Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 15, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Obama has few meaningful choices for the remainder of the presidential campaign. For six months he portrayed himself as a rock star instead of explaining to America who he was and what he stands for; that time is gone and will not be coming back. The McCain camp took advantage of that strategic error by Chauncey and defined him, effectively, for America as a “community activist whatever that is.” Had Obama identified himself in terms of prospective policies, the McCain “community activist” effort would have been meaningless. Even now I think nobody has a concrete view of what Obama will do, philosophically, to rein in terrorism, or to address the new Russian aggression against the independent states formerly of the east bloc, or to procure reasonably-priced energy for American families. Obama tax policy changes weekly and weakly.

Obama tells us he is not “Bush” but does not even tell us what “Bush” is. Is Bush the author of the war against Al Qaeda, and does Obama oppose it? Is Bush the progenitor of the tax cuts that revived the economy from the two-barrel dot com collapse and terrorist attack, and does Obama oppose renewing those cuts? Is Bush the profligate mentor of the Kennedy Education Bill and the Dashle Agriculture bill, and is Obama the spending cutter who will eliminate such wasteful government?

Thus Obama flounders. The Chose One has not sought advice from jbmlaw, but I would strongly urge him to change the discussion entirely. His negative attacks misfire. McCain’s brand identity is well-known, for better or worse. People are not uncomfortable with McCain because he has gray hair; they are uncomfortable with McCain because he has demonstrated leftist tendencies in his past, magnifying the virtues of government control over individual people (e.g., McCain-Feingold.) People are not uncomfortable with Palin’s lack of experience, as she holds a surfeit of character and wears it, persuasively, on her sleeve. Obama’s only real opening is to be more conservative than McCain-Palin on the culture wars.

Four talking points that would allow Obama to win the election: (1) Real school choice is an idea whose time has come. (2) No government monies shall be provided to any school of higher education that does not have at least 25 students enrolled in ROTC. (3) “Arts” spending is an illegitimate use of public funds. (4) Death taxes should be abolished, for those reasons articulated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Note that the four points are not at odds with democrat party principles, and all tend to empower individual freedom for all, rather than favoring the few. These are ideas that Obama could sell without compromising his base. Unless Obama is viewed as a fount of new thinking, “change” is meaningless. Today he is not so-viewed by the bitter people who cling to their guns and their religion, i.e., the great unwashed majority who will determine the outcome of the election.

Until then Obama is vulnerable, and seemingly mockery is devastating for his legitimacy. I saw a clever Buchwald-style parody – bottom of this page by someone who calls himself artboyusa.

By Gettin it Started

September 15, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

But I’m sure you have no problem with the overt racism endured by Obama during the entire campaign do you Jim??

..And what are the many attacks on Obama by the McCain campaign a “reminder” of Jim??

By Redneck Convert

September 15, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Well, being about to die don’t mean you won’t be a good President. And you don’t have to be alive to win a election. Heck, remember when this Gov. Carnahan out in Mo. died during his senate campaign and he still beat Ashcroft for the office? His wife took over to serve out his term even tho her husband’s name was on the ballot.

Most of us godly Republicans ain’t too crazy about McCain on account of he’s too librul. He run against My President back in 2000 and wants to make the illegals legal. He wrote the law that won’t allow the rich people to make as many campaign donations as they like. But it makes us feel better to know he won’t be around much longer and this Palin woman will take over for him. Heck, she’ll probly shove his body into a hole in a flower garden and go right to work. Open season on mooses and other critters. No gun laws. No abortion. Teaching Adam and Eve in schools. And war if anybody crosses her. If the Terrists down in Gitmo think they got it bad now, just wait till she takes over. Ask her former brother in law what happens when she don’t like you.

Anyhow, let this Obama howl. We ain’t having none of Those People in the white house. There’s about 6 million voters that won’t tell the pollsters who they are voting for on account of they won’t vote for one of Those People but won’t say so. Just wait till they show up at the polls.

Well, I’m getting off of this blog before the English cockney TFTT comes back from the bath house and starts raising cain. Have a good day everybody.

By Glenn

September 15, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Hillbillies and other assorted intellectual insects of the world, unite!

Oh, you’ve already done that. It’s called McShame-Palin.

Never mind.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 15, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Hypothetical question crosses my mind: what would be the effect if Obama called for repeal of McCain-Feingold? What would be the effect if Obama called for drilling in ANWR?

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 15, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

RACISM

There is nothing about being Black, Red, White or Yellow (or rosy beige like me) that would prevent an individual from performing the duties of President of the United States.

SEXISM

There is nothing about having a vagina or a penis that would prevent an individual from performing the duties of President of the United States.

AGISM

Can’t say the same thing can we?

There are things about being quite a bit older than can prevent an individual from performing those duties.

I am glad the Palin nomination has reopened the discussion about McCains medical issues.

By Franklin Delano Roosevelt, deceased

September 15, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Young Mr. Obama, I must say I like your theme of “change.” It reminds me of the way I came in and started kicking the Great Depression’s butt in ‘33. Might I suggest you label your platform, New Deal 2: Makin’ Government Cool Again, Dawg.

Oh, and your pick of Joe Biden is terrific. He reminds me so much of John N. Garner.

By MJK

September 15, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

How valuable is executive experience gained in a state that is awash in oil revenues? The most difficult decision the Governor of that state has to make is how large will the rebate checks be this year.

I agree that Obama is in panic mode and he needs to let the wave of Palin enthusiasm run its course. If it doesn’t fade then McCain did make a genius selection.

However, I think Palin won’t hold up to the scrutiny and while she’ll get the Hockey Mom Vote, most independents/undecideds will end up choosing from between McCain or Obama and I think the “McCain is too much like Bush” accusation will stick just enough.

By Common Sense

September 15, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Jim we are talking about weak issues of bad avertisement!

Wallstreet is failing and all you can write about is Obama is desperate!

The price of oil per barrel is going down and the price of gasoline is going up.

You would think during a disaster gas station would not gorge their customers!

See Jim that is why we need to get off oil, their is are no price controls. Because oil is not being refined supply and demand should not kick in to raise prices thru the roof when AMERICANS are hurting financially!

Please let us get-off of the racism,sexism and agism for now we can see our polictical parties and some of the dummies out here that is all they want to talk about!

We have real problems unemployment,falling house prices,jobs being shipped overseas and rising inflation and all we can talk about is if you can purchase a machine gun!

By Noelle

September 15, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

McCain’s been trashing Obama because of his age (youth + inexperience) for months. Why shouldn’t Obama return the favor? I find it incredibly important that a US President in 2008 know enough about technology that’s been around for over a decade to send a simple e-mail without having to ask for help. Even my 86-year-old grandmother can do that.

The fact is, McCain has had more than a quarter of a century to effect “change” in Washington. How can anyone think another 4 years will make any difference?

By tcoach

September 15, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

So Mrs. Godzilla, are you in favor of age discrimination in the job place. If not then you must be a medical expert who knows the exact impact age will have upon McCain. Must you not forget that your VP has had 2 aneurysms. What exactly are the duties that someone a bit older would have problems doing. I do not remember any obstacle courses the president has to do everyday. As far as one knows McCain mind functions at its normal rate, unless that is one of the things older people cannot do is think.
Maybe Biden should be more worried about that since his health problems are with his brain.

By Churchill

September 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

4 more years, 4 more years, 4 more years

By marko

September 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Jim, one wonders why you keep attacking Obama. Did’nt you declare victory a couple of columns ago? I would think your time might be better spent writting acceptance speeches. Just go off and paint your mission accomplished banner, and stop your fretting about that nasty old Obama fellow.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 15, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

I see arsehole vet’s shameless toy boy, the semi-literate inbred rednecKKK has puked up its usual witless bilious homo double wide hate. Time for a supernova fiery beer truck crash methinks!!

The half-black uppity black racist Hussein Obama is deservedly LOOOOOSING badly in the polls. The McLiar-Palin “bounce” is NOT just a bounce but now a sustained, well deserved lead. Especially when one looks into the “internals” of both numerous crucial state polls and the national ones. The largely liberal run polls are almost certainly UNDERESTIMATING the McLiar-Palin lead. Because of the inevitable patriotic tendency of millions of folks to deliberately mislead liberal pollsters. The chickenhawk Kerry was supposedly “ahead” even on election day and LOST!!! But the American folks simply will NOT tolerate a far left black racist surrender monkey and a white trash far left PLAGIARISING self absorbed puffed up windbag in the White House.

