Thinking Right

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Palin 08: Not so much lipstick on a pig, as a pig in a poke.

If Charles Krauthammer is correct when he suggested that Obama Jumped the Shark in Berlin last month, then it’s also true that McCain Bucked the Tiger in Alaska.

Is Palin a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

I only know that you cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark, my friends.

‘muff said

By Bud Wiser

September 12, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Analchord (one of your many id’s, that is) has an apparent problem with females, particularly females with power that he/she doesnot possess. There are counseling centers for you, and we are all here for you, my friend. Seek help soon to understand yourself better.

Just remember, its okay to be what you are, just admit it and come forward with your own personal truth you have been hiding so loosely, but subconsciously want to scream to the world. Let go of your self hatred.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Palin was interviewed by Charlie Gibson on ABC news last night. She claimed that not only can she bring home the bacon, but she can fry it up in a pan.

Then she stood up, grabbed Gibson’s tie and whispered, “and never ever let you forget you’re a man”…..

By Ga Values

September 12, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

John McCain came out of his convention with a big bounce, racing ahead of Barack Obama by 10 points among likely voters, while running-mate Sarah Palin’s feisty attack on their rivals has energized the GOP with an 18-point jump in enthusiasm.

Bounces are traditional following national party conventions. Mr. Obama came out of his with a 4-point lead, turning into an 8-point advantage that has “disappeared totally,” the Gallup Poll reported Monday. Its findings were confirmed by a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed McCain-Palin edging ahead by 49 percent to 47 percent, largely as a result of major gains among white women.

Several things are clear in the aftermath of the Republican Convention and the McCain-Palin surge:

c Mr. McCain’s decision to pick the Alaska governor as his vice presidential nominee has united his party like never before. Her candidacy was a 10 with Republicans and Republican leaners - and with independents and women - moving the needle in the Arizonan’s direction.

c The energy index took a big jump among Republicans, up from 42 percent a week ago to 60 percent now. Democrats maintain a slight lead on this measure over the GOP, but the gap has shrunk from 19 points in the Democrats favor to 7 points now.

c The shift to Mr. McCain among likely voters tells us that if the election were today, he “would benefit from a differential advantage over the Democrats in terms of those voters actually likely to turn out and vote,” Gallup said. That suggests the Republican ticket “has the potential for a significant turnout advantage on Election Day,” Gallup said.

c Mrs. Palin’s qualifications to step into the presidency remain an issue, but the number of voters who say she is qualified has risen from 39 percent on Aug. 29 to 48 percent by Sept. 7. That number will continue to rise as they watch her performance in the campaign and in the coming debate with Joe Biden.

All these numbers reflect what I hear from Republican officials who say their base has been energized by Mrs. Palin’s convention speech - suggesting she may have much more influence over the outcome of this election than is usually the case for running-mates.

“Palin is a case of game-changing in Montana and throughout the West. She’ll help deliver the Western states that typically vote Republican and effectively end Obama’s foray into traditional Republican territory,” Montana Republican Chairman Erik Iverson told me.

A big wedge issue this year is guns and Second Amendment freedoms from gun bans and gun control laws that Mr. Obama supported. Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin, a hunter and lifelong member of the National Rifle Association, will flog that issue for all it’s worth.

Asked why neither Hillary Clinton nor Mr. Obama would carry Montana this year, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer told reporters in April, “Guns.” That issue resonates across the West and elsewhere in the country where gun control is poison in Democratic politics. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden have been given “F” ratings by the NRA.

But a larger, more transcendent issue is behind Mr. Obama’s sharp drop in the polls and it has to do with who voters trust more to deal with national security. It is turning into a deadly issue that can hurt Democrats this fall as it has in the past, according to a Democratic focus group study by pollster Stan Greenberg who says his party’s “national security credibility gap is returning.”

“Old doubts about Democrats on security, after diminishing during 2006-2007, have begun to re-emerge,” says a memo on the study, conducted for Third Way, a centrist Democratic advocacy group. Its chief findings: “Voters see Democrats as indecisive in the face of threats and afraid to use force to protect the nation; they see Democrats insufficiently supportive of the military; and they see Democrats following public opinion, rather than adhering to a consistent principled view of the country’s best interests.”

Republicans now lead by 14 points on which party will better handle national security issues, and by 15 points on who would better combat terrorism.

It is not beyond the realm of possibility that some national security issue will rise to the fore between now and Nov. 4 and if it does, Mr. Obama and his party are badly positioned to deal with it with sufficient credibility.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Palin has become this campaign’s wild card and Obama strategists haven’t figured out how to respond to her. Joe Biden is clearly pulling his punches and that itself is becoming a story in this election.

“No one in politics likes something that’s a wild card. So they’re a little bit unsettled. And I rarely see the Obama people like this. Rarely do they concede that they don’t know what’s going on,” Time magazine’s political analyst Mark Halperin said last week on Charlie Rose’s TV show.

The Republicans are highly skilled in the art of political warfare and Sarah Palin, governor, mother of five, a hunter and a firearms enthusiast, is going to lead the charge with both guns blazing.

A sign of her appeal to voters, especially women, was seen Saturday when a jam-packed crowd of nearly 12,000 people turned out to hear her in the town of Colorado Springs that impressed Democratic observers.

Somebody in the Obama high command better tell Barack and Joe that Sarah is coming after them.

Donald Lambro, chief political correspondent of The Washington Times, is a nationally syndicated columnist

By Just Nasty and Mean

September 12, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

G’mornin Jim, et al,

Without a doubt, Karen Handel has carried the Republican flag higher with her political-career-long battle against larger government, transparency, budget control and ethics. She has EARNED and should be next in line for Governor of Georgia.

Michael Young, CEO of Grady, doesn’t YET understand that Grady’s nepotism, cronyism, inefficiency, and pure unadulterated fat-laden, bloated bureaucracy is ingrained and deeply entrenched in Grady’s culture. He is going to have to close the doors, fire everybody, and start all over to flush out the entire system. Blaming being dumped on by other counties only scratches the surface.

Obla-bla-ma and Biden are coming out shooting in all directions. They thought this campaign was going to be a greek coronation fitting of Nero. With Palin, the game has changed and they have abandoned their theme of* “Change”* to the old standard democratic tactic of lies and slander.

I am still waiting for SOMEONE from the mainstream media to ask Obla-bla-ma details of his ties to radical bomb thrower Ayers and specifics of his juicy dealings with Rezco. Doesn’t anybody in the MSM care about the truth?

Oh… the joy to see Cynthia McKinney back in politics. We all need a daily dose of insanity to keep us stable.

Have a nice weekend everybody!

By Churchill

September 12, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Anything Goes, Apparently

Published: September 11, 2008 It seemed inevitable that bad things would happen when President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney packed the top posts at the Department of the Interior with lobbyists who had spent their careers representing the very industries they were now being asked to regulate. But it was left to Earl Devaney, the department’s inspector general — and the busiest gumshoe inside the federal bureaucracy — to demonstrate just how bad things could be.

In three extraordinary reports delivered to Congress this week, Mr. Devaney found that officials at the Minerals Management Service — the division responsible for granting offshore oil leases and collecting royalties — accepted gifts, steered contracts to favored clients and engaged in drugs and sex with oil company employees as part of what he described as a broader “culture of substance abuse and promiscuity.”

At the center of the scandal is the royalty-in-kind program, under which the service takes delivery of oil and gas in lieu of cash payments from energy companies, then sells it to refiners. The program is vulnerable to manipulation at either end of the transaction, by overvaluing the oil and gas when it is received or undervaluing it when it is sold.

The program obviously needs a complete overhaul. It has already been the subject of multiple investigations — by Mr. Devaney; Dirk Kempthorne, the interior secretary; the Justice Department; and Congress — for mismanagement and conflicts of interest. In an earlier report in 2007, Mr. Devaney found that the agency had failed — through negligence and possible ethical lapses — to collect billions of dollars in royalties from oil companies for leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

His new reports add more shameful details, including allegations that agency employees accepted gratuities and other favors — meals, ski trips, sports tickets and golf outings with industry representatives — “with prodigious frequency.”

Mr. Kempthorne, who has already transferred some employees and almost certainly will fire more, can take some comfort from the fact that nearly all of the misbehavior occurred before he arrived in Washington in 2006 to replace Gale Norton as interior secretary.

