Thinking Right

By Edward

August 7, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

I’m fatigued of right-wing pundits desperately trying to manufacture anything negative, no matter how tenuous and vague, to bolster their sorry excuse for a candidate.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all!

Yes, Obama is over-exposed, and yes, I’m tired of all of it, not just one particular part. Why overexpose a candidate who knows nothing about being a president anyways??

Oh, maybe it’s the media wanting to be part of a historic event, but i can’t figure out what event that is…

Oh, wait, it’s the “we may have the first BI-RACIAL president!

Sorry to disappoint everyone who thought Obama was black, but he’s only halfway there.

The reason he gets so much media coverage is because the U.S. is more concerned with having the first ‘black’ president, than one who can actually do the job right.

If that’s the most important factor this time around, then when he’s elected, the United States will go to s%$t!

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Short answer: no. The stuff in the past week has been hilarious – inflating tires and such. I loved his insane reaction to McCain’s Paris Hilton ad, and his grinding teeth at The One. Even Paris’s own ad was meritorious, greeted warmly by McCain’s bunch, but Obama’s handlers’s reaction: “Whatever.” Watching the thin-skinned pompous pseudo-intellectual buffeted by the storms of real issues, stuck in his leftist dingy – this is great. Watching the clever ads and issue-punches almost makes me want to vote for McCain instead of merely against Obama.

By Tired

August 7, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

My error: I should have capitalized His in each reference to The One.

By Skip Caray's ghost

August 7, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

The next logical Wooten topic should be, after the November win for Obama, “Are you sorry you elected Obama in a landslide?”

You can tell, directly from Wooten’s topics, just how great Obama is doing in the real polls, which are buried in some dark damp Republican think tank vault. They’re dismal for McCain, and getting worse.

The published polls: Do you believe them? Why should you. Show me one word from the GOP that turned out to be the truth since 911? One…..assertion….that panned out as truth.

I dare any of you to show me one word Cheney has said, or Rove, or Bush, or one senator on the right who has told one iota of truth. I’ll even accept a Republican based weather report after-the-fact that had accuracy.

“Yesterday, it was partly liberal with widely scattered entitlements, and reports of golfball sized tax increases in some counties….”

lies…Lies….LIES!!!!

all lies. RU sick of Obamamania. That’s like saying are you sick of reality. RU sick of RU285? RU sick of Ru Paul?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Heavens no! I am not experiencing Obama fatigue!

I would however, appreciate it if the traditional media would pay a little closer attention to the foibles of John McCain.

I mean REALLY! How would the media have reacted if Senator Obama had offered up Michelle for the Miss Buffalo Chip contest?

How many MSM media outlets are tracking the 70 something McCain flip flops?

How much are the networks looking at the 26 years McCain spent inside the beltway…you know…Washington…that place he just figured out is broken?

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

My imitation of Mrs. Godzilla:

Old Scratch is lacing up ice skates: RINO Chris Shays joined the drilling talkathon. http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-shays0807.artaug07,0,685518.story

McCain takes lead on YouTube hits: Mr. McCain has pumped out a series of brutal yet entertaining attack ads and Web videos mocking the press and Mr. Obama, and the combination of wit and insult has pushed his YouTube channel to the sixth most watched on the site this week. Mr. McCain has beat Mr. Obama’s channel for seven straight days and 11 of the past 14 days, in a signal he intends to compete for the YouTube vote.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/aug/07/mccain-takes-lead-on-youtube-hits/

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Here’s more on the topic

Instead of acting like journalists, the mainstream media have become McCain’s personal assistants, regurgitating his B.S. without question…..It might seem unlikely that the United States would elect John McCain to succeed George W. Bush when that would ensure continuation of many unpopular Bush policies: an ill-defined war with the Muslim world, right-wing consolidation of the U.S. Supreme Court, a drill-oriented energy strategy, tax cuts creating massive federal deficits, etc., etc. But there are reasons — beyond understandable concerns about Barack Obama’s limited experience — that make a McCain victory possible, indeed maybe probable. Here is one of the big ones: The U.S. news media is as bad as ever, arguably worse…

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

The only way I could suffer Obama fatigue is if I had 72 hours alone with that lovely, lovely man.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Skip Caraway’s Ghost

[[I dare any of you to show me one word Cheney has said… has told one iota of truth.]]

Radio Interview of the Vice President on the Chaz and AJ in the Morning Show:

Q Is your nickname “Big Time?”

THE VICE PRESIDENT: It was for awhile there.

Q What is it now?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: What is it now? Darth Vader, I think. (Laughter.)

Q Well, that’s original.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: That’s what Senator Clinton dubbed here awhile ago. So I ask my wife about it, I said, doesn’t that make you angry when they call me Darth Vader? She said, no, it humanizes you. (Laughter.) So that’s the latest.”

That was just to illustrate what happens when you speak in absolutes. Even without the CAPS!!!

On a weightier note - from remarks at the Gerald Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon:

‘Q You mentioned a few minutes ago that there’s a reason that we haven’t had a terrorist attack in seven years. Are you saying that’s because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? What would you mean — what do you mean?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I’m saying it’s because we basically made a decision after 9/11 that this was a strategic threat to the United States; that before 9/11 our approach to terrorist — to the attacks on the World Trade Center in ‘93 and so forth, Khobar Towers in ‘96, was to go out and arrest individuals and prosecute them, but treat it as a law enforcement problem.

But what we recognized after 9/11 was that this was a far more serious threat to the nation than the work of an individual or two who might touch off a terrorist bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center — that, in fact, it was a strategic threat, and you had to mount an entirely different approach if you were going to succeed against that kind of threat. “

By Road Scholar

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

I am tired about the mindless media (all sides) that act like parrots. Do they ever have an original intelligent thought? Jim, you are included. This blog’s question is what was on the media’s plate the past few days.

What are the specific issues affecting the US and get on to tell us the facts. Stop this he’s to young/old, experienced/ inexperienced, white/black, smart/dumb, common/elitist BS!

Do some actual fact based research without a preconceived outcome. This will be very difficult for you and all of talk radio. Stop feigning your indignation and amazement.

One observation: have you noticed that Obama can speak w/o notes and provide coherent thoughts (even though you may or may not agree), but that McCain must use notes or a script to read from? This is dicerning, isn’t it? Watch him give a speech.

By the way, while I caught the allusion to “I’m not what the other Presidents look like”, I knew the stone throwers would jump on it (It took two days though). He doesn’t look like previous Presidents on the money/bills…they are green! (John Stewart) Also, other than Shrub, who has big ears like him? Who was tall and very slender? Lincoln? The beard and hat provides a different look. So instead of jumping on the negative, research and show the differences/ similarities. That should keep the pundits from regurgitating the crap they have been doing!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

And more on topic

Trust me, John McCain doesn’t know what bad press looks like…..Did you know the big bad media are beating up on John McCain? For weeks, the campaign’s media debate centered on whether the press was being too kind to Sen. Barack Obama — whether it was fawning over the Democrat’s historic run and drowning him in rapturous coverage. (Recent studies and analysis have cast that claim into doubt.) But now the narrative has been expanded to include the laughable notion that, following a string of McCain campaign stumbles, including botched staging and questionable photo-ops, the press has suddenly turned on McCain and is mocking the Republican. That the same press corps that branded McCain a maverick and for years worshipped his loose-talking demeanor, has now soured on the senator. Meaning, the love is gone.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Let the media be the media. Let the GOP be the GOP.

Every ridiculous GOP campaign tactic just proves what Obama has been saying from the start: It’s business as usual with McCain.

Somehow, with ballot stuffing fraud and a treasonous supreme court, Bush was our prez for two terms. We will take a generation to get out from under the pile of elephant dung we now stew in.

Obama 08: America, pick up a shovel!

By Tray

August 7, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Hey, all you pro-Obama peeps out there, quit complaining that McCain isn’t getting the coverage!!!

After all, it’s all of you who started the hooplah about him, and the media followed!

Even though i get tired of hearing about him, all this media coverage of him just publicly shows how he’s not educated enough in the ways of government to know how to be a successful president, you can take that to the bank!

People mention McCains flip-flopping, but no mention of how Obama was wrong for months about drilling, but now supports it; or how he was against tapping the reserve, and now supports it. yeah, that’s only 2 topics i’ve mentioned that he’s changed his stance on, but HOW MANY OTHER TOPICS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS?? I dare to say none, not even the mortgage crisis, because that will solve itself once fuel costs go down and Americans have more money.

Oh, and let’s not forget how hard those Dems are working in Congress right about now…wait, what’s that?? THERE ARE NO DEMS IN CONGRESS, THEY’RE ALL ON VACATION!!! Well, now who the hell cares about what the American people want?? Oh, that must be the over 50 Republicans still in session because THEY REALIZE that the American people need help and answers now!

What’s Pelosi doing?? A book tour!! She doesn’t care about the American people, she cares about how much money her book will make her, and it’s not even a top 100!!

Keep on going Dems…run this country into a gutter!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

BFKaJ

Good morning to you too dear heart!

You are just a sparkling example of well mannered manhood!

Name Jacker at 8:59

You have been reported.

By hillbilly ragger

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

You know what it’s like, where there are a bunch of people you don’t really care for much anyway, who you find at a social gathering p!ssing themselves laughing over some kind of joke? Just going on an on, practically to the point of tears, laughing about something?

And since they’ve caught your eye and are a somewhat friendly bunch at this get-together, you approach them and ask “Ok, what’s so funny?”

And they can’t stop laughing, not for awhile, but eventually one of them manages to splutter out a few words.

And the whole thing they’re howling about is so convoluted and riddled with in-jokes and, often, old, ugly, sexist, racist stereotypes that you wind up kinda weakly smiling and saying, “oh. Ok.” and thinking of a way to politely leave the circle and talk to someone who isn’t a drooling moron?

That’s kinda like what it is to hear Jim, BFK, Bud, AJC and others going on about “The Messiah” and suchlike.

Just so you know.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

NO I AM WAY MORE SICK OF EIGHT YEARS OF NEOCON BS!!

By HIDT

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Mrs. Godzilla, may I have another?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jim: I’d call it more of a revulsion, a gross and disgusting feeling in the bowels that cannot be relieved even with an extended stay at thee commode.

I’ve tried retching, I’ve tried breathing into a bag, medication, yoga, exercise, punching the bag but every time I work it out of my system up pops this lying POS, Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificant, talking about changing America and it washes back over me in waves.

I used to find it most helpful to remember that Bruno Thee Inevitable has been vanquished but even this comfort is now being slowly eroded and may even vanish entirely, God Help Us All.

I guess I’ll just keep praying for you America, for you know not what you do.

By HIDT

August 7, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Dear Mrs. Godzilla,

My name is Humble ID Thief, because occasionally I nick handles on here to post something I think may be humorous. Since you didn’t think it was humorous, I apologize and will not jack your user name anymore. If it happens again, it won’t be me and Wooten will know it’s so.

So, here’s wishing you a nice, fulfilling namejack free blog experience. And for Christmas, maybe Santa will bring you a jar of Lighten Up.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Tray

FYI

Of the 198 Republican members of the House of Representatioves - 12 - are still in the darkened well of the House.

Bush laughed it off.

And their fearless leader John Boehner has been playing golf all week.

Oh, and those twelve….just how connected are they to big oil? eh?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

HIDT

Nope.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

G’morning, Mrs. Godzilla

8:56 We’ve discussed in the past the lack of ‘real’ journalists. Many seem to be little more than cut-and-pasters.

8:59 I wouldn’t want to tick off Mrs. Obama. Just a word of friendly advice -

As far as Mr. Wooden’t question “for People & the Press 48 percent of the country thinks Obama is over-exposed. Among Republicans, it’s 67 percent; among Democrats, 34.” Well that just makes sense. The least exposed we saw Obama was at the basketball court when he was wearing short sleeves. He still had on long pants, not shorts (calm down, Mrs. G). But core family-values Republicans will still think that’s too much exposure. Democrats, being more live and let live, don’t get excited about this much exposure. They even watched Paris’s Energy video and didn’t get excited about her being in a bathing suit. Thankfully, we won’t have to answer this question about Senator McCain. And I do apologize for giving you such a mental picture of what we won’t have to see.

I trust your tenderloin was delicious. Here’s a brine recipe from our discussion last night:

This was for rib chops, but will work with any cut of lean pork. You may opt to use only water, sugar, and salt in the brine and omit the other flavorings. If the chops aren’t being cooked immediately after brining, just wipe off the excess brine, place the them on a wire rack set on top of a rimmed sheet pan, and keep them in the refrigerator, uncovered, to air dry for up to 3 hours.

INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup dark brown sugar (lightly packed)

1/2 cup kosher salt (or 1/4 cup table salt) 10 medium cloves garlic , crushed

4 bay leaves , crumbled

8 whole cloves
3 tablespoons whole black peppercorns , crushed

4 bone-in rib loin pork chops (12-ounces each), 1 1/2-inches-thick

2 tablespoons vegetable oil In gallon-sized zipper-lock plastic bag, dissolve sugar and salt in 2 cups hot water. Add garlic, bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, and 4 cups cold water; cool mixture to room temperature. Add pork chops, then seal bag, pressing out as much air as possible; refrigerate until fully seasoned, about 1 hour, turning bag once. Remove chops from brine and dry thoroughly with paper towels.

Or a simpler one, say for a roast, would be 2 quarts water, ¼ cup table salt (not kosher, depending on the brand the amount will be lots different) , ¼ cup sugar and brine for 1 ½ to 2 hours.

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so. McCain will be a real “pain” to this country if he wins, which will not happen. I wonder what Jim will write after the election, when Obama is elected. What possibly could he say. Maybe that the AJC has asked him to retire….. Honestly, though you got to appreciate Jim’s columns, he writes what he feels. Jim, you are all right personally, but politcally, you are far from right.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Mothra. STFU! Gadzooks, girl. WTF? is your problem?

SO what if someone jacks your ID? You’re as sensitive as Dusty and @@, which kind of gives you away, as being an alias of one of those two einsteins.

You’re nothing but a public facility, and a sellout hack, dishonestly debating as a liberal with the shrouds of conservatism who haunt this blog. (BJk, and Corporal Duhng).

BTW: I let “the corporal” go on for a while thinking he had fooled everyone with a new alias. He gave himself away with the first post by joining in where he had left off with his “Glenn” ID. What a fall guy! And he thought he was a blogmeister!! Nyuck Nyuck. What a maroon. What a stooge. And then when I called him on it, he quits using it. BWA!~~!

Just like when I tricked the empty headed Duhng into not using italics. I told him nobody could read them, so he thought, “Duhhh, I have to get read or I’ll be a total failure as a human being…”

AND HE STOPPED USING ITALICS!!! with one post I punked the copy rat! What a fall guy. What a maroon. What a dope!

