you told me how deliberative he seemed. Part of that interview is in this newest ad.

By Sallied Parry

August 1, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Yes, I have a source. You need only ask your own family. ask at work. ask on a bus or at a movie ticket line. It never varies. Obama at 65 %.

Paul, you seem to take yourself awfully seriously for a blogger who never says anything original, only refried media spin. I challenge you to think for yourself and see what’s going on and then tell us what you observe. You’d be surprised at your own narrative.

We vote for ourselves, you know. The different campaigns hold up a mirror and we vote for ourselves. That’s me. I’ll vote for me.

It’s a shame that only trolls find these blogs. A serious discussion would be a groove. But I know that’s impossible with the sellout hacks like you who cant be trusted not to obsfucate.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Nice language and argument @12:59, Amvet. Do you write children’s books? Democrat pig.

Yes, battle axe, to the extent that I write for the benefit of you semi-educated southern neo-cons and assorted chickenhawks and ostriches like those still fighting the Scopes Monkey Trial.

I take it your a big Mann Coulter fan then?

Read that first 3:08 for an inkling of how I really feel. Well said HD…

By Paul

August 1, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Yes, the Germans did stage a cross-border incident to justify their war. Isn’t it amazing how evil people still look for a semblance of legality to justify their acts?

RW-(the original)

I tried to point out the possible effect of the mocking tone combined with the religious symbolism. I think it possible many people of faith have experience a bit of mocking in their lives (even if they’ve never been to this blog!). So when they see that same tone applied - regardless of who it’s applied to - they could have less than kind feelings towards the sender.

I saw the clip. Interesting, isn’t it? McCain admits to not knowing all there is to know (having uncertainty) and he’s mocked and criticized. Obama admits to absolute surety, no uncertainty, and he’s admired.

Sallied Parry

I was interested as polls I’ve watched all show different numbers but a tightening of the gap over the past few months.

Nothing original? You’ve not heard my thoughts on education? How about questioning the “why” of Afghanistan - a week before Friedman’s article in the New York Times. How about drilling-price change being irrelevant - the issue I see is domestic production replacing Middle East oil. Did someone else bring that up? How about the Obama-Reagan comparison of similarities from the other day? Golly, I kinda thought those were original.

Off to an appointment.

And stop adoring Paris and forgetting about poor Britney!

By Sallied Parry

August 1, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Also, ask in Chicago and down on Sweet Auburn. You might try your kids’ middle school classmates who they’re supporting.

Obama 08: We’ll always have Paris … and Britney

By Bud Wiser

August 1, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Today’s TOP TEN reasons the leftists will be voting for Obama in November:

No. TEN - He’s cuter than John McCain

No. NINE - He’s younger than John McCain

No. EIGHT - He’s Black, therefore understands the needs of minorities better than White Face ever could!

No. SEVEN - I really like that big O he painted on his travel plane. Painting over the American flag might make the Europeans like us more.

No. SIX - He realizes that fifty plus years of entitlements from the government to the lazy and shiftless poor hasn’t worked, so he’s going to give them MORE to fix that.

No. FIVE - Money is evil. Being rich is evil. The only way to purge the evil is to take it away from those who have earned it, and give to those who have not.

No. FOUR - Capitalism has failed. His new socialism will fix that, too.

No. THREE - We need a new spirit for America! Rev Wright is his man to lead us into the new world order!

No. TWO - He will appoint Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court. Vince Foster would approve.

AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON THE LEFTISTS WILL BE VOTING FOR OBAMA IN NOVEMBER IS……..

All of the people in the Democratic leadership, who know more than anyone else, told me to, and since they are so smart, that will make me smart too!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Best line of the week:

They say we owe black folks for slavery and Jim Crow laws, forgetting that the debt was fully paid by the 360,000 Union soldiers who died in the Civil War to free the ancestors of today’s black Americas. The debt was marked “paid in full,” written in their blood.-Michael Reagan

By Marcus Welby

August 1, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

If you are going to snitch and ID in order to parody a line, always remember someone else may beat you to the punch.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I believe the evangelical community would be a lot more upset with someone that’s going around acting as a new Messiah than someone who points out that behavior.

I think Mccain should have waited until next week to release this one since they have the Obama campaign reeling from the Celeb one. Now we need to wait and see if Team Barry is smart enough not to whine over this one.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

“As members of Congress pull a stunt today on the floor of the House regarding oil drilling, one day after Exxon Mobil’s record profits, Campaign Money Watch urges all voters and reporters to go to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics’ website, OpenSecrets.org, and review how much each member of Congress received from the oil and gas industry over their careers. These contributions from Big Oil, more than anything else, will tell you what you need to know about today’s circus,” said David Donnelly, Director of Campaign Money Watch.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

So let me see if I have this straight - Vernon Jones brags that he voted for Georgie twice and expects this to GAIN supporters?

Clearly stupidity knows no ethnic or racial boundaries…

By hotlanta

August 1, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Obama didn’t play the RACE card no more than MCShame playing the VET card.

By hotlanta

August 1, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Obama didn’t play the RACE card no more than MCShame playing the VET card.

By Ich bin ein Beginner

August 1, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Observation: Jim Wooten routinely receives more blog entries than any other space on AJC.com

That says to me that there is an appetite for conservative commentary—both people who agree along with those who don’t agree.

That should be reason enough for the AJC printed version to include more conservative commentators—and also to remove the Left slant from what should be straight news stories.

What do you say, AJC?

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

In great profundity, Obama announces today, “When you come to a fork in the oil, TAKE IT!!”

Our gentle Obama also tells his adoring crowd that he cannot be Messiah while he is busy being Emperor.

Michele announces that she is available.

By @@

August 1, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Apologies for the delay Mrs. G.. I had to visit the early voting polls to help rid Clayton County of some incompetent Democratic politicians and replace them with, hopefully, better Democratic politicians.

Do I support tax policy assuring fair distribution?

Damn right I do.

Then you Mrs. G are a Socialist - ripe for a Communist leader’s picking.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was never intended to become a perpetual government entitlement program; but it has under Democratic leadership. Krushchev said it best:

Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” paradigm shift, “We can’t expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”

And from perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas, who echoed the same sentiment: “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

You hasten that day by supporting Barack Obama and the far-left democrats.

Do I support the concept that we capture some of the nation’s economic growth… and reinvest it?

Damn right I do!

You’re a useful tool Mrs. G. You willingly choose to reinvest your power into government who welcomes the opportunity to use it against you.

It’s scary to think that voters such as yourself will, unknowingly (or maybe knowingly), allow themselves to fall victim to government.

you just don’t want someone with a perspective different from yours to draw the lines and set the limits

Damn straight I don’t Dawlin. I don’t want a government who dictates how far my potential can reach…..

And THAT’S where I draw the line.

When I visit various sites, I see far too many from the Socialist Party/USA and the Communist Party/USA cheering the policies put forth by Senator Obama.

Heck! The Socialist Party rallies their troops on Obama’s own website.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Obama agrees that “stupidity knows no ethic or racial boundaries” and he is going to prove it.

By Jim is a caveman

August 1, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Or gender, as Dusty consistently proves.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Obama wants you to know that he has always been SOCIABLE and the life of the PARTY and he is STILL that way.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 1, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

@@

I’ll keep it simple….

That makes you a Facist!

But that’s ok, facists need love too!

I still hopr you have a nice weekend!

By Vidal Suisun

August 1, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

How Right thou art, O Wooten-sensei. Obama led an “economic town hall” down in St. Pete this morning. (Replete with podium and Teleprompter?!) Sho nuff. First half, fluff; second half, the three-point prescription: spend, keep on spending, then spend more.

I don’t like spending caps. Democrats forever see those as targets to be met. Fiscal discipline or bust!

It should be pointed out that the two goats Osama bin Laden exposed to Soviet fire that fateful day, were — rather touchingly — his two very favorites from amongst a reputedly vast harem. But certainly it is agreed that Ivan took quite a bleating.

Bye, Stan! Do come back sometime when you can’t spend so much time!

@@, think, Hidden Valley. Think, balloons and gondolas.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Obama is proud to say that while he is Emperor he will establish quiet diplomatic relations with cave man Osama.

Michele said “Piece of cake!”

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Does Obama really think that the US government has made “numerous attacks” on the African community, or that this allegation has legitimacy? The protestors didn’t even provide a single example of the US government attacking anyone. The three incidents involving the police were at worst examples of municipal efforts, not federal, and Katrina was a hurricane with spectacularly bad local and state response, complicated by federal bungling.

Not once in his response did Obama point out the logical fallacies of the question, nor did he defend the American government against the charge of deliberately attacking African-Americans in the present tense, as the question was asked and intended. Casting this as a “legitimate question” calls into question Obama’s grasp of civics as well as his outlook on the government he “aspire[s] to lead”.

I could be repeating myself, but this guy is a complete dunce. Then again he did sit in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years so maybe he agrees with the question.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Obama wishes to say that he never uses fascists, stashit, mashit or dashit because he does not believe in using profanity.

By @@

August 1, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

hotlanta:

Obama didn’t play the RACE card no more than MCShame playing the VET card.

I say he did. Based on his previous statement “Someone who looks like me.*

He changed it to the “dollar bill” because he knew he’d screwed up with the first one. Guilty!

Vets come in a wide assortment of colors. I’m thankful and support each and every one of them. They’re the best of our best.

By Jim is a caveman

August 1, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Ah, so now it’s clear: Obama’s true goal is to bring this country “sociablism”. thanks, Dusty.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama and John McCain have moved into a statistical dead heat, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for the presidential general election, which tracks responses for July 28-30.

Now that’s what I call a pennant race!

As usual it will come down to starting pitching, a great closer, a lack of injuries and solid defense…

And whether McCain turns out to be a knucklehead and selects a Bushco neo-con as his running mate…

By GetWithTheProgram

August 1, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Dusty doesn’t have a clue and is consistently ready, willing, and able to prove it.

By @@

August 1, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

That makes you a Facist!

How so Mrs. G.?

Vito:

@@, think, Hidden Valley. Think, balloons and gondolas.

O Sole Mio?

O Sole mio

O Sole mio

ha huh ha

so high give me your love, imagination

run wild and tell me your mine,

i can never remember your name…

Glenn is it?

By dusty's husband

August 1, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Looking at the clock it’s almost time for Mrs Dusty to be home from her long day at the work place.

I can only hope she combed the gravy out of her moustache!

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he graduated high school with Fred Hale Sr!

By Lord Chaos

August 1, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

@@,

At least until one of those “colors” attempts to run for president right? As long as they stay in they’re place and not get too uppity right?

By ron

August 1, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Good late afternoon,Jim,The budget defeceit is worse than $482 billion.I understand there are things that weren’t counted.More billions,actually.Another record. Exxon’s record profit sent stocks down.It wasn’t as much as was expected.How very wonderful.My conserving of gasoline actually had an effect.Ha Ha. The world lost a good man today.A boatbuilder named Arvin Young.He and his brothers built beautiful,fast boats up in Corea ,Maine.Real works of art in a workboat.Rest in peace,Arvin.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Obama declares he has NEVER used a race card but sometimes a few Tarot cards although he’s lost faith in them.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

@@,

The original version of this face on the dollar bit was this:

We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?

It’s pretty hard to say he didn’t mean his race when you see how the talking point evolved. And of course I know you already know that so maybe I should have addressed this to hotlanta. (ISH)

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Obama says that everyone is equal as long as they don’t put their dirty fingers on his throne.

By Bosch

August 1, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

RW,

It would be different if Obama had actually said those things, but he didn’t - at least not in that context, but I think you know that already.

It’s just a whole lot more fun to spin, isn’t it?

By fearless fosdik

August 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

For all you naysayers concerning Obama’s lack of experience…Remember Harry S. Truman was only V.P. for 83 days when F.D.R. died!

Didn’t do a bad job…Did he?

By Jim is a caveman

August 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

As usual, after today, no need to have the election. Jim and j bm have called it for McSame, and as we know, they are always right. Let’s move on to an important subject, like who won the preseason SEC football poll.

By getalife "winner of the most disliked blogger award"

August 1, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Get off my blog you freaking little jerks

By @@

August 1, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Oh wait a minute….

I keep forgetting that Obama welcomes the opportunity to refine his message for those who would believe

anything The OBumbler has to say.

Go sit in the corner Senator Obama. The more you talk, the more your words matter/bite you in the b-b-butt.

Obama, boxed for delivery to a defeated Democratic President in November.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Obama is going to write a book on originality for his disciples as soon as he learns how to spell it.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

I don’t follow your complaint. Obambi said that it was a legitimate question that was asked. Did you see the question he said was legitimate?

Protestor: So my question is: In the face of the numerous attacks that are made against the African community or the black community, by the same US government that you aspire to lead — and we are talking about attacks like the subprime mortgage that you spoke of — it wasn’t just a general ambiguous kind of phenomena, a phenomena that targeted the African community and Latino community, attacks like the killing of Sean Bell by the New York police department and right here in St. Petersburg by the St. Petersburg police, and Jena 6 and Hurricane Katrina, and the list goes on. In the face of all these attacks that are clearly being made on the African community, why is it that you have not had the ability to not one time speak to the interests and even speak on the behalf of the oppressed and exploited African community or black community in this country?

By ron

August 1, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Fearless,Obama isn’t Harry Truman.No comparison there.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Obama said he knows what he says and he said it and if you say he didn’t say it he surely sighs and says it in several sessions of serious speech supporting what he said sometime in the summer of serious sayings and surreptitious smart simpleton slogans.

Michele says..”So THERE!”

By Lord Chaos

August 1, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, someone told him to act his age and he died.

By @@

August 1, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

RW:

You are so right! He did say he was black. But hey, his campaign isn’t about race. That word “black” didn’t matter when he used it the first time.

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, his face is being eaten away by erosion (just like the Sphinx)!

By Lord Chaos

August 1, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

RW,

The legitmacy of that idiot’s question is irrelevant. When you’re running for president, you show respect for people who want your input or opinion.

I would suggest you wait until Obama asks such questions before you attack them, otherwise attacking Obama over what people who don’t support him say is going to give you another heart attack!

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

John McCain babysat Harry Truman!

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

CONSERVATIVES, GO TO THE POLITICO, SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN DC RIGHT NOW http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/GOPtalkathonPartIIINoshirtnotieNo_problem.html?showall

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this

“Now we’ve got ads about Britney and Paris,” Obama said referencing McCain’s new ad comparing his opponent to the young celebrities, Spears and Hilton. “At a time when we’ve got bigger challenges than any time in our history and you’re running ads with Hillary and er – with Britney and ah Paris in it. I mean come on. The American people deserve better.”

Unfortunately for the seemingly sleepy Illinois senator, the upcoming week will likely see serious campaigning from both camps as the candidates edge in as many stops—and as much news—as possible before attention shifts overseas to Beijing August 8th for the start of the Olympic games.

I thought McBushie was the old guy.

And if he really believes we’re facing the biggest challenges in our history shouldn’t he be supporting the guy that can stay awake? Of course if he really believes we’re facing the biggest challenges in our history he’s an even bigger dunce than I mentioned before.

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this

For the first time since 2000, the conservatives are acting like conservatives. If the conservatives will keep this up, we will wipe the floor with the leftists in November.

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Will this year long malaise ever end soon enough for the Republicans?

Let’s hope not.

And I personally am looking forward to the upcoming GOP convention.

Will Georgia’s own red-faced Zany Zell blow another gasket in St. Paul?

Will the hero of the Texas ANG even be invited?

Will Bob Dole deadpan his way to a hit sitcom?

Will Newt Gingrich challenge Bob Barr to a fist fight?

And will Ronald Reagan’s most holy name be invoked between:

a) 10 - 100 times b) 101 - 1000 times c) 1001 -1,000,000 times

Should be a hoot regardless…

By Hat

August 1, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Fearless, you talkin’ about the Harry Truman that didn’t want to be fighting a long war so he just nuked the hell out of 2 japanese cities? Wow! I can’t wait to see wait atrocities Obama will perpetrate - probably on his own country! Yeeeeehaaaa

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

The drilling talkathon, coupled with McCain’s Obama lampoon today show that at least the conservative republicans stand for something other than inflating tires and tuning up cars. Good show. I hope there is a Georgian or two on the floor up there.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Obama was overheard saying “Experience? EXPERIENCE? Me?? Did I ever tell you about my high school errr …experience..ha.. those cute chicks in Indonesis not to mention the hot babes in Kenya!! Well….

At which time, Michele reportedly said: “Shut it UP, BIG B!”

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

This is great. I don’t know who was the architect of this ploy, but it is brilliant. Whoever it is, the Republicans have identified their next majority leader. The democrats will have to respond, and the response will be meek, or they will be wiped out in November.

By @@

August 1, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Link to Politico

Is that ^^^ what you were talking about JBMLAW?

I couldn’t get there with your link.

By Dusty

August 1, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Obama would like to comment on history with this declaration;When you see the Red Sea part for me and my supporters you will know that American history has been repeated and fulfilled.

Michele declared:”You got that right, Big B!!”

