Thinking Right

By Chris

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

Since I am being under attack from Obamalini’s blackshirts on Wikipedia, here is the body of the letter on August 23, 2008 regarding the Fairness Doctrine to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Madame Speaker:

On June 24, 2008, you stated without hesitation calling for the reinstatement of the “Fairness Doctrine” in an effort to deliver “balance” to talk radio. On August 1, 2008, you called for an adjournment of Congress for summer recess and then shut off all media linkup over the Republican support for offshore oil drilling. On August 12, 2008, FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell stated that the doctrine could also apply to the Internet and blogs. This has me concerned as a listener to talk radio and as an editor to Wikipedia (User: Miller17CU94, ranked #553 in number of edits as of July 23, 2008.) because you are using this as an effort to censor a hobby of mine. It also concerns as an American that what you (and many within your party) are doing is unconstitutional. What you and many in your party, led by Maurice Hinchey, Dennis Kucinich, and Louise Slaughter in the House and Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and John Kerry in Senate, is a direct violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution which states as follows:

“Congress shall make now law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; of abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

This is part of the Constitution that you, every member of Congress, the President, the Vice President, every cabinet member in the Executive Branch, and every member of the Judiciary (including the Supreme Court) is sworn to take whether they serve for any duration in office, whether it is two years for the House, four years for the President and Vice President, six years for the Senate, or for the lifetime for judges. Why do you refuse to defend this amendment of the Constitution? Let us also consider the financial aspect of what you are proposing. Given the state of the media in this country today with layoffs that are occurring at many newspapers, such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Washington Post, and in television like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN, are laying off employees in order to stay competitive. Let us also not forget that most of these companies such as Time Warner (who I personally despise), General Electric, Viacom, COX Communications, Newsmax, New York Times Corporation, Washington Post Corporation, Disney, and the Tribune Corporation also use Internet for revenues. These revenues are caused by advertising fees for ratings in network radio and television. Satellite radio and cable television uses the combination of user fees and advertising revenues to earn money. Most Internet companies use advertisements that generate costs for hits to advertiser’s website on their website, such as a political advertisement on The Drudge Report as an example. All of this revenue generate profit for the corporations involved and in turn, generates taxes to the government. The only things that are making any decent money these days in the media are talk radio and the Internet. Why do you want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg? Why do you want to have about half of the country who listens to talk radio (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Mark Levin, Mike & Mike in the Morning) in the country or watch shows that you don’t agree with such as FOX News, be mad at you? Why do you want to make most of this country mad at you if they cannot access the Internet sites that they like such as The Drudge Report, DailyKos, Huffingtonpost, Yahoo!, or Wikipedia? It seems as if your lust for power and control has overridden any logic and judgment you may have in love and respect for this country. I would like to remind you of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Drumhead” that first aired during the week of April 29, 1991 in which Captain Jean-Luc Picard is trying to stop a witch hunt from happening aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from the lead investigator, retired Admiral Norah Satie, by invoking this quote shown below:

“’With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first though forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’ Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie … (Norah’s father) … as wisdom and warning … The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.”

Are you going to expand this censorship beyond talk radio and the Internet? Why do you and your party have more respect for Karl Marx’s 1848 book The Communist Manifesto toward the control of communications (Section 2, Part 6 - newspaper, magazine, radio, television, and Internet) than you do toward our own Constitution’s First Amendment? Madame Speaker, this is the United States of America, not the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin! Given who this will be sent to, I look forward to your character assassins within the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and their personal attacks along with potential subpoenas of Messers Conyers, Dingell, and Waxman, and Senators Inouye, Leahy, and Lieberman in an attack on a private citizen much like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s letter last year to Rush Limbaugh. I also look forward in you efforts to imprison me like what President Woodrow Wilson did to 150,000 of our citizens during World War I. The genie is out of the bottle, Madame Speaker. Good luck trying to put it back in.

By Chris

September 1, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

And this is the body of one sent to Jim Marshall (D-GA-8) on July 5, 2007 regarding the “Fairness Doctrine”, also under fire from Obamalini’s blackshirts.

Dear Mr. Marshall:

Regarding your May 21, 2007 letter that I received from you regarding the Fairness Doctrine, I strongly disagree with you on this because of the words of some members of your own Democratic Party in the United States. Who cannot forget that during the 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary on Governor Dr. Howard Dean (now your party’s chairman) continuing calling “… to take the country back from Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity” and “… that he was going to shut down FOX News” which some people implied to be all of FOX (FX, FOX Sports Net, SPEED TV, FOX Movie Channel, and network FOX)? Who cannot forget that in March 2004 on ESPN’s Around the Horn that Chicago Sun-Times sport columnist Jay Mariotti calling for the stoppage of FOX Sports Net (Mariotti resigned from the CST on August 28, 2008.)? Who cannot forget the lie that University of Southern California law professor (and former 1988 Dukakis campaign manager) Susan Estrich lying to WGST-AM 640 talk show host Denny Schaffer on the air on October 27, 2006 that Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-New York) would not bring back the Fairness Doctrine? Who cannot forget that during a radio broadcaster’s convention in Memphis on January 13, 2007 that Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine? Who cannot forget that when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez closed down Radio Caracas TV on May 27, 2007 that the American left-wing blogs of DailyKos.com and DemocraticUnderground.com both cheered Chavez’s actions? Who cannot forget the calls during this past week by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California), and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Barbara Boxer (D-California), Hillary Clinton (D-New York), Richard Durbin (D-Illinois), or John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) to reinstate this during the week of June 25, 2007? As an American I cannot. Do you want to know why they want the Fairness Doctrine returned? It is because of power and a claim of “imbalance” within the press. That sir is a lie when you consider that there are already government-sponsored radio and television programs in this country called National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting System. Additionally, in a poll conducted by MSNBC, a decidedly liberal cable news network along with the original Cable News Network (CNN), that donations from 143 journalists from American Federal Election Commission (FEC) data found that from 2004 to March 31, 2007 that 125 donated to either your party or to liberal causes, 16 donated to Republican or conservative causes, and two donated to both. Let us also not forget that the media in this country lean very heavily to the Democrats in terms of voting. It was a relief that the Fairness Doctrine was abolished in 1987 because it paved the way for more information being out in the open for people to both access and use, including the growth of cable television including MSNBC, FOX News Channel, FOX Sports Net, C-SPAN 2, C-SPAN 3, and others; talk radio where there are now over 2000 stations, satellite radio such as Sirius and XM, and the Internet, including Yahoo!, Google, and Wikipedia (Disclosure: I am Wikipedia User Miller17CU94, one of the top 1000 editors in the English Wikipedia as of May 27, 2007 at #988. …). How many times have you been able to appear on WGST-AM 640 in Atlanta or WMAC-AM 940 in Macon during your term as Congressman as a result of the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine? It is obvious sir that your party’s call for the reinstitution of this is nothing more than censorship. Despite claims from your leaders and most of the mainstream press of ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN, the American people are not stupid and can see this issue as plain as day as being nothing more than censorship. What talk radio does is gives the average American a right and an avenue to discuss issues of the day, especially controversial ones like abortion, the Iraq War, the war on terrorism, religion, gay marriage, culture, the state of the country, and the state of the world. This is something that we could only do in private and in the local community during the Fairness Doctrine’s reign of terror of 1949-87. As you can see, it allowed for information to be exposed and reviewed, something that our Founding Fathers wanted when they created the Constitution in 1787. It is unfortunate that there are people issues who do not want issues discussed at all because they are enlightened. Let us also not forget that despite the Pence Amendment‘s overwhelming passing which you voted, it was only for one year. Additionally, there are calls by fellow Democrats John Dingell and John Conyers, Jr. (both from Michigan) to combine the “Fairness Doctrine” and the “Hate-crimes” legislation that would make any one from talk radio a criminal (and I can assume that would be their listeners as well). That was a tactic that former President Bill Clinton tried to pull in the wake of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred C. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in blaming talk radio for Timothy McVeigh’s actions. All that is are people who are arrogant and close-minded in their views and unable to see things for what they are instead of what they want it to be. Imposing the “Fairness Doctrine” would be a mistake for it would shut down many ways people would get part of their daily information. It would also send a chilling effect throughout the media, including print, broadcast (radio and television), and online that the government could do that next. We already know that there are many people within your party who would like to get not just FOX News taken off of the air, but all of FOX. It would not surprise me that some members of your party are beginning to pressure NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, NASCAR President Mike Helton, and NCAA President Myles Brand to renege on long-term contracts to host sporting events on network FOX, on FOX Sports Net, or on SPEED TV. Do you want to see America’s Most Wanted, COPS, or The Simpsons off of the air? Will you go to the internet and try to restrict the usage of people to certain websites, like the Chinese have done to Google, Yahoo!, or Wikipedia? For the good of the country and for the good of Free speech, oppose the reinstitution of the “Fairness Doctrine” at all costs. The genie is out of the bottle, Mr. Marshall. Good luck trying to put it back in.