And he thinks he’s still got credibility after he posts all day and night long hacking rush limbaugh!!!

BWAAAAA!!!!

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so.

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so.

By Pat

August 7, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Hmmm. Well, yes, I’m a tad tired of our media’s current obsession with Obama. But I’ve been tired of the media for quite some time - tired with them pitching softballs to Bush in 99-‘00 and failing to reveal his glaring stupidity, hushed-up dereletion of duty and drug use … tired of them cheerleading the war … tired of them being completely co-opted by the Bush regime …and tired of them focusing on trivial issues and ignoring real crises. So my answer is “yes… somewhat.” But somehow, I think I will overcome my ennui and manage to punch my card for OB anyway. Go figure. Guess it’s my “fear.”

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

How much are the networks looking at the 26 years McCain spent inside the beltway…you know…Washington…that place he just figured out is broken?

Mrs. G:

It doesn’t come as a surprise that you’re an OBlahMa (The One) supporter. What are there…..like 80 senators? John McCain’s reputation of being the Lone maverick is well known inside and outside Washington.

The One, OBlahMa has been there how long? Nevermind…..irrelevant kinda.

Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 133 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 119 haven’t made it out of committee* *(Average) *and 2 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 638 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers). [On 4/2/08, the numbers were updated to consider companion bills in the other chamber identified as “identical” by the Congressional Research Service when determining if a bill was enacted or made it past the introduction stage.

Now McCain, on the other hand, was instrumental in passing some bills that pithed off many conservatives. A productive Maverick is what the average American is looking for.

Are you aware that OBlahMa, once He decided to run for President, took credit for successful bills in the Illinois State Senate? Problem is, He didn’t do the work….He just took the credit. Pithed off some of His fellow senators, it did.

Jim:

Am I suffering OBlahMa fatigue?

Initially I was listening. Then the “uhs” began to grate on my nerves just as John McCain’s “my friends” grated on the same nerves. As the campaign progressed I began to appreciate McCain’s wicked sense of humor and OBlahMa’s responses of ?!?righteous indignation?!?

I agree with you when you said he (OBlahMa) doesn’t know when to stop talking. His inexperience is becoming more apparent every day.

But then again….who doesn’t have The Clap On/Clap Off commercials engrained in their memory.

OBlahMa, The Clapper?

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

I’m sure most of the cons are suffering a lot of anguish over obama’s popularity,the rest of us can’t wait to throw out this gross over fed GOP mess of a party

bye bye you trashy perverts

hello clean respectable America again

By Bosch

August 7, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Some here have already said it.

Obama fatigue. Nope. McCain fatigue. Nope.

Media fatigue. Yes.

Bush and GOP fatigue. Most definitely.

The anticipation of Bush leaving office is similar to that of when I was a kid and I just couldn’t WAIT until Christmas or to go on vacation, or the last day of school before summer. Time seemed to stop, the anticipation just completely unbearable.

And then finally, the blessed day came.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

OZ

What a proud moment for the supporters of your point of view!

You are just exactly what they need to get the message across!

Such pithy commentary!

Your creative use of abbreviations alone is amazing!

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

PoliFore/Ooooooz:

You’re as sensitive as Dusty and @@

When was the last time you’ve seen me complain?

Your ?!?righteous indignation?!? is showing my friend.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Did Mr. Bookman extend his vacation?

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

When the moment comes, and the pressure is on, I want a president I can depend on, not one that wears Depends.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

off topic, but interesting

Mystery Deepens Around McCain Bundler By Eric Kleefeld - August 7, 2008, 12:25AM

The New York Times has elaborated on the story of Harry Sargeant, the McCain bundler who has collected some interesting donations from people who are either apolitical or actually profess to be against McCain. They uncovered an interesting new angle — and in the process seem to have missed a bigger point.

It appears, however, that Mr. Sargeant, the finance chairman of the Florida Republican Party and the part-owner of a major oil trading firm, International Oil Trading Company, did not actually solicit the donations from the Abdullahs and their friends. That task fell to a longtime business partner, Mustafa Abu Naba’a. Mr. Sargeant said in an interview that he has known Mr. Abu Naba’a for more than a decade and has worked with him on commercial ventures, including a contract with the Pentagon to supply fuel to the military in Iraq.

The point they failed to notice: That same contract to provide fuel for US troops in Iraq has been the subject of a lawsuit against Sargeant and Naba’a, coming from a business partner who is himself the brother-in-law of the King of Jordan. Their partner alleges that they shut him out of his rightful share of the profit after he arranged for the Jordanian government to only allow them in, despite having failed to give the lowest bid.

In other words, Sargeant and Naba’a are being sued for allegedly bilking their business partner out of his take on the deal.

From TPM

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Allow me to be more succinct.

Obama’s treads are wearing thin but his tires are well inflated.

WATCH OUT! CAUSE HE’S GONNA BLOW.

Paul:

Bookman’s was a two-week vacation.

After you retired last night, I read a piece at Stratfor about General Petraeus’ unnanounced visit to Lebanon. Very interesting! Let’s play…….

Why Petraeus?

Why Lebanon?

Why now?

You’re on center stage. Show me what’cha got.

By hillbilly ragger

August 7, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

HIDT, the usual practice is to adopt a screen name that is very much like the one you wish to parody, only not quite.

That’s not name-stealing. That’s how parody is done.

Outright online name-stealing is always wrong (and pretty damn cowardly), no matter who does it. I don’t care for it when I see it done to Dusty, either and have said as much.

So yeah, the Mrs. was right to rat you out.

Paul @ 9.40, Jay took two weeks, I believe, so he’s got until next Monday to report for active doody.

By lava

August 7, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

YES,OBAMA FATIGUE ON THINKING RIGHT,how ironic that Wooten does not see it.Anything you can get to denigrate Obama for the benefit of Mccain’s sterile and erectile dysfunctional and decayed campaign.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

During an election year, how in the hell can a candidate for President of The United States be over-exposed! Those who actually think that a candidate in an election can be over-exposed without a doubt “take great pride in being ignorant.” THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS BUT THERE ARE STUPID ANSWERS!

By Bad Brad

August 7, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Paul,

You got a good recipe for fruitcake, or maybe slug salad?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

I’m sick of some elite POS, who thinks he is better than anyone else, wrongly assuming that I am a dumbas-s liberal like he is and do not know how to properly inflate my tires.

I’m sick of some moron that cannot speak a foreign language but yet still scolds me for not being able to, even though I live in America and couldn’t give a F less if the French understand me or not.

I’m sick of some scumbag who could not even improve the impoverished district that he represented in the Illinois Senate, telling us some garbage about how he will “change” America, the greatest, most prosperous and most giving nation in the history of the world, bar none.

I’m sick of some surrender monkey foreign as-s kisser going around the world bad mouthing my country in front of his fellow yellow bellies who hide from tyranny behind the might and strength of the United States of America.

I’m sick of some whining little cry baby, perched upon his media created throne and filling his diaper, call me and my fellow countrymen racists because we can see right through this light weight’s charade and know that it is all a bunch of BS.

And most of all, I am sick of this maggot talking about the surge failing and surrendering the tremendous gains that our brave soldiers have fought and died for, sacrificing every thing for the freedoms of 50,000,000 people, replacing their destitution with real hope, only to have to some sorry as-s political party and it’s “leader” squander their sacrifice over some stupid election campaign promises.

Other than that, he does read from the teleprompter pretty good.

By lava

August 7, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

I was on the Oreilly factor last nite and Oreilly tried to pass on an attack strategy to Karl Rove for Mccain, arguing that the Mccain campaign shld attack Obama for his flip flops…Rove was so disgusted,you cld see that on his face.He argued,rightly, that Mccain is not competent enough to do that,its like the kettle calling me black, becoz He is the FLIP FLOPPER IN CHIEF…with a 27/26 year record in senate,his hands are tied on most policy issues.This election is for KING MESSIAH OBAMA to lose!! Republicans can take pride in being ignorant,like Obama said,but thats your funeral people………

By hillbilly bagger

August 7, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

You mean like this? Gee, thanks for the advicel. I’ll take that right to heart. I’ll get on that, boss. You won’t see me doing it wrong no more. Yessirree, I got it, boss. You can count on me. I done learn’t my lesson.

By hillbilly nagger

August 7, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Wrong? Cowardly? Overstate much? What planet is this?

By Abomi Nation

August 7, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Obama is over exposed because columnists like Jim write about him every single day ad-nausea. Its just amazing that Jim could write this column. Here are the titles from Jim’s blog for the last month.

Obama Words, Obama Words, Obama Words.

Planet Obama.

Jesse is Obama’s Sister Soulja.

Obama is a Flip Flopper.

Obama’s Dangerous Change Agenda.

Paid Volunteerism. More Obama.

Despite Hype Obama Won’t Carry Georgia.

You Simply Must Adore Obama.

Do You suffer Obama Fatigue.

In that same period here is Jims Columns on McCain.

McCain Revives Campaign With Scrappy Smarts.

Thats it. One lousy column on McCain. Then Wooten asks if Obama is overexposed! At the same time since the primaries ended McCain has virtually dissapeared from Jim’s columns. Well duh, yes Obama is overexposed and McCain is getting little attention.

Its obvious why.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

During the interview in a regal room at the State Department appointed with chandeliers, rich carpets and cases of porcelain, Rice was asked: “Would you feel safe with a President Obama?”“Oh, the United States will be fine,” she responded. “I think that we are having an important debate about how we keep the country safe. I think we are having an important debate about our responsibilities, our obligations, our interests in the Middle East in the wake of the now increasing evidence of success in Iraq. Those are important judgments for the American people to make.” From Politico

No Obama fatigue there!

By Mr. Japanese movie monster ragger

August 7, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I am an elitist leftist. I get my panties in a wad easily. And then in my haughty way, dispense advice on how to post on blogs.

Har!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

@@

Well, it’s an opinion worth entirely what it cost ya’. But the Lebanese gov’t has been caving to Hezbollah, who’s been growing stronger. We’ve been giving a lot of aid to the gov’t, so we may see a “we give it to you to protect yourself” message. It’d be an interesting message, given Hezbollah’s part of the gov’t yet is obviously running an independent military. I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the discussion was “you crushed Sadr – what lessons can we apply and survive?” Israel’s learned from its last military debacle – you have to give that to the Israeli military – it learns from its mistakes. Will also be interesting if we see a “Lebanon, we have no beef with you but we’re entering your territory to crush Hezbollah” operation. Will also be interesting if Obama picks up the parallels between that and his emerging AQ/Pakistan policy. Lots of tea leaves to read, eh?

Bad Brad

Fruitcakes? Read the blog….

or try Ascension Abbey’s website.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Obama 08: America takes over.

BTW: McCain and his surge is McCain’s assessment of our military progress. Well, guess what, mcCain? While you’re pouring money into a hole in the desert sand, the Chinese are building a vast navy.

Bush, ironically, who would start an unjustifiable war and spend more on defense than anyone in history, is weak on defense. SO is McCain.

This money should be going to counter the Chinese, who are our enemy, dont be fooled by their fat smiling faces.

But McCain only knows how to burn US carriers, like he done in Vietnam clowning around like the yokel he truly is.

Obama 08: He’ll know how to spend defense dollars, and it aint giving it away for free to Cheney croneys who steal it for themselves and then buy graft with it.

Obama 08: America4America (copyright, 08).

And what did I just say, Mrs. Mothra? SHUT…..TF…..UP! You have overstayed your blog welcome with hundreds of GOP friendly comments that are pathetic. shut…tf…UP!

moron. (and idiot).

U2, fatfat, nitwit (and imbecile)

But dusty can stay.

bwa

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Dear HIDT, I still think you show great humor – the Mrs. G. riff was funny, and I was not smart enough to identify you. Feel free to use either of my bloghandles, and I care not if you reflect me in an adverse light, so long as it is funny. You may also use my handles to slander others (again, so long as it has some humorous core) – I’ll stand behind it. I know I lack a sparkling wit, yet I appreciate it when I see it in others. That’s why I still like PoFo, even when he is under attack for crossing the line.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Let’s not forget the media ‘no coverage’ on Obama’s campaign contributions from 2 muslims in the GAZA STRIP!!

The Barack Obama campaign has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from two brothers in Palestine. Monir and Hosam Edwan are from a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Monir Edwan has donated over $24,000 to the Obama campaign. His brother, Hosam, has donated over $5,000 to the Messiah. How did they get away with this? Well they listed their address as being from Rafah, GA – a town that does not exist in the state of Georgia. If the Obama people had done their homework they might have discovered this little fact. Not only have the brothers donated well over the $2,300 limit for one person during a single election, but they are clearly not American. You don’t think they could be Muslims, do you?

DO YOU WANT THIS MAN FOR PRESIDENT?? REALLY??? Taking campaign contributions from Muslims?

Why do you think Muslims and other nations like Obama?? BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE WILL WEAKEN AMERICA AND DRIVE IT TO THE GROUND!

Wake up, people! Darn near every other country in the world hates us. They know McCain is the best choice, which is why they are pro-Obama! They don’t want America to succeed, and if you believe that, then go visit another country and educate yourself.

After all, the uneducated would support Obama-they are the ones who can’t seem to hold a job, can’t pay their bills, and want the Gov’t to bail them out of problems they caused for themselves!

I will only vote for McCain because Obama is the greater of 2 evils…just like Kerry was 8 years ago. Bush sucks, and McCain sucks, but they are far better than Kerry or Obama!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he remembers what life was like before the ice age!

GOP - Taking pride in being ignorant!

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Bad Brad,

I must jump in here and defend Paul.

He has some pretty tasty recipes, and I suspect he is one awesome cook.

You should try to learn from him rather than ridicule him.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Mr. Japanese movie monster ragger

Thanks so very much for the props dude!

I am unworthy of your magnificent talent for satire!

I am humbled beside your wit and wordsmanship!

By Bad Brad

August 7, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Read the blog? That’s just what I did. Since you were dispensing recipes on this blog, I thought maybe you might share some more … fruitcake.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he still parties like it’s 1899!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, hevwas there when they laid out plans for the pyramids!

GOP - Taking pride in being ignorant!

By Get Real

August 7, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Another tired post from Wooten. I wish Bush had been ‘over-exposed’ 8 years ago. You say you don’t know much about Obama, then isn’t exposing him a good thing? I wish the press and you (since you’re not a real journalist) would focus more on McCain. Ask him another question about birth control and he might have a heart attack.

Its hilarious that Republicans say Obama is inexperienced, but touted Bush and his team as the most experienced administration ever. Seems to me experience shouldn’t mean all that much after this debacle. But I know its just another talking point. Wooten and all you other right wing nuts should be banned from voting in November, just for electing this terrible president to two terms. Your voting privileges should be revoked, or at least suppressed the same as the Republicans did minorities in Florida and Ohio. Your party has no standing whatsoever to say Obama is inexperienced, naive, or whatever word this election will produce. You elected the worst president ever, and yet want another four years of Republican leadership. McCain isn’t a maverick anymore, he’s a hardcore Republican.

