Thinking Right

By Goldie

August 28, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Hating Bush is fine for partisans, but America’s more balanced.

Mr. Wooten— you’ll find out in November just how angry 70% of America is with ALL of the Repug Party’s failed policies. McCain simply represents more of the same failed policies, and like the big dawg stated last night: “Thanks, but no thanks!”

By dittohead

August 28, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

By Goldie

August 28, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Oh, and Wooten— I also meant to add above ^^ that I agree that America may be “more balanced” as you put it, but your Party’s extremist policies are no reflection of what mainstream Americans want in our government. Your Party needs to re-focus on what you want to present to America for the future, and it needs to be 180 degrees different from what you’ve demonstrated so far.

By dittohead

August 28, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

By Robby

August 28, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

I think the Obama campaign must be doing Grade A Columbian Blow to be doing this asinine Invesco Field/Temple of Obama spectacle. I’m honestly thinking that they’re thinking after Obama gives his acceptance speech the skies will part and he will ascend into heaven and sit at the left hand of God the Father Almighty. I’m sure the McCain campaign will have tons of fun with this ill-advised stunt. If you thought Bush landing on that aircraft carrier a few years ago was campy you ain’t seen nothing yet! This will be political fodder for days!

By findog

August 28, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Jim, and the regulars…

What I found to be the most idiotic moment was Senator Clinton’s roll call motion. First she insists that the pledged delegate numbers be registered into the minutes; and then nominate by acclimation. Now there is some mental jujitsu for you.

It is too bad that it seams that a convention is declared a failure if you do not tear down your opponent instead of building up your brand. At least Senator McCain is going to step on the bounce with his VP announcement instead of some half-cocked terrorism announcement…

By Reaity Check

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

Hey Jim, Since when has ANYBODY on the right gave a d* about balance?

By PresObama

August 28, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Ahhh….it will be so lovely to see all of you eat crow in November. It’s okay….we know you are all sad and this is your only way to express that emotion. Sticks and Stones for sure!!!

By hotlanta

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

It’s amazing now Cindy is in Georgia. I was ROTFLAMO. If I hear one more time how gracious Hiliary HANDED Obama the nomination I am gonna scream. Looking at the notes at the bottom on the screen she had no other choice. She should have done that months ago. It is just amazing how her supporters are wating on another GROWN person to tell them what to go. No wonder McCain are going after those votes. They are zombies and have no clue as to what is going on.

By hotlanta

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

It’s amazing now Cindy is in Georgia. I was ROTFLAMO. If I hear one more time how gracious Hiliary HANDED Obama the nomination I am gonna scream. Looking at the notes at the bottom on the screen she had no other choice. She should have done that months ago. It is just amazing how her supporters are wating on another GROWN person to tell them what to go. No wonder McCain are going after those votes. They are zombies and have no clue as to what is going on.

By Captain Freedom

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

THE Captain agrees with Jim, of course. The Dummycrats have tried and failed to put a dent in the Promethean Armor of St John, an armor forged in the crucible of five years in a Hanoi prison, years when pampered Ivy League legacy boys were dodging their National Guard commitments and snorting cheap blow off the bums of Mexican h00kers.

But this is the God’s Truth…those five years made Mr Cindy McCain an indestructible Iron Man. For just like the cartoon character, Mr Cindy McCain was captured by ENEMIES OF FREEDOM (hi Dusty) and only survived because of his strong character, a willingness to sign false confessions, and an almost superhuman skill at metallurgy and electrical engineering. And that is why he has a wife who own many houses. For that, my friends, is the American Dream.

Yes, Our St John of Our Lady Cindy is the living embodiment of the American Dream. Here is a man who was a PRISONER OF WAR (though he really doesn’t like to mention it, no really, it’s just that LIE-berals make him, all the time, without cease), who returned home with no career prospects to find a broken wife and suffering a clear case of PTSD-inspired promiscuity and near-alcoholism. But through grit and determination, Our St John dumped his fat @$$ first wife and married the Virgin Cindy, whose money and family connections catapulted Our Hero to the pinnacle of American political success. Talk about earning it!! He was a POW.

Now many leftists and hariy-pitted feminazis like to dwell on the way St John discarded his first wife like a used condom in a highway rest stop. But Our St John is not like all those other Republicans who toss aside their starter wives as soon as their udders begin to sag. And even though his dismissal of the near crippled first Mrs McCain is eerily similar to the way St Newt dumped the first Mrs Gingrich, it is not at all the same. For THE Captain believes that any man whose only avenue for sexual relief for 5 and half years is with GI Joe in a BAMBOO PRISON CAGE has the right to treat women any damned way he pleases. And so it is with Our Lady Cindy, who he lovingly refers to as the rhymes-with-bunt.

Now sure, Mr Cindy McCain comes off as prickly, cantankerous, and occasionally off-kilter in a way that makes you want to hide any kitchen utensil sharper than the plastic spoon he uses to eat his nightly cream of wheat while he watches Matlock. Well, you would be irrationally volatile, too, IF YOU HAD BEEN A POW. Well, he was one, though he doesn’t like to share that.

Sure, he occasionally forgets where certain insignificant countries appear on the map; and he often reacts to world events as though he has a case of Tourettes; and granted, it often seems as if he does not understand economic issues beyond the level of a 3rd grade lemonade entrepeneur. But all this is forgiven, BECAUSE HE WAS A POW. And you weren’t. Case closed.

So go ahead, you nancy boys of the Dummycrat party — keep on telling the nation that St John is a carbon copy of Our Leader Bush (though without the intellectual sophistication) and that his plans (such that they are) are incoherent and destined to disastrous failure. For while all this is undoubtedly true, the fact is that JOHN McCAIN WAS A POW OMFG LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE.