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this

With the public viewing galleries shutting down for the night, Rep. Kevin Brady has just invited everyone down to the House floor to keep the protest going.

It has been quite the scene on the House floor this afternoon, as GOP staff members have kept the chamber filled with an eclectic assortment of people.

Boy Scouts, members of the German army, stray tourists and even members in shorts and t-shirts have all been spotted on the floor at different times.

While Democrats have privately decried the breakdown in order, Republicans defended the protest.

“You are not witnessing a revolt,” said Rep. Mike Pence. “You are witnessing democracy in action.”

By Devastator

August 1, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday pushed for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to Republican rival John McCain’s call for more offshore drilling in coastal states like Florida.

The pitch for putting some of the economic burden of $4-a-gallon gasoline on the oil industry served a dual purpose for Obama: It allowed him to talk up an economic issue, seen by many as a strength for Democrats and a weakness for Republicans, and at the same time respond to criticism from McCain that Obama’s opposition to offshore drilling leads to higher prices at the pump.

In linking McCain to the unpopular President Bush, Obama struck a theme from Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 campaign against President Jimmy Carter by asking a town-hall audience in St. Petersburg: “Do you think you are better off than you were four years ago or eight years ago? If you aren’t better off, can you afford another four years?”

Obama primed the crowd by noting new government figures showing 51,000 jobs lost last month and citing 460,000 jobs lost over the last seven months. He tied other bad economic news from the Bush administration to McCain and offered his energy program as one route to relief.

“This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said during a two-day campaign swing in Florida. “It will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills, or even to pay down your own debt.”

The candidates entered Florida as a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday showed the race there essentially tied, with Obama at 46 percent and McCain at 44 percent. The poll also showed that McCain had gained strength with independents over the last month, holding a 46-41 lead in July compared to a 47-37 Obama advantage in June.

Florida has been a heartbreaker for Democrats since they lost the state — and the presidency — to George W. Bush by 537 votes in the disputed 2000 election and by more than 380,000 votes in 2004. The state elected a Republican governor in 2006, a rare bright spot for the GOP that year.

Although Obama has opened seven offices in Florida, McCain has 35 there, illustrating the GOP’s conviction that it cannot afford to lose Florida’s 27 electoral votes in November.

McCain’s campaign gained a head start over the Obama effort in the state thanks to its presidential primary early this year. The Arizona senator topped his GOP rivals — and effectively vanquished from the race former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — with the help of Gov. Charlie Crist, now considered a possible running mate for McCain.

Obama and other Democrats refused to campaign for Florida’s convention delegates when its primary moved ahead of other nominating contests on the calendar in violation of party rules. His main opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, won only a hollow victory there because seating its delegation became embroiled in a dispute she later lost.

Energy issues could motivate Florida voters. The Quinnipiac poll showed six in 10 respondents backing Bush’s call for more offshore drilling and wanting Congress to go along. At the same time, about a third of those polled favored Obama’s energy policies over McCain’s, with another third undecided between the two.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

chaos,

I think when you want to be President you should try a little honesty in place of pandering.

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten is psychic. Tom Price is in the middle of the action on the floor.

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

Right, @@ @ 5:27.

By Jaybird

August 1, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Nancy Pelosi keeps preventing even a VOTE on offshore drilling. Does the Democratic party stand for one woman substituting her judgment for the will of an entire nation? Why is she getting a pass on this undemocratic arrogant abuse of power. Who made her the Queen?
Did she fail her civics lesson about the legislative branch and it’s role? Notice that the local democratic pols are verwy, verwy qwiet on this one. They know what she is doing is wrong but they are such spineless lizards that they are saying NOTHING.

By @@

August 1, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

I’m feelin’ the Chris Matthews tingle for MY GOP LEADERSHIP!!!!!!

GO GUYS GO!

By Lord Chaos

August 1, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

Rw,

Tell Bush that!

By GMAN

August 1, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

John McCain’s secret service code name… Old Scarface!

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

4,000 brave Americans KIA since Mission Accomplished.

You’re doin’ a heckuva job Bushie.

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

@@ JBM,

Michelle Malkin is keeping up with it here complete with links to Twitter broadcasts.

By ron

August 1, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

The GOP has control of the house.Don’t let the Dems back in.Easier to pass legislation that way.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

By Devastator August 1, 2008 5:30 PM The pitch for putting some of the economic burden of $4-a-gallon gasoline on the oil industry served a dual purpose for Obama: It allowed him to talk up an economic issue, seen by many as a strength for Democrats and a weakness for Republicans, and at the same time respond to criticism from McCain that Obama’s opposition to offshore drilling leads to higher prices at the pump.

Dimastator: Answer me one question, oh follower of the Grandest Lord High Dimwit, where do you think the oil companies would get the money to pay the “windfall profits” tax and your glamorous $1000 fortune cookie from?

You play the lottery, don’t you?

By AmVet

August 1, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

One clarification on that 5:44.

Those men and women perished in Bush’s chosen war in oil-rich Iraq.

And does not include the 555 who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for the United States while in Afghanistan. Which is to most, at least legitimate in nature.

BTW there was a Rand report issued earlier this week that concludes current American militarism is ineffective in fighting the misnamed (their position) war on terror.

The chickenhawks are NOT going to dig this…

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351/index1.html

By Bud Wiser

August 1, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Whitey Need Not Apply by Patrick J. Buchanan Posted 08/01/2008 ET

‘Will race be an issue in this campaign?’

Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh.

For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American — even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Barack is beating McCain among black voters 94 to 1.

What,other than race, explains how Barack rolled up 90-10 margins among black voters while running against Hillary Clinton, wife of the man novelist Toni Morrison dubbed ‘our first black president’?

Indeed,so one-sided was the primary coverage in favor of Barack as the first African-American with a real chance to be president, even ‘Saturday Night Live’ took to mocking the mainstream media.

As for black radio, on ‘The Tom Joyner Morning Show,’ ‘Michael Baisden Show’ and ‘The Steve Harvey Morning Show,’ which together may reach 20 million folks, there is ‘little pretense of balance,’ writes Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times. ‘More often than not the Obama campaign is discussed as the home team.’

Black Entertainment Television plans to carry Barack’s speech to the Democratic convention live, but has no plans to carry McCain’s. Barack’s speech ‘is an historic occasion,’ says BET Chairman Debra L.Lee, ‘so that demands some special treatment from us.’

As the mainstream media have moved left and talk radio right, and cable is breaking down along political and ideological lines, there is something else afoot now — the racial Balkanization of the newsroom.

Consider. On Sunday, 6,800 folks showed in Chicago for the 2008 quadrennial convention of UNITY: Journalists of Color. McCain declined an invitation. Bush had been booed at UNITY 2004, while John Kerry got a standing ovation. Featured speaker: Barack. Major concern of the journalists running the show: that their colleagues would lift the roof off the McCormick Place convention center when Barack arrived.

Said Luis Villareal, a producer of NBC’s ‘Dateline,’ ‘I don’t think it’s such a bad thing if for 15 minutes you take off your reporter hat and respond to (Obama) as a human being at an event where you’re surrounded by people of color and you’re here for a united cause.’

And exactly what ‘cause’ might the 10,000 members of UNITY be united behind? The hiring and advancement of journalists of color in all major news organizations in America.

For, as its emblem depicts,UNITY comprises four alliances: the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.

‘A New Journalism for a Changing World’ is UNITY’s motto. And the title of its July 22 press release reveals what the ‘new journalism’ is all about. ‘Aim of New UNITY Initiative Is More Diversity in Top Media Management.’

‘With more than 50 percent of the population projected to be people of color in less than a generation,’ says UNITY President Karen Lincoln Michel, ‘the nation’s news organizations continue to generate dismal diversity numbers year after year. … ‘Ten by 2010’ is a significant step in the right direction.’

What is Ten by 2010?

UNITY is demanding that 10 major U.S. news organizations, by mid-2010, elevate to a senior management position in the newsroom at least one journalist of color and provide ‘customized training to help prepare them.’

The journalist may be Asian, African-American, Native American or Hispanic,which rules out journalists of Irish, English, Polish, Italian, German or Jewish ancestry, since they are white.

Is this what we have come to 50 years after the triumph of the civil rights movement? Flat-out demands, by American journalists, for the hiring and promotion of colleagues based on race and color?

Is there any evidence major news organizations in this country have engaged in systematic discrimination to keep out men or women of color this last half century? The reverse seems true. They have bent over backward to advance minority journalists.

And if journalists have beenhired and promoted based on ability and merit, why in the 21st century should these criteria be thrown out as the standards for advancement —in favor of race and color?

Isn’t this what they did in the days of Jim Crow — hire and promote based on race? What UNITY is calling for is a return to the old rules but with new beneficiaries —blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — and new victims, allof whom will be white.

On Sunday, McCain came out in favor of anArizona civil rights initiative that would outlaw any state discrimination either for or against folks, based on race, gender or national origin. Barack said he was ‘disappointed’ with McCain and told UNITY he favors affirmative action ‘when properly structured.’

The Arizona referendum banning preferential treatment based on race is also on the ballot in the swing state of Colorado. It won in California in 1996, in Washington in 2000 and in Michigan in the great Democratic sweep of 2006. It has never lost, and may just win McCain Colorado, and with it the nation.

Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War’: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, ‘The Death of the West,’, ‘The Great Betrayal,’ ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’ and ‘Where the Right Went Wrong.’

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Tell Bush that!

I knew better than to respond to that child……..

Tell me oh wise one, what office is Bush running for?

By Wilber

August 1, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wotten;

You tell it like it is. Us Republicans dont need no handouts from no one. We work and pay our taxes and dont need no fre helth care. 10 teeth enough for anyone. plenty easy to get educated and get a job. me and my wife both finised 8th grade and we make good. she waits tables and i mow lawsn. had to get a 2nd job though when i got behind in my new ford truck payments. wanted to go help serve in iraqq but my health was bad so i cut down my smoking to 2 packss a day and ready to go do my part to them.

keep up makin us republicans proud

By BFKaJ

August 1, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Reps participating were: Members participating in the spontaneous uprising included Reps. Brian Bilbray, Gus Bilirakis, Rob Bishop, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, John Boozman, Kevin Brady, Paul Broun, Henry Brown, Michael Burgess, John Campbell, Eric Cantor, Shelly Moore Capito, John Carter, Tom Cole, Mike Conaway, John Culberson, Charlie Dent, Mary Fallin, Jeff Fortenberry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Wally Herger, Pete Hoekstra, Duncan Hunter, Steve King, Dan Lungren, Don Manzullo, Kevin McCarthy, Thaddeus McCotter, Devin Nunes, Mike Pence, Chip Pickering, Todd Platts, Ted Poe, Jon Porter, Tom Price, Adam Putnam, Bill Sali, John Shadegg, John Shimkus, Adrian Smith, Mike Turner, Tim Walberg, Greg Walden, and Lynn Westmoreland. It was an amazing thing - I am so proud of these leaders that stand for the American people. It was an honor to be in that room

By fearless fosdik

August 1, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

By Hat

August 1, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

DEAR MR. HAT in response: I would say this..WAR IS HELL! Japan was never, ever going to surrender…They started it! And there position was defend to the last man!

I’ve been to war…Have you?

Japan attacked China, they attacked us at Pearl Harbor, They were brutul in there treatment of Pow’s.

Don’t get all teary eyed on me here HAT!

I hate war…my point was the lack of experience all you right wingers claim Obama brings to the table…

McCain would be the first to unleash an Atomic Bomb…Not Obama!

By Paul

August 1, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla 4:08

What on earth does Exxon Mobil’s profits have to do with whether or not this country should obtain as much oil as possible from known reserves, to replace oil we are now obtaining from Middle East countries?
As far as the rest of the post, what difference does who got how much from the oil industry? Are you trying to make the case that those how want drilling on land are somehow less beholden than those who want drilling on land and in the ocean?!!?

RW-(the original)

[[Does Obama really think that the US government has made “numerous attacks” on the African community, or that this allegation has legitimacy?]]

Well, we have made a couple of Predator strikes in Yemen…

Hotlanta - @@

The “race charge” is another case where Obama implied something, charged Republicans, when Reps said “we did no such thing” Obama supporters asked “what are you talking about?” “McCain has accused Obama of playing politics with race for predicting that the likely Republican nominee and others in the GOP would try to scare voters by saying the Democrat “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” Obama’s spokesmen denied he was referring to being black, although all the presidents on U.S. currency are white. “Obama senior strategist David Axelrod said Friday that race became an issue only when the McCain campaign cast a racial slant on Obama’s remarks, which were made at a campaign swing Wednesday in rural Missouri. Axelrod rejected the charge and repeated the assertion that Obama was talking about his status as a young, relative newcomer to Washington politics.”

Axelrod’s “explanation” of Obama’s remark doesn’t strain credulity – it stomps on it.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

3000 innocent Americans paid the ultimate price for KKKlinton failing to do what Bush did, defeat al Qaeda, when was the last time you heard a lib whine about them?

Not only has security shown sustained improvement in recent months, but large multinational companies are actively looking to pour money into the country, not just into oil and gas industries, but secondary ones such as fertilizer and finance.

In fact, says Wareing, the international chief executive of tax and consulting giant KPMG, a turning point may have been reached that could see billions of dollars of international investment flow into the city in the next two to three years.

“There’s significant interest, with active investor visits,” Wareing told Reuters at KPMG’s headquarters in London.

“We’re talking about a dozen companies, most of them, but not all, significant multinationals, who are looking at quite significant opportunities,” he said, referring broadly to Middle Eastern, European and U.S. firms but not wanting to be more specific because of the imminence of contract announcements.

We won.

And there is no amount of liberal blubbering that will change this cold hard fact.

Iraq is no longer a nest of mass murdering thugs, threatening it’s neighbors and it’s own citizens.

Ever wonder why the libs are so angry about that?

Iraq is now a normal, peace loving, prosperous society, the liberals are still all F up.

Isn’t victory so damn sweet?

By RW-(the original)

August 1, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

The Obambi energy plan

By dirty harry

August 1, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

By AJC/DNC Management ..

Are you talking about the 3,000 Americans who died on September 11, 2001?

Gee, was Clinton president then? I don’t think so!

I believe the president was George W. Bush .. Who by the way received a “Presidential daily brief on Aug 6th advising him of the intent of al-Qaeda to attack using airplanes…and of course which he chose to ignore!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 1, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

dirty hairy: Uh, the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, who, pray tell, was president then?

They didn’t get away with it the second time.

Thank you Bushie!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

The Boston Tea Party, Part Duex, not one word of it in thee Urinal:

Speaker Blinky Pelosi (Dhimmi-Calif.) and the Dimwitocrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

“You’re not covering this, are you?” whined one senior Democratic aide (to the C-SPAN crews.)

Update: The Capitol Police are now trying to kick reporters out of the press gallery above the floor, meaning we can’t watch the Republicans anymore. But Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) is now in the gallery talking to reporters, so the cops have held off for a minute. Clearly, Democrats don’t want Republicans getting any press for this episode. GOP leaders are trying to find other Republicans to rotate in for Blunt so reporters aren’t kicked out.

“Although this Democrat majority just adjourned for the Democrat 5-week vacation, House Republicans are continuing to fight on the House floor. Although the lights, mics and C-SPAN cameras have been turned off, House Republicans are on the floor speaking to the taxpayers in the gallery who, not surprisingly, agree with Republican energy proposals.

“All Republicans who are in town are encouraged to come to the House floor.”

Update 3: Democrats just turned out the lights again. Republicans cheered.

Update 4: Republican leaders just sent out a notice looking for a bullhorn, and leadership aides are trying to corral all the members who are still in town to come speak on the floor and sustain this one-sided debate.

Update 5: The scene on the floor is kind of crazy. Normally, members are not allowed to speak directly to the visitor galleries, and visitors are prohibited from cheering. But in this case, the members are walking up and down on the floor during their speeches, standing on chairs. The visitors are cheering loudly.

Update 6: Republicans are literally hugging each other on the House floor. Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), not normally known as a distinguished orator, just gave a rousing speech, accusing Democrats of stifling dissent. He referenced President John Quincy Adams, who returned as a House member after being defeated in his presidential reelection bid. Waving his arms and yelling, Manzullo brought the crowd (including a lot of staffers shipped in by GOP leaders to fill up the place), and he left the floor to hugs from his colleagues. You don’t see that up here every day.

Update 7: Rep Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) just pretended to be a Democrat. He stood on the other side of the chamber and listed all of the GOP bills that the Dems killed.

He then said, “I am a Democrat, and here is my energy plan” and he held up a picture of an old VW Bug with a sail attached to it. He paraded around the House floor with the sign while the crowd cheered.

Right at the stroke of five Georgia Rep. Tom Price announced that House Republicans were ending their impromptu protest on the floor of the chamber, ending a five-plus hour rebellion with a round of “God Bless America.”

The assembled tourists, aides and members in the chamber gave Price and his compatriots a standing ovation. They left the chamber to shouts of “USA! USA! USA!”

We’re baaaaaaacccckkkkkk!

And so are you We The People!

Yes!

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who was on a plane headed home, went back to the Capitol, walking on to the floor dragging his luggage. He got a standing ovation.

Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) called it a “new Boston Tea Party!”

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) said he was “not leaving until we call this Congress back into session and vote for energy independence.”

Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the dimly lit chamber is a “vision of the future by the Democrat Party: The lights are out, there’s no power, and the air conditioning is gonna go off soon.”

Michigan Republican Mike Rogers returned to the House floor in shorts and sandals to take his turn at the podium, “I had gotten in my car to drive home and I realized I didn’t have enough money to pay for the first tank of gas,” said Rogers.

Rep. Donald Manzullo also delivered a passionate speech, saying today was his late father’s birthday.

After relating how his father, an Italian immigrant, came to live in Illinois and own a little grocery store, Manzullo brought the crowd to its feet with this line: “The people of this country are rising up and saying, ‘We want our country back!’”

A moment in history.

Years from now people will still be talking about this.

Our leaders have asserted themselves against tyranny and environmental terrorism, let us rally around the cause.

It is our fight now.

~~~~~

Aahhh, yes, thee great cover up for the flip flopping has begun, in earnest:

Oil exploration may be on horizon for Georgia- Bipartisan effort in Senate would let several states allow drilling 50 miles off shores; other technologies also a goal.-Urinal/PMS

The dimwitocrats in the Do Nothing 110th Congress have blocked drilling legislation, have taken extraordinary measures to silence the debate on drilling and have left town for 5 weeks so that there can be no vote on drilling, but yet the Doom and Gloom/DNC gives them credit for drilling “on the horizon.”

Wonderful choice of words, AJC, Bush has got his Iraq “horizon* and you got your cut and run from environmental terrorism “horizon.”

~~~~~

And even baby barak got his flip flop in, courtesy of Republican leadership:

U.S. Sen. barack o’bumbler said today he would be willing to, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, open Florida’s coast for more oil drilling if it meant winning approval for broad energy changes.

It’s over, America.