The huge swing of white Reagan demoNcrat folks to McLiar so swiftly after the VP elect Palin pick is very telling. Hussein Obama barely got a bounce from its uppity self love Nuremberg hate America fest in the home of the disgraced treasonous puff adder and USAF target ward churchill. A worthless venal “community organiser” is hardly presidential material and the folks damn well know it!!

The lefty liberal stinking commie creep screeching and ranting and blubbering on Guy Fawkes Day and McLiar-Palin victory day will be THE BEST and longest, loudest, celebratory laugh-in Americans have had since the haughty I sure got my 8mm camera in Vietnam windsurfing gormless pillock Kerry hot his in 2004.

I wish I had outed the odiousfeminazibitch Plame!!

time for the patriotic I hate lefty scum truth … huge snigger

By Churchill

September 15, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Will Palin Get the Same Scrutiny Hillary Got? So now we learn that Sarah Palin did not go to visit troops in Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign originally claimed, nor did she visit Ireland, as a spokesman claimed – she went through Ireland only for a refueling stop. Good reporting by the Boston Globe got to the truth of the matter. The McCain- Palin campaign was forced to concede the facts, but only after being pressed.

There’s a pattern here, two patterns actually. The first is that the McCain campaign is willing to peddle all sorts of untrue and half-true claims. The second is that the McCain campaign is clearly so uneasy about Palin’s patent lack of engagement with foreign policy that it has felt the need to greatly exaggerate what small bits of engagement she has had. (When ABC News’ Charlie Gibson asked her how Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her insight into that country, Palin replied: “They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” That’s reassuring, isn’t it? The Gibson interview also revealed the thinness Palin’s knowledge of domestic policy, particularly on the budget.)

There is also a question here for the media. When Hillary Clinton claimed last March that she had to evade sniper fire during a landing in Bosnia in 1996, the media came down on her hard. It was a huge story. But at least Clinton actually visited Bosnia. Will the media focus the same attention on the false and exaggerated claims about Palin?

Journalists gave Al Gore endless grief about supposed exaggerations and even suggested he said things (about inventing the Internet) that he actually didn’t say. Aren’t Palin’s claims about opposing earmarks, when she actually tried to get them, and about saying “no thanks” to the bridge to nowhere, when she initially supported it, part of a larger narrative of deception?

The media made a big deal about whether John Kerry, when he served in Vietnam, did or didn’t cross the border with Cambodia. Why doesn’t Palin’s relationship to the Kuwait-Iraq border deserve at least as much attention?

Since we’re talking about travel here, let’s stay focused on the Clinton comparison: Is there one standard for Hillary Clinton — a tough one — and another, permissive standard for Sarah Palin? I’ll be curious about this and so, I suspect, will Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

A Note on Gibson: In an earlier post, I suggested that Gibson should stay away from questions about Palin’s family life and focus on policy and her public life. I salute him for doing exactly that. And to conservatives who are going after Gibson, I’d point out that (1.) he did not press her at all hard either on Troopergate or on the controversy over her relationship with the Wasilla public library when she was mayor; (2.) he was still far tougher on Barack Obama in last April’s debate than he was on Palin; and (3.) he treated Palin as a serious person who presumably had something to say beyond index card briefings about policy. That’s the opposite of sexism. (Click here for ABC’s lengthy excerpts from the interview to judge for yourself.)

I continue to believe that Palin’s lack of engagement with most national and virtually all international issues until the moment of her selection will eventually become a bigger issue. So will McCain’s extremely limited personal knowledge of Palin before he picked her.

By ron

September 15, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Good morning,So McCain is old.That’s not news.With age comes wisdom.Supposedly.Too old to be Predsident?No.McCain -Palin is the better ticket for America.They’re not Bush.They’re McCain-Palin.. A totally different species.World experience and Governing experience.

Today will be a bad day on the Street.My old buddy Merrill lynch went to Bank America for protection.Lehman going to Chapter 11.—AIG casting around for cash to stay afloat.Not a good weekend.The housing bust is not over yet.Still think it’s all due to bad credit,Jim?

The Clayton County school problem is going to be prayed away.Where was Sonny?

By Lyndon Baines Johnson, deceased

September 15, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

By golly, Obama, you’ve got the right idea. That dadgum conservative, Bill Clinton, took our party too far away from the base I built. When Jack Kennedy got shot, I did what few expected and out liberaled them all. I made up jobs. Then I paid people not to work. I slathered ‘em with food stamps, welfare, WIC. Medicaid and government cheese.

You go right back and refill the government teat, Barry, and, by gum, you’ll have the “Great Society,” base back and then some.

By Citizen of the World

September 15, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

There Wooten goes again — touting Sarah Palin’s executive experience — as if.

So here I go again, pointing out that executive experience in and of itself is not qualifying. Just stop and consider for a moment the executives and/or bosses you know. Many get where they are and stay where they are, less because of competence, and more because of ambition, or cronyism, or sucking up or taking credit for someone else’s work or ideas. They make bad executive decisions. They act in ways that are imperious and autocratic. They run their departments into the ground and then get promoted because the higher ups don’t know what else to do with them! We’ve all seen it happen.

So, no. Sarah Palin’s executive experience is not, in and of itself, more qualifying than all the other candidates’ — including John McCain’s — perceived lack thereof. A person who has done well in other areas can transfer his or her integrity, competence and commitment to an executive challenge and make good decisions for the benefit of their constituency. It’s about knowledge, understanding and judgment.

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 — cream rises to the top. But, by the same token — sh*t floats.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 15, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

@ arsehole vet

cheers bubbawankpig for the MAGNIFICENT, SUPERB long winded hissy fit just posted on the other blog. Much appreciated!!

Still sniggering with patriotic pride at just how unbelievably EASY it is to wind far left hate America scum like U up!

P.S. …. Have U made that animal shelter vet appointment yet arsehole vet so a properly trained vet can “fix” ya??!!

suitably gracious, witty contemptuous snigger

McLiar-Palin 08

By Lisa

September 15, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

“What it boils down to is that Obama is trashing McCain because of his age.”

Okkkkkkkk! And what does Mc Cain’s LYING Ads about Obama boil down to Mr. Wooten?

“The Obama attack on McCain is noteworthy because it is a reminder that Democrats are lashing out in panic. Poll numbers are breaking against them.” What????? Not Hardly Mr. Wooten; not hardly.

Mr. Wooten you are delusional; seriously, there is something wrong with you.

By JLK

September 15, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Will Palin Get the Same Scrutiny Hillary Got?

Not in this “column.” That would require Mr. Wooten behave somewhat like an actual journalist — something he stopped bothering to do years ago. Opinions are all that matter here. Cult of personality. They decide. They deride. The facts have no place in an American political discussion, right Mr. Wooten?

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 15, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

But, by the same token — sht floats.*

Best sententious description today of the half-black black racist Hussein Obama!!!

My pithy, very nearly awestruck [snigger] congrats m8!!

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Too much fun to keep on the other blog:

Brit Twit,

Aren’t you late for your Klan meeting, skinhead? What? No lynchings today?

You gotta hand it to these repulsive, cowardly, never-served, never will, uber-angry cons.

They have no shame.

None.

Just plenty of juvenile schtick.

Their boys have the worst track record imaginable over the past eight years, and all these buffoons can do is grin like none of it ever happened.

And many of these racist, lipsticked pigs in the lower middle class here in the Moron Belt grin right along with them.

One debacle after the next - from the chicken hawk-led, bungled invasion/occupation of Iraq, to the endless scandals, pedophiles, corruption and pettiness to gutting environmental safeguards in the name of “Healthy Forests” and “Clear Skies” to theocrats and plutocrats creating havoc and affecting “policy” that has the nation absolutely reeling.

Now the Goebbels-like Karl Rove, feigns tolerance and fair-play in the campaign.

Much more telling though, we still have a couple of total scumbags here, and a couple of more timid types, who best portray the unhinged, lunatic fringe element of thee REAL Republican “conservatives”!

And if you need directions to an AFEES, let me know xenophobe.

Too funny…

By James Earl Carter, not yet deceased

September 15, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama is the person we need to lead us out of our great national malaise that we’ve suffered from since the 1970s. Oh, some of you prattle on about the Reagan Revolution and the go-go ’90s under that lustful conservative, Bill Clinton, but, really, we are a nation in crisis. And we have been for 30 years. Barack Obama will end global warming, our dependence on foreign oil and this seemingly permanent malaise. The government can do this for us. It must do it for us. And Barack Obama is just the person to get it done.