The White House can take no comfort at all. The people it brought to Washington to run the department had no interest in policing the oil, mining and agricultural interests they were sworn to regulate and every interest in promoting industry’s (and their own) good fortune. The most notorious of these was J. Steven Griles, a mining industry lobbyist who really ran the agency for four years and who later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff scandal.

The fruit of these terrible appointments was aptly described by Mr. Devaney two years ago when he appeared before a House subcommittee. “Short of a crime,” he said, “anything goes at the Department of the Interior.”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. There is some tautology in your initial argument, Jim. I rarely hang my head out the window yelling, “whoops, I’m going 56 mph, I apologize to all.” Most errors of life require no apology, and for most others it is futile. In all fairness, I think pretty well of those who acknowledge error publicly when called to explain.

Transparency – sounds like an issue made to order for Sarah and John.

I have some sympathy for the Grady CEO. The problem, of course, is the law that requires hospitals to treat nonpayers. The thieves do not merit treatment.

I apologize to Kathy Cox. I never said publicly that I thought the television appearance was a dumb idea, but I thought it. She’s a winner, and I am an idiot.

A mild dissent on whether the state should take over failing local governments; the grown-ups can procure competent help that the locals are too dumb to find. E.g., the state would be smart enough to turn over Clayton County to Glenn and @@, whereas the locals are not so smart.

Re: FHLMC and FMNA, I was going to say “liquidated” but you may be right, the infrastructure may have some value to some purchaser.

I’m willing to take and Obama/Biden-free day. In fact, I would gratefully take four more years of same.

Only democrats and oil company executives like hige oil prices. The rest of us want to drill and nuke.

I wonder if there would be a market for a university that explicitly promoted conservative values? Has anyone tried? Of course, the leftists in control of the accreditation process for colleges would never allow accreditation.

I think Nevada is about the only place Barr/Paul could hurt Sarah.

By Churchill

September 12, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Palin is an idiot who is no more qualified to be VP than Lynn Spears. Think about it… she handled a child star’s finances for years, which were millions more than the budget of Alaska. She worked with difficult people (agents, musicians, and her own kids).

On top of it, she has two teenage pregnancy daughters on her resume. I guess that makes her TWICE as qualified as Palin.

BTW, I think Bristol ought to be just about ready to POP at the Inaugural Ball. Wouldn’t that be lovely? A brand new b*stard in the White House.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Palin 08: Not so much lipstick on a pig, as a pig in a poke.

If Charles Krauthammer is correct when he suggested that Obama Jumped the Shark in Berlin last month, then it’s also true that McCain Bucked the Tiger in Alaska.

Is Palin a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Last night on ABC News, Palin claimed that not only can she bring home the bacon, but she can also fry it up in a pan.

She also noted that her house in Alaska in not made of straw, sticks, or brick, but rather ice, and that the Russian Bear can huff and puff all it wants, and it dont make no never mind to her. When told that the correct animal in the Fairy Tale was the wolf, she said, “I know, but I shot all the wolves around here. They’re not endangered or nothing are they?”

I only know that you cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark, my friends.

‘muff said

By Andy Rooney

September 12, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

You know how the AJC has done those Vent-a-day calendars? They could do a Rumbled Foreskin-a-day mega-calendar that runs through 3294.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Palin 08: Not so much lipstick on a pig, as a pig in a poke.

If Charles Krauthammer is correct when he suggested that Obama Jumped the Shark in Berlin last month, then it’s also true that McCain Bucked the Tiger in Alaska.

Is Palin a wolf in sheep’s clothing? She kept telling Charlie Gibson Last night on ABC News to “come a little closer, my dear”.

As for pork, Palin claimed that not only can she bring home the bacon, but she can also fry it up in a pan.

She also noted that her house in Alaska in not made of straw, sticks, or brick, but rather ice, and that the Russian Bear can huff and puff all it wants, and it dont make no never mind to her. When told that the correct animal in the Fairy Tale was the wolf, she said, “I know, but I shot all the wolves around here. They’re not endangered or nothing are they?”

The only question Gibson didn’t ask Palin was this: Where’s Little Red Riding Hood and what did you do with your grandmother?

I only know that you cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark, my friends.

‘muff said

By Captain Freedom

September 12, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

THE Captain is downright tumescent to note that Our Sarah Plain has put war with the danged Russkies on the table. Enough of this namby-pamby domination of Third World wogs!!! Let’s take it to the Source of All Evil directly, and show those Comintern b@st@rd$ what the Good Ole You Ess of A is made of. How hard can it be to defeat the Russkieniks anyway?? Napoleon and Hitler didn’t shrink from the challenge!!

RED DAWN!!! GO WOLVERINES!!!!

THE Captain approves this message and looks forward to watching this war on television.

By James

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

I hope Karen Handel is transparent when her office begin to purge democratic voter off the roles BEFORE the November elections. Reports are her office is denying registration applications to democratic groups.

That’ll never be reported.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear PoFo @ numerous times, Sarah has revived your sense of humor. Good stuff.

By Matilda

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

Karen Handel’s latest CYA move is an effort to divert suspicion when she goes all Katharine Harris on the State of Georgia. Do you really think our votes will be counted? This is Georgia, where people are too busy watching reality game shows to even notice.

Couldn’t Ms. Cox have visited a salon first? I’m just sayin’.

By Captain Freedom

September 12, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

THE Captain also wishes to point out an IMPORTANT fact which the Plain / McCain ticket is too modest to mention. Our St John has noted — rightly — that “nobody knows more about energy” than our favorite mosse-gutting beauty queen. But have you seen even one of the Islamusnistojournaliberals make the obvious connection between the nomination of Sarah Plain and the continuing plummet of oil prices??

No, THE Captain thinks you have not, and that is not because the idea is a s-s-s-s-stupid as jbm’s idea that Our Leader’s non-binding approval of ANWR drilling caused the prices to go down.

No. It is because the national media HATES conservatives, hockey moms, moose hunters, snowmobilers, smalltown pinheads, and ALL WOMEN. These ‘people’ cannot debate an idea on its merits, so they either ridicule Real Americans or ignore us completely. And anyone who thinks differently is an ignorant poopie knuckle.

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID!!!

THE Captain has spoken.

By Helen Crane

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

“The state should not take over any local school system, nor any airport, nor any city’s sewer system or anything else that fails at the local level. It has no particular expertise running schools or other local services. Vouchers, yes. In Clayton County adults elected the board and hired the superintendent; it’s up to locals to fix public education —- though no child should be held prisoner there while they try.”

If sonny intervenes he is not a Republican but solely motivated for personal political reasons (as is his MO) the people who voted for this disaster by selecting bad school board candidates should accept punishment for thier sloth. They will then learn how important it is to elect good people and watch them vigilantly. It is patronizing to go in an take over- the tragedy should be alloweed to occur so that no one can forget it’s cause.

By Mid-South Philosopher

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

Good morning, Jim

I refer you to an item in this morning’s Thinking Right

The state should not take over any local school system, nor any airport, nor any city’s sewer system or anything else that fails at the local level. It has no particular expertise running schools or other local services. Vouchers, yes. In Clayton County adults elected the board and hired the superintendent; it’s up to locals to fix public education —- though no child should be held prisoner there while they try.

If this be true, then why in the name of the Prophet Jebidiah do we have a Georgia Department of Education, a Georgia State Bored {sic} of Education, a Kathy Cox, and her cadre of support personnel, not to mention that incompetent bunch in Washington, who know about as much about teaching as Barack Obama knows about geography.

If schools were truly local institutions, we might have students who could read, write, compute, think critically, and fit into the social scheme of things without a shrink, an anti-depressant, and a social worker.

As it is, we have robotic teachers, enunciating mechanical standards in a one size fits all curriculum that focuses on color in the bubble tests.

The administrators, under the gun to make sure that their schools make AYP, throw program after program, strategy after strategy, process after process at their faculties. Hardly one is implemented until something new comes along or is added to the soup.

If we had the guts and the gonads, we would let our teachers teach and tell the politicians (reformed drunks or otherwise) to go to the devil. That would be real choice!

By Churchill

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

Grover Norquist; ‘Gang of Ten’ plan breaks any anti-tax pledge Friday, September 12, 2008, 08:50 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson have now run afoul of the anti-tax crowd with their “Gang of Ten” attempt at a bipartisan energy bill.

This is on the CBS web site:

Several Republicans who have tried to break gridlock on the energy debate and signed on to an $84 billion energy package have broken their anti-tax “pledge,” according to a powerful watchdog group.