By Captain Freedom

August 28, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

findog @ 8:33: At least Senator McCain is going to step on the bounce with his VP announcement…

Yes, THE Captain can feel that Joe-mentum already. Nothing sizzles like the electrifying oration of Senator Quisling.

By DD

August 28, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

How about an article about how your boy Bush has run our country into a ditch, Wooten.

By Dex

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

Goldie you must run you own polling service, 70% of Americans you say, must be more of that liberal math that says government can provide you everything you want in life at no cost….how many of those 70% in line at the welfare office are register to vote anyway..

By Common Sense

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

Is their any interest in Mr. McClain VP pick?

You know experience does count only when you have good judgement!

It is not good judgement to leave your wife when she has been in a car accident.

It is not good judgement to vote for a war and not truly know the potential dangers to our troops!

Sending our troops to war with-out body armor is not good judgement!

It is not good judgement to state I really do not know much about the economy.

It is not good judgement to state in Jan 08, the economy is strong fundamentally!

You want credit for the surge even though most of we know paying the Sunnis and the Shia not to shoot at our troops, plus AL-SADR telling his followers to stop has been the true reason.

It is not good judgement to state I will get Bin Laden this year. When you have done nothing in the past 6 years to try and bring Bin-Laden to justice!

It is not good judgement to go on vacation with Charles Keating then have your wife and father-in law do business as Mr. Keating is about to cause the downfall of our savings and loan institutions!

By Tuffy, The Airborne Soldier

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

What’s funny is the shrillness of the “Temple” reference. You Reduds are really cracking the American people up. McLame can’t fill a barn, has to go where people already are to have a photo op and his message is Bush-ism, Rove-ism, & Cheney-esque all rolled into a bumbling former maverick. When the electorate sees what once was a poltician not bound to the staus quo (McCain of 2000), to what is the GOP candidate today, one wonders how far the mighty have fallen. McCain IS another 4 years of Bush, just under the McCain banner. The same policies and failed diplomacy IS NOT what the electorate wants. Please someone tell us just what the heck his message is. Jim? You got something to say to bolster this honorable ex-pow’s message. I served, I fully respect Sen. McCain’s service, however, what exactly is his plan to win in Iraq? Answer: More of the same. What is his plan to correct the economy? Education? Foreclosures? Jobs? Energy? Fair wages? Racial divide (which is showcased daily here in this column), Diplomacy?

See? You McInsaninites have been so focused on fear and smear that you’ve forgotten the basics of politics…HAVE A MESSAGE?? The Dems are unified which probably scares the snot out of you. What’s more frightening is a lot of Republicans have left your dwindinlg platform and have decided to join the movement to change Washington. You don’t want that to happen, tough. Learn to love your fellow man, from the poorest to the richest and stand shoulder to shoulder. Your ways of just for self and only for the few are over.

GO OBABMA/BIDEN ‘08-‘12

GO HILLARY ‘16-‘20

By CAS

August 28, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Where’s the Maverick spirit that John McCain once was..when you vote with your party line from 90 to 95 per cent of the time in recent votes thats not going against the party but towing the party line..where is the Maverick? Just like Kerry said, before Candidate John McCain debates Obama the Candidate John McCain need to debate Senator/Maverick John McCain. The two are just not the same person anymore. Whatever happen to the Maverick..oh I know, he ran for President..now the Maverick is no more.

By bearcasey

August 28, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

DEAR JIM: Keep it coming! Whistle in the grave yard! Here’s what’s coming on November 4th.

Ready or not, Mr. Obama will be elected President of the United States. The Republican Party will be PUNISHED for inflicting “W” on us for eight years. Bush is the least intelligennt president since Warren G. Harding. Cheney and Rove, the evil twin toads, will have to work on Fox Network. Defense contractors will no longer suck our wealth.

MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPSHARSIN! That very night Belshazzar was slain by his servants!

By lacuda

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

GEORGIA IS IN PLAY……ASK YOURSELF WHY..

KEEP DREAMING WOOTEN……NOVEMBER HERE WE COME……

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

August 28, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I think a couple of 527 ads, one fair and one maybe not, out now, highlight Obama’s dilemma.

The first ad has a dozen Iraq war veterans talking about the obvious success of the “surge” and calling on Obama to acknowledge the success. That is a fair ad, highlighting Obama’s moonbat “the surge failed” position. Everyone except those living in the farthest reaches of leftism recognize the success of the surge, and anyone who was paying attention also knows that McCain (along with Lieberman and a few others) was there long before Bush. Frankly I had my doubts that the “surge” would make any difference, but I don’t have a problem recognizing that I was wrong in my doubts. Obama is cornered by his base-pandering here, and if the ad continues to run he will have to flip-flop again on an issue that will embarrass his base, or he will have to join the rest of America on a no-brainer.

The second ad, probably less fair, ties the start of Obama’s career to William Ayers. It seems to me that Obama has already thrown Ayers under the bus. The reason I do not condemn the ad is that it also highlights a truth even in its deceptions, that Obama has always taken the easiest route on his political decisions, and that in his political area that has always meant radical leftism. Obama condemns Ayers for his mad association with bombers – amusingly the same arguably valid charge the commercial makes against Obama - but not Ayers politics, which are somewhere left of Che Guevara.