You won.

~~~~~

All these years the dimwitocrats and their drive by media sycophants told us they would successfully fight terrorism in the court system, now let us look upon with disgust exactly what they mean:

Bin Laden driver ‘not fit to plan or execute’- Reputed 9/11 mastermind backs up defense. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks declared in written testimony Friday that a fellow Guantanamo inmate now on trial was too “primitive” and uneducated to have played a role in al-Qaida’s terrorist plots.-Urinal/ACLU

Got that cut throats of the world?

Come to America and slaughter at will, the surrender monkey yellow belly scumbag left wing will defend your actions and propagandize for your cause.

It almost seems like they want you to kill us, don’t it?

To whit:

Mexican inmate seeks reprieve- Jose Medellinsaid the high court should block his execution until Texas complies with a 2004 ruling by the World Court that he and other Mexicans on death rows around the nation deserved new hearings because they were denied access to their country’s consular officials after being arrested. Such access is guaranteed by international treaty. The World Court last month ordered U.S. authorities to do everything possible to halt such executions.-Urinal/ACLU

Jose Medellin is set to die Tuesday in the gang rape and beating deaths of two Houston girls

Sick.

By @@

August 2, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

HOPE is alive and well!

Al-Qaeda number two al-Zawahiri reported injured by US missile

We shall see.

By The New Rugby

August 2, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

@@, we dont know how to understand just exactly who Zawahiri is unless you compare him to other nefarious celebrities, like say, PeeWee Herman or Andy Dick.

“Al Zawahiri is the most nefarious celebrity in the world, (camera flashes Pee Wee Herman’s mugshot and Andy Dicks moon shot), and he was the victim of a surge supporter McCain’s knowledge of victory in war like in WW2 when we got Yamamoto (camera flashes pictures of Betty Grable, and Bruce Lee).

McCain had a pretty good weak this week. Mostly, it was great fodder for comedians. I stayed away for the most part because it was simply too easy to write, and a even a troll could roll.

McCain Ad idea: Voice over says, “McCain knows war. The Iraq War is revenge for 911, (camera flashes footage of Pearl Harbor, No Gun Ri and the reenactments of the Battle of Fredricksburg), and he knows how to achieve victory, just like we did in ‘Nam”

Another Ad idea 4 McCain: “McCain signed confessions about USA war atrocities in Vietnam. (camera flashes stills of Benedict Arnold and Mata Hari). He’s old, but can he betray us again?”

bwa. Anyone read Wooten today? Wooten has nothing. I wonder if he ever reads his own writing, detached as an impartial observer, the way we all read it. What’s Wooten saying? anything adult? issues? Or Paris lip. What momentum or traction can non-denial denials and uncorroborated-corrobration take you in a campaign where the polls show you slowly sinking into the sunset?

The debates. The conventions. The Veep Opts. There’s much more fun ahead. Too bad it’s in the hands of a total sellout hack like Wooten, or we could be so enthralled with informed, gifted observation narratives (like mine, yes, like mine), but if you’d all be kind enough to continue to read my blogs, I promise to provide the entertaining insights you all crave. As usual, feel free to steal, then folks’ll think that you’re the genius, instead of the liposuctioned overbite your faces truly R. (camera to Paris porn video)

As God is my witness, I never thought I’d read the kind of foppish folderol that Wooten offers as journalism during this campaign. America isn’t that stupid.

Obama 08: America4America (copyright 2008).

McCain 08: America4Iraq (you can have that one) .

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

I’ll go a round. I’ll see your fodder and raise you one heaping, steaming pile of duhng.

Ameriduh IS THAT Stupid. BUSH. DUHHHHH!

By The New Rugby

August 2, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Campaign Ad for Obama Campaign: Obama only needs to run video of McRove dancing, and Bush voodoo-masking, (god, remember that, I’m still embarrassed to visit africa), interspersed with cheney saying “we know saddam met with al queda”. Show Cheney saying it over the three years he said it on Meet the Press, This Week with Stephanopolous, and Face the Nation. Show each word in a different setting, “We” from Meet the Press, “Know” from Face the Nation, “Saddam” from This Week, “met” from the Dateline interview, “with” from the 60 minutes interview, “Al” from the 20/20 interview, “Queda” from the 48 hours interview.

I’m really good, you know? Damn I’m good.

This will make McCain stfu. This will destroy the McCain campaign once and for all. I know all. I see all. I’m a democrat.

Run that ad once a week till the elections and nobody will vote for McCain.

Slam dunk. Word out.

Political Foreskin 08: This campaign is stupid.

This campaign is stupid.

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

The defining moment for the McCain campaign will be when he is being grilled on his reasons for his flip-flop tax-me-but-no-more votes on Iraq and he’ll get all flustered and try to brush back a lock of hair that got burned off long ago and he’ll stutter and squeak out something like “But, but, you’re stupider” and then he’ll respond to a question about our motives for going into Iraq with something like “Saddam had photos and not just the ones of Rumsfeld shaking hands with him. I mean really good photos. He had to be stopped. Now the ding dong is dead. So let’s have a big cheer for the Republican Party, Hip Hip Hudday. Has anyone seen my trollop. Where did that two timin’ witch get off to now.”

By Dusty

August 2, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Dear foppish folderoler aka the New Rugby aka PoFo, @9:39

A bit strong on the caffeine, the nicotine, the benzedrine and the meth moments this morning??

Sit back and relax a bit. Enjoy AJC/DNC Management’s thrilling account of the Congressional CounterACT which, as he noted, did not register with the AJC.

Ah yes, the Boston Tea Party Reenactment, The Washington Washout of Retreating Pelosicrats, The Needling of the Nerds, The Battle of Capitol’s Courageous Congressmen, The Rejection of White Flag Politics, the Republican SURGE of SURETY..or Pelosi’s Last Stand at Capitol Hill. Oh, the sun doth rise on happy campers today. Wooten will celebrate with us Monday. Fireworks allowed.

ALSO, there is a rumor that Obama is having a bit of trouble recruiting Vice President possibilities:

Justice Clarence Thomas can’t stop laughing. Neither can Thomas Sowell.

Sam Nunn said; “Only if grits will be served at the White House.

Michael Jackson said he preferred working with a younger candidate.

MAXINE said “You are not going to muddy my WATERS!”

Hillary said “Yeah, sure, Uh huh, OK, right after my convention speech, ho ho!”

Condi Rice said:”Read my lips, Bozo!”

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

It doesn’t take long for the mindless stupidity of liberalism to rear its ugly head on this blog:

By dirty harry

August 1, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this By AJC/DNC Management ..

Are you talking about the 3,000 Americans who died on September 11, 2001? Gee, was Clinton president then? I don’t think so!

“I believe the president was George W. Bush .. Who by the way received a “Presidential daily brief on Aug 6th advising him of the intent of al-Qaeda to attack using airplanes…and of course which he chose to ignore!”

Yes. And any 5th grader can read the 9/11 Commission Report For Dummies Short Bus Report and see that those extremist Islamic terrorists had been planning the event since the animals’ 1993 attempt FAILED. Now, WHO was president from January of 1993 through January of 2001 again? Then we had the Khobar tower bombings, USS Cole attack, etc. Asshat diseased liberal.

BTW: it’s not like you mindless incompetents on the sick left would have ever allowed the NEW Bush administration to profile Middle Eastern Muslims or anything.

Finally, it’s not like your mindless heroes on the sick left were actually being adults and leading or anything. Your mindless incompetents on the left were so upset at Bush winning that their entire focus in Washington was to thwart EVERY. SINGLE. BUSH. CABINET. APPOINTMENT.

Kinda hard to run a gubment when mindless incompetents are throwing a fecal fit.

Got any more brilliant arguments, diseased liberal trash?

By @@

August 2, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

I’m really good, you know?

Allllllright PoliFore……..since you asked

Holey Wood is calling.

ssssssssssssssssssss

By The New Rugby

August 2, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Obama’s campaign must remind Americans of why we need change in the first place. Notice how quiet Bush is. It’s almost scary. maybe bush thinks he can be the Veep if he doesn’t screw up, i dont know, is he that stupid?

This campaign is stupid.

Hillary is so quiet it’s scary too. She’s gotta be on the short list. Edwards and Hillary. The Edwards mistress smear is a dead giveaway, the right is setting up the mature political defense against him as a Veep. Some GOP fop needs to find the video of Edwards wife in chemotherapy and really make points with the gods of pathos and glean even more bush base diehards with their compassionate sensibilities.

Put nothing past the McWootens. The true measure of a cause is how far it goes to save itself, (throw out lady liberty’s baby with Paris’s bathwater (ew) and burn down the white house rather than surrender it.) Watch conservatism howl, people.

Watch conservatism howl.

A great campaign ad would show McCain and the voiceover would say he’s the greatest conservative in the world, and show pictures of Bush and Cheney, then say “but can he cut taxes, provide healthcare, educate our children or ever bring our troops home”?

How to find Leadership. Just look for the followers.

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Is there a reason why like last weekend the main Wooten blog post doesn’t allow commenting? I’m curious. Anywho, I thought I’d try the inner writer in me - enjoy!

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a bunch of twinkle-toed candyassed liberals believed that “The Wiz” Obama was coming to whisk them away from the dark, evil, unfair, hatred depths of Free America and float them off to the Land Of Liberal Marxist Oz.

That is the land where candyassed liberal sweet dreams and sugar-spun left wing anti-capitalist, anti-individualist, and anti-success pipe dream rhetoric all come together under “fairness for all” and collectivist socialism.

It is also the land where the wicked evil corporations and evil serpent successful (the “wealthy”) are chained to the hallow walls of yore, stripped of their rightfully owned and earned gold treasures of profit and investment, and forced to watch what they strived for and worked so hard for disappear into that great liberal melting pot of equality for all at the end of the twinkling pretty pinko rainbow.

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

“The Edwards mistress smear is a dead giveaway, the right is setting up the mature political defense against him as a Veep.”

Yep. Another mindless diseased liberal comment. Just like Bill’s blow job in the Clinton Oral Office, blame the “Vast, Right Wing Conspiracy!”

Gee, being mindless isn’t too hard. I’d have made a “feisty” liberal.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

That he’s a maverick and may not be all that conservative.

MAY NOT BE???

ALL THAT CONSERVATIVE???

C’mon Jimbo, you’ve been doing so much better lately in avoiding the uncommonly senseless yet entrenched ostrich viewpoint so over-represented here.

Don’t be so afraid to just state the obvious.

McCAIN’S NO NEO-CON.

(AND that you faux conservatives wouldn’t recognize, much less understand, actual American conservatism if Larry Craig sat in your laps.)

It is widely known that the Republican power-brokers, led by that always classy Mr. Rove, absolutely despise McCain and his RINO ideas. And they wanted ANYBODY but him as their nominee.

Sadly for them Large & Lazy Fred, Flip-flopping Lurch, 9/11 Rudy, Flat-earth Sammy and the other neo-con clowns looked during the primaries like a bunch of UGA Young Republicans at a Mensa meeting.

Which, of course, means a HUGE victory for America and the US Constitution, right off the bat.

So try and grasp this basic concept neo-clowns; You have already LOST the upcoming presidential election.

But the great news does not end there.

How many more US Senate seats will the Bushco neo-cons lose in November? Three? Four? Five? More?

(C’mon Bush apologists, you can venture a guess, can’t you?)

How many more US House seats? A dozen? Two dozen? More?

(C’mon corporate wh0re johns, you can take a stab at it, can’t you?)

How many more governorships? A handful? Two? More?

(C’mon pollution-loving chickenhawks, you can manup, can’t you?)

No? Of course not.

But it’s OK.

Because at last 75 - 80% of voting Americans, MANY of whom have admitted making a gigantic mistake by voting for less than curious George, no longer believe anything you remaining, dwindling screw ups say or are even listening to you anymore.

Haven’t you noticed?

So keep talking among yourselves and pretending you are conservatives…

By Andy's Level

August 2, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Hahahahahaha. Look at ole dirty harry’s post. Hahahaha. Tryin’ to talk all smart like to Andy. Hahahaha. He don’t know Andy very well. Well, harry. If you want to talk to Andy, then you gots to talk soes he can understand you. Keep it Simple Sucka. Just say: Andy is a[n] [insert simple descriptive word(s) here]. He’ll know what you mean because he’s heard it enough times now that he finally asked his friends what it meant and they finally figured out a way to explain it to him. He really gets all angry and pouty and mad and starts using all kinds of nasty words and stuff every time he hears it now and it don’t even matter what those descriptive words are any more.

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Ah yes, straight from the Atlanta Urinal Constipation…even their auto section can’t escape the mindless disease of liberalism:

See Bruce Weiner’s bright red F.M.R. microcar out on I-20, streaking along like a tiny earth-bound rocket, the wind whipping over its stubby wing-like fenders, the sun glinting off a clear plexiglas bubble top, and you’re looking at the future.

If any of you mindless liberal moonbats think I would put a newly licensed teenager, let alone myself, in a death box like that to “save the planet,” you can go FY. I’ll put my carbon BOOT print wherever the hell I want to.

By Cats

August 2, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

you know there’s a lot of cats out there who think that conservatism and the Gop are going to, well, what i mean to say is that there’s all these cats, man, and these cats are sayin’ that bush and rove were like you know, well, let me start over, there’s these cats, okay, lots of cats, everywhere there’s all these cats, man, hell, i dont know why i’m having so much trouble sayin’ this…there’s cats everywhere, man, cats here, cats there, look at all the cats, okay?

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

MEXICO CITY - Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm. The salmonella sample that one U.S. official called “a smoking gun” was taken from a water tank that had not been used for more than two months to irrigate crops, said the director of Mexico’s Farm Food Quality Service, Enrique Sanchez.

It doesn’t matter if that water sits until hell freezes over esse - pis-sing and taking a dump on a farm is not very sanitary. Even the Romans had plumbing.

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Am Vet really has ‘em pegged with his commentary. Wooten and his merry band of robins in the hood don’t even know that they’ve been punked. Bush almost knows it though and he’s finally starting to understand after almost eight years just how badly he was punked and just how badly he let Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney and their masters punk all of us. There’ll be heck to pay for this fine mess that Bush got us into. What a legacy. A legacy that no one could want.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

I believe the president was George W. Bush .. Who by the way received a “Presidential daily brief on Aug 6th advising him of the intent of al-Qaeda to attack using airplanes…and of course which he chose to ignore!—by dumba&& harry

Revise history much there dumba&&?

How about pointing out where the PDB said that, harry?

And ignored?

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.

There was once a PDB that said what you claimed, but it was in 1998. Who ignored it?

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Obamania leads McCain by a whopping 45 to 44. Now where is that little liberal wormy pos from last weekend pis-sing her pretty pinko panties about the Obamania European Vacation poll boost…

PRINCETON, NJ — The race for the presidency has moved back into a statistical tie in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update of national registered voters, with Barack Obama now ahead of John McCain by just one percentage point, 45% to 44%.

Did I NOT tell you mindless incompetent hysterical liberals on the sick left to NOT wet your beds over what instant read thermometer polls say?

I think I did. Read it again for a refresher.

Like shooting fish in a barrel around here…no competition. What else do you expect from mindless emotion-driven liberalism?

By Cousin Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I see Rufus, is back amongst us. What an idiot. He’s right up there with Andy and Dusty. Well, almost. At least he does keep his ramblings shorter and he does not do fifty pages of idiotic cut and paste kindergarten crap. The three stooges — Purty Curly Andy, No Moe Dusty and Fairy Larry Rufus. They’re so…passe and so… childish all at the same time.

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

RW: the mindless disease of liberalism doesn’t care about facts and the truth. You need look no further than our resident POS liberal open festering flatulent canker sore, PoFo, and comments that “McInsane” shot off that rocket on the Forrestal.

By Cats

August 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

McCain 08: Is America still here? I thought wet starting the constitution was enough to bring it down. Look all I want is for Osama Bin Laden to determine all of our foreign policy decisions. Where was he on Dec. 7, 1941? Huh? I mean 911. Where was he? Where is he now? We dont know do we? That’s obama’s fault, obama could be Osama bin laden because has anyone ever seen the two of them together? No. Now we know Y.

Obama 08: America4America (copyright 2008)

By Cats

August 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

bwa

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

PoFo: I demand my blog rating, JACKASS.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

It’s still fun batting them around.

That tracking poll has been updated

It’s 44/44 now. Wait until the bit about how inflating our tires will provide more oil than drilling gets factored in.

Have I mentioned that Obambi is a dunce?

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

“Have I mentioned that Obambi is a dunce?”

I like the new sig, RW. LOL.

Yep, you have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBO5s8NUOxw

Personally, I think he’s an incompetent boob without a teleprompter and scripts like a typical mindless hysterical liberal left wing Hollywood actor, and our wonderful media won’t engage him.

By RW-(the original)

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

Oh my! We can’t have the press actually questioning The Messiah can we?

Four things are already clear from the controversy. First, Obama campaign officials, lacking any example of McCain ever pointing directly or indirectly at Obama’s race as an issue in the campaign, have backpedaled rapidly away from any suggestion that their Republican opponent is using the very tactics Obama suggested on Wednesday.

Campaign manager David Plouffe was pressed hard during a conference call on Thursday for examples and could not point to any. An inquiry to the Obama campaign later in the day produced no immediate response and later no answer to a direct question asking for evidence to buttress Obama’s suggestion that McCain would try to scare people into not voting for Obama because he’s black.

Isn’t there a word leftist idiots like to throw around for someone preemptively smearing groups of people with baseless charges?

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

It was only three weeks ago that John Edwards was fielding media questions on his chances of filling the Democratic Party’s vice presidential slot on Barack Obama’s ticket or a potential Cabinet position in an Obama administration. On Wednesday, however, the former U.S. senator and 2004 vice presidential nominee was eager to duck the press when the questions took a tabloid turn.

Remember, it’s all the fault of Republicans!

Oh, and we don’t trash talk cancer stricken victims, either. Tony Snow anyone?

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

What a perfect description.

JOHN adds: Scott writes, “Either Obama is unaware of it or he is taking advantage of the ignorance of his audiences.” I think both hypotheses are true. Throughout the campaign, Obama has revealed himself to be remarkably ignorant of basic facts that are relevant to current issues. As a Democrat, meanwhile, his strategy is to rely on the ignorance of many voters. So we have an ill-informed candidate leading a “movement” of the ignorant. It us, unfortunately, a powerful combination.

By Dusty

August 2, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

There’s a BIG leak from an Obama staffer (I think his name was AmVet) who let’s us know this latest info:

“Obama is going to Behjing to speak at the Olympics. At that time he will disclose that Phuon Yu, the architect of the Great Wall of China was HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER. Phuon Yu left China with Marco Polo and settled in Kenya. This has been verified by the YuHu laundry shop Scroll.

In honor of this discovery, Obama will eat only Chinese noodles with his bratwurst and French fried snails. He does this as his rocket star internationalism SPEARS into oblivion. Long live Barack Husein Phuon Yu Obama!!!”

So concludes the Obama staff and Wesley Clark who has now been placed on the VP list.!! Will AmVet be next????

By getalife "whiners"

August 2, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

The one had a bad week.

The dems held out for big oil checks and they will cave like FISA.

Both parties are corrupt and the government is still broken.

They should shut it down.

Or pay them minumum wage like Ahnold.

By @@

August 2, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Here’s another opportunity for the liberals to spot the lie and the liar.

Obama - “So what I want to do is just to make sure that we are putting together the kind of comprehensive plan that is going to work. And if you have a package that is offshore drilling only, which is essentially what Bush and McCain have been emphasizing, then I think that that is not going to solve the problem and I would be opposed to that.”

John McCain’s Energy Plan includes it all.

Reducing carbon emissions

Hybrid Vehicles and Fully Electric Autos

Flex-fuel vehicles

Alternative fuels

Stronger enforcement of CAFE Standards

blah blah blah

OBlahma!

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Bad,

I suppose its possible that given the fifth grade level of their ” we didn’t know about airplanes as weapons arguments” amongst innumerable others and their obvious lack of clarity on anything they don’t want to comprehend, these hubris-filled southern talibaptists and assorted never-served, never-will chest pounding chickenhawks really can’t grasp just how played they been by Bushco.

And how they enabled and cheered on the most corrupt f&ckups in American political history. It is undeniable that most Americans, as well as virtually the rest of the world, see these Republicans as the deadly, vacuous knuckle-draggers they’ve chosen to be. And more significantly, are apparently incapable of learning from their many. many, many mistakes.

THAT is why they are going to get humiliated for a second consecutive election. Guaranteed. And how they unwittingly have caused a huge resurgence in all things non neo-con.

And it makes me wonder which liberal-hating “conservative” will next murder innocent Americans while shooting up a childrens play?

BTW Dirtball, Clarke is another of those men who has given a lifetime of highly decorated service to the nation. That disqualifies him utterly as one of you neo-con chickenhawks.

And as I’ve only told you five times, you mindless partisan twit, I’m not voting for Obama. I’m not endorsing him. I’m not advocating his election in any way. Nor have I ever.

Gawd, you are one screwed up, hopelessly dense Republitard…

By getalife "whiners"

August 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Barry is Kerry.

They should flip flop on Barry and run Hillary.

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Once again, I agree with getalife. Just damn.

Moving along…

I just could NOT resist this. It looks like The Nanny’s new book isn’t doing too well. Ya know what? If you p!ss off your own, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with you and what you believe in and stand for.

http://www.amazon.com/Know-Your-Power-Americas-Daughters/dp/0385525869

Hahaha.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the Duh Report, or something like that, and I just got off the phone with Bushie 1 and Bushie 2. They told me that this has been the most ridiculously easy election campaign they ever faced, they said Karl barely had to put any effort in to it.

They’ve come to the conclusion it is best just to let Lord High Dimwit, Thee Grandest, do all the talking.

Done deal.

He also told me to tell you surrender monkeys to kiss his as-s about Iraq, he’s going to win it no matter what you do.

So kiss his as-s, toadies.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

I heard Nancy referred to as America’s Mother-in-Law the other day.

Does anybody know what shamvet is babbling about?

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. Looks like yesterday’s drilling talkathon has rejuvenated the conservatives and depressed our leftist friends. The increasing evidence of Chauncey’s lack of humor is beginning to soak in as well. Looks like Captain Queeg will run the table now. Chauncey had six months to define himself for the American public and chose to not do so. Captain Queeg is doing so now. The only question really remaining is how many seats will the democrats lose over their lack of an energy policy.

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Dear RW @ 1:17, just skip over it. When he first showed up on the blog I used to read - mistakenly thought I saw intellectual content there, or at least potential. I don’t even pause now.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ,

Imagine how many seats they would lose if we had a press that actually did their job.

Oddly, Google news and LexisNexis searches produced little coverage of this incident. Isn’t it newsworthy that Democrats wouldn’t expand drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf even if gasoline reached $10 a gallon?

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Why is Obama not improving in the polls? WASHINGTON: It is a question that has hovered over Senator Barack Obama even as he has passed milestone after milestone in his race for the White House: Why is he not doing better?

Is that not a rhetorical question? The man has EVERYTHING behind him from the media to Hollywood, yet he’s still statistically tied with “McInsane”. Such a shame the media (and the “world”) feels it has to choose America’s candidates for president and mindless American sheep follow good looks and prose over substance and definitive values.

Liberalism…

By Rufus

August 2, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

“Does anybody know what shamvet is babbling about?”

No idea, RW. I don’t read what s/he posts…

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ @ 1:24,

Trust me I know there is nothing there, but I thought I would give her an opportunity to switch to petty name calling rather than that same tired script s/he bangs out 84 times a day.

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Amvet,

They’re such easy targets. I like stopping by from time to time to get them stirred up. The ole Rufus/Andy/RW/Dusty clan is fun to pick on. I even throw a little bone to the resident wanna be lawyer every once in a while. I think he calls himself Prince now.

Here’s one that I’m surprised that the media has not been more on top of — Saxby’s grilling of the guy at the sugar plant. I mean, have you been listening to any of that stuff. Old Saxby is like a rabid, ravenous attack dog. What an arrogant, hypocrite. Did he eat too much sugar or what. Him going after a person that tried to improve things. I think Saxby and the Republicans should have been focusing on strengthening OSHA and EPA and FDA instead of ruining them and things like this and salmonella outbreaks could have been avoided. Instead, people like Saxby are more concerned with building a better bug like anthrax to share with folks like Saddam. War mongering Christian soldiers, huh.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Ahhhh, ricky retardo, aka the ballerina, wants to shoot the messenger because he hates the message and knows we just love rubbing the neo-cons smug faces in it.

So he is taking it all personally again. Even if in this case the shoe fits, the kid is so thin skinned and defensive…

Anyhoo, good luck “rejuvenated” “conservatives” and various ostriches!!!

I stand by my earlier prediction that before his term is over, five out of six Americans,at a minimum, will decry the reign of King George II and condemn his imperious time occupying the White House.

The consequences?

A despised RINO candidate, droves of Senators and Representatives cutting and running with their neo-con tails between their legs, an entire catalog of failures and an electorate who demands that their useless non-conservative heads roll.

Go on say it along with me, neo-cons - Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election near you this fall

Har-dee-frickin-har!

July 21, 2008

George W. Bush’s Overall Job Approval Drops to 21%

George W. Bush’s overall job approval has dropped to 21% as 76% of Americans say the national economy is getting worse according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.

Among all Americans, 21% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 72% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 17% approve and 77% disapprove.

Among Americans registered to vote, 22% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. When it comes to the way Bush is handling the economy, 18% of registered voters approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 77% disapprove.

By Dusty

August 2, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

This just in from Obama’s headquarters:

Due to a misalignment of Madame RosaNova’s Tarot cards, a few mistakes have been made on the VP list. AmVet is no longer on the list. We are told he is nondenominational and antilibrarian.

Other deletions from the VP list include:

General Colin Powell who said to our leader…”When you speak to me, say SIR and salute.”

Also Bill Cosby who said “If Obama gets to the Oval Office they won’t need another comedian.”

By Bud Wiser

August 2, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Near here there is a large German-speaking population. A farmer walking down a country road noticed a man drinking from his pond with his hand.

The farmer shouted: ‘Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen,’ which means: ‘Don’t drink the water, the cows have sh!t in it.’

The man shouted back: ‘I’m from New York and just down here campaigning for Obama, I can’t understand you. Please speak in English.’

The farmer replied: “Use two hands, you’ll get more!”

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Bad,

This summer of endless Republican discontent is a dream come true for the nation. Watching the “faithful” speaking in festering “conservative” tongues, rolling around on the floor like they are possessed by Ronnie Raygun’s spirit, handling poisonous snakes with Karl Rove’s face on them and generally lamenting the h&llish derision that befalls them must be for them some sort of modern day Dante’s Inferno.

And can you imagine the deafening right wing wailing should the mulatto win?

There is a perverse part of me who hopes he does, just to watch it…

And you are right, like the numerous other gutless neo-cons to recently represent the Peach State, Saxby is a real gem, no doubt.

And it gives me no joy to say it, but like many, I believe he is one of the most craven scumbags to ever darken the chambers of the US Senate.

A true embarrassment…

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

I rest my case.

By Dusty

August 2, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

Dear Bud Wiser,@2:05

That’s a good one!

By Bud Wiser

August 2, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Whitey Need Not Apply by Patrick J. Buchanan Posted 08/01/2008 ET

‘Will race be an issue in this campaign?’

Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh.

For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American — even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Barack is beating McCain among black voters 94 to 1.

What,other than race, explains how Barack rolled up 90-10 margins among black voters while running against Hillary Clinton, wife of the man novelist Toni Morrison dubbed ‘our first black president’?

Indeed,so one-sided was the primary coverage in favor of Barack as the first African-American with a real chance to be president, even ‘Saturday Night Live’ took to mocking the mainstream media.

As for black radio, on ‘The Tom Joyner Morning Show,’ ‘Michael Baisden Show’ and ‘The Steve Harvey Morning Show,’ which together may reach 20 million folks, there is ‘little pretense of balance,’ writes Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times. ‘More often than not the Obama campaign is discussed as the home team.’

Black Entertainment Television plans to carry Barack’s speech to the Democratic convention live, but has no plans to carry McCain’s. Barack’s speech ‘is an historic occasion,’ says BET Chairman Debra L.Lee, ‘so that demands some special treatment from us.’

As the mainstream media have moved left and talk radio right, and cable is breaking down along political and ideological lines, there is something else afoot now — the racial Balkanization of the newsroom.