Americans for Tax Reform, led by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, say that Republicans who have signed on to the Senate “Gang of 10” plan _ which has grown to 20 sponsors _ are violating their no tax increase pledges because the legislation would increase taxes on oil companies.

“On net, this ‘compromise’ is a violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge because it increases net income taxes” on oil companies, the group said in a statement released this evening.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Palin is gold for any writer, Jbmlaw. That’s the problem. All the columnists are hitting homeruns with her. It writes itself, so, it’s probably going to be short lived.

Two months is just enough time to give voters their own voice, after all the laughter and insight and coined hacking.

It’s going to come down to which candidate ends up most ready for their closeup, Mr. DeMille.

As for Palin, she’s so popular that a young man like you just wouldn’t understand. She’s getting 17 thousand hits a day on her website. This one Saudi Oilman begged her and got one of her panty hoses. He ended up strangling himself with it.

McCain seems to have read Palin’s horoscope. Has he read the constitution?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Tough love, Helen - are you free for the next Senatorial election here in Georgia?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear PoFo, I pray your muse stimulates your musings for the next 16 years.

Dear MidSouth, you sound positively Palinesque today. Are you free for the next gubernatorial challenge?

By ObamaGirl

September 12, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

GA Values who are you trying to convince? Seems to me that your need to point out so many “facts” is an attempt to convince yourself! As a voter I can assure you that I’ve never been polled, so I truly question their validity. Since you are so into polls however, you should also know that the polls indicate that he’s leading in the popular vote, not the electorate. John Kerry won the popular vote…enough said!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Dear ObamaGirl @ 9:53, you reminds us all of the need to redouble mathematics training in the inner city.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

EIEIO

By Mid-South Philosopher

September 12, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar Danneskjold @ 9:41

Thank you for the compliment, and the notion is attractive. As Governor, I might not accomplish much with the rump General Assemblies we seem to elect every two years; however, I would make their lives interesting during the time I was in office.

Alas, though, if I got in office, I would probably succumb to the dreaded disease…re-electionitis and end-up just another petty politician, a-wh*ring after the vote.

No, I am much better at being the gad-fly.

By "Charles", The Original

September 12, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Can anyone put me in touch with Dexter King? Here is the problem. My mother and father have owned a profitable business for nearly fifty years. And my sister Jan and I are the heirs. My parents are elderly and no one lives forever in the flesh…

Here is an e-mail that my sister sent me last week from Arizona; it is accompanied by my response. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that there is real trouble ahead. That’s why I would love to speak with Dexter King.

Charles, please read the e-mail I forwarded to you.

Love Always,

Jan

A white man asked his black friend, ‘Are you voting for Barack Obama just because he’s black’? The black man responded by saying, why not? Hell, in this country men are pulled over everyday just cause their black, passed over for promotions just cause their black, considered to be criminals just cause their black, and there are going to be thousands of you who wont be voting for him just cause he’s black! However, you do not seem to have a problem with that! This country was built with the sweat and whip off the slaves back, and now a descendent of those same slaves have a chance to lead the same country, where we weren’t even considered to be people, Where we weren’t allowed to be educated, drink from the same water fountains, eat in the same restaurants, or even vote, so you damn right I’m going to vote for him! But it’s not just because he’s black, but because he! is hope, he is change, and he now allows me to understand when my grandson says he wants to be president when he grows up, it is not a fairy tale but a short term goal, Because he sees, understands, and knows, he can achieve, withstand, and do anything just because he’s black!

My response:

Sis,

I haven’t decided which party will receive my vote on November 4, 2008. But I’ll certainly take a pass on the Democratic Party, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. The Republican Party, John McCain and Sarah Palin, is also out of bounds.

I am seriously considering casting my vote for Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party. If not, serious consideration will be given to Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party. And lastly, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente of the Green Party are under consideration.

As you can see, I’ve had enough of the two party systems. Both are completely controlled by special interest groups/secret societies.

And lastly, Barack Obama is not a black person. He is the son of an African man from Kenya and a European woman from Kansas. If you connect the dots, aspiring to be president won’t be a fairy tale to my grandchildren providing they are the offsprings of an interracial marriage. Children born of a black man and a black woman will see, understand, and know they can only achieve at the highest level if they are mongrels. That message shouldn’t be sent to black children.

By Vote No to Israel, No More Foreign Aid

September 12, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

So the stupid pos palin is now bashing the Russians…well kunt, Ivan has my full support, you on the other had do not. The four eyed freak can kiss my a*, as can all gawd damned republicans, from coast to coast.

By ron

September 12, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Good morning,We live in a world where the only crime worth mentioning is getting caught.

Transparency in government has come a long way,but there are still those that don’t believe the people’s usiness has to be conducted in front of the people.

In Clayton County,maybe the kids should be given a chance to straighten out the mess.

Freddie and Fannie will cost the taxpayer.

I have adjusted my life to high gas prices.I actually spend less money now on gas than I did when prices were lower.It involves a different lifestyle.Are high gas prices good?They are for me.

I am thankful that I don’t live in Galveston.

I keep hearing that Mrs.Palin isn’t ready to step into the Presidency.I keep telling you that Obama isn’t ready either.

Obama has picked the perfect running mate.Obama is going to talk the terrorists into behaving and Joe Biden can speechify them into a coma.What a team.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

D’OH!

BLOG

A Poem by Carl Sandburg’s retarded nephew, CoolJay

P-P-Polito-blogs come

On little pig’s f-f-feet.

It’s ticket is looking

over unstarwarred cities

p-p-pawns unsilo’d launches

and ends in Moveon.org

By Tray

September 12, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I will always spit back on anyone who says Palin doesn’t have the XP to be VP…like Obama has enough XP to be Pres??

That argument hold more water than New Orleans ever did!

I’m also glad that wind power is failing all over the U.S., but i am wondering why i haven’t heard that many stories about it? I guess becasue the Media is too busy worshipping ‘The Messiah’ to take a look around at the real world instead of living on cloud 8 1/2.

Anyways, the Dems and everyone else who touted wind power can now admit that drilling is a great solution and they were wrong. Even those that say it won’t affect us until 5+ years, well i got a thought for ya-in 5 years gas could be $7.00 a gallon, but if we drill, it would only be say $5.50. WHAT PRICE SOUNDS BETTER?? Cheaper gas is still cheaper gas, even if it’s 5 years down the road morons…

Open your eyes and look ahead to the future, then maybe you’ll realize that in the future, Barack could be a good president-just give him 8 more years experience, then i could vote for him!

By Vote No to Israel, No More Foreign Aid

September 12, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Analchord - You sound too much like the failed poet Dirty Ball of Dust.

By macca

September 12, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim, how does that vile spew from ‘Vote No to Israel’ get through? There are strong feelings on both sides of the aisle here, but that trash has no place on this or any respectable forum.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 12, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

I regret to see the preening puffed up pinKKKo puker Lance Korporal Syphilis, the self styled Oberstumban, führer Peedom has slithered back on here. So along with the compulsive obsessive execrable anal anally unfunny aborted foreskin the two most self absorbed self centred treasonous far left bewildered putrid pukes are sullenly robotically poisoning this bit of cyber space yet again. LIke toothless deranged energiser bunny piranhas.

Hilarious to see the half-black black racist surrender monkey Hussein Obama is STILL behind in virtually every liberal poll. The writing is crystal clear for all true Americans to see on the convicted Hussein Obama walking ATM slumlord felon Rezko, black racist hatepig Grand Dragon J Wright and unrepentant traitorous far left bomber Ayers wall.

I for one am grudgingly looking forward to seeing McLiar, who quite astonishingly has actually run a half-decent campaign winning and making a victory speech on Guy Fawkes Day.

The endless screeching and wailing and bleating and whining and ranting of the YET AGAIN DEFEATED far left scum will approximate a let joy be unconfined (as in 2000 and 2004) sight for all true patriotic eyes.

And just as joyous is the mightily relieving fact that the venal lying lard arsed butch trouser suit waddling HiTllary Hog will be kept out of the White House.

Whilst the much more experienced than the uppity supercilious moral fascist Hussein Obama Gov. Palin is a wide eyed religious zealout this is but a small price to pay for beating such dangerous spineless hate America enemy within liberal vermin.

The fact that the liberal leftist scum are so rabidly and viscerally incensed with her candidacy is an extremely sweet bonus.