By Jim Wooten

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

You’re pushing it, Chris. Please don’t post any lengthy letters, especially those unrelated to the topic.

By GMAN

September 1, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Poor delusional wingnuts! This campaign is all about Bush/McCain. Palin is nothing more than a Republican pawn and the weakest piece in the game. No matter what scheme they try Bush/McCain will continue to be the focus. This is nothing more than a wild gamble and reflects the mindset of the past eight years of this administration.

Bush/McCain 2008 - Shooting Craps With The Lives Of The Next Generation!

By Jay

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

Dems should heed the old saying “Those in glass houses should not throw stones”. But they will attack Palin and already are because the campaign, supporters and media are in full panic mode.

The Palin pick accomplished 2 things:

It picks up disaffected Hillary voters who realize that by electing McCain they get a “2 for” - A woman in the White House and Hillary a shot at running again in 2012.

The other thing the Palin choice accomplished was energizing a sleeping conservative base to get to the polls. Most were simply voting against Obama, now they are voting for McCain.

By GayGrayGeek

September 1, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

When the Democratic spin machine cranks up, they will be attacking a specific woman - Palin. To try to grandly equate Palin with All Women is insulting and demeaning to, well, All Women, Jim. It’s “I know what’s best for the little ladies” misogyny and parochialism. Which, I guess, we should certainly expect from a mouthpiece for the Republican Agenda.

By Maniac is accurate

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

Palin doesn’t take away McCain’s ability to use inexperience as an argument in his favor and against Obama. In fact her nomination very clearly illustrates that the second chair of the Republican ticket is more ready to be president than the top of the Democratic ticket.

By One Voice

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

I find it interesting how Wooten asks what information Democrats will use against Palin, and then deletes posts that have legitimate information from Alaska newspapers regarding Palin’s abuse of power and dishonesty about it.

As always with Wooten, opinion holds more weight than facts.

By fearless fosdik

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

Jim, I think John Kerry said it all yesterday on “This Week”..

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/32374/1/TW-Kerry-Prisoner-of-Right-Wing-083108.wmv/

By Dusty

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

Well, it is a grand Labor Day with a cool breeze gently blowing here in Atlanta. Jim Wooten has given us a fine presentation of the start of our conservative convention in Minneaspolis/St. Paul. The important things are in place considering the weather gangster Gustav. Sounds like happiness in high speed for our VP selection and great pride in the choice made by McCain. The man is so sharp! The lady is so suitable!

Keep us posted, Jim, and we will pass the hat for your taxi fare. We don’t want you hitchhiking home. Bring us a bunch of McCain/Palin banners and we’ll keep right on celebrating. Need I say, Happy days are here again?

By One Voice

September 1, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

A bridge to nowhere (honesty?): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080901/plnm/usapoliticspalin1dc_1

By Dennis

September 1, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Mr Wooten writes about Palin, “She may not know the name of some obscure third world leader, one Republican here noted, but she will know the price of milk — and when it went up.”

And if she wants to stay in politics and in good favor with large dairy Republican doners, she’ll make sure it stays up.

It’s called “free innerprize”.

The facts are, Mr. Wooten, the Republicans don’t have a lot to offer the American people in the way of presidential candidates.

And the Republican platform is to continue the policies of GWB and borrow and borrow and borrow more and more money from China, Japan, and the Arab countries until one day they want their money back.

As it is now, thanks to GWB, they’re already calling in some of their loans and buying up the corporations (the few that are left because of NAFTA) in this country.

You Republicans live in La La Land.

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

By One Voice

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

Let’s try this again: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080901/plnm/usapoliticspalin1dc_1

By Rufus

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

Get a load of what the liberal maggots at Daily Koskook are saying about Palin’s 16-year old daughter and Palin’s new son. Those disgusting left wing pigs are going to show their true hate, and you can bet your left butt cheek the Republicans had better pounce on the little worthless maggots.

Members of the lefty blogosphere haven’t stopped perpetuating the rumor Sarah Palin “faked” her last pregnancy and are now humiliating her daughter Bristol on the blatantly incorrect suspicion she is the real mother of baby Trig.

“Sarah Palin is NOT the Mother” is the title of this DailyKos blog that accuses Bristol, a completely fit-looking adolescent teen, of having a “baby bump” in a photo they allege was taken March 9th of this year.

“Sarah, I’m calling you a liar” wrote blogger ArcXIX. “And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better. ” Photos of Bristol with detailed commentary about her abdomen are contained in the post.

And speaking of maggots, there’s that other liberal Dimocrat Fowler, former DNC head (and I use “head” very loosely in meaning there), who said that God is on the “their” side because of Gustav timing and the RNC convention. He was caught of course and apologized, but not before making another typical liberal Dimocrat cheap shot:

“One doesn’t anticipate that one’s private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase,” said Fowler. “But that’s the nature of what we’re dealing with.”

What a typical whiney liberal dirtbag. Whine when caught then blame the recorder as if that’s never happened to Republicans by some left “wing nutcase” who record Republican comments and report them.

And note there’s not much outcry in the media over this, either. But that’s to be expected when the left wing nutcases run the media in this nation. Can you imagine if Republicans had said that during the Denver convention last week? Oh the howls and frothing at the mouths from the mindless left we would get an earful of - the hate comments, blah blah.

One dirtball Dimocrat is thankful of a hurricane taking away from the RNC convention while 2+ million people are displaced from their homes, many if not MOST of whom vote Dim to begin with.

The party of the people, huh?

Disgusting. More hate like this is going to follow from the diseased left. Bank on it.

By buster brown

September 1, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

DUSTY

Thanks for the weather report. And that fine synopsis of Mr. Wootens column…

Don’t stop too suddenly Jim, you might find Dusty’s nose UP you know where.

