Thinking Right

By Ga Values

September 9, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Since the AJC can not afford a CONSERVATIVE Columist & we are stuck with a RINO mouth piece here’s what a real Conservative thinks

Surprise Me Most By DAVID BROOKS Published: September 8, 2008 None of us have ever lived through an election at a time when 80 percent of voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But now that we’re in the thick of it, a few things are clear. From voters, the demand is: Surprise Me Most. For candidates, the lesson is: Weirdness Wins.

Last winter, Barack Obama succeeded by running a weird campaign. He wasn’t just a normal politician aiming for office, he was going to cleanse the country of the baby-boom culture war mentality. In his soaring speeches, he denounced the mores of both the Clinton and Bush eras and made an argument for unity and hope over endless partisan warfare.

But over the course of the spring, Obama’s campaign got less weird. The crucial pivot came when he failed to seize on McCain’s offer to do a series of joint town-hall meetings across the country. Those meetings would have elevated the race and shown that Obama is willing to take risks in order to truly change the way things are done.

Instead, Obama’s speeches became more conventional, more policy-specific and more orthodox. His Denver acceptance speech was different from his Iowa speeches. It was more traditionally anti-Republican and pro-Democratic. In the speech’s crucial contrast Obama declared: “It’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America. You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country.”

As David Broder noted, Obama’s speech “subordinated any talk of fundamental systemic change to a checklist of traditional Democratic programs.”

It is easy to see why Obama might tack this way. Democrats have a huge advantage in a straight-up issue contest. McCain is vulnerable on health care and the economy.

But by campaigning in this traditional way, Obama ceded the weirdness edge to McCain.

The old warrior jumped right in. Think about how weird last week was. The Republican convention was one long protest against the way the Republicans themselves have run Washington. McCain’s convention speech barely mentioned his own party. His vice-presidential nominee came out of the blue and seems totally unlike the regular crowd of former eighth-grade class presidents who normally dominate public life. McCain’s campaign ideology, exemplified in a new ad released on Monday, is not familiar conservatism. It’s maverickism — against the entrenched powers and party orthodoxies.

And it all worked. McCain got a huge postconvention bounce in the polls.

Now the campaign has become a battle between two different definitions of change. The Obama camp has become the champion of policy change — after eight years of failed Bush-McCain policies, it is time for different, Democratic ones. The McCain campaign is the champion of systemic change — after two decades of bickering and self-dealing, its time to shake up the whole system in order to get things done.

The Obama change is more responsible and specific, but it has all the weirdness of a Brookings Institution report. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) The McCain promise of change is comprehensive and vehement, though it’s hard to know how it would actually work in office.

It will still be hard for McCain to win in this environment, but his emphasis on broad systemic change may appeal to swing voters. Independent voters do not believe the country’s problems can be solved merely by replacing Republicans with Democrats. They cast a pox on both houses. That’s why they’re independents.

Furthermore, the maverick theme allows McCain to talk directly about character. Obama can hint at his values when he describes his tax cuts and health care plans, but he is indirect. Most voters, especially ones who decide late, vote on character over policies.

If I were advising the candidates, I’d tell them to double down on weirdness. Obama needs to occasionally criticize his own side. If he can’t take on his own party hacks, he’ll never reclaim the mantle of systemic change. Specifically, he needs to attack the snobs who are savaging Sarah Palin’s faith and family. Many liberals claim to love working-class families, but the moment they glimpse a hunter with an uneven college record, they hop on chairs and call for disinfectant. Obama needs to attack Bill Maher for calling her a stewardess and the rest of the coastal condescenders.

If I were McCain, I’d make the divided government argument explicit. The Republicans are intellectually unfit to govern right now, but balancing with Democrats, they might be able to do some good. I’d have McCain tell the country that he looks forward to working with Congressional Democrats, that he is confident they can achieve great things together.

The candidates probably won’t take this kind of advice. But remember: Weirdness wins. Surprise me most.

By Ga Values

September 9, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

“Obama, said Chambliss, is “the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate —- that is, when he decides he wants to vote.”: Chambliss & his Lobbyist son Bo are working for OBAMA. McCain is opposed to the type politician Saxby Special Interest is & Saxby’s son would be out of a job if he could not Deliver Saxby’s Vote & introduce legislation for special interest. Term Limits Here, Term Limits Now, America 1st Me Last.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Maybe this is a good day to dump the notebook, amusing “red meat” accumulated lately.

CHAIRMAN ANN CITES ONE COURAGEOUS THING MCCAIN DID AS A SENATOR –

I found it in a 2006 Brent Bozell column:

“Take the idea of cable choice, which would allow viewers to choose their cable channels a la carte and, more importantly, not have to pay for networks they don’t watch or, more emphatically, find personally offensive. It’s a slam-duck idea, one conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats alike, could endorse.

In June, Sen. John McCain offered an amendment to a Senate telecommunications bill that would have offered regulatory incentives to cable operators to offer cable choice to their subscribers. But it was defeated in committee by a vote of 20 to 2. Conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats alike – they all fled. Only Sen. Olympia Snowe joined McCain in support.

One big reason? Common Cause reports that between 1991 and 2006, major cable industry interests and their trade groups spent more than $105 million on campaign contributions to federal candidates and on lobbying in Washington. Since 2003, major cable companies have ramped up “government affairs” spending and donating to keep Congress and regulatory agencies from asking tough questions about cable mergers, cable price increases, and to suffocate cable choice in the crib.

Why doesn’t he brag about this?

Dr. Sowell’s essay today is “The Vision of the Left.” Has a great insight, explaining, “Should we be surprised that the strongest supporters of the political left are found among the young, academics, limousine liberals with trust funds, media celebrities and federal judges?” http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell

Totally unrelated red meat – maybe – the WSJ reports this morning (A5) that the Supremes asked for new briefs on the child rape execution case (Kennedy v Louisiana). That does not ever happen. Maybe Justice (not plaintiff) Kennedy has decided the leftists got it wrong (dark humor there – Kennedy wrote the ludicrous opinion joined by the four leftists.)

Unrelated funny story – this will totally inflame the leftists – the Justice Department plans to “deploy hundreds of poll monitors in November to prevent voting-rights violations, WHILE PURSUING CASES TO DETER FRAUD” (emphasis added), WSJ A4.

Unusually good WSJ today – separate articles outlining Barney Franks’s extensive history protecting FNMA and FHLMC from regulatory reform and oversight efforts, counterposed with an article by John and Sarah pledging to change the system that puts the taxpayer on the hook. A great review of Woodward’s new book that shows just how much President Bush had to overcome among the generals to pursue the McCain surge – until now I thought President Bush was the problem, rather it was a military wedded to a losing strategy.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

McCain as Messiah

By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, September 9, 2008; Page A23

John McCain is no silver-tongued orator, as he proved in St. Paul, but it’s hard not to be stirred when he speaks of wanting only to serve a cause greater than himself — until you take a closer look and see that he’s running one of the most egocentric presidential campaigns in memory.

Not that Barack Obama lacks a healthy opinion of himself, mind you. And no one wants the next president to be paralyzed with insecurity, or to doubt, even for a minute, that he’s the right man for the job. But after ridiculing Obama as a preening celebrity, if not a self-proclaimed messiah, McCain is campaigning on a platform that can be summed up in three words: me, me, me.

Much has been made of the fact that he’s a Republican running on a pledge to clean up the intolerable, unforgivable mess created over the past eight years by a Republican president — and, for much of that time, a Republican-controlled Congress in which McCain himself had great power and influence. It’s amusing to listen to a man in his fourth term in the Senate (after two terms in the House) rail against evil “Washington,” as if he weren’t one of this modern-day Sodom’s most prominent denizens.

There has been less comment, however, on the extent to which McCain rejects not only his party’s record but also important tenets of its stated philosophy. He’s a Republican who doesn’t entirely believe in modern Republicanism.

“We oppose amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, the GOP platform says. “The rule of law suffers if government policies encourage or reward illegal activity.” Yet McCain co-authored the ill-fated immigration reform bill that would have granted de facto amnesty to millions who are in this country without the proper papers.

“Republicans caution against the doomsday climate change scenarios peddled by the aficionados of centralized command-and-control government,” the platform says. McCain is with his party on the issue of offshore drilling — there was a surreal moment in St. Paul when delegates were actually chanting “drill, baby, drill” — but he has tried his best to sound more like a Democrat in acknowledging the urgency of taking measures to ameliorate global warming.

On abortion, the platform is uncompromisingly pro-life and mentions no exceptions for rape or incest; McCain believes there should indeed be exceptions. On embryonic stem-cell research, the platform says no; McCain says yes.

I’m not being disingenuous. I know that party platforms aren’t as important as they once were. But McCain’s apostasy on these hot-button issues has to be considered alongside the stunning charges he leveled against his own party in his acceptance speech. “We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us,” he said. “We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption… . We lost their trust when we valued our power over our principles.”

I can’t argue with any of that. Those sound like great reasons to throw the Republicans out of town and give Democrats a chance to lead. But John McCain is arguing that he should be elected in spite of his party’s many failures because, well, he’s John McCain. He’s special.

“I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need,” McCain said in accepting the nomination. But this line — which I took as a continuation of his attempt to paint Obama as some kind of self-proclaimed Chosen One — came right after a lengthy recounting of the horrors McCain lived through as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In effect, he had used his personal experience to anoint himself.

McCain’s speech offered hardly anything in terms of policy. At one point, he mentioned three “ordinary” families by name and spoke of their travails — and it was no coincidence that they happened to live in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, states that McCain would like to steal from the Democrats this year. But he offered no specifics on how the federal government under a McCain administration would make these families’ lives one bit better. He pledged only that he, personally, would “fight” for them.

McCain and his campaign aides are right when they insinuate that one candidate is acting as if he thinks voters should accept him, on faith, as their political messiah. They’re just trying to make fun of the wrong one.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

In the interest of balance, now some red meat for the left. Antitrust is on the march again. (1) FTC hearing on the Whole Foods – Wild Oats hearing starts February 16. Conservative view – what a stupid trial, the two companies combined don’s have sales equal to 10% of Kroger. FTC theory is that the “organic foods” market is unrelated to the stuff normal people eat. (2) Justice Department hired the Jimmy Carter antitrust chief to look over a case against Google for the Yahoo advertising deal. Conservative view – another stupid case, as if anyone reads internet advertising anyway.

By marko

September 9, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Jim, does this mean that you’re not voting for Obama? Addressing Obama’s lack of executive experince, has anyone considered his presidential campaign? Running a national campaign is a monumental task. Obama won his parties nomination, defeated the powerful Clinton machine and faces the November election with more money than his opponent. Unheard of for a Democrat. If I can offer you guys a little advice, you know I have your best interest at heart Jim, underestimate Obama’s executive skills at your own peril. Looking foward to the same stale culture war crap you guys serve up every four years. You have to love the party of Craig, Foster and Haggerty giving us morality lectures. True you often catch our guy’s with their pants down, but I’d like to point out that their partners in crime are usually female.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Now some red meat for both sides:

Howard Fineman writing in Newsweek on the Republican vice-presidential candidate:

Democrats dare not issue [Sarah] Palin a pass—she’s too dangerous a foe. Normally vice presidential candidates fade into the background. Nobody is expecting that with Palin; indeed, her newfound celebrity has made even Obama look dull.