I wrote here several months ago that McCain’s allegations against Obama stick because Obama refuses to identify himself. That remains true, as nobody can quote anything Obama has said about policy. He has no plan to curtail the size of government, nor the burdens of regulation. Seemingly his only plan to stimulate the economy is to increase government – put them all on the dole, I suppose. He is weak on terrorists – willing to meet with the worst of the worst without preconditions, slower even than the Bush administration to condemn the Russian invasion of Georgia. So long as he is unwilling to show any principles, people will rightly assume he has none.

By Ga Values

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

If the race in Georgia gets close I’ll vote for McCain if not it’s None of the above, Bob Barr. I like McCain’s fiscal responsibility but he doesn’t appear to be stable enough to be president. Having lived through Carter’s 4 years I can not vote for Obama. How can a country with 300 million people not come up with a better Presidential canidate.

By Goldie

August 28, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

that liberal math that says government can provide you everything you want in life at no cost

Dex @ 8:52 — no, how about a gov’t that actually PAYS for its own programs and policies, instead of the Borrow-N-Spend policies that your Party so dearly loves and thereby continues to bankrupt this great country of ours…

By Devastator

August 28, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Ragnar,

What you and others don’t seem to realize is that it doesn’t matter whether the surge was successful or not. WE SHOULDN’T BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!

Would you want to appreciate a guy who filled your tank up with gas after he carjacked your car? Would you acknowledge someone as a good parent if they sent kids to good schools after they kidnapped them?

The mind is a terrible thing to waste repugnants!

By UNDECIDED

August 28, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

So far on this topic, I’ve seen many ill-informed and grammatically questionable posts attacking our current President, the Republican Party and anyone who might agree with a few of their policies.

I’m not a Republican. And I’m not a Democrat. I’m an American who will be forced in November to choose between the lesser of two seeming evils.

So, for all of you Dems who are so quick to judge and criticize and denigrate the highest office in the land (come on guys, if you can’t respect the man, at least show some respect for the office)….I really, really want someone to tell me why I should vote for Obama.

I don’t know who the guy is. He has virtually no voting record. His past allegiances and close relationships don’t demonstrate to me anything but his ambiguity toward this country.

Please note that I’m not that thrilled about McCain either. But I don’t understand the over-zealous fervor that you seem to feel about Obama.

So, other than the fact that he’s not Bush - exactly what are you voting for?

By Eli

August 28, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

First Nobama cheapened our Presidential seal with his name, all for his ego gratification. Now a Greek temple to be worshiped in. Nobama has got some real issues..

By Get Real

August 28, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Well if America is so balanced Wooten, tell me why an overwhelming majority are dissatisfied with the job Bush and his boys have done. What you leave out in Clinton’s speech is the laundry list of failures your party has brought upon the American people. And the thing about it, you know he’s THINKING RIGHT! So since you have no foundation to argue against what Clinton and Biden said, you’re forced to parse words and try to ‘make this election a referendum on Obama.’ Isn’t that the way Republicans want it? Even you know how bad ‘the Bushies’ have handled everything from the economy to the war. But you just can’t bring yourself to find any fault with your party Wootie, or any other Republican on this blog for that matter. And for that I have to say, “Thanks, but no thanks!”

By ron

August 28, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Good morning,The Dems have a legitimate candidate in Biden.I wouldn’t vote for him on a bet,but at least he’s legitimate.It’s bad when you have to nominate a VP to shore up your miserable Presidential choice. I’ve lost faith in the country I grew up in.I’ve never seen a time as depressing as this,and I’ve lived through some doozies.

By Dennis

August 28, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

By DD August 28, 2008 8:51 AM “How about an article about how your boy Bush has run our country into a ditch, Wooten.”

Wooten doesn’t have the balls to write that one.

(He’s no Rhonda Chriss Lokeman).

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Devastator

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

Eli,

Kind of like the one George Bush stood in front of in 2004 idiot.

Undecided,

My advice to you is stop watching Fox News. I know the girls are irrestible on there, but stop watching it and expose yourself to other viewpoints for a change and you can make a more educated decision.

Exposure to venues other than just Fox news will provide you with the info you need about his voting record and other related data.

By @@

August 28, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Jim, I’d a givin your column a different title.

Limp Carrots Without Stones Democrats

Just Biden our time ‘til November in October? based on a tidbit I’ve read from “The Shadow CIA.”

It’ll be real………

By Get Real

August 28, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Ragnar, the surge is nothing more than a band-aid on a stab wound. Yes, the surge has decreased violence in Iraq. But the main point of it was so that the Iraqi Parliment could reconcile their differences and come to some political agreement. Which to date still hasn’t happened. Seems like the Iraqis are more interested in sharing their oil-revenue with China and Russia too, being that the dollar isn’t worth crap anymore. Point blank, this war was avoidable and decreasing the violence there still doesn’t overshadow the fact that all of this could’ve been avoided.

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

All hail THE Captain! Your post was a work of art!

By UNDECIDED

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

Devastator, Thanks so much for your intelligently thought out response to my serious question.

First, I’ve never watched Fox news. Don’t watch much of any news. I actually READ many different outlets in order to form my opinions. And second, I couldn’t care less about the “girls on there” as I am a hetero female.

I’ve had much exposure to “other venues” and I have yet to uncover any strong history of an Obama voting record.

So my question stands - what are you voting for? I’ve never heard or read a single reason to vote FOR Obama. Everything has been about voting AGAINST Bush, his administration and his party.

I agree that we need change in this country. Everybody’s touting change. But unless it’s a progressive change - well change isn’t always a good thing.

So please someone tell me what you think Obama will do with the office that warrants your vote.