Gee Dusty, You say “Happy days are here again!”

According to you, the last 8 years were fantastic.

By GayGrayGeek

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

Dennis @ 10:33 - Yabbut…thanks to NAFTA, my husband and i were able to semi-easily emigrate to Canada as a legally married couple. Dusty should be proud that NAFTA helped rid Georgia as well as the U.S. of two more of Those People.

By Apostrophe Jones

September 1, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Many of us believe President Bush to be a great man.Remember the sleaziness of the previous eight years?The other team thought John Edwards to be a suitable V.P candidate last time.In Governor Palin,we have a qualified super-achiever who is more of a man than Comrade Arugula.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

“And if she wants to stay in politics and in good favor with large dairy Republican doners, she’ll make sure it stays up.”

Hey Dennis, maybe you missed the news liberal brainiac, but Rudy Guiliani was asked to give the price of a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread while campaigning in Alabama last year. He was way off on the figures, and the typical mindless liberal hysterics took that to task to say he was “out of touch” with Americans. You can bet your left butt cheek that’s not the case with Palin.

You liberal moose chips on the diseased left aren’t ever happy, are you? (See if any of you liberal brainiacs get my subtle correlation there with “moose chips.”)

By One Voice

September 1, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, what will Democrats say about Palin? How about this:

Before being governor, her only experience was as mayor of a village of 9,000 people. She essentially managed a strip mall.

Bush’s absolute failure as president has shown that having “executive experience” is meaningless in regard to one’s ability to govern. It’s just part of the mantra of conservatives who worship the free market and prefer to see presidents as CEOs. We now know what a mistake this is.

In her short stint as the governor of a state with fewer people than most major U.S. CITIES, Palin used her influence to try and have a state trooper fired, and then fired the highest ranking police official in the state when he refused to take that inappropriate action.

The question is not whether the brother-in-law she tried to have fired was a good guy. He probably wasn’t. The point is that Palin used her power inappropriately, which is corruption.

Then she lied about it and said she had nothing to do with it and no knowledge of it. Of course, phone recordings and emails emerged showing the direct involvement of her staff, her husband, and herself.

After she fired the police official, she appointed another individual who only lasted two weeks because he had previously been involved in a sex scandal, but Palin thought he’d be great for the job anyway.

Now Palin is saying that she said ‘no’ to the bridge to nowhere, when in fact she initially thought it would be a great idea. When protest emerged nationally against that waste of money, she backtracked and said Alaska didn’t need it, but conveniently kept the taxpayers’ money.

Let’s see… dishonesty, corruption, incompetence, waste. That’s sounds like the perfect continuation of the Bush policies, but is that really what we want in the next administration? Yes, she compliments McSame perfectly.

By Jim

September 1, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Mission Accomplished 4,000 + W - The President

Four more years 8,000+ John, George Jr., McCain

By McCain

September 1, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

My friends,

Sarah Palin is now my PARTNER and SOULMATE!

I have talked to her twice, looked deep in her eyes and can tell you we are going to make a great couple, er, I mean TEAM!

Besides the other day while she was accepting the great honor I bestowed on her. I checked out her booty, er, I mean demeanor, and let me say it is some sweet demeanor.

My friends, you are going to love this experienced (in more ways then one) woman!

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Dear buster @10:46

You have lost your luster. Feeling a little low today? Got the blues?

But don’t feel TOO bad. Your ailment is now common among liberals. They see the White House door closing in front of them as Republicans move happily forward. They see Obama heading back to organize the downtrod communities from his own 1.5 million dollar home.

As to the last eight years, you bet your life I enjoy being free and protected and no terrorists flying into town. For some reason, I LIKE THAT. It seems the Iraqis and Afghans don’t mind being free either.

Maybe you could use an attitude adjustment. Now smile!! No teeth clenching. Try to show a little appreciation for your good luck. I do mean being an American (even if being a liberal makes you somewhat insufferable).

By jim

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

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception (Hardcover) by Scott McClellan (Author)

Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters (Hardcover) by Richard A. Clarke (Author)

Study: False statements preceded war By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.” The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. Four more years – John (George Jr) McCain

By buster brown

September 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

DUSTY..QUESTION!

How can it be happy days are here AGAIN?

When according to you the last eight years have gone swimmingly.

POINT..I believe the terrorists flew into town on George the morons watch….Am I wrong?

Or did I miss something?

By Georgia Gal

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

I too, would rather the inexperience be on the junior side. However, the Dems probably should be careful questioning the ability of a governor to handle the oval office. The best and worst presidents in recent history (along with several others including Bush and Clinton)became President directly from the Governor’s office (best being Reagan and worst being Carter)! My childhood hero (Dwight D. Eisenhower) had NO political exerience and there are those who think he did a great job!!!

Jim, this time last week I would have had little interest in the convention. Like Dusty, I am now excited about it and depend on you being our eyes and ears at the convention! Wouldn’t it be something if Fox pulled you in for short bit!?!?

By Hurricane Goose Step

September 1, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

How do democrats attack Sarah Putin? Easy. By not attacking her. Sarah was interviewed yesterday by Maria Bartiroma and this woman does not instill confidence when she speaks. She has a stuttered, staccato rythm, an obnoxious nasal tin tone, and she describes things weirdly. It’s torture to listen to her. She needs a syntactical coach. Yes, I’m available.

Democrats only need to let her talk.

See Sarah! See Sarah Speak. Speak, Sara, Speak!

McCangelina 08: The perfect woman would keep her mouth shut. Veeps should be seen and not heard.

Obama 08: Tales of change, not strange tail.

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Gay Gray Geek,10:49

Hope you enjoy Canada.

I have no interest whatsoever in where you choose to live or with whom or how. My interest here is in politics and the ramifications. Nothing else. Good luck!!

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

How do democrats attack Sarah Putin? Easy. By not attacking her. Sarah was interviewed yesterday by Maria Bartiroma and this woman does not instill confidence when she speaks. She has a stuttered, staccato rythm

Mindless moonat lib: you take the teleprompter away from Him The Chosen One, and we can all say the same about Him Your Messiah. Besides, at least Palin can talk without one.

You mindless liberal hysterics are in real trouble here and you know it. And I love it. This has been the most entertaining, thrilling, mystery-laden election in my lifetime. And the funny thing is it’s mostly you idiotic liberal Dimocrats making it all so much fun.

By the way, I’ll bet Palin can write a book that will outsell the stew out of your hero Pelosi’s lost cause “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” nonsense. Let’s check in with Amazon since it’s been on sale for a month and see where it ranks: #19,641 in Books. Hehehe. HOHOOHO HAHAHAHA!!!

By Dusty

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

Hurricane Goose Step …POFO…sigh..(11:30)

I can’t think of a politician that NEEDS you. That’s like saying the proverbial “dog needs fleas”.

Hear POFO! See POFO squeak…squeak!! Squeak POFO Squeak!

Comedians should be seen but not heard. Mimes should be heard but not seen.

Obama should high tail it back to Chicago. His CHANGE is too strange.

buster brown 11:23

Are we going to keep playing this little t** for tat game??

President Bush had been in office for a WHOLE EIGHT MONTHS before 9/11. He was preceded by President Clinton who had gutted the armed forces during that time. Check your facts.