The usual rule is that voters don’t trust attacks from people they don’t know, but Palin is turning the adage on its head. Democrats are determined to attack her credibility, even if it gives her more visibility. “We’ve got to go after her, and fast,” a top Democratic strategist, who asked for anonymity when discussing strategy, told me.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

The Republicans have inverted every position they ever stood for. Now,they stand for nothing. For example:

—They used to be fiscal hawks, now they burn cash by the bushel, demanding no accountability and laughing at the idea of a balanced budget or reducing debt.

—They used to believe in “getting government off your back.” Now they want government intruding in every personal decision imaginable, including when you can turn off the feeding tube to your brain-dead wife. They want to police your pregnancy and monitor every keystroke of your personal computer while listening in and “mining” all of your personal information without a warrant.

—They used to support American traditions as established by the Constitution. Now, they consider such notions as the Bill of Rights “quaint” and “just a scrap of (expletive) paper.”

—They used to deplore hypocrisy, taking the high ground against emotional appeals designed to separate the American taxpayer from his wallet. Now, they are emotional basket cases, making completely irrational appeals for the craziest ideas imaginable. They make absolutely no sense and contradict their own stated beliefs at every turn. Language has become their enemy, so they attempt to destroy it by rendering it meaningless.

—They used to be “conservative” about the use of the military to solve complex problems in the world. There was even a time when they were nearly pacificstic, accusing the Democrats of being “the war party.” Now, they want war anytime, anywhere for any reason, or for no reason at all. They become emotionally agitated about events in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, without knowing the first thing about those regions. They make provocative gestures like planting missiles in Russia’s front yard while intruding in their backyard. They want to bomb Iran, even as our troops are tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan.

—They used to maintain a healthy detachment from religion. Now, they are promoting every snake-handling, tongue-speaking faith healer on the tent circuit. They have corrupted religion and it has corrupted them. The true believers are just tools in their campaign.

—They used to represent the American aristocracy. Now, they ridicule educated “elites” and claim affiliation with the lowest common denominator. But this, too, is a con game, since the leaders all went to prestigious ivy league schools and have nothing in common with the people they claim to represent.

This party, like our nation, is truly bankrupt. The creaky John McCain and the insipid Sarah Palin are truly the dregs of a “movement” that died with the election of George W. Bush. It’s time to put an end to our misery.

By T

September 9, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

By Ga Values

September 9, 2008 8:29 AM

Great article!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Note that, in my 8:59 quote, Fineman adheres to the democrat “cult worship” theory of thought – what is said is not nearly so important as who says it. He has it backwards of course - Sarah’s words are not admired because of who she is, Sarah’s words are admired for their content. Her celebrity arises on the strength of what she says, and it is not that the words acquire strength from her saying it. Ideas matter to conservatives, identity matters to democrats.

By marko

September 9, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Way to go Churchhill! I want to be just like you when I grow up.

By Citizen of the World

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

Lest anyone become too impressed with Sarah Palin’s executive experience, stop and consider for a moment the executives and/or bosses you know. Often they got where they are and stayed where they are, less because of talent and competence, and more because of less noble qualities like ambition, or connections, or brown‑nosing or taking credit for their underlings’ work (yours maybe?).

It reminds me of a conversation I had with someone during W’s first campaign. The person said, “Well, yeah, I’ll admit he’s not that smart ‑ but he’s going to surround himself with smart people!” And I said, “Yeah, and how does that work with your boss?” He had no comeback.

Sarah Palin’s executive experience is not, in and of itself, more qualifying than all the other candidates’ perceived lack thereof. A person who has done well in other areas of business, industry, government (even acting, like, say Arnold Swartzenegger, whom Republicans elected to office!) can transfer their integrity, competence and commitment to an executive challenge and make good decisions for the benefit of their constituency.

You can’t just assume that because Palin was an executive she was an effective one.

Not to say that there aren’t competent executives, but quite often they’re just not. The metaphor that best describes this reality is: Cream rises to the top and sh*t floats.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

McCain now seems like a bystander at his own political events. He just stands there as Palin lies about “saying no” to bridge to nowhere (she has been shown in a clip from her campaign for governor in 2006 saying she would not oppose it). She implies she sold the state private jet on E-BAY(in reality it was sold through an aviation broker for a price $600,000 below its estimated value). She says she “fired” the governor’s chef (that person was really just moved to another state job, and continued cooking for her). And, as the Post reports this AM, Palin billed the state for staying in her own house, because she chose not to move to the state capital. Through all her lies, senile McCain smiles claps. McSame is a phony and and fraud who would just be four more years of Bush.

By Stone

September 9, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

The democrats sure are in a tailspin since the Palin for Vice- president announcement. They seemed to be cruising along quite nicely thinking they had already won the election. Now we’re back to the mean spirited, hate filled drivel they are known for and they are sounding more and more desperate. McCain has pulled even in most polls and is in front in others. If nothing else, it’s a joy to watch the bitter enders squirm.

By Letter from Wasilla, Alaska resident

September 9, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because she is a “babe”.

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months. She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit. Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans. Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters. She’s smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents. During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once. These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city. As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s surplus, borrow for needs.

She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideasor compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated” her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job.

In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit, exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.

They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked toglobal warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President. There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she. However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.

CLAIM VS FACT

•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years •“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since •“NRA supporter”: absolutely true •social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional). •pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it. •“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation •“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000. •political maverick: not at all •gutsy: absolutely! •open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions. •has a developed philosophy of public policy: no •”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR. •fiscal conservative: not by my definition! •pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards. •pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents •pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla’s history. •pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS

I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s. - Anne Kilkenny (Wasilla, Alaska)

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

How McCain can now campaign on CHANGE when HE was a big part of the FAILED REPUBLICAN BUSH ADMINISTRATION for the past eight years is ludicrous! HE voted WITH Bush 90% of the time, 95% of the time in 2008!! Now he wants to change all of that, even though he campaigns on keeping tax cuts for the wealthy and keeping our troops in Iraq for another 100 years? WHAT will he change, when he is FOR whatever bush has been FOR?

He is using the very “entertaining” Palin to HIS advantage because HE has NOTHING but his POW story to peddle! Palin draws the crowds, she is like another Rush Limbaugh! She is charming and entertaining, period.

I wonder where Cindy is??? I haven’t seen her at McCain’s side since the convention! It is PALIN all the way, as long as McCain is BESIDE her! Will she EVER go it alone??

She needs to be tested!

Robinson, I will never forget how you trashed Hillary Clinton when SHE had it ALL together. Try doing the same for Palin. She needs her “comeuppance”! She needs to get in there with the BIG BOYS, the MEDIA!

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Interesting bio on McCain the other night: He applied for a marriage license months before his divorce - shows a tacky character but…

when he was running for office in Arizona the first time, he was smacked for being a carpet bagger. Then one time, he grabbed the hand mike, went to the edge of a stage and said “my friends, the longest time I stayed in one place was 5 years as a POW.

The rest is history: that is now part of every McCain speech … it works. How can you vote against a POW and a “mother of 5?”

Easily: McCain wants “change” without admitting he is part of the problem in Washington - not the solution.

He thinks he knows it all because of his “experience” but has accomplished little in this almost 30 years.

If he showed leadership, his earmarks would have been history: they aren’t because he is not effective - even in his own party.

Palin lied to me in her first speech about Bridges and Earmarks. She may call it “speaking in tongues” in her former church but its old fashioned lies.

Her first media interview was with People Magazine: That’s says it all - she’s not ready for prime time!

By getalife "whiners"

September 9, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Wow.

How many stayed awake Jim?

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz fest.

By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday

September 9, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

ha ha ha, red meat my as s - those pu ss ies in the gop (goffy party) couldn’t fight their collective way out of a paper bag….with out his almost invulnerable navy fighter, McCancerFace was a crybaby, sobbing to the nva that his daddy would send a medic if they just called him. So brave dropping napalm from 500 feet, at 400 mph on defenseless third world villages, and such a whining crybaby when shot down….YOU REPUKED GOT A BEATING COMING, AND YOUR GONNA GIT IT ON NOVEMBER 4….

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

McCain gets more Pathetic with each passing day. Just as you get desynthesized after seeing a few car wrecks, you are no longer moved by McCain’s constant playing of his POW story. This guy has been milking that story for all it is worth since he returned home from VietNam. He’s used it to pick up women, work, fame and fortune, and now he is using to try and win the Presidency? That is more than Pathetic. Enough already, so he suffered the same fate as thousands of other men in VietNam, who incidentally got nothing for it, that doesn’t qualify him for President. He lacks everything we need in a leader and the more I watch and listen to him on the Campaign trail, the more I realize that. His Palin pick only adds to his lack of Judgement issues. When he gets to talking about, “I know how to do this, I know that…”it gets troubling.McCain reminds me of an old Veteran I talk to at the Assisted Living Home where my Grandfather lives. He tells the same old stories over and over again, and he knows everything there is about everything there is and gets p** off easily. So, with McCain, I think some of it is “sick ego”,some of it is bad temperment he was born with, but some of it is just “being too old” for the job. THERE, I SAID WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS THINKING, “TOO OLD FOR THE JOB”. Sarah Palin makes McCain look even older. It looks odd, the old McCain standing guard on one side of the young Palin, as Cindy stands guard to the side of the old husband. There is something creepy about that picture. Our Country doesn’t need that. Our Country doesn’t need John McCain.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Senator John McCain is indeed a hero of the Vietnam War era. His status as a prisoner of war (POW) is well cataloged. Senator McCain uses this well known fact more than any supposed hero known. Most, if not all, the other individuals of that conflict do not continue to state this circumstance in everyday conversations. Some may offer insight when asked about their background. Many might ask, “Does Senator John McCain believe that the Presidency of the United States is owed to him due to his Vietnam War exploits?” How about the numerous others who served this country with honor and held a POW status? They do not seem to live or die by the fact that many citizens of this country are unfamiliar of their sacrifice to the nation; likewise, they do not blow their own horn time after time concerning this matter. Perhaps none of them are smart enough to aspire to the Presidency of the United States or are they more secure within themselves. After review and assessment of Senator McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, it appears it is nothing more than a pity party. Senator McCain wants America to feel sorry for him and just give him the office. Again, one asks about the number of times this story is put at the feet of America and what it really means. Having service to this country under my belt does not cause an overdose of my experiences. I see no change a coming. That is then this is now.

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 9:14 AM

RAGNAR..”Sarah’s words are admired for their content.” Your words not mine!

Outside of the pre-written speech at the convention what pearls of wisdom has she delivered?