By ButtHead

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

The more Obama talks the lower his numbers go, so talk away Obama. By the way why won’t he do weekly debates with McCain, like he was asked? RLOL

By GOPs got to go

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

Clinton’s speech was perfection. Now comes the speech by Obama. What a great week for Democrats. Beat that McCain. Now I have to decide if I would rather what McCain’s speech next week or stay with my favorite, Antiques Roadshow. Oh wait I guess that is redundant, both are antiques on a roadshow

By UNDECIDED

August 28, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

I really didn’t mean my question to be so one-sided - so all of you Republicans out there, please tell actual reasons that you’re voting FOR McCain.

By Devastator

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

Undecided,

Fair enough. Then stop over exposing yourself to just right wing sources then. The reason I say that is because they are the only ones who raise Obama’s past associations as if they don’t have any.

Bear in mind, no one can predict the future or guess what someone is going to do when they get in the White House. Two things for you to consider:

Plus he’s pretty cool too.

By dirty harry

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

Tonight it’s going to be a night of decision making!

What to watch on TV…..

I’ve got Oregon State going against Stanford, and being from the great state of Oregon, but graduating from the other state school I may choose this…

Then again .. the Falcons are playing!

and, then again the Braves are playing!

But, then again we’ve got Barak speaking

Decisions, decisions, decisions!

By Devastator

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

ButtHead,

Because McCain is not his boss and he is not obligated to follow his lead.

Any more questions?

By Another question

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

Why won’t Obama appear on The Factor like he promised back in April?

May?

June?

July?

He can’t stand the heat.

He can’t afford close scrutiny.

What a LOSER!

By buster brown

August 28, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

“STICKS and STONES”

Good grief…My belief is that the convention has been to soft on McCain.

Mr. Wooten I’ll bet my house that the republican convention will be twice as nasty, mean spirited, and full of total BS then the democrats.

Think Karl Rove..Think Steve Schmidt, Think Tucker Bounds..Think Jerome Corsi!

They are nothing more than sewer rats, and they can’t wait to bite someone or something!

By Truthifier

August 28, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Words you will never hear from Mr. Wooten: “Hating Hillary Clinton is fine for partisans, but America’s more balanced.”

By Goldie

August 28, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

So my question stands - what are you voting for? I’ve never heard or read a single reason to vote FOR Obama.

Undecided — how about a new way of getting things done in Washington? Electing leaders who want to work TOGETHER in Congress to get results and changes that are needed… and to not simply keep doing the same tactics over and over again, which is defined as true insanity.

The Repugs keep offering the same ole divide-n-conquer tactics to try and get their 51% squeaker votes, thanks to the Rove politics that they admire and that McCain has now employed in his current ambition to be the next prez.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

August 28, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Dear Devastator @ 9:28, and Get Real @ 9:40, “What you and others don’t seem to realize is that it doesn’t matter whether the surge was successful or not.“ and “But the main point of it was so that the Iraqi Parliment could reconcile their differences and come to some political agreement.” You both err, it matters greatly. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121988943962278645.html?mod=opinionmaincommentaries

“Would you want to appreciate a guy who filled your tank up with gas after he carjacked your car? Would you acknowledge someone as a good parent if they sent kids to good schools after they kidnapped them?” Further, I would not appreciate a guy trying to run the country who seemingly was not in touch with reality.

By GOPs got to go

August 28, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Undecided,

I would like to give you my reasons for voting for Obama. I was torn in this decision, I think Hillary would have made an excellent President. I actually went in to the booth intending to vote for Hillary, stood there for at least 5 mins, and left having voted for Obama.

My decision for that was partly because I feel we did not need another political dynasty in the White House, 20 years of Bush’s and Clinton’s would have been just too much for me.

I personally like Obama’s stance on the environment. I think that the key is alternative energy and higher CAFÉ standards (which the present administration has done everything to block). Scientist and engineers should have been working on this problem for the last 30 years, with government grants to do so if necessary. So many of our nation’s problems are linked to our addiction to oil. Drilling for more is not the answer for me. Electric cars that are efficient and long range need to be perfected and produced cheap enough for consumers. We need to start the shift away form our dependence on oil.

I also believe in Universal Healthcare. I have worked in healthcare for 30 years. I have seen the difference in care that a covered patient gets. This might even negatively effect my job and some of my family members jobs, but I hope I am not selfish enough to deny someone of healthcare for my own benefit.

I am tired of the pittance tax-rebates being doled out to quiet the masses, and then the wealthiest few pay less. And I happen to be in the highest tax bracket. I do not mind this, I am blessed to live in America and will pay my fair share. I just want that fair share to go for something positive for my fellow Americans, not a voluntary war chosen by a moronic puppet President and a conflict of interest Vice-President.

I want jobs brought back to America. I am not a xenophobe, I do not mind other races, and do not mind them working here in America. But keep the jobs here in America. If we have to go back to incentives for Business to do that then let’s do it.

I very much want to see the budget of America balanced again. That is how my household lives, you pay cash or you do without until you can. We are mortgaged to Japan and China. Partly to fund Bush’s war and partly because of the rebates.

I want the American President to be respected again. Bush is embarrassing at best.

Obama’s policies, I believe, will bring us more to achieving these goals.

By ATL

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

Keep trying to make yourself feel better Wooten. That skinny black kid is gonna whump some McCain butt.

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

China, Iraq reach $3 billion oil service deal

Five years, $trillions, 4000 lives later. We still don’t get the oil. Not really worth it, huh?

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record

It’s just part of natural cycle, huh, Andi/Andy? Speaking of Andi/Andy, where is our master of dull?

One thing I’ve noticed on these blogs: when confronted with real challenges on the issues, the right are like roaches when you turn the lights on—they run for the woodwork!