PS…Did you know that President Bush is not running for reelection? You can stop the propaganda now. It is getting stale.

By TW

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

Attack Palin?

Combat 101 - when the opponent is lying lifeless on the ground, there is no need to attack…unless just for fun.

Being that McSame has thrown presidential qualification into the toilet, there is this chick at the McDonalds who looks just like Palin - only better.

McSame/McDonalds Chick ‘08

By AmVet

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

Congratulations, Senator McCain on your choice for VP.

You did NOT commit political seppuku by selecting a Bushco neo-con like that awful Romney, etc…

I am thankful that you and your team realized to have picked ANYONE aligned with this administration, even remotely, would have cost you innumerable votes and in fact, the White House.

If you can continue to give mere lip service to the GOP’s repugnant “base” of bible thumpers, flat earthers and ostriches, you may just have the chance to demonstrate that you have the ability to both lead this wonderful country and actually resolve the nation’s greatest challenges via adult compromise with a Democratic Congress.

One that is certain to gain numerous more seats and expand its power in November.

But no matter who wins this fall, the best news for the USA is that these “conservative” frauds have already lost.

And what a sigh of relief to get rid of forever, the worst administration in American history.

By Davo

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

Who doesn’t get excited about hot librarians?

Seriously…all you neocon lovin morons should stick a fork in McCain..he’s done.

By Rufus

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

Just to clear up any feel good liberalism about Conservatism being dead and all that mindless liberal drivel, there are more Conservatives in this nation than hysterical liberals. That’s no news to me of course, because liberals flock to big populate regions in a big mass, so it makes them think they are the more populate. But the US is a BIG FREAKING NATION when you spread it out.

And you pansies on the left are going to get a taste of it this November, Congressional seat winnings notwithstanding - and any many cases rightfully so - the neocons deserved the jackboot. Who wanted a bunch of liberal Dimocrats passing off as Republicans?

By Dusty

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

AmVet, why don’t you and TW go out together, have a beer and celebrate your errrr… bitterness?

You two couldn’t be happy if the world were peaches and cream. You are so blind to the accomplishments of the last eight years that you sound like renegades from Guantanamo. (Does no terrorsts here and two countries free ring a bell?)

What’s with you two? Suffer from depression? Brain damaged? Undercover agents? Or just plain sore losers?

I would guess the last. Don’t bother to give me any quotes on free speech. I know it is “free”. It is just better when it doesn’t sound like “hate”.

I am off to celebrate. Now SMILE!!

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

BREAKING NEWS<<<<<

Sarah Palin just announced that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant to help quell mindless liberal hysterics of her son not really being her son and that of her daughter’s.

Now let’s see how the liberal hysterics handle this. I know what they are going to start off with: “So much for family values.”

Well, at least the father is going to marry the daughter this time, unlike so many fatherless mothers who vote Dimocrat to “give them more” with other people’s money.

By Davo

September 1, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Haha…you pregnant AGAIN!

By buster brown

September 1, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

DUSTY,

Yes we can keep this little t** for tat game going as long as you keep misreprenting!

First of all Bush the smarter started downgrading the military…Check it out!

Second of all what did our military might have to do witn 9/11?

Third, Rice .. You remember Rice? She received a PDB entitled “Bin Ladin [sic] Determined To Strike in US.”

Result…IGNORED! Result…Bush on vacation reading “my pet goat”! Result 3,000 americans dead..Result 4,000 americans killed in Iraq for a needless war!

And by the way I am aware that Bush is not running for president…

A guy who has voted with Bush 95% of the time is! And, a guy who would like nothing more than to attack Iran!

But, it’s all Clinton’s fault!

By fearless fosdik

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

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 12:20 PM

Dusty..Please name two of all these accomplishment that have taken place over the last eight years!

And, don’t give me your old standby .. Bush has made us free NONSENSE!

By Davo

September 1, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Watch as Wooten spins, spins, spins on babygate!

Way to vet your running mates, McCain. I can see that solid judgement you plan to bring to this country in action right now.

Haha…precious

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

How embarassing that McCain has said to Cheney and Bush “Thanks but no thanks; we’d rather you monitor the Weather Channel.”

And talk about desparate; I know they are trying to skew to a younger demographic with but did they really need to use their VP pick to go after the “Milf” vote?

By AmVet

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

Dustbin, your opinion is like your…

Large and smelly.

To match your brown nose?

Jimbo, the hyper-hypocritical neo-con is such an irrelevant hack. He self-righteously bemoans the leftist commentators who “smear”. Yet he is a champion of it himself.

And who just adores his card-carrying Bushco thug in good standing and mentor Karl Rove who replaced Newt as the political scumbag of the decade.

But sadly for him, and joyfully for the rest of us, it cannot begin to undo the inevitable a$$-whipping awaiting these screw ups and frauds in a scant two months.

So yet another “family values” family has got a teensy weensy little problem.

What a hoot! You’d think the teenage tramp could keep her legs closed long enough for her mom to at least have a chance at being in the national spotlight for more than a couple of days!

Poor Sarah, and with all that talk of being such a great hockey mom…

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

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By dirty harry

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

Here comes GUSTAV!

Remember when Katrina hit?

Here were the alternated takes…

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden jumped immediately to the aid of hurricane victims in the week after the 2005 disaster, authoring S.Amdt. 1661 “…to provide emergency funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina.”[..]

But with John McCain’s help, the Republican-led Senate shot down the funding on a 41-56 vote with McCain voting against, while Biden and Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama voted for the funding.

When Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) proposed the creation of a Congressional Commission to “examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.. and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future,” John McCain was once again exactly where George W. Bush wanted him to be: On the “nay” side of a straight party-line vote (44-54) that killed that legislation.

McCain = 4 more years of the worst presidency ever!

By AmVet

September 1, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Apparently, Ahhnold can’t leave Cali to attend the GOP Laughfest which begins tonight.

Now if Dumb and Dumber would just stay put in the White House.

But I guess the country could use a good laugh when those two clowns tell us all what a great job, the “conservatives” have done lately. And why they deserve America’s trust yet again.

Notwithstanding the scintillating analysis of our very own dumba$$ Dustbag, I think it is a bit of a hard sell, don’t you?

By MAK

September 1, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Rufus…you are a neanderthal. You’re also quite entertaining.

By Davo

September 1, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Just read an article that McCains campaign has been using the theme music for the Benny Hill show without permission

lol

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

The Weather Channel has announced that two “Catagory 5” embarrassments (Bush and Cheney) have been sucessfully steered away from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

There is however their is a seventeen year old virgin mother that has appeared in Alaska. It’s has to be a virgin mother right? It’s not like someone in the “family values” crowd would actually fornicate right? (Unless it’s in a bathroom stall that is)

By Redneck Convert

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

Well, it looks like old man McCain has picked a good redneck for VP—a dotter that’s in the Fambly Way and not marryed, going after a brother in law that wants to divorce her sister, etc. To top it off I hear the woman is a dead shot with just about any kind of gun. Heck, I halfway expect to hear this Palin woman lives in a trailer next. Maybe I judged the old man too quick. He’s already got the vote from every trailer park in Forsyth County.

I’m out of sorts this a.m. It looks like this hurricane ain’t going to wipe out Those People down in N.O. and all the other wickedness there. And here the Republicans done cancelled their convention so the hurricane could do its work.