Any real fiscal conservative would somehow see that with the deficit Bush is leaving, how can you extend his tax cuts? After Iraq, there is no way you can be the party that has national security bonafides. Whatever happens now, it was still a war of choice not necessity. It was managed horribly, and everything that was said before we went there turned out to be wrong. Theres no way your party deserves to lead this country another 4 years. THATS SOME STRAIGHT TALK!!!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old he took the apple from eve bringing us original sin and menstruation

By @@

August 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

U2, fatfat, nitwit (and imbecile)

Dang! there ^^^ it is again.

But dusty can stay.

I agree PoliFore. I’ve always enjoyed Dusty’s posts.

You like her because…………

She points out your namejacking? But you didn’t like it when Mrs…………………

Oh nevermind.

Paul:

I’ll be right back with Stratfor’s analysis. It’s a progressive thing. Previous observations culminating into an overall assessment.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Found this article for all of you whiny p*** liberals who are afraid of your own shadows.

How General Petraeus Saved the U.S. Economy.

With oil prices continuing to plunge—and they may have a lot further to go—I’ve started wondering about this “what if” scenario: Where would oil prices be today had we abandoned Iraq to civil war and al Qaeda? What if President Bush had announced on Jan. 10, 2007, that instead of surging U.S. troops under the command of General Patraeus, he was ordering their withdrawal? Imagine if Iraq had descended in complete chaos and terror and genocide. Somalia or Rwanda on the Tigris and Euphrates, I guess.

Right now, Iraq is pumping out some 2.4 million barrels of petroleum a day. (That’s about what the country was producing before the war and double the level of production at its post-liberation low point.) But given tight global oil markets, what would the price of oil be—and what would the state of the U.S. economy be—with perhaps all of those 2.4 million barrels off the market? Actually, we don’t have to imagine very hard at all. Hurricane Katrina took about 2.4 million barrels off the market (because of refining shutdown and a halt to foreign oil deliveries), and oil prices spiked. And then layer on top of all that a possible regional war. Saudi Arabia and Iran might well have intervened on the side of the Sunni and Shiite. Wouldn’t we all be screaming about $200-a-barrel oil—or maybe twice that?

Instead, to quote a recent and much-overlooked Associated Press analysis, terrorists and insurgents “no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.” Perhaps now the energy-stressed global economy can look forward to more Iraq oil coming onto the market, perhaps 6 million barrels a day or more in time as western capital pours in. And while we’re at it, don’t forget about the costs of not liberating Iraq to begin with. In today’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens presents an interesting counterfactual that raises all sorts of interesting questions about opportunity costs:

SUCK ON THAT LIBERAL SCUM!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla

[[During the interview in a regal room at the State Department appointed with chandeliers, rich carpets and cases of porcelain,]]

Sure, part of that’s the elegance of putting the best face forward for foreign visitors. But much is the mindset of a career bureaucracy whose main concern with a budget is to make sure it gets spent before the end of the year.

It cuts across party lines, because this is the bureaucracy that watches administrations come and go. But the Party people do the same. Spkr Pelosi spends $16,000 on flowers in a few months. Her Rep predecessor funnels earmarks that make property he owns worth more (the guy comes to Congress with a net worth of a couple hundred grand and in a few years is worth upwards of $12 mil? At least Spkr Pelosi was rich when she was elected).

But my point is, when people say “that isn’t all that much money” I think of the couple working whose first few months of labor go to pay their Federal taxes. How many years did they work to pay for flowers? Or earmarks? Or new office furniture? Obama and McCain are both correct - we can cut a few billion from the bureaucracy and the bulk of Americans will never suffer for it.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, I’m sure you’ve spent lots of time with men. With all those years of working the streets I mean.

GMAN, You are discriminating against a mans age. I guess you need to take some tolerance classes at Dekalb Tech.

GMAN-Taking pride in being ignorant. And fat.

By Whatever

August 7, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Tray, please provide a link to your assertaion that muslims have given money to the Obama campaign. And is every muslim a terrorist? You Republicans are so backward in your thinking, that every person that isn’t like you is somehow bad or beneath you. Would you let a muslim doctor work on you if it was the matter of life or death? Your whole thinking is uneducated and based soley on assumptions. You already know how McCain would govern, just like Bush.

And under Bush, America hasn’t succeeded so we don’t need any countries to stand in our way. We’re doing the damage ourselves. Just like Bush goes to China to pass judgment on their civil rights, while he imposes on ours here at home. Your comments prove that there are still some dumb Americans.

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Keep his name in the headlines and keep naysayers talking about him. We don’t even care about that other old white guy. The more you hate, the better he gets. And that’s what’s going to get him in the White House. OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

What I find funny is how libs made John F. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, out to be a god-like man. In the end he was smashed by W. Obama is now falling apart and being exposed for the fraud he really is. The man, I mean messiah, has NO PLAN other than forcing America to become a socialist country.

Also, the democrat congress has a NINE PERCENT approval rating. Nancy Pelosi just released her new book that has sold a whopping 2737 copies. Wow, America really loves democrats. I can not think of ONE reason to vote democrat. I mean, I love my country and they hate America. I want prosperity and wealth and they want to take it away from me. Can someone give me a sane reason to vote for Barack Hussein Obama?

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

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Thanks, I’ll look for it when I return.

But a serious observation on today’s question: I’ll hazard a guess that the reason so many people feel overload is because so much of the reporting has been on relatively frivolous issues. So Reps are looking for, if not some smoking gun, at least an idea of “who is he, really?” while Dems don’t mind the lightweight coverage. Because they aren’t as concerned with the history of accomplishment, or the personal life, or who he knew when, as they are with a broader vision of where they want the country to go.

Rather the same as how Republicans viewed Reagan when he ran for governor, then for President.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Duh at 10:38

You constantly bring an air of good cheer to this blog!

With out you as an outstanding example of compassionate conservatism here on this blog we would all be at loose ends!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Obama Hussien supporters, You guys/gals better be watching out for one Hillary Rodham Rodham. It’s going to be a hoot watching the DNC fall in to complete chaos this fall. What happens when she steals Obama Husseins rightful place in the White House?

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC: this some of your work?

By Road Scholar

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

@@: You seem to have the data on Obama; what about McCain? What are the numbers and the source? While you are at it, what are the number of votes they have made the past 2-3 years?

You state McCain was vital to some legislation passing; how many were written by him? Sponsored? Co-sponsored? Does he just jump on the train after testing the waters?

AJC/DNC: I thought that you were describing yourself until you got to the surge…

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By AmVet

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

The question remains, in spite of the ‘statistics’, why are these Republicans so obsessed with Obama?

Or Hillary.

Or fill in the blank Democrat/liberal/moderate/non neo-con.

It deflects them having to explain/justify/apologize for the endless failures of their repudiated ideology.

And that they have NO one to represent them this fall…

By Whatever

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Commie, your whole post is based on ‘what ifs, imagines, and coulda beens.’ Which means its all opinion and not facts. What we do KNOW AS FACT, is that the oil in Iraq didn’t pay for the war,there were no WMDs (you know the reason we went there in the first place), we weren’t greeted as liberators, over 4000 troops have died, and Iraq has an $80 Billion surplus while YOU and I pay to reconstruct their country. While you say that liberals are afraid of their shadows, the same conservative leaders ducked from Vietnam (Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld). These same chickenhawks that love war so much deferred their way out of the war, or went AWOL from the national guard. While you present ‘what ifs’, I’m bringing facts. Republicans like to puff their chests out, yet they only thing they can say about Bush is ‘he’s kept us safe.’ Thats a fairytale because bin Laden is still somewhere on the planet. He couldn’t even get that right, and you still want to elect another Republican. Puhleeze!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Suddenly being green is not cool any more- Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, she told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.

Go for a ride in my SUV, sweet thing?

Hahahahaha, losers.

By dudewheresmycountry

August 7, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

can’t get enough of the guy righ now. maybe have a touch of obama fatigue eight (8) years from now………

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Now I understand the deal with Communist AJC

Earned a big, shiny nickel, did ya?

By Get Real

August 7, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

He ain’t a Republican. Thats a big reason Commie?

By findog

August 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Greetings,

First to Mrs. Godzilla, my apologies to your father, as a veteran of the Army Chemical Corps I respect all who serve. The cheep shot of tying your two consecutive sentences on spending and addiction was too low a blow for even this blog.

As to fatigue – being a political and history junkie I used to be riveted to the cable channels for the daily updates and analysis they provided. Somewhere along the Florida recount it occurred to me that a diet heavy in saturated opinion was really bad for my ability to accept reality.

I now watch very little of the daily political shows so I am able to process the blabbering in healthy doses. I am still undecided but leaning to McCain unless Obama comes out with a believable plan to fix our budget crisis he will get my vote, unless McCain comes out with a more believable plan…

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Who said I was conservative? I just don’t like democrats.

Midori, Nope.

AmVet, I’m trying to figure out exactly what you are. Help me out a bit. You seem to hate capitalism so I guess that makes you a socialist? Again, help me out. I can not, for the life of me, figure out why anyone would want to vote democrat. I mean, other than to have all of your hard earned money taken away, loss of more jobs? I look at states like Michigan, where for years they had wonderful jobs. Now, its a dying city thanks to high taxes, unions and democrats. Democrats have run most of the northern states economies in to the ground. I just saw a list of the top ten dying cities in America. Not one of them was in the south. Explain please.

By The One

August 7, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

BFKaj @ 8:39

The Obamessiah forgives you. Be blessed and say five, Heil Obama’s, and sin no more.

It is so.

By @@

August 7, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

O.K. PoliFore, this is gonna be a “long one” so don’t get overly excited.

Paul:

I’m not gonna pull excerpts, and I hope there’s no word limit here. It’s pretty straight forward. Given the Muginiyah (sp?) assassination, the recent hit on General Suleiman, Hezbollah’s recent flight to the hills, ongoing peace negotiations between Syria and Israel; the analysis is conceivable.

Contrary to expectations, the visit likely has little to do with military assistance to the Lebanese army. No amount of U.S. aid is going to be enough to build the Lebanese military into a force unified and formidable enough to competently confront an organization like Hezbollah. And a soon-to-be CENTCOM chief like Petraeus certainly does not have to be the one to make the time for a trip to Beirut to discuss giving a new batch of vehicles to Lebanese security forces. We suspect this meeting addressed more important matters.

The visit comes at a critical time; the regional dynamics are shifting in the Levant. Israel and Syria are negotiating in fancy hotel rooms in Turkey over a peace deal that would enhance Israel’s national security and reassert Syrian hegemony in Lebanon. These talks are progressing and are making Hezbollah more and more paranoid by the day, given that any final accommodation between the Israelis and the Syrians would include cutting Hezbollah down to size.

Though the Syrians already appear to have taken some (quiet) steps to curtail Hezbollah’s arms supplies, the Israelis are signaling that the ultimate litmus test for this peace deal will involve bigger and bolder action by the Syrians against the Shiite militant group. Israel is not about to allow Syria to play the middle ground in dealing with Hezbollah. With the Lebanese incapable of containing Hezbollah themselves, the Syrians are expected to play a major role in diluting Hezbollah’s military strength.

Exactly how Israel intends to deal with Hezbollah is still unclear, especially as the Israeli government is in a major political flux over its prime minister’s impending resignation. But Israeli preparations for a military confrontation with Hezbollah are now in full swing, and we can’t help but wonder whether these preparations are simply precautionary measures in case of a Hezbollah attack; or perhaps they are part of an Israeli strategy to goad Hezbollah into a war that would prove Syria’s commitment to the peace talks.

The same day Petraeus was in Lebanon, Stratfor picked up information from a source in the region claiming that Syria had dismantled an anti-aircraft system in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range to the east of the Bekaa Valley — a major Hezbollah stronghold and likely the main site of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel should full-scale hostilities resume. According to the source, Israel assured the Syrians (via Turkey) that it would not attack Syrian military positions in the event of such an outbreak, leaving Hezbollah particularly vulnerable and dependent on its own meager arsenal of man-portable surface-to-air missiles.

Stratfor has not been able to confirm this information, but if true, it signals a significant shift toward peace by the Syrians. Whether or not Israel intends to attack Hezbollah, whether or not Syria intends to attack Hezbollah, and whether or not the two decide to work together militarily or politically against Hezbollah, the bottom line is that that time is coming. Any of the above options are feasible, and there are many more ways to skin this particular cat. But the commonality among all of them is that Israel and Syria are sliding from a cold war into a cold peace, and that will redefine not just their bilateral relations, but the balance of power throughout the region. A Syria that can work with Israel is one in which Iran holds little influence. A Lebanon under the Syrian thumb is one in which groups like Hezbollah face the question of accommodation or oblivion. A more secure Israel is one that does not need to be overly concerned about anything the Palestinians demand. All this adds up to a very different region, and one which the United States — via Petraeus — fully intends to be involved in shaping.

The only thing that leads me to question is Assad’s recent statement upon his visit to Tehran. I seldom go with the obvious as I believe the obvious is meant to mislead.

By lava

August 7, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

You are discriminating against a mans age yes he is so senile,if he becomes president,he wont remember where the nuclear buttons are when its time to fire…

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Whatever, What planet have you been living on the past 6 years? Our soldiers were killed in Iraq by AL QUEDA and Muki Al Sadr’s little army that is supplied with arms by Iran. Get real moron. Real people in America are sick and tired of lazy morons, like you, telling us how bad we are. We have WON IRAQ! Plain and simple. Have you not been paying attention to the news? Why else has Barrack Hussein not talked about his troop reduction? Or as Americans call it, retreat. By the way, did Obama Hussein ever serve? NOPE! Mccain did. So are you going to call him names? Moron. Go sell stupid somewhere else. I’m sure huffingtonpissed would love you. I bet you could even get a job shining Keith Olberqueers shoes.

By lava

August 7, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

I look at states like Michigan, where for years they had wonderful jobs. Now, its a dying city thanks, Communist,Michigan is a state,not city.. You all take pride in being Ignorant for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Peadawg

August 7, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Yes Yes Yes.

he is more of a celebrity than a presidential candidate. i here about him more aften than i do real news that actually matters.

McCain ‘08

By Tray

August 7, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

HERE ARE THE LINKS TO OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM MUSLIMS IN THE GAZA STRIP:

(http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/monir-edwan.asp?cycle=08)

and the other:

(http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/hosam-edwan.asp?cycle=08)

Enjoy looking at the proof your future wannabe pres taking this money!