By Just Nasty and Mean

September 15, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

G’mornin Jim, et al,

Another thing the “Change” Obla-bla-ma ticket fails to mention is how many times Obla-bla-ma went against his party bosses and bucked their directives.

So now there is a study by the—hardly conservative—Washington Times—that McCain is—by far—more bipartisan and MUCH more productive than Obama in legislation in the Senate. The even-handed study excluded resolutions and amendments, focusing instead on measures that each man authored and put into the normal legislative process.

“The Times study looked at the bills each man introduced as the chief sponsor, and at the bills sponsored by other senators that each man signed onto. The study excluded resolutions and amendments, focusing instead on measures that each man authored and put into the normal legislative process. “Whether looking at bills they have led on or bills they have signed onto, Mr. McCain has reached across the aisle far more frequently and with more members than Mr. Obama since the latter came to the Senate in 2005.

In fact, by several measures, Mr. McCain has been more likely to team up with Democrats than with members of his own party. Democrats made up 55 percent of his political partners over the last two Congresses, including on the tough issues of campaign finance and global warming. For Mr. Obama, Republicans were only 13 percent of his co-sponsors during his time in the Senate, and he had his biggest bipartisan successes on noncontroversial measures, such as issuing a postage stamp in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

But since 2005, Mr. McCain has led as chief sponsor of 82 bills, on which he had 120 Democratic co-sponsors out of 220 total, for an average of 55 percent. He worked with Democrats on 50 of his bills, and of those, 37 times Democrats outnumber Republicans as co-sponsors.

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, sponsored 120 bills, of which Republicans co-sponsored just 26, and on only five bills did Republicans outnumber Democrats. Mr. Obama gained 522 total Democratic co-sponsors but only 75 Republicans, for an average of 13 percent of his co-sponsors.

55% for McCain. 13% for Obama.

Over his Senate career, Mr. McCain has voted with the majority of Senate Republicans about 85 percent of the time, while in his three years in the Senate Mr. Obama has voted with his party 97 percent of the time.

This apples-to-apples comparison offers the UNDENIABLE truth McCain is MUCH more productive and MUCH more bipartisan?

Undeniable

Documented Proof McCain More Bipartisan

By Copyleft

September 15, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Or, to look at it another way…

Obama was right 90% of the time; McCain only “crossed over” to be right about 50% of the time.

Which makes better choices?

(I wonder: Does Wooten get a bonus for every time he uses the word “panic” in his column? It seems to be the wishful-thinking talking point of the day from the conservatards.)

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 15, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

arsehole vet

cheers for so swiftly and so anally puking up ur deranged hissy fit on here.

So I have now EFFORTLESSLY GOADED U TWICE into puking up the same hissy fit!!

I GOT THE POWER!!! I GOT THE POWER!!!

I hope the animal shelter vet uses long out of date anaesthesia arsehole vet, so when U get finally “fixed” U will feel the kind of pain that ALL treasonous LEFTIST DOGTURDS deserve for their perfidious uppity anti-America hate.

DEATH TO LIBERALISM AND the black racist hatepig HUSSEIN OBAMA’S worthless failing fast imploding campaign!!

By dusty

September 15, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

What the USA will be like if Obama wins..

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe relaxed his iron hold on Zimbabwe for the first time in nearly three decades of one-man rule on Monday, forced by escalating economic chaos into sharing power with his bitter political rivals.

Thousands of supporters of the rival parties threw stones at each other outside the convention center and several hundred broke through the gates into the sprawling grounds of the convention center where the signing ceremony took place. Police fired warning shots and set dogs on the crowd, which calmed after the initial clashes and cheered as their leaders left.

Mugabe, main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a faction that broke away from Tsvangirai’s party, all pledged with passion to make the deal work. But long-simmering and bitter differences between the two sides and the nation’s worsening economic collapse are expected to put the power-sharing deal under intense pressure.

Mugabe, 84, has been in power since independence in 1980 went from being praised as an independence hero to being vilified as an autocrat. He and Tsvangirai, 56, have been enemies for a decade, and Tsvangirai has been jailed, beaten, tortured and tried for treason - charges that were dismissed in court.

Western nations whose aid and investment could mean the difference between the success or failure of the unity experiment were cautious.

The deal is the result of more than two months of difficult negotiations mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki said Mugabe would remain president, Tsvangirai would be prime minister and Mutambara deputy prime minister.

While details of the deal were not immediately made public, officials from the rival camps have said in recent days that it laid out a complicated arrangement with Mugabe chairing the Cabinet and Tsvangirai heading a new Council of Ministers that will supervise the work of the Cabinet.

In a nationally televised speech after signing the agreement before diplomats, Zimbabwean officials and other African leaders, Tsvangirai said the government’s first priority should be addressing hunger.

The world’s highest inflation - and a scanty harvest this year - has made it difficult for many Zimbabweans to feed themselves in what was once the region’s breadbasket. In addition, Mugabe’s government in June restricted the work of aid agencies, accusing them of siding with the opposition before a presidential runoff. The ban was lifted last month, but aid agencies say it takes time to gear up.

Before the ban was lifted, U.N. humanitarian agencies had predicted the number of Zimbabweans who will need help to stave off hunger will rise to more than 5 million by early next year.

Critics have linked Zimbabwe’s economic decline to Mugabe’s 2000 orders that farms be seized from whites and handed over to poor blacks. Many of the farms ended up in the hands of Mugabe loyalists, and the economy’s agricultural base was disrupted. Food, fuel and hospital supplies are scarce, and millions of Zimbabweans - doctors, teachers, businesspeople among them - have fled the country in search of work.

The deal describes the seizure of the farms as irreversible and says Britain should compensate those whose land was taken.

The first 30 pages of the 80-page deal were made public after the deal was signed.

Tsvangirai, blaming the “the policies of the past” for today’s problems, said: “Under my leadership, this unity government will let businesses flourish so our people can work and provide for their families with pride.”

Still, Tsvangirai said Zimbabweans faced the option of uniting the country and moving forward or letting the impasse “plunge our country into the abyss of a failed state.”

He saluted members of parliament for their willingness to work across parties lines. “If you were my enemy yesterday, today we are bound by the same patriotic duty and destiny,” he said.

He called for legislators to be “driven by the hope of a new, better, brighter country” and the “hope of a new beginning.”

For his part, Mugabe returned to his habitual complaints that former colonial leader Britain was responsible for his country’s woes. Mugabe stopped short of repeating accusations Tsvangirai had allowed himself to be used by Britain to bring about “regime change,” but said opposition parties across Africa were known for using any means, “including violence” to gain power. In fact, it is Mugabe’s supporters who are accused of the worst of the violence surrounding recent elections.

Mugabe added: “We have to walk the same route the same way.

“Are we beginning today? No. We have been walking the same route without knowing it, or not recognizing each other. After all, we are all Zimbabweans and is there any other road, any other route to follow? History makes us walk the same route.”

The European Union welcomed the deal Monday, but officials said it was still too earlier to ease sanctions against Mugabe.

Millions of dollars in Western aid is expected, if Mugabe proves genuine about sharing power and beginning to end Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis.

Britain, one of the strongest critics of Mugabe, is expected to offer some immediate humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe following the agreement between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. But officials said Britain will first assess how the coalition is working.

“We hope that the new government will now reverse the tragic policies and decline of recent years,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in a statement Monday. “The new government needs to start to rebuild the country. If it does so, Britain and the rest of the international community will be quick to support them.”

Some opposition members who wanted Mugabe to surrender power completely have complained the power-sharing deal does not go far enough and that it creates an arrangement Mugabe could exploit, especially given the tension that exists between the two opposition factions.

In March’s presidential polling, Tsvangirai won the most votes, but not enough to avoid a runoff against Mugabe. An onslaught of state-sponsored violence against Tsvangirai’s supporters led him to drop out of the presidential runoff and Mugabe was declared the overwhelming winner of the second vote widely denounced as a sham.

By Copyleft

September 15, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

By the way, why is some neotard reminding us of our greatest president (FDR) and our greatest liberal accomplishments (the Great Society, the New Deal), in a vain hope that people will be repulsed by them?

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Just Nasty and Mean,

You hit the nail on the head,

And that is exactly why so many independents, moderates, centrists, disenchanted Dems and disgusted Republicans are pulling for McCain over Obama.

Me included.

And why he shocked and dismantled a slate full of business-as-usual, party before nation, neo-cons in the primaries.