Have a good Labor Day everybody. Just don’t go thinking its about unions or nothing librul like that.

By Commander Guy

September 1, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

So little Britney Palin is pregnant…again. Little harlot popped out one little spawn and turned around and got herself knocked up again. What a round heels…

Five months along my aunt fanny. This one won’t arrive until Feb or March, you just wait and see.

Maybe Rufus the Doofus has a good idea…Gov Palin can write a book about how to raise stalwart Christian children. Seems the Spears mom never got hers to press because her high school aged daughter got knocked up. Oh wait, never mind…

By Bush go away

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

Where’s Jim Wooten? You know if it had been Biden’s daughter he’d be on the blog saying it’s proof that the Dems don’t support “family values”.

Ah, but when it’s the Republicans who do it, of course it becomes a “private family matter”.

By Ready on the Right

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

Redneck Convert

McCain just sewed up the Clayton County vote also. There is a post on the Washington Post looking for a nice double wide suitable for the VP residence. Too bad, so sad, but she can kill a bear, skin it & cook it.. that’s a lot more than these city girls can do

By dirty harry

September 1, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

I guess ol Dusty has run off to lunch for her daily slice of HUMBLE PIE!

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

This pregancy thing is Bill Clinton & Jimmy Carter’s fault. Got this straight from Rush. Peace.

By buster brown

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

From the Anchorage Daily News…

“The state’s leading Republicans are expressing shock and bewilderment over John McCain’s selection of their governor as his running mate:”

“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”

State House Speaker John Harris, a Republican from Valdez, was astonished at the news. He didn’t want to get into the issue of her qualifications.

“She’s old enough,” Harris said. “She’s a U.S. citizen.”

Ringing endorsements all!

And, McCain .. has great judgement

By fearless fosdik

September 1, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

I wonder if Sarah Palin knows how to spell potato?

By maj711

September 1, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

Why,is’t this woman at home with her baby

By Walter

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

Senator McCain has again shown that it is all about him, not his country, by picking a sub level women to be his V. P. running mate.

Her only plus for the ticket is to bring the evangelicals to the polls. Nothing more and nothing less.

In the likely event that if elected McCain died poor us.

By @@

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

Washington is broken……Government is broken…..OBlah Blah Blah!!!!

CHANGE is a rather obscured word Jim. So too is REFORM, but not when a Governor like Palin has already proven it IS possible.

Palin’s actions speak louder than OBlahMa’s words.

I suppose the dems could attack her on her honesty and ability to reform government. It would be a mistake, but then mistakes are their business. Excuses have and will always be ready and at hand.

Executive experience trumps career politicians every time.

She’ll do fine. She’s exactly what Americans have been seeking.

By fearless fosdik

September 1, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

On April 1 McCain had this to say concerning his criteria for a V.P.

“I think about whether that person who I select would be most prepared to take my place. And that would be the key criteria.”

Let’s check out Palin’s credentials….

1982: Captain of the Wasilla High School basketball team.

1984: Won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant; finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant.

1987: Graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism.

circa 1987-1992: Sports reporter for local TV news.

1992-1996: Served two terms on the Wasilla city council.

1996-2002: Served as mayor of Wasilla.

2002: Lost Republican primary race for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.

2003-2004: Served as Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

2006: Elected governor of Alaska.

So there you have it. Tested. Ready. Sarah Palin. A woman who is clearly more than able to step into McCain’s shoes at a moment’s notice and serve as President of the United States of America, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, leader of the free world.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

By Hurricane Goose Step

September 1, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

How do democrats attack Sarah Putin? Easy. By not attacking her. Sarah was interviewed yesterday by Maria Bartiroma and this woman does not instill confidence when she speaks. She has a stuttered, staccato rythm, an obnoxious nasal tin tone, and she describes things weirdly. It’s torture to listen to her. She needs a syntactical coach. Yes, I’m available.

Democrats only need to let her talk.

See Sarah! See Sarah Speak. Speak, Sara, Speak!

McCangelina 08: The perfect woman would keep her mouth shut. Veeps should be seen and not heard.

Obama 08: Tales of change, not strange tail.

By Clint

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

Bushdrunk, Crazy Cheney, Non-Hero McShame,Moose-killin, Moose-eatin Mama are all in the Deep South, interferring with Gustav efforts and seeking hero status. Ain’t America grand? God bluss Murcuh!

By Bud Wiser

September 1, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Supposedly McCain knew of Palin’s daughters ‘condition’ before he selected her, and he still selected her?

I was excited for the choice at first, but with all of the garbage from the left sure to overflow now, I’m not so sure.

It’s hard to get your message across when the media and lefty loons want to, and will focus on something else that has nothing to do with nothing as far as Presidential campaigns are concerned.

And yes friends, I have temporarily migrated over here from Herr Bookman’s (the low to no integrity journalist, who has banned me and not even had the cajones to tell me why, or let me respond, even after I called him out for non-ethical behavior, which everyone knows to be true) site.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

How quaint. A GOP shotgun wedding in Alaska just prior to the election. It’ll all work out. ‘Ol grandma will have plenty of time being proud of her 17 year old knocked up daughter and trying to explain how this happened to her other very young children after she and granpa McSame lose the election.

By Davo

September 1, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

“Senior McCain campaign officials said that McCain knew of the pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, and that he had decided it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha….w/e!

Great judgement…or lack thereof, McCain. How you can expect anyone to believe that is mind-blowing.

Time to play that race card, neocons…it’s your last option, Thank God!

By TW

September 1, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Relax!

Just got off the phone with the Springer Show and they said they will now donate the WHOLE HOUR to the Palins. The first half hour will still be Sarah, her sister, and the cop. After that, they’ll bring on the pregnant 17 year-old, her boyfriend(s?), and perhaps a couple of midget Eskimos!

By Hurricane Goose Step

September 1, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

With Sarah Putin and her daughter, you get two hockey moms for the price of one!

McCain 08: He’s a puck.

By Carnac the magnificent

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

McCain/Palin 08: They go together like a hockey mom and a puck.

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Carnac, the Magnificent will devine the answer to the sealed question: (camera to Carnac holding the sealed envelope to his temple)….. “Sarah Palin, Britney Palin, and John McCain”.

(Camera to Carnac opening the envelope and reading aloud the question)…. “Name two hockey moms and a puck.”

. . . McCain/Palin 08: Two hockey moms and a puck.

By dirty harry

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

BUD..Gee, banned from Jay’s blog?

You must really be a piece of work!

Here’s a hanky dry your eyes!

Now back to Sarah Palin’s daughter…

How will the holy rollers, the bible thumpers explain this to their masses?

I guess Sarah was too busy making “Executive” decisions rather than dealing with home issues…such as teaching your daughter that if you are going to do the nasty there are such things as contraceptive devices….

The McCain campaign at this very moment is spinning like a top…This ought to be hilarious!

Here is one HOOTER from Steve Schmidt..

“We had hoped this could be an issue that was private, that the family could deal with this issue privately.”

Har de har har har!

I think an emergency call to Dr. Laura is in the offing!

Sean, Rush, and O’Reilly have been summoned for a summitt on how to best handle this nightmare.

By fearless fosdik

September 1, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

And the hits keep on coming!

This just in…..”Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens’s 527 Group”

Yes, that’s right folks this paragon of virtue is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.

Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation. But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.

McCain with the selection of Sarah Palin has turned the tables on himself. It was a poorly thought out desperate choice!

Now he has to live with the consequences

Too bad .. So sad!

By Ray

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

Harry,

Casting the first stone is easy until it happens to one of your daughters, if you have any. I think, despite what all of you dumba** liberals rant on about, that Palin will handle this family crisis with the dignity that McCain recognized when he selected her. Call her names, put her and her family down and make fun all you want but when it is all said and done, she will eat Joe Biden’s lunch and will be occupying the Blair House with her family come Jan 21st. Then we “thumpers and right wing idiots” will ask if you want your crow BBQed or deep fried.

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

Well, it is still nice outside but clouding up. Lake Lanier…here comes the rain..

Looks like liberals are a bit MIXED UP. Sarah Palin is going to be our next vice president, NOT her daughter, her sister, her husband or anybody else.

I’m sure SARAH PALIN is disappointed about her daughter. BUTTTT…children do not always do what they are taught, not teenagers and not adults.

I’m sure Jimmy Carter did not like his son getting a divorce. Nor did the Johnsons and their daughter.

The Kennedy’s did not like their married son running off a bridge at Chppaquadick and causing the death of a young woman.

Hillary did not like Bill’s behavior but he was the one who forgot his marriage vows.

This family incident with the Palins will only show the strength of Sarah Palin. She will be TOUGH just as she will be in any other “emergency”. She loves her daughter and will stand by her. But I doubt that she condones her behavior.

Save your breath, liberals, unless you and your family are perfect. You Democrats don’t deserve sainthood any more than Republicans. It turns out we are all human. It is the strong ones who can handle it.

By Bud Wiser

September 1, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

“By dirty harry

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

BUD..Gee, banned from Jay’s blog?

You must really be a piece of work!”

Yes, it is true, and I will tell you why:

Bookman the Coward only allows trash mongering leftists to post hate filled rhetoric, because it is his way as well. I was attempting to show the mentality of the entitlement crowd, and he disparaged me as a simpleton playing no more than a “blackface skit” (his words.

He stifles free speech and expression from anyone except his chosen few of the ideological left crowd, or right wing posters, who are then ridiculed by his mob mentality crowd, sometimes by Bookman himself.

He violated journalistic integrity by citing me openly on his site, specifically as posting under alternate id’s from the same ip address. Complete and total playground tactics, trying to hold me up for ridicule, I called him out on it, and I was banned.

Apparently free speech and freedom of expression are okay by him if only they conform to his socialist agenda. I said he was pulling a page from the Karl Marx handbook by banning free speech.

He does not respond.

I called him out for his complete and total lack of journalistic integrity..

He does not respond.

He is a coward hiding under his rock and using the power of censorship only as he sees fit, and will not even seek rebuttal. His style is prototypical of a socialist and control of media.

I posted a link yesterday honoring those killed on 9/11.

He had it pulled.

Truth is dangerous to Bookman.

Truth means nothing to Bookman.

Integrity means nothing to Bookman.

He is masquerading as a journalist to forward his propaganda, a man of no redeeming value, to himself, or his profession.

By Bush go away

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

Yes Dusty, “we’re all human” but it’s the Republicans who traditionally act holier than thou when it comes to “family values”. Much as should be a non issue, their hypocrisy has merely paved the way for them to be hoisted on their own petard.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Watch Palin speak without a teleprompter on renewable energy and non-renewable energy. No ifs, no uhs, and no b-b-b-buts there from the likes of Him The Chosen One without one. You mindless libs are going to get your clocks cleaned and it will be GREAT watching you hysterics go off the chain.

By dirty harry

September 1, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

By Ray

September 1, 2008 3:30 PM

DREAM on RAYMOND!

Buy the way Ray I have a daughter and a granddaughter and a grandson….

Both were born long after my daughter graduated from UGA, received her masters from UT knoxville, and got married!

I also have a son Ray, who’s wife is expecting in April…They have been married two years!

Both are quite attractive and I assume both were sexually active during their younger years.

You see Ray, Unlike you right wing ethic spouting, moral value, religious nutjots (Ralph Reed , Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the evangelicals who thump their bibles ad nauseum We raised our kids in a normal family household!

Nothing hard about that is there! Ray?

By Carnac the magnificent

September 1, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin’s daughter is preggers? Gee, I guess the RNC didn’t do a very good job of “cherry-picking” veep candidates.

that one was my wife’s (isn’t she adorable?)

By @@

September 1, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Well Jim, we now know how dems will attack Governor Palin.

Through her children.

In the perfect utopia THEY strive for, human failings will cease to exist.

Sure they will……

By Commander Guy

September 1, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Britney Palin…another poster child for abstinence-only sex education.

Since the first child (trig) was Britney’s, and not the Guvnah’s, this smacks of cover-up desperation. Knowing the stupidity of so many people, they announce her pregnancy to “prove” that Trig could not really be hers. Then comes your best bet — Young Britney is not really pregnant at all, at least not now. Expect the announcement of ‘sad news’ of her ‘miscarriage’ shortly before the election to gin up sympathy votes from dimwits like Dusty.

With people as dumb as Dusty and Rufus, it will probably work.

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Well @@ when you act holier than thou about “family values” you kinda deserve to get hoisted on your own petard.

Speaking of Jim, we all know if this had been Biden’s daughter, he’d have already shown up here.

By Butt Geyser

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

Glenn, that’s not why you got banned from Nookwood. The truth is you stink. You were stinking up his blog, and he needs new lurkers to revisit and click on ads and you were chasing people off the blog, worse, all you post is refried rush. You’re a pathetic hack and you’ve got not one single original insight worth reading.

You and dusty and @@ are like the talent that appears on the Jerry Lewis telethon. Real Old Street.

So stfu, and take your medicine like a man from the medicine man. I tried to wise you up, but you know it all, dont you?

zzzzz

A: @@, Dusty, and ButtGeyser

Q: Name two pukes and a puck.

bwa.

By fearless fosdik

September 1, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Dusty you write at 3:42 PM

“This family incident with the Palins will only show the strength of Sarah Palin. She will be TOUGH just as she will be in any other “emergency”. She loves her daughter and will stand by her. But I doubt that she condones her behavior.”

Pu-leez stick with the weather reports..Reading the garbage you spew is akin to reading bud-wisers reasons for being banned from Bookmans site!

The jokes continue to write themselves!

By Butt Geyser

September 1, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

A: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, and John McCain

Q: Name two hockey moms and a puck

By catlady

September 1, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

You can’t claim the moral high ground if you are in the swamp with the rest of us.

That concerns dumping your wife for arm candy (and cash register candy), getting pregnant outside of marriage, having a lesbian daughter, HUI (hunting under the influence) or just about any other human foible. It becomes news when you claim that “your people” sit at the right hand of God with Jesus, while all those “other people” consort with the devil.

By Butt Geyser

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

A: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, and John McCain

Q: Name two hockey moms and a puck

By Butt Geyser

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

A: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, and John McCain

Q: Name two hockey moms and a puck

By dirty harry

September 1, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Talk about skeletons in the Palin family closet!

They are just starting to tumble out.

Palin Says “No Truth to Teen Daughter Being Pregnant Out of Wedlock Last Year Because She’s Pregnant and Unmarried This Year.”