By Chaz

August 7, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

It’s not that I’m tired of hearing about him… I’m tired of reading the fawning, sycophantic reportage of every step he deigns to take amongst us down here on earth. This is a guy who’s served only 140+ days in the Senate, barely squeaked through the primaries and is now ducking any unscripted, unchoreographed encounters with the press… as if they’d say anything bad about him anyway.

By colonel nathan r. jessup

August 7, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

You state that we have “WON IRAQ”! Like a game show or in Vegas…Hey! I just won Iraq…If you didn’t know it communist Iraq was, and still is a soverign nation!

George Bush when asked what does soverign mean he stumbled and bumbled around like the complete fool he is, and couldn’t find an answer…CAN YOU?

By Tray

August 7, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

And yes, not all muslims are terrorists idiots, i know that. But don’t you find it strange that the donations came from a completely fake city in georgia!?!?

Why would a non-US citizen muslim want to donate to Obama’s campaign…hmmmm.

Maybe because other countries want to see america hit the S&%t-can, which will happen if “rob from the rich, give to the poor” Obama is elected.

By demwit

August 7, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Crack is whack. Just say no to obama..

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

lava, I thought libs hated nukes in the first place. You should be happy if he forgets where the nuke button is. Besides, Obama Hussien will cure all the worlds problems. He is the messiah.

Now, about the Michigan comment. I was typing so fast that I forgot to type DETROIT. By the way, the wonderful city of Detroit just had its first hip hop mayor thrown in jail. Wow, that’s yet another democrat mayor thrown in jail.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

colonel nathan r. jessup, Sovereignty is the exclusive right to have control over an area of governance, people, or oneself.

Does that help you out or should I just beat it in to you with a sledgehammer?

By Fred

August 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

You know, the only people injecting race into this election are the democrats (who always claim to know ‘the truth’) and Obama himself. Funny how the rhetoric got cranked up in earnest the very same week Obama fell behind in some of the polls.

I will vote against the big O for the same reason I’ve voted against every Dem since 1988… they’re all happy-faced socialists. In fact, the only reason I would vote for Obama is his race. If we had a black President, the civil rights professionals and victimhood enablers might have to get real jobs.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, when he ran the 100 meter dash, they timed him with a sundial!

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By getalife "whiners"

August 7, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

The one is tired too and taking a vacation.

By colonel nathan r. jessup

August 7, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

Very good mr communist…definition of sovereignty taken right from Wikipedia.

As far as sledgehammers go…be careful!

It may end up in the wrong hands…MINE!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

GMAN, Barrack Hussien Obama is so dumb, he thought there were 57 states in America.

GMAN-Taking pride in being a troglodyte.

By Bud Wiser

August 7, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

I don’t think we see enough of Obama. Every time he opens his mouth he is changing a previously stated position on something. America sees him as the fraud that he is.

The really good part down the road is when that ego maniacal idiot will accidentally say his name as Osama instead of Obma.

You retards that support him are a bunch of mindless loons, or black, without the capacity to look at the man beyond his color.

McCain could paint on some black-face ala Al Jolson and get 40% of the black vote with his picture alone.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, the fire department is on standby when he lights his birthday cake.

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By Whatever

August 7, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Commie, if we’ve won then when are we having the victory parade down 5th Ave in NYC? Why does McCain still want to stay there. And Obama has stated 16 months and we’ll be out of Iraq if he’s president. The Iraqi PM agrees and so does Bush, even though he wants to call it a time ‘horizon’. You don’t know me to call me tired, lazy, or moron. I served in the National Guard, did you? So who’s tired and lazy? People I know still in the Guard want us to leave Iraq because they’re tired of going on tours of duty and leaving their families for a war THEY see will not change anything, so are they un-american too? Little chickenhawks like you that only TALK about war, but never volunteered to fight for this country. Seems you should be running with the Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld crowd.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

GMAN, Obama Hussein is so dumb he thought that living troops were the ones being honored on Memorial Day. I guess he sees dead people.

GMAN-taking pride in being ignorant.

By thogwummpy

August 7, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

How can anyone be tired of hearing about “God”——I mean…”Christ”——I mean…”the Messiah”….? Well, you get the point. I mean who Obama (and his moonbat) supporters THINK Barack is.

By Kevin

August 7, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

The GOP has screwed up their war on terror, let the mortgage crisis happen, had no real energy plan until 3 months ago and spent us into oblivion. Our biggest problem though? I see no evidence that the party of Nancy Pelossi, Harry Reid and the Chosen One has any better ideas. I’d be denying history to even imagine it. They will spend even more, they’ll raise taxes and suppress economic investment, their energy plan is a long litany of tax hikes and feel-good/do-nothing resolutions and if Putin decides to put Russian nukes in Cuba, do you honestly see President Obama throwing another blockade around that PITA little island? Not a chance.

The GOP is lousy, but the Dems are even worse. We need another party, right now.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

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A joint military op by Syria and Israel against Hezbollah. I like it.

A key point was one they’ve alluded to in the past – marginalizing Iran. Just look at a map. Syria can directly intervene. Iran can’t. Syria dismantled the AA site? One, it removes the chance of an inadvertent hit. Two, it signals Hezbollah “the Israelis have a clear attack corridor. If you were counting on us to stop them, you’re wrong.” BTW – the air defenses in the Beka’a valley in the 80s were among the most intense in the world. Much more than what we faced around Hanoi/Haiphong. It’s what led the Israelis to embark on their drone program – years and years and years before our Air Force would grudgingly accept the idea of unmanned reconnaissance or attack aircraft.

Looks like Assad’s son has more fortitude than many gave him credit. (I wrote that before I read your last paragraph). I think you’re correct about diplomatic language in the Middle East. Hmmm, I wonder if his message to Ahmadinejad was “We no longer have a nuclear facility. You’ve dispersed your research over a wide area with multiple facilities. Do you really want to risk turning your country into a glass factory?” Seriously, a country without that capability doesn’t want to see a rival with one. So it’s in Syria’s interest to press for accommodation with the West.

out for a while - and thanks again for the entire article

By @@

August 7, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Road Scooter:

Where do I get the numbers? GovtTrackUS. From there I go to VoteView which clearly sets McCain off to himself in a pooled graph of Republicans. Obama and Clinton lie just to the left of center in the Democrat’s playground. McCain lies just to the left of center in the Republican’s playground. Reviewing additional sources gives me a broader view. You may, however do as you please when researching.

Considering that McCain has been in the Senate longer, the number of bills, sponsored or co-sponsored will vary from those of short-timer Obama. Obama would appear to be more ambitious in his pursuits. McCain appears to be more cautious.

Did I mention that I think there are far too many bills being worked on? The low-rated Congress has more opportunity to fail in this endeavor, and fail they have. Less quantity and more quality does a good Senator make.

I’m out to the pool. Something shiny beckons me.

By willie

August 7, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Lord yes Im tired of it. It’s like they’re trying to sell a defective, overpriced product with attractive packaging but no useful contents to an under educated, dumbed down market(electorate).

By Peadawg

August 7, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

I think we need to sit down w/ all democrats and explain to them what “fiction” means like a 5 yr old. Peter Pan is fiction…you can’t fly. Harry Potter is fiction…u can’t do spells and magic.

ROBIN HOOD is fiction…you can’t take from the rich and give to the poor.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Whatever, The reason we don’t have ticker tape parades on 5th Ave is because liberals would do everything they could to stop it. Obama has now stated that he would NOT bring them out in 16 months. Are you not up to date on current events? No I did not serve in the National Guard. So what? Obama Hussein never served. So I guess your argument about serving is smashed. Were you fighting in Iraq? Afghanistan? I guess my conclusion for you and every other lib is that you really want to fight the war on terror here in the states. Why else would you want to retreat? Answer this: How is Obama going to prevent or stop another 911? Oh I forgot, he’s God.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

willie, Never thought of Barack Hussein like that. Good call. I will now refer to Obama Hussein as Dell. A piece of crap disguised as the greatest achievement ever. Great packaging with a product that has a shelf life of 15 minutes. Something that falls apart after about 100 days. Sort of like Obama and the democrat party. The packaging copy says it will do amazing things and accomplish difficult tasks. But then, after 100 days it falls apart and has to go in for repairs. That sums up the entire democrat party.

By Anyone but a republican

August 7, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Peadawg, so you’d rather take from the poor (high gas and food prices, subprime mortgages, Fannie and Freddie, Bear Stearns bailouts) and give to the rich. Good thing you’re rich then huh.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

the Iraq Pakistan border is fiction

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, He’s got hieroglyphics on his driver’s license!

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By Spence

August 7, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

There goes good ol Bud Wiser right on cue.

Just like the mainstream media he’s out flapping his jowls about Obama. Bud and the Communist, all day long. Obama, Obama. Nothing but Obama. The ONN, the Obama News Network. All they do is talk about Obama then complain and whine about Obama being over-exposed.

Hey Commie, do you ever say anything original? You got busted yesterday for faking a post, here you are today with more cut and paste trying to disguise it as original. Thank God for Wiki. LMAO!

Congrats Fred! You are the 1000th person to blog here that the only ones injecting race into the campaign are the Democrats!

Bud: OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA. OBAMA.

COMMIE: Obama, Obama Obama

TRAY: Oh I know Bud. Obama Obama Obama.

COMMIE: Exactly Tray, did you hear Obama Obama Obama?

TRAY: Yes Commie, and Obama Muslim Obama Obama Obama Muslim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Redneck Convert

August 7, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Well, maybe this Obama is and maybe he ain’t exposed too much. I ain’t saying. The reason is because if Obama has the power to decide which canadate runs against old Saxby, like Wooten says he does, then he has the power to know which people are saying and thinking what about him.

That’s why me and Jim Earl decided to play it safe. We don’t say nothing about Obama out loud unless a TV or radio is blaring. If Obama gets to be President, I don’t want him taking out after me. He probly has a mike planted on us someplace, just listening to what we say.

So I’m letting other rednecks like jbmlaw and Sister Dusty and @@ run their mouth about Obama. That way, they wind up with a big boot up their bunghole if Obama gets elected. Me, I ain’t saying nothing. Anybody that can just flip a switch and decide who wins a election in GA is just too powerful for me to fool with. I ain’t even telling anybody who I’m voting for, and I hope Obama don’t have a little TV camera on me when I go into the booth.

Have a good day everybody.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, they had to clean the cobwebs out of his mouth to take his temperature.

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By BC

August 7, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

I’ve got 9 years of Bush Fatigue… but not Obama fatigue.

By Fred

August 7, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Spence, who do you think you are, Cynthia Tucker?

By old91A10

August 7, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

My ‘Obama fatigue’ started early and continues to grow. From the beginning of the campaign, I read and continue to read his record.

Then, there is my Pelosi fatigue, Reid fatigue, Dean fatigue, Brazile fatigue, …, DNC FATIGUE.

Now that the primaries are over, I expect that changing my voter registration from the Democratick party to the Republican party will be a real pepper-upper.

Suggesting that the media is the cause of the growing ‘Obama fatigue’ is either delusional or another attempt at misdirection.

“Belief Growing That Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win”

http://rasmussenreports.com/publiccontent/politics/election20082/2008presidentialelection/beliefgrowingthatreportersaretryingtohelpobama_win

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, they pronounced him dead at his medical checkup!

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By whatever

August 7, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Commie, Obama isn’t talking about democrats being weak on national security or Iraq. YOU on the other want to spout off that, “Our soldiers were killed in Iraq by AL QUEDA and Muki Al Sadr’s little army that is supplied with arms by Iran. Get real moron. Real people in America are sick and tired of lazy morons, like you, telling us how bad we are.”

First, al Queda wasn’t even in Iraq until AFTER the war started. So they weren’t the reason we went there in the first place. That was because of those WMDs that we never found, remember. So yeah WE troops don’t want to put our lives on the line for some bogus mission WE were sent on by our commander. Second, you’re the one calling anyone that opposes this war tired, lazy, and un-american I believe is what you called me. YET I SERVED and you DIDN’T!! What gives YOU the right to say this to me, while you were in your parents basement playing X-Box, I was protecting this country. So yeah p*ss off! I thought Republicans supported the troops. Not. And this is why the majority of soldiers will vote for Obama. YOUR party only supports the troops when it moves their agenda. If they really did there would be more funding for the vets, and Bush and McCain would’ve embraced the new GI Bill instead of opposing it. The party’s over and the Republicans are done.

By Kevin

August 7, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

When is the last time you saw the 3 network anchors follow anyone overseas for one week? Has that ever happenned? I can’t remember it happenning for a world changing event even much less for a campaign. That speaks volumes for the networks’ bias. On a separate note, it is telling to hear Paris Hilton and others on this message board ridiculing McCain just for being old. Only foolish people scoff at the wisdom and experience that comes with age and instead regard their peers as the best source for advice and leadership.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Spence, My apologies to you. I keep forgetting that you were analized in prison. All those dongs up the behind must have really “jogged” your brain a bit.

By getalife "whiners"

August 7, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

“Pakistan’s ruling coalition announced it will seek the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf on grounds that he has “eroded the trust of the nation” and weakened the country over his 8-year rule.”

Now that is a good idea for w.

By GOPs got to go

August 7, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Personally I suffer Wooten,Budweiser,Managment,Communist and Dusty Fatigue.

By V-Dog 85

August 7, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

@@ & Paul,

Do really think there’s anything the U.S. could do — short of regime change in Tehran — to stop Syria from being an Iranian satellite? How likely, then, that we could get Asad to debilitate Hezbollah?

Isn’t it more likely that we sent a military commander to caution Syria to stay out of the next fight or else come out on the losing end, to show Asad selected intelligence proving that Iran is rattling a wooden sabre? Even to show Asad that we possess definitive proof of their own, immediately current possession of Russian-enabled, Chinese-enabled, Iranian- and Iraqi-enabled nukes? The simple mesage being: “Stay out of this next one or face an existential threat from the most powerful military on Earth”?

RW (t.o.),

Your remarks of last evening concerning @@ were below the belt, and beneath a fine mind.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Here are a few topics for y’all to chew on….

Hayes: Iraqis Destroyed Their Own Country ‘Far Worse Than Any Damage We Did During The War’

Jobless claims hit six-year high.

McCain’s “shifting rhetoric” on whether or not he’d raise payroll taxes to fund Social Security “has entangled even some surrogates.” But Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said he “didn’t go nuts the way some other conservatives did” over McCain’s confusion because “he’s been reassured by the senator’s aides.”

Bolton: Regime Change In Iran ‘Would Lead To Greater Stability In The Region’

Boehner At Home Golfing While House Colleagues Conduct Oil Drilling Protest On Capitol Hill

Beck: Batman vindicates Bush’s ‘conservative values on the war on terror.’