By Analchord

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

Demagogue

A Poem by Carl Sandburg’s retarded nephew, Cooljay

Demagogues come

On little p-p-pigs feet

It’s ticket is looking

at unstarwarred cities

p-p-pawns unsilo’d launches

and ends in Moveon.org

By Vote No to Israel, No More Foreign Aid

September 12, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

I will vote 1,000 times for any muslim named Hussein before I will ever vote even one time for a jew named Lieberman….

By Vote No to Israel, No More Foreign Aid

September 12, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

macca: Byte off, you pig scum….

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Old McDonald had a farm beset by wolves. eieio

And on this farm he needed a guard dog. eieio

A pig applied for the job. eieio

“Why should I let a pig guard this farm” eieio

“Because my pen is close to the wolve’s lair, in fact I can see it if I stand on top of the windmill and use an infrared telescope, at night of course.”

“gee oh my you’re a dope!”

By BS Aplenty

September 12, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Fannie and Freddie WERE private companies, Jim. They just, unfortunately, got the label Government Sponsored Agency along with their publicly listed stock. Breaking both companies up would do some good preventing a similar crisis in the future, but I think that begs the more important question: how much influence will the U.S. & state governments be willing to give up to ensure a free market in the mortgage & housing markets?

It’s one thing to privatize a GSA like Freddie and Fannie and quite another to ask 435 congressman not to meddle when the companies decide not to purchase certain types of mortgage loans. Yes, we’re all for government permanently leaving the scene of this crime, but when some people aren’t getting mortgage money or the economy stalls, those 435 congressmen may decide they need a “come to Jesus” meeting with mortgage industry executives. When you resolve that non-market force, you fix the “crisis” problem.

Finally, the federal government is culpable for an unquantifiable part of this mortgage crisis (see previous paragraph) and should step up to the plate for both firms. If not, you’ll deal an unfair and serious blow to every financial institution that bought Freddie and Fannie debt with the expectation that they are, in fact, if not in law, guaranteed by the federal government. And then we will be in a recession

By AmVet

September 12, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Would someone please explain to me how Mr. Wooten could possibly refer to Ms. Palin as a maverick?

Have I missed something or is the GOP no longer the party that wishes to get rid of Roe v. Wade ASAP?

And are they no longer the party that values faketriotism (saying the 1950’s b******* pledge) over actually doing something vis a vis wise energy consumption.)

Are they no longer the party that uses their political muscle to make their opponents, even if semi-familial and not political, knuckle under to the raw force of power?

Are they no longer the party that follows the will of god in their Holy Wars and Crusades?

I guess she earns the distinction by not taking dirty money via earmarks and pork.

Kind of.

Well, not really.

It appears to me that Ms. Palin is anything but a maverick. And is in fact just another neo-con trying to pretend she is instead rational and reasonable.

Any woman, or man, who falls for it probably voted for BushCo twice…

By Vote No to Israel, No More Foreign Aid

September 12, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Republicans: the party of, by, and for PIGS…..The highest and best use of a republican is as a feedstock in BACON production….yum yum good….

By Chris Salzmann

September 12, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

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1) Perhaps Jim forgot the heat Obama got from the other Democrates (including Hillary) when he said he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down Al-Qaida. Come to think of it, McCain slammed him on that too. Guess what Jim? Read the news recently? We’re doing it. Nice to see Bush listening to Obama.

2) Jim, if you kept up with current events ( I don’t know but maybe they let you out once in a while), McCain’s claiming to be the candidate to bring CHANGE to Washington. And he’s been in Washington for how long? Something like the Civil War, right???

By getalife "whiners"

September 12, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Can we rise now from pettiness?

The gop are all about pettiness and distractions.

They lose on the issues Jim and you know it.

One day, Americans will finally turn to third parties because both parties are corrupt and steal freedoms.

By Shawny

September 12, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Wooten, your best observation to date in the comment, “It’s hard to think of a guy who’s never bucked the Democratic establishment (Obama) and a 36-year Washington insider (Biden) as agents of change. Easier to imagine that from two party mavericks.”

True, so true. Across the pond where they love Obama, but can’t necessarily buy the rhetoric

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Dear Chris @ 10:54, you persuade me. (1) Obama is Bush III, and (2) McCain is like a Civil War in Washington DC.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

The SnowWitch. Part seven or eight, I forgot.

A lone figure sulked broodingly over a bubbling cauldren stirring with both hands using a gigantic ladle. She chanted:

“Diebold, Diebold, Hanging chad,

Lie of Newt, my polls are bad….”

Standing alone in the dark, damp pit the SnowWitch cast a spell and created an army. She had retrieved all the boxes of pointy-headed souvenir dolls the Black Knight had used to destroy her campaign and trick her into using the T word, tax.

Thousands of tiny dolls with pointy heads floated in the boiling brew. Soon a white froth crept over the rim and down the sides of the large pot onto the dirt floor where it spread out and totally obscurred the soil. Then, the SnowWitch stopped stirring and said, “ARISE”.

The froth melted away revealing an animated miniature army of pointy headed Dolls.

She gestured with both arms and commanded, “Go and build my signs and place them on every lawn in Pundit Land! Go! Go! GO!’

In the morning the sun revealed a forest of signs that depicted a circle with a slash through it and inside the circle were the letters, IRS.

2B continued.

By Bud Wiser

September 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

The more you idiots try to drag G W Bush in this election as a candidate, the deeper you are burying your own.

Americans are smart enough (I think) to see through all of your smoke and mirrors trying to steer away from the main issue, which is Obama has less experience at anything (except perhaps a community organizer, HA), when compared even individually to ANY of the other 3 candidates.

He sank his own ship when he didn’t pick Hillary as his VP candidate. Joe Biden agrees. That issue may be not over yet though, as Biden may have already laid the groundwork for his own dismissal before the election, to allow Hillary to MoveOn, I mean, move in.

Of course should Biden step aside, it will truly show the desperation the Democraps have fallen into to allow this to happen. That too will be seen through as a last ditch effort to do anything or say anything just to get elected.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By Tray

September 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

all these anti-McCain people, why not posts some facts on your candidates?? What was that, there are no good ones?

The only ones i know is that Palin cut pork-barrel spending by 50% in her state, meanwhile Obama approved over 100!! Palin is down to 20! By the way, one of Obamas 100+ earmarks was for a hospital his wife worked for, and her salary tripled that year!! Wonder why…

What, Obama and CONVICTED FELON Tony Rezko are best buddies?? Obama still seeks Wright’s counsel?? Obama still talks to Ayers??

Obama wouldn’t stand up against the corrupt politics in his own state?

And people believe he’s in it for ‘change’. The only thing that will change is the amount of money he is lining his pockets with that belongs to the taxpayers…

By AmVet

September 12, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

One day, Americans will finally turn to third parties because both parties are corrupt and steal freedoms.

I could not possibly agree with you more, getalife.

Nader correctly calls them as the “the evil of the two lessers”.

And yet on this blog, ALL we get is. “Republicans are the answer, Democrats are the problem” and “Democrats are the answer, the GOP is the problem”.

Both ARE the problem.

And the PT Barnum crowd here marches happily along to this parade/charade…

By Shawny

September 12, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Let’s talk pork, but on the level.

Here is the senate pork report from the Citizens Against Govt Waste

Item #1, Obama’s fellow IL senator Durbin votes against public visibility into pork spending…hmmm. Scroll down the document and see how many times the taxpayers lost and the party at fault (dem controlled congress). It is appalling.

Also, scoll down and note the ratings of the individual senators…the higher the rating, the better the votes against wasteful spending. McCain, very high rating. Obama and Biden, very low. No suprise. The two dems from HI are the worst.

So, tell me again, which party is the party of pork?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

While we are talking about apologies, did we ever see anything from the bloggers who lyingly asserted Sarah’s daughter had given birth to the young son? I know I didn’t.

By Shawny

September 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

AmVet at 11:06, I could not agree more on this point.

If Ron Paul ran as prez with Barr as VP for the Libertarian party, maybe, just maybe, we could end this 2 party stranglehold. That would be beautiful.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Question for the Right: If Gore couldn’t win in 2000 with pregnant chads, then what makes you think Palin can win in 2008 with a pregnant daughter?

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

What I meant to ask the right: If Gore couldn’t win in 2000 with pregnant ballots, then how can Palin win in 2008 with a pregnant trollop?