One would have thought that McCain appointed a vice presidential candidate to appeal to the religious right, but now we find that we’ve just entered into the middle of another hypocritical fundamentalist soap opera, only of the moose shooting family lifestyle kind.

Nice sound judgement McCain…You have made my DAY!

By Churchill

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

Maybe McCain would let her have a White House wedding. Everyone loves a wedding, so that should solidify the white trash vote. And the NRA can give them a shotgun wedding to end all shotgun weddings. The happy couple could set up a double wide on the lawn on the VP’s house - perhaps one of the FEMA trailers.

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

POFO..4:08

I thought you were supposed to be a comedian? When are you going to say something funny…you know…humorous?

Do stop repeating these duds over at Bookmans. Once is more than enough.

Bush Go Away 3:49

Are you saying you don’t want any morals in government? Bush has high moral standards. When exactly did he get up and preach to people? Never. He may be supported by fundamental evangelicals but that is their choice. Bush leads a decent life, a man who does the “right” thing.

Liberals have derided moral people because LIBERALS have NO MORALS?? IS THAT CORRECT? You prefer an Immoral Majority. Seems that way.

There is no hypocrisy in having moral values. Making fun of them is worse than advocating them. You are hung up on the web you made for Bush.

By @@

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

Well @@ when you act holier than thou about “family values” you kinda deserve to get hoisted on your own petard.

And neither can your political party condone premarital sex for young teens only to turn around and diminish a young girl who partook of what you condone.

You’ve never seen me attack a young girl for her moment of weakness. To the contrary……over the last five years I, and my church have worked diligently to assist teenage mothers through a ChildTech program. It was only recently that the program made the decision to relocate to a larger facility, but not before the girls and the administrators thanked us for our personal support and involvement.

I’m trying to imagine how Brice, is it?, a 17 year old, feels about the ridicule being launched at her from leftwing bloggers.

Geyser:

You and dusty and @@ are like the talent that appears on the Jerry Lewis telethon. Real Old Street.

And you’re the Real New Street who ridicules what you SAY is only human.

I have always supported sex education within the schools. But only with parental knowledge of what will be taught and consent for all or part. The government usurping parental rights is something I don’t support.

The extreme left took something constructive (sex education) and pushed it beyond the purpose for which it was intended. They allowed special interest groups to prevail.

You cannot deny that abstinence is the only method of birth control that is 100% effective. Not realistic, but 100% effective.

By Dusty

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

Dear fearless fosdick,4:11

The day I post to please you will be the day I have started telling jokes (or hell freezes over!)

Relax, honey. Nobody makes you read anything. Confess!! You just want to squawk and complain. Take your meds. That might help.

By fearless fosdik

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

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 4:37 PM

Dusty..You are a laugh a minute with your old CANARD about Bush and his moral values…The guy was (is) a drunk, would never answer any questions concerning his alledged use of cocaine, ducked out on his flight physical and went AWOL from his Nat’l Guard unit, has at least one DUI..ETC…ETC…ETC.

And, if you think Cheney is moral than you are more delusional then you are practical!

I’m waiting for your weather report .. That’s about the only thing you write that perhaps is correct!

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

It’s not morals that are troublesome, it’s the hypocrisy of Bible thumpers who put their morals above sound policy; people like Sen. Larry “I wasn’t toe tapping for sex; I just like to listen to my IPod when I’m taking a dump” Craig, and Dr. David “I wasn’t anally raping my wife in her sleep; I just missed the right hole” Hagar.

When the evangelical right acts holier than thou, then they deserve to get hoisted on their own petard.

Not that the Dems are all paragons of virture; but by and large they don’t hide their misdeeds behind the Bible.

By fearless fosdik

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

By Dusty

September 1, 2008 4:45 PM

Believe it or not Dusty you tell a joke everytime you spout off about what a great president George Bush is!

Keep the entertainment coming…

By fearless fosdik

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

Jim Wooten..Jim Wooten:

Dusty referred to me as HONEY, an unwelcome word.

This is sexual Harassment Jim, and Dusty should be held accountable.

Honey, is a word of affectionate. And, I do not want her affection. Word has it she has a moustache!

At least censure would be a step in the right direction to stopping these type of unwanted advances.

By dirty harry

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

I can’t wait until tomorrow to see what else this republican train wreck has to offer!

By @@

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

Whoops! Just found out the daughter’s name is Bristol.

Pretty name.

By @@

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

Something else I’m contemplating while watching the radical left ridicule young Bristol.

It’s young people who are working for the dem candidate. When they see how quicklly ridicule can be heaped on one of their own, they’re likely to wonder why OBlahMa would allow himself to be hoisted upon the shoulders of the DailyKos, The Huffington Post, and MoveOn.org crowd.

There’s no denying that he wouldn’t be where he is today without their vocal and financial support. He can try to distance himself from them, but it’s impossible really.

Just thinkin’ about things.

By dirty harry

September 1, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

By @@ 5:26 PM

@@ you don’t seem to get it do you!

It’s not about Palin or her daughter it’s about the Hypocrisy that the religious right wing brings to the table.

You don’t seem to remember when Bush did the same thing to McCain back in 2000! The little girl he (McCain) adopted from Bangladesh, all of a sudden became his illegitimate BLACK child..Talk about eating ones own!

In 2000 I would have voted for McCain, but in his fervor now to become president he has totally forgotten what he stood for then.

Now he is nothing but a shell of his self..Pandering to the “party of Intolerance”

Pandering to the people who lied about this little girl.

Pandering to anyone who will cast a vote his way.

No thanks, No way, No McCain!

By @@

September 1, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Dirty:

Not saying that it was…..not saying that it wasn’t but they have yet to find who initiated the push poll on McCain.

I know how you leftists love your soap operas. But you don’t get to write the scripts.

Never doubt that McCain won’t revert to his old self upon being elected.

I don’t.

Nor do I doubt that OBlahMa will revert to his radical leftwing roots.

By dirty harry

September 1, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

By @@

September 1, 2008 5:58 PM

Didn’t write the script @@ just saying what actually happened…

And, all those good people in South Carolina bought the story permeated by Bob Jones, and Karl Rove and elected the incompetent one which was the end of John McCain in 2000!

No soap opera…just the facts!

By Keep Dreaming

September 1, 2008 10:48 PM | Link to this

Ray,

The reason we make fun of Sarah and Bristol, is because the Republican party appear to be death and dumb when it comes to the issue of teenage sex, single moms, and abortions.

When the Republicans talk about teenage pregnancies and unwed mothers, they seem to think it only occurs to young women of color and teenage girls without a father in their household.

Sarah and Bristol are great example that this is NOT a Democrate or Republican problem and that abstinence is NOT the only solution. I’m sure that Sarah preached abstinence to Bristol, but maybe she missed the mark about birthcontrol.

I read articles all the time where JIM WOOTEN, has nothing good to say about the single moms throughout GA. I would love to see his analysis of what kind of MARRIED PARENTS the PALIN’s are with both a mom and dad in the household.

I am not pleased that Bristol is preganant at 17 and I would like to see her do great things in the future. However, as a black single mom, I would like for people like Jim Wooten, convervative bloggers and the likes to stop making unmarried women the primary ills of society. They are just as good a parent as SARAH PALIN and now her daughter Bristol will be in the future. Also, because she’s getting married will not solve the problems, both she and her young man will face in the future. I wouldn’t place much success in this marriage lasting until this child reaches the age of three. I’m almost positive it will not last until this child reaches adulthood.