Consider. On Sunday, 6,800 folks showed in Chicago for the 2008 quadrennial convention of UNITY: Journalists of Color. McCain declined an invitation. Bush had been booed at UNITY 2004, while John Kerry got a standing ovation. Featured speaker: Barack. Major concern of the journalists running the show: that their colleagues would lift the roof off the McCormick Place convention center when Barack arrived.

Said Luis Villareal, a producer of NBC’s ‘Dateline,’ ‘I don’t think it’s such a bad thing if for 15 minutes you take off your reporter hat and respond to (Obama) as a human being at an event where you’re surrounded by people of color and you’re here for a united cause.’

And exactly what ‘cause’ might the 10,000 members of UNITY be united behind? The hiring and advancement of journalists of color in all major news organizations in America.

For, as its emblem depicts,UNITY comprises four alliances: the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.

‘A New Journalism for a Changing World’ is UNITY’s motto. And the title of its July 22 press release reveals what the ‘new journalism’ is all about. ‘Aim of New UNITY Initiative Is More Diversity in Top Media Management.’

‘With more than 50 percent of the population projected to be people of color in less than a generation,’ says UNITY President Karen Lincoln Michel, ‘the nation’s news organizations continue to generate dismal diversity numbers year after year. … ‘Ten by 2010’ is a significant step in the right direction.’

What is Ten by 2010?

UNITY is demanding that 10 major U.S. news organizations, by mid-2010, elevate to a senior management position in the newsroom at least one journalist of color and provide ‘customized training to help prepare them.’

The journalist may be Asian, African-American, Native American or Hispanic,which rules out journalists of Irish, English, Polish, Italian, German or Jewish ancestry, since they are white.

Is this what we have come to 50 years after the triumph of the civil rights movement? Flat-out demands, by American journalists, for the hiring and promotion of colleagues based on race and color?

Is there any evidence major news organizations in this country have engaged in systematic discrimination to keep out men or women of color this last half century? The reverse seems true. They have bent over backward to advance minority journalists.

And if journalists have beenhired and promoted based on ability and merit, why in the 21st century should these criteria be thrown out as the standards for advancement —in favor of race and color?

Isn’t this what they did in the days of Jim Crow — hire and promote based on race? What UNITY is calling for is a return to the old rules but with new beneficiaries —blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — and new victims, allof whom will be white.

On Sunday, McCain came out in favor of anArizona civil rights initiative that would outlaw any state discrimination either for or against folks, based on race, gender or national origin. Barack said he was ‘disappointed’ with McCain and told UNITY he favors affirmative action ‘when properly structured.’

The Arizona referendum banning preferential treatment based on race is also on the ballot in the swing state of Colorado. It won in California in 1996, in Washington in 2000 and in Michigan in the great Democratic sweep of 2006. It has never lost, and may just win McCain Colorado, and with it the nation.

Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War’: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, ‘The Death of the West,’, ‘The Great Betrayal,’ ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’ and ‘Where the Right Went Wrong.’

By @@

August 2, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

There really is something wrong with the way the dems nominate their candidate.

Show them (superdelegates) the money and they’ll pick your candidate for you.

Does this not bother democratic (cough, cough) voters?

Do you dems ever feel like the fools your party takes you for?

By Y morons always get outed

August 2, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

This is why corporal glenn is a moron: his joke doesn’t make sense because the farmer already hindered his warning about cow manure in the pond by speaking in german. So if he didn’t want the guy to drink from it, he woulda spoke english, and if he did want the guy, who declared himself across the aisle from the farmer, to drink from the pond, then he woulda done the same, speak in german or tell him to use two hands.

By Y morons always get outed

August 2, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

This is why corporal glenn is a moron: his joke doesn’t make sense because the farmer already hindered his warning about cow manure in the pond by speaking in german. So if he didn’t want the guy to drink from it, he woulda spoke english, and if he did want the guy, who declared himself across the aisle from the farmer, to drink from the pond, then he woulda done the same, speak in german or tell him to use two hands.

McCain is so old, that when he laughs, castor oil comes out his nose!

Now that’s funny. bwa. Corporal Glennduh is such a moron that when the teacher tells him his helmet is on backwards, he says, “How can you tell?”.

bwa.

Corporal Glennbutt is such a total criteria match for imbecile that when he…..write your own Corporal Moron joke here. Try it! It’s funnnnnny!

bwa.

By Bud Wiser

August 2, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it incredible how the tiny minded liberals always get offended by jokes… always afraid that someone will be offended by them…always quick to insult what they are too stupid to understand…oh, go ahead and write your own stupid liberal jokes here. I don’t want to waste the time, nor can I show more inclination to wax philosophic on the Waxman moronics. (pun intended)

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Wonderful, appears to have a small lead. But he doesn’t come close to maximizing the Democratic vote. And there is some evidence that the balance of enthusiasm has shifted and that young people — who seemed to turn out and vote for Obama in unusually high numbers in the primaries and caucuses — are no long so enthusiastic about him.

Gosh, I wonder who it was that predicted this?

Something about a new hip hop cd or TV show coming out that would distract the attention of thee kult away from Thee Splendid And Marvelous One?

Not to mention that everyone is figuring out that he is a dhimmwit.

Longing for thee Bruno, are we?

Hahahahahahahaha, losers.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Remember two days ago when Obambi told us that inflating our tires properly would get us as much oil as drilling?

Those weren’t the tires he knew he was heard to say as he threw the environazis under the gas guzzling bus.

Now watch as he insists that this was his position all along.

By Ga Values

August 2, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

Chambliss continues criticism Lawmaker says sugar refinery whistleblower is ‘on the hook’ Associated Press Saturday, August 02, 20084 commentsPRINTShareEmail AOL IM Del.icio.us Digg It Facebook Fark It Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Yahoo! Buzz WASHINGTON —- Sen. Saxby Chambliss — already facing heat for sharply questioning a whistleblower in a fatal sugar refinery accident outside Savannah — toughened his criticism by saying the employee is “on the hook” for the February explosion that killed 13 workers.

Associated Press Saxby Chambliss: Georgia senator has criticized a sugar refinery worker for not doing more before the blast that killed 13. Click photo for optionsAsked about the issue in the Capitol on Friday, the Georgia Republican suggested that the whistleblower is trying to deflect from his own failure to act by accusing Imperial Sugar Co. executives of resisting safety warnings about the company’s plant in Port Wentworth, Ga.

Mr. Chambliss said if vice president of operations Graham H. Graham knew the plant was so dangerous, he should have pressed more urgently.

“My question is if it was that bad, and you thought somebody was fixing to get killed, why in the world weren’t you more forceful?” he said. “Why didn’t he really do something? Because … as a result of his failure to do something, a serious accident did happen, in my opinion.”

“This guy Graham knows he’s on the hook,” Mr. Chambliss added.

Mr. Chambliss, who works closely with the sugar industry as the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, insists he is not trying to defend Imperial, which is among the largest U.S. sugar producers.

But his comments are the latest in which he has focused on Mr. Graham as a culprit instead of the company, despite a recent government investigation that accused Imperial of willfully and egregiously violating dozens of safety standards.

Mr. Graham’s supporters emphasize that Mr. Graham had worked at Imperial for just three months before the accident.

Mr. Graham’s attorney, Philip Hilder, called Mr. Chambliss’ criticism “absolutely nonsensical.”

“That plant has existed for some 90 years before Mr. Graham came,” Mr. Hilder said. “He was diligent in addressing the problems and got pushback from upper management, and for the senator … to suggest that he joined the company just a matter of weeks before the explosion and that fault lies with him — even though he saw the problem and tried to rectify it — is just the height of irresponsibility.”

Mr. Hilder and others had accused Mr. Chambliss of doing the company’s bidding Tuesday when he sharply questioned Mr. Graham at a Senate hearing. Mr. Chambliss’ questions raised eyebrows, because no one aside from Imperial had publicly doubted Mr. Graham’s claims. That includes Mr. Chambliss’ fellow Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson. The two rarely split, but Mr. Isakson says he has full faith in Mr. Graham’s account.

Some of Mr. Chambliss’ questions at the hearing were similar to a line of questioning that Imperial had suggested to lawmakers, but Mr. Chambliss said Friday he never saw any questions suggested by Imperial.

Mr. Chambliss also said he has not been influenced by any lobbyists for the Sugar Land, Texas-based company or by his son, Bo. The younger Mr. Chambliss is an in-house Washington lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which also is represented by an outside firm that lobbies for Imperial Sugar.

By @@

August 2, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

I read this morning that certainty within the youth vote has dropped from 66% to 46%.

Not disenfranchised by superdelegates like the rest of the dem voters….

disenchanted with OBlahMa.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

In 1980, Ronald Reagan asked voters whether they felt better off than four years earlier. He went on to defeat Jimmy Carter a few weeks later. On Friday Barack Obama, Thee Splendid, plagiarized Reagan: “Do you think that you are better off now than you were four years ago or eight years ago?”

Perhaps this dhimmwit doesn’t know Bushie was president four years ago?

Either that or he’s saying that the Bush economy in 2004 was just as good as the KKKlintoon economy in 1999 but that something must have happened since then, like, uh, uh, uh, uh, energy prices have sky rocketed because people haven’t been inflating their tires?

“And if you don’t … do you think you can afford another four years of the same failed economic policies that we’ve had under George W. Bush?” pronounced Thee Marvelous and Regal Dimwit

Maybe you should let your little queen here know that Bushie ain’t running again this year, no?

He may be surprised to learn who is.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Hang onto that “Bash the Mulatto” strategy, neo-cons. It seems to be working our really well for ya!

Seriously, is that what you’re reduced to? That and nothing else?

You’ve just fielded the most incompetent, corrupt team in the history of the USA and you expect the American voters to think you have a clue???

Instead of working on fielding a team of competent, rational non neo-con candidates, you continue playing the part of the enraged impotent reactionary.

Man, you clowns are practically recruitment posters for liberals…

By Bad S Mitten

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

The Republican party has screwed up the US so bad that the only one they could get to run for President that they think has a chance is the liberal Republican John McCain. You gotta love it. The Republicans look at their candidate and the best they can say about him is something like “I’ll hold my nose and vote for him because he is on the Republican ticket.” I just love it. Hahahaha. And all those conservative Republican Christian women with their “family values” out there holding their noses while they vote for McCain — the “gentleman” who calls his wife a runt, no it wasn’t Runt but it rhymes with it, was it punt, no it wasn’t Punt but it rhymes with it, was it derogatory and does it start with a “C”. Why yes indeed. I wonder what else he calls her, the trollop? Yes, all you fine upstanding ladies out there that like to think you have value outside the bedroom, McCain’s your choice. Go For It. HAhahaha.

By Pancho Solano

August 2, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Souonds like that German-American farmer must’ve been from Pennsylvania and his cruel humor is just bitter. No wonder they cling to God, guns and xenophobia.

But this Y Morons person sounds like he/she just fell out of the Nut Tree.

All of me except for a little due my loving divorce dog.

By @@

August 2, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Hang onto that “Bash the Mulatto” strategy, neo-cons.

Haven’t you heard AmVet - this isn’t about race.

I have a problem with globetrotters all starry-eyed over Europe’s failed socialist policies. White, black or somewhere in between.

Would it be O.K. if I start calling you ReDunDat?

Iraqi MP Mithal Al-Alousi:

“Non-Iraqi elements, like Al-Jazeera TV and the regimes of Syria and Tehran, (If I may — AND AMERICA”S LIBERALS) want to cast doubt upon the heart of our political process - the parliament. The heart and mind of this political process is the parliament. If you destroy the heart and mind - you destroy the entire body.

“By Allah, we will build a strong Iraq, which will be an ally of the West. Let Iran and all those foolish Arab countries listen carefully. Iraq will be the ally of the West, and will progress more than the Emirates and Singapore, and all the rest will come looking for work in Iraq.”

The power of positive thinking! You liberals should try it sometime. If you are without the mental facilities to master it on your own, then at least support/encourage it in others.

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Dear Conservative friends, John Fund (of WSJ) sees the same electoral u-turn we all see, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121762967469405847.html?mod=opinionjournalpolitical_diary

Fund has a second essay today on the ascension of conservative republicans vs. the earmark republicans, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121763231581006155.html?mod=todays_columnists

By Baseball Wrap

August 2, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Mini me is suing. Lindsay lohan is fuming. Salman Rusdie has declared a jihad on his majesty’s secret service. Nancy Grace is being sued.

Obama 08: Nobody gets sued, we just become America again.

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

The headline says it all: Obama backs away from McCain’s debate challenge http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20080802/D92AAGKO0.html

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Has anyone been able to figure out why Republicans complain about oil. The oil companies aren’t complaining. The oil company executives aren’t complaining. The oil company shareholders aren’t complaining. The Republicans are complaining. Now, that’s just plain stooopid — for a Republican, that is.

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

You have to understand Chauncey’s position - he has a commanding 1% point lead over Captain Queeg, so why would he risk losing that with additional debates, especially against such a polished orator as John McCain?

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ,

Do you think anybody on the campaign staff will take the part of his script that says he’ll debate McCain anytime, anywhere out of the teleprompter?

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

This is isn’t about race???

Here in Dixie?

Yeah, right toots.

How freaking naive could you possibly be?

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

The old Georgia Republican Senator Saxby was struggling to try and sound like he really cared one little bit about those folks that got killed in that sugar refinery explosion. He said he was trying to get the facts as he plunged for this innocent employee’s jugular. What’s the matter, Saxby? Aren’t the FACTS as presented by OSHA good enough for you? We don’t need YOUR “FACTS”, Saxby. We’re not talking about global warming here, Saxby. We’re talking about fire and the conditions in a factory that made it a reality. No voodoo. No convenient truths. Just plain facts, Saxby. I look forward to seeing you get grilled for that “publicity stunt” of yours.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

What, wasn’t the OKC Hooters hiring? This plaintiff is fighting to preserve her modesty while going to work for a company that’s injected more soft porn into our cultural bloodstream than Cinemax?

By Ga Values

August 2, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

The Wall Street Journal A GOP Choice: Tom Coburn or Ted Stevens By JOHN FUND August 2, 2008; Page A11

The Republican Party is facing what Ronald Reagan called “a time for choosing.” A real argument is raging over how much it should turn its back on the bad habits that cost it control of Congress in 2006.

Just after that debacle, Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens, the father of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” encountered Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, the antipork crusader who had held up many of the projects so many members believe are the key to their re-election. Mr. Stevens said, “Well, Tom, I hope you’re satisfied for helping us lose the election.” Mr. Coburn replied, “No, Ted, you lost us this election.”

Martin Kozlowski The data favored Mr. Coburn: 2006 exit polls revealed that corruption in government was second only to the Iraq war as the driving force behind the Democratic takeover. A major part of that corruption was earmarks — pork projects members often secure in secret. Earmarks were at the heart of the scandals that sent Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Calif. Rep. Duke Cunningham to jail.

This week’s events further discredited the earmark culture. On Tuesday, Mr. Stevens, ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, had to step down after being indicted for failing to report over $250,000 in gifts from a firm that sought earmarks from him. The day before, Republicans enjoyed a rare success when they beat back an attempt by Majority Leader Harry Reid to ram through an earmark-laden omnibus bill that Mr. Coburn had refused to help pass by the often-abused “unanimous consent” process.

Mr. Reid had wanted to get the $10 billion package passed without debate. But while containing some worthwhile projects, the “Tomnibus” bill — a name picked to mock Mr. Coburn — was also stuffed with money for the Smithsonian’s orchid collection, a $5 million museum in Poland and a traveling exhibit on the War of 1812. Mr. Reid claimed his package merely authorized the spending of money rather than appropriated it and thus “doesn’t cost a penny.” Republicans ridiculed that logic and stood by Mr. Coburn, who says earmarks serve as “a gateway drug on the road to spending addiction.”

Mr. Coburn notes that many members feel compelled to vote for bloated spending bills, fearing their local projects will be stripped out. But he says that with each new scandal, the political value of earmarks goes down: “If only one-tenth of one percent of the 15,000 earmarks we have involve corruption, that’s 15 headlines a year Congress can’t afford.”

John McCain won the GOP nomination and retains support from independent voters today in part because he vows to veto any bill containing pork-barrel projects. Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, Mr. Coburn’s antiearmark counterpart in the House, thinks voters in GOP districts are now disgusted enough to make the political costs to a member seeking pork greater than the benefits.

One reason Congress now has even lower approval numbers than in 2006 is the failure of Democrats to make good on their vow to clean up the earmark process. A “moratorium” on earmarks has been quietly set aside; and the Congressional Research Service has been directed by Congressional leaders to no longer respond to requests from members on the size, number or background of earmarks. “Democrats claim the earmarks will now be transparent, but they’re taking away the very data that lets us know what’s really happening,” says South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. Democratic earmark reform, concludes Mr. Coburn, “not only failed to drain the swamp, but gave the alligators new rights.”

Mr. Coburn’s main point on earmarks is that senators must choose between a culture of parochialism and a culture that puts the national interest first. He stipulates that few members are corrupt, and that most go with the flow. He has even offered to release his holds on earmarks — if their sponsors will propose reducing federal spending elsewhere, so “we aren’t just dumping more debt on our kids.”

His offer hasn’t been popular. Included in the Reid package was $1.67 billion for ocean and coastal programs that were pet projects of Mr. Stevens. But the Alaska senator has refused to even discuss spending offsets to pay for what he calls “Stevens money.” In 2005, there was so much “Stevens money” that Alaska snared almost $1,000 in earmarked federal funding for every resident, 30 times what went to the average state, based on population.

Mr. Stevens was a big reason the earmark culture had such a grip on Senate Republicans: Few dared risk his wrath. When he became chairman of the Appropriations Committee in 1997, he proudly proclaimed, “I’m a mean, miserable Edited to Remove Profanity ——Edited to Remove Profanity ——Edited to Remove Profanity ——.” When Mr. Coburn dared challenge his $228 million “Bridge to Nowhere” in 2005, Mr. Stevens warned fellow senators “if we start cutting funding for individual projects, your project may be next.”

In the House, GOP Rep. Don Young of Alaska — the former Transportation Committee chair who stuffed the last highway bill with over 6,000 earmarks — played a similar intimidation game. “Those who bite me will be bitten back,” Mr. Young warned Rep. Scott Garrett last year. Mr. Garrett, a New Jersey Republican, had tried to kill a $34 million earmark sponsored by Mr. Young.

Now Mr. Stevens is almost certain to lose his Senate seat — either through defeat or conviction on felony charges. And Mr. Young is trailing in Alaska’s August 26 primary to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, a protégé of Alaska’s reform Republican Gov. Sarah Pallin. Here’s hoping the removal of both men from Capitol Hill stiffens the spine of more Republicans to forswear the earmark culture.

They may not like it, but Mr. Coburn is showing Republicans how the GOP can return to its small government roots. Consider Ronald Reagan, who in 1987 vetoed a highway bill because it had a mere 121 earmarks in it.

Reagan quoted a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1796, warning that allowing Congress to spend federal money for local projects would set off “a scene of scramble among the members (for) who can get the most money wasted in their State, and they will always get most who are meanest.” Reagan didn’t think that represented good government or good politics. Republicans today should heed his warning.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

“We’re going to need a bigger bus!”

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

So far, the only ones I’ve seen dragging race into the race are dimwitocrats, namely Bruno voters, Lord High Dimwit Thee Splendid, and angry, redundant Wooten bloggers.

But they blame the Repugs, yeah, little black helicopters indeed.

Can you say insane?

By @@

August 2, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

How freaking naive could you possibly be?

Not near as naive as OBlahMa voters have proven themselves to be AmVet.

But then you’re not an OBlahMa voter are you? You just play one on this blog.

Two things you and Obama have in common…..

no sense of humor and astounding…..HUGEly astounding arrogance.

That, and you tend to repeat the same thing over and over and blah blah blah.

I’m outta here.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

This Messiah of yours isn’t working out to well, Dhimmicrats.

During July, the number of Americans who consider themselves to be Democrats fell two percentage points to 39.2%. That’s the first time since January that the number of Democrats has fallen below 41%

By Dusty

August 2, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Dear BFKaJ,

It certainly seems like Obama is dodging any town hall debates with McCain. Even if he isn’t, it looks that way.

He behaves like an actor who can’t perform without a script. But who is going to write the scripts should he make it to the White House? That thought is very scary.

Democrats in Congress are probably loyal Americans but their actions make one wonder.

Lehrer News Hour presents both sides of politics. When Democrats speak you know exactly what they are going to say. They are against just about every policy in the country. If there is any connection whatsoever with Bush, they are totally blinded. (Republicans are not perfect but they have not outdone Dems in the production of hate.)

I know it is wrong to make a “blanket” assessment but the proof seems there every day. Obama follows suit without a thought usually. His every move seems to be the winning of the Presidency at any cost.

I don’t get that feeling with McCain. He does seem to be a man with standards. I will vote for him without regret.

This is going to be a long, hot summer right through November.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Good riddance dufustress…

Yes, flat-earther gang and fraud Christians, there are plenty of black bigots and liberal bigots too.

And anybody with their eyes open knows it.

Race is still a HUGE factor in this country.

The difference is that you fake conservatives actually pretend there are NO neo-con bigots. Yet can’t begin to explain how they are swarming all over the epicenter of the Moron Belt - Cobb County. Where for example you proudly have a sleazebag bar owner who sells Obama monkey t-shirts and says with a straight face they are NOT for other bigots!

Gutless…

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

We are a country of lazy people. We are always looking for short-cuts to avoid expending that extra little bit of physical energy. To that end, I propose that “blah blah” should be replaced with @@.

By BFKaJ

August 2, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ 4:56, good analysis, mirrors much of my own. I would be dishonest to say I am enthusiastic about Captain Queeg, but I have about decided to send him a couple of dollars. Chauncey Gardener is an amazingly bad alternative. Somewhere today - maybe on this blog - I read a funny argument about Chauncey’s lack of experience, “One would not fly across the Atlantic with an aviator with less than two years experience, yet we have a lot of democrats who would turn over the country to one with even less.” Apt.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

As I mentioned the other day, I am struck by how this “new” GOP has become the Democratic Party.

Bungling their way through election after election and having NO identifiable position other than hating liberals.

Thanks to an entire generation of never-served panty wastes, who give lip service to a strong military, a government they helped create that sticks its nose and hands into every facet of private lives and who live in some goofy made up utopia where they are all color blind and of one harmonious accord.

No wonder they look like such boobs…

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

One of the most educated counties in the state of Georgia is the “moron belt?”

Hehehehe, kind of makes you wonder what standards we are being held to, don’t it?

And by the way, the last time I checked, blacks were for Lord High Dimwit Thee Finest by over 95%.

McBushie should be the one whining, hahahahaha.

Losers.

By AmVet

August 2, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

One of the most educated counties in the state of Georgia is the “moron belt?”

Yes, tis true.

But that’s like saying Tunisia is one of the wealthiest countries in Africa…

Such a waste…

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

Try to stick to the subject that you brought to the table-

Which counties in Georgia are solidly for Lord High Dimwit Thee Splendid?

You do realize this is a twofer, right?

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Obambi just threw his own denial under the bus.

“I don’t think it’s accurate to say that my comments have nothing to do with race,” Obama said.

I may be giving this dunce more credit than he deserves by calling him a dunce.

By Bad S Mitten

August 2, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

So, Andy thinks that he can move near a college and acquire an education via convection. Duh.

By Franco Solano

August 2, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

@@,

Manatu sole Cchiu bello oje ne. Il nostri sole Sta ‘nfronte il noi O Solano O Solano sole Sta ‘nfronte il noi Sta ‘nfronte la bella mente te!

Se non fosse stato, finalmente, Appara il noi, far due piu due! Appara il noi, far due piu due!

By Midori

August 2, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

I guess this guy is a dunce, too: McCain-Backing GOP Senator: Obama Did Not Play the Race Card

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Do tell us, toady, did you become a dimwit in the county you live in through “convection?”

If it worked for you it could work for me, hahahahaha, bozo.

By Midori

August 2, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

“Oh, well, I didn’t see it — I think it’s kinda stupid,”

I suppose Mrs. McCain is a dunce as well…..

By Vidal Suisun

August 2, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

It’s like I said, Reagan was Teflon and Obama is Kevlar. Every time the other contender lands a punch, he dons his eyeglasses and protests, “Can’t hit a guy with glasses!”; and when they make him lose the specs, he girds and girdles himself in Rudy’s smashing outfit and yells, “Can’t hit a girl!”. ( A trick he picked up from Hillary.)

The guy is so slippery and thin-skinned, he wouldn’t even make for a decent hatband. And he certainly had no business throwing his own beanie into the Big Arena.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

When Mel Martinez says no he wasn’t, yes he was, no he wasn’t , yes he was in 24 hours I’ll get back to you.

When Roberta McCain says no I didn’t see it, yes I did see it, no I didn’t see it, yes I did see it in 24 hours I’ll get back to you as well.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

The Huff and Puff and all of the other goony propaganda ministries in thee land couldn’t put Lord High Dimwit Thee Most Splendid back together again, so now I R o dim thinks they can take out arch enemy McBushie.

Such foolishness.

How embarrassing is this, the largest, most coordinated propaganda KKKampaign in history, with gushing adulation and orgasmic love festivals being held 24/7 by the pinko media, King Limpdik is tied with McCain, hahahahaha.

Boy, aren’t we all impressed.

By Franco Solano

August 2, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

@@,

Manatu sole Cchiu bello oje ne.

Il nostri sole Sta ‘nfronte il noi

O Solano

O Solano sole

Sta ‘nfronte il noi

Sta ‘nfronte la bella mente te!

Se non fosse stato, finalmente,

Appara il noi, far due piu due!

Appara il noi, far due piu due!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 2, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

RW: I don’t know if you are watching the “game of the weak” or not, but if you are, you are seeing a perfect example of why I was so hoping the White Sux would pick up a few more arms.

Do they even know they are playing the Royals?

Maybe Ozzie could make an announcement, no?

By Cisco Solano

August 2, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

My first black President wasn’t Bill Clinton. And it won’t be Barack Obama either. I can’t yet tell who it’s gonna be, but soon, and she’ll be a lot better than either of those two jokers.

By RW-(the original)

August 2, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC-M,

I am watching, but I picked the Royals today. In fact I took the Cubs, Yankees, and Milwaukee too in the day games. Too bad I wasn’t in Vegas. That would be a sweet parlay if they all hold up.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

If this woman really believes the things she says, then she is certifiable:

If Vernon Jones wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, his opponent, Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss, will use Jones’ tarnished personal history to trounce him. And that tarnish could move up the ballot to sully Barack Obama. While the Chicago senator believes he has a good shot at winning Georgia in the fall, Obama’s chances depend on a good showing for Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president, and a lack of enthusiasm for John McCain among the state’s ultraconservative Christians.-Queen Pinko, Urinal/DNC

The way it’s going right now, Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, won’t carry Taxxachusetts, never mind Georgia.

What world is Tuck living in?

Besides, Jones is, in many ways, the anti-Obama. The Illinois senator has become known for an even disposition and poise under pressure. Even under the klieg lights of high-intensity debates, he doesn’t raise his voice. He doesn’t have a legendary temper. He doesn’t wilt under criticism.

Aahhh, yes, thee inmate is running thee asylum, hahahaha, the “queen” is barking out orders to the attendees.

Obama is married with children, settled, traditional about family life. He has spoken frequently about parental responsibility, stressing the negative effect that absent fathers have on the lives of their kids. His wife is an accomplished professional who has also emphasized her traditional views of family life and parenthood.

Are we talking about the same Obama?

Good luck with the fantasy action.

Check it out, y’all, what about an Operation Chaos of our very own, right here in Dekalb County?

Vote for Vernon Jones, bwa.

I’m serious, let’s do it.