By BS Aplenty

September 12, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser

The Biden-for-Hillary swap makes political sense save for calling Obama’s judgement (and counsel) into question - again & again & again.

Secondly, would Hillary accept and potentially delay her running date until 2016? Oh, the intrigue.

By Jenn

September 12, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Ragnar @ 11:12 They won’t aologize, they had to stick their foot in their mouth. AS I posted before, they didn’t think before they spoke. It is physically impossible for a human to have a 4 month old baby and be 5 months pregnant.

By Bud Wiser

September 12, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

If Presidents were given line item veto, then the real porksters would rise to the top of the cesspool we call our Congress.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

No, this is IT I promise: If Gore couldn’t win in 2000 with pregnant chads, then how can Palin win in 2008 with a pregnant Bawd?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Looks like the voters do want a change

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Humor is filtering down to the congressional races.

By AmVet

September 12, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Shawny, I could live with that scenario.

ANYTHING but more bungling, neo-con BushCo wannabe’s and their gang of ostriches and cowards….

Hillary on the ticket?

Interesting.

She would bring a lot of certain votes to the Dems who may otherwise still feel PO’s and stay home.

But every cracker and nut job who is not already voting for McCain/Palin would really come streaming out like cockroaches simply to vote against her and the mulatto despite their Rove-inspired loathing for the RINO maverick.

So it’s hard to say who would get the advantage.

By ron

September 12, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Ragnar,I still find references to Mrs.Palin’s daughter being the actual mother of Mrs.Palins son.How could you expect an apoploy from people who are referring to the daughter as a trollop?It must be nice to be so pure that they can do that.It takes a special kind of man to beat up on a 17 year old girl.

By Tray

September 12, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I know, i mean, it’s low to attack a teenage kid, but what else do you expect from Dems and Their Messiah??

If Obama could talk about the good he’s done, then he wouldn’t have time to attack others. But therein lies the issue-WHAT GOOD HAS OBAMA DONE?? Nothing but waste taxpayer’s money, which is what he’ll do if he wins, and the country will fall into a huge Depression.

Oh, and remember the gas prices are going up this weekend people, so if you’re pro-McCain, go fill your tank, if you’re pro-Obama, go fill your tires, and we’ll see who gets farther…

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Is Sarah Palin a Pied Piper wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes cryin’ “wolf, wolf, wolf”? (talk about scrambled porn).

Sarah Palin is a gift from the journalism god, no question about it.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 12, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

This will help Obama snare the seniors vote: “Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate in ad”

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

OH yes we have no bananas. Jimmy Durante said it best, eh?

Fanny and Freddy’s Five trillion dollars of debt is more than any other country except the USA.

If Uncle Sam didn’t bail them out, then it would truly have been the end of capitalism, as the fallout would have made the depression look like a phony chinese girl lip synching to the real thing.

The United States of America is changing as all countries must. Capitalism itself is relatively new in terms of the age of occupations. Barter came first, with Eve letting Adam sample the forbidden fruit in exchange for forbidden fruit. If only God had bailed them out, none of this current crisis would have happened.

But capitalism started back in the rennaisance with the Dutch inventing all these securities and insurance schemes.

It all can be summed up by looking at the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise’ storefront facia logos in China: Col. Sanders has barely perceptible slanted eyes. Check it out for a real good belly laugh. Then sober up. It’s what coming.

By dave

September 12, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Churchill - you fool, “when President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney packed the top posts at the Department of the Interior with lobbyists” Bush and Cheney had nothing to do with what happen in the Denver office of the DOI. But if it helps you continue with your hate of both of them - go to it…

By Bud Wiser

September 12, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

If Presidents were given line item veto, then the real porksters would swirl to the top of the cesspool we call our Congress. But noooooooo, Congress sees that as an infringement on their ‘right’ to spend our money as they please. So, no line item veto.

This whole mess of corporate bailouts began years ago with Chrysler and Lee Iacocca. Had they been allowed to fail and close up shop, none of this mess would be still occurring.

But noooooooooooooo. Congress had to stick their fat heads and our money into it, and now corporations almost queue it into their operating plans, knowing they can feel free to be reckless and irresponsible, and in the end, good old Uncle Sam with his taxpayers wallets will bail them out.

Making iffy loans to bare-bones or non qualified buyers has put the institutions ability to manage money in doubt. If I were President of the Universe, I’d have jailed and fined every CEO, every BOD, every CFO of every one of these companies, seized their multiple homes and assets, and stripped them of everything they owned. That money would have gone back to a newly appointed Board (by me, of course) to try to save the company, and if it’s not enough, then in the words of former Delta Air Lines CEO Ron Allen, “so be it.”

But nooooooooooo. I don’t, and never will have, that power. Like every other sap that watches these criminals in Washington operate, taking lobby money (which is another pet peeve of mine, but I digress), PAC money, money for your home freezer, etc. and they continue to screw up our economy. And we as Americans continue to put these morons in charge?

Who is the stupid one here? Us? Who keeps putting up these non-qualified toads, has-beens or never-was, and idiots for election or reelection? It is the 2 party system that is failing, but these congressional criminals from the two entities have structured the system in their favor where the failure of any third party candidate is doomed before it starts. Unless you are a billionaire and are willing to spend everything you have to run, you don’t have a prayer.

Election cycles used to be just a familiar joke, with everyone knowing these toads were going to promise the moon, and deliver something akin to a Pet Rock. And those are the ones that are honest. I bet if you check the records you will find that every Senator or Congressman that enters office and is not a multimillionaire, they will be one by the time they leave. They pay no Social Security. They accept nothing less than legalized (by them) bribes. They cannot be sued for false promises when they fail to deliver. In fact, they can’t be sued much at all because of protective laws (designed and written by….guess) governing such. They had built nuclear protective shelters during the Cold War era that still exist, with plans to move them and their families to immediate safety, but we are left to fend for ourselves. And we paid for this? We paid for the potential perpetuation, not of the idyllic ‘American Way’, but of these morons to run whatever is left that they did not manage to kill or destroy? The gene pool for humanity would be set back by eons.

And so here we have another election. I could just write in Billy Payne or Stephen Hawking or someone with good old fashioned common sense (and a brain, and is not prone to gimme gimme gimme your money), but in the end will probably vote for a party candidate. Afterward, I will go home and take a good long cleansing shower and watch the returns like most everyone else.

Sigh.

I’m done now.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

If Sarah Palin wins this election and becomes our new Commander in Chief, then can we say that her daughter got pregnant in-veto?

By StingerSplash

September 12, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Bill Shipp will still find something sinister about Karen Handel’s transparency initiative. And as far as Georgia schools go, at least our state superintendent knows her material. Apparently, that’s where it starts and stops.

By hotlanta

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

Hey Wooten I wanna talk about this so called great interview with Charles Gibson. She didn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine was and ole Charley was looking at her like WTH. Like I said earlier who prepped her for the interview, Bullwinkle. If that was Obama you would have been all over it first thing this morning. How come it wasn’t aired NATIONALLY on regualar television where all of us could see it.

By hotlanta

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

Hey Wooten I wanna talk about this so called great interview with Charles Gibson. She didn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine was and ole Charley was looking at her like WTH. Like I said earlier who prepped her for the interview, Bullwinkle. If that was Obama you would have been all over it first thing this morning. How come it wasn’t aired NATIONALLY on regualar television where all of us could see it.

By deegee

September 12, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

If you weren’t in the birthing room then how does anyone know who really gave birth to little Trig? All we know is what they tell us and I wouldn’t bet my life on any of it. What strikes me as odd is how Palin insisted that she never hesitated, never blinked when McChange asked her to be his running mate. She only asked for reassurance that her inclusion on the ticket would be the best thing for the party. She has a young family. Was she so completely immersed in the role that she couldn’t have stepped out for a couple of minutes and perhaps said something about the challenges that the campaign and a vice presidency would present to her family life? Or does she just not consider them? Considering that she went back to work three days after giving birth to a preemie, I suppose that whatever drives her, it sure isn’t the maternal instinct.

By Th

September 12, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

McCain and Obama are talking about different things when they talk about change. McCain wants to change the process and proceedures of Washington and Obama wants to change the role of the federal government. That is why Obama is so frightening to Republicans, his policies may work (or he may wreck the country). Bill Kristol argued in 1993 that if Clinton’s health care proposals were not defeated, the Republicans would be out of power for a generation. Conservative policies are hugely unpopular to most Americans except in generic terms. We say we want smaller government and less government regulation, but don’t stop inspecting our food and making sure products we buy don’t harm us and the companies we work for don’t screw us over or make us work in unsafe conditions or discriminate against us. A new forest management program about cutting more trees is called Healthy Forests rather than Cut More Trees. Letting polluters take more time to meet pollution standards is called Clear Skies rather than Pollute a Little Longer.