He is NOT the same intransigent faux conservative we’ve seen WAY too much of the past 15 years. And that which the GOP leadership desperately craves again.

But will not get.

Yes, they have their barracuda. But I suspect he will try to keep her busy giving lip-service to thee lunatic fringe and trying to keep her “family values” family from getting even further in the family way!

And yes you have these semi-literate crackers here with their obvious hatred for blacks, etc. who have now jumped on the McCain bandwagon.

But they sure would have preferred a Brownback or Thompson or ANYONE else.

(You know, someone who doesn’t believe in or trust scientific knowledge, including evolution and man-induced climate change or tolerance like McCain does.)

And he is the only candidate who can possibly bring the Democrat’s ultra-liberals back toward the reasoned and reasonable center.

He is a potentially a breath of fresh air in a stagnant, some would say, fetid, duoploy.

By Dusty

September 15, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Way to go, Jim Wooten!! You’ve got libs foaming at the mouth, showing their true colors (and it isn’t red, white and blue!)

Keep up the good work. We have to hold the levees against the tide of lies being blown about. Ike blew away and so will Obama.

Maybe Obama will go back to where most of his experience lies…Community Organizer… while Michelle goes back to supporting him as she did before. Somebody has to keep up that million dollar house that they bought on his twnety thousand a year salary at the time. Must have had one of THOSE mortgages.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 15, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

I hope that Sarah Palins brother-in-law, was not a relative of yours, because he has “DONE YOU ALL IN”. Sarah has a track record of filling high level positions with family and friends. I’m sure LEVI will get a really good job, so that he can provide for her knocked-up 17 year old daughter.

There will be so many Alaska natives in D.C, we will have to pull sleighs down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The new head of intelligence will be from the Alaska Bureau of Investigation. Sarah will take NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND and use the Alaska doctrine for EDUCATION.

Mooseburgers will definitely be on the menu.

There will be a new SLOGAN across the NATION - “Just Say YES TO ABSTINENCE, my DAUGHTER DID”.

The POSTER Children for EDUCATION will be Bristol and LEVI. Bristol will represent SEX and LEVI will represent NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.

The more I think about this situation, the more I know that the Republican party will vote for Sarah and John. I think they represent what the Republican Party stands for very well. They represent a lack of reality.

They represent JIM WOOTEN and his CLAN.

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 15, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Just Nasty and Mean

Which of the bills that Obama voted on with the Democrats in congress would you prefer he not have voted for?

Raising the minimum wage?

Securing loose nukes?

The new GI Bill?

Transparency in Goverment?

Economic stimulus plan?

Lead free toys act?

National Emergency Family Locator Act?

Congressional Ethics Enforcement Commission Act?

VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act?

Homes for Heroes Act ?

Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act?

Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act?

Military Family Job Protection Act?

Security Contractor Accountability Act ?

Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Act?

Voting 97% with his party when his party is doing things that are good for Americans is a good thing!

By Bad Brad

September 15, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Because the “folks,” out here don’t want a return to “Big Daddy,” government Copytard.

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Which is more humorous?

Dusty and her Goebbels-inspired slogans?

Or the nut job’s wailing for the death to liberalism? Hint, nut job.

By Dusty

September 15, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

dusty @ 11:45 is not the real Dusty.

Thought I would mention that as I leave.

By misterearl

September 15, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

“Adjustments in the financial markets can be painful, both for people concerned about their investments and for the employees of the affected firms,” the president (Bush) said. “But in the long run I am confident that our capital markets are flexible and resilient and can deal with these adjustments.”

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

You’d be surprised by how many people you know who aren’t registered to vote.

Registration deadlines are coming up soon, and we need every single vote we can get to win this election.

Tell your friends, family, and neighbors to check out our new one-stop voter registration website.

Just forward this message.

VoteforChange.com makes it easier than ever to register. Instead of tracking down the right forms, all you need to do is answer a few basic questions and you’ll be ready to vote. You can also:

Confirm your existing registration Apply to vote absentee Find your polling place

If you don’t know your own registration status or you’d like to learn more, take a minute to visit the site right now.

This race is too close and too important to stay home on Election Day.

If you take the time to register and vote — and make sure everyone you know is registered as well — we’ll be able to turn the tide of the past eight years.

It’s people just like you who will transform this nation.

Thanks,

Barack

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Yet another legacy of the Orwellian BushCo’s duplicitous backroom nature and lust for secret power.

Even with a horrifically inept Congress.

Americans strongly oppose giving the president more power at the expense of Congress or the courts, even to enhance national security or the economy, according to a new poll.

The Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll of views on the Constitution found people wary of governmental authority after years of controversy over the Bush administration’s expansion of executive power, and especially skeptical of increasing the president’s powers.

By Copytheft

September 15, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Obama ‘08: A chicken in every pot and a Cabrini-Green on every block!

By Deva's tater

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

Sorry, I left something out of my e-mail.

“It’s people just like you who will transform this nation … to what it was in 1978.”

Thanks,

Barack

By Chip

September 15, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

What in the hell is wrong with the minds of you little people?? Is the nation not yet destructed enough for you by the Bushdrunk criminals?? Regarding ALL things both domestic and foreign?? There’s not too much remaining to yet be obliterated - yet you are bound to keep on with this fatal course. A tribute to our educational system.

By misterearl

September 15, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Okay, so I didn’t exactly go into Eye-rack in a technical sense, but I got close and I saw it and that ought to count for something. This is how I know about Russia, and it prepares me for the presidency, because I have actually seen Russia up pretty close, because it is right next to us in Alaska. We know the Russians from eyeballing them.

The truth is, I didn’t actually want to go into Eye-rack, and I don’t know why my campaign said I had been there, visiting the troops in harm’s way. I actually always wanted to stay in Kuwait, because if had gone into Eye-rack that would have made me like all the other politicians who have gone into Eye-rack — a Washington insider. As a mom, I don’t have to have any experience at these things. You would not ask a man to have any experience, and so I don’t understand why I am being asked about this. Do I think I need this experience?

No, I do not.

(Washington Post)

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Ironic that at exactly the same point in his administration, Bubba’s approval rating was twice that of The Hero of Alabama’s.

58% to 29%.

Does this mean that King George II is only half the president that Bubba was?

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Funny how you idiots don’t compare Obama to the Clinton years. Its always Jimmy Carter. Back during a time nobody remembers.

That’s because Clinton kicked your a*******es and so will Obama.

By Just Nasty and Mean

September 15, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

And now we have CREDIBLE NAMED SOURCES saying Obla-bla-ma asked the Iraqi government and Gen. Petraus to delay withdrawal of troops so that the Obla-bla-ma administration could take CREDIT.

What this proves is Obla-bla-ma is just another slimy politician doubletalking the populace into putting him into power with backroom deals and forked-tongue lies.

What a slimeball playing politics with our troops families and lives.

[Here’s proof for all you Obla-bla-ma cool-aid drinkers] (http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obamatriedtostallgisiraqwithdrawal_129150.htm)

By Deva's tater

September 15, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Obama is nothing like Clinton, who was a fiscal conservative, who took the party away from New Deal and Great Society welfare. Obama’s “change,” is turning back the clock to FDR and LBJ style big government jobs programs, higher taxes and giveaways, dumba**, or hadn’t you noticed?

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Here’s the reason for “Just Nasty and mean’s” incorrect interpretation:

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Wooten uses the word, “ageism” alot. I dont think it means what he thinks it means.

By GaLiberal

September 15, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim says: The campaign’s latest TV ad attacks McCain personally, based on his age.

What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you it that’s a load of crap. The ad is not about McCain’s age, but how he is stuck in the past. This man is still living off his Vietnam POW years. He’s been in a Congress for so long, how can be effective at changing things in Washington? He’s no maverick either. He’s a lock-step Rethuglicon/Bush bootlicker who’s voted party line at least 90% of the time. I hardly call 10% being a “maverick.” McCain has dishonored himself with the specious demand that Obama apology for this ‘lickstick’ comment. It was ok for McCain to say the same thing about Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan. No outcry there from the ‘liberal’ media or Democrats. Yet, McCain and the Rethuglicons have the balls to cry foul every time anyone dares question Palin’s credibles. So now he and the Rethuglicons trot out this ‘ageism’ lie to divert attention from the fact that McCain doesn’t get it and never will. He will continue the same failed economic, domestic, international, and military policies of Bush.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Moron Jim (once again) is living proof.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 15, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

If your goal in life is :

Then McCain and Palin are the best SOLUTIONS for your KIDS, plain and simple.