~~~~~

While Social Security hearing offices nationwide are clogged with claims from severely disabled individuals seeking benefits, the two Atlanta locations are known as “the backlog capital of the country.” The physical and financial health of many of people waiting will deteriorate. Some will lose their homes and declare bankruptcy. Others will die. They already have been turned down twice to get to this appeal level,* *adding years more to *their quest for a modest income *and access to health care.-Doom and Gloom/DNC

Maybe in the next life they won’t be dumb enough to place their future in the hands of the government.

But since we are still on Earth, these people have already had their claims rejected twice, obviously something is amiss, is thee Doom and Gloom advocating that we just start throwing measly government checks out the window to those who don’t qualify for them?

Well, of course they are.

P.S. Check out the Urinal Litter Box Liner page A8 for the Gloomy photo shoot complete with the two brand new leather recliners and Persian rug, hahahahahahahaha, sickos.

~~~~~

If you think the Urinal is limited to whining about the “economic plight” of the people in the Atlanta area, confined to telling you of the horror of waiting in line for the newest I Phone, guess again:

Average Saudi has it as bad as we do- ‘Don’t feel envious’: Gasoline might be only 45 cents a gallon in the kingdom, but food, rent and everything else has gone through the roof.-Doom and Gloom/DNC

Uh, they squandered the trillion bucks we sent them so far this year for oil?

Gosh, don’t I feel like throwing myself into a pit of despair.

~~~~~~

Check out how the environmental terrorists use scare tactics against their unsuspecting dhimmwits:

U.S. sub’s nuke leak concerns Japanese!!!!!-Urinal!!!!!/DNC!!!!!

End of the world, thee second coming of Three Mile Island, right?

The total amount of radioactivity released into the environment from the USS Houston at each stop was less than one half a microcurie, U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt. Scott Gureck said. He said that was a negligible amount, equivalent to the radioactivity of a 50-pound bag of fertilizer.

Now, considering the Urinal/PMS would make such a horror filled mountain out of this paltry molehill, try wondering what other total bullsh!t they’ve been shoving down your throat.

Amazing.

~~~~~

Aahhh, yes, thee second coming of the Iraq war:

Growing unrest triggers new wave of Afghan refugees- The growing numbers reaching Kabul are a sign of the deepening of the conflict between NATO and American forces and the Taliban in the south and of the feeling among the population that there will be no end soon!!!!!! “If there was security in the south, why would we come here?” said Abdullah Khan, 50, who lost his father, uncle and a female relative in the bombing of their home last year. “We will stay here, even for 10 years, until the bombardment ends.” Blah, blah, blah, blah-Urinal/Doom and Gloom

Not satisfied with their stinging and humiliating defeat in Iraq, thee POS in thee Drive By Media whine on, undeterred by reality, thumb sucking and diaper filling with a renewed vengeance.

How dull.

~~~~~

A Taliban spokesman in Pakistan denied Saturday a U.S. media report that al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, may have been killed or critically injured in a missile strike Monday that apparently was launched by the U.S. in South Waziristan, a volatile tribal region near the Afghan border. CBS News reported Friday that it had obtained a copy of an intercepted letter dated July 29 from unnamed sources in Pakistan that urgently requested a doctor to treat al-Zawahri. But a spokesman for Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said, “We deny it categorically.”-Urinal/Jihad

Well, of course, the Taliban would never lie.

I detect a sense of joy and delight at thee Urinal that brother Zawahri lives on, you know it?

~~~~~

Democratic candidate Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain’s challenge for a series of joint appearances, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall.

In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, O’bumbler said, “I think that’s a great idea.” In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that baby barak had not followed through and joined him in any events.

Do you blame him?

~~~~~

See if you can guess which Vents the Urinal Staff submitted:

Take it from someone who has lived in DeKalb County under the reign of Vernon Jones, you do not want him to be your senator.-Urinal Vent

Queen Pinko, right?

Oh boy, gas is under $4 a gallon. Let us go out and buy SUVs.-Urinal/PMS

I already did.

It makes it easy to identify the sheep in society, who’s driving a Prius and who’s riding in an Escalade.

Bwa.

By Apology

August 3, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

A chicago/chicago world series woulld be a fun diversion at the wire in the campaign.

I owe Wooten a big apology. He’s toying with us, and I fell for it hook line and sinker. I hate it when I get outmarooned. What a fallguy I am. Sorry, man, sometimes the trolling gets in the way of the knowing.

Wooten put in a sentence that acknowledged that neither Obama nor McCain is his candidate, in fact, that McCain is nobody’s candidate, with this: “….he appeared to drift away…”

This campaign is fun, stupid, frustrating, and totally enfuriating. What are we arguing about? Bush proved that any of us can be president, so why should we expect McCain or Obama to be any more qualified than Bush?

The basic question is what will the powers that be allow Obama/McCain to do that they wouldn’t allow Reagan/Clinton/Bush to do? In other words, it probably isn’t going to affect my life one bit if McCain or Obama gets the supreme court award ceremony.

One thing is certain: if the election result does come down to FL/OH then we know that the Saudi Royal Family built and programmed the diebold machines and we’ve become an Islamic Colony, (too much coincidence). I hope I look good in a burka, because I’d sooner be a transvestite than a Sunni, son.

By obama is here

August 3, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

never fear, the bentley coupe paint is dripin’ wet

yeahuhhhhhhhhhh

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Blah Blah Blah.

Wow. I’m as good at this as Andy.

By bob

August 3, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

To the new trolls: Welcome. You’re going to get clobbered, but without fresh meat, I wouldn’t have any new IP adresses to wipe my a-hole on, and then I’d be in big trouble. You both are very funny and brief. That’s good. That’s real good. I’m a readin’ and I’m a likin’.

BTW: No onomatopoeia

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Blah Blah Blah

Blah Blah Blah

Now, I’m better than Andy.

By RW-(the original)

August 3, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, “I think that’s a great idea.” In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events.

Obama’s reversal on town hall debates is part of a play-it-safe strategy he’s adopted since claiming the nomination and grabbing a lead in national polls. Advisers to the Illinois senator, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss strategy, say Obama is reluctant to take chances or give McCain a high-profile stage now that Obama’s the front-runner.

Why should The Messiah be bothered to take questions from lowly voters when he won’t even take questions from reporters in Israel without having them pre-screened? Besides, have you heard this dunce speak without a teleprompter?

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Bwa Bwa Bwa.

Wow. I’m as good at this as the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJCLU, AFL-CIO).

By Orson Swelles

August 3, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Some people actually get paid for their masterpieces. As for me, I think art should be available, free of charge, for the masses to gawk at. Besides, if I need more money, I still have a heart and I’m sure there are plenty of chickenhawks out there in need of one. There’s nothing better than a free market and the laws of supply and demand to liven up the bids. I do think in some cases though that it is simply the smell of blood that gets the saliva flowing and the adrenaline pumping. Indeed. You can see it against the backdrop of the whites in their eyes — red and bulging, pumping stronger and stronger with each pulse. With these Republicans, it’s a primal thing. There’s no thought process or reasoning involved. That’s what makes them so dangerous, so unpredictable. Like a John to his paid action. But that’s enough for now. The creative juices need nurturing.

By Chiqui Solano

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

Bwa Bwa Bwa.

Wow. I’m as good at this as the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJCLU, AFL-CIO).

By RW-(the original)

August 3, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Obama on my shoulder

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Bwa Bwa Bwa.

Wow. I’m as good at this as the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJCLU, AFL-CIO).

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

RW (t.o.),

Mary Katherine rules, but I can’t have Obama on my shoulder. I’m Conservative, so I already have Chip on my shoulder.

But wait! Chip’s on my right soldier, so maybe Obama could hang out at the tip of my left middle finger.

By bob

August 3, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Will you three tag-team synchronized lip glossers stfu? Wooten came clean about McCain, that he drifts, so I can come clean about Obama, that he actually loves his wife and would never cheat on her. We cant trust a man like that with his finger on the button.

So, we could stage a national boycott of the elections and left Ralph Nader win by default. Why not? He wants it so bad.

Ralph Nader as President, and the Veep Opt would be Dale Earnhart Jr. That way, he’d get the pro-auto, anti-auto swing vote in Daytona ,Fla, and the election would be his.

Hillary sure has been quiet. Hillary would make this election a slam dunk for Obama, you know. The greatest landslide in election history going back.

I know who McCain should pick for a real chance at winning. If he picks this guy, then I will be worried. His initials are……do you think I’m dumb enough to tell you pudwits? then you’d tell the Repudlickans and they’d win. I’ll sell the name for ten million dollars. Think about it. Ten million dollars and you get the presidency.

Make it Twenty million, I forgot: McCain’s going to raise taxes.

BTW: if you three geniuses read this nonsense this far, then you truly R idiots. Accept it. We have.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

By Andy’s Cousin August 3, 2008 9:48 AM Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Now, I’m better than Andy.

Aahhh, yes, we have with us today a true kult member, throwing out a few blah blahs and then declaring themselves better than everybody else.

Just like their Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid.