She has basically been in hiding since McCain recklessly chose her!

Obama, McCain and Biden all appeared on Sunday talk shows circuit….

Where was Sarah with her “WORDS OF CONTENT?”

By norman ravitch

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

McCain is semi senile and Palin is unqualified. But don’t fret. They are white and they will win.

By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday

September 9, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

norman ravitch - THE SENILE OLD FOOL WILL NOT WIN IF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US WHO OPPOSE the Goffy Party just find and beat the crap out of a republican every day between now and November 4. Just smack em up the side of the head until they come to their senses…..whomp whomp whomp….that reminds me, how does a flat italian tire go? Da go whop whop whop….

By Citizen of the World

September 9, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Hey Ragnar, are you one of those godlike industrialists whom Ayn Rand wrote about, who sprang fully formed from the earth and achieved great power and success entirely through their own genius, without the assistance, knowledge, ingenuity or labor of any man, past or present?

By Copyleft

September 9, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

“When freedom is taken away from some people I believe they are in a little better position to preserve it for the next generation,” said Huntsman.

And quite right, too. Now that Americans have had their freedoms taken away by the insanity of the Bush-neocon agenda, we’re ready to take it back and preserve it for the coming years.

President Obama will be a key player in that reclamation of our freedoms from the failed Bush regime.

By Redneck Convert

September 9, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Well, I might of knowed. Wooten don’t write nothing about the big news of the day—the co. that makes Skoal is being bought out and the price is likely to go up. Us rednecks can’t catch no breaks.

Anyhow, that politican that backed out of talking to those Republicans must of had a powerful bunch of hot air to need 7 or 8 people to replace him, including old Saxby.

Well, that’s all I got to say. I guess Wooten’s milking his notebook for all it’s worth to come up with a topic as dull as this one. But I guess if I was his age and my paper was going down the tubes I wouldn’t put a lot of work into what I wrote either.

Have a good day everybody. Oh, almost forgot. The missus is just fine, Ron, thank you for asking, but mean as a snake. She’s fell off to almost nothing. Pretty soon we won’t need the cattle scale to take her weight and she won’t be much heavier than Sister Dusty. Times is tough or I would buy her more of the red meat that she loves—the prime rib and mashed potatos that just vanishes when it gets near her.

By bearcasey

September 9, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Dam*! So much blather! This election will be about how “W” has messed up America:

• The rise in the price of gasoline is a “TAX” on every single American and American business. Old man Bush’s Saudi friends are happy, though.

• The mortgage crisis is of 1929 economic crash proportions. No Republican offials saw this coming?

• Sure, the surge worked. As long as we keep 150,000 troops in Iraq and pour $10 billion a month down that rat-hole it will work. The minute we withdraw, Iraq becomes anarchy. Study history!

“W” was a weak, glorified frat boy. Too bad the honorable McCain and Palin will have to pay for his sins.

By Chuck

September 9, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

You know, as the left ramps up its rhetoric and the name-calling gets uglier, the polls keep going for McCain. Obama got no bounce out of his Sermon On The Fifty Yard Line and unless the debates go his way (hardly a lock given his need for a teleprompter), this is not looking good for The Chosen One.

By Captain Freedom

September 9, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

THE Captain is especially heartened by Sarah Plain’s salutary embrace of True Religion. Complete with speaking in tongues and praying away the gay, this is Muscular Christianity, not the namby-pamby love thy neighbor hornswaggle that Islamunistofascists foist upon us in an effort to weaken Our Great Nation. THE Captain looks forward to the day when We of True Belief have successfully i) elected the Palin/McCain ticket; ii)delivered (via imprecatory prayer) St John to his ultimate reward; and iii)Sarah Plain and Tall ascends to the Oval Office and makes God’s Will the ultimate law of the land.

A good joke:

Q: What is the diffence between a Taliban fundamentalist and Sarah Palin?

A: Lipstick.

By Sean Cavity

September 9, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

If being a Maverick War Hero is so compelling and ideal in a Republican candidate, can someone please remind me how W won in 2000? And while you’re at it, did McCain get 75%+ of the vote in the Georgia primary a few months ago? He hasn’t become a Maverick War Hero in the past few weeks, so why all of the love now? What changed?

By cranky old man

September 9, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

I probably would have voted for McCain in 2000, if he hadn’t been knocked out of the race by Karl Rove’s pandering to racist South Carolina rednecks. I think the country would be much better off right now if he’d been president the past eight years. But the deals he’s had to make this time around in order to secure the nomination make it highly unlikely that he’ll undo very much of the Bush damage.

Granted, I’m not entirely thrilled with Obama either, mostly because of the legitimate concerns that have been raised about his resume. I mean, what the hell is a community organizer anyway? It sounds like one of those vague terms like “activist”. In any case, it doesn’t sound like a real job with real expectations and real consequences for failure. Still, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because I don’t think the country needs four more years of Reaganomics.

The main difference between the two parties is that the Republicans are very focused, and the Democrats are all over the map. Yes, the GOP has several large constituencies it must appease, some of which have incompatible or even mutually exclusive goals. But the core leadership of the party – the guys in the smoke filled rooms that make the real decisions – never lose sight of what has become the primary mission of the party for the past 40 years or so: returning the country to a 19th century economic order. No income taxes. No unions. No safety or environmental regulations. Basically, anything that might get in the way of owners or stockholders squeezing out that last penny of profit must go. If they have to pander to homophobes and creationists and gun nuts to get elected, so be it. As long as they get control of the government so they can turn back the clock, it’s all good.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

The general public needs the media to relentlessly fact check mclame. His campaign is lying on such a frequent basis that it hard to keep up with. That is because he hired the same liars who ran the bush campaigns, and they know that significant portion of the population is so beaten down by republicons economics that they have neither the time nor energy to pay more attention than to watch the 30 second campaign ads. they know they can lie, lie lie lie and lie some more and a significant number of people don’t know any better. mccain IS the problem. Asking him to reform Washington is like asking a crack dealer to run a rehab.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Great posts Citizen of the World. Try not to call old Ragnar out too much or she won’t come out to play. She’s not responding to me after taking a few on the cheek in yesterday’s post.

Enjoy your little bump in the polls, it’s short lived. Once we get to a few of the debates, and Obama lights up McSame, and Palin has to actually speak off the cuff and answer some tough questions the excitement of the Scarecrow and Mrs.King ticket will fade like George W on a permanent vacation.

By Churchill

September 9, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Recent news footage shows John McBush doubting that a surge would work in Iraq. In fact, he thought it would take even a lerger contingent of soldiers to accomplish the task. This doesn’t sound like the McCain that McCain has been talking about.

I still love the news program on TV where the anchor asked McCain if he had said something, which he then quoted word for word. McCain said that he never said such a thing. The news anchor then showed the video of John saying word for word the same thing that was quoted to him. McCain’s response was that of a deer caught in headlights.

One thing about Obama that impresses me. When he makes a misstatement, he usually catches it immediately and corrects it. Bush and McCain share the same character flaw, they rarely ever catch a misstatement.

Also, watch out for a non-scripted McCain. You never know what will come out of his mouth. Some of his biggest gaffs have been at townhall meetings. Obama has the luxury of a keen intellect and proven scholarship. He can actually think on his feet.

The number one ego today: Sarah Palin. You have to give her credit, She did this and she did that - all lies. However, the humility of being chosen to run as VP has never hit her. She is the cute “bantam rooster” of the McCain campaign. She struts her stuff and she knows it all. Typical yuppee.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dear citizen @ 10:01, sounds like you follow “cult worship’ theory. Answer: yes. Try to not fawn over me.

And, of course, the great conundrum of the election:

Q: How many community organizers does it take to screw in a light bulb? -

A: Nine. One to screw in the light bulb and eight to organize the busloads of protestors to the nuclear plant that powers it.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Dear Cavity @ 10:25, I understand there are some bumper stickers available that read McCain - PALIN

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

By cranky old man @ 10:31 AM

You ask what is a Community organizer…

A synopsis of what Obama did as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.

Obama “worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in their neighborhoods, to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for youth, and to try to deal with asbestos in homes with poor people — community service work —

McCain has been talking about, putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service.

I would call this NATIONAL SERVICE…Wouldn’t you?

By Just Nasty and Mean

September 9, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

G’mornin JIm, et al,

As much as I would like to brag about our Georgia Republican senators, I am sorry, I just cannot bring myself to state that Saxby (Sadly) Chambliss (Useless) is not one of us. He is the epitome of RINO. Saxby is in the pockets of the large farm conglomerates—which shows why he went against his own constituents on the Immigration bill, Farm Bill, and most recently—the Energy bill that keeps a failed (a sad joke, actually) corn subsidy and ethanol scam.

With the proper Republican candidate as an alternative, Saxby should have been “primaried” with all his screwing of his constituents.

Tom Price, John LInder and/or Phil Gingrey, —TRUE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS— would be EXCELLENT alternatives.

I’ll vote for Chambliss—but only because the alternative is a Harry Reid brown-noser.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Here are the others, credited:

• Nelles Hamilton: What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a pit bull? Teeth.

• Dagny Billings: What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a seeing-eye dog? Even a blind man can see the dog is actually helping someone.

• Michael Roberson: What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a Chihuahua? The Chuhuahua will eventually shut up.

• Bob Vorick: What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a puppy? One will grow up to become a loyal servant of mankind.

• O. Nara: What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a shih tzu? Zu.

Left-liberal blogger Ezra Klein, meanwhile, argues that it’s racist to make fun of “community organizers.” (It seems that Barack Obama, a former “community organizer,” is African-American.) Which gives us (Taranto) another idea for a joke:

What’s the difference between a “community organizer” and a pit bull? It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.

By Keeping It Real

September 9, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Everyone talks about the lack of experience of both Obama and Palin. If they are so inexperienced, how did they both get to their positions in both parties without knowing the politics of compromise and power. Palin beat out more well known politicians for the VP nomination while Obama beat out the Clintons. You have a white woman and a multi-racial man in the daily conversations of all Americans. I wonder who is behind the rise of both. I wish the networks would do a story on who is really pushing the buttons of no change. The rich 5% rules again.

By Just Nasty and Mean

September 9, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

G’mornin JIm, et al,

As much as I would like to brag about our Georgia Republican senators, I am sorry, I just cannot bring myself to state that Saxby (Sadly) Chambliss (Useless) is not one of us. He is the epitome of RINO. Saxby is in the pockets of the large farm conglomerates—which shows why he went against his own constituents on the Immigration bill, Farm Bill, and most recently—the Energy bill that keeps a failed (a sad joke, actually) corn subsidy and ethanol scam.

With the proper Republican candidate as an alternative, Saxby should have been “primaried” with all his screwing of his constituents.

Tom Price, John LInder and/or Phil Gingrey, —TRUE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS— would be EXCELLENT alternatives.

I’ll vote for Chambliss—but only because the alternative is a Harry Reid brown-noser.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

And the Ragnar comedy hour begins with a bang, or was that Cheny shooting another friend in the face.