Suskind: Sources of WH forgery claim now under pressure to deny it David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Wednesday August 6, 2008 Author Ron Suskind says his sources are under “enormous pressure” to change their stories after revealing to him that the Bush administration had ordered the CIA to forge a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence connecting Iraq to the 9/11 hijackers………………….Suskind told NBC’s Meredith Vieira on Wednesday morning, “It’s interesting. … Rob Richer talked to me, and actually other reporters too, yesterday morning. He was fine, he’d gotten the book Monday night, read it. And then something happened yesterday afternoon.” “It’s one of these instances where you’ve got a few people whose testimony could mean the impeachment, ostensibly, of the president,” Suskind explained. “It’s enormous pressure on both men.” ……………….. Suskind insisted to Vieira, however, that “I’m actually not concerned,” telling her, “I’ve spent a lot of time with them. Their interviews are taped. … They talked to me at length, hour after hour … and all of that is on the record.”

McCain campaign director made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling out Ohio jobs…The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported on Wednesday that Washington lobbyist Rick Davis, now McCain’s top campaign adviser, made hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees lobbying Congress to allow the 2003 deal in which Deutsche Post bought Airborne Express to form DHL’s U.S.

“The price [McCain] paid for his party’s nomination has been to reverse himself on position after position,” Obama told a crowd of more than 1,000 at a high school gym in Elkhart. “That doesn’t meet my definition of a maverick. You can’t be a maverick when politically it’s important for you but not a maverick when it doesn’t work for you.”

McCain negative ad strategy not playing well with key national and state media

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

whatever, Keep telling yourself that. No, you didn’t actually serve. I’m sure you signed up because you wanted extra money to put in to your double wide trailer. You didn’t think you’d actually have to do any work in a war. By the way, you never answered my question. Did you serve in Iraq or Afghanistan? I can say whatever I want to say. Honestly, I don’t believe you served anything but hamburgers at Macdonalds. So suck on that!

By Bud Wiser

August 7, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

No one has ever said that Democrats are bad people.

You are just stupid people.

By Claudia

August 7, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

No one knows how to be President until they are President.

By Blind Homer

August 7, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the really inane thread on Iraq, the sovereign nation (which it most definitely is not). The hate America first crowd always refers to the war by saying “we invaded a sovereign nation”, as if that is somehow more heinous than invading a terrtory or non-sovereign nation. Most of them are sovereign nations, until they’re invaded. Iraq isn’t in control of their destiny or free to establish the military junta or theocracy of their choice, so they aren’t sovereign. But the truth is we invaded a dictatorial state that supported terrorists. Why not just say that and leave out the sovereign nonsense?

By Claudia

August 7, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

No one knows how to be President until they are President.

By lava

August 7, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC John Mccain is famous for being captured….a weak soldier indeed. John Mccain is so old that when he manages to stand up and walk,his family gives him a pum pum…… John Mccain is so old,he needs a double dosage of viagra….

By Brian

August 7, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

I am fatiqued from Mccain getting a free pass for his numerous miscues.

By willie

August 7, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

GMAN- I think it’s pretty clear what is REALLY old around here…this mindless age discrimination crap you keep harping on! Enough already…unless of course you are trying to drive people away from this novice,Obama,and over to the more experienced McCain. Im not crazy about either of them, but I’d sooner go with the experienced pro than the untested and wild rookie.

By lava

August 7, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

You are just stupid people thats way better than being Ignorant and Stupid at the same time…… When is the last time you saw the 3 network anchors follow anyone overseas for one week? last happened during the Kennedy era,ur demise is near…2 or so mnths to go………….

By RoadScholar

August 7, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

@@: Thanks for the response. While McCain has been in the Senate longer, what is his track record under the same years as Obama?

I will also look up this years voting results (How many made) I had heard that Obama’s attendance was bad, but McCain had a much worse attendance rate. Who’s doing the peoples’ business? Leading the debate?

This election is about leadership, consensus building, and inclusion. Something which has been missing the past 7 years.

By lava

August 7, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Jojn Mccain’s campaing speeches are so insipid,i was listening to one yesterday,it seems the attendees do so more out of respect for the ex-prisoner than for his delivery,eloquence or substance.He will go on for 10 minutes,on a monolgue,with noone clapping their hands.And the only clap you hear is when the speech is finaly over. What a way to campaign and win votes!!!!

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

At the rate The Dunce is going Europe may start experiencing the fatigue factor.

The event, taking place on the evening of September 2 in Geneva, Switzerland will be split into two parts: a reception and a dinner. According to Obama’s National Finance Committee, tickets for the reception where Clooney will speak are going for $1,000, followed by a dinner at the home of NFC member Charles Adams for $10,000 a plate. Space for the dinner is limited to 75 guests.

Does anybody think he’s really dumb enough to leave his convention and rather than capitalize by taking his convention bounce straight to American battleground states he’ll double down on his image as a euroweenie celebraflake? I do, but maybe he’s got some handlers with more sense and I expect to find this little jaunt under the bus in short order.

Look at this!

Although next months fundraiser is taking place overseas, the campaign specified only U.S. Citizens with a passport will be allowed to contribute to the campaign.

This is the same campaign that took nearly 30 grand from two Palis living in Gaza, violating both the residency and limit laws, so pardon me if I don’t believe the campaign has the credibility to make that statement.

By Pat

August 7, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

It’s about time for Obama fatigue. He’s been shoved down our throats for months by the mainstream media. I hope people are finally seeing the truth about the Obamessiah.
http://www.cafepress.com/NObamaforPres
http://www.cafepress.com/DefiningChange

By Hillbilly Deluxe

August 7, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

I for one will be glad when November has come and gone. This perpetual campaign thing is mind numbing.

By fred

August 7, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Personally, I’m excited about and Obama presidency and a filibuster-proof democrat majority. The American people will finally learn the true meaning of a “bad” economy once we get the biggest nanny government and highest taxes in history. Then we will get true dose of Obama/Liberal fatigue. Go OBAMA!!!!

By Steve

August 7, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

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Q: Do you suffer Obama fatigue?

A: YES ! ! !

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By Bud Wiser

August 7, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

You have to excuse GMAN. He is a retard with access to a computer. And he will not excuse himself for being so stupid either, because he is too stupid to realize he’s stupid. I suspect he has latent tendencies also which have yet to be exposed, but that is part of what makes him such a good Democrat - intolerant, stupid, and gay.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

The jokes write themselves: Miami - A bus carrying U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman was involved in a collision after leaving Local 10 on Wednesday. Lieberman was traveling in presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s bus, the “Straight Talk Express,” when it collided with a van at the intersection of 54th Street and Biscayne Boulevard.

Did it still have that Obama bumper sticker on it?….Saw that picture yesterday.

By Spence

August 7, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Look how addicted to Obama you people are!

Welcome RW and Pat! We’re all having a blast blogging about Obama in the Obama is over-exposed thread!

Golly gosh everyone, Obama sure is over-exposed!

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

V-Dog,

Whatever

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey! That was pretty easy. No wonder The Dunce uses it. Next time he gets a question from the media like he FINALLY did yesterday he can break out the talk to the hand cause these humongous ears ain’t listening.

By whatever

August 7, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know double wides existed in the middle of Alpharetta, Commie. While you were playing war on your X-Box, I was doing two tours in Afghanistan in a real war. You little kids are so funny. You may not believed I served, which is a complete disrespect to someone who fought to protect your a**, but WE KNOW you didn’t.

1175th Transportation Company, Tennessee Army National Guard. Look it up.

You d*ck!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

(CBS) Barack Obama leads John McCain 45 percent to 39 percent in the latest CBS News poll. Despite Obama’s highly-publicized foreign trip and McCain’s recent high-profile advertisements, the findings are unchanged since a CBS News/New York Times poll released last month. The percentage of undecided voters - 13 percent - also remains steady.

By getalife "whiners"

August 7, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

“In a tough year like this, Democrats could probably have defeated Republican John McCain with a flawed, but seasoned candidate like Hillary Clinton. But long-suffering liberals convinced their party to go with a messiah rather than a dependable nominee ” and thereby they probably will get neither.”

Freaking libs.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

McCain Surrogates Cannot Name One Energy Accomplishment

By JackLeg

August 7, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

No, the more people find out about Osama, I mean Obama the better. Every time he opens his mouth, or his wife opens her mouth, his pole numbers drop. I love it, bring on more.

By lava

August 7, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

intolerant, look who is intolerant Budweiserboughtbeercompany

By Spence

August 7, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Step right up folks! Get them while they are hot!

Thanks for the 2 links Pat! Hey guys! You too can get your anti-Obama t-shirt right here on the Obama is over-exposed blog! There’s not a better way to claim a candidate is over exposed! Buy a T-shirt with an anti-Obama message! Who needs a billboard!

Just follow Pat’s 12:38 link!

Over exposed????? Cover up with an anti-Obama t-shirt!

By lava

August 7, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

liberals convinced their party to go with a messiah rather than a dependable nominee thats where we foiled u and ur Hannity crew…a Hillary candidacy would have brought out all of u,ur peodophilia crazed-psyseudo preachers,the corrupt mafia-Vatican,ur rats and cobwebs to vote for Mccain….we flipped it and brought out the Messiah,King Obama instead….

By Thrash

August 7, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

The only thing that makes me sick is that neither presidential candidate is qualified or fit for the job. This is the best we can do America? 300 Million people and all we can trot out is an empty suit Stalinist and a tired geriatric. We might as well draw straws.

By Famuan

August 7, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Sorry Wooten…but your obsessed hatred of Obama (as evidenced by your complete ignoring of the other candidate) is proof that you aren’t suffering from Obama fatigue whatsoever. In fact, he keeps you up at night doesn’t he? LOL You are just another one that believes ” a white man is supposed to run this country” - that’s your mentality and you can’t be bothered to hide it because you are so completely enthralled with how your “world” is changing. Just retire and become the grumpy old man you are destined to be that talks about the good ole days when “the blacks knew their place”.

By Fred

August 7, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

A CBS poll? CBS still wants me to believe those GWB/National Guard Word docs weren’t faked.

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

Speaking of overexposed empty suits in the Dhimmicrat(ic) Party. Remember the two America’s guy? Talk about going straight from overexposed to Claude Rains.

With two weeks before their national convention, several prominent Democrats are saying Edwards must publicly address anonymously sourced National Enquirer stories that claim he had an affair with a campaign worker and fathered her baby.

By colonel nathan r. jessup

August 7, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I noticed where the doofy republican congress who had many MOONS to pass an energy bill when they had the majority but chose not to do so…Are now grandstanding! Even parading out the disgraced ex-speaker ol NEWT ..And, the old hag from N.C. Virginia Fox (GAG ME WITH A SPOON) Then there is Mr. Anger Management Christopher Shays, and then Adam Putz-man….Good God what a crew of misfits…SHIP OF FOOLS?

By Devastator

August 7, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

There is more talk about the media coverage of Obama than Obama.

60-70% of Obama coverage is about Obama coverage.

Republicans are being told how to think.

By Do Nothing Dim-O-crat

August 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

By Edward

August 7, 2008 8:25 AM

I’m fatigued of right-wing pundits desperately trying to manufacture anything negative,..

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes moron, we never hear from you left wing liberal uber pundit moonbats about how the economy today is like living in the Great Depression, gas prices are high because of Cheney, not voting for or even saying something negative about Obama or his policies means you are a racist, we lost Iraq, blah yadda schmadda. What an idiot.

Don’t look now, but I believe Detroit and Atlanta and DC are in competition with each other to see who can have a bigger record of corrupt DEMOCRAT mayors.

By Inspector Clouseau

August 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

COLONEL…And, What is a NEWT?

Oh…A salamander or commonly known as a LIZARD!

How apropos…..Newt the lizard Gingrich!

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”

That was his uplifting response to a 7 year old that asked him why he wanted to be President.

Since Mr. Hope and Change always has a reference to “what we used to be” in his supposedly unique vision for our future, shouldn’t he tell us what point in our past he wants to return our future to?

Put it in a video and call it Barack and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

By Do Nothing Dim-O-crat

August 7, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Oh, well, here’s a Dim-O-crat who’s at least doing something. Didn’t this woman, the smartest in the world I believe, say she wasn’t going to seek out her name for nomination? What a great entertaining election year! We have a dufus from the far left throwing a fit because of a backlash of a statement he made about us all using a tire gauge. Like, uuhhhh, what’s that thingie you say? Being an arrogant holier than thou liberal is getting tiring to America, too (Kerry anyone?).

Now we have a woman on the uberleft who ran a complete failure of an election campaign who wants back in on the action.<./a> This is incredible to watch and highly entertaining.

By Hillary2012

August 7, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Obama overexposure has been going on for a loong time now. So has the kid gloves the media treats him with. It’s discusting and everyone is tired of it.

Journalism in America has sunk to a new low. All journalists are nothing more than political propoganda merchants these days. Noone asks the truly tough questions or looks for the real truth. They spin and apologise for their chosen canidate. It happens on both sides of the isle.

However the reason Obama is overexposed and not McCain is simply because most journalists are far left wing democrats.

If journalists had done their jobs from the beginning Obama never would have won the nomination. Hillary should be the nominee.

By Shawny

August 7, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Like these.

The only one more exposed today than Obama is Brett Fav-re-uh

By j holz

August 7, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

do you suffer WOOTEN fatigue negativity bores me and reaching for reasons to oppose something having to do with REAL CHANGE are just beyond your ken just hang it up…

By hotlanta

August 7, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Excuse me. Did you say the same thing when O.J. Simpson was being blasted across the news 24/7. You mean the media is actually tired of SAYING GOOD THINGS about a BLACK MAN. This is a first.

By hotlanta

August 7, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Excuse me. Did you say the same thing when O.J. Simpson was being blasted across the news 24/7. You mean the media is actually tired of SAYING GOOD THINGS about a BLACK MAN. This is a first.

By shelly

August 7, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

i’m burned out on obama - please make him go away! far far away to a distant galaxy!

By Shawny

August 7, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Let’s expose him some more: Stanford econ professor proclaims, Obamanomics recipe for recession

By KenS67

August 7, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I’m sick of this whole election cycle.

We should do what the Brit’s do. They disolve parliment and then have elections in SIX WEEKS!!!

And they can only spend a certain amount of money (I think its 10% of what the job pays) to try to get elected.

This years election cycle started in January of 2007. That’s over 1 1/2 years ago and we still have 3 months until the election.

And you wonder why people are tired of this crap.

By Shawny

August 7, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

What has HE done? Does anybody know

By Brett

August 7, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

“Journalism in America has sunk to a new low. All journalists are nothing more than political propoganda merchants these days. Noone asks the truly tough questions or looks for the real truth. They spin and apologise for their chosen canidate. It happens on both sides of the isle.”