By UNDECIDED

August 28, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Thank you Devastator! I appreciate your response.

One thing that does trouble me though IS the past associations and “apparent” ambiguity towards this country. I hear you that the Right Wing sources are the ones digging that up - but I wouldn’t expect Obama supporters to bring out any of the negatives. And to your point, I wholeheartedly agree that everyone has skeletons in their closet.

But Obama’s long association with seemingly radical influences and other early allegiances should be a concern. That’s more of a concern to me, personally, than someone’s marital record, infidelities, or how many “tokes” they took in college or after.

Yes, those things would affect a person’s performance if they were an ongoing issue while the person is in office, but childhood influences are a more deeply ingrained issue in my humble opinion. (i.e. What could potentially hurt our country more?)

And while I don’t believe that being a POW has anything to do with being an effective leader of the free world, I worry about Obama’s lack of experience in the realm of politics and the impossible decisions that the office will demand.

I do really appreciate that Obama is willing to “stand up against the status quo.” I’m just not sure what his next steps will be.

By CommunistAJC

August 28, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Jim, I’ll ask you the same question as I asked Jay Bookman. I’ve heard a lot of rumors that Mccain may very well pick Jeb Bush as his VP. I don’t know how true that may be but it does make sense. What are your thoughts?

Also, I do believe that every lib in the country would have heart attacks at the exact same moment. Oh, and dems, your party is NOT unified. You’ll soon be eating your own words. But then again, you guys/gals/transgendered cats always eat your own words and your own crap.

By GOPs got to go

August 28, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Management, Thank you for leaving the words kool-aid and urinal out of your last post.

By findog

August 28, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

DD at 8:51

As Professor Gingrich put it to his classes when he was Speaker, the left have plenty of outlets for their academic agenda and it need not extend to his classroom. Jim sets the tone of the blog and if you do not wish to participate, well with the Internet-II, you can go find a one that is railing President Bush elsewhere.

Now where were we, oh yes: we are throwing sticks and stones from the comfort of our glass house…

By Helen Crane

August 28, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

We are nailed! Mc Cain is an excellent candidate any other time period but Bush/Cheny made all R’s look like corrupt, self-serving idiots. It is our party’s fault and our problem. Why be bitter. We need to learn from our lessons and hold our own candidates in check so this does not happen again. The party of personal responsibility needs to stop blaming them- we did it to ourselves and to our own country!

By Compassionate Conservative

August 28, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC… people like you are what is wrong with this country… your hate, your venom, your outlandish attacks serve absolutely no purpose. You are an angry sad person and I feel sorry for those near you who must feel the brunt of your bile everyday. I just pray that you get the help you need to defuse your anger before you hurt someone you care about. Seek professional help before it is too late.

By UNDECIDED

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

Thanks Goldie. I agree that all our elected officials should strive harder towards more common goals and issues of their various constituencies. However, the President doesn’t elect our representatives. The President does have to work WITH all the reps, and maybe OBama doesn’t have as much political baggage to overcome…that would be a plus.

By Perkle

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

I think I will just move to another country. I’m not too crazy about McCain but Obama becoming President scares the crap out of me. If the Ms America pageant can have 50 contestants to choose from for the title, why can’t we have more than 2 to choose from for President? I think all politicians are big fat liars but if you do the responsible thing and vote, you have to choose someone.

By Helen Crane

August 28, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

We are nailed! Mc Cain is an excellent candidate any other time period but Bush/Cheny made all R’s look like corrupt, self-serving idiots. It is our party’s fault and our problem. Why be bitter. We need to learn from our lessons and hold our own candidates in check so this does not happen again. The party of personal responsibility needs to stop blaming them- we did it to ourselves and to our own country!

By getalife "whiners"

August 28, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

They are keeping it simple stupid. More of the same or change.

The Clintons were finally loved and honored . They were the stars of this convention.

A hurricane will hit New Orleans on the anniversary of Katrina during the gop convention.

Bad karma for the gop.

The endorsement of the worst president in our history should lead Americans not to vote gop.

Now that is keeping it simple stupid.

By Bob

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

I am one of those voters who is unhappy with President Bush, primarily because he is not doing enough to send invaders (illegal aliens) back home. But I have no choice but to vote for McCain because he and the Democrat controlled Congress will make that and other important concerns worse, not better.

By cream puffed liberal

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

What’s a day in the world of a pansy liberal Dimbat without wetting the bed over Fox News. That gets so old. Grow up you little whiney overgrown babies.

Stories like this do not get old, however:

John McCain’s campaign mocked the massive neoclassical set created for Obama’s speech at 75,000-seat Invesco Field. Some Republicans have dubbed it the “Barackopolis.” The McCain campaign quickly dispatched a memo calling the stage the “Temple of Obama.”

Shucks, they should have hired me for a pit pull on politics against the Dimbat party. I’d have at the very least called it the “Temple of Doom.”

By Soothsayer

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

Helen Crane @10:52:

What wart on my nose? There’s no wart on my nose!

FINALLY! Someone on the right get’s it. Your conservative, unilateral, exclusionary agenda is an hopeless failure. Acceptance is the first part of recovery. FAIR trade instead of FREE trade, fiscal responsibility instead of irresponsibity. Those are some good starting points for the GOP.

By Wee Willy

August 28, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Wait…so what will the Dems ticket be? Obama Bin Biden, you say? Really?

By UNDECIDED

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

Thank you too GOPs! Though I can’t agree with you on support of Hillary - thankfully that is for a future debate. ;)

I can absolutely agree on a more aggressive stance on environmental issues. I confess that I haven’t seen any specifics on Obama’s actual plan. I will have to go look that up.