Hey Ragnar, is your political view only based on money like the rest of the republican party? I rarely hear you talk about anything other than taxes and the oppression of big business and the free market. I know you put conservativism first, but as a citizen of this country, and as a human on this planet, don’t you think at some point you would realize it’s not all about you and money. As a religious person shouldn’t you reach out to those less fortunate, shouldn’t you promote understanding and tolerance for others? Or do you only believe in that when it benefits you with a profit? You speak of personal freedom but yet want to oppress the freedoms of others when it’s convienent for you. You believe in the right to keep arms, but yet want to regulate what I do in the privacy of my own house. You are for freedom when it benefits you, but when other people want to live their own way you want to regulate it. You are the problem not the solution.

The republican party are the original flip-floppers. Just ask Lincoln.

By Mableton Mom

September 9, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

I liked Saxby until I found out his son was a lobbyist & wrote most of Saxby’s legislation. Saxby is owned by special interest & works against the interest of the little people of Georgia.Saxby is like the stuff on top of my lake—SCUM. My vote & money is going to Martin.

By Doctor DR

September 9, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

I am voting for a democrat not just any Democrat , 2 democrats and I am an independent which means I think on my own two feet. I am voting for Obama and Biden. I just can’t imagine but it will happen eventually Palin and McCain have a bitter fight over who is right and all that this country hopes for and dreams about and needs improvement will go flying off in a rage of egos. I will cast my bright sails to the Democracy THE DEMOCRATS. God almighty knows my heart, who created all life, love and kindness but some never found kindness just wars and hatred that is the many reasons I am voting for a Good Person and that is my personal hope that Obama becomes our next President. Because he cares.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Dear JM&N @ 10:48, I would have voted for JM&N.

By Cardinal Red

September 9, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

@ fearless dickhead 10:47, when other churches engage in the same efforts to organize their communities, they are criticized as holier than thou religious zealots, theocrats by the left-wing socialists of the dimwit party.

By JLK

September 9, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Good! I hope their arteries are slamming shut. Please have some extra rolls with those steaks, and lots of butter, cheese, and sour cream on the potatoes. How many filet minions can a Republican eat before he drops dead? Get Saxby some onion rings while I fire up the grill.

“Churchill” is also my hero today. hee hee

My pit bull is insulted by the hockey mom joke.

By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday

September 9, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

How can you tell when McCancerFace is lying? His eyes are blinking. Have you noticed the airburshing of McCancerFace’s photo’s, and all the makeup he is now wearing to make his ugly face look strong? Now what to do about those lying eyes?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Dear JM&N @ 10:48, I would have voted for Jim Wooten. I would have voted for @@. I would have voted for Vernon Jones in the Republican primary. But I agree with you – I cannot vote in such a way that would strengthen the leftist control of the senate.

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Awwww more long long cut’n’paste, more repeats and insults.

I hope the grandparents of some of you “youngsters” slaps the fire out of your smart mouth “nuthings” insulting them. Cancer survivors should do the same.It seems most Democrats are stupid whatever their age.

RedNeck doesn’t know the “fat stuff” is getting lean now. Frying pan stuff is better.

Captain Freedom gets cute about religion. He tells little jokes. Here’s another one:

Q..What is the difference between Palin and Pelosi?

A..Three face lifts.

But thanks, Ragnar, for mentioning one more obstacle that President Bush has had to overcome in his tough presidency. All that with misled generals while Democrats manufactured pure hate for eight years. We have been fortunate to have a man who was strong when we needed him most.

By peerless fauxdick

September 9, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

I’d like to be the middle of a Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton sandwich. Rowrr.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Let’s look at the definition of a maverick:

A maverick is a person who shows independence of thought or action; a non-conformist or rebel.

Wow, John McSame sure is a maverick. I guess you only have to think independently 5-10% of the time to be considered a maverick.

Sarah Palin - Making Dan Quayle look like a good pick

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Wow, Dusty, you say “we have been fortunate to have a man who was strong when we needed him most”, I guess under that delusion just think what he could have done if he hadn’t been on vacation for over 1/3 of his presidency. So many countries to occupy, so little time.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Maybe I have judged Lanny Davis too harshly, or, more likely, maybe he deserves a second look: http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/08/ldavis_0908/

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Joe Biden: Trying to make hairplugs a VICE.

Definitions: What is a LIBERAL? A LIBERAL is a blowhard without a teleprompter.

A liberal’s only question about ANYTHING: Will the government pay for it?

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SNIGGER SNIGGER SNIGGER HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE … LMFAO!!!

The half-black black racist - TWENTY YEAR PROUD ACOLYTE OF GRAND CYCLOPS J. WRIGHT and “my mohammedan faith” Hussein Obama is now getting hammered in the polls. Every which way but loose…

The folks have seen through this uppity vile supercilious lying far left surrender monkey.

Palin is now NINE points ahead of the worthless white trash far left racebaiting plagiarising windbag Biden.

McLiar is according to Gallup now FIFTEEN points ahead of Hussein Obama with independents.

TWENTY % of white women have left the venal vile Hussein Obama and joined VP ELECT Palin and McLiar according to Politico.

McLiar is now even getting bigger crowds than the simpering half-black “I hates my white heritage ma bruthas” mohammedan beanpole.

Funny how Hussein OBama NEVER talks about his black (afriKan) mohammedan family, the actual unvarnished truth about his lying, alcoholic, bigamist, wife abusing daddy is pretty sickening. Which is why Hussien Obama DESPICABLY blames whitey/racism for his whisky addicted pappy’s demise, after a bigamist fling at Harvard. Just read the superb ObamaNation by Dr Corsi.

Funny how Hussein Obama cyncially pukes up lies in a TV interview about having seriously considered joining the military when he’s LOSING in the polls. But yet in BOTH of his dishonest, awkward fact avoiding books he NEVER EVER mentioned this. Just another far left liar who lies like a Klinton!!

And while Mr Palin, who is as irrelevant to all this as anyone can be (like Mrs windbag Biden is) at the age of 22 was busted for a DUI in Alaska - too much beer - Hussein Obama admits it was sniffing cocaine. But as ever the party of hate leftist media tends to gloss over all that!!

Drudge distills all this glorious poll news, and more, for true patriotic Americans.

Hussein Obama is uppity black racist toast!!! And hilariously even sooner than even yours truly expected.

Remember ……. the cowardly gutless effete windsurfing, ran away from Nam gigolo Kerry was ahead of Bush at this stage and LOST!!!

THE LIBERAL SCUM WILL LOSE … YET AGAIN!!!

THIS IS TOO FREAKING FUNNY ….

President McLiar and VP Palin will make a decent team and when McLiar (hopefully) retires early Palin will be a superb President.

And the pathological liar lardarsed HiTllary. aka Shrillary will just have to settle for liposuction and endless embittered ranting about how the pardon selling Arkansas rapist buggered up its turn (smirk) at the White House!!!

DEATH TO LIBERALISM … VICTORY TO THE GOP!!!

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Shrugging Atlas,11:44

So many lies. So little time. Why don’t you tell your Democratic led Congress about vacations?

The President is in full contact with all aspects of government EVEN when he is on “vacation”. You know that but you want to sound stupid. But then again, you are a typical liberal of loose lips and langour of the mind.

By Common Sense

September 9, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

I see our proud Governor Purdue is out sourcing the state IT department.

I guess he could not come up with a solution to keep the employees and save money at the same time!

We have so many great thinkers as politcians but they do not have any ideas on how to improve services and yet save people jobs!

By The banditry of punditry.

September 9, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

It looks like Jay nookwood saw Mr. Woo’s (of china) title about red meat and then thought of Mondale’s “Where’s the Beef” rant at his opponents. Mondale got 4 electoral votes, and anyone who would resurrect “where’s the beef” should be branded an idiot.

Jay nookwood is not so much “Dances with Wolves” as he is “Hacks with Tools”.

The thing about the evangelical right is the way they’ve shown forgiveness of a sinner by their total acceptance of Sarah Palin and her family. That speaks volumes about what the future can hold if the evangelical right get their candidate in office.

McCain 08: A cross, blood and guts, and forgiveness of sins.

We’ve all sinned. Let he who is without sin cast McCain as a phony. (sorry, forgive me 4 that)

By Atlas has 'roids

September 9, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

And a hernia.

By Peter

September 9, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Jim you sound Like McLost….no substance……no policies…just empty talk……..

Gee I hope he is not as GREAT as BUSH is…….

Rape the American Treasury……… Bail out Business with Taxpayers Money !!!!!!!

Gee Jim has there EVER been A PRESIDENT that spent Sooooooooooooo much of the TAXPAYERS MONEY ?

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

VoteNO @12:00

You make your point quite clearly. A bit strong for me but your post is mostly supported by facts.

Maybe a little shock treatment for libs now and then will clear up their misconceptions. But I doubt it. They have been brainwashed and blinded by revengeful Democratic losers for eight years.

By Peter

September 9, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Yes Dusty……….The President is in full contact with all aspects of government EVEN when he is on “vacation”.

I guess that is why Bush stayed on vacation during Katrina……..he didn’t want to be bothered…..after all it is a POOR state…..

Republicans = not all Americans are the same……

Republicans Party for the Rich, by the Rich, and screw the American Taxpayer !

By Tony

September 9, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Wow! The NASCAR Repubs are out in strength here today. Swooning over 3.8 total-hours-in-combat-but-been-raging-about-it-for-35-years-now Hero McShame - and moose-murderin’ Mama, AKA Pentecostal Palin. The Repug trash have been speaking in tongues for years - they are unable to utter anything intelligent. Just gaze at the entries here today. Or…any day.

By marko

September 9, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

McCain reminded me of somebody, but I could’nt put my finger on it. Then it came to me. McCain’s a lot like his fellow Navel Academy grad Jimmy Carter. Carter ran as a Washington outsider who swore that he’d clean up the swamp and bring fresh new ideas to the table. Carter did have some great ideas. we’d be much better off today had we implemented his energy polices.Sadly Washington is’nt the Navy, and you don’t get things done by barking orders. Carter is a great man, but he was a lousey president. I’m afraid McCain is to much like him, and too old to change.

By The banditry of punditry.

September 9, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

and now…..Part three of “The SnowWitch”

The SnowWitch was prepared for her first speech as the new candidate for chief of the pointy heads in the land of the pundits. She approached the podium. The crowd roared, and when they finally quieted, the SnowWitch said only one word: “change”.

Then she turned, taking no questions, and acknowledging no applause, and disappeared as if into thin air.

The Black Knight had spies in the audience wearing, “Dont trust Yellow SnowWitch” T-shirts. He was trying to develop a new countercampaign to SnowWitchomania. Until now, HE had been the one who made one word speeches. Now the SnowWitch has comes out of nowhere, and abridges his own technique, making her speeches even shorter than his, as he had at least said, “hello”, first, before he’d say, “Change” and then “Goodbye”.