I’m not an advocate for unmarried moms, because I do believe in marriage. However, my main concern is that women of all colors should have the same type of support that the Republicans and Sarah Palin is going to give Bristor and her young man in the future. It’s not like either have a college education or can afford to take care of this child ALONE. But, I’m positive I will not hear JIM WOOTEN talk about this young woman, the way he talks about women like me in metro Atlanta. By the way, I have a college education, great career and have always been financially able to take care of my child. There are many like us, that JIM WOOTEN can’t seem to imagine, plus we reach out to teenage moms all the time.

One thing that Gov. Palin and her daughter brings to my mind, is that teenage pregancies are not just something that occurs within the Black and Latino communities. That you don’t have to be a single mom, to have a teenage daughter end up pregnant and having a husband is not going to keep a young man out of your daughters pants.

By Keep Dreaming

September 1, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this

Ray,

The reason we make fun of Sarah and Bristol, is because the Republican party appear to be death and dumb when it comes to the issue of teenage sex, single moms, and abortions.

When the Republicans talk about teenage pregnancies and unwed mothers, they seem to think it only occurs to young women of color and teenage girls without a father in their household.

Sarah and Bristol are great example that this is NOT a Democrate or Republican problem and that abstinence is NOT the only solution. I’m sure that Sarah preached abstinence to Bristol, but maybe she missed the mark about birthcontrol.

I read articles all the time where JIM WOOTEN, has nothing good to say about the single moms throughout GA. I would love to see his analysis of what kind of MARRIED PARENTS the PALIN’s are with both a mom and dad in the household.

I am not pleased that Bristol is preganant at 17 and I would like to see her do great things in the future. However, as a black single mom, I would like for people like Jim Wooten, convervative bloggers and the likes to stop making unmarried women the primary ills of society. They are just as good a parent as SARAH PALIN and now her daughter Bristol will be in the future. Also, because she’s getting married will not solve the problems, both she and her young man will face in the future. I wouldn’t place much success in this marriage lasting until this child reaches the age of three. I’m almost positive it will not last until this child reaches adulthood.

I’m not an advocate for unmarried moms, because I do believe in marriage. However, my main concern is that women of all colors should have the same type of support that the Republicans and Sarah Palin is going to give Bristor and her young man in the future. It’s not like either have a college education or can afford to take care of this child ALONE. But, I’m positive I will not hear JIM WOOTEN talk about this young woman, the way he talks about women like me in metro Atlanta. By the way, I have a college education, great career and have always been financially able to take care of my child. There are many like us, that JIM WOOTEN can’t seem to imagine, plus we reach out to teenage moms all the time.

One thing that Gov. Palin and her daughter brings to my mind, is that teenage pregancies are not just something that occurs within the Black and Latino communities. That you don’t have to be a single mom, to have a teenage daughter end up pregnant and having a husband is not going to keep a young man out of your daughters pants.

By tracher

September 2, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

If the Democrats and Liberals follow the lead of Conservatives and Republicans who love to repeatedly point out that Obama is a Muslim, unpatriotic, and inexperienced, they will learn a lot about how to smear the Gov. Palin. Your hypocrisy is beyond transparent. Your own commentary reeks of the persuasion of the McCain camp’s attempt to force enthusiasm for the candidate. Are Republicans insane? The second highest position in the country to Gov. Palin? If Conservatives are this kind to all teens who become pregnant, let’s see more focus and funding in our communities to assist these young ladies who find themselves in such a predicament. Oh, I forgot, as long as the girl is white and can force a young boy to marry her, it’s okay to be a pregnant teen. Christianity has NO PLACE in politics. Check the Constitution. Oh, that’s right, Republicans have no regard for that either. You call yourselves patriotic? That’s a laugh.

By Steve-O

September 2, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Wooten, you have written column after column about the importance of bringing children into this world in a state of wedlock. You have written column after column putting down women who are stupid enough to get pregnant and then not get married. But now it is okay in this case because her mother is a well-to-do Republican? Great! Bravo! If this girl is nearly 5 months pregnant then why has she not found time to get married? I am so sick of the hypocracy of the Right. It’s bad when others do it, okay when they do it. It’s okay to have a baby out of wedlock as long as your rich parents can help you raise it. Either this is about morality or this is about money. Wooten has made it about both in his columns and so have his followers. Where is that sentiment now? Rationalize away!

By ATL80

September 2, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

The Republicans are sending a message that it’s OK if a teenager gets pregnant as long as she marries the father. I HOPE that they are not forcing these poor kids into marriage in order to save face. While I agree that the best place for a child is in a loving two parent home “life happens” and sometimes that doesn’t always work out. Being raised in an unhappy marriage and seeing your parents fight all the time is worse than being raised by a single parent.

By shay

September 3, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

McCain/Palins decision to bring the boyfriend to the convention shows that they will do anything to win a race. To exploit 2 teens for political gain is shameful. It again shows just how McCain is out of touch with issues that America is facing…ie…..teen pregnancy. Teen girls already have this dream of being a mother and marrying the father. The Palins are giving these young girls a false sense of hope by bringing this teen couple to the stage to exploit in front of America. This isn’t reality. Young girls watching this who already want babies cannot read into this being a political strategy. When they see the Palins daughter and the boyfriend together, they most likely will feel that their lives will turn out the same way if they have a baby. I feel the Republicans are extremely irresponsible with this message.

I would like to tell the young girls now. This isn’t reality. You rarely will find young teen parents getting married after the birth of a child. If you get pregnant, you won’t be on covers of magazines, in the newspaper, or on t.v. Keep listening to you counselors on how to avoid getting pregnant and using protection. The Palin child dodged a big bullet, and that’s AIDS by not having protective sex. BE CAREFUL YOUNG TEENS. DO NOT LOOK AT THIS STORY AS REALITY. IT’S A POLITICAL STRATEGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By shay

September 3, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

McCain/Palins decision to bring the boyfriend to the convention shows that they will do anything to win a race. To exploit 2 teens for political gain is shameful. It again shows just how McCain is out of touch with issues that America is facing…ie…..teen pregnancy. Teen girls already have this dream of being a mother and marrying the father. The Palins are giving these young girls a false sense of hope by bringing this teen couple to the stage to exploit in front of America. This isn’t reality. Young girls watching this who already want babies cannot read into this being a political strategy. When they see the Palins daughter and the boyfriend together, they most likely will feel that their lives will turn out the same way if they have a baby. I feel the Republicans are extremely irresponsible with this message.

I would like to tell the young girls now. This isn’t reality. You rarely will find young teen parents getting married after the birth of a child. If you get pregnant, you won’t be on covers of magazines, in the newspaper, or on t.v. Keep listening to you counselors on how to avoid getting pregnant and using protection. The Palin child dodged a big bullet, and that’s AIDS by not having protective sex. BE CAREFUL YOUNG TEENS. DO NOT LOOK AT THIS STORY AS REALITY. IT’S A POLITICAL STRATEGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Carol

September 4, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

I have been reading comments concerning attacks of sexism on Gov. Palin. I believe that Republicans and some Democracts attacked Sen. Clinton. Let’s be fair!