I just hope we have a lot less of YOU MORONS than what appear on this blog each day.

Wasn’t EIGHT YEARS LONG ENOUGH TO GET IT RIGHT??????? You same MORONS Voted for one fool and NOW you are wasting your VOTES FOR ANOTHER.

By Curious Observer

September 15, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

Politico.com’s estimate of where the nation stands today in terms of electoral votes, in spite of so-called national polls showing McCain slightly ahead (thanks to over-representation of self-identified Republicans):

Obama: 273 McCain: 265

Scream and libel all you want, racists. For all the disingenuous claims of McCain’s bipartisanship and how different he is from G.W. Bush, you will lose.

By ron

September 15, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

I don’t compare Obama to Clinton because he’s not a bit like Clinton.His policies are more along the line of Jimmy Carter’s.I do remember Carter.I remember Kennedy too.We of the long memory know what the most liberal member of the Senate will do.We’ve seen it before and it wasn’t good.Remember LyndonJohnson’s great Society?Read about it if you don’t.

I voted for some of these people and I don’t want to see history repeated.McCain is not a liberal and he’s surely not Reagan or Bush.To crawl out of the mess that is taking place today we need someone with some common sense.We need McCain.This is no time to be adding programs and taxes that Obama WILL add.

By GaLiberal

September 15, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim says: The campaign’s latest TV ad attacks McCain personally, based on his age.

What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you it that’s a load of crap. The ad is not about McCain’s age, but how he is stuck in the past. This man is still living off his Vietnam POW years. He’s been in a Congress for so long, how can be effective at changing things in Washington? He’s no maverick either. He’s a lock-step Rethuglicon/Bush bootlicker who’s voted party line at least 90% of the time. I hardly call 10% being a “maverick.” McCain has dishonored himself with the specious demand that Obama apology for this ‘lickstick’ comment. It was ok for McCain to say the same thing about Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan. No outcry there from the ‘liberal’ media or Democrats. Yet, McCain and the Rethuglicons have the balls to cry foul every time anyone dares question Palin’s credibles. So now he and the Rethuglicons trot out this ‘ageism’ lie to divert attention from the fact that McCain doesn’t get it and never will. He will continue the same failed economic, domestic, international, and military policies of Bush.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Moron Jim (once again) is living proof.

By Don Driver

September 15, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Ah, Devastator, Apocalypse, whatever, reveals himself a self-centered punk-a kid who thinks “nobody,” remembers anything before 1993. What a maroon. The majority of the people who will vote this year remember it, young (wo)man and are smart enough to know Obama is far more like Jimmah than Bubba Clinton.

By marko

September 15, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

McCain’s tax cuts will cost the treasury trillions unless they are coupled with equally aggressive cuts in spending. Where are the cuts coming from John? Who’s jobs are to be sacrificed, which bases closed and who’s sacred cows slaughtered. American’s all deplore government waste, it’s just that they define waste as money spent in other peoples districts. They hate congress with the exception of their own congressman, who they’ve helped re-elect for six or seven consecutive terms. Mainly because he brings home the bacon. If I know my fellow Americans, McCain has some real problems. States like Sarah’s Alaska are addicted to other people’s money. Withdrawals are going to be ugly.

By bigguy

September 15, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

I may heve missed the comparison in the article of Obama to Jimmy Carter. Or maybe there wasn’t one made? Is this your attempt to discredit (spin) the article based on things not related to its content? You can help yourself by criticizing the article’s actual statements. (I may have to “dumb myself down” to understand your thinking….if any of your thinking is understandable.)

By Dutchman

September 15, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Devastator,

Comparing BHO to Clinton would not be an apt comparison, Billy was a horn dog, BHO isn’t. Carter was incompetent just as BHO is today.

Would BHO have given away the Panama Canal or put the moves on a White House intern.

Would BHO have stood by and did little or nothing to an Embassy invasion or just throw a few cruise missiles at a target.

Would BHO have canceled the B1 bomber or used cigars are a sex toy.

The comparison to Carter is valid.

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Hang tough, Galveston, other Texas Gulf Coast towns and Houston.

Our thoughts are with you…

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

ron,

You don’t compare Obama to Clinton because you don’t want to offend Clinton supporters. You,like the rest of the GOP think women are stupid. Until Obama began running for president, people like you blamed Clinton for everything from 9/11 to the slowing economy. I don’t recall Carter giving us Universal health care, do you? Now you have nothing negative to say about him(Clinton).

Tell it to someone stupid enough to believe it liar.

By Common Sense

September 15, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Can any conservative tell the truth!

Is lying now a part of our society? Is it acceptable in your home when you children lie?

Is it acceptable if you spouse spends all your money and lies about it!

Come on people this is getting sad we are lying about these candidates and it is acceptable to you !

What is going on in our Country?

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Don Driver,

Since we haven’t heard form Apocalypse in a couple years and are just now hearing form you, you are obviously using multiple Ids. You are ocmparing him to Carter instead of Clinton because you do think women are stupid enough no tknow that you are trying not to offend them.

bigguy,

I wasn’t responding to the article in that post. My response to the article is at 12:34.

Dutchman,

Neither you or anyone else has any idea what Obama would do in those same situations.

My overall point is that I wish you has- beens would wake up to the 21st century, that’s all.

By Don Driver

September 15, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Ha, ha, ha. Devastator, Apocalypse, whatever, is indeed 14 years old. Oh, how cute the blind faith in this nebulous “change,” and willful unawareness of how Obama’s “change,” is nothing but a rehash of failed liberal programs of old.

Grow up, kid.

By Mrs. Godzilla

September 15, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

WELCOME TO TODAY”S EPISODE OF GUESS THE “ISM”

For 10 points…

Which one is this?

Another 10 point question.

Which one is this?

By Don Driver

September 15, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

I haven’t been reading this blog for two years, so obviously you have the 14-year-old’s talent for exaggeration. And, so what about multiple IDs, Devastator, Apocalypse, whatever?

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

The word is “comparing” at 12:55.

By Don Driver

September 15, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

I haven’t been reading this blog for two years, so obviously you have the 14-year-old’s talent for exaggeration. And, so what about multiple IDs, Devastator, Apocalypse, whatever?

Also, Bill Clinton was a woman? I don’t get the offending women string. Too much pot, delinquent?

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Don Driver,

I’ll try to say this slowly:

B-I-L-L C-L-I-N-T-O-N is married to H-I-L-L-A-R-Y C-L-I-N-T-O-N. You know, the lady that just ran against Obama during the democratic primaries.

Either you are avoiding offending the said constiuency through manipulation, or you are to dumb to know that the Republican party is brainwashing you to do so. That’s why you are preoccupied with focusing on Carter.

Got it?

By Dutchman

September 15, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

Devastator,

Aside from you making my point - we do not know what BHO would do, he has no record of any type.

All we have is his henchmen, news commentaors and other Democrats comparing him to Christ and Palin to Pilate.

Gee, I guess making the Christian believers angry is a good thing. Hope he runs this country better than his campaign - if he manages to get elected, that is.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 15, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Copyleft @ 11:46, I think our friend HIDT found a way to torture you with a feather. I was tickled.

By Devastator's social studies teacher

September 15, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Sorry, for my former pupil’s lack of understanding, folks. He always did have a comprehension problem. He just can’t understand the simplest of concepts sometimes.

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Dutchman,

Let me say it another way:

You don’t know what anybody would do in those same situations. To hold someone accountable or judge them based on a situation they’re not in to make an intelligent assessment of them is stupid!

$66 million last month.$43 for McCain. I think the campaign will be fine.

By KnowItAll

September 15, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Common Sense

—Just because you don’t like what you hear about your candidate doesn’t mean conservatives are lying.

—Obama has been accused by named sources of attempting to delay withdrawal of troops until he in office.

—Obama has socialist and Marxist people he has associated with and claims were his mentors.

—Obama’s family were Marxists and socialists.

—Obama has associations with multiple radicals—not just one or two, but Ayers, Pfliegel, Wright, Frank, Alinsky.

—Obama doesn’t deny business associations with convicted scammer Tony Rezco who received million$ from Obama bills in the Illinois legislature, a suspicious discounted “sweetheart” deal on his home, and millions in campaign contributions.

—Obama hasn;t produced a shred of evidence of ANYTHING productive that was produced during his much ballyhooed years as a so-called “community organizer” .

—Obama, a multimillionaire is letting his half-brother live in rote poverty on $12 per year in a hut in Kenya.

—Obama’s can’t prove anything of significance he has produced as an Illinois Senator or US Senator other than the Rosa Parks stamp.