They used to call it ‘advocacy journalism’, it started in hippie rags like the Village Voice and Creative Loafing and was universally discouraged in journalism schools. But that was before colleges became a hotbed of leftists hiding from the real world and now it’s the norm in mainstream reporting. That goes for Fox News too, but they were as much a response to the movement as they were a cause. True journalism is dead.

By Shawny

August 7, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

And from the land of fruits and nuts, floppin like a fish on oil, now that it is polls well

By Tray

August 7, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

…and remember people:

Obama won’t be the first black president, he’ll be the first mixed race president!!

He’s half white. So why does the media keep saying ‘first black’??

I guess for the most part the media must be stupid!

And for those who think McCain can’t speak without first having someone write his speeches…That couldn’t possibly be the same reason that Obama won’t accept the additional town hall challenges.

Have you even seen ANY video of Obama being questioned by a reporter?? There are so many ‘uhs’ in his tak that it looks like he’s trying to get a signal from some advisor on how to answer! It’s ridiculous!

By BOEXPOSE

August 7, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Quote Dreams of My Father:

“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.”

Quote Audacity of Hope:

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

That sums up a Barack Obama who should alarm any intelligent person Mr. Wooten.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he walked into an antique store and they kept him!

Beck: Batman vindicates Bush’s ‘conservative values on the war on terror.’ LMAO Ol’ Glenny is really looking for that pony in that 8 year old pile of $H1T!

Bud Wiser & The GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By KenS67

August 7, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

I’m sick of this whole election cycle.

We should do what the Brit’s do. They disolve parliment and then have elections in SIX WEEKS!!!

And they can only spend a certain amount of money (I think its 10% of what the job pays) to try to get elected.

This years election cycle started in January of 2007. That’s over 1 1/2 years ago and we still have 3 months until the election.

And you wonder why people are tired of this crap.

By rightytighty

August 7, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Obama fatigue?

The progressive media is pushing a scarecrow! An empty suit filled with straw that is Barack Hussein Obama!! How could anyone fatigue from watching progressive straws being pulled out one by one??

Heck, I’m having a blast!!!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Exxon/McCain 08

By lacuda

August 7, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Hillary2012 what tough questions do u want to hear asked of Obama,that Mccain has been asked already?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

According to NBC News, the U.S. and Iraq are “close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010“:

The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later, two Iraqi officials said Thursday.

A U.S. official in Washington acknowledged progress has been made on the timelines for a U.S. departure but offered no firm date. Another U.S. official strongly suggested the 2010 date may be too ambitious. A timetable is part of a security agreement being negotiated by U.S. and Iraqi officials.

And senior U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington told NBC News that any agreement on withdrawing American forces would not likely include a “specific timetable” but be based on “security conditions at the time.”

On Tuesday, President Bush dismissed Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki’s recent endorsement of a withdrawal timeline saying, “I talk to him all the time, and that’s not what I heard.”

By Abomi Nation

August 7, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Obama increases his lead over McCain, according to Gallup daily tracking.

Congrats McCain fans on your one day of fist pumping. Reality though rears its ugly head. Hey you still have your Monday memories though, right? I mean they were tied for one whole day! No one, and I mean no one can take that away from you!

Obama…46%

McCain 43%

By Rob

August 7, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

I hate em both with a passion.

I am going to p** off everyone by voting Libertarian…again!

SCREW YOU REPUBLICANS! You nominated an neo-con idiot!

SCREW YOU DEMOCRATS! You nominated a socialist!

NONE OF THE ABOVE ‘08!!!!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, the candles cost more than his last birthday cake!

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, when he goes to a restaurant he doesn’t get a menu, he gets an estimate!

The GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By Drew

August 7, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

46%-43%. Wow, such a commanding lead for the Messiah.

Seeing as that’s still within the margin of error, that means it’s even. Woot!

By CJ

August 7, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

I suffer from old white man fatigue… Bush, McCain, Wooten…

(I’m young and white) :)

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

This just in… John McCain is still breathing on his own but just barely. Mirror-under-the-nose tests confirm it!

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By ron

August 7, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon,Retired people get to be so busy that it’s hard to get an afternoon off to write here. I am definitely over politiced.I am also quite a bit over Obamaed.Enough already.Every news source ,barring none,that I have read for the last six months is so enamored with this guy that I think he’s running for God,not President.He has been de facto elected by the media.Wooten lives off him.I don’t know what Limbaugh is doing as I can’t stand to listen to the druggie,but I can imagine. I did like the tire inflating story.I just saw an ad for A combination flashlight and tire pressure guage.Just imagine being able to check your tire pressure after dark.Wonder if Obama has one? My tires are inflated correctly ,by the way.It saves me gas and tread wear.It really won’t cut the oil consumption of the U.S. by 3% though.

By Hans

August 7, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Does that polling include the Berlin concert-goers vote?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

A Muslim separatist group in China has made a new video threat against the Beijing Olympics, warning Muslims to keep their children away from the games, a US group that monitors extremists said Thursday.

Make no mistake that I want no harm to befall the Olympic Games but if it should, do you think the Chinese would F around with these POS terrorists, like we have?

We’d have to get out of the way of all the bombs falling on them.

Start with Pakistan, dudes.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Hamas/Obama-08

Stalin/Obama-08

By Philly's Finest

August 7, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC @ 11:04

Why else has Barrack Hussein not talked about his troop reduction? Or as Americans call it, retreat.

I guess Republicans are putting their tails between their legs and ‘retreating’ since Bush is about to strike a deal with Iraq to have ALL troops out by 2010. So none of you republican slime punks will have to worry about Obama retreating since Bush is doing it already.

Republicans- The Cut and Run Party.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Remember the roughly $300,000 that Hess oil execs dumped into the RNC-McCain campaign coffers around the time of his flip on offshore drilling? Turns out two high-ranking McCain campaign officials were paid lobbyists for Hess oil for years, and one still may be.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

How out of touch is Barack Obama? He’s so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point; Rush Limbaugh is having a field day; and the Republican National Committee is sending tire gauges labeled “Barack Obama’s Energy Plan” to Washington reporters. But who’s really out of touch? The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030. We use about 20 million bbl. per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. In other words: Obama is right.

*Folks in Minnesota are selling pieces of the collapsed bridge and calling it the Pawlenty Infratsructure Plan!

By Gorge McBainainjanety

August 7, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

It’s just common sense that the biggest rears pump the most poo. That’s why the leftist vermin on Thinking Right make it the messiest blog on the Web.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Philly’s Finest, I think you’ve had one too many cheese steaks shoved up your arse. I’m not a republican. I just can not stand democrats. Understand? Oh, by the way, all of your sports teams suck! Can’t wait until the Cubs send your crappy baseball team packing.

By Hank

August 7, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Sorry, I’m so late to the party here, but if you’d asked me I would’ve told you about the TV in my company’s lobby. They keep it on CNN and every time I walk by it, it’s ‘Obama Speaks to Teachers’, Obama Meets with his VP Committee’, ‘Obama goes on a Picnic With His Kids’, ‘Obama Responds to Ludacris Song’… etc. etc. etc. Finally one day, I saw a report on McCain and it was about his regularly-scheduled skin cancer test… “Breaking News: McCain has Band-Aid on Face’ or something like that. Everybody just needs to go out to lunch for awhile. But then we’d just get a report about Obama’s lunch entree. Geez.

By Abomi Nation

August 7, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

No Drew it is not within the margin of error, try doing a little research.

It also dispels all the McCain supporters that were crowing about McCains great comeback just 3 days ago. Go back and read some of the blog entries from Jims “McCain revives campaign with scrappy smarts blog”

“Buh-bye barry,”

“alright, i’m getting the popcorn and watching people excuses for Obama. let the fun begin.”

“Finally America is coming to its senses”

“The polls show that the people finally realize that he is a post turtle.”

Where’s the backlash from the trip abroad all of you were crowing about? Where’s the over-exposer backlash? Where is that McCain comeback?

Where’s the popcorn?

By Midori

August 7, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

look at all the flying monkey howl!!

Scream monkeys!!!

scream!!!!!!!!

By Tray

August 7, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, I’d like a link to the Bush administration about their ‘oil production increase’. I realize your entire statement is a copy and paste and not original, so i would like you to find that research, as i have provided all with the links to Obama’s campaign being funded by terrorist muslims in the gaza strip.

He accepted $30,000 from them, who lied about where the donation came from-a made up city here in GA!

I’d rather McCain be elected even though oil companies are in his pockets, at leat it’s not the terrorists!!!

By All Hogwash

August 7, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

I’m fatigued of reading all of the blogs above, particularly those of the Obama Zealots that think the man can walk on water. He’s a man, not a God, and he isn’t much of one of those. I’m almost glad to hear that ditzy Paris “I’m hot” Hilton has humourously declared her candidacy for our highest office. She has no qualifications, but then neither does Barack..ack…ack Obama. Give us all a break and stop talking about either of them.

By Peadawg

August 7, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Abomi Nation:

I think the popcorn comment was me. I get the popcorn out everyday on these blogs and watch people defend democracks and Obama. It’s probably the best comedy I’ve ever seen.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

When Obama panders, he panders big-time. Witness his proposed “emergency energy rebate” that — on the heels of this year’s $600 per taxpayer stimulus package rebate sent to taxpayers this year — promises additional $500 checks for American workers or $1,000 per family “as soon as this fall.”

Last month, Michelle Obama said of the $600 stimulus rebate checks: “You’re getting $600 — what can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”

Why, that is not thee Mrs. Dimwit that I knew.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Midori, Calling people monkeys is racist. You’re a racist.

By Philly's Finest

August 7, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

I like how you avoided the comment and retorted to childish banter. If you’re not a republican, then why do you only bash on candidate? McCain has a long record that you can read over; if you can read.

Cubs= 100 yrs= No World Series

Get over it.

By Fred

August 7, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

All politicians are over exposed, overpaid and underworked.

By Abomi Nation

August 7, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

“Make no mistake that I want no harm to befall the Olympic Games but if it should, do you think the Chinese would F around with these POS terrorists, like we have?”

You mean like the deal US Christian terrorist Eric Robert Rudolf got when he bombed our own Atlanta Olympics? Remember the sweetheart deal he got? Life in jail, no death penalty.

The guy that blew up an abortion clinic and gay bar too, all in the name of Jesus.

By @@

August 7, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

MSNBC says al-Maliki’s timeframe for withdrawal is 2011. Didn’t say what month though.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Philly’s Finest, I bash Obama Hussein because I don’t want an islamic terrorist socialist appeaser in office.

Phillies=28 years=No world series. Cubs=3 world series. Phillies=1 world series.

Suck on it.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, I’d like a link to the Bush administration about their ‘oil production increase’. I realize your entire statement is a copy and paste and not original, so i would like you to find that research, as i have provided all with the links to Obama’s campaign being funded by terrorist muslims in the gaza strip.

He accepted $30,000 from them, who lied about where the donation came from-a made up city here in GA!

I’d rather McCain be elected even though oil companies are in his pockets, at leat it’s not the terrorists!!!

By Philly's Finest

August 7, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

I like how you avoided the comment and retorted to childish banter. If you’re not a republican, then why do you only bash on candidate? McCain has a long record that you can read over; if you can read.

Cubs= 100 yrs= No World Series

Get over it.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Tray

What?

By ButtHead

August 7, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Obama has promised to bring the price of drugs down, COCAINE for everybody. NOBAMA 08

By Ron

August 7, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Yesterday I read that the Liason between Obama and the Muslim voters quit after only a few days on the job.Seems he didn’t want to become a distraction before the election.Some nefarious rumor about ties to less than stellar organizations.For the Liason ,that is,not Obama.Any further info?

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Peed-on-dowg,

I LMAO constantly reading the post of those of you that insist John McCain is still able to breathe without assistance and stay awake long enough to read a paragraph.

GOP - Taking Pride In Being Ignorant!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Abomi Nation, I must have missed that one. Can’t remember him blowing up stuff in the name of Jesus. Can you please provide some documented evidence that he did blow up stuff in the name of Jesus? Did he scream “Hail Jesus” like Muslims scream “Allah Ackbar?”

By @@

August 7, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Who’s Midori talking to? Out of The Dim Blue she comes up with this:

look at all the flying monkey howl!!

Scream monkeys!!!

scream!!!!!!!!

You’re Ozd Midori……..very Ozd.

Do you see a therapist?

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Dear got to go @ 12:22, isn’t there someone you are forgetting?

Anwar drilling brings criminal charges. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121805409639017877.html?mod=opinionmaincommentaries

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, My car manual said that if I keep my tires inflated I could save on gas. Should my owners manual be nominated for president? Are you really that dumb to believe that what Obama Hussien said is brilliant?

By Midori

August 7, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Communist AJC,

have dinner on me

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Midori, What was your blue typeface supposed to do. Where was it supposed to send me? Midori, you need some Midol.

By Peadawg

August 7, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

GMAN:

how old are you? making fun of someone’s nickname on a blog…wow, grow up. you probably aren’t even old enough to realize Obama isn’t a good candidate.

By @@

August 7, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

V-Dog 85 @ 12:23:

Your proposed scenario is viable as well.

I luv exploring the possibilities. They’re what keeps my life moving forward.

If not, I would be a democrat. The tunnel would be closed. There would be no light at the end of………

A dark and dreary existence.

By Peadawg

August 7, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

GMAN

does ur mommy and daddy know you’re using their computer?

By Ga Values

August 7, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

SAXBY & his Iowa Ethanol Special Interest screw Georgia taxpayers & Industry

E.P.A. Won’t Ease Requirements for Ethanol in Gas

By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: August 7, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency rejected on Thursday a request to cut the quota for the use of ethanol in cars, concluding, for the time being, that the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.

The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said that the mandate was “strengthening our nation’s energy security and supporting American farming communities,” and that it was not causing “severe harm to the economy or the environment.”

The effect of the decision on fuel and food markets is hard to determine. Recently, high energy prices have led to even more ethanol production than the quota required. On the other hand, rising corn prices made some ethanol operations unprofitable, especially as oil prices started to fall.

So ending the quota might not have reduced the use of ethanol, but it might decline even with the quotas remaining in place. Still, the debate is fraught with symbolism — as a sign of unease over government intervention in the energy and food markets, with all the unintended consequences that ensue. The decision is an indication that Washington is unwilling to retreat from a policy that is very popular among grain farmers, if not among ranchers.

Companies that use corn to fatten livestock and poultry, along with others in the food business, had called for lifting the requirements, saying that their costs were rising as millions of pounds of corn were diverted from feeding livestock to fueling cars. Farmers argued that the jump in corn prices was driven not so much by the demand for ethanol as by growing demand for grain-fed meat around the world, and their own higher costs for diesel fuel.

Governor Rick Perry of Texas, a leading cattle state as well as a bastion of the oil business, made the request in late April, and the E.P.A. said it received 15,000 comments during its three-month-long review.