But not the SnowWitch. She just said, “change”, and the pointy heads were enthralled. ” What genius”, they remarked. “How succinct! What a plan!”

The crowd soon turned on the Black Knight’s spies who were easily spotted with those stupid t-shirts, and kicked theirAsses.

But the Black Knight found out about the one word speech anyway, and set about rewriting his own one word speech, knowing that he had to reach deep within himself and find even more brevity and clarity.

The day for the Black Knight’s counter speech arrived. He approached the podium, adjusted the mic and leaned forward and said…..2Bcontinued.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Nice try Dusty, you want to hide behind the last two years while forgetting about the previous six that your party led congress. You sound like Romney. And if you want to talk about lies why don’t you read any of Palin’s last speaches. Talk about lies. I provide facts regarding the time of vacation, and you tell me the president is always in contact? What does he have his blackberry on him? With Bush it was most likely a PSP anyway. I’ll use the following as just one example of his always being connected…

President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (See the memo here.) At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001. Here’s how the administration reacted, according to the 9/11 Commission report:

— [President Bush] did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the Attorney General or whether Rice had done so. [p. 260] Wow he was really in contact. So much so he doesn’t even remember being there.

— We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. DCI Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, on August 17 and participated in the PDB briefings of the President between August 31 (after the President had returned to Washington) and September 10. But Tenet does not recall any discussions with the President of the domestic threat during this period. [p. 262]

The day after he received the memo, “Bush seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday,” the Washington Post noted. Today — 2,557 days later — Bin Laden still remains free and “determined to strike in U.S.”

By getalife "whiners"

September 9, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Insanity:

“No way, no how, no McCain, no Palin”.

Hillary Clinton.

By Chuck

September 9, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Mock Sarah Palin’s religion and you only reinforce the belief that every Democrat is an atheistic heathen. Of course, that isn’t true; most Dems believe (and believe only) in the power of government to cure all ills and raise us all up… to the lowest common denominator. And The Chosen One will lead us there.

Somehow, I’m not excited.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Hey Chuck, if you’re not excited, you’re on the wrong side.

By The Snark

September 9, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

I know you find your “red meat” very entertaining, but our country needs skill and serious attention in the governance department and these folks aren’t providing it.

Hey MARKO: There is one big difference between President Carter and Senator McCain, and it doesn’t bode well for the future:

Carter’s class rank at Annapolis: 59 out of 820. McCain’s class rank at Annapolis: 894 out of 899.

We’ve tried mediocre for the last eight years. I kind of like the idea of a President with above average intellegence.

By Drew

September 9, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Don’t you know that the slogan works better like this:

“No way, now how, NOBAMA”

(Thanks, Hill.)

By JLK

September 9, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Chuck, no wonder you’re not excited. In order for you to assert your knowledge of what “most Dems believe,” you would have to actually listen to and communicate with people of the Democratic political persuasion to have a clue. Your statement at 12:34 is utterly and completely false. (Ninth commandment you just broke, is it?) Try varying your news & information sources once in awhile; you might learn something.

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Shrubbing Atlas,12:24

I do not receive communiques on how to rot the presidency of the USA. I see the achievements of President Bush which are are BIG BIG ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

I know. YOU FORGOT. President Bush has protected this country from terrorists and freed two countries from tyranny. That you count as nothing.

As to bin laden who wants to strike America from his snake hole in the Himalayas, big deal. There are hundreds of other killers out there who would like the same but don’t dare to strike America. Getting beat up in the Mid East is pure disgrace for them but further plans against America have been gutted by PRESIDENT BUSH AND OUR MILITARY.

Go ahead and try for a namby pamby liberal as president which is what you want. I DO NOT. McCain and Palin are both strong Americans and I will vote for them to lead this country.

By Chelsea

September 9, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

You’re comparing McCain to Carter? And just who did Jimmuh endorse this year?

And O’ Mr. Indecisive couldn’t bark an order if his life depended on it… or say, hostages lives depended on it.

By Chuck

September 9, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

The story remains the same; every four years, the Democrats nominate a new version of the same elitist liberal and then try to paint the Republicans as dumbass religious zealots and well damn, seven out the last ten elections, they lose. Even when its a gimme. Maybe someday, they’ll lock onto a candidate who’s more than symbolic.

By Common Sense

September 9, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Dusty are you taking your meds?

Do you honesty think everyone fighting the war is all REPUBLICANS. What about the DEMOCRATIC soldiers that are serving their country and fighting a war!

Do you really believe whether DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN that they would care less if someone attack us!

What is going on in your head?

According to your previous statement it is absolutely o.k. for someone to kill 3,000 americans and since they are others who want to kill americans we should not worry about Bin Laden!

Wow,Wow,Wow!

I give up! Their is no hope with some of the actual beliefs and intelligence that is being displayed on this blog!

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Dusty, I don’t get communiques on how to rot the president either. I just turn the TV on, use my memory, or open my eys and look around. You try to use the old Rove technique of painting the Dems as soft on homeland security, but seriously no one wants anything to happen regardless of political party. And no I don’t “forget”, I just see history and the current situation differently than you. I do believe that any monkey could have done just as good a job as Bush has. I, and most of the country, don’t think the lack of an attack is based on George Bush. Seriously, come on now, you’ve been drinking too much of the cool-aid if you believe that.

By T

September 9, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

*By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SNIGGER SNIGGER SNIGGER HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE … LMFAO!!!

The half-black black racist - TWENTY YEAR PROUD ACOLYTE OF GRAND CYCLOPS J. WRIGHT and “my mohammedan faith” Hussein Obama is now getting hammered in the polls. Every which way but loose…

The folks have seen through this uppity vile supercilious lying far left surrender monkey.*

I am not convienced that U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland statement of ‘uppity’ was racist, but that sure was.

Tell us how you really feel sweetie.

By mm

September 9, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

Wingnuts,

New day. More lies and stereotypical BS from the uneducated right. Do you dolts ever get you news (or propaganda) from anywhere other than Fox News, Rush, Hannity, or Coulter?

Here’s one for you. Since you put so much stock in polls, take a look at the electoral vote estimates:

McCain Ahead in National Polls; Obama Up in Electoral Votes

That’s 243 to 189. Only 27 more. That’s 1 or 2 swing states.

Bwa.

By KnowItAll

September 9, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

I see Drudge says a poll of 22 countries says they all would like to see Obama elected.

Since when has ANY country—-European, Asian, African—wanted what is good for America? Huh?

If there were ever a reason to elect McCain/Palin, this has GOT to be it.

By Joe Gonzalez

September 9, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

When talking to fellow Democrats, discussions often contain the following,”We need to help our poor and our elderly, educate our children, protect our enviornment.” The words “we” and “our” are inclusive, collective. From Republicans, “I” and “me” are the operative words

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

@ T…for…tw @t 1.20pm

Exactly what was “racist” dickweed?????

I simply stated FACTS … Hussein Obama attended an overtly black racist church for 20 years. With NOT ONE public word of dissent or criticism, at least not until it started its now failing White House run. Grand Cyclops Wright hates whites and America. Its seemingly endless stream of vile racist puke on countless video clips shows us where its black racist heart “is at” (snigger).

Funny also how this giant hypocrite Grand Cyclops Wright NOW lives in a “McMansion” in a wealthy, exclusive WHITE (golf course friendly) suburb of Chicago and drives expensive Mercedes cars. Paid for by its black US KKK of A church (just wittily using its own vile hatepig rhetoric).

NOT EXACTLY IN KEEPING with its anti-white, anti-rich, “I luv ma po oppressed by whitey bruthas” rhetoric is it bubbaturd??

Typical black (liberation) snouts in the racial trough dissembler … DO AS I SAY - NOT AS I DO!!!

All my descriptive, factual commentary observations about the supercilious uppity surrender monkey .. “I WAS HOPELESSLY WRONG ABOUT THE SURGE” Hussein Obama were spot on!!

By Getting it RIGHT

September 9, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

From Republicans, “I” and “me” are the operative words.

You mean Jesus preached: “I want to keep more of MY money in MY pocket!”?? I mean, the Republicans are the party of Jesus, right? Tell me He demanded to see proof of insurance before healing a sick child…

By deegee

September 9, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

I watched the coverage of the 3 McCain/Palin campaign stops on Friday and Saturday following the convention. I figured that the 4-day party was over and now she would get down to the business of mapping out their plan for the future. WRONG! It was like watching Tonight Show reruns with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Okay, the first time she gloated over selling the plane on ebay it was entertaining, the second time it was okay, the third and fourth time it was down right embarrassing. Even Pops McCain looked a little squeamish standing there rewinding the punch lines.

Apparently she is back in Alaska going over some new material. She needs it. Charlie Gibson is going to spend two freakin’ days with her in Wasilla on the much anticipated press conference. “Hey, Charlie! Could you help me get the groceries out of van! You know my oldest son would do it but he just left for Iraq. Where’s that newborn of mine? Who’s got the newborn? Willow, Bristol, Piper??? Where’s the baby???”

By where's sarah?

September 9, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Funny, I thought republicans waited until after the election to send their vice presidents to secure undisclosed locations.

By T

September 9, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

@ T…for…tw @t 1.20pm

Exactly what was “racist” dickweed?????

LOL, ok perhaps it is my fault for responding.

UUMM what was racist? Lets see…. maybe the words sn****?

Maybe I am wrong. Perhaps the word you were using is another form of the word

intr.v. snick·ered, snick·er·ing, snick·ers To utter a partly stifled laugh: freedictionary.com

If I was wrong in my accusation, I appologize. If not, then that just proves my point.

Thanks for playing.

By deegee

September 9, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Hey, Knowitall, Considering that the rest of the world is financing our debt via US Treasury Securities then it would be in our best interest and theirs to have a leader that instills confidence in the ability to keep the US economy from going any further down the toilet than it already is.

By steve-o

September 9, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

So the racist Mr. Can’t-Quite-Cut-It-In-The-Coca-Cola-League aka TFTT aka VOTE NO is back spewing hatred and racial divisveness. I guess you gotta keep yourself busy in some sort of way if your favorite sporting club sucks and continuously gets spanked like a bunch of orphans. Since it probably takes an average of 7 clicks just to read lowly Leicester City’s football scores on BBC.com, it has a lot of time in between to keep informed on Stormfront, VDare, and any other vile racist media outlet. Just last week, he was gleefully touting another racist’s call for a race war on an ultra right-wing blog. Pay the resident fake Brit no mind. He’ll crawl back into his hole soon enough.

By Devastator

September 9, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 nights spent at her home, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

An analysis of travel statements filed by the governor, now John McCain’s Republican running mate, shows she claimed the per diem allowance on 312 occasions when she was home in Wasilla and that she billed taxpayers $43,490 for travel by her husband and children.

Per diem payments are meant for meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. State officials told The Post her claims — nearly $17,000 over 19 months — were permitted because her “duty station” is Juneau, the capital, and she was in Wasilla 600 miles away. The governor moved to Juneau last year but often stays in Wasilla and works 45 miles away, in a state office in Anchorage.