This is YOUR CANDIDATE! LIVE WITH IT! Embrace it! Identify with it!

…but you HAVE to admit- Obama is a socialist EMPTY SUIT!

The Messiah has no clothes!!

By Devastator

September 15, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

My so-called teacher @1:19,

I especially don’t get them when they have nothing to do with current events.

I tend to get flustered when I have to match wits with archaic minded geritol popping poeple who would rather say anything to hold on to power than to humbly vote for what’s best for the future of their children and great-grandchildren.

The Devastation is over. bye

By Dutchman

September 15, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Devastator,

Gee, I guess your right, we have no idea how a former Naval Capitan would react or act in those situations.

With Cater it is a disaster, with McCain, we have a pretty good idea.

BTW, Obama’s fundraisers have estimated that he still has to do better in September and October, than the August haul of $66 million, to remain on par with McCain and the Republican National Committee. The RNC has more money to spend on McCain’s behalf than the Democratic Party has to aid Obama. Link

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

The day for the Black Knight’s weekly address arrived and he had worked out exactly what he would say: three words this time, not one.

“Guns, God, and Gays”.

As the Black Knight departed the stage, the crowd was momentarily bewildered. Sure, the SnowWitch had said God and Guns first, but she had also stolen the Black Knight’s “change” mantra. Stealing campaign speeches was as expected as military coups in Flathead Land, where the Pointy Head’s sworn enemy lived.

It was the Gay thing that struck the crowd dumb.

Then, it occurred to the pointy heads that the Black Knight was referring to the miniature army the SnowWitch had animated from all the leftover souvenir dolls. This idle army had been in the same prison cell 4 the past 48 hours on tax charges. Most certainly, as the Black Knight suggested, they have all turned gay. Was there not only one cot in their cell and were they not all cellmates?

Debauchery like this could only be the work of the SnowWitch, and this was a total abomination the likes of which the Pointy Heads had never seen. It’s the SnowWitch’s fault. That army was hers. She done did it, and they were also sure that she was laughing about it.

There was no way anyone would vote for the SnowWitch, no, not after she had been linked so clearly to gays by the Clever Black Knight and his Triumverate of Nouns.

As the consequences of the Black Knight’s three word speech became obvious to the SnowWitch, she started to invoke deeper darker more violent recesses within herself. There were still younger, more innocent attributes in her physiology that almost made her a Pundit like the rest, but these were washed away now. She emerged from her self. She wouldn’t err again. She would become the Chief of the Pointy Heads in the Land of the Pundits and gain access to their Big White House.

By Copyleft

September 15, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Ragnar: How so? Reminding everyone of liberal America’s greatest leaders and accomplishments is hardly a shattering blow against Obama, as the neotard seems to assume.

By Captain Freedom

September 15, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

THE Captain wishes to apologize for not posting sooner, but He was busy trying to redeem His holdings in Lehman and Merrill Lynch. Alas, too late.

But no worries!!! Bolstered by the assurance by St John himself that our economic fundamentals are “sound”, THE Captain quickly turned to an inventive solution and received approval from His creditors to loan Himself $500,000.

This loan to Himself will allow THE Captain to reassure His twitchy creditors that His financial situation is as sound as the pound (or the Euro…let’s avoid any comparisons to that pesky dollar right now). Ans as a bonus, THE Captain can continues to live in the manner to which he has grown accustomed.

We truly live in the Greatest Nation Evah. The ability to loan money to oneself when one is nearly tapped out is one Our Gifts From God and as such is the Birthright of all Real Americans. THE Captain looks forward to His next loan to Himself, and anticipates increasing its Godliness by increasing the amount four — ney and verily — sixfold over today’s transaction.

All this is further proof that St John’s pronouncement of our economic health is very true, and that any word to the contrary is just further proof that Our Nation is overrun with faithless whiners who…ouchcr@p sonofa dammit all!!!

Friends —

Mrs Freedom here… THE Captain will be unable to post any more today, as He just burned His typing finger trying to light a cigar with a twenty dollar bill…….

By Devastator's social studies teacher

September 15, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

He used to run crying from the room when he was in school, too, Dutchman. Poor little guy.

By Dutchman

September 15, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

oops, sorry, Cater only rose to Lieutenant, an O-3 and not an O-6, Captain as McCain did. - I guess his experience spoke for its self.

By rc

September 15, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

one definition of insanity is doing same thing over and over and expecting different results. voting for mccain is thus insane. he has sold out to the corporate elites & far right. he is no maverick and really does seem out of touch with the common man. and what has he really accomplished without the help of his father’s name and heiress wife and milking his pow stint? what significant legislation has mccain authored and passed please tell me? he’s full of bluster like bush, at least he truly served. but the likes of russia, china, iran think it is just a matter of time before the US caves in due to all our social programs and greed of our society(look at all the corporate ponzi schemes)…truly sad. obama is far from perfect, but i would trust his judgment when it came to filling out his cabinet and governing the US during these perilous times. thank goodness at least the congress will likely remain democratic. mccain could not even adequately defend his bs comericals on the view…that should tell it all.

By Bigsky007

September 15, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

The public should be outraged at the pure unadulterated hypocrisy of the religious right and the Republicans.
The GOP said we can’t be the world’s policeman, then raced unnecessarily into Iraq costing forty-five hundred yourg American men and women their lives, untold injured and a trillion dollar tax bill on Americans; they are, supposedly, the hawks when it comes to national security but they undermined and exposed the name of an intelligence agent; they said anyone involved in the exposure of that agent’s name would be fired and prosecuted and didn’t; they have been the stewards in charge as virtually every aspect of the economy that has slid into the dumps. Now, on the current election, they are asking Americans to stay stuck on stupid and stay with a losing horse for another four to eight years. Yet, these are supposedly patriotic Americans, who profess to love this country. If what they have done to this country is love, then what is hate?

When Obama stated, in effect, that he would rather see his daughters educated about sex than ignorant and pregnant, the religious right folks went crypto crazy! What would have happened if, after he won the nomination, he elected a woman (black?), who had a pregnant teenage daughter and four other minors including a special needs child, for his VP? Having listened to the religious right for years, I can rightfully conclude that they would have raced to point out the poor decision making of Obama and the moral degradation of the country. That’s for starters, only. Today, McCain would be practicing oath taking protocols because the election, except of counting chads, would be over. Wouldn’t it?

From his history, McCain knows how to use women. A man, who will use a woman, will abuse a child. McCain, having no original thoughts of his own, has stolen Obama’s “change” ideas. He has stolen Paris Hilton person and used her in an attack ad without her permission then picked a Hilton look-alike to be his VP. And now he has stolen the care, time and attention from a two year special needs child in order to advance his personal political ambitions. In every other venue, the religious right heaps fires from hell upon anyone who would dare do this. The mother would be a candidate to burn at the holy stake. That is, anyone, except a Republican, as we can readily see.

The day after McCain chose Palin, Rush Limbaugh stated that if Democrats went after her, they would, in effect, scream “women are being attacked”. That’s exactly what they are doing. Where I come from, that’s flesh peddling, pure and simple. In effect McCain, in order to win, has no compunctions about using a woman as a smoke screen to blot out the fact that he and the GOP have nothing of merit on which to run. The pimps must be ecstatic to have a U.S. Senator as a partner in deed and the religious right giving a blessed nod of sacred approval.

Will voting America go along with this sham, charade and hypocrisy laden scam, which makes the Reverend Wright look like a Saint? I see his total vindication by what’s going on in this election. God is watching. The world is watching and so is Mughabe of Zimbabwe.

By AmVet

September 15, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Carter was self-made.

His dad? A business owner in Plains.

McCain was born with a Navy silver spoon in his mouth. His father and grandfather were Navy elites.

Carter attended Georgia Tech and finished 59th out of 820 in his graduating class at Annapolis.

McCain?

894th out of 899.

Carter is the ONLY Naval Academy grad to become POTUS.

He applied for the U.S. Navy’s fledgling nuclear submarine program run by then Captain Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover’s demands on his men and machines were legendary.

Carter has said that he loved the Navy, and had planned to make it his career. His ultimate goal was to become Chief of Naval Operations.

Upon the death of his father, James Earl Carter, Sr., in July 1953, however, Lieutenant Carter immediately resigned his commission, and he was discharged from the Navy on October 9, 1953.

We know the never-served, never-will neo-cons loathe him, but for gawd’s sakes, don’t disparage the man’s awesome military record.