Really convincing, ain’t it?

~~~~~

Listen to thee Doom and Gloom whine and moan about the economy in their arts section:

The construction slowdown has left a gap-toothed frown on the metro landscape. Dusty empty lots surrounded by often ragtag construction fences pock the streets in Atlanta and beyond, unsightly reminders of our sagging economy.

We decided to view this problem as an opportunity. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked four artists to come up with concepts for temporary artworks that could help hide the mess and enliven our streets.-Urinal/PMS

No pictures included to show us exactly what the hysterics are talking about though, just an artist’s rendition of the bleak and gloomy world that the common pinko inhabits.

If you happen upon an abandoned tower crane while you detour around all the road construction in downtown Atl, let me know, for if the owner of it is too incompetent to rent it out and make some $$$$, then I damn sure will.

So naive Urinal, so freaking naive.

By AmVet

August 3, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Apology, I truly tip my blogging hat to you, sir.

Though using that hard to pull off but delightful tongue-in-cheek style, you have gone to the very heart of our wonderfully weird electoral process.

And yes it would be great sporting spectacle to see Chicago’s homage to century long awful baseball (in both leagues) go toe to toe in October….

It would appeal to many of us baseball purists, all(?) Chitown residents and those who love the humorously perverse in sports.

But back to the matter at hand - the RINO vs. Mulatto, I concur.

The Bush-tainted bar is now so incredibly low that many of us wonder what mental-midget schmoe with money and connections can next speakify his way in.

Reagan forever proved that being eloquent trumps being effective for most of the great unwashed in this country. And that is why 95% of the homies will vote for that silver-tongued Barry and 95% of the crackers will vote for that silver-haired McSame (as they apparently can’t get enough humiliation, they hope and pray he’s another Bush!).

BUT it’s NOT about race!!!

And again I agree with your assessment that both will take care of their own money masters first, last and always. And the people like us who actually make this nation go remain on the outside looking in for a few scraps, you know like decent jobs and a break from paying for the poor AND rich to be on welfare.

I’ll vote for Sen. McCain only if Nader does not get on the ballot in Georgia. And only if he doesn’t choose some neo-con stooge like Romney.

And I’ll begrudgingly vote for Sen. Obama, or perhaps even the heretofore unthinkable Libertarian candidate whoever the h&ll he is, if the above two scenarios happen.

BUT…either way these neo-con pr!cks are essentially dead. And that gives the rest of much hope and makes us very happy.

By Neil and Bob

August 3, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Anyone else deduce that glennduhng is a manic depressive suicidal sociopath? The American Psychiatric Association has issued a profile of such life-victims, and when they use the first person in their writings, (I, me, mine, my, etc), like corporal glennduhng does, it is a dead giveaway.

Many of us minored in psych in college, so we all knew this already. What is very alarming for this individual is when he uses onomotopoeia, (ahhh, hmmmm, uhh, or his usual, duhhh). This is like a 37 point criteria match for brains on the wall, and all we can do, folks, is call the suicide prevention hotline and hope they can trace andy’s IP address to his house and save him. This would be a poorer world without him, dont you agree? besides, what would we do with the extra helmet and all that tin foil?

All observations are not just valid, but necessary. (einstein)

So, If duhnglenn keeps going, “Ah, yes, gee, hmmmm, duhhhhh”, then please call. Now most of us dont read him at all, BUT newbies, if you notice this, then call the suicide prevention hotline for our very special member of this blog.

By getalife

August 3, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

“According to Dana Milbank of WaPo, some reporters are now referring to Obama as a “prom queen.”

Geez.

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

It is possible to say that “these neo-con pr!cks” are effectively “dead” only because they were mere wraiths in the first place, ghostly figments of childish liberals forever alert to bumps in the night.

By RW-(the original)

August 3, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

heretofore unthinkable Libertarian candidate whoever the h&ll he is,

Bob Barr’s campaign must not be getting their message out very well.

By Neil and Bob

August 3, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

No, RW, it is you who cant get his message out.

Try using the first person singular more.

By AmVet

August 3, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Sorry chick pr!ck, I see that struck very close to home…

Now go worship at your local Dick Cheney shrine. Or better yet, just sit on your “conservative” arse and watch your favorite evangelical telefraud.

OH RIGHT, RW!!

I forgot it’s our very own infamous and forgettable Mr. Barr!

Oh well, there goes that idea…

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Suicide?

What for?

You know what worries me, are not liberals prone to projecting their own behaviors on to others and then scolding those others for things the pinko has done?

The whole while the others are looking at the lib in bewilderment?

al-Gore? John Edwards? baby barak?

All of them do it, same as the rest of the pinko nation, we don’t speak French and should be ashamed, but neither does this mofo and he’s raging at us about it.

Insane.

Back to my original point, Polly, call somebody please, Emory would be a good place to start, just tell them that you need someone to talk to and that you’ve been having thoughts of harming yourself.

O.K?

~~~~~~

By AmVet August 3, 2008 11:29 AM And yes it would be great sporting spectacle to see Chicago’s homage to century long awful baseball (in both leagues) go toe to toe in October….

Uh, AmWet, look up World Series Champions, 2005, you’ll be surprised.

On the same subject, my heart does go out for the furry creatures that reside on the Northside, this is the 100 year anniversary of the last time they won the Series after all, and their good run is setting up their obligatory demise to be one of the most painful and disgusting in their long, sorry history.

Scenario, it is indeed a Crosstown Series, the Cubbies go up three games to zip and then the hated South Siders become the Murderer’s Row that they should be and sweep the remaining games to the title.

You wanna talk about suicide.

But rest assured, those that didn’t off themselves would be right back in the bleachers next spring, primed and ready for yet another disaster.

Low, low expectations, it’s the safe way to go.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Given his decision to recommend Ayers’s book in the Tribune, it’s fair to say that Obama is at least broadly sympathetic to this perspective. When Obama offers examples of ill-conceived legislation, he often points to building prisons: Instead of building another prison, why not expand health care entitlements? Biographer David Mendell cites Obama’s irritation with fellow legislators who “grandstand” by passing tough-on-crime legislation, while letting bills designed to bring “structural change” languish. Debating Bobby Rush in 2000, Obama bragged that he had “consistently fought against the industrial prison complex.” Obama’s Hyde Park Herald column echoes these points.

Well, well, seems as though Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, has not distanced himself from domestic terrorist Ayers as much as he would like us to believe.

There are people mining this moron’s history, what precious little there is of it, and you can rest assured they will be digging up some wonderful little jewels that will be prominently displayed.

And that will be the Obambi that I knew.

By Chiqui Solano

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

But you gotta admit, AmVet, it did have the virtue of a certain cadence.

Bob and Neil, that was funny, your call for use of the First Person Singular.

By RW-(the original)

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

Check out BarackBook

By Neil and Bob

August 3, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Time to clean your gun, duhng. (make sure it’s unloaded, sir)

By getalife

August 3, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

“Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, where was Lindsay Lohan, for heaven’s sake?”
— Pat Buchanan, on McCain’s nasty ad that backfired

By AmVet

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

Yeah I know Duhng dork, the Chisox have won exactly ONE single, solitary World Series in 102 years.

YIPPEE!! YAHOO!!

And that was because they lucked out and faced another long time abysmal failure, excuse me, in “conservaspeak”, perennial juggernaut - the Houston Astros.

They of NO titles and ONE World Series appearance. EVER.

And I understand by your neo-con standards that winning one title every 100+ years is not the definition of a century of awful baseball and is in fact a dynasty.

So at least go and beat somebody decent every once a century and then come back and talk to me, Palehoser.

Mission accomplished…

By Ga Values

August 3, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Saxby Chambliss (R, Ga) announces he will keep the $15,000 Ted Stevens gave him. “He did not do anything I would not have done” said Chambliss.

By Solamente los gatos bienquistos

August 3, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

time to pull up and shoot that nba trey

run circles round old man mccain

we done did our time in da hay, hey

smoke some drink some- done some of that blow son

yeah, obama is here

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

The artist in me made me do it. I had those Blahs trapped inside for far too long. They were swelling too big to contain any longer. Anyway, I love to see the mindless cut and paste types imitate my work even if they do cheapen it.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

In thee 2005 playoffs the White Sox swept Boston, the previous year’s Series winner, beat the Angels 4 games to 1 and then swept the best team that the National League had to offer (how did Houston get so far, considering how bad they “sucked?”)

And the Braves have how many World Series Titles?

Boston went 80 some years without winning one, even with the likes of Rice and Yastrzemski, what shabby history they have, huh?

When did I say “dynasty” anyway?

By fab fore eyes

August 3, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Man- that brown acid (or was it brown cow?)- I will never forget that pig trough in upstate new York in aug of 69.

A mind altering event that can never be duplicated. People talk of coincidence. Well there is no coincidence. I once thought that there was coincidence, but that was before the summer of 69 man.

I led a nekkid conga line of 20 mules into a cow paddy filled pond to the tune of the jimmi Hendrix national anthem man. I knew then that there was no such thing as coincidence. Just me and 20 Equus ferus standing knee deep in dungh.

By Scoreboard

August 3, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

Wow, yet Another scorcher out there! They say the last two months have seen high temps waaay above normal. The forecast is more of the same. On top of that we had that major ice collapse in the arctic. Depressing.

Thank God our next President, John McCain will do something about our critical situation with global warming! Finally a leader.

McCain 08

By Chiqui Solano

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

It’s understandable, Andy’s Cuz, Cuz alotta y’all have quite the case of the Yada Yada Yada’s. I myself suffer on occasion from the Humma Humma’s.

Quite understandable — unlike the rumor of your artist within. I (<< F.P. Singh) alone took the trouble to track the source of this absurd rumor. I, F.P. Singh, traced it back to you, and you only.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

Joe Klein, toady:

And then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers — people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain’s crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus.

They took advantage of the Cold War victory, that Reagan achieved, by cutting the defense budget to the bone, a budget that even numbuts Obama says needs to be increased.

And that we are still rebuilding the military from the sorry condition that KKKlinton left it in.

Now we are going to give the wonder wankers another shot at them?

I think not.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

“Chiqui couldn’t track its prickie if it left a slicky trail like a snail,” she exclaimed over and over and over. At least, that’s what its mommy kept telling me last night. Borrrring. I kept telling her that I didn’t want to know the gory details but she kept insisting that she was deep throated enough to handle that and more. Little did she know how much more there was to come.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Steve Chapman has the right culprit but the wrong idea:

What does all this mean? Our standard of living has declined. Or to put it bluntly, as Meltzer does, “We’re poorer than we were, and it’s unpleasant, but it’s a fact.” We can no longer afford all the things we used to, because so much of our income is now going to pay for gasoline.

Uh, yes.

In the long run, we will adapt to the new realities, the economic impact will moderate, and the pain will fade. Till then, our least destructive option is to do something no politician would dare suggest: Suck it up.

Uh, wrong.

Lower energy prices.

Drill.

Duh.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Some people still believe that oil prices will go down by drilling for more oil. I guess they’ll never learn. That’s not how oil companies operate. Oil companies drill holes when there’s plenty of profit to do so. When the profits drop the drilling stops. It is simple supply and demand. There are no politicians out there that’s gonna change that unless they buy themselves a drilling rig.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Don’t look now, little toady of mine, but Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, has jumped on the drilling bandwagon with all the Repugs.

Some leadership, huh?

By Andy's Cousin

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

You might want to read the details on that drilling “endorsement”, Toadie. It hardly constitutes getting on any bandwagon from the Repugs.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Al Qaeda confirmed in a Web statement Sunday the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert, who is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week. “We tell the enemies of God that God has saved those who will be even more painful for you,” it said. “As Abu Khabab has gone, he left behind, with God’s grace, a generation of faithful students who will make you suffer the worst torture and avenge him and his brothers, blah, blah, blah.”

He got shish “kabobed,” ehehehehe.

By get out much ?

August 3, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

I wonder what that super secret energy plan that vice president cheney drew up a few years ago said about off shore drilling.

I wonder why little or no mention is made that the amount of petroleum products that the US exports has increased.

Also, even if the continental shelf is opened up for drilling, there currently are not enough rigs and crews to increase drilling that much. Rigs are crews are expensive, so you tend to have only as many as you need.

By moonbat betty

August 3, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

good grief.

what a bunch of sorry azz liberal scanks be up in here!

you stank pofo

wooten’s right.

pizazz

good stuff

By Neil and Bob

August 3, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Charlie Chaplin was marathon’d on Turner Classic Movies yesterday, and in the ending to one of the movies, he does this bit where he talks about remembering the rush he used to feel from the waves of laughter from an audience. Now, every stand up comic I ever talked to has mentioned how much he loves hearing the waves of laughter, and when a comic talks about that, he gets the same sh!t eating expression on his mouth as Chaplin did in the movie. I never saw that scene before. Few people know that Chaplin was making fun of those stand ups. I also feel the same way Chaplin did about these comics who try to communicate the sensation of hearing laughs. (Leno calls it “laugh ears”, inplying that the comics are the only ones who hear the laughs). It really is pathetic, and Charlie Chaplin nailed it, in fact he slaughtered comics so well, that very few knew he was lampooning them in that scene…

That’s how you slam someone, without them even knowing that you flamed them, you know, the way I clobber duhng et al on the right here day after day. they dont even know what chumps they be.

bwa.

Fabb4eyes? That’s as close as I’ll ever get to the beatles, you know,(being a Fat Aging Baby Boomer w/glasses). Glad you like the material, corporal glennduhng, feel free to steal, then folks’ll think that YOU’RE the genius, instead of the strap-on dribble glass your face truly is.

(Hey everybody watch this:)

Hey Duhng! We cant read your italics. No seriously, man, we’d love to read what you’re posting, but us FABB4EYES (fat aging baby boomers with glasses) have trouble with the funny wrinkled print, so we simply dont bother reading your comments. We’re sure you’re making some real debate-winning points, but they’re all going to waste because none of us can read the italics you insist on using.

Rethink your blogging technique Corporal Glennduhng.

(now, folks, watch this fall guy stop using italics. I did this trick on him twice before and each time he falls for it like a maroon. Dont you love blogging? Shhhh! Here he comes. Ahem!)

Andy! Duhng! Glenndusty!! Look, the italics are too hard to read, man. No really. We cant read ‘em, so we scroll past. We need your input, man, so stop using italics, okay? Analchord isn’t pretending to fool you this time, Andy, honest.

(giggle snorkle snibble glibble) mmmphhh.

By RW-(the original)

August 3, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Haditha Marine’s father going off on Mothra. Video

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

She claims she’s the cousin of Andy

But really that handle’s just handy.

She lays all that crap on,

Exposing her strap-on,

Because the disguise makes her randy.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

OK. I’ll admit that last one provided some comic relief, Oh one known to all as PoFo, but only the part about the italics. After all, who hasn’t had a laugh at Andy’s expense about the {{{{{}}}}}. I admit that even I have stooped to such lowest of levels out of extreme boredom in the past. Afterward, I felt really bad about what I had done because it really was no challenge and yet I never apologized to Andy. So, here I am today apologizing for attacking Andy’s {{{{{}}}}}. However, the part about them not being readable was an accurate assessment. by the way, I used the label “bored” when I did it, just so you’ll know my sincerity.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Oh, O.K. little toady, I follow you, even though Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, said he would support drilling, that could mean anything, the day is still young, right?

By Fun Facts

August 3, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Obama thinks we should drill for more air to put in our tires.

By Spence

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

First off who is Andy? I can’t find any of his posts yet you people seem to keep responding to him.

Second about the hot weather. Not only is it hotter than normal its smoggy too. Hot + coal = disaster for the environment. Now I hear Georgia wants to allow MORE coal burning electric plants. Idiots.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

Finally, here it is late summer, nearly the start of hunting season, and it has just now got hot enough for the libs to be able to talk about “global warming” with a straight face.

Like it has never hit 91 in a Hotlanta August before.

So weak, so ignorant.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Some of Obama’s words, Toadie: He welcomed “the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact.”

Since you like to pick and choose words and mislead people, including yourself apparently, how about this from the McCain camp: McCain said of a bipartisan bill introduced by five Democrat and five Republican senators to allow off-shore drilling that while he applauds the bipartisan effort, he wouldn’t support the proposal.

By BFKaJ

August 3, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Dear Cousin @ 3:04, only leftists deny the laws of supply and demand. Increasing drilling will inevitably lead to lower prices. Take it to the bank.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

I want to know who randy is, chicki? By the way, that was really lame rhyming. I knew mine was bad but that stuff of yours just plain sucks, girlfriend.

By Chiqui Solano

August 3, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

But ‘s’Cuzzin’,

You don’t say which ones bore you, or why. That in itself is boring. You claim to possess everyone’s email addresses, but that would make you the “blog administrator, to whose email address you so boldly referred us last week, so boldly that you daren’t specify her address. But what we do in fact find endlessly funny is your presumption that you, with your frequent sticks and occasional carrots — and, failing the sticks, personal insults and base threats — are somehow in charge of this operation, That’s patently absurd, as any blogmistress, like any casual visitor, would conclude immediately that you should be the first thing to go.

And if Mr. Wooten continues to think that he needs you as a ten-faced liberal foil, he might wish to note that the censoring, then censure, and finally the elimination of Luckovich’s blog has brought to this place something you don’t provide; witty, informed, ascerbic, and liberally minded bloggers of good will, genuinely interested in roughly fair engagement.

You not only are an obsolete tool, you are an impediment.

Begone.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Wanna be lawyer, increased supply with lower demand has the potential to lower prices of whatever the product may be. Simply drilling holes in the ground provides no guarantee of even striking something of value much less anything of sufficient quantity to support your irrational conclusion. Take you voodoo economics and go back to bed.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

By Andy’s Cousin August 3, 2008 4:34 PM Some of Obama’s words, Toadie: He welcomed “the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact.”

Numbnuts: Thanks for backing up the conclusion I reached, WTF does this even mean?

You put the drill bit into the ground and the oil comes out.

Does Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Marvelous, need to consult with Einstein, perhaps?