The rules that the E.P.A. reconsidered on Thursday set a floor for ethanol use, not a ceiling, and not even the floor was firm, because under the rules, the E.P.A. could issue a waiver if the requirement became “onerous.”

Renewable fuel use in 2004 was 3.5 billion gallons, according to the E.P.A. — mostly ethanol, which is a form of alcohol, but including some biodiesel, which contains oil from crops. The goal for this year had been 5.4 billion gallons but in December, with the price of oil soaring, Congress raised the renewables quota to 9 billion gallons for this year, and laid out a schedule of annual increases that would bring it to 11.1 billion gallons in 2009. In 2022, the quota would be 36 billion gallons.

The agency has not completed an analysis of the effect of the mandate as the quota rises.

That target requires not only more ethanol but new cars and new filling station equipment, because nationally, gasoline consumption of fuel for cars, vans, sport utility vehicles and motorcycles is only in the range of 140 billion gallons, and ordinary cars can burn ethanol in blends with gasoline no higher than 10 percent. But ethanol is part of the auto industry’s long-term strategy; General Motors plans that by 2012, half the vehicles it builds will be able to accept blends of up to 85 percent ethanol.

The long-term hope, backed up with generous government incentives, is to make motor fuel from “cellulosic,” or non-food, sources. Private companies are feverishly pursuing technologies for using wood chips, wheat straw, waste plastic and even municipal garbage to make ethanol and other liquid vehicle fuels. But none of these is commercial at the moment.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Simple question, i want to see the proof that the bush administration is saying new drilling will only produce 200,000 barrels. you provided a news article link, not a link to their research or other ‘proven’ research.

I bet the US could out produce any other nation in oil exports if they just put their mind to it.

You see images of Saudi Sheiks driving in gold plated Benz’s, the ‘world island’ and ‘palm tree island’ experiments-all that costs billions. Where do they get those billions-OIL.

Wouldn’t the US be better off making billions selling oil everywhere??

How can gas in Saudi Arabia be 0.70 cents (US$)a gallon?? Because they drill there!!

If you want gas to drop to $2 or less, you’d support drilling to!

(instead of the “tire gauge energy plan”-yeah, that sounds reliable)

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Tray, You’re right. We could be selling oil and making billions. I just read about a small town in North Dakota. Some residents are now millionaires because their homes were sitting on top of a gold mine. That means oil for all of you uneducated people on this blog.

By @@

August 7, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Communist AJC:

Midori’s link was a peeled banana.

I’m not sure what she meant when she said “have it on her”.

With Midori, you just never know.

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Oh yes, as we always get to witness that history begins anew each morning for the moonbat(ic)s® and they trot out that Time magazine story despite the fatal flaws in the study behind the time 200,000 barrel scenario and the absurd notion that everybody in the country is driving an out of tune 55 Chevy on flat tires.

That’s right: the EIA, writing in early 2007, assumed that oil prices would decline from their 2006 peak; that in 2008, the price of crude oil would be around $60 a barrel; that it would continue to decline until around 2013 to a low of about $50 a barrel; and that the price would then gradually increase to a little under $60 a barrel by 2030. Those were the assumptions on which EIA concluded that it would not be economically profitable to get most OCS oil out of the ground.

Earth to Michael Grunwald: that isn’t what happened. The EIA was wrong. Currently crude oil is at around $120 per barrel, not $60. At the elevated prices we are now experiencing and are expected to experience in the future, vastly greater quantities of OCS oil (or ANWR oil, or shale oil) can profitably be exploited, and those resources can make a vastly greater contribution to our economic well-being.

Not to mention that the dunce said it would be equivalent to ALL the oil they were talking about drilling.

By Midori

August 7, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

sorry about that Communist

better?

don’t forget to floss after meals.

By truthman

August 7, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Iraqis, U.S. close to troop timetable:

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

Gosh, it looks like the Bushitters are taking a cue from future president Barack HUSSEIN Obama and agreeing to a troop withdrawal timetable.

Talk about cutting a running!

Bwahahahahaha!!!

By David L

August 7, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Obama is a great speaker, for someone who says absolutely nothing. I just am as enthused about this election as I would be about letting a donkey kick me in the face. Just remember every time you hear Obama speak, Hitler gave great speeches too.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Midori, So you are a racist. What I find funny is the fact that people like you scream racism when someone puts a monkey on a tshirt about obama, yet you post monkeys on a blog and call people a monkey. Shows how ignorant you really are. I’m sure all 300 lbs of you loves to take bananas up your rear in your double wide.

By @@

August 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

WHERE ARE YOU? This is the second day you’ve been missing. Hillary, you, and her other supporters are planning a political coup aren’tcha?

Give us the details buddy.

By Miss Congeniality

August 7, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Commie,

You are off the deep end today, dude. Your last sentence at 4:09 was quite rude, even for you…

As for everyone else, wow! did the weekend start early? you guys are all hopped up on something. (even more than normal) (exceptions for @@, Mrs. G, JMB - You all are doing fine!)

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

You, too, can be a mindless, rewarded McCain campaign troll….Ideally, a presidential campaign would inspire supporters to defend the candidate’s ideas, promote his/her agenda, and advance his/her policies. But the McCain campaign has already been suffering from an “enthusiasm gap,” so it appears his supporters need a little incentive to say nice things about the presumptive Republican nominee……

Anybody we know…I wonder?

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Miss Congeniality, Then don’t read my posts. Deep end? Sometimes I need to make a point. I think I just did.

By Out of Curiosity.....

August 7, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

What’s up with Commie’s fascination and constant mentioning of things being probed into someone’s a*******hole?

Anybody got a theory?

By Miss Congeniality

August 7, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

oh, and RW too. Forgot about you, sorry.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Jack Cafferty on McCain: “This maverick stuff is a lot of hooey”…CAFFERTY: John McCain was opposed to the Bush tax cuts until he decided he was for them. John McCain was opposed to offshore drilling before he decided he was for it. John McCain, in his years in the Senate, has voted with the Bush administration between 90 and 95 percent of the time. So this…this maverick stuff is a lot of hooey. And for him to claim that he’s some sort of Washington outsider who has — who’s divorced from the Bush administration is the ultimate hypocrisy.
If any Republican can overcome the wretched stain of eight years of George Bush and win the White House, we deserve whatever bad things will happen to us.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

MORE ON THAT McCAIN TROLL THING

Only Six People Take Up McCain’s Spambot Offer

By Miss Congeniality

August 7, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Sure Commie,

You made a great point. What was it again? I lost it somewhere in your childish woman-bashing and trashy jokes.

By Midori

August 7, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

TAX AND SPEND!!

TAX AND SPEND!!!

By @@

August 7, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

I remember RE saying something about “the one country that needs to be controlled by its’ military is Pakistan.”

Ultimately, the situation in Pakistan has reached the point where the army can no longer hold the state together, and needs the assistance of the civilian forces — which are weak to begin with. The dysfunctional nature of civilian institutions — which previously worked to the army’s advantage — now threatens the integrity of the state since the army has weakened. How the events play out in terms of the move to impeach Musharraf, especially the role of the army, will be critical indicators of Pakistan’s future trajectory.

Welcome Senator Obama!

He did promise the leftists that he’d go after Al Qaeda in Pakistan didn’t he? Make that a maybe not after all.

In his meeting with Gilani he pretty much assured them he’d let them handle it. Pakistan was not at liberty to divulge the details at the request of Senator Obama.

His spurs would look tarnished….rusted - no jingle to his swagger. A broken cowpoke.

By BS detector

August 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

That 4:09 is about the best you can expect from commie, its his very own “original” thought. He’s much better when he’s stealing things from other blogs trying to pass them off as his own, like he did yesterday. He’s much better when he pretends to be smart with other people’s work. How about some more “original” 3rd grade humor Commie? Wow.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Impressive.

By Drew

August 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Umm, Gallup Poll has a 2% margin of error. For the mathematically challenged here, that means the swing could be 45%-44% for McCain. Neither one has a majority, and we’re still more that 12 weeks away from the election, so basically, it’s even.

Not bad for a ‘wrinkly old guy’ vs. The Chosen One.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

how’s that “surge” workin’ out, in terms of, you know, getting us the #@*% out of there, already? No elections. No oil law. No SOFA. What’d they call those things, way back when? Benchmarks? Incredibly, the Republicans not only never left the Pretzeldent’s side, they went and nominated another of these nuts that continues to insist, in the face of these three stinging failures, that “the surge worked.” And that all we need is a hundred more years of such success.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Jack Cafferty is a hack. Why else would they hide him in the closet until Wolf Blitzer shows up? Besides, isn’t China going to kill him?

Miss Congeniality, Boo hoo. Go back to your feminist support group. Hag.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Despite prosecutors’ pleas, Gitmo jury gives bin Laden driver only 5 1/2 years….making him eligible for release in just five months

Poor wingnuts….all that perfectly good torture gone to waste!

By Miss Congeniality

August 7, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Sorry to bother you Commie,

Thought I was talking to someone with a brain.

By woodie

August 7, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

No doubt about it Obama is a media darling. That’s how he defeated Clinton and he is well on the way to defeating McCain in the same manner. So far the smear strategies of the Republican party have all failed to dent the shiny veneer that is Obama. The smear attempts are going to backfire and the Republicans are going to get trampled if they aren’t careful. They have to get back to basics. Start using common sense again. In other words Rove’s shannigans aren’t going to work on Obama.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

John McCain repeated a blatant lie in a Town Hall meeting in Lima, Ohio televised live by CNN. McCain stated; “I’m proud to stand before you to tell you that I have never asked for, or received a single pork barrel project for my State. I’m proud of it!” ……The Chicago Tribune wrote an editorial about McCAIN’S duplicity on this subject in March of 2006, titled “Perfuming the Barnyard.”….Arizona Sen. John McCain is sponsoring two interesting pieces of legislation. One mounts a direct assault on congressional earmarks, those little morsels of home district pork that lawmakers slip into unrelated spending bills. The other steers $10 million to the University of Arizona to launch an academic center honoring the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist…. McCain pushed for, and got, $14.3 million for Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base inserted into the just-completed fiscal 2004 military construction appropriations conference report. The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested…and so much more!

So many lies and liars….

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

BS detector, Still confused about your plagiarism accusation. Never claimed it was mine. If so, then you should be all over Mrs. Godzilla. Several of her postings have material without a copyright. Can you please get me another coffee? While your at it, go scrub the men’s bathroom. It’s filthy.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Robert Adam Mosbacher, Sr. is currently the McCain campaign’s general chairman. He served as the Secretary of Commerce under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1992. He seems to currently get very little media attention despite his prominant role. Perhaps that should change. Thanks to a Lexis-Nexis search I have discovered that Mr. Mosbacher played a large role in approving the export of sensitive technology to the regime of Saddam Hussein just before his regime invaded Kuwait. Mosbacher’s department then provided falsified data on exports to Iraq in order to cover up the sales.

By Frederick Douglass

August 7, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

A pattern is emerging I think, let’s see, Tiger dominates golf, and all of a sudden golf lovers think he’s over exposed. Now Obama seems to have captured the attention of a few people who track what’s going on in politics, an “Lo and Behold” he’s getting too much pub. Wouldn’t it be easier to just admit that you don’t feel comfortable with people that don’t look like you receiving accolades, and leave it at that.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Um, the whole reason these terrorists are getting trials is because morons like you think that they are innocent victims. If were up to right wingers, terrorists like that would be shot. Not tried. I side with the right wingers on this issue. The only torture I see is your crappy CNN and PMSNBC postings. Go sell stupid somewhere else.

Miss Congeniality, Brain, yes. Tolerance towards liberals, NO!

By @@

August 7, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

MORE ON THAT McCAIN TROLL THING

Mrs. Godshilla:

You may not have noticed this, but conservatives aren’t prone to heaping undulation on a politician.

I can barely find enough time to post here.

You?

By Grant Parker

August 7, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

I am not suffering Obama fatigue half as much as I am suffering fatigue from Wooten’s relentless drumbeat in favor of school vouchers.

By Midori

August 7, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

I am not suffering Obama fatigue half as much as I am suffering fatigue from Wooten’s relentless drumbeat in favor of school vouchers.

LOL!!!!

Give that man a cigar!!!!

By Grant Parker

August 7, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

I am not suffering Obama fatigue half as much as I am suffering fatigue from Wooten’s relentless drumbeat in favor of school vouchers.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

So they convicted Osama’s driver! Not for acts of terror, but for supporting Al Queda. Is that anything like they way Bush wanted Americans to “Support” the troops with bumper stickers and shopping at the malls. What did that driver do, abuse the coupons from a Macy’s One Day sale? Did he decorate his bumper with a GFY CHENEY bumper sticker. Hell, I’ve got one of those. And yes, I abuse Macy’s one day sale coupons.

This is winning the war on terror for which we’ve spent our defense wad?

I think we can safely say that Bush cut and run from the 911 conspirators in afghanistan like the surrender monkey he truly is, and invented a war for which we’re now so financially committed that we cant counter AL Queda militarily in any war on terror.

McCain and his stupid surge is working, though, so who cares if AL Queda is free and the Chinese are building a vast navy.

This is another reason why conservatism should be relegated to the ash heap of history along with the Bush Administration.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

McCain has stopped holding news conferences

I REALLY REALLY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE DEBATES!

By @@

August 7, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Pardoan!

Adulation!

Adulation………Undulation. Based on what I’ve witnessed, it’s impossible to tell the difference.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, You can’t wait for the debates? Obama is not the greatest debater around. I mean, Hillary ran circles around him in most of the debates. Her only problem came when ABC ganged up on her. Mccain is better without a script. Obama Hussien is not.

By getalife

August 7, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

w trashed the Constitution for obl’s driver to serve 6 months and time served.

Feel safer?

Geez.

By @@

August 7, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Give that man a cigar!!!!

Mr. Parker:

Proceed with caution.

With Midori you just never know.

She’s a huge Bill Clinton fan.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

CommunistAJC 11:52

[[No I did not serve in the National Guard. So what? Obama Hussein never served. ]]

Some months back people were propounding that Pres Bush was not qualified to be a Pres taking us to war as he’d never “really” served – Air Guard didn’t count. Some wondered if we could bring that argument up in the next election cycle and if it would be a disqualifier for the next candidate(s).

Guess not, on both counts. Which is fine. That’s what advisors and good judgment are for.

GMAN

I keep tellin’ ya’ – you could make a fortune with Leno! And if he rejects ‘em, there’s always Letterman.