Palin’s spending and record in office are coming under intense scrutiny as she is presented to the nation as a champion of ethics reform and frugal use of tax dollars — a leader who put the state jet on sale on eBay and drives herself to work.

The Post’s analysis shows her husband Todd and their daughters were reimbursed by taxpayers for many trips between Wasilla and Juneau as well as for a variety of other travel that was also listed as state business. Palin’s aides said travel by Alaska’s first family is part of the job.

But it’s not clear when children’s travel expenses should be covered. State finance director Kim Garnero told the paper the government covers the travel costs of anyone conducting state business and, “I can’t imagine kids could be doing that.”

Palin took her daughter Bristol to New York in October for a conference on women and leadership, a tour of the New York Stock Exchange and various meetings, the analysis shows. Travel costs included three nights in a hotel room costing more than $700 a night.

Overall, Palin’s travel spending pales in comparison with that of predecessor Frank Murkowski, who charged $463,000 for air fare in 2006. Palin charged $93,000 in 2007.

Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said Tuesday that the governor is expected to travel frequently. “This is part of her job and it’s only reasonable her travel expenses — which were reduced dramatically from the previous administration — would be covered,” Schmitt said.

By T

September 9, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Oh, ok. you * out the part of the word I put in bold, but it is ok for it to be in CAPS LOCK and (parethisis) in earlier posts.

Just kiddin… kind of… you get the point.

By KnowItAll

September 9, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Obama Supporters!!!

Obama just picked up an endorsement from pariah Libyan extremist Muslim terrorist and Pan Am bomber Moammar Kadafi calling Obama a “confirmed brother” of the Muslim faith. Kadafi joins the American Communist Party and confirmed terrorist organization Hamas in endorsing Obama.

Congratulations!!

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

@ T…for…tw @t

“snicker” is wot Americans call a Marathon chocolate bar (with peanuts and nougat etc).

snigger is a perfectly PROPER everyday word for all English users, denoting a sneering/partly stifled laughter etc.

Try using the OXFORD dictionary - which is the DEFINITIVE DICTIONARY for English speakers - dickweed … U might actually edumacate (sic) urself.

BTW I used the word snigger not the “words snigger.” U also need too lurn ow to rite proper U pompous colonial dickhead …

huge I hate lefties snigger

By steve-o

September 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

KnowItAll aka KnowNothing,

Yeah, just wait until us Obama supporters show up on your doorstep with bombs strapped to our chests. You ain’t see nothing yet!

Sheez, what a tool.

By Common Sense

September 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Does Governor Palin believe in education? She seems to have her kids out of school a lot!

To: Know Nothing Are we in a global economy? Or can American stand up grow with-out allies?

Economics 101 we try to supply the new demand.

Our Big Corporations are already in-bed with many countries! Can you wake-up and stop the BS!

What is wrong with your people?

Mrs Palin is o.k. just not enough policy knowledge to get this done!

But McClain as shown no one wants to work with him, because he lacks intelligence, smarts and common sense!

What commander in chief sends their troops into war without full complete body armor?

Bush/McClain nuff said!

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 9, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

So the cowardly chav VOTE NO, chooses to hide his racist views behind the Oxford dictionary! How hilarious! “Snickering” is what football supporters do whenever the Blue Army (sic) pathetically enters the pitch. I assume the Oxford-shielded racist VOTE NO will be able to take the disappointment when his party loses the White House since it’s used to dwelling in the cellars of underachievement when it comes to supporting his joke of a football club!

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

KnowItAll:

Please cite a reference to your post “Moammar Kadafi calling Obama a “confirmed brother” of the Muslim faith”

I’d like to read this so called news-breaker!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Dear Joe @ 1:39, “When talking to Democrats, discussions often contain the following, “We need to tax more rich peoples’s money to give it to those who are not rich, to pay school bureaucrats, and to prohibit people from using their own property the way they wish. We certainly cannot allow oil drilling, even if it would lower prices for people who actually work, because Mother Gaia would be unhappy.” The words “we” and “our” are endemic, the collective. And always taking from Republicans, for whom “theft” and “stealing” are the operative words to describe democrats.

By Devastator

September 9, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

fearless,

Don’t let hermophrodites like “knowitall” get to you.

It has nothing intelligent to say so it makes stuff up. That type of mindlessness will help Obama in ‘08.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

@ T…for…tw @t

“snicker” is wot Americans call a Marathon chocolate bar (with peanuts and nougat etc).

snigger is a perfectly PROPER everyday word for all English users, denoting a sneering/partly stifled laughter etc.

Try using the OXFORD dictionary - which is the DEFINITIVE DICTIONARY for English speakers - dickweed … U might actually edumacate (sic) urself.

BTW I used the word snigger not the “words snigger.” U also need too lurn ow to rite proper U pompous colonial dickhead …

huge I hate lefties snigger

By deegee

September 9, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Hey, Knowitall, Looks like Obama had to stand in line behind W’s lapdog, Condi.

“He called her “Leezza” and gave her a locket engraved with his picture to wear. They dined alone - if you don’t count the dozens of servants and Libyan aides rushing about with spicy lentil soup and other delicacies - in the private kitchen of his tent at his Bab al Azizia residence, the compound bombed by American airstrikes in 1986 at the height of the American-Libyan tensions.

And when she finally left after the first dinner between a sitting American secretary of state and “the brother leader,” as his countrymen refer to him, he handed her an autographed copy of his famous Green Book, his revolutionary call to arms that, as the title page puts it, includes “The Solution to the Problem of Democracy, the Solution to the Economic Problem, the Social Basis for the Third Universal Theory.”

“From Muammar Qaddafi,” the inscription said, “with respect and admiration.”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Dear getting it @ 1:55, right, Jesus was a thief who used the guns of government to steal the wealth of rich men. Aren’t you confusing Jesus with Mohammed?

Dear T, our friend TFTT knows his language, suggest you withdraw as gracefully as possible. I am certain I recall Liza Doolittle, in Shaw’s Pygmalion, using the term at the tea party, as she upbraided Freddy for what she deemed inappropriate laughter as she described her aunt’s recovery from typhoid.

Dear Fosdick @ 2:35, I think the Ghadaffi story is old news, that was a couple of months ago when he endorsed Obama.

By T

September 9, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 2:26 PM

Lol. Thanks for the lesson, sir. However, I did state, if I was wrong that I do apologize.

I do appreciate the rant. It has made me smile.(snigger)

Maybe that is why all those guys wanted to beat the p&*# out of me when I asked if the store had lots of sniggers in stock.

OOOhhh, love that chocolate goodness…

Thanks again for playing..

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

RAGNAR just because you say it’s true doesn’t make it so….

Dear Fosdick @ 2:35, I think the Ghadaffi story is old news, that was a couple of months ago when he endorsed Obama.

I asked for a reference, and have yet to receive one!

How about you…Got one?

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 9, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Ragnar,

You’re damn straight the racist chav TFTT knows his language, which is precisely the reason why he continuously uses a word whose ortography closely resembles that of one of the most wicked racial slurs. The guy is an idiot. More than that, he’s an idiot’s idiot.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Dear Fosdick @ 2:35, I was right, early July: http://media.www.csucauldron.com/media/storage/paper516/news/2008/09/08/News/International.Reaction.To.Us.Elections-3419499.shtml

By Filster

September 9, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

And let us not forget that whilst a member of the Illinois legislature, Obama cast his vote as “Present” some 130 times. Not “yes,” not “no”, but merely “present.” So what happens is a critical piece of legislature comes through and he HAS to pick a side. Or he has to sign authorizing us to go to war if we’re attacked again. Sorry folks, but “present” just doesn’t equate to presidential.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

I see the yellowbellied anal anally unfunny cyber stalKKKer is back. Puking up its witless psychotic anally ENVIOUS OF ITS CONSERVATIVE (as in Conservative and Unionist Party) BETTERS bile!!

Happily the OXFORD DICTIONARY remains the world’s definitive dictionary, given both Oxford’s historical (and publishing) prominence and the fact that the proper English language language, as still (mostly - but admittedly less and less) spoken across the Atlantic in what’s left of illegal leech swamped Nu Labour fascist run Old Albion, is easily the language with the most extensive vocabulary. Awesome - aint it - bubbaturd???

Knowing I can so easily elicit anal anally unfunny hissy fits from worthless leftist scum by simply using snigger in a perfectly acceptable and perfectly apposite context is indeed thanks enuff … now go get smacked around some more by ur crystal meth abusing pimp!!

Hussein Obama is a nasty venal half-black mulatto - to use the historical and fastidiously accurate term - black racist who clearly despises his white heritage. Otherwise why would he slavishly spend TWENTY YEARS with not a whimper of protest listening to Grand Cyclops Wright puking up Calypso Louis Farracrap like hate about “white devils”. And UNDENIABLY 90%+ of blacks wouldn’t SLAVISHLY vote for Hussein Obama if he wasn’t entirely focused on his black ‘half’.

SNIGGER SNIGGER SMIRK SNIGGER

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 9, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Filster,

Voting “present” is a mere way of respectfully declining to vote for a bill due to the fact that although you may not oppose the purpose or principle of the proposed legislation, but rather you want to amend it.

By Devastator

September 9, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Fosdick and Ragnar,

If you believe what Quadafi says, then you must consider him a reliable source of info.

Since he’s such a bad guy, maybe Bush shouldn’t have removed him from the world terrorist list and maybe Condi Rice shouldn’t have visited him.

By KnowItAll

September 9, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Devas-tater/fearless fakedick

Watch out who you call out. You could be made to looks stupid—like now.

Here’s the proof

Of course, I would NEVER expect you left wingers to apologize.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

T for tw @t

The ‘Snickers’ bar over here is called a ‘Marathon’ bar over there … so ur abject stupidity and brazen RACEBAITING interlecKKKltual (sic) dishonesty AINT CUTTIN IT!! Most likely like ur mouthwash … (gentle apologies to GOP supporter Senor C. Eastwood - aka Dirty Harry - not to be confused with the treasonous Nevadan maggotbrained sleazebag Dingy Harry) … snigger

Funny how this lefty scumbag - there’s ONLY ONE (that effetely attempts to engage me) on here with a few hundred id’s keeps endlessly humiliating itself!!

By Devastator

September 9, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Knowit All,

Read my 3:07.

What you posted is proof that Quadafi said it. Not that he was correct j@cka$$!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 9, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Dear Fosdick @ 2:53, in all fairness Qhadaffi’s endorsement was before John added Sarah to the ticket, so he may well have changed his mind, like everyone else.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Hey By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS, you’re giving your party a bad name and making it seem even more racist than it already is, which is pretty hard. Since you are small minded I’ll try to dumb it down for you…sticks and stones buddy. Wow, the dems have Rev.Wright, but the repugnants have guys like Falwell, etc.