By RW-(the original)

August 3, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC-M,

I think by last night the dunce had put so many caveats on his acceptance of off shore drilling that he has effectively thrown his midday position under the bus.

By @@

August 3, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Totally off topic and looking for speculators.

Who killed General Suleiman?

Brigadier General Mohammad Suleiman, 49, was killed on Saturday at a beach resort near the port city of Tartous, residents said. It was the first known assassination in Syria since the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah in Damascus in February.

When Muginiyah (sp?) was killed, Hezbollah was highly suspicious of Assad. Assad accused Israel and promised an investigation. Nothing to date though.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Hmmmm, is anybody else wondering what happened to Michelle?

Does Mrs. Dimwit not have free reign to speak her mind anymore?

Must be getting old, stuffed into that closet all duct taped tight, you pinkos sure that she hasn’t gnawed through thee straight jacket yet?

Better go check on her.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

OK, Andy. Why don’t you just point out to the oil companies where to put the bit. I’ll bet they’ll pay you millions or even billions if you can only tell them where to drill. Are you serious with these lame comebacks!

By BFKaJ

August 3, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Pelosi also accused McCain of stooping to a negative approach that was “not worthy of the office of president” with campaign ads portraying Obama as a vapid celebrity in the mold of Britney Spears and a Moses-like messiah figure. [But what if he is talking about a celebrity unworthy of the office of president?]

“For Senator McCain to demean the race for the presidency in this way is not, I think, humorous, I think it’s silly,” she said. [Not that Pelosi has a clue about “humorous.” Probably thinks calling her opponents “neocons” is high humor.]

“But I will say this, let’s take it back to the American people,” Pelosi added, demanding a true debate about jobs, energy policy, education and healthcare. [“Debate” without “action” - all talk, no walk.]

Lieutenants to McCain insisted they were having that debate, but [sloppy writing - surely AFP meant “and also”?] said the new campaign blitz rolled out last week used humor to pose a serious question: is Obama ready to lead?

Senator Lindsey Graham lashed out after the Obama campaign said Saturday it was prepared to hold three presidential debates in September and October, but said nothing about a series of joint “town-hall” meetings proposed by McCain.

“I have no idea what he’s saying or what he means: soaring rhetoric, feel-good persona, ever-changing positions,” the South Carolina senator told Fox News Sunday, highlighting the debate over offshore drilling.

“The reason we’re not in town-hall meetings testing these two candidates is because Barack Obama doesn’t want to be tested,” Graham said, while berating Obama’s suggestion that the McCain campaign might use his race against him.

By Andy's Cousin

August 3, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Oh well, it’s been fun. You folks have a nice evening.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 3, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

No, but I’d give them this phone number:

The task of finding oil is assigned to geologists, whether employed directly by an oil company or under contract from a private firm. Their task is to find the right conditions for an oil trap — the right source rock, reservoir rock and entrapment. Many years ago, geologists interpreted surface features, surface rock and soil types, and perhaps some small core samples obtained by shallow drilling. Modern oil geologists also examine surface rocks and terrain, with the additional help of satellite images. However, they also use a variety of other methods to find oil. They can use sensitive gravity meters to measure tiny changes in the Earth’s gravitational field that could indicate flowing oil, as well as sensitive magnetometers to measure tiny changes in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by flowing oil. They can detect the smell of hydrocarbons using sensitive electronic noses called sniffers. Finally, and most commonly, they use seismology, creating shock waves that pass through hidden rock layers and interpreting the waves that are reflected back to the surface.

Oh, and here’s another good place to start, they can just skip over the exploration part:

Chevron estimated the 300-square-mile region where its test well sits could hold between 3 billion and 15 billion barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation’s reserves by more than 50 percent. A test well indicates it could be the biggest new domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay a generation ago.

Hey, check this out numbnuts- We have been following your ideas for the last several years, that being mindless “conservation,” do tell us, how well has that worked out?

I win.

By BFKaJ

August 3, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Dear Cousin @ 4:53, I’ll fill in that part of Econ 101 you slept through - higher supply with no change in demand lowers prices, inevitably. Especially in such an inelastic market as oil. Not that you have a clue about what “inelastic” means in that context. Even wikipedia probably gets it right, though, good luck.

By Franco Solano

August 3, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

@@,

Haven’t a particular guess, as the possibilities are, e to this layman, so numerous. May I ask which is your best guess?

I responded to your queries last evening, on this inexplicably three-day string. (Yet another reason why Mr. Wooten, on the off-chance that he has an actual “blog administrator”, should hire another.)

By @@

August 3, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Franco is it?

Someone with a strategic interest. Possibilities:

Assad as a trade-off for peace negotiations with Israel. One of the preconditions put upon Syria by Israel is that they rein in Hezbollah.

A fractured Hezbollah. The Hezbollah (older) who has split off seeking political resolutions or The Hezbollah (militants) who wants to implicate Israel in order to bring a halt to negotiations.

Israel, but only with Assad’s help.

The Likud Party. With Olmert’s announcement of resignation, Netanyahu is chomping at the bit to take over. He’s not on board with land for peace.

It’s being reported that Suleiman held documentation and has been instrumental in the nuclear activities of North Korea, Syria and Iran.

My best guess would be Israel with Assad’s help.

Hopefully, Stratfor will have something on it tomorrow.

By Franco Solano

August 3, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Well make a guess, please. And just to make it juicier, say that it has to do with sequestered, hand-me-down WMD’s colliding with the instant and eminent checkmating of several of Syria’s anticipated allies

Was that you, in Yodalizabethan? I was looking for a check against fraud, a place in the right place, finding its placeness, a mascot, say, a year.

By @@

August 3, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Well make a guess, please.

I did!

By Franco Solano

August 3, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

My carrier, bellsouth, is so unreliable that yesterday evening the slightest summer shower made it cower, and shut down for more than an hour.

By redneckerson

August 3, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

i got your # pofo. \

come on in.

you’re dumber than a deer.

you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and its all clear.

obama is here.

By Bud Wiser

August 3, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Of course this presidential contest will be about race. It’s always about race as far as the ‘media’ is concerned.

Obama tries his intellectually weak hand at reverse psychology saying it’s not about race, or the McCain is not a racist, so his sycophant love hounds can go on CNN and NBC and say that McCain is playing the race card. It is such a thinly veiled ploy that it is laughable. Only the mindless puppets of the left fall for this crap.

Why is it that when polls show Obama leading McCain in the black voting pool, it is @ 95:1 ration for Obama, but that is not racist? Of course they’re all voting color. They are too stupid not to, too stupid to not look at the man, but at only his color. Racist pure and simple, you’d have to really be a moron (or a Democrat) to try and deny the numbers. However, that is what Democrats are in to…denial. I guess fifty plus years plus of entitlements are not enough. Maybe they have fallen in love with their ghetto accommodations, their crack, their rap music, their drugs, their guns, their virtual self perpetuating out-of-wedlock society. Maybe they think their boy will give them more free stuff paid for by whitey, the slave master, the cause of all evil, the man, cracker, S.O.A.B. ‘s (to borrow from Andrew Young “sorry a$$ white boy).

But if McCain has a 55:40 lead amongst whites, the presumption there is that those not supporting Obama are doing it because he is black, or partially black, or whatever. I don’t even listen to it any more, it’s just noise. I could give a flying rats a$$ if it is about race, or it is not about race. Only the intellectually challenged will make their vote in that manner anyway. The average pond scum Dimwitocrat falls neatly into that profile.

Hussein Obama may be the most deficient candidate either party has ever fronted for this race. They have a lot staked on him, but it is a win-win for he Dems in any event, win or lose th ballot. If he wins, they cheer ‘hurray!’ If he loses, they will bind the black constituency even tighter into the fold by saying ‘look, we put one of yours out front, and we lost, we’ll do better next time”, and with that, they’ll enslave the black community into their party for another 50-60 years. The blacks are too stupid or indifferent to care anyway. Hell, they have already been re-enslaved anyhow for over 50 years since Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’, and haven’t seemed to mind that. They continue to live in squalor, uneducated, spewing welfare babies, achieving nothing of value as a culture, all paid for by the U.S. government, and they aspire to no more than what they’ve got. Just throw some more money you don’t have yet at them, and they’ll juke and jive peacefully to the polls and vote Democrat every time.

The greatest trait of Republicans, and also their greatest weakness, is their belief in their fellow man. They believe that people want to be smarter, that people want to have a better job, have a nice home, a nice income, the wife, the kids, the whole nine yards. It is called “The American Dream”. They believe this, and this is good.

Where it is bad is in reality. People want more, they just don’t want to have to work to get it. They want all that stuff that comprises “The American Dream”, but they are unwilling to put in the hard work to achieve it. How many coworkers have you seen leave 15 minutes early from work (to beat the traffic, yawn), or show up late, or show up late AND leave early? Uncle Sam ‘owes’ them. They cheat at taxes, they cheat at work, they embezzle funds, they knowingly manipulate the marketplace, they cheat on their spouses, and they even cheat themselves at playing solitaire. They have the innate ability, but not the drive.

It’s not hard to figure out who falls where in these categories, for the most part, anyway. I’d look at success being measured in a fiscal manner, like how much you pay in taxes, for instance. The top 1% pay almost 37% of all personal income taxes collected, the next 10% paying about 40% more. About half pay little to no income taxes whatsoever. The have-nots outnumbering the haves by such a wide margin, and even a moron can see why the Democrats ply their trade in class and wealth envy, and have made such a large inroad into the ordinary people who want it all but want someone else to pay for it. If they had not been educated in public schools, they could see what 50+ years and trillions of dollars have done for the blacks, and would run as fast as they could away from that trapdoor. But they don’t. They are stupid, lazy pigs who grunt for more handouts from the government.

Do yourself and this country a favor this Fall. I don’t give a crap who you vote for, just as long as it is NOT Barak Hussein Obama. If he believes that we all live in the greatest country in the world, they why does he want to ‘change’ it?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 4, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

House Republicans will be back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices, even though Congress is in recess, and they may stay there all week. “It’s not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering,” Boehner and Blunt said in the memo. “The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We’ve called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies.”

Word up.

You can clearly see who is fighting for you and who is thumbing their nose at you.

Vote accordingly.

~~~~~

YAF spokesman Jason Mattera says Obama’s popularity among students is partly due to the idealism of youth who are “most susceptible to Obama’s pie-in-the sky promises,” having had little experience with “bloated federal bureaucracy” and its consequences.

“Barack Obama has the same liberal ideas that fail every time they are instituted,” he says. “We need to hear about the gas shortages of Jimmy Carter, the high inflation, the confiscatory taxes, and the weak national security. [An Obama presidency] will be Carter redux.”

Something that all of our students need to “learn.”

~~~~~

You’d think the Urinal would learn by now:

Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi leaders failed Sunday to resolve differences over how to govern the oil-rich city of Kirkuk —- a dispute that is blocking provincial elections and stoking tensions in the volatile north.-Urinal/Jihad

Yeah, O.K, the Kurds have been restive and peaceful for the last 5 years running, now, all of a sudden, they are “volatile.”

Anybody want to bet that Kirkuk gets quietly resolved in the next few days and that the lib media moves on to their next goony propaganda opportunity?

Like always?

~~~~~

Thee Urinal never met a killer that they didn’t want to turn lose on society:

Bin Laden driver may not leave jail- Even if he is found innocent, he may not leave this U.S. Navy base. The military retains the right to hold those considered to pose a threat to the United States —- even those who have been cleared of charges by Guantanamo’s “military commissions.”-Urinal/Jihad

Yeah, my heart “goes out” for the dude.

Maybe Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificent, could commute his sentence, no?

~~~~~

Now that they don’t mean anything:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked the Democratic Party’s credentials committee to reinstate full voting rights for delegates from Florida and Michigan at the party’s national convention in Denver.-Urinal/DNC

It looks like it is now safe to let the people cast their votes for the dimwitocrat, after being disenfranchised when it counted.

~~~~~

Runoff voting Tuesday-Urinal/DNC

Alright y’all, remember, vote for Vernon Jones and we’ll drive Queen Pinko batsh!t crazy.

And we’ll drag Obama down to about 10% in the fall.

Operation Chaos rides again.

~~~~~

Indeed, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll revealed that 10 percent of voters called race the most important factor in picking our President. However, before concluding that these numbers reflect racial prejudice against Obama, consider that 20 percent of African Americans, who overwhelmingly support the Democratic senator, say race is the most important factor in determining their choice for chief executive. That any voter would consider race the key variable in making up his own mind is disturbing, and one out of five black Americans seems to be doing just that, more than double the percentage for whites.

This raises the issue that will not disappear this election cycle. Interestingly, however, all the racial talk seems to come from the Left. Despite the implication that Obama may suffer from racism, in fact, nary a word about race seems to be spoken by the McCain camp or any prominent Republicans. Yet, race seems to have swirled around every aspect of the Democratic side of this year’s campaign.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 4, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Maybe they have in mind profit margins as a percentage of sales. Yet by that standard Exxon’s profits don’t seem so large. Exxon’s profit margin stood at 10% for 2007, which is hardly out of line with the oil and gas industry average of 8.3%, or the 8.9% for U.S. manufacturing (excluding the sputtering auto makers).

If that’s what constitutes windfall profits, most of corporate America would qualify. Take aerospace or machinery — both 8.2% in 2007. Chemicals had an average margin of 12.7%. Computers: 13.7%. Electronics and appliances: 14.5%. Pharmaceuticals (18.4%) and beverages and tobacco (19.1%) round out the Census Bureau’s industry rankings. The latter two double the returns of Big Oil, though of course government has already became a tacit shareholder in Big Tobacco through the various legal settlements that guarantee a revenue stream for years to come.

The fun part about this game is anyone can play. Jim Johnson, formerly of Fannie Mae and formerly a political fixer for Mr. Obama, reaped a windfall before Fannie’s multibillion-dollar accounting scandal. Bill Clinton took down as much as $15 million working as a rainmaker for billionaire financier Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies. This may be the very definition of “windfall.”

Now for the really fun part, Michelle Obama’s place of employment, a “not for profit” organization that is tax exempt:

U of C attributes part of its record $87.8 million in operating gain for fiscal 2007 to rapidly growing programs such as cancer and neuroscience. Recruiting four new doctors to its pediatric cancer program boosted volumes 80% last year. (Extra Medicaid funding netted $35 million, and belt-tightening under new President David Hefner also bolstered results, officials say.)-Chicago Business News

Will we hear the whining about “big hospital?”

By Bad S Mitten

August 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Andy, would you please put a line of text at the end of you cut and paste crap to make it easier for the rest of us to know when to let off the scroll button. Something like:

EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF EOF

Thank you in advance for your consideration of our sore scrolling fingers and overly stressed computer hardware.

By Bad S Mitten

August 4, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Someone finally got the message through to Bud about the Republican Party strategy for getting votes for McCain — talk down his opposition since there’s nothing to talk up about him.

Good show there, Bud. You picked up on that strategy Real Fast.

By BFKaJ

August 4, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Dear PoFo @ 9:07, at risk of noting the obvious, Captain Queeg’s most effective campaign ploy has been to show Chauncey Gardener talking about himself. That’s The One that has done the most damage to Chauncey.

By Bad S Mitten

August 4, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Blogger formerly known as jbwhatever, I’m no PoFo — how’s that affect your MoJo. As for what’s most obvious, the lack of anything good to say about McCain stands out quite well. By the way, I hear his wife just loves to comment about his lack of hair. It really gets that temper of his wet-started.

By BFKaJ

August 4, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Apologies to PoFo, whom I respect. However, Mitten, I assume you are onboard with the new Obama drilling policy, which is much closer to the McCain view than the Pelosi view. It should also be obvious to you that Chauncey shows a major weakness in his campaign strategy. He surely intended to conceal his agenda to the greatest extent possible, but the lack of definition before now allows this opening to McCain. I don’t brag that McCain is a tower of economic intellect - seemingly he has no values other than traditional military virtues, (honor, duty, as our leftist friends would say blah blah blah.) Obama seemingly is an empty suit, filling it with conservative virtues at every opportunity. I suppose we conservatives have to be smug at the observation that not only is Captain Queeg tacking right, but Obama is signing onto Republican oil policy. Wonder how Obama will handle his party’s demand for corporate welfare for the loopy energy schemes?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 4, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

IT has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.

Fear and ignorance, Hume concludes, are the true source of superstition. They lead a blind and terrified public to embrace any practice, however absurd or frivolous, which either folly or knavery recommends.

The knaves today, of course, are the would-be high priests of the global warming orthodoxy, with former US vice-president Gore as their supreme pontiff.

*GFY Polly GFY Polly GFY Polly GFY Polly GFY Polly *

That work?

By Bad S Mitten

August 4, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Apologies to PoFo, is it. Yet again, you have been SMitten with my Mitten. Kneel, Knave. I’m Bad. I’m Bad.

By Bad S Mitten

August 4, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

“GFY Polly” probably works for you, Andy. Then again, you always have been a little perverse, haven’t you, little boy. By the way, you forgot to use bold text per my request. Your reading comprehension skills, or lack thereof, are still showing.

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