Just as any decent American would not McCain’s…

By Common Sense

September 15, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

REPUBLICANS had an opportunity 8 years agon to elect a younger,more alert,maverick John McClain!

Now they want a flip flopper who can cave to please the party faithful!

WOW!

What is going on today in America?

By dirty harry

September 15, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

By Dutchman

September 15, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

“oops, sorry, Cater only rose to Lieutenant, an O-3 and not an O-6, Captain as McCain did. - I guess his experience spoke for its self.”

DUTCHMAN: Talk about comparing APPLES to ORANGES…

Carter first of all graduated 59 out of 820 .. McCain on the other hand graduated 894 out of 899 (probably thanks to his father)

And here’s where your argument falls flat on its FACE…Carter only served 7 years in the NAVY…How many did McCain serve 23

CAN YOU SAY APPLES and ORANGES?

By Maniac is accurate

September 15, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, World War II is what caused America’s economy to boom, not the WPA or the CCC, or the New Deal programs. You know that, surely. It kept some people from starving and that’s good. But it did not lift America out of the Depression.

Bill Clinton worked to dismantle the Great Society.

Jimmy Carter was an abject failure in almost every regard.

What else you got, Leftwich?

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

rc, that was Einstein’s definition of insanity, and it was as wrong as his steady state universe theory.

Insanity is observing change and not evolving into it. Insanity is using your index finger to piddle your lips as you go, “bibblebibblebibble” like the way Duhng comments everyday, (like a moron), or like a brain that doesn’t quite complete the arc in a synaptical gap thus causing a thought, or, better yet, like a prairie doggin’ turd that doesn’t have the ability to let go, but instead retreats within the safety of it’s former pupa self.

I hope you took notes, sir.

By Famuan

September 15, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Its going to be sweet to know how sick Wooten will be on Nov 5th when he has to watch Obama and Biden celebrating their victory. Wooten is just another old white guy who yearns for 1948 and still thinks the national polls reflect the electoral college or new voters or voters without landlines…in other words Wooten is like McCain, outdated and useless

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

The day for the Black Knight’s weekly address arrived and he had worked out exactly what he would say: three words this time, not one.

“Guns, God, and Gays”.

As the Black Knight departed the stage, the crowd was momentarily bewildered. Sure, the SnowWitch had said God and Guns first, but she had also stolen the Black Knight’s “change” mantra. Stealing campaign speeches was as expected as military coups in Flathead Land, where the Pointy Head’s sworn enemy lived.

It was the Gay thing that struck the crowd dumb.

Then, it occurred to the pointy heads that the Black Knight was referring to the miniature army the SnowWitch had animated from all the leftover souvenir dolls. This idle army had been in the same prison cell 4 the past 48 hours on tax charges. Most certainly, as the Black Knight suggested, they have all turned gay. Was there not only one cot in their cell and were they not all cellmates?

Debauchery like this could only be the work of the SnowWitch, and this was a total abomination the likes of which the Pointy Heads had never seen. It’s the SnowWitch’s fault. That army was hers. She done did it, and they were also sure that she was laughing about it.

There was no way anyone would vote for the SnowWitch, no, not after she had been linked so clearly to gays by the Clever Black Knight and his Triumverate of Nouns.

As the consequences of the Black Knight’s three word speech became obvious to the SnowWitch, she started to invoke deeper darker more violent recesses within herself. There survived younger, more innocent attributes in her physiology that almost made her a regular Pundit like the rest, but these were washed away now. She emerged from her self. She wouldn’t err again. She would become the Chief of the Pointy Heads in the Land of the Pundits and gain access to their Big White House.

By tcoach

September 15, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Copyleft it was the socialist actions taken by our government during and after teh great depression that made the depression last longer and be harder than in most other nations of the world. So yes there were some good that came from the ends of the program. However it caused teh rest of teh world to begin their attempt at passing us economically. The depression was also aided in its endidn by a world war. Do some history fact checking before you go tooting the horn of a failure of a policy. One me and you pay for everyday.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Did you know that McCain set fire to an entire aircraft carrier during ‘Nam? It was the biggest catastrophe our navy suffered during the Vietnam War.

The disaster was so large, that the Vietnamese to this day celebrate a holiday called McCain day, where they set fire to little plastic models of the Forrestal Carrier and then get drunk.

“Yankee set fire to his own ship rike a letard would. bwa haw. dont bogart that rice wine, my friend.”

Imagine if this McCain idiot gets his finger on the button? We’d all be as doomed as the poor sods on the Forrestal were.

McCain is just too much a loose cannon for anyone to seriously consider him as our commander in chief.

Fact, jack.

By getalife

September 15, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Panic is people making a run on the banks.

Panic is stealing change and spewing reform after choosing a wingnut VP.

Panic is lying so much, even Rove calls you on it.

Panic is playing to the ignorance of the gop voters.

Sadly, they will vote for him and the destruction will continue.

The definition of insanity.

By tcoach

September 15, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Copyleft it was the socialist actions taken by our government during and after teh great depression that made the depression last longer and be harder than in most other nations of the world. So yes there were some good that came from the ends of the program. However it caused teh rest of teh world to begin their attempt at passing us economically. The depression was also aided in its endidn by a world war. Do some history fact checking before you go tooting the horn of a failure of a policy. One me and you pay for everyday.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

THCcoach: capitalism doesn’t work without war, so we always need to invent one.

I thought everyone knew that.

Did you know that McCain set fire to an entire aircraft carrier during ‘Nam? It was the biggest catastrophe our navy suffered during the Vietnam War. However, the defense contractors who billed the government for the replacement carrier still celebrate a workday where they get to wear blue ties instead of red ones in thanx for the windfall.

The disaster was so large, that even the Vietnamese to this day celebrate a holiday called McCain day, where they set fire to little plastic models of the Forrestal Carrier and then get drunk.

“Yankee set fire to his own ship rike a letard would. bwa haw. dont bogart that rice wine, my friend.”

Imagine if this McCain idiot gets his finger on the button? We’d all be as doomed as the poor sods on the Forrestal were.

McCain is just too much a loose cannon for anyone to seriously consider him as our commander in chief.

Fact, jack.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

I’ll tell you all what I dont get: I dont get Y Mr. Woo, of China, and Jay Hoofgnu have photo icon/logos of themselves yucking it up at the top of their daily blog. They’re laughing at us. They dont believe any of this stuff, and they admit that they conspire to do “yes she did, no she didn’t” type pro/con topics simultaneously. And look at Wooten’s hair! Not to mention Jay Nookwood’s hair?

What style do you call Jay Tookwoman’s hair, a SchmoeHawk?

What is wrong with these two clowns? They’re laughing at us. And all the dented heads on this blog can do is conform to the “oh no she dint/I know she did format as prompted by those two rug-challenged grin-masters.

Where did they get their degrees? The Carpet Campus of Dalton?

bwa haw

phonies.

By Dusty

September 15, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Just dropped by for a minute…but ..CONGRATULATIONS to Captain Freedom@1:38. He is the funniest undercover lib I have ever read. He brings a little life into the litany of lament and laundry lists from languishing liberals. Looooo…

So, dear Captain, I do hope your finger will survive your conflagration and that no one ever gives you the “finger”, even if you deserve it.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 15, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

The Captains self-usury is considered a mortal sin by some older priests, but the some younger priests vacillate on the subject…….ew.

Dusty, when you dropped in, everyone heard a “plop”. R U the nasty little prairie dogger that Duhng wouldn’t let go of till now…..ew.

bwa haw. (hee haw)

democrats 4ever

By Liar-loan McCain,

September 15, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry I was wrong about McCain blowing up his aircraft carrier in ‘Nam. That’s what you get when you listen to an adolescent and use them for your only source. There is no Vietnamese holiday of celebration either, that was just another of my desperate attempts at being clever and funny. The truth is I am very worried that OBAMA is going to lose this election and I am stopping at nothing, even besmirching a decorated war here that no one blames for the Forrestal accident for causing that accident. I’m an idiot, what can I say?

By cc

September 15, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

sarah palin is nothing more than a prettier dan quayle with baggage!

By Dusty

September 15, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Who’s Duhng anyway PoFo?

By reader110

September 15, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

As usual, Wooten is completely off-base. He MUST be a Republican - he just keeps on telling lies and distorting the truth because he know the majority of his readers are too ignorant to do their homework and find out what’s true and what’s not. Or perhaps Wooten simply doesn’t understand the nuances of the current political rhetoric. Either way, he’s lucky he’s writing for AJC and not factcheck.org - he would have been fired long ago if he was actually held to any kind of real journalistic standard.