And I agree that healthcare is a huge issue. Again, I haven’t seen a plan for Universal Healthcare that seems viable. Doesn’t mean it’s not out there, just that I haven’t run across one I can support.

And I wholeheartedly agree with you about keeping/bringing back jobs to our country. I’m tired of financing the economies of so many other countries. Antoher hot issue for me personally is immigration. We are being silently invaded by illegal aliens and I don’t see much effort on the part of anyone to stem the tide. But I won’t hijack the topic today with my feelings about that.

I appreciate your thoughtful reply.

By Soothsayer

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

cream puffed liberal @ 11:01:

Name calling, name calling.

Criticize the set for Obama’s acceptance speach.

Name calling, name calling.

Did I leave anything out? How about ANY MINUTE THING YOUR PARTY IS DOING TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY? Oh, wait, everything’s just fine, isn’t it?

By GOPs got to go

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

Good post Helen,

Sorry about the Parkinson’s Dx.

By lakerat

August 28, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Devastator -

“The gap between rich and poor is widening, not because of work ethic or job performance, but because the rich are being given special treatment” - and just what special treatment is that?

“Plus he’s pretty cool too.” Now that’s a definitive reason to vote for someone!

GOP’s got to Go -

“I am tired of the pittance tax-rebates being doled out to quiet the masses, and then the wealthiest few pay less.” So, just what is Obama’s first issue - to give everyone a $1000 energy rebate.

“I want jobs brought back to America.” How do you do that if you continue to tax the job providers, thus causing them to move operations out of the U.S. due to high taxes on profits.

“Obama’s policies, I believe, will bring us more to achieving these goals.” WHAT policies - he has only be present in the Senate less thatn 6 months for votes - some leadership there!

Goldie -

“how about a new way of getting things done in Washington? Electing leaders who want to work TOGETHER in Congress to get results and changes that are needed” Yeah, the current members of the democratic party led Congress sure work together NOW!

You folks are a trip!

By cream puffed liberal

August 28, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Amen Bob @ 11:01. The interesting thing is watching how the mindless liberal Dimbats are now saying that McInsane is nothing but McBushie II. It’s interesting because these same mindless moonbats had no problems with McInsane when he went up against Bush and the GOP on a lot of key issues. Not a peep out of the moonbats then, and now they are sharpening their filthy dirt-ridden claws. But, like you said, I trust nobody on the mindless left these days which has been hijacked by Marxists, Communists, environmental eco-terrorists, and various other social misfits of ideology. I especially do not trust the Jackass Party when we are full up against a new confrontation with Russia, and make no mistake about it, Putin and the hardliners smell weakness in America, and this election will determine the future course of world stability with Russia. McCain said he sees “KGB” when looking into the eyes of Putin. What did the Dimbats say? I don’t know. They never talk about the situation. Well, they obviously are more concerned about junk science telling us what we can eat and drive and giving haircuts to the homeless. Great priorities, huh?

By CommunistAJC

August 28, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Compassionate Conservative, Go sell stupid somewhere else.

By cream puffed liberal

August 28, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Name calling, name calling.

Oh blow me, toothless. Like you mindless moose tripped liberal Dimbats don’t do that.

ANY MINUTE THING YOUR PARTY IS DOING TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY?

Stop screaming, you mindless moonbat. It’s not like we have heard specifics from the Dimbat Convention - other than taxing the rich and corporations and not drill for our own energy (yeah like THAT will help this nation out).

Go jump off a bridge if you are so miserable. Do us all a flavor, punk.

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

mindless liberal Dimbats mindless moonbats moonbats filthy dirt-ridden claws mindless Marxists, Communists, environmental eco-terrorists social misfits Jackass Dimbats

mindless liberal Dimbats mindless moonbats moonbats filthy dirt-ridden claws mindless Marxists, Communists, environmental eco-terrorists social misfits Jackass Dimbats

mindless liberal Dimbats mindless moonbats moonbats filthy dirt-ridden claws mindless Marxists, Communists, environmental eco-terrorists social misfits Jackass Dimbats

Did I leave anything out?

By Chris Salzmann

August 28, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Lets keep it really simple. It boils down to asking yourself a simple question:

As you look back over the last 8 years, are you satisfied? On balance, are you satisfied and want to continue in this direction?

If you answered YES, then vote for McCain. If your answer is NO, then vote for Obama.

Everything else is fluff and discussing it is a bloody waste of everyone’s time.

By Goldie

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

Communist — where can I buy some of those “McCain/Bush” bumper stickers? That’s a real winning ticket in November for about 30% of America, dontcha think???

By Goldie

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

I can’t for the life of me understand how the Repugs see what’s happening in America and the rest of the world right now, and they want to put another 4 years of the same back in the White House? Why do y’all hate America so much?

By dirty harry

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

Me thinks “AJC/DNC Management” has now become none other then “cream puffed liberal”….

Same metaphors..same name calling … SAME-O…SAME-O!

Wooten need any proof of your sticks and stones theory .. Just read ol CREAM PUFFED LIBERAL’s nonsense!

By INSTANT DEATH TO LIBERALISM

August 28, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

The vile far left half-black black racist surrender monkey Hussein Obama is just as despicable and worthless as the drooling senile anti-semitic hate America narcissist Karter. Hussein Obama pukes up even more vapid treasonous cliches than the average moveyourbowels.org deranged hatepig. And … gloriously LMFAO … STILL the odious Hussein Obama cannot get the full backing of demoNcrats who wisely see it as as a sullen black racist with a sullen blackhatepig of a wife.