And remember than when McCain bucked his party, he sided with the Democrats. If your point is that he was correct to do so, then Obama was also correct to support those policies. Please tell us which Democratic policies Obama should have broken with his party on or which policies McCain bucked his party he was right to do so. You disagreed with him on tax cuts, immigration, torture and campaign finance.

When the vast majority of Americans think we are headed in the wrong direction, the thing we have to decide this election on is whether we think Bush’s policies are the right ones but Bush was not the right person to implement them and McCain will do a better job, or that Bush’s policies are wrong and we need to pursue other policies.If you want new policies, McCain is saying very clearly he is not your man. If you want to keep the same policies but executed better, Obama is saying he is not your man.

By Dutchman

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

hotlanta,

I am sure, that before you looked it up, neither did you.

Anyway, the concept of if you harbor terrorist, you are just as guilty and the preemptive strike - Heck - didn’t the Israelis practice that back in 1967? Also look at the 1956 Israeli raids into the Sinai and the Suez.

The Doctrine is not that new, but only a forceful Leader would use them.

By BS Aplenty

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

hotlanta

When Gibson asked that very open-ended question about the Bush Doctrine, Gov. Palin astutely and diplomatically asked him if he would clarify his question. Upon “tightening” up his question some, Gov. Palin responded intelligently without casting apsersions on the Bush Administration.

Gibson may have hoped, and I do emphasize may have hoped, for some criticism of the Bush Administration in Gov. Palin’s response but he got none. Instead he got a politically savvy answer from a genial candidate.

Be afraid Dems, be very afraid…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear deegee @ 12:14, “If you weren’t in the birthing room then how does anyone know who really gave birth to little Trig?” We would agree that obvious truth did not inhibit the unhinged from spewing lies, did it?

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Palin 08: Not so much lipstick on a pig, as a pig in a poke.

If Charles Krauthammer is correct when he suggested that Obama Jumped the Shark in Berlin last month, then it’s also true that McCain Bucked the Tiger in Alaska.

Is Palin a wolf in sheep’s clothing? She kept telling Charlie Gibson Last night on ABC News to “come a little closer, my dear”.

As for pork, Palin claimed that not only can she bring home the bacon, but she can also fry it up in a pan.

She also noted that her house in Alaska in not made of straw, sticks, or brick, but rather ice, and that the Russian Bear can huff and puff all it wants, and it dont make no never mind to her. When told that the correct animal in the Fairy Tale was the wolf, she said, “I know, but I shot all the wolves around here. They’re not endangered or nothing are they?”

The only question Gibson didn’t ask Palin was this: Where’s Little Red Riding Hood and what did you do with your grandmother?

I only know that you cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark, my friends.

‘muff said

By Captain Freedom

By hb

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

Wow, wow - Sarah uses Lincoln quote to slap Charlie. Come see the quote on our GOP HQ wall in Woodstock, Ga 770 517-7580

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Hey hb: You mean the men’s lavatory walls you loiter in all day?

moron

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Okay, look everyone, it’s not that we’re ignoring McCain, it’s that it’s just so much fun to write about Palin.

She’s gonna take a couple more weeks to wear off, and become mundane, and then we’ll clobber McCain again.

But until then, let us have our fun, I mean, material like this comes along so rarely, you know?

She’s fertile ground for jokes, with fertile daughters for yokels? (somebody stop me).

By Yahoomania

September 12, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

From the Politico:

Obama would, he said, “transform Washington” and “make government cool again.”

This is what the stupid liberals can’t get through their stone heads: NOBODY EVER SAID ALL GOVERNMENT WAS BAD. We need regulations in this nation like we need water and food.

The difference between socialist liberals like Barack and everyone else is that not EVERYTHING is great because of government.

I for one do not think social security is “cool” when it’s taken from me mandatorily and already spent by GOVERNMENT. Further, I do not think it is “cool” to have to wait in line by taking a number and have degraded health care by GOVERNMENT known as socialized medicine when idiots in front of me who crave attention go to “free” doctors for a headache while I’m bleeding with an ulcer. Even better, I do not think it is “cool” for the GOVERNMENT to use Gestapo fascist eco-radical “green” policies to tell me what I can eat, drive, and how much my carbon footprint is and tax it accordingly.

Obama and his liberal socialist Dumocrat goons can take a hike - and they will come November. Bank on it.

By Remaining Obama Pocket Change

September 12, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Everyone watch how the liberal Dems treat Rino Chaffee as a hero while dumping their own 2000 liberal Dem Vice Presidential candidate calling him a moron and an embarrassment for leaving the party of congressional do nothing.

By deegee

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

Ragnar, you didn’t prove your point. You weren’t in the birthing room so you can’t assert that Sarah gave birth. You weren’t in the birthing room so you can’t deny that Sarah gave birth. You can only speculate on the veracity of the information they presented to the public. How does a 44-year old public figure and mother of 4 hide a pregnancy til the 7th month? Then give birth to a preemie, return to work three days after giving birth and within 4 months of delivering, look like Cher? I know women that delivered children in their 40s. It ain’t that easy. And to my point, was her head so stuffed with talking points that she didn’t have room for a spontaneous thought about the consequences of advancing her career with respect to her young family? It’s a question that is asked of every political candidate.

By Grading Wooten

September 12, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

The Obama apology window is open. Do you have more health insurance than a fifth grader? or will you be dumped as non-paying patient scum on Grady’s doorstep?

Let the sewers fail at the local level, and watch the gop flip-flop over the plop……ew.

The Chinese force their citizens to recite the Predge of Arregience in Schools. (well, they lip synch to a recording of it).

Cynthia McKinney is to the lunatic fringe on the left what Sarah Palin is to the lunatic fringe on the Right.

Palin is part of a movement to secede Alaska from the USA. She thinks the Bush Doctrine is “one in the hand is worth two in the bush”.

Cynthia McKinney thinks W lied to the American people about WMDs and the Saddam Hussein/Al Queda connection. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Cheney and Bush were warned by the FBI and the CIA about plans Al Queda had to fly planes into skyscrapers. Cynthia McKinney things that Bush knew about sleeper cells of Al Queda taking flying lessons and living quiet lives as hockey moms and dads.

Cynthia McKinney thinks Bush has been the worst president we’ve ever had bar none.

But Sarah Palin thinks that if she can see a country, she can pack her foreign policy resume with that country. Well, sarah, I see england, I see France, but how many have seen your daughter’s underpants……

bwa haw.

By Grading Wooten

September 12, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

The Obama apology window is open. Do you have more health insurance than a fifth grader? or will you be dumped as non-paying patient scum on Grady’s doorstep?

Let the sewers fail at the local level, and watch the gop flip-flop over the plop……ew.

The Chinese force their citizens to recite the Predge of Arregience in Schools. (well, they lip synch to a recording of it).

Cynthia McKinney is to the lunatic fringe on the left what Sarah Palin is to the lunatic fringe on the Right.

Palin is part of a movement to secede Alaska from the USA. She thinks the Bush Doctrine is “one in the hand is worth two in the bush”.

Cynthia McKinney thinks W lied to the American people about WMDs and the Saddam Hussein/Al Queda connection. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Cheney and Bush were warned by the FBI and the CIA about plans Al Queda had to fly planes into skyscrapers. Cynthia McKinney things that Bush knew about sleeper cells of Al Queda taking flying lessons and living quiet lives as hockey moms and dads.

Cynthia McKinney thinks Bush has been the worst president we’ve ever had bar none.

But Sarah Palin thinks that if she can see a country, she can pack her foreign policy resume with that country. Well, sarah, I see england, I see France, but how many have seen your daughter’s underpants……

bwa haw.

By Wooten the Republican Shill

September 12, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Notice Wooten the Republican shill is more than happy to address Kathy Cox’s performance on a game show, but not her failures on the job.

She won on a game show; wow Wooten, you sure set the bar high when it comes to your expectations of Republicans.

By Churchill

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

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s evident cluelessness when asked in an interview yesterday if she agreed with the Bush Doctrine is appropriately being seen as emblematic of her ignorance of foreign policy.