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 9, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Obviously Obama hates his own mother because she’s white! You really are a silly tw@t, VOTE NO! …and a blatantly dishonest one at that. Knowing that your pathetic political party is about to lose the White House, you can’t even have an intelligent political debate, and instead resort to lobbing derrogatory terms at Obama that date from slavery. Mulatto? Really?

It’s obvious why your favorite…or should I say favourite…football club are a bunch of underachieving children who can’t quite make it in the Coca Cola League. Your arguments belong on an elementary school playground instead of a debate among adults.

Come to think of it, you were probably one of those immature little morons who snickered at the name of the country of Niger and blantantly mispronounced it. At an older age, you probably hurled ape noises from the decrepid terraces towards the pitch with your ignorant chav friends whenever a black footballer touched the ball during football matches at Leicester Sh!tty.

Silly tw@t…go back to the playground.

By KnowItAll

September 9, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Devas-tater/fearless fakedick

More bad news! You just stepped on a grenade!
If you can still find your cohunes after the explosion, feel free to apologize.

Source: Free Republic

Barack Obama is a Muslim, Says Libya’s Qadhafi ” There is a video on YouTube of Qadhafi while he is addressing a large crowd of political supporters that is rather restless and intense. In his speech, Qadhafi first discusses that Barack Obama’s first name is really “Barak” which is the name of the horse that lifted the prophet Mohammed into heaven. Then, Qadhafi goes on to speak of Barack Obama using the kind of familiar tone one would use for a friend and ally as being born of a Kenyan black muslim father and, therefore, in the muslim religious tradition being muslim himself. Qadhafi further goes on describe Barack Obama as having been raised as a muslim by his step-father while the family lived in Indonesia where Barack attended a muslim school. Qadhafi continues by stating that he hopes that Barack doesn’t forget all of his many supporters in the Arab world once their support makes it possible for Obama to become President, the American ruler. Qadhafi also states that he hopes that Obama, once President, does not suffer from an inferiority complex (as Qadhafi says many American blacks do), because if this happens, Obama will end up endorsing a foreign policy that is even “more white” than a white President would have and that would hurt many countries in the Arab world. Qadhafi also states that he expects Obama to make all of Jerusalem part of Israel, because no two “midget states” can ever exist in such a small land area.”

!!!Congratulations! Obama Supporters!

By Devastator

September 9, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Knowitall,

Barack, pronounced “BUH-ruhtsk”, is a type of Hungarian brandy (Pálinka) made of (or flavored with) apricots. The word barack is a collective term for both apricot (in Hungarian sárgabarack, lit. “yellow-peach”) and peach (in Hungarian őszibarack, lit. “autumn-peach”).

In modern Arabic, the name Barack (Arabic: باراك ) pronounced ba’-rak, means “he who is blessed” or simply “blessed”. A more common form in most Arabic-speaking countries is the passive Mubarak.

The usage of the root B-R-K as a male name meaning “blessing” occurs in the Ancient Semitic Sabean (barqac), in Palmyrene (baraq), and in Punic (Barcas, as surname of Hamilcar), and as a Divine name in Assyrian Ramman-Birqu and Gibil-Birqu[1], and personal Biblical name Barukh or Baruch (which is also the modern Hebrew cognate; see Book of Baruch for an instance of the name). “Barack” and “Baruch” are equivalent to “Benedict” (Latin Benedictus).

You might want to use someone other than Quadifi as your source of info.

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 9, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

KnowItAll,

Did you really quote the Free Republic? Seriously?

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

By KnowItAll

Know it all you quote the FREE REPUBLIC, and what is the FREE REPUBLIC? It’s a self-described bunch of conservatives and nationalists.

It presents articles and comments posted pseudonymously by registered members, known as “Freepers!

Sorry FREEPER Go tell it to your fellow FREEPERS…I don’t believe you!

By T

September 9, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 9, 2008 3:12 PM

I don’t know who you are confusing me with. The last time I went to the store it was still a Snickers bar.

Why so much anger? I am having a great time. Can we learn a new word together tomorrow?(snigger)

By Common Sense

September 9, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Wow Know it all,

Are you such an idiot to assume Qadhafi speaks for Mr. Obama and African Americans?

I bet a you people can say a lot of things about you about your upbringing!

Do you really think we care about Qhadafi?

Bush stated this about Putin I looked him in the eye and that is a good man!

By fearless fosdik

September 9, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

KnowItAll

Did you notice my APOLOGY?

Didn’t think so!

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Oh.. the “obvious” keeps showing for libs without a cerebral link(in France it is called stupide!). Such statements as:

Any monkey could have won the war in Iraq.(So you want to elect a Democrat and see?)

I get up in the morning and turn on TV.(Children’s shows come on early.)

You drink the “coolaid”. (Pathetic overuse of pap.)

You copy Karl Rove. (No! I don’t copy Karl Marx either.)

I don’t think the lack of an attack on America is due to George Bush. (Did you have Pelosi and Reid in mind as our protectors?)

Where’s Sarah? (Sorry, libs, but security does not allow peeping Toms or stalkers for the Palins.)

You don’t mind the killing of 3,000 people. (Pure liberal fogyism! If first you don’t succeed, muddy it up and try again.)

By BS Aplenty

September 9, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

You’ve definitely brought your ‘A’ game today tftt.

By KnowItAll

September 9, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Leichester Sucks

It’s a YouTube video dated Sept 7 of Kadafi—himself— saying what was reported.

So typical of left wingers. If you can’t disprove a point, you attack the source. Kinda like the Clintons and all his w*******$.

Now we hear of Obama and his surrogates sending 30 lawyers to Alaska to dig up trash on Palin. while ignoring Obama’s sordid history with Ayers, Wright, Frank, Pfeigel, Rezco and all the other underworld and radical associations.

What happened to “Change?”. HUH? …Kinda down the tubes—any honest person would have to agree

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Hey KnowNothing are you serious? Who really believes or gives a $hit what Qadhafi says. You listen and trust a guy like that when he’s telling you what you want to hear. You know what, Larry Craig supports McSame, so does Scott Muschany (look him up), so does Mike Meehan (look him up), so does David Vitter (look him up), so does Jonathan Alcox (look him up). If you repulicans are not racist why are you supported by racist groups? Why do they find support behind your platform or feel as though your party is the vehicle they will use to achieve their racist goals? Who do the dems have? Greenpeace? Oooooooh, so scary, people fighting for the earth. I’d take them over the KKK, and other racist groups who support the repugnants. Birds of a feather, boys!!

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Hey KnowNothing are you serious? Who really believes or gives a $hit what Qadhafi says. You listen and trust a guy like that when he’s telling you what you want to hear. You know what, Larry Craig supports McSame, so does Scott Muschany (look him up), so does Mike Meehan (look him up), so does David Vitter (look him up), so does Jonathan Alcox (look him up). If you repulicans are not racist why are you supported by racist groups? Why do they find support behind your platform or feel as though your party is the vehicle they will use to achieve their racist goals? Who do the dems have? Greenpeace? Oooooooh, so scary, people fighting for the earth. I’d take them over the KKK, and other racist groups who support the repugnants. Birds of a feather, boys!!

By The Oddball

September 9, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

It’s time to declare the AJC’s idea of a public political blog dead, and move on to something more productive.

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Oh oh,

the more liberals fuss about Qadhafi, the more sensible he sounds.

So Stuttering Atlas jumps right in with “I know somebody bad that you know, yah yah yah…so there!!!

Soooo effective!!

The playground rings with little rabble rousing roosters today.

Now, children, can’t we all just get along?

By Sean Cavity

September 9, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

KnowItAll, is that the same Libyan leader who Condi just met with at her boss’ direction? And do all Muslims know each other personally? Do they have regional conventions? Kind of like the way most white folk think that all black people know each other. Like all Black people meet at a national convention once a year and exchange personal biographies.

Here’s my guess, if there were real evidence of Obama being a walking time bomb ready to blow-up a ntaional monument, wouldn’t Bush’s boys in the FBI be trying to oust him from the US Senate? What, you think he doesn’t have access to confidential national security documents from his current elected office? It must hurt to be so stupid, tell us about it. On second thought, never mind.

By The banditry of punditry.

September 9, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

The SnowWitch. Part four.

The SnowWitch had stunned her constituency with a one word speech, “change”, which was delivered without a salutation or closing, making it even shorter than anything ever delivered by the Black Knight, who had suddenly lost his mandate. The Black Knight had challenged the SnowWitch to a debate, which the cowardly SnowWitch kept avoiding, prompting the Black Knight to label his opponent as the “Yellow SnowWitch”.

On the appointed day, The Black Knight stood before the pointy heads of the Land of the Pundits, ready to deliver his counter-speech to the Yellow SnowWitch’s one-word speech. He approached the mic. He leaned forward and said, “911”. He turned, mounted his Black Stallion and rode off.

THe crowd stood stupified, and astonished. Moments passed. Not a word. Then, someone in the back of the crowd muttered softly, “this changes everything”. This was heard by others near him and they repeated it until the whole crowd of pointy heads was shouting in unison, “This changes everything! This changes everything!”

The Black Knight had regained his mandate and was once again certain to be chosen chief of the pointy heads in the land of the Pundits.

The SnowWitch was furious, and she retreated to her lair. She cursed and threw things and pulled at her hair. Then, she looked closely at herself in the mirror, and chanted, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all.”

A face appeared in the mirror that was not the SnowWitch’s. “U R”.

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most cursory of them all?” The face in the mirror stuttered, “w-w-well, U were”.

“WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DIDN’T YOU THINK OF SAYING “911”? Die, mirror, DIE!”

The SnowWitch grabbed her wolf-hunting rifle and emptied it into the mirror shattering it into a thousand pieces….she laid down the rifle, and walked over to a wolf’s head mounted on the wall, and pointed with her right index finger, and said, “Speak to me”.

THe wolf’s head’s eyes flashed alive and then it spoke: “Yes, mistress”.

“Can you tell me how to trump the Black Knight’s speech? What is shorter than numbers? What can I say to gain entrance to the big white house in the land of the pundits?”

The wolf howled. Then it whelped. Then, it just froze. The SnowWitch’s trigger finger became real itchy and she reached for a box of .222 shells in order to reload her rifle. But she stopped short when the wolf said……2Bcontinued.

By Shrugging Atlas

September 9, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Good one Dusty, but your cute little comment does very little to dispell the fact that the republican party is a party of racists.

I can’t wait until Palin has her way and the Incorporated Country of Alaska is succeeded from the US and all of you slimmy repugnants can go live in peace(or should I say war), far from what will be the most peaceful place on the planet. Good riddance.

By where's sarah?

September 9, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Dusty, I would think for security reasons, protecting the top of the ticket would be more important. Besides, if Gov. Palin or her handlers are afraid of the Sunday morning talking heads …

We promise to give her the same treatment Rush and Hannity have given Senator Clinton over the years.

By TW

September 9, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Any pulse the Republican Party had left after the eight year trampling it took from the incompetent George Bush has now been silence by John McCain’s idiotic selection of Gov. Sarah Palin. This goes beyond bad judgement. An error this grave warrants a brain scan.