Hussein Obama pukes up all kinds of bollux about its “Kansas values”, and how great its white mammy was. As ever Hussein Obama lies like Klinton … its mammy was an atheist, and a typical liberal non-conformist - not exactly your typical “Kansas values” as this excellent article points out:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story

Hussein Obama is racist human scum, with NO political achievments, a laundry list of lies about its wafer thin public record, a laundry list of far left black racist scum, venal and corrupt as its slimy, sleazy house deal with convicted felon Rezko shows us.

By cream puffed liberal

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

Did I leave anything out?

Yeah toothless, go jump off a bridge back from whence ye came, mindless liberal troll.

By Goldie

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

had no problems with McInsane when he went up against Bush and the GOP on a lot of key issues.

Creamed Puff @ 11:13 — so what happened to your “maverick” candidate, who has now resorted to voting against the very bills that he himself has sponsored, just to woo you right-wing extremists into voting for him??? What a cream puff incompetent candidate you have now!

By Soothsayer

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

c p l:

You obviously did not watch the convention last night, nor are you familiar with the Democrat platform.

On the contrary, I am ecstatic. At long last the national embarassment that is the Bush presidency is nearing and end. And the country has the opportunity to effect change from the politics of hate.

You really need to get some help.

PLEASE POST ANY THING ON THIS BLOG THAT SUBSTANTIATES THAT DRILLING WHERE WE ARE NOT NOW DRILING WILL: 1) SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE PRICE OF OIL EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE & 2) SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

In my previous post I have already listed your insults so you don’t have to bother posting them again.

By Common Sense

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

To all those who state they are afraid of Mr. Obama especially UNDECIDED!

Can you please state why?

Mr. Obama knows a lot of people of different backgrounds you have to get to know a lot of different people in order to know how to handle and work with them.

Do you not think the press would have printed any story about Mr. Obama if he was a radical? C’mon read to show yourself aprroved, do not let someone form your opinion of another person!

Are you watching too many movies? Movies about spies in our country believe both candidate have been tested and thier lives picked over thoroughly.

WAKE AMERICANS!

Are you voting on one difference with a candidate or are you looking at several issues!

By getalife "whiners"

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

The wingnut kooks did not pray hard enough for rain in Denver.

Kooks.

By cream puffed liberal

August 28, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Why, oh why do the mindless moonbats on the left have no problems with name calling against The Right, then when a Rightie does it about The Left, they go cry to mommy? Oh, liberals. Never mind. Big overgrown babies. I knew that. I’m done now, I just had to make that point. Making a mindless liberal mad is good stuff, and easy. Poor babies.

By buster brown

August 28, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

By Goldie 11:28 AM

Goldie.. Very, very funny! I want 12 of those bumper stickers!

Ol commie comes around twice a day makes an a$$ of himself, then slinks away to the undisclosed hidy hole!

By getalife "whiners"

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

We should all celebrate the long, ruthless, dictatorship of the worst president in our history is ending.

Time to rebuild his destruction and declare a national holiday.

The end of w is upon us.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear Chris @ 11:27, I disagree. We do not vote on history, that is the province of effete professorial types. We elect a future, our best guess. Anyone who votes based on the past alone is sacrificing his future for the sake of throwing stones at the past. No, we need enough information to allow a prospective evaluation of “where we will be” in four years – that is the rational basis for voting. I think I have enough information to make such forecasts.

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Big overgrown babies indeed! Your every post reminds me of toddler who doesn’t get his way. A tyrade, a tantrum, then a nap. Grow up already!

By DEATH TO LIBERALISM

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

The vile far left half-black black racist surrender monkey Hussein Obama is just as despicable and worthless as the drooling senile anti-semitic hate America narcissist Karter. Hussein Obama pukes up even more vapid treasonous cliches than the average moveyourbowels.org deranged hatepig. And … gloriously LMFAO … STILL the odious Hussein Obama cannot get the full backing of demoNcrats who wisely see it as as a sullen black racist with a sullen blackhatepig of a wife.

Hussein Obama pukes up all kinds of bollux about its “Kansas values”, and how great its white mammy was. As ever Hussein Obama lies like Klinton … its mammy was an atheist, and a typical liberal non-conformist - not exactly your typical “Kansas values” as this excellent article points out:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story

Hussein Obama is racist scum, with NO political achievements, a laundry list of lies about its wafer thin worthless public record, a laundry list of far left lies, and its as typically corruopt as any other black snouts in the trough politico as the venal and corrupt sleazy house deal with the convicted slum lord felon Rezko shows us.

20 YEARS OF WORSHIPING AT A BLACK KKK CHURCH … and then only sullenly, kicking and screaming in its halfarsed attempts to distance itself form such overt black racism. when it started running for the WHITE HOUSE!!

TELL US LIBERAL SCUM … how come Hussein Obama NEVER EVER condemned Grand Cyclops Wright until he was running for president. For 20 YEARS he and his hateful anti-white wife sat there and cheerily sucked this black racism up with NOT A PUBLIC WORD OF DISSENT!!!

Watching Hussein lose to the illegal leech pandering McLiar is going to be even funnier and even more gratifying than popping corn and watching Fox News cover BOTH the Bush victories over the now irrelevant far left trash in 2000 and 2004.

Everyone should buy/read Obama Nation by the Swift Boat Hero and Patriot, Dr Jerome Corsi. I’m reading my copy now.

By Dutchman

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

Goldie,

We see Europe struggling with its own responsibilities and failing.

We see Russia stepping up as the bully on the block again and NO ONE doing anything but talk.