But as it happens, I’m not sure anyone is entirely clear on what the Bush Doctrine is at this particular moment.

When Palin asked ABC anchor Charlie Gibson what he meant by the Bush Doctrine, Gibson clarifed: “The Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.” That should have helped. After it was obvious Palin still didn’t know what he was talking about, Gibson ventured further: “The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?”

Palin’s reply: “If there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend.”

But Gibson was making a common error, and what Palin said in her response did not actually address what was so radical about Bush’s contribution to American foreign policy. Preemption has in fact been a staple of our foreign policy for ages — and other countries’ as well. The twist Bush put on it was embracing “preventive” war: Taking action well before an attack was imminent — invading a country that was simply perceived as threatening.

By Analchord

September 12, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

Cynthia McKinney is to the lunatic fringe on the left what Sarah Palin is to the lunatic fringe on the Right.

Palin is part of a movement to secede Alaska from the USA. She thinks the Bush Doctrine is “one in the hand is worth two in the bush”. (Hey, isn’t that what got her daughter in trouble)?

Cynthia McKinney thinks W lied to the American people about WMDs and the Saddam Hussein/Al Queda connection. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Cheney and Bush were warned by the FBI and the CIA about plans Al Queda had to fly planes into skyscrapers. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Bush knew about the sleeper cells of Al Queda taking flying lessons and living quiet lives as hockey moms and dads.

Cynthia McKinney thinks Bush has been the worst president we’ve ever had bar none.

But Sarah Palin thinks that if she can see a country, she can pack her foreign policy resume with that country. Well, sarah, I see england, I see France, but how many have seen your daughter’s underpants……

bwa haw.

By Stop Pretending!

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

Thought this might be interesting reading:

McCain Adviser Says Next President Must Raise Taxes In a forthcoming book by Fortune columnist Matt Miller, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Sen. John McCain’s chief economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, “makes it clear that the next President is going to have to raise taxes,” according to Joe Klein.

Said Holtz-Eakin: “If you do nothing on the spending side, you’re going to have to raise taxes whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat or a Martian.”

He then immediately makes it clear that the “spending side” part of the argument for cutting taxes is “nothing more than a political fig-leaf” covering up basic arithmetic. The growth of entitlement programs and spiraling health costs make it nearly impossible to cut spending for McCain’s proposed tax cuts.

When asked why tax cutting remains the central theme of Republican campaigns, Holz-Eakin said, “It’s the brand, and you don’t dilute the brand.”

Of course, this also means Sen. Barack Obama’s proposed “middle class tax cuts” are equally as foolish given the current state of the federal budget.

Meanwhile, Greg Mankiw notes the political futures markets don’t believe the tax cut rhetoric and predict there is a 74% chance McCain raises taxes if he’s elected president.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/12/mccainadvisersaysnextpresidentmustraise_taxes.html

By Grading Wooten

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

Cynthia McKinney is to the lunatic fringe on the left what Sarah Palin is to the lunatic fringe on the Right.

Palin is part of a movement to secede Alaska from the USA. She thinks the Bush Doctrine is “one in the hand is worth two in the bush”. (Hey, isn’t that what got her daughter in trouble)?

Cynthia McKinney thinks W lied to the American people about WMDs and the Saddam Hussein/Al Queda connection. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Cheney and Bush were warned by the FBI and the CIA about plans Al Queda had to fly planes into skyscrapers. Cynthia McKinney thinks that Bush knew about the sleeper cells of Al Queda taking flying lessons and living quiet lives as hockey moms and dads.

Cynthia McKinney thinks Bush has been the worst president we’ve ever had bar none.

But Sarah Palin thinks that if she can see a country, she can pack her foreign policy resume with that country. Well, sarah, I see england, I see France, but how many have seen your daughter’s underpants……

Sarah Palin thinks we should not educate our underaged, unmarried daughters about sex. I guess Sarah’s Secret is Victoria’s Secret.

John McCain was tortured as a POW. Sarah Palin feels tortured by NOW.

Obama 08: Aint no secrets.

By ron

September 12, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Bud Weiser—-The current president’s discretionary spending is up there in the stratosphere.Growing by leaps and bounds.A line item veto would stop Congressional spending and increase his own.Let sleeping dogs lie.

Deegee,Fascinated by the subject,aren’t you?Many women today run their own lives and do what they want.We have a woman Firechief where I come from.Volunteer and all that entails.Hands on type of Firechief.She’s definitely the best man for the job.

By Stop Pretending!

September 12, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

This piggy backs (no pun) on something I said earlier this week. The reality of it all is that neither candidate will know what they can actually do until they get in office. They don’t know the extent of the mess that has been created by the current administration.

By Stop Pretending!

September 12, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

This piggy backs (no pun) on something I said earlier this week. The reality of it all is that neither candidate will know what they can actually do until they get in office. They don’t know the extent of the mess that has been created by the current administration.

By Lisa

September 12, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, are you going to write about the debacle Palin made of herself in the Charlie Gibson interview or are you going to act like it didn’t happen? I was looking forward to how you were going to spin it to make it seem like she did a stellar job; you know like you’ve been doing in all of your other posts regarding Palin. It was sad to watch but so expected. Palin embarrassed herself and showed how she is nowhere, no how ready to be Vice President of the US. Please do a write up because your spins are quite humorous and I was looking forward to it.

By kitty

September 12, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Jim, I love the bullet points for the simple minded GOPers. Sounds like the McCain campaign…why expect people to actually understand things…just tell them in bullet points what they need to know. Simple for the simple minded. Sigh!

By deegee

September 12, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

The obvious pitfall in making earmark cutting a campaign pillar is that most people feel that other states’ earmarks are pork and their state’s earmarks are projects. How would it go over in GA if McCain was asked by someone like Wooten if it would be an appropriate use of his old pen to scratch out $318.5K to spruce up downtown Dahlonega, $245K to spruce up an 8-block corridor in Valdosta and $44k to spruce up the GA central railway historic paint and coach shop?

How would it go over in VA if McCain was asked if it was an appropriate use of his old pen to scratch out $656K to spruce up Jefferson Park in Newport News?

How about going to PA and telling Senator Specter that he would like to use his old pen to scratch out $372K for his dairy farm profitability study, $90K for his obesity intervention earmark/project, and $123K for his Polish-American cultural center in Philly. I thought republicans were opposed to the hyphenated American designation. Why are we spending $123K on a hyphenated American cultural center?

By deegee

September 12, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

ron, that was so wrong on so many levels I wouldn’t know where to start.

By Cooljay

September 12, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

sarah palin thinks that if she can just SEE a country then she can pack her foreign policy resume with that country.

Well, I see England, and I see France, and how many have seen Bristol’s underpants?

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Look, I can see my neighbor’s bedroom, but that doesn’t mean I cranked his wife.

See what I am saying about Sarah Palin to U this day?

By Tes Socra

September 12, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Poor Whacky Wooten - He has forgotten how The $64,000 Question Game Show was “produced”. Kathy Kox’s questions are clearly not on the Georgia CRCT for 5th Graders to pass to be promoted to 6th grade.

Wooten should focus on developing a plan to use vouchers to fix the falling subscriber numbers for the AJC and save some jobs and retirements !

By Jim is a caveman

September 12, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

The king of pettiness, who just this week has called Obama a bomb thrower and a Muslim, while trying to look like he wasn’t, has asked us to rise from pettiness. We’ll follow you, Jim, if you don’t mind. But it will never happen. You can’t do it. You follow the GOP line in focusing on pettiness like the lipstick on a pig comment, twisting it into a sexist attack on Palin when it was nothing of the sort. You can’t do it. And we must continue to call you on it.

By Dutchman

September 12, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

deegee,

The problem with earmarks ar they are not introduced as a funding bill would be. They are not open to debate and an up or down vote. They are slipped into an existing bill. Stuck in at the 11th hour.

If congress wants to spend $123K for a Polish-American cultural center in Philly, then let it be in the open and made public, not sneaked in at night. i am with John McCain on this issue.

By Dutchman

September 12, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Lisa,

You may be right, she has as much foreign affairs experience as Bill Clinton did.

In fact, both were Governors, so I guess they both are like Pilate.

Also, I guess that is why they have a Secretary of State, to help out in those matters.

The more you lefties whine about Sarah, the shriller it becomes and the more certain she will be the next V.P.. Keep it up, your ignorance is showing..