V-Dog 85 12:23

I think it’s in our interest to have a counterweight, rather than a proxy, regarding Iran. And if it’s a counterweight that’s willing to weaken Hezbollah as an avenue to strengthening its influence, so much the better. We’re discussing fatigue – I think in some ways Syria’s experiencing fatigue. Stability goes hand in hand with economic growth. Hezbollah’s a force for instability. IF Syria wants rapprochement with Israel, Hezbollah is expendable. So yes, if Israel were to strike Hezbollah (more and more likely) then there very well could be a “don’t interfere” message. But I would hope it would be a message of “less discuss how destroying Hezbollah will be win-win for everyone.”

Mrs. Godzilla 12:23

I saw Suskind while he was doing the book tour promotion on the early shows. He wasn’t quite as definite - his responses were along the lines of “well, even though there are multiple possibilities, I think my version prevailed.”

The CIA Director (Tenet) said he’s way off – never contacted him.

RW-(the original)

Lousy game. Scorewise. It got 5-2 and I decided it was a good night for The Cheyenne Social Club.

BTW – looking at photos of Obama and Pres Bush (who has obvious ears?) I wondered if Mike L would keep the ears thing going with Obama. You know, Pres Bush’s ears are actually quite close, so proportionally I figured Obama would have airplane wings. But just to be sure I went through the archives. August – no ‘toons making fun of Obama. July – kept clicking back. Plenty of Pres Bush with biggy ears. Plenty of McCain. But no Obama – whatsamatter, nothing to make fun of? Finally, July 9 – there Obama was. Ears are pretty pronounced. Nothing like Pres Bush’s, though.

Your 1:18 It’s beginning to look like Edwards was the one seriously over-exposed…

Mrs. Godzilla 12:50

So 45 and 39 is 84. That’s a big 16 left over. What do you think is going to sway them?

Getalife 12:51

I was thinking about that while I was out! LOL! Thinking “I wonder what the battle would look like right now with Hillary in it? Speculation – we’ll never know.”

Mrs. Godzilla 12:52

[[McCain Surrogates Cannot Name One Energy Accomplishment]]

How ‘bout: “He uses lots and lots and lots less energy than Al Gore?”

KenS67 2:13

Dissolving Congress? Now there’s a possibility –

Mrs. Godzilla 4:46

Well, for once you should’ve linked to ThinkPrograss rather than DailyKos. Those DailyKossers left this part out:

[[UPDATE: On Nov. 17, 2003, Roll Call posted a “correction” to its original article about the Luke Air Force Base request: The Nov. 6 article “McCain Breaks Own Pork Rule” inaccurately stated that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) violated his own rules against so-called “pork barrel” spending. The Senate Parliamentarian’s office maintains that the provision was properly authorized in the Senate-passed version of the fiscal 2004 Defense authorization bill and did not need to be signed by the president to be considered “authorized,” as the article suggested. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction, told Roll Call that McCain never specifically asked her to put the $14.3 million project for Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base into the fiscal 2004 military construction bill.]]

Midori 4:56 [[LOL!!!! Give that man a cigar!!!!]]

Great. Here we go with the recycled Monica jokes -

By Brad

August 7, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Not at all…in fact, I’m looking forward to 8 years and 5 months of Obama energy.

By @@

August 7, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

Great. Here we go with the recycled Monica jokes

and I happily recycle Paulo.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Paul, Don’t understand your point. I never said it was wrong that Obama never served. What’s his face was throwing his service in my face by saying I never served. One thing you missed was Bush being governor and actually running businesses before being president. Obama has only been in charge of community activities. Whatever that means.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla 4:58

[[McCain has stopped holding news conferences

I REALLY REALLY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE DEBATES!]]

I don’t think Obama’s press access is much better. BTW - we coulda’ had debates right now… initially Obama thought it was a fine idea… handlers, handlers…

@@

who recycled the… oh, never mind…

By Jerry Carpenter

August 7, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Yes, I suffer from Obama fatigue. It puzzles me how people gush about the man. People use to gush about babies getting the first tooth or something like that. Now celebrity gushing has a hold on America, not only with Obama but anyone who gets his 15 seconds of fame.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

By truthman August 7, 2008 4:02 PM Iraqis, U.S. close to troop timetable: Gosh, it looks like the Bushitters are taking a cue from future president Barack HUSSEIN Obama and agreeing to a troop withdrawal timetable.

Dhimwit: You can do arithmetic, right?

The officials, who spoke separately on condition of anonymity because the talks are ongoing, said all U.S. troops would leave Iraq “around 2013.”

Gee, what’s 2009 plus 16 months?

2013?

The schedule could be amended if both sides agree - a face-saving escape clause that would extend the presence of U.S. forces if security conditions warrant it.

Huh, that sure doesn’t sound like it’s unconditional like Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid is saying.

We win.

By Midori

August 7, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

Paul,

today a friend brought me some ribs he had cooked himself. they were very, very good, but I still gave him your rub and brine recipes :)

you have the best recipes!!!!!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

Communist AJC

I wasn’t getting into it between you and another. Some time back one of the points made over and over was Pres Bush never “really” served and never saw combat, so how can he be a Commander in Chief and get us in a war and on and on. Especially given he was running against Kerry, who //really/ served and saw combat and even got wounded three times (three Purple Hearts). So some asked, well golly, does that mean no one who hasn’t “really” served or been in war should be disqualified from running?

So the subtlety now is that Obama never served, never saw combat. And that argument, somehow, is not made by his supporters. As it was by Kerry supporters. Must be different supporters.

Always thought it a silly argument, anyway -

By Midori

August 7, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

HA HA!! Obama is recommending TIRE GAUGES!!!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Midori

So glad you enjoy them. One of the first cooking shows I ever watched was The Frugal Gourmet with Jeff Smith, PBS out of Washington state. I still have his first cookbook - quite small, plastic spiral bound spine. He approached cooking from the standpoint of appreciating other cultures and understanding them through their food. I really liked him.

Remember the cardinal rule when you cook for someone: If they really like the food, it’s because of a great cook. If they don’t like the food, it’s because of a lousy recipe!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Look at these suckas-ses in the media with their noses buried completely up Thee Dimwit’s rear end:

Few people are more likely to need a holiday than Barack Obama. Yet as he heads off on Friday for his first week-long break since he launched his presidential bid 19 months ago, Mr Obama is dogged by rising angst about his campaign’s direction.

Oh yeah?:

With a month to go between now and the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama has quit the scene for a respite on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands - who’ve already held their primary, in case you were wondering if there was a campaign angle to the stop.

Think of all the times these POS in the media whined and moaned about Bushie taking a “vacation,” as though the president doesn’t get briefings or make decisions while he’s away.

Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificent will be thrashing about in his beddie, clutching his pillow in fear of Bruno crashing his coronation.

Game’s over punk, we done figured long ago what a moron you really are.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

Paul, That conversation didn’t involve me. I could care less if someone served. I vote for someone who shares my ideals. Kerry? Come on. That guy wounded himself and if the Swift Boats lied then you’d think he’d would have exposed them 4 years later. It’s like OJ saying that the killer is still out there. All BS. Kerrys problem is that he is really stupid. I mean, that man doomed his own campaign with his statements and images of wind surfing. Plus, the guy made worse grades than Bush did.

By Midori

August 7, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

meanwhile, at McCain Campaign Headquarters….

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

Found this on Chicago Sun Times. Looks like Obama Hussien is linked to terrorist. Better change his middle name quickly.

Barack Obama’s Muslim outreach director quits after questions about fundamentalist imam.

WASHINGTON — An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam.

Mazen Asbahi started as the campaign’s outreach coordinator on July 26, and he resigned in a letter to the campaign Monday. He said he was stepping down ‘‘to avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change.’’

Asbahi, an associate at the Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin, said in his letter that he served on the board of the Dow Jones Islamic Index Fund for a few weeks, but resigned ‘‘as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board.’’

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the other board member during Asbahi’s tenure in 2000 was Jamal Said, imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois. The Justice Department named Said as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fundraisers.

The case ended in a mistrial. The newspaper said the connections were first exposed by an Internet newsletter.

Obama, who is a Christian, has been fighting false Internet rumors that he is a Muslim. Asbahi, in a post on the Obama campaign blog last week, said that had created ‘‘added sensitivities’’ between the campaign and the Muslim community, and he encouraged Muslims and Arab-Americans to get involved.

The campaign previously conducted outreach to the community through its interfaith outreach program and the Muslim American outreach desk at the Democratic Party. Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said the campaign is searching for a new volunteer coordinator to replace Asbahi.

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter, said Asbahi was a victim of Internet rumors.

‘‘This incident just shows how Islamophobic the political climate is right now,’’ Walid said. ‘‘Baseless smears about a Muslim with a very good reputation was used to marginalize not only him but the community from the political process.

‘‘If someone like Mr. Asbahi can’t be vetted to work for the Obama campaign, then who can?’’

By V-Dog 85

August 7, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Paul,

That’s an intriguing analysis of the Syrian visit; but I doubt it was so strictly diplomatic, because Iran has Syria on a choke-collar and short leash, and were the dog to bite Hezbollah the master would choke the beast.

Still, it’s an intriguing alternative intrigue; a fascinating “possibility”, as @@ puts it. (Wordup, something pressing: Taplin’s got a whole world of possibilities…)

By @@

August 7, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

It’s just becoming all too ridiculous.

OBlahMa’s hedging his heroes.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Holy politicking, Batman. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have unmasked their favorite pop culture icons, including superheroes, with McCain favoring Batman and Obama choosing Spider-Man and Batman.

Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, said he chose Spider-Man and Batman because “they have some inner turmoil.” McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona, said Batman is a quiet hero who pursues justice “against insurmountable odds.”

So what’s with Barack and turmoil? He doesn’t handle it very well.

Barack Obama — Inner Tube Man

By Midori

August 7, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

the new axis of evil….

Plus, the guy made worse grades than Bush did.

How do these wingnut lies and talking points stay so fresh after sitting on the shelf for so long?

do you guys use Reynolds Wrap or something?

By Paul

August 7, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Communist AJC

Well, I took the same position with Kerry and his medals I did with Pres Bush and the “awol” charges: in each case, the awards/service/discharges were vetted by the military chain of command. Which means if there was falsification there would be numerous officers in the chain who could be court-martialed. So in these cases I trust the services to get it right.

But the fallout we’re seeing from the Swiftboat episode now is the rapid, next-day counterpunch to any charges. Neither candidate is going to let their opponent, or their surrogates, define them again.

Midori 5:42

A couple thoughts about this tire gauge thing: I don’t believe it was a central premise of an energy speech. I believe a young lady asked “what can I do” and he answered with actions that were within her control. He told her something she may not have known that she could take action on. Kind of like when I made the point about not exceeding the speed limit and burning gas. One person told me that a lot of people don’t automatically think that driving 75 burns more gas than driving 65.

The other point is, so much for the argument Dems want to do everything for everyone else. Sen Obama told the young lady: you can contribute. And if everyone did just little things, the cumulative effect can be great.

Rather the same as people who say “so what if my vehicle averages 12 mpg?” It’s not just that one vehicle does, it’s millions that do. And taken together thats millions of barrels of oil - and a continuation of our involvement in the Middle East.

Another rule of thumb: when one candidate ridicules the remarks of his opponent, always look at the issue they are NOT addressing. And ask why they aren’t.

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

The Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, was sent to jail today for violating travel restrictions that are a condition of his being free on bond as he awaits trial on eight counts of perjury and other felonies. The travel restrictions were tightened after Mayor Kilpatrick was accused of assaulting a sheriff’s deputy who served a subpoena on him. Mayor Kilpatrick is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In May 2007, Kilpatrick received this glowing endorsement from Barack Obama, who called him a “great mayor” who is doing an “outstanding job.” My favorite part is where Obama says that Kilpatrick “is going to be doing astounding things for many years to come:”

Now ordinarily one would think he could just toss his friend the “great Mayor” to the ever more crowded underside of that bus with his terrorist pals, assorted spiritual advisers that hate white folks and America, his wife apparently but there are rumers she’s escaped. Read on at the link to see why it might be a little tougher on this one.

So are we staying open again tonight?

By RW-(the original)

August 7, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

I guess that’s a no to that last question.

By Goldie

August 8, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Hey Wooten — why dontcha write a column about America’s “Republican fatigue”, and how approximately 70% of the country is ready to dump all of you incompetents boobs from office?

Maybe because the Republicans have taken America beyond “fatigue” and are now just plain disgusted with all of you, especially McBush wanting to just continue the same ole incompetence and ineffective ways of governing???

By Bud Wiser

August 9, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

“By BS detector August 8, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this More thefts. Bud Wiser at 8:22 and Peadawg at 9:05. Sure is sad. How insecure these folks must be to make people think they are something they are not. Bud, Pea and Commie you are all thieves. At least AJC/mgt and Godzilla mark their long winded posts to let people know they aren’t posting original material.”

You stupid prick. It was just a joke that I never claimed was mine to begin with. Only morons with severe feelings of persecution look for stuff, like you’ve never repeated a funny joke in your lifetime? Idiot libs are always so ‘offended’ by the entire universe, but you provide nothing of value for yourself.

Get off your high horse, you overstuffed crap pile, and come up with something smart to say, which, by the way, I doubt that you can. You stupid liberals have to be told what to say anyway by his High Massa Howard Dean, the DNC, Huffington Pus, or Daily Kos. Yeah Mrs G. provides links to her stupidity because she is too ignorant to come up with something creative on her own, and everybody knows it, and scrolls right past her. How many times were you raped by the other boys in the high school gym shower anyway, that lead you to the life of becoming another no personality dimwitted Democrat like her?

You want something original? I will restate something I wrote the other day that did not quite elicit the response that I had hoped……. I asserted that blacks vote solely on color, because they are too stupid or lazy to look at the whole Obama persona.

For you BS detector (moron of the week):

“By Bud Wiser August 7, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this I don’t think we see enough of Obama. Every time he opens his mouth he is changing a previously stated position on something. America sees him as the fraud that he is. The really good part down the road is when that ego maniacal idiot will accidentally say his name as Osama instead of Obma. You retards that support him are a bunch of mindless loons, or black, without the capacity to look at the man beyond his color. McCain could paint on some black-face ala Al Jolson and get 40% of the black vote with his picture alone.”

No one denied it. They cannot. Count on it.

Now BS detector, get your 350 pound carcass back in that free electric wheelchair at WalMart that is reserved for real handicapped people, not fat greasy slobs with a bad comb-over like yourself, and go use your food stamps to buy some more Cheetos, root beer and Twinkies, by the case like you usually do.

By ERVIN

August 12, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

too all you right wing nuts think before you act world war 3 could be around the coner and we have no one to fight!!!you guys always talk crap as long as some other peoples kids do the fighting not yours bush and MCsane two nuts that did no fighting loves too talk lots of crap!!!

By Kay

February 8, 2009 3:30 PM | Link to this

Just wondering why are all Fox New Guys so fat and flabby looking (Hannit) (Beck) is is because they eat too much are are they just FAT headed?