I see at least 16 years of a no drilling policy and see that as a dismal failure.

I see France actually helping the US, that is an accomplishment.

I see a party that does not understand the basics of business saying that they want to tax industry more.

I see a party that has aligned itself with Marxist like Sister Helen Prejean on Monday night. I see that same party embracing Liberation Theology, the same as the Reverend Wright.

I see a VP choice that was responsible for keeping Judge Bork off the Supreme Court and giving Justice Thomas a rough way to go.

I look at the convention and see that free speech is not allowed. Anyone criticizing the DNC or the Democrats nailed against the wall.

BHO scares me as a middle class worker. BHO scare me as a person that thinks the Constitution says what it means and means what it says.

I do not see a college education as a right. I do not see health care as a right. These are not even hinted at by the Constitution, in fact Congress was not given any power over education (Article I, Sec 8).

I see BHO as the person that will take most of my money and give it to those that do not deserve it. Some do, those that can not work and those that are too old to work.

On another note, what does BHO stand for except ???

By Fabb4eyes

August 28, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Wooten, Nobody is suggesting that McCain is anything more than a liar, who dotted all his I’s and CROSSED all his T’s when he signed that confession selling out to the commies in vietnam. I suppose a “T” does look a little like a “cross”. McCain is either gone bananas, or he’s lying.

His story first appeared in the 2000 campaign where the way to the white house was through the evangelical right. He invented this embellishment to his prison narrative soley to glean votes. That alone makes him unqualified 2B prez.

I may still vote 4 him cause I just cant get by Biden. That smug, complacent, self satisfied and vainglorious smirk. There’s just no room for him or his kind. HIllary should be our VP. She won the most votes with mich and florida. It’s not fair.

How did the Right manage to pull this off? This is why I dont believe in any polls, or election results, or rocket tubes or nuthing. There is too much clever power on the right. They are too politically savvy. They’re also invisible making them extremely dangerous to us all.

Prediction for NOvember: McCain by an Ohio Diebold machine.

By dirty harry

August 28, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

By cream puffed liberal

August 28, 2008 11:39 AM

CREAM PUFF (Fitting Enough) or may I call you AJC/DNC Management?

Thank you…Weren’t you suspended from Jay’s blog yesterday?

Just asking…..

By Soothsayer

August 28, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

INSTANT DEATH TO LIBERALS: What was that handle you used to use? MAD AS ZELL or something like that. Change the name if you like but your style is unmistable. BLUSTER, BLUSTER bile and filth. TELL ABOUT THE WONDERFUL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF YOU HERO IN CHIEF.

By DEATH TO LIBERALISM

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

The vile far left half-black black racist surrender monkey Hussein Obama is just as despicable and worthless as the drooling senile anti-semitic hate America narcissist Karter. Hussein Obama pukes up even more vapid treasonous cliches than the average moveyourbowels.org deranged hatepig. And … gloriously LMFAO … STILL the odious Hussein Obama cannot get the full backing of demoNcrats who wisely see it as as a sullen black racist with a sullen blackhatepig of a wife.

Hussein Obama pukes up all kinds of bollux about its “Kansas values”, and how great its white mammy was. As ever Hussein Obama lies like Klinton … its mammy was an atheist, and a typical liberal non-conformist - not exactly your typical “Kansas values” as this excellent article points out:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story

Hussein Obama is racist scum, with NO political achievements, a laundry list of lies about its wafer thin worthless public record, a laundry list of far left lies, and its as typically corruopt as any other black snouts in the trough politico as the venal and corrupt sleazy house deal with the convicted slum lord felon Rezko shows us.

20 YEARS OF WORSHIPING AT A BLACK KKK CHURCH … and then only sullenly, kicking and screaming in its halfarsed attempts to distance itself form such overt black racism. when it started running for the WHITE HOUSE!!

TELL US LIBERAL SCUM … how come Hussein Obama NEVER EVER condemned Grand Cyclops Wright until he was running for president. For 20 YEARS he and his hateful anti-white wife sat there and cheerily sucked this black racism up with NOT A PUBLIC WORD OF DISSENT!!!

Watching Hussein lose to the illegal leech pandering McLiar is going to be even funnier and even more gratifying than popping corn and watching Fox News cover BOTH the Bush victories over the now irrelevant far left trash in 2000 and 2004.

Everyone should buy/read Obama Nation by the Swift Boat Hero and Patriot, Dr Jerome Corsi. I’m reading my copy now.

By Dutchman

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

Goldie,

We see Europe struggling with its own responsibilities and failing.

We see Russia stepping up as the bully on the block again and NO ONE doing anything but talk.

I see at least 16 years of a no drilling policy and see that as a dismal failure.

I see France actually helping the US, that is an accomplishment.

I see a party that does not understand the basics of business saying that they want to tax industry more.

I see a party that has aligned itself with Marxist like Sister Helen Prejean on Monday night. I see that same party embracing Liberation Theology, the same as the Reverend Wright.

I see a VP choice that was responsible for keeping Judge Bork off the Supreme Court and giving Justice Thomas a rough way to go.

I look at the convention and see that free speech is not allowed. Anyone criticizing the DNC or the Democrats nailed against the wall.

BHO scares me as a middle class worker. BHO scare me as a person that thinks the Constitution says what it means and means what it says.

I do not see a college education as a right. I do not see health care as a right. These are not even hinted at by the Constitution, in fact Congress was not given any power over education (Article I, Sec 8).

I see BHO as the person that will take most of my money and give it to those that do not deserve it. Some do, those that can not work and those that are too old to work.

On another note, what does BHO stand for except ???

By ron

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

The nap sounds i