Nothing ends a bounce like being called out on your bullS*…especially when there appears to be a never ending hole of it….

By no sense

September 9, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

I agree with the Oddball. We can’t have true political discourse for all the wackos dominating the blog. All you see is name spewing and foolish rhetoric. It is a common theme for all the blogs on the site.

By no sense

September 9, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

I agree with the Oddball @ 4:10. We can’t have true political discourse for all the wackos dominating the blog. All you see is name spewing and foolish rhetoric. It is a common theme for all the blogs on the site.

By Ray

September 9, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

I’m supposed to think Palin can handle the Taliban when mere words from Biden send her into the ladies’ room for hard cry???????????

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS BEEN CASTRATED!!!

By CwnBt

September 9, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

The Mossback Liberals Dilemma — As I watch Obama on the campaign trail, I know I’m listening to the Same Old S**, delivered by a candidate who could cross the Atlantic on a bridge constructed entirely from Wall Street cash culled for him by party hacks and insiders. But I suddenly don’t care. It’s not just that the alternative is four years of the madman John McCain. It’s that, if Obama wins, it will be interesting to find out, at long last, if there really can be something truly different about someone who sounds so much the same.

It’s not their hope he holds in his hand. It’s their crotch.

By Sean Cavity

September 9, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Yessir, that Jeremiah Wright really preaches segregation… he truly wants to keep the race lines distinct in America. And obviously, he is hated by every blue eyed soul in the country… even in Bush’s sacred Texas. Right?

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/09/report-jeremiah-wright-has-affair-with-another-mans-wife/

By Dusty

September 9, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Stuttering Atlas,@4:30

What racism did my post have and what racism has the Bush administration shown? Obviously, you are looking for some.

Bush had and has prominent black and Hispanics in his cabinet, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other offices of his administration. Are you overlooking these great REPUBLICAN representatives actively working for the USA??

And tell Where’s Sarah that Sarah Palin is no more afraid of “talking heads” than she is afraid of a bull moose (and a bull moose is smarter).

And would you tell Ray that women sometimes go to the Ladies Room for something other than a good cry?

Oh,oui… tres stupide’!!!

By TW

September 9, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Speakin’ of folks preachers, reckon the media is saving Sarah’s for a rainy day? All that stuff about Isreal deserving those terrist attacks because they don’t accept JC might not play well with a certain pop…

By Churchill

September 10, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

As mayor she fired her town’s police chief, as governor she fired a respected career law enforcement officer. It looks like the GOP ticket has its own Victor Hill.

By hotlanta

September 10, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

I hear that they are prepping Palin for the debate. As Mayor and Governor she doesn’t need any prepping. Who is her advisor Bullwinkle the Moose. She will be speaking to Charlie Gibson tonight. We all know that is staged alo. I saw my boy Obama go to toe with Bill “O Reilly and George Stumpenpolus. Just don’ take Palin to the Queen of England. she might go to Buskingham Palace and she animals on the lawn and start shooting.

By hotlanta

September 10, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

I hear that they are prepping Palin for the debate. As Mayor and Governor she doesn’t need any prepping. Who is her advisor Bullwinkle the Moose. She will be speaking to Charlie Gibson tonight. We all know that is staged alo. I saw my boy Obama go to toe with Bill “O Reilly and George Stumpenpolus. Just don’ take Palin to the Queen of England. she might go to Buskingham Palace and she animals on the lawn and start shooting.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 10, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

While we await today’s essay, here is a dazzling political-philosophical essay by Camille Paglia today, linked by Drudge. Surely she is the greatest thinker on the left, Chomsky notwithstanding.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/09/10/palin/

I will repost this link on today’s essay, to ensure all know about it.

By Eli Jones

September 10, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

“Obama And The Creation Of McCain’s VP”

The self proclaimed messiah Barack Obama looked down his nose from his throne and saw that John McCain was alone and in need of a running mate. Obama spake saying, McCain I will send you a woman for a running mate. I will give you Nancy Pelosi or Diane Feinstein. McCain spake saying, I do not like these women for they argue incessantly and they are vexatious to the GOP platform and principals. Obama was not pleased and he spake saying, McCain you have rejected my gift and you shalt pay in November. And the mainstream media thundered and TV’s were wrought with fiery left wing anger. Obama’s prophets Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann did wring they hands, gnash their teeth and foam at their mouths. McCain spake saying, I will choose my running mate and her name shall be called Sarah. Obama fell off his throne. The End.

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 10, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s health-care plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.

Jim, did you write this up too?

Did McCain offer an apology?

“They say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick.” Sarah Palin

I guess some animals are ok.

NOW, grow up and talk issues

Yesterday, Obama shared his plan for education, and this is what Wooten writes.

I think , Jim, your own shade of lipstick is blood red.

By Palin Bait

September 10, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

It says a lot about the despair of the Republican Party that they chose Palin as bait for the least educated, least tolerant segment of our society.

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 10, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

McCain’s former press secretary, Torie Clarke, wrote a book called “Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era.” Elizabeth Edwards told some health journalists that McCain’s health care plan was like “painting lipstick on a pig.

I guess at least the Avon lady will get some benefit out of “lipstick” gate.

All over the world animals will not be demanding makeup!

Lipstick on pigs!

Mascara on elephants!

Bare minerals on wombats!

Keep the eye shadow away from the rhino’s they put too much on and look slutty!

By What change?

September 10, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Let’s start calling the conservative “Far Right” wing of the Republican party by it’s less generic name. Let’s start calling it the “Christian Extremist” wing of the Republican party. That’s a more accurate description of the people Palin is attracting don’t you think? And that’s not change - that’s more of the same.

By Eli Jones

September 10, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

The Obama’s aren’t publicizing their religious faith as of late. Obama’s mentor, pastor and hero Jeremiah Wright and his friend Louis Farrakhan haven’t been mentioned. Farrakhan’s Nation Of Islam Muslim followers are working 24-7 to elect Barack Obama as I write this. Obama has been endorsed by Fidel Castro, Jeremiah Wright , Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi (he brought Iran’s Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia U., The Black Panthers,Hugo Chavez, Danial Ortego, Nadhmi Auchi, Ahmad Yousuf (Hamas),Raila Odingo who is Obama’s murderous Kenyan cousin, Abongo Obama, who is Obama’s Islamic militant Kenyan brother, terrorist William Ayres and many other like minded people. Ever wonder why these Marxist/Islamic/terrorists like Barack Obama. The Obama’s are followers of the “Black Liberation Theology” which teaches it’s followers to reject God if God’s word does not agree with the BLT racist, Marxist ideology. Obama’s long time pastor, mentor and hero Jeremiah Wright is into the BLT big time and you can see it in his speeches of hate toward America and also toward the Jews. If you want to know more about Black Liberation Theology, watch this site’s video on Black Liberation Theology and the Obama’s connection to it. Yours truly, Eli Jones http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 10, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Beholding yesterday’s deranged psychotic anal anally unfunny rabid hissy fit provided a wonderful millisecond of entertainment for yours truly.

I even allowed my self to SNIGGER AND SNIGGER AND SNIGGER AND SNIGGER AND SNIGGER and then SNIGGER AGAIN. Indeed sniggering was the ONLY righteous and appropriate response to a hopelessly lobotomised far left nutter who is obsessed with yours truly to the point it keeps on puking up LIES about the football team I support.

ONLY a genuinely brain dead patronising ignoramus abortion bucket escapee would puke up some bollux about one’s “favourite” football team. NO ONE in England EVER says Leicester or Mansfield or Newcastle or Brighton or Wolverhampton or Manchester etc says so and so is my “favourite” football team. Its a puerile childish, utterly moronic term that not even the detested prawn sandwich crowd use. In England we have supporters clubs - regional ones, London based ones and of course local to the clubs’ catchment area supporters clubs.

The Coca Cola league is where LCFC play. Until last season there were NINE clubs who had NEVER been out of the top two divisions - Leicester for well over a hundred years being one of the nine. I think (not 100% sure) that Arse-nal are the ONLY club never relegated from the top flight. As a result of the evil Peter Tw@alor years and the ensuing administration and wasting of at least $90 million dollars by incompetent managers appointed by equally incompetent club chairmen the top 10 Premiership finishes and two cup wins under MON swiftly became just fond memories. And then there were only eight clubs with top two division status as City got relegated having had FIVE managers in just over a year under the mad senile narcissistic Serb who bought the club.

Now, under potentially the best manager since MON we’ve got the best defence in the UK having let in just one league goal all season and look like getting promoted at the first attempt - but its too early to say for sure. Loads of ‘big’ clubs have ended up where we are now - some have even floundered down in Div 4. Like Wolves and Fulham did. But Man City, Leeds, Sheff Wed, F**t, Bristol City, Sjoke City, Coventry et al have all been in at least Div 3.

I recognise that abject PIG IGNORANCE of a subject NEVER stops a liberal puke from puking up lies. At least now its been informed of the actual facts. And just so the anal anally funny stalKKKer knows, most City fans are kind a pleased this season. They get to go to football grounds they’ve never seen City play at, they get to legally stand up and watch games as most football grounds in the lower leagues are not legally all seater grounds. And they get - so far - to watch a winning, undefeated team with much (but not quite all) of the worthless journeyman deadwood from the last few years gone.

The premier league has gotten to the point its (essentially) utterly pointless being in it as ONLY one of maybe THREE teams has a realistic chance of winning it. Because of the hundreds of millions of pounds now needed to buy a big premier league club and import world class players to win the league. Watching lower league football is cheaper, usually more relaxing and occasionally U get to see ur team beat a big side in the cup. As City did with Aston Vile (and came within a few seconds of beating Chelsea away) last season.

Anyway back to the politics of failing uppity half-black black racist muslim surrender monkeys in my next post.

HUGE POST MODERN I HATE & DESPISE LIBERAL SCUM SNIGGER

By jay

September 10, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

How long can McCain keep hiding behind Pailn’s skirt tail?

“Swift boat McCain” can’t REALLY be offended by the “pig with lipstick” comment since HE USED IT AGAINST HILLARY and didn’t consider it “sexist” then…..

Come out, come out Johnnie and debate ther REAL issues of this election …..healthcare, unemployment, national security and war…. can’t use Palin as a shield forever!

By jay

September 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

How long can McCain keep hiding behind Pailn’s skirt tail?

“Swift boat McCain” can’t REALLY be offended by the “pig with lipstick” comment since HE USED IT AGAINST HILLARY and didn’t consider it “sexist” then…..

Come out, come out Johnnie and debate ther REAL issues of this election …..healthcare, unemployment, national security and war…. can’t use Palin as a shield forever!

By The Devil You Say

September 10, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Obama’s new campaign address should be one of the following: footinmouth.net, incmpetence.com or radicalleftwingnut.org

By Peter

September 12, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Clearly; McCain’s pig can wear lipstick and Obama’s can’t.