By alan

September 15, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

*Jim, panick has set in for you ! I can tell from the way you can’t get off Obama’s back. Has Sarah “Paining” had her 15 minutes of fame yet? *

alan

By Frederick Douglass

September 15, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

A red neck vice president, trumps a Harvard educated black man any day. Am I the only one who’s drowning in the irony?

By Fred

September 15, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I have no real faith that McCain-Palin will come in and cut the size of government, reform the bureaucracy and do much more than help stave off Russian dominance of Europe in the coming decade. But they will keep taxes low which is in direct contrast to the many layers of new taxes, regulations and social manipulations that the Obama team calls ‘change’. Palin’s interview wasn’t all that inspiring (it was carefully edited I see) but everytime I see Obama get specific, I just want to throw things at the TV… ‘neighborliness’ is now a codeword for socialism. Sad and pathetic.

I’d like some change too, but it’s definitely NOT the ‘change’ the Dems offer. Both parties are really only offering more of the same.

By Chaz

September 15, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

For those who keep posting Obama’s Harvard degree as proof of his intelligence, need we remind you where George W. got his MBA?

By ron

September 15, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

How was Obama’s Harvard education paid?I imagine George’s was paid by check.I’m serious.I’ve never heard how it was paid.Scholarship?

By meme

September 15, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

don’t knock socialism so easily, germans live better than we do, and if you put any government in place you have some form of socialism, face it, our public schools are only one example of that, and if i had a party and it was republican I would say ‘you aren’t against schools are you?’ ‘you don’t hate children do you?’ see how the manipulation works. i just know that anything is better than this corporatism that they call capitalism, just an entitlement program for the rich. it’s getting our as beat in the world economy and a changing world. it’s been proven that trickle down doesn’t work, and we if don’t stop blaming boogeymen the problems of this country won’t get fixed. it’s sad to see regular people blaming the mythical liberal for all their problems instead of the oil companies and their inside man george bush. to care about america is to care about americans. the bs needs to stop so we can right the ship! i see liberals being blamed just like they used to blame witches and by the same people, the people that say Jesus made them do it. as long as we polarize ourselves and paint ourselves into corners we won’t get anything done to fix this sinking ship, and think about it, it’s sinking, nothing is forever. how sad is it to think that we have become so divided as a nation by the same people that preach on their mountain so endlessly ‘United We Stand’?

By Jim is a caveman

September 15, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

I guess we can just expect to read some regurgitated, reconstituted version of this same old dung from Jim for the next six weeks. Unless he’s working on that column excoriating McCain for an ad that even K. Rove says goes too far in its lies. I’m sure that’s what you are doing, right, Jim? nah, didn’t think so. I hope you at least convince yourself that Obama is panicking so you can sleep better at night.

By amimissingsomething?

September 15, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

i saw some obama people at the widespread panic show…..that’s the only panic i saw……….

By bebe

September 15, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

And, who’s talked most about ending partisan gridlock? The candidate with the most bi-partisan bona fides – John McCain. He’ll be a great president.

By JNate

September 15, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Chaz, Bush went to Harvard Business School after failing to gain admission to Law School at The University of Texas.

ron, I’m not sure why you’re concerned about how Obama’s education was financed, but I do know that he claims to have used the proceeds from his first book to pay off student loans. Harvard has more than enough money to help recruit and retain top students, as do Columbia and Occidental.

By amimissingsomething?

September 15, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

i saw some obama people at the widespread panic show…..that’s the only panic i saw……….

By deegee

September 15, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

The stock market plunges 500 points in one day as a result of the unbridled recklessness of the financial sector and the Wootang Gang is concerned because Obama correctly identifies John McChange as an old fart. His age wouldn’t be as much of an issue had he not picked an intellectual lightweight to be his running mate. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s blog.

By Rove 101

September 15, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

an ad that even K. Rove says goes too far in its lies.

Let’s break this down: Rove works for the GOP, even though FOX pays his salary. Rove says Gov. Kaine’s Mayor/Gov experience is inadequate for a Veep position, and appointing him would be purely political and not in the best interest of the country. Then Rove says complete opposite about Gov. Palin’s Mayor/Gov experience and appointment.

Then, to regain the appearance of credibility after being called out on his double-speak, Rove says McCain has gone too far. Rove knows Americans aren’t paying close attention and will see this as evidence that he is indeed being “fair and balanced.”

Rove waits brief time before viciously attacking Obama’s “vicious” attacks on St. John, and the cycle begins again with the blessing of the Fox “news” viewers who cite evidence that Rove is “fair and balanced.”

Any questions?

By @@

September 15, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Well Jim, then I shall level an “ism” of my own in OBlahMa’s direction. Narcissism!!!!!!!

Personality traits:

Externalizing frustrations (directed at McCain) to shield a persona lacking in self-identity (something he elaborated on his his memoirs). Tends to waste energy towards the wrong goals (he’s off his message) eclipsing essential parts of self, (he’s pandered and now doesn’t know, himself where he stands on the issues) thereby stifling creativity (his message has become convoluted. The internal conflicts result in indecisiveness.

There ^^^ you have it. A persona lost in self.

It must be really frustrating for OBlahMa attempting to project himself as someone when that someone has no clue who he is. I think that’s his problem with the disconnect he’s having with voters. He doesn’t know who the heck he is so how CAN he connect?

He’s definitely not every man. He’s an image created in his own mind. Psychologically speaking, the media has done him a terrible disservice by enabling his personality disorder.

OBlahMa may be “fly”, but he’s caught up in McCain’s (a fly-boy’s) OODA Loop.

Wierd? Naahhhh, great political strategy from the McCain campaign.

By Baffled

September 15, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Me thinks Mr. Wooten is as out of touch with reality as Mr. McCain. Enough of your right wing white washing of the rape of our country that your party has perpetrated over the past 8 years, and now wants to continue… Wooten: bail off that sinking ship with the rest of the rats. Looks like Rove jumped this morning.

By rc

September 15, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

Liar-loan McCain: i know who stated that definition of insane. your other comments point to that same phenomenon ;)

By Dusty

September 15, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Well, I was going to stop by and say something about Obama’s “isms” but we already know that he’s got ‘em…loaded with ‘em.

So, friend PoFo, spouts envy @ 3:19 because Captain Freedom was delightfully humorous. What a hiatus of hilarity!!

But I must be getting good!! TWO ID THEFTS IN ONE DAY. lAST ONE AT 3:19 IS NOT DUSTY!!

I better go call my stock broker and see if he has escaped to Mexico yet. My portfolio has gone Porta-Potty. It aint a purty picture!!

By catlady

September 15, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

If Obama had compared Palin to a pig, (which he didn’t) it would be an outrage! PETA should be notified, along with the Humane Society! To compare pigs to… THAT woman! What a slap in the snout to pigs!

By Churchill

September 15, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

It’s the ECONOMY STUPID—4 more years or REAL change

The churn of a rapidly changing financial landscape left Wall Street cold on Monday, as a late afternoon sell-off sent the stock market to its worst daily loss in seven years.

Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. spoke to reporters at the White House on Monday. More Photos »

Fed Loosens Standards on Emergency Loans The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 500 points — its worst session since the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The blue-chip index spent the entire day in negative territory, but the losses did not begin approaching dramatic levels until late in the afternoon. In the last 30 minutes of trading, investors seemed to give in to their fears about the health of the financial system, igniting a wave of selling that sent the Dow, already about 300 points lower, to a 504.48 point decline for the day.

The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fared even worse, losing 4.7 percent, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 3.2 percent. In Europe, benchmark stock indexes were off nearly 4 percent in London and Paris and almost 3 percent in Frankfurt.

By Ga Minuteman

September 15, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Georgians, Don’t forget that Saxby was a Chairman for one of the congressional Judicial subcommittes. Judicial Chairmanship is the most sought after position in Congress because that one position controls all the legislation that goes b4 congress. Saxby was the Chairman for the Jusicial subcommittee for Immigration, Citizenship and Border Protection. Saxby was the root cause for the mess we are in with regard to criminal aliens in not only Georgia but the entire US of A. He has to go!!

By Baffled

September 15, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

Me thinks Mr. Wooten is as out of touch with reality as Mr. McCain. Enough of your right wing white washing of the rape of our country that your party has perpetrated over the past 8 years, and now wants to continue… Wooten: bail off that sinking ship with the rest of the rats. Looks like Rove jumped this morning.