By hotlanta

September 12, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Wow she just got her passport. Don’t take Sarah to see the Queen of England. Because the minute she see those animals out on the lawn she might start ta shooting. Where is PETA in all of this since she is sooo happy to shoot an animal with a gun.

By deegee

September 12, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

I am sure that most people are with John McChange on getting rid of other folks’ earmarks. Now you have to ask yourself, how productive would our congress be if every proposed interior project, defense project, agricultural project and environmental project is introduced into the agenda, debated for its merits and then voted on? How is John McChange with all of his experience and red ink going to make that happen?

By hotlanta

September 12, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Wow she just got her passport. Don’t take Sarah to see the Queen of England. Because the minute she see those animals out on the lawn she might start ta shooting. Where is PETA in all of this since she is sooo happy to shoot an animal with a gun.

By Dutchman

September 12, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

hotlanta ,

She got it before she went to Kuwait and Germany to see the troops BHO would not see. Can the lefties not repeat everything on the dailykos and think for them selves?

By Cooljay

September 12, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Dutch, aren’t you embarrassed by your pitiful comment in the montage of ambient genius that just got laid down here all day long by me?

You know, Dutch, the blog is open to one and all, and I encourage your participation. The fanciful sprites over at the Woman to Woman blog would love your input. You’d be quite the bon vivant over there, sir. I’ve set up your arrival with a very big build up of your blogging prowess. They’re on hands and knees over there for you, pal.

You’re welcome.

Do blog, oh do.

By deegee

September 12, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Sure, Dutchman, Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton. One and the same.

“With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree in 1968. He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, working as an intern for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.

Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Government. After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1973.”

“Palin’s collegiate career began in the one state younger than Alaska, where she attended Hawaii Pacific University in the business administration program. She started in the fall of 1982. Next she headed to North Idaho College, a two-year institution, where she was a general studies major for two more semesters, spring and fall of 1983. Although she never received a degree there, she received the school’s Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award this past June.

In the fall of 1984, she transferred to the University of Idaho, where she majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She stayed until the spring 1985.

The next fall, Palin headed back to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College, just 14 miles from her hometown, Wasilla.

After one semester, she returned to the University of Idaho, which she attended for three more semesters—spring 1986, fall 1986, and spring 1987. She (at last!) graduated with a degree in journalism. After her roundabout tour of higher education, she worked a short stint as a sportscaster at a station in Anchorage, reporting on the Iditarod and Detroit Pistons basketball.”

By Dutchman

September 12, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

deegee,

That is how it should be done. At least that is how it is defined in the Constitution.

It would cut out the Tea Cup museum and other odd ball items.

It would make the big spenders open to why they think it is important to their state.

By Tar and Feathered

September 12, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

“Analcord” aka Post Haste, aka Oz, aka Hans Apology, aka truthmarch, aka Grading Wooten, aka coptalk, aka Bandritry of Pundrity, aka Pee;er Pressure, aka WXYZ aka coptalk, this lonely pathetic poser can’t keep his names straight, why should anyone listen to him when he’s so busy posting to himself?

By Dutchman

September 12, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

deegee,

Well, I guess you got me their - protesting in England and Moscow do trump everything else. I wonder if she got near BHO’s expensive prep school in Hawaii? i think it is around $17k a year in 2008.

Why is it that the lefties are attacking Palin and not McCain - I would rather be attacking Biden myself, that buffoon has laid quite a few zingers across BHO’s campaign, not to mention his lobbyist son.

Regarding Palin, I would imagine that the left has insulted, working mothers, single mothers, mothers that attend church, temple or whatever and mothers of large families - like Pelosi and her 5 kids.

So far, you might just have cost BHO his ascension to near holiness.

I do have to laugh when I see the lefties commenting on something with the dailykos as a source, or Huffington.

Using a blog as a source has got to be the lamest effort around.

You talk like getting a passport 18 months ago is bad? how many of you have yours? with entry and exit stamps that is.

enough of the rant, closing up and going to enjoy my weekend, looking forward to the McCain/Palin party in January.

There will be no OBAMA NATION in the White House.

By Apostled

September 12, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

I got a degree in Accounting, but I took a whole week of pre-med, and I can say that you, deegee, have a brain tumor, or more diagnostically accurate, no brain to mull over.

Now, I dropped out of pre-med, or more accurately the professors refused to teach anything while I was in the room, after I proficiously objected to being required to memorize the latin names of all the bones in a frog’s body.

“I aint memorizin’ no names of no bones in no frogs no how, so the medical community can just git along widout me. ” I said aloud in a class of at least 350 peoples, who all gasped at my impetuosity.

and that was just the first week. Imagine how tough med school would have been. Where I made my mistake was in not realizing that everyone was in the same boat, and I coulda coasted along just fine like the hundreds of other morons in that class.

Curses.

By Ga Values

September 12, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

By deegee

September 12, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

“The obvious pitfall in making earmark cutting a campaign pillar is that most people feel that other states’ earmarks are pork and their state’s earmarks are projects. How would it go over in GA if McCain was asked by someone like Wooten if it would be an appropriate use of his old pen to scratch out $318.5K to spruce up downtown Dahlonega, $245K to spruce up an 8-block corridor in Valdosta and $44k to spruce up the GA central railway historic paint and coach shop?”

This is all borrowed money, WE have 6 Real Republican Congressmen who refuse to steal form our childeren. Regreatable we have 2 RINO senators & 5 Borrow & spend congressmen. Term Limits Here, Term Limits Now, Country 1st not Lobbyist.

By Grady ER RN

September 12, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

“Stop dumping your nonpaying patients on Grady, he said. Produce the evidence. Nobody before him has.”

Unfortunately, the government mandates privacy rules, so we are unable to share the referral papers that patients bring in from other ERs. If they don’t have insurance, and need more expensive tests or surgical procedures, they are told to follow up at Grady. Somtimes we see the paperwork and it is actually written on there. Other times the patients just tell us that they were told to go to Grady. We all know it happens all the time. And of course now that it is out in the open, I can imagine the other ERs will be more careful. Case in point…last week had a patient who’s paper read “Follow up with your doctor”. The patient stated, they know I don’t have a doctor, I don’t have any insurance, and I told them that. They told the patient she needed IV antibiotics and that she could get them for free at Grady. And of course, she did get her Vancomycin for ‘free’. Paying patients are going to go where they can get faster service. Grady IS a great hospital, but we could double the size of the ER and staff and we would still be full. We are the clinic for a large number of people who come here because they cannot go anywhere else. Even when we give them a referral to our own clinics…….appointments are often several months down the line because of the overwhelming volume. Not unique to Atlanta…….most major inner city hospitals have similar problems. And there are always those who want everything free, including Tylenol or Motrin. And don’t even get me started on the dental issues that present. Dental clinic appointments for the poor are even scarcer. So of course they turn to us for relief from their pain and suffering. Michael Young does have his hands full……and needs to be careful that he doesn’t alienate the nursing staff. His changes so far have not been impressive to us, and it seems that we lose more nurses than we are hiring…wonder why? So alot of us are keeping our options open, and are checking out other opportunities. Some of us love Grady, but we aren’t stupid. The handwriting is on the wall……I challenge Mr. Young to come work in the ECC on any night, particularly Friday through Monday…..and stand for 12.5 hours. And walk all over that large department all night long, tracking down scarce equipment and supplies, while fielding the huge numbers of waiting patients who are sick, hurting, angry, frustrated, as well as their family members. It doesn’t take a saint to be a Grady nurse……but it does take the patience of one.

By getalife wingnurs

September 13, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Former CIA third in command and indicted Cunningham bribery scandal co-conspirator Kyle “Dusty” Foggo is threatening to out agents, secret programs and Bush administration skeletons in an attempt to ward of a possible jail sentence on 30 counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.

More gop treason but lets give then four more years.

Country first huh Jim?

By deegee

September 13, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

It is my observation that self-discipline will take one a whole lot farther in life than a high IQ.

By Common Sense

September 15, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

I hope with having incredible storms Jim will speak to the fact on how we need to get away from oil!

Even though Mr. Obama cause the oil prices to rise according to Mr. McClain the price per barrel is down under $100 but we do not see a major difference at the pump!

Now with the storms gasoline stations who relie on the gulf coast refiners are running out of gas so they go and raise the price of gasoline!

We have no rules in place to police substantial gasoline price increase!

This is why a well run government is important it will keep corporations from just taking advantage